{"id":3280,"date":"2010-12-26T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2010-12-26T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T16:15:13","slug":"the-expendables-leads-the-way-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/26\/the-expendables-leads-the-way-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Expendables Leads the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2010\/dec\/122110sly_lionsgate.png?resize=475%2C252\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>December 21, 2010<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Wrap<\/strong><\/a> posted their yearend studio report card for <strong>Lionsgate<\/strong>.\u00a0 Overall the studio received a <strong>&#8220;B&#8221;<\/strong> rating thanks in a large part to <strong>Sly Stallone&#8217;s Expendables<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s two reasons why&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Its &#8220;Saw&#8221; franchise finally ran out of teeth, but the indie studio  had a hit with the Stallone action movie &#8220;The Expendables,&#8221; while the  low-budget horror film &#8220;The Last Exorcism&#8221; was wildly profitable.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Propelled by low- to mid-budget hits such as \u201cThe Expendables\u201d and \u201cThe Last Exorcism,&#8221;&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To read the full piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/movies\/article\/thanks-stallone-exorcism-lionsgate-creates-low-cost-hit-streak-23378\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21, 2010, The Wrap posted their yearend studio report card for Lionsgate.\u00a0 Overall the studio received a &#8220;B&#8221; rating thanks in a large part to Sly Stallone&#8217;s Expendables.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s two reasons why&#8230; Its &#8220;Saw&#8221; franchise finally ran out of teeth, but the indie studio had a hit with the Stallone action movie &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-expendables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-QU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}