Sylvester Stallone’s ‘Expend4bles’ leads 2024 Razzie Awards nominations
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Sylvester Stallone‘s action flick Expend4bles leads the pack for the 2024 Razzies nominations announced Monday.
The fourth installment of the franchise leads with seven nominations for the 44th annual Golden Raspberry Awards, a satirical ceremony that “celebrates” the year’s worst films.
“The Exorcist: Believer,” a sequel to the classic 1970s horror movie, follows with five nods. “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” a horror re-imagining of A.A. Milne’s children’s books, also netted five nods.
In keeping with tradition, Razzie “winners” will be announced the day before the Academy Awards ceremony, which is scheduled for March 10.
Described as “another installment of a franchise that’s fading faster than Razzie ‘winner’ Donald Trump’s mental acuity,” “Expend4bles” was nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Screen Couple and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel.
Stallone, 77, portrays mercenary Barney Ross in the film. Three previous installments of the franchise raked in close to $800 million internationally.
“The Exorcist: Believer,” which grossed $137 million at the box office, was also nominated in the same categories. The Razzies’ nominating committee called the flick “horrifying in unintended ways.”
Critically panned reboots aren’t the only ones garnering Razzies this year. Acting contenders include Oscar winners Mel Gibson, Michel Douglas, Jon Voight, Russell Crowe and Dame Helen Mirren, as well as Razzie “repeat offenders” Sylvester Stallone, Megan Fox and Jennifer Lopez.
Ana de Armas, who starred in last year’s top nominee — Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde” — picked up another nod, this time for her turn in the Apple TV+ action adventure comedy “Ghosted.”
Due to the Hollywood strikes, only five movies are in contention for “worst picture.”
“After strikes, lingerings of a worldwide plague and a general sense of universal agoraphobia, the decline of the cinematic experience goes without saying,” the voting body explained in Monday’s announcement. “Thankfully, a doll pic and a bomb movie jump-started The Industry, which still left a trail of Pooh behind for the Razzies to pick up!”
