Trailers

KINGDOM: RETURN OF THE GREAT GENERAL Signals The Next Explosive Chapter In The First Teaser

Director Shinsuke Sato’s treatment of the Kingdom franchise continues to be one of the greatest and most beautiful looking things to happen to live-action manga adaptations, all right up to this past summer’s hit third chapter release, Kingdom: Flame Of Destiny. Following its announcement in September, the next feature installment based Yasuhisa Hara’s publication is only half a year away now with the July 12 release of Kingdom: Return Of The Great General, with Toho leading the charge as its begun so with an official teaser to signal fans. The cast of returning and new characters is led by Kento Yamazaki who continues the saga as Shin, the former orphan-turned-warrior whose ongoing pursuits to become the greatest general in the Warring States carry with them the memory of a beloved friend Piao, who sacrificed himself as the penultimate body double to King Eisei, both dually played by Ryo Yoshizawa. Following […]

WANTED MAN Trailer Arrives For The New Dolph Lundgren Crime Thriller Coming In January

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Actor Dolph Lundgren’s latest upcoming New Year release now brings forth an official trailer for Wanted Man, from Quiver Distribution. Lundgren stars and directs the new crime thriller from a script he wrote with Michael Worth, and for a cast that joins Lundrgren with Kelsey Grammar, Christina Villa, Aaron McPherson and Daniela Soto-Brenner. Johansen (Lundgren) is an aging detective, whose outdated policing methods have given the department a recent public relations problem. To save his job, he is sent to Mexico to extradite a female witness (Villa) to the murders of two DEA agents. Once there, he finds not only his old opinions challenged, but that bad hombres on both sides of the border are now gunning for him and his witness. Wanted Man opens in theaters, on Demand and on Digital from January 19. Watch the official trailer now!

DUNE: PART TWO Unleashes The Desert Powers That Be In The Newest Trailer!

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If there’s one thing other than filmmaking that Denis Villeneuve knows when it comes to Frank Herbert’s “Dune-iverse,” it’s reboots. People tend to abhor remakes for some pretty valid and not-so-valid reasons and it pleases me to see his work adapting Frank Herbert’s novels years after David Lynch’s iteration bore nothing short of fruit in 2021, coupled with Warner Bros. commitement to a the sequel we now have in the March 1 release, Dune: Part Two. Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Rebecca Ferguson headline the upcoming sequel that sees the former reprise his role as the burdened, beleagured and albeit destined leader of the Fremen resistance against the Harkonnen empire on Arrakis, the spice-enriched planet that stands at the center of all the upheaval. The film also sees Dave Bautista, Oscar Isaac and Stellan Skarsgård reprising their roles in the line-up of returning and new cast members, […]

PENDEKAR AWANG: Fattah Amin Returns To The Warfront Against The British In The Official Trailer

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Folks who’ve been keen on more developments overseas in Malaysia might be interested in what’s ahead with the upcoming release of period action drama, Pendekar Awang. The film is billed as a spin-off follow-up to Syamsul Yusof’s hit flick, Mat Kilau, based one the true story of a rebel warrior’s quest to tame British colonial rule in Pahang the late 19th century. That film, starring Adi Putra in the title role who led the scrimmages against the British, co-starred Fattah Amin in the role of Awang, a rebel cohort who often clashed with the leader in strategy and hierarchy, before ultimately putting aside their differences. The new movie now sees the supporting character take the mantle with Amin reprising his role before a new cast in Pendekar Awang, with none other than NYAFF Daniel A. Craft award-winning director Areel Abu Bakar (Silat Warriors, Walid) in the director’s chair. Transparently speaking, […]

THE LAST KUMITE: Sample The Sounds Of Paul Hertzog And Stan Bush In The Newest Teaser For Ross Clarkson’s Throwback Martial Arts Thriller

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Martial arts fans and ardent supporters of upcoming tourno fighting thriller, The Last Kumite, got a taste of things to come last month with a teaser that’s disappeared from the interwebs. Fret not though, for a new teaser has arrived for a proper intro into the millieu of arena fisticuffs shepherded by director Ross W. Clarkson. Kampfansage: Der Letzte Schuler star Mathis Landwehr takes the lead in his newest screen outing in the role of Michael Rivers, a fighter forced to take heed to an invite to compete in an underground fighting circuit to save his daughter, joining a plethora of other competitors who are in a similar predicament. Clarkson directs from a script he wrote with co-scribe Sean David Lowe who serves as one of the film’s exec producers, and who also led the film’s initial crowdfunding campaign in the last few years. Composer Paul Hertzog and recording artist […]

Nassim Lyes Unleashes MAYHEM! In The Official Trailer For The IFC Films Release!

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It was last summer when “Gangs Of London” cohort Xavier Gens’ newest action adventure thriller, Farang, enjoyed its Fantasia Festival world premiere as Mayhem!. Having since been acquired by IFC Films and garnering a slew of enough buzz quotes to rival the levels of violence and spectacle being touted since its French rollout over the summer, we now have an official trailer which you can view below ahead of its theatrical and On-Demand U.S. release on January 5. A martial artist and ex-con Sam (Nassim Lyes) starts a new life in Thailand to escape a local gang lord, but a kidnapped family member sucks him back into the underworld he’d left behind in this propulsive action spectacle. I’m jelly of anyone who’s seen this film already. At any rate, that release date is just after my birthday so maybe I’ll finally get to treat myself to a nice night out […]

THE TIGER’S APPRENTICE: The Claws Come Out In The First Teaser For The Animated Action Adventure From Paramount+

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February 2 will see the Paramount+ U.S. launch of animated action adventure, The Tiger’s Apprentice. The official teaser arrived on Thursday as well with a voice cast listing Henry Golding, Brandon Soo Hoo, and Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh and Michelle Yeoh. Based on the popular children’s book series of the same name by Laurence Yep, THE TIGER’S APPRENTICE follows Chinese-American teenager Tom Lee (Soo Hoo), whose life changes forever when he discovers he is part of a long lineage of magical protectors known as the Guardians. With guidance from a mythical tiger named Hu (Golding), Tom trains to take on Loo (Yeoh), a force that is as powerful as a Guardian but with evil intentions to use magic to destroy humanity. To have a fighting chance against Loo, Tom must reunite all twelve Zodiac animal warriors and master his own newly discovered powers. Voice casting also includes Bowen Yang, Leah […]

THE BROTHERS SUN Official Trailer Arrives For New Netflix Series Launching In January

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I’ve got some viewing lined-up for the new year, but I’ll definitely need something to tie me down until a fourth season of Warrior is ordered. Thankfully Netflix will be on hand with eight-part episodic crime drama, The Brothers Sun, now back with a new trailer ahead of its January 4 premiere following a teaser revealed last month during Geeked Week. The Brothers Sun is an action-packed, dark comedic drama, and family soap. The eight-episode series is set in Los Angeles and Taiwan. It is uniquely distinct, featuring an all-Asian writers room and all-Asian cast. It follows Taipei gangster, Charles Sun, who’s settled into his life as a ruthless killer. But when his father is shot by a mysterious assassin, Charles must go to L.A. to protect his mother and utterly-unaware younger brother Bruce. Such is the case for the character played by Sam Song Li who is joined by […]

ONMYOJI-0 Official Trailer, Posters Reveal Cast Led By Kento Yamazaki For Shimako Sato’s New 2024 Fantasy Epic!

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Warner Bros. Japan has unveiled the first official trailer for director Shimako Sato’s Onmyoji-0, the latest adaptation of Baku Yumemakura’s longstanding novels. The campaign is also pulling back the curtain off its casting line-up, featuring actor Kento Yamazaki in the title role. Sato, whose credits partly include the Eko Eko Azarak and Unfair films, as well as 2008’s Takeshi Kaneshiro starrer, K-20: Legend Of The Mask, penned the script under Yumemakura’s stewardship with Jujutsu consultation by essayist and author Nanami Kamon. Together, the team have crafted an all-new original story that focuses on the early days of Abe no Seimei in his studies to become an Onmyoji – a monastic practitioner of magic, mystics, astrology and divination. Onmyoji-0 marks a new career addition to Yamazaki who currently fronts director Shinsuke Sato’s Kingdom franchise based on Yasuhisa Hara’s hit manga series, as well as Takashi Miike’s live-action JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure: Diamond […]

YU YU HAKUSHO: Takumi Kitamura Is A Spirit Warrior In Training In The Newest Trailer

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Netflix’s five-part rollout of live-action series Yu Yu Hakusho is ramping up its campaign for its December 14 premiere, and with new stills already circulating, a brand new trailer is also online to make the show’s case. To boot, the streamer also revealed key details about the show’s use of visual effects, crediting VFX production house Scanline VFX in contributing to the recreations of many aspects of the show, including locations, CG characters and spectacular battle scenes to come. “To what extent CGI-characters can be shown close-up depends on the distance from the camera, whether there’s dialogue, and the facial expression,” said visual effects director Tomofumi Akahane. “With Scanline VFX on board, we were able to reach higher than any other Japanese title and achieve a quality where the average viewer won’t be able to tell that CGI is actually CGI.” Sho Tsukikawa directs the series from a screenplay by […]

AHITH 2023: The Legend Continues Debuting Alec Bonk’s Feature Presentation With Inspired Indie Crime Flick, BLIND COP 2!

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The evolution behind Alec Bonk’s feature debut here is funny as hell given the mythic nature of an inaugural “Blind Cop” movie. The official website has more info on why this is so, take it or leave it, but for better or worse Bonk and his team have taken an idea stemmed from a character created for a short 2014, and have all but run with it full speed ahead to produce what we now know as Blind Cop 2, billed as “a throwback to the 80s with over the top humor and violence and an antidote to factory made studio blockbusters”. Blind Cop, the former beacon of justice, is consumed by grief after the mysterious death of his partner. His once-illustrious career has been shattered and reduced to drunken disorderly conduct, putting him at odds with the police force. In his investigation of a new influx of arms trafficking, […]

NORYANG: DEADLY SEA Official Trailer Teases Admiral Yi’s Final Battle

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Charting the course for a December 20 rollout in South Korea is Lotte Cultureworks with the Korean release of Noryang: Deadly Sea. Actor Kim Yun-seok carries the lead role of admiral Yi Sun-shin for director Kim Han-min’s third and final cinematic expression of the historical figure with a story set in 1598, as Yi readies for his last valiant battle against the Wae army near the end of the seven year Imjin War. The film also stars Baek Yoon-sik, Jung Jae-young and Huh Joon-ho. Well Go USA will release the film stateside in the new year following its rights acquisition from sales agent Acemaker back in May. Catch the official new trailer below!

GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE: Epic Rivals Double Team Against A New Foe In The Official Teaser Trailer!

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Anyone coming off the high of seeing Takashi Yamazaki‘s latest take on Godzilla’s decimation of anything sitting on the Earth’s crust will be pleased to know that director Adam Wingard is here to help carry you over into the new year for your proper kaiju fix. Enter Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, joining much of the cast of 2021’s Godzilla VS. Kong with a new cast, including new and formidable foes that now see our towering menaces double teaming to seriously f–k shit up. The epic battle continues! Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse follows up the explosive showdown of “Godzilla vs. Kong” with an all-new adventure that pits the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence—and our own. “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” delves further into the histories of these Titans and their origins, as well as […]

SALAAR: PART 1 – CEASEFIRE Trailer Sees Prahbas Speaking Softly, And Carrying Bloody Weaponry For The First Chapter

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Homable Films is touting its latest effort, Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire, with an official and extensive new trailer following a teaser rollout back in July. The film teams up leading man Prahbas – star of the upcoming Kalki 2898 A.D. – with director Prashanth Neel who comes off the perpetual success of his two-part period action tête-à-tête, K.G.F., which became a record-breaking box office hit with its second installment last year. Neel directs from his own script a story that chronicles the boyhood friendship that now shapes the present-day tale of a gang leader who vows to protect a friend whos father’s opponents seek to usurp power through violent, militarized means in the city of Khansaar. Prahbas is joined by Prithviraj Sukumaran and Shruti Haasan for the film’s December 22 global release in Telugu with multiple dubs including Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA Prequel Trailer Teases Anya Taylor-Joy’s Explosive ‘Mad Max’ Odyssey!

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Taking the reins from Charlize Theron is actress Anya Taylor-Joy in the title role of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, currently making a splash at CCXP 2023 in São Paulo, Brazil this week. The official trailer is now online for the newest prequel following up from 2015’s propulsive hit Mad Max: Fury Road, adding Chris Hemsworth to help outline the origin tale of the burgeoning wasteland heroine. As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home. Mad Max franchise mainstay George Miller is at the helm once more with a cast […]

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THE LAST KUMITE Official Teaser: ‘Kampfansage’ Star Mathis Landwehr Is Back For His Newest Thriller Coming In 2024!

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It’s been close to twenty years since German martial arts cinema came out of the woodwork bringing actor and martial artist Mathis Landwehr into the limelight as the star of Johannes Jaeger’s Kampfansage: Der Letzte Schüler, a feature expanded from a pre-existing indie action short concept. Landwehr has still been on radar from time to time in roles for projects like Lasko and Martin-Christopher Bode’s Ultimate Justice over the years, and even in Shawn Bu’s explosive hit fanmade Star Wars short flick, “Darth Maul: Apprentice” to name a few, although it remained to be seen just when exactly the actor would take the reins for a lead role in a new feature. I did have my eye on one project in which he would have starred but I don’t have any faith at the moment that it’ll ever see completion. Alas, leave it to the likes of noted cinematographer Ross […]

TIRA Official Series Trailer Signals The Arrival Of A New Hero

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Nearly a year after presenting its first look at actress Chelsea Islan (Headshot, May The Devil Take You franchise) in upcoming Disney+ Hotstar series, Tira, the newest official teaser has now arrived online which you can view below. Islan stars in the series which is premiering on December 16 following its introductory rollout at the 18th Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival this week. After rescuing nine kids from a human sacrifice ritual, Suci is struck with a curse — she’ll die within 40 days. The mysterious Ben helps her to find a cure through an ancient power. Suci needs to balance her budding career as a movie stuntwoman, maintaining her grades and scholarship on campus, while saving her own life. She’s getting dragged into a complicated situation when she finds out that the ancient powers belong to highly-acclaimed people who are caught in a secret war. Fly By Night director Zahir […]

BLOOD COAST Official French Crime Series Trailer Runs Red With Pulsating Action And Drama

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December 6 will see the official premiere of Kamel Guemra’s six-part action-packed crime series, Blood Coast (French title Pax Massilia). Ivan Fegyveres and Olivier Marchal each share directing duties on the hourlong series which hails from production house Gaumont and stars Tewfik Jallab, Jeanne Goursaud, and Nicolas Duvauchelle. As a vicious drug dealer tries to overtake Marseille, a rogue police captain and his daredevil team welcome a new recruit with an agenda of her own. Also starring are Moussa Maaskri and Gino Montesinos, along with Florence Thomassin and Samir Boitard. The official trailer is now online below.

BLOODY ESCAPE: Goro Taniguchi’s New Animated Thriller Gets A Propulsive Official Trailer

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Cyborg vs Vampires vs Yakuza!Goro Taniguchi has gone ahead and made the most mental movie you’ve ever seen! Filmmaker Goro Taniguchi (Code Geass franchise, One Piece Film: Red) is kicking the door down for 2024 with animated feature, Bloody Escape: Flight From Hell (tentative title). The official trailer has arrived as of Friday with a new look at the characters culminating what’s being billed as the director’s premiere “very violent” original action film. After human experimentation turns Kizaragi into a cyborg, he finds himself pursued by multiple organizations:An undying coven of vampires bent on the conquest of Tokyo, and an immortal order of knights, and a group of Yakuza, sworn to avenge the killing of their leader. “I might not have any reason to live, but that’s no reason to let them kill me.” Kizaragi will have to use his cyborg-body and his unique “blood,” as well as anything else […]

THE GOLDFINGER: Don’t Miss The Latest Trailer Ahead Of The Global Release On December 30!

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Several new posters and a new trailer are out for The Goldfinger, the newest crime thriller from Overheard trilogy director Felix Chong and featuring Tony Leung and Andy Lau. AMTD is partnering with distributors to shepherd the film’s release globally on December 30, rejoining Leung and Lau since garnering acclaim years ago on Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s hit film, Infernal Affairs – also co-penned by Chong. Set in the 1980s, the film depicts cut-throat machinations between Hong Kong’s jostling business elites amidst the backdrop of the tail end of British colonial rule. It tells the story of the rise and bust of a fictional Hong Kong company called Jiali Group, following the travails of its chairman Cheng Yiyan through 15 years of investigations by the Independent Commission Against Corruption as murders are committed, billions in market value evaporate and millions are spent on litigation fees. The Goldfinger also marks […]