Sai Mawng, a 40-year-old Shan resistance officer has been cast as a barbarous Burmese commander in John Rambo reports Burmanet. Mawng, a native of Namkham,  was chosen from among 2-300 applicants.  Stallone had been looking for a “Burmese male, 32-40, military-looking man, character face, unlikable,”.

John Rambo is being shot in Keudchang, a village tract in Mae Tang, 30 km north of Chiangmai and many Shan migrants have been drafted to play Burmese soldiers in exchange for 300 baht ($ 8.6) per day plus meals for 2 months.

The latest outing for the violent action franchise sees the title character hired by Christian missionaries while working as a snake hunter in Thailand to deliver medical and religious supplies to the persecuted Karens of Burma. The missionaries are captured and Rambo is saddled with the job of rescuing the surviving missionaries.

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Empire Online has revealed a brand new image of the Silver Surfer from the upcoming Fantastic Four sequel.

The image was exclusively designed for the UK movie magazine by the special effects giants at WETA and will grace the cover of Empire’s forthcoming April issue. You can view the image here in our movie gallery.

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The third and final installment of the film series based on the popular Resident Evil video games hits theaters September 21. Screen Gems has now released the teaser trailer for Russell Mulcahy’s film - view it here.

Resident Evil: Extinction picks up where the last film left off. Alice (Jovovich), now in hiding in the Nevada desert, once again joins forces with Carlos Olivera (Fehr) and L.J. (Epps), along with new survivors Claire (Larter), K-Mart (Locke) and Nurse Betty (Ashanti) to try to eliminate the deadly virus that threatens to make every human being undead… and to seek justice. Since being captured by the Umbrella Corporation, Alice has been subjected to biogenic experimentation and becomes genetically altered, with super-human strengths, senses and dexterity. These skills, and more, will be needed if anyone is to remain alive.

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Phoenix Pictures and Mike De Luca Productions are poised to adapt Charlie Huston’s vampire novel Already Dead from a script by Scott Rosenberg reports Variety. The author will produce with Phoenix’s David Thwaites and Brad Fischer. Alissa Phillips will co-produce.

The series tells the tale of a vampire who happens to be a private detective hired by a Gotham socialite to track down her runaway daughter. The city’s vampires are afflicted with a virus that requires them to drink blood, and they run through the city in clans. A new virus that turns victims into carnivorous zombies threatens to upset the balance between humans and vampires.

Huston’s novel is the first of a planned pentalogy that the producers are eyeing as a potential franchise. The second novel in the series, No Dominion, has just been published.

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