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Movie Web.com has an new exclusive special feature clip from the new DVD “12 Rounds”, which hits the shelves on DVD and Blu-ray on June 30. Click below for the exclusive clip, which features John Cena talking about the unique way they did some of the stunt driving scenes with a fire truck.

Detective Danny Fisher (John Cena) is about to have the worst day of his life. A nearly untraceable internationally-known terrorist named Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen) has kidnapped his girlfriend Molly Porter (Ashley Scott) and forced him into “12 Rounds” of dangerous games carefully plotted throughout the streets of New Orleans. Danny struggles to keep focus while the obvious ticking clocks and crude consequences that accompany each one of these “rounds” do their best to derail him from rescuing the love of his life before it’s too late.

Special Features:

- Rated and extended “Extreme Cut” of the film
- Commentary by Director Renny Harlin, Writer Daniel Kunka and John Cena
- Two alternate endings
- “Crash Course: John Cena Stunts” featurette
- “Never-before-seen Cena gag reel” featurette
- “Streetcar Crossing: Film with Caution” featurette (Blu-ray only)
- “12 Bonus Rounds: Making Magic Behind-the-Scenes” featurette (Blu-ray only)
- “Keeping Score: The Music of 12 Rounds” featurette (Blu-ray only)
- Round and Round with Director Renny Harlin and John Cena (Blu-ray only)
- Viral Videos (Blu-ray only)
- BD-Live Enabled(BD exclusive)

The very first trailer for WWE’s upcoming movie “The Marine 2″ starring Ted Dibiase Jr. has surfaced online. This is the sequel to The Marine starring John Cena. See photos from The Marine 2, go here.

On the set of 12 Rounds, John Cena’s big wrestler hands are too large to use a cell phone. A hand double is called in.

John Cena Gets a Hand Double

WWE Films are releasing “12 Rounds” starring WWE Superstars John Cena on June 30th. Here are the complete listing of extras on the standard dvd and Blu-Ray, they are as follows:

Standard DVD:

*Both the PG-13 and Unrated Director Cuts of the movie

*Audio Commentary Track with Director Renny Harlin, Writer Daniel Kunka and John Cena

*Two alternate endings

*Featuette: Crash Course: John Cena Stunts.

*Blooper Gag reel.

Blu-ray:

*All the aforementioned above as well as:

*Featurette: “Streetcar Crossing: Film with Caution”

*Featurette: 12 Bonus Rounds: Making Magic Behind-the-Scenes”

*Featurette: “Keeping Score: The Music of 12 Rounds”

*Round and Round with Director Renny Harlin and John Cena

*viral videos

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FOX has just issued a PRESS RELEASE announcing that the 2009 action film “12 Rounds” starring WWE wrestler turned actor John Cena is coming to Blu-ray Disc on June 30th. Tech specs include 1080p Hi-Def video using AVC MPEG-4 codec and DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio. The title is already available for PRE-ORDER over at Amazon with a $35.99 price tag. Bonus materials include lots of BD exclusives listed below.

o Rated and extended “Extreme Cut” of the film
o Commentary by Director Renny Harlin, Writer Daniel Kunka and John Cena
o Two alternate endings
o “Crash Course: John Cena Stunts” featurette
o “Never-before-seen Cena gag reel” featurette
o “Streetcar Crossing: Film with Caution” featurette (BD exclusive)
o “12 Bonus Rounds: Making Magic Behind-the-Scenes” featurette (BD exclusive)
o “Keeping Score: The Music of 12 Rounds” featurette (BD exclusive)
o Round and Round with Director Renny Harlin and John Cena (BD exclusive)
o Viral Videos (BD exclusive)
o BD live bootstrap (BD exclusive)

-Bobby Lashley fighting in MMA has been an grueling career choice. Since debuting on this week’s Sunday TNA Wrestling pay per view “Lockdown”, and yesterday, announced that he will be fighting Bob Sapp. He is what Lashley said about his current career status via his Twitter account:

I have some tough career decisions to make. Hopefully I don’t loose too much sleep trying to figure things out. I’ll blog about these …

-The official DVD for John Cena’s “12 Rounds” will feature several alternative endings to the film that were shot but not used in the theatrical release. The DVD is going to be marketed as the “Extreme Cut” of the film and will be released in standard and blu-ray formats. There is no confirmed DVD release date yet.

-Danny Bonaduce fights Showtime Eric Young at TNA’s LOCKDOWN. This is the recap video!

Box Office Mojo is reporting that John Cena’s “12 Rounds” did an estimated $1,750,000 in sales last night, putting it in sixth place on the current movie list.

Canada’s Business News Network’s website has an interview with Linda McMahon and Stephanie McMahon-Levesque from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, where they appeared yesterday. The funniest part of the interview was when Steph was asked about the creative process and she gave all the credit (some may say blame….I kid) to Vince McMahon. She said managing him was a full time job. They also talked about the status of the company in the current economy and pushed “12 Rounds”. When asked about competition with UFC, Linda said that they were entertainment and UFC was a sport. She said anything you had to reach into your pockets to buy tickets for was their competition (what, UFC gives their seats away???). Linda was asked about whether WrestleMania would return to Canada and she said not at present but they had a PPV scheduled there for September in Montreal. Linda couldn’t remember the name of the show and Steph quickly jumped in and said that it was Unforgiven. Steph said don’t count Canada out for Mania but you do have to bid for it, emphasizing the importance of the show. Steph definitely came across well, very businesslike

-WWE has announced John Cena vs. Big Show for this Monday’s Raw, the final episode of the show before Wrestlemania 25.

-Here are a couple of website’s that are reviewing WWE’s movie, “12 Rounds” starring WWE superstar John Cena.

*The HeelZone Blog

*Wrestling DVD Reviews

*John Cena Flick 12 Rounds Aims Low, Hits Target

The Boston Herald reports:

WWE star - and West Newbury homey - John Cena says Yankees embarrassment Alex Rodriguez should “go to jail” for using steroids.

“(Rodriguez) got defensive, saying he used because he felt he needed to,” the wrestler and star of the film “12 Rounds” told the New York Daily News . “But if there was a set of (legal) stipulations in place he may never have even considered it.

“The government should take the initiative, and if you get caught using drugs, then you should go to jail,” Cena continued. “A criminal record will hurt your endorsements and long-term contracts.”

-John Cena called into 94.7 WCSA in Boston with Deminksi and Doyle. You can listen to the call in here.

The Variety reports the following:

-John Cena’s secret movie following “12″ Rounds is an action/comedy

-WWE is making an movie called “Suckerpunch” , which will star Paul Wight, aka The Big Show

-An sequel to “12″ Rounds will will be made into an a Western

-An remake of “Missing in Action”, which starred Chuck Norris

-An “Scorpion King” sequel, which all of these will go straight to DVD.

“Movies are a logical extension for our company,” says the World Wrestling Entertainment topper, Vince mcMahon, “We know how to tell stories.”

“Before we were foundering a bit, but we’re starting to crank some good things out,” McMahon says.

Hard to say, Variety never mentioned Jornada del muerto, which is suppose to star Triple H and A Chance for Both Barrels . These were taken from IMDB.com.

Read the complete article go here.

Mark Shanahan of the Boston Globe got an recent interview with WWE Superstar, John Cena when he had a recent stay in Boston. Here are a few snippets:

Q. What does that mean? As a kid, I know you used to stage strange wrestling matches at your house.

A. I wouldn’t necessarily call them strange. Just kids being kids. I grew up in a house of five brothers. And [the matches] probably happened between the ages of 6 and 12. My father was always a huge sports and entertainment fan. He’d watch professional wrestling all the time, and we’d watch it with him. Instead of having a catch with my dad, it would be us sitting around the TV watching wrestling.

Q. Like who? What generation of wrestlers?

A. My dad was one of the first in our region to buy cable, so we’d get all the affiliates: The old WWF, which was Captain Lou Albano and Hulk Hogan. He’d get AWA, which was the Baron Von Raschkes and the Gagnes. He’d get World Class Wrestling Championship, which was the Fritz Von Erichs and the Freebirds. He’d get NWA, which was the Four Horsemen and Dusty Rhodes. We got everything, even got the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.

Q. Finally, what about music? Your 2005 rap CD “You Can’t See Me” sold very well.

A. It did. I still do hip-hop - I did a track with Snoop Dogg not too long ago - but I have a different focus these days. I’ve fallen in love with country music. . . . The old guys: Hank Williams, Hank Jr., Hank Williams III, Willie, Waylon, Johnny Cash, all of them. Read the complete interview, go here.

-Another article of John Cena promotes “12 Rounds”..

Cena doesn’t miss a beat, especially when talking about the WWE chairman, who also served as a producer on “12 Rounds.”

“No, Vince pulled me aside and said, ‘You’re going to make a movie,’” he says, breaking into a big laugh.

Cena admits that the experience of acting in the new film was more relaxed than acting in the first one.

“This time I didn’t have to be some superhuman guy who was impervious to bullets and couldn’t be destroyed. I got to be a normal guy. I got to have weaknesses and have moments of failure and indecision. I got to have a good, believable relationship with my girl. It was really easier to do this than ‘The Marine,’ because this is more me.”

He says acting in the ring is radically different from acting in front of a camera.

“It’s like Broadway to cinema. In the WWE we’re almost doing Broadway. When you perform to 15,000 in the live audience, you have to make sure your image is projected. You want to be larger than life. You want to be a superhero.

“In movies, the screen is big enough. You don’t have to be larger than life. I prepared for it by telling everybody, from the director to the other actors to the crew members, ‘Listen, this is what I do well on television, and this is what I think I lack in movies. I’m OK with criticism. If you see something that’s not good, tell me and we’ll fix it.’” Read the article go here.

WWE.com posted the following:

John Cena will make several TV appearances this week before the nationwide premiere of 12 Rounds next Friday, March 27.

12 Rounds will be featured during Sunday’s Food City 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race, which airs at 1:30 ET.

On Monday, Cena will be a special guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, which airs at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC.

Then on Tuesday night, Cena will join NBC’s new Late Night with Jimmy Fallon at 12:35 ET.

Cena continues his whirlwind media tour on Wednesday with appearances on the Fuse No. 1 Countdown “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” special at 5 p.m., BET’s 106 & Park at 6 p.m. ET, G4’s Attack of the Show at 7 p.m. ET and Fox News Channel’s Hannity at 9 p.m. ET.

Next Friday, on the day 12 Rounds hits theaters in the United States, Cena’s co-star, Ashley Scott, will be on The Bonnie Hunt Show, which airs in syndication.

On March 28, Cena will be a presenter on Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards, which airs at 8 p.m .ET.

Finally, the Raw Superstar will join Live! With Regis & Kelly on March 31, which airs in syndication.

Stay tuned to WWE.com for more upcoming television appearances by Cena and his 12 Rounds co-stars leading up to the film’s release next Friday, March 27.

According to the NBC Dallas Forth Worth website, John Cena made an appearance today, Wednesday at the Texas Motor Speedway.

Cena was in town to promote his movie “12 Rounds” which will make its movie debut on March 27.

Not only in town to promote “12 Rounds” but the mayor of Roanoke, Mayor Pro Tem Holly McPherson gave John the key to the city.

Here’s the press release from from Texas Motor Speedway:

Cena is the featured star in 12 ROUNDS and plays New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher. When Fisher stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multi-million-dollar heist, the thief’s girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Fisher with a series of near-impossible puzzles and tasks …12 rounds…that he must somehow complete to save the life of his fiancée. Ranging from tests of intelligence to tasks of endurance, the thief keeps Fisher guessing at every treacherous turn. Each new round sends him hurtling through the city at a breakneck pace with innocent citizens in danger as automobiles, streetcars and ferryboats are transformed into potential weapons of mass destruction. With the violent rounds mounting, one wrong move may take the match closer to a deadly conclusion.

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WWE.com has released the following international dates on WWE newest movie to debut “12 Rounds”, starring WWE superstar John Cena.

While John Cena’s new movie, 12 Rounds, hits U.S. theaters next Friday, March 27, the 20th Century Fox in association with WWE Studios action flick opens on various dates in theaters worldwide. Refer to the list below for your country’s opening date.

Australia: March 19
Indonesia: March 25
Jamaica: March 25
Philippines: March 25
Trinidad: March 25
Malaysia: March 26

Puerto Rico: March 26
Singapore: March 26
Egypt: April 1
Jordan: April 1
Bahrain: April 2
Kuwait: April 2
New Zealand: April 2
Oman: April 2
Qatar: April 2
United Arab Emirates: April 2
South Africa: April 3
Bulgaria: April 10
Lebanon: April 16
Russia: April 16
South Korea: April 16
Ukraine: April 16
Finland: April 17
Mexico: April 17
Vietnam: April 17
Latvia: April 24
Dominican Republic: May 7
Germany: May 28
Iceland: May 29
United Kingdom: May 29
Portugal: June 4
India: June 5
Poland: June 12
Turkey: June 12
Greece: June 18
Italy: July 3
Lithuania: July 17
Spain: July 17
Estonia: July 24
Central America: Aug. 14
Bolivia: Aug. 20
Brazil: Aug. 21
France: Aug. 26
Colombia: Aug. 28
Ecuador: Sept. 4
Peru: Sept. 10
Venezuela: Sept. 18

Adelaide.au in Australia featured an interview with John Cena to promote 12 Rounds, which came out today Down Under.

Here is an excerpts from the article:

Cena got to drive a fire-truck through hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of objects, cars and assorted other breakable things.

“That was awesome. There’s nothing that stops a fire truck,” he says. “I ran it through everything from buildings to cars and it didn’t even get scuffed. Those things are built to last.”

In fact, Cena did most of his own stunts for the movie “Just for the fact you need to see the hero go through all these quote/unquote challenges or rounds,” he says.

The hardest bit of the action for Cena was hanging off a building 30m in the air for two days for a rappelling stunt. He may be big and tough but he’s petrified of heights.

“That was a couple of crappy days at work and I really didn’t want to do it and even explored using doubles,” he says.

“But Renny promised me it would work out in the movie and I trusted him.

“I hated it, but it’s very convincing, too, because I’m very scared out there and it shows up on screen.” Read the complete interview here.

-Coshocton Tribune got an interview with former WCW superstar Marcas Alexander Bagwell, aka Buff “The Stuff” Bagwell.

Here is an little excerpt from the article:

Bagwell will be headlining Ohio Championship Wrestling’s first show at the Civic League Community Center.

Bagwell talks about working the smaller venues of 500 then working crowd of up to 100,000 people while in his WCW days.

“I used to wrestle in front of 100,000 people and not meet one person. Now I wrestle in front of 500 and meet everybody. It’s much better for the fans. Most want that interaction. They want to touch you, they want to say hello,” he said.

Buff Bagwell has his official website, the realbuff.com, also he is working on an autobiography entitled “Gladiators Don’t Cry.”

You can meet Buff “The Stuff” Bagwell this Saturday night, there will be an meet and greet at the Colony Square Mall from 3 to 5 PM.

Read the complete interview here.