Crime Thriller PURSUIT Gives Chase In The UK In June!
The Movie Partnership is proudly announcing the UK release of crime thriller, Pursuit. The film is directed by Brian Skiba and will arrive on Digital Download from June 12.
The Movie Partnership is proudly announcing the UK release of crime thriller, Pursuit. The film is directed by Brian Skiba and will arrive on Digital Download from June 12.
Nary in the spotlight do we get to see actor Shane Kosugi, best known for sharing the screen with brother Kane Kosugi for action star dad Sho Kosugi’s early days ninja thrillers from directors like Sam Firstenberg and Gordon Hessler. He’s still very much active in the film arena and for this, there’s the official trailer for an action comedy called Barashi Fight which will make its way to select cinemas in Japan this July.
ABO is going hard this month as the release date approaches for Lee Sang-yong’s Don Lee threequel, The Roundup: No Way Out. The film comes out in South Korea late May with other territories pending from this summer, including ours, and I reckon it’ll be just in time for some of this year’s festivals to add it to their slates, hopefully.
Former MMA star Brandon Vera’s turn toward the film front has since made headway in the West with Day Zero, the newest Filipino zombie action feature from director Joey De Guzman. The official U.S. trailer is out marking a reunion for Vera and the Planos and Taiwan-based firm since rolling out the welcome for his co-starring role in Erik Matti’s Anne Curtis starrer, BuyBust.
News From Planet Mars and Only The Animals helmer Dominik Moll’s latest crime thriller will get its day on May 19 at NYC’s Quad Cinema for The Night Of The 12th. Film Movement will also roll the film out in additional markets to follow.
The excitement of fans watching Jason Statham ideally chin-check a shark hasn’t waned since Jon Turteltaub 2018’s summer spectacle, The Meg. The sequel, directed by Ben Wheatley and nodding to Steve Alten’s 1999 novel, is now in toe and with an August 4 release from Warner Bros. Pictures announced following an electric day of social media hype, the official trailer has finally arrived for The Meg 2: The Trench, and it is out to show us its teeth!
Firstly debuting over at Flickering Myth, the official trailer for debut writer/director Billy Hanson’s new sniper horror thriller, Bone Cold, is now online. The film stars Jonathan Stoddard (Falling for a Killer), Matt Munroe (Independence Day: Resurgence), Trinity Bliss (Avatar: The Way of Water), Jennifer Khoe (Fear Frequency, Overrun), Shaan Sharma (“The Chosen”), Elise Greene (Torn: A Wicked Trilogy), and newcomer Danielle Poblarp.
Par for the course with covering stunt performers on my platform is the hopes that one day these professionals will get to expand themselves behind the lens. Vancoverite, actress and stunt performer Jennifer Li is no exception, and well into her craft for a decade now she leaves her mark in the director’s chair for upcoming survival thriller, Sold.
With the news of a new movie in development comes the seperate arrival of Oliver Harper’s long-awaited “Street Fighter 2” documentary, Here Comes A New Challenger. The crowdfunded feature doc aims to cover the history and origins of the hit fighting game saga that paved the way for its most influential sequel, the franchise it blazed a trail for, and the emergence of titles from other competing studios that sparked the nascent wave of fighting game fanfare, from the public arcade to home consoles, and features interviews with a number of creators involved with the franchise, gamers, developers, directors and journalists alike.
Tiger and Okka Kshanan helmer VI Anand is having a roaring start to the week following the event premiere for the teaser of his newest film, Ooru Peru Bhairanakova from AK Entertainments. The Telugu fantasy drama stars Sundeep Kishan and Varsha Bollam for a story which, according to greatandhra.com, tells of a protagonist who journeys to a mysterious world to investigate the disappearance of four page from an ancient Hindu manuscript called the Garuda Puranam.
Actor and content creator Steven He remains a comedy force to be reckoned with on his platform. His latest move now arrives in the form of Ginormo!, an unearthed sci-fi meta series in the vein of classic kaiju and tokusatsu shows, with episodes set to launch on YouTube beginning May 12.
Following a delay in the campaign for what would have been a June release, fans instead got several updates on Saturday with a look at Jawan, a new Hindi-language action adventure starring Shah Rukh Khan and directed by Atlee for his fifth outing. The film is also slated for a September 7 release from AA Films and Yash Raj Films, and a brand new teaser trailer and poster are making the rounds as of the weekend to signal fans.
“…It’s time to plant my feet and land a punch!”
Next year will be a special treat of sorts for the Kamen Rider crowd with the 20th-anniversary arrival of Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Regained. Toshiki Inoue and Ryuta Tasaki are at the helm for the newest feature chapter once more in succession from the hit TV Asashi series, with actors Kohei Murakami, Yuria Haga, and Mitsuru Karahashi also returning.
If you’re like me and you’re today years old when you found out about a movie called Kaliyugam, then feel free to pat yourself on the back! India’s first post-apocalyptic survival thriller, starring Shraddha Srinath (Witness) and Kishore Kumar G. (Ponniyin Selvan: Part I and Part II) is now inbound as of the 2021 production start of Pramodh Sundar’s feature debut, and you’re just in time for the first official trailer which you can view at the bottom of the page.
Holy Mother director Yoshihiro Nishimura has been a busybody in the last few years campaigning for his two most recent thrillers, the second of which is Onimanji, serving as the spin-off of The Great War Of Torakage (2015). Back at the mantle of course is Masanori Mimoto (Hydra, Bad City) to reprise his role this time for an upgraded story that transports our protagonist into a modern-day story that undoubtedly retains the same feudal swordplay action and unapologetic spectacle fans of Nishimura have come to know and love.
As promised two years ago, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is coming to help bring full circle the director’s latest grand reboot of the classic 1984 sci-fi based on Frank Herbert’s novel. The official trailer is here as well following a spell of teases on Tuesday with lead actors Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, and Rebecca Ferguson joining the newly-added Florence Pugh, Austin Butler and Christopher Walken to the mix of new and returning cast.
Five years after stepping down from his position at Office Kitano and with a new novel in his sights, celebrated actor and filmmaker Takeshi Kitano is now ripe for the upcoming ceremony with what looks to be his final bow with the new period action epic, Kubi. The film, based on Kitano’s 2019 novel, was announced a few weeks ago with a poster introduced ahead of the film’s premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, with Kitano directing from his own script and Kadokawa handling the film’s international sales, as well as its local Japan release this Fall.
Arriving just in time to remind you that actor and martial arts star Michael Jai White is also a consumate filmmaker when he’s in the chair is the official teaser trailer for The Outlaw Johnny Black, the long-awaited non-canonical follow-up to Scott Sanders’ 2009 Blaxploitation spoof, Black Dynamite. Samuel Goldwyn Films is the independently produced and crowdfunded action comedy Western’s new home which is now on deck for theatrical release on September 15.
In the wake of the race riots that upended Chinatown in season two, Mai Ling uses her government connections to consolidate power, while Ah Sahm and the Hop Wei must find new ways to survive.
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