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THE ROUNDUP: PUNISHMENT Announces ‘The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil’ Reunion Casting Kim Moo-Yul, ‘The Roundup’ Stunt Coordinator Debut Directing

If you enjoyed the brutal melee of bludgeoning fists and retribution delivered by Don Lee in last year’s The Roundup and you’re ready for impending threequel The Roundup: No Way Out, you’d be wise to stay the course for its fourth outing, The Roundup: Punishment. The production is announcing actor Kim Moo-yul to the cast as the villiain, rejoining him with Lee following their brooding 2019 action thriller, Lee Won-tae’s The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, which landed a surprise addition to the screening slate for Fantasia Festival that year before releasing in North America through Well Go USA. Seasoned Korean action veteran Heo Myeong-haeng (Hunt, Extreme Job) makes his feature directorial debut on the fourth chapter of The Outlaws franchise. Heo’s credits extend as far back as more than twenty years collaborating with directors like Kim Sung-su, Kang Woo-suk, Ryoo Seung-wan, Na Hong-jin, Kim Jee-woon, Park Hoon-jung, actor Ha […]

THE ROUNDUP: NO WAY OUT International Official Trailer Launches

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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. What I love most is that Jun Kunimura gets a few visuals here along with the film’s Korean and Japanese cast which really antes things up some since the franchise took off in 2017. This time, our main star is part of a regional investigation unit tackling a new enemy in actor Lee Jun-Hyuk, and the Yakuza are involved as well. Hence Kunimura and sword-wielding Munetaka Aoki. The trailer below also arrived hours earlier with Korean subtitles with ABO debuting in English as of Wednesday. Check it out!

THE ROUNDUP: NO WAY OUT Rounds Up Some Major Poster Art!

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I’ve been awake for a few hours before I’m actually supposed to be up and about my day, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to share some of the latest enticing poster art for director Lee Sang-yong’s The Roundup: No Way Out. There’s a main poster in both Hangul and English, as well as a trio of character posters making the rounds for the film’s May 31 release. Detective Ma (Don LEE) is back again, now as a part of the regional investigation unit. With a new team, he has to catch a new villain (LEE Jun-hyuk). On the other hand, Riki (Aoki MUNETAKA), the Japanese gangster adds suspense by joining this fierce battle. Just after “The Roundup” became the biggest blockbuster of 2022 in Korea earning over $100 million, the director LEE Sang-yong and Don LEE team up again to keep up the momentum. The official launch trailer […]

THE ROUNDUP Cast And Director Gather For A New Trailer + Global Launch Event

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Director Kang Yoon-sung’s newest crime thriller, The Roundup, now gets a new minute-long trailer suited for international audiences. The footage comes tied to a global launch event that kicked off on Monday hosted by ABO Entertainment with a cast/director Q&A panel. Don Lee reunites with Kang following the film’s 2017 predecessor, The Outlaws, with Lee reprising his role as a tough-as-nails detective who tracks down a killer overseas while extraditing another criminal. Also starring are Son Seok-gu (Hit-and-Run Squad), and fellow The Outlaws cohorts Choi Gwi-hwa and Park Ji-hwan. The Roundup kicks ass in South Korean cinemas beginning May 18 from Kiwi Media Group. Watch an isolated cut of the trailer by clicking here.