Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
Grab your boxing gloves and mouth guard because Shawn Levy is ready to get back in the ring for a Real Steel series at Disney+. The mouse-eared streaming service has announced that it’s developing a series based on the 2011...
Get ready to oil your joints, tighten your bolts, and put up your dukes because we've got an update on the possibility of a sequel to 2011's rock em sock em robot drama Real Steel. Recently while engaging in a chinwag...
Test audiences got such a kick out of Shawn Levy's REAL STEEL that a sequel was put into development months before the film actually hit theaters. Featuring Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo and some boxing robots, REAL STEEL proved to be...
All my NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM fans raise your hands! Okay so one…two…three…is that it? Hmm, I guess there aren't many comedy/history buffs among you. Okay all joking aside, I don’t know many people outside the walls of an elementary...
Robots have long been a staple in film, from heroic ones like The Iron Giant, to less-than-friendly mechanical artificial agents (I'm looking at you, T-1000), and Christopher Chang rounded up some of his favorite 'bots, cyborgs and androids for this...
This is Movie Jail, a unique maximum security prison that houses some of the worst writers, directors, actors and producers from Hollywood and beyond. Their crimes? The offenses vary from convict to convict but most of these inmates have contributed...
To all those people emailing us their fan scripts for a sequel to REAL STEEL, at ease everyone. You’re not the only ones who have been hard at work on the sequel, director Shawn Levy has been “quietly developing” it...
PLOT: Ex-boxer Charlie Kenton has a problem. Not only does he owe too much money due to bad bets on robot boxing, his ex-girlfriend has died leaving him with their eleven-year-old son Max. Thankfully, the ex’s sister wants the boy,...
Alright, it seems that I’m writing an article bashing the premise of REAL STEEL every other day, so I’ll lay off for a change as it’s well documented that I think a movie about robot boxing is dumb. At this...
I spent my entire weekend watching football (glorious football…) and, as such, I saw lots and lots of commercials for REAL STEEL. It may seem like a far out premise – robots boxing and all – but as I continued...
It’s a strange metric to use, but if we were ranking upcoming movies by skepticism, REAL STEEL would be near the top of my list next to BATTLESHIP and ASTEROIDS. The robot punch-a-thon has just debuted four character posters (via...