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ARLIER THIS YEAR, a
scary thing happened to
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone: They became expendable for
audiences, at least when starring in
movies not called The Expendables.
Schwarzengger, 65, back in
front of the camera in a leading role for the first time since
2003’s Terminator 3: Rise of the
Machines, weathered his worst
opening in 27 years with The Last
Stand. The action film earned just
over $12 million overall, a tally
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even lower than Schwarzenegger’s
much-maligned 1996 flop Jingle
All The Way grossed during its
opening weekend. Stallone, 66,
didn’t fare much better with Bullet to the Head, which earned just
$9.4 million at the North American box office, roughly three times
less than the Stallone bomb Stop!
Or My Mom Will Shoot pulled
down in 1992. Added together,
The Last Stand and Bullet to the
Head totaled $21 million in North
America, a far cry from the $85
million the pair earned together in
The Expendables 2 last August.
Even fellow Expendables cast
member Bruce Willis, 58, an A-
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Sylvester
Stallone (left)
and Jason
Momoa in a
scene from
Bullet to the
Head.