Haywire web blogger Reviews
In addition to the professional accord of praise on Haywire & Carano, checkout these web-blogs:
Other Haywire Video Reviews:
Haywire Video Review #1
Haywire Video Review #2
Haywire Video Review #3
Haywire Video Review # 4
Haywire Video Review #5
Source: GGB
Haywire #2 in UK Box Office ahead of Underworld
Haywire pulls ahead of underworld in box office ticket sales to take the #2 spot in the UK pulling in $1.87 million in the UK alone.
This is big indicator that movie is showing worldwide appeal. Relativity has already made back most of its 23 million budget on the film on foreign presales.
Haywire so far is ahead of expectations pulling in around $9 million over the weekend.
Haywire is set to be released in 40+ countries around the world.
Some Future release dates are:
Philippines Jan 25th
Hong Kong Jan 26th
Brazil Feb 2nd
Mexico Feb 17th
South Africa March 30
Source: Haywire Box Office UK
critics’ consensus: Haywire – a good genre jaunt for Soderbergh & Gina Carano is your new action heroine
- RICHARD ROEPER: (Grade: A)
- -”Haywire a refreshing changeup (from quick-cuts and stunt-doubling in action films)…plays like an indy version of franchises such as Mission:Impossible.“
- -”Gina Carano makes a spectacular debut…a few line readings are a bit flat, but she has an enormously appealing, natural screen presence…think The Rock, only way cuter…a memorable debut” (ReelzChannel)
- ROGER EBERT – Sun Times: (3 out of 4 stars)
- -”Carano can hold her own…I expect her to become a considerable box-office success, because the fact is, within a limited range, she’s good.”
- -”Haywire has no lasting significance…but(is) a first-rate genre thriller.” -
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Peter Travers – Rolling Stone: (3.5 out of 4 stars)“She more than holds her own with the big boys…Carano is poetry in kick-ass motion.”“Haywire comes close to achieving Soderbergh’s goal of creating “a Pam Grier movie made by Alfred Hitchcock.”
Haywire Opens Today in Theaters Jan 20th Forecasts and Projections
Haywire, staring Gina Carano, made its debut in theaters on Jan 20th.
It was released as a wide release on more than 2500 screens. Other wide released movies that were released on Jan 20th include Underworld Awakening, Red Tails and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
Total sales from all movies this weekend are expected to come in at around $102 million and Relativity Media is projecting that Haywire will do $8 million in sales. Underworld Awakening is expected to come in #1 with 20-25 million in weekend sales.
Update 01/21/12:
Haywire does $2.9 million in sales on Friday coming slightly behind Contraband and Extremely Loud which took the #3 and #4 spots with $3.7 m and $3.2m respectively.
Haywire Trailers and Complete Movie Information
Source: Hollywoodreporter
Gina Carano Conan O’Brien Video
Here is the Gina Carano Conan Video from the Conan O’Brien show which aired January 19, 2012 on TBS.
She talks about the movie Haywire, how she got started in MMA and other topics as well.
Gina on the Opie and Anthony Show
Gina was on their Tuesday radio show:
And here’s bonus clip featuring Gina chocking out a lucky guy from the show:
Haywire Movie Reviews
The Haywire movie reviews are out and most of them are positive.
Into the cinematic dead zone of January comes Haywire to kick off the new movie year on a sexy action high.
Move over Angelina Jolie. Machismo feminine style got an upgrade. Gina Carano is beautiful. Built and bad. I’m totally in love. And guys, I don’t think I’m alone here.
Hey Hollywood, here’s your Wonder Woman!
Carano and Soderbergh have actually created a possible franchise in the character – like a tangible Lara Croft…
Having grown accustomed to waif-like “action heroines,” it’s refreshing to witness an actress who can deliver a knockout blow – and take one – with some credulity.
“Haywire” is a lean, clean production, shot and edited by Soderbergh himself and utterly free of the incoherent action sequences and overcooked special effects that plague similarly scaled Hollywood pictures.
Gina Carano is the real deal, holding her own against male counterparts like Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, and Antonio Banderas, and giving Haywire a whole lot of punch.
Rotten Tomatoes Gives it “Certified Fresh” 82% Rating:
Summary of all reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
Some other reviews:
- - Film School Rejects – Haywire review
- - Screen Daily – Haywire review
- - Totalfilm – Haywire review
- - HeyUGuys – Haywire review
- - MMA Mania – Haywire review
- - Making The Movie- Haywire review
- - Sky Movies – Haywire Review
Gina Carano Fan Questions
This is your chance to ask Gina any questions you want!!!
THIS OPPORTUNITY IS SHORT – You’ve till Jan 18th 8am EST, Conviction-fans!
Thanks for all the great questions. We submitted like 75%+ all of questions so more than likely yours got through. We’ll update this post shortly!!
Cris Cyborg insults steroid scandal sympathizer and admirer Gina Carano
In the wake of former Strikeforce 145lb. women’s champion, Cristiane ‘Cyborg’ Santos, testing positive for steroid usage, MMA luminary and previous opponent Gina Carano, has magnanimously responded with: sympathy, compliments, benefit of doubt and well-wishes. While the scandal “stung” Carano (who “could’ve gone her whole life without knowing that news“) she responded with the following:
-”…that could just be somebody around her giving her bad advice.”
-”…She’s definitely a physical specimen who doesn’t need any performance enhancements, and still be as just as great as she is, maybe even better.”
-”…She’s gonna have to deal with alot…as far as earning back people’s trust…She’s suspended for a year and the title is stripped from her; that’s enough punishment.”
-”I sympathize with her, and feel bad for her. She’s not a bad person…she’ll allow this experience to make her a better person.”
-”She’s so sweet. I loved going to the Espy’s (award show with Cyborg also present)…I don’t have a mean thing to say about her. Her and her husband are darling people.” (source: No Holds Barred Radio with Eddie Goldman, Inside MMA with Bas Rutten)
While many in the mma community have expressed zero surprise that Santos was caught, one has been particularly contentious – Strikeforce 135lb #1 contender and Olympic Judo medalist, Ronda Rousey. In response to Rousey’s public chastisement, Cris Cyborg posted the following heavily edited picture of a just defeated Gina Carano, along with a challenge to fight upon her suspension return.
(click here for original unedited picture)
Ronda Rousey is one of the many fighters that have recognized Carano’s ability and big contribution to the Sport. While she has had minimal contact with Carano, she answered Santos with the following Twitter response:
One has to wonder if Cris Cyborg has any fans left as both her career accomplishments and character have undeniably been exposed.
(link credit: Buzz)
Soderbergh on Gina’s voice alternation work
In an interview for Vulture magazine, director Steven Soderbergh clarified on what went into altering Gina’s voice in Haywire:
That’s not really her speaking voice. We spent a lot of time in post working really hard on her voice, and we used every trick imaginable that’s used on records today — in the editing, in the pitch. We combined five different readings in one sentence. We wanted her to sound different — not like Gina, but like her character, Mallory Kane. So that took a lot of work, and we worked really hard on it. That was the point of it. Everyone under the age of 30 is terrified of Gina, but Mallory is someone new.
This perhaps extinguishes the rumors that her voice was replaced with that of another voice actress.
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Gina Carano was born on April 16, 1982 in Dallas, Texas. Gina Carano is a Muay Thai MMA specialist who got her start fighting out of the Master Toddy Gym in Las Vegas, NV. She is now training under Team Jackson where she’s growing increasingly adept in standup and ground game with improving her takedown defense. Gina's current MMA record is 7-1. 