MACHETE Gets a Release Date and HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN Starts Filming |

MACHETE Comes to Theatres in Late Summer 2010

Roughly three years ago (April, 2007) Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino released their badass evening at the movies, GRINDHOUSE. It was a double feature of RR’s Planet Terror and QT’s Death Proof. Peppered throughout the carnage was a series of fake trailers for non-existent moveis such as Rob Zombie’s “Werewolf Women of the S.S.” and Edgar Wright’s “Don’t”.

Rodriguez himself crafted a fake trailer for the “Mexploitation” flick, Machete. Of all of the fake trailers I’d say this one was the most well received. A lot of us instantly wanted to see this ‘movie’. Fast forward to 2009 and filming for ‘Machete’ finally got underway. The film features the improbable cast of Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Jeff Fahey, Steven Seagal and Don Johnson. Holy fuck.

Late last week VARIETY let it be known that MACHETE would hit theatres on the weekend of September 3rd. The film is being released by Twentieth Century Fox.

The highly skilled Federale Machete is hired by some unsavory types to assassinate a senator. But just as he’s about to take the shot, he notices someone aiming at him and realizes he’s been set up. He barely survives the sniper’s bullet, and is soon out for revenge on his former employers, with the reluctant assistance of his old friend Cheech Marin, who has become a priest and taken a vow of nonviolence. If you hire him to take out the bad guys, make sure the bad guys aren’t you!

HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN Begins Filming…with Rutger Hauer

Before Grindhouse was released the film’s producers held a contest for the best fan-made fake exploitation trailer. The winner(s) would have their trailer played alongside the other fake trailers in the theatrical release.

Enter Hobo With a Shotgun. Nova Scotian filmmakers Jason Eisener, John Davies, and Rob Cotterill won the contest and had their short up on (mainly) Canadian screens for the theatrical run of Grindhouse. Ever since 2007, Eisener and co. have been trying to secure funding to turn Hobo into a feature film as well.

And they finally did. Filming was to begin in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a surprise actor, Rutger Hauer named the star of the film. Hauer will portray the hobo originally played by David Brunt in the short. SlashFilm mentioned that filming was to begin on Monday, April 19th, 2010.