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Will Smith To Star And Produce BOUNTY For Paramount
Actor Will Smith may not be battling aliens anytime soon in any capacity for an Independence Day sequel, and following 2013’s After Earth, the jury is still out on how he feels about doing big-scale films aside from his current obligations to director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad over in Vancouver this April. His latest film, Focus, with Suicide Squad co-star and leading lady Margot Robbie is certainly an exemplary change of pace and one that will hopefully set Smith in a more comfortable state of mind when it comes to doing bigger films.
For now though, his attention is slightly geared toward more smaller projects which still sound equally intriguing given the plot set ups. In this instance, Paramount Pictures’s newly announced action flick, Bounty, serves quite the example. The film’s Boston, Massachusetts setting will accomodate Smith‘s role as a man wrongfully convicted for a murder he didn’t commit, now on the loose as he must prove his innocence with the victim’s widow offering a ten-million dollar bounty for his capture, fatal or other. Smith is producing the film under his banner at Overbrook Entertainment with Adam Kolbrenner of Madhouse Pictures with a script by Sascha Penn.
Personally, I dug After Earth and my review is here in case you’re curious, so I hope that the film’s shortcomings don’t hinder him from doing larger projects. He’s still a good actor who can sell movies, and his chemistry with son, actor Jayden Smith was quite good for that particular film’s tone. At any rate, Bounty is coming with Smith set to star…and since every action thriller needs a villain to accomodate its hero, let’s see who’s going to do the hunting. Stick around!
H/T: THR/Heat Vision
BLOODLINE: THE ANIMATED SERIES Returns With New Kickstarter Campaign Push!
Last October saw the initial launch of a new Kickstarter campaign for the dazzling new animated project, Bloodline: The Animated Series, from New York-based company, Visionary Outlook, LLC and its CEO, Alphonso Devon Blackwood. Since then, Blackwood and the company evidently cancelled promoting the fundraiser to re-evaluate and analyze their platform a bit more, and they’ve now made the few necessary changes to re-launch a fresh new effort in funding their ambitious new series, with some amazing perks to boot.
There are quite a few layers and different pieces and details to this epic saga, although in my own summation, here’s the skinny: Hopeskin, a distant planet falls in upheaval as its King lay ill, ensuing a forbidden ritual by His majesty’s inner circle to scan the galaxy in search of his true heir, forcing an unwitting young 16-year old boy into an epic battle against dark intergalactic forces as he discovers his royal lineage. This is exactly the kind of formula that speaks to fans of anime and sci-fi/fantasy community alike, and Blackwood and his team are looking to expand on it anyway they can, between any number of episodes to an additional full feature film, a 2D fighting game, and MUCH more.
All that’s needed now is your generosity and interest. So, by all means, check out the new Kickstarter campaign page and donate, and/or pass it on to friends who love kickass anime!
The Latest Indiegogo For Austin St. John Starrer, SURVIVAL'S END, Asks One Question
It’s been well over a decade since TV movie director and documentation, award-winning filmmaker Daniel E. Springen has sat in the director’s chair, although much of his career has been spent as a producer for films like Contract Killer, Just Another Day, and last year’s Frank vs. God. This year however, Springen is coming back to the fray in an all-new feature-length film now crowdfunding via Indiegogo for the brand new apocalyltic survivalist action thriller, Survival’s End, the story set in a version of America ravaged by the virility of the Ebola virus where an ex-military specialist must use his tactical survial skills to help a band of survivors escape government-imposed death squads.
This, right here, sounds like a truly badass plot line worth selling as an action feature with all the potential to serve to sci-fi fans as well as action junkies. Of course though, every action movie needs a fantastic leading man to fill the shoes. Henceforth, that task now goes to actor Austin St. John, whose career stemming from the early nineties as a leading cast member in the American toku action family series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and the second of two subsequent feature films, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, has since led him on a path as journeyman helping others in the U.S. and around the world as an EMT paramedic and firefighter. St. John briefly discusses this in the latest campaign video to help fund the film, and there’s no question that such experience will serve him will for a role of this caliber, on top of being a martial artists as well as a veteran screenfighter who is no stranger to the camera, provided the right choreographer comes on board. It also helps that St. John is also in touch with the Tokusatsu community as much as his fellow former Ranger cast and if you follow the Comic-Con scene enough, you’re likely to spot him, in which case, your next chance to meet him will be in Oz in the latter half of June, and there’s more information available at his official website.
At any rate, Survival’s End is looking to help fill at least thirty percent of its budget through Indiegogo with the rest of the financing coming through from a film program at Florida’s own Valencia College in Orlando. Watch the campaign video over at the official Indiegogo page where you’ll find more details on the film, how you can help, and the perks you may earn as well.
EFM 2015: Scott Adkins Actioner, CLOSE RANGE Gets U.S. Distribution
Be ready for what comes later this year when cult action directorial favorite Isaac Florentine releases his latest new action thriller, Close Range. Production wrapped last week reuniting our dear director with elite Brit kicker and cinematic action hero, actor Scott Adkins who plays Colton McReady, a former soldier-turned-vigilante forced to defend his sister and niece in their own home against a ruthless drug cartel and a swarm of police under the command of their courrpt sheriff.
Such a plot line bodes perfectly well for the Adkins/Florentine duo whose work dates back close to twelve years of making solid and memorable action movies together, now with co-star and martial artist, actor Jeremy Marinas taking the reigns as the action director. It’s an exciting feat to welcome this year, and even more so as it gained ground over at this year’s European Film Market in Berlin where the film, represented by international sales agents, Blue Box International, has just closed a raft of distribution deals worldwide, including XLrator Media in North America and VVS in Canada.
The news should excite plenty of fans ahead of the new year as Close Range aims for another return to hard-hitting, pulse pounding action for the lead star as word awaits on a potential return to the fray as Russian kickboxer, Yuri Boyka in a hopeful forth installment of the Undisputed franchise among others. In the meantime, Adkins has a batch of other films on the way this year as well, so keep a look out for more information as it comes.
Close Range is a production of Bleiberg Entertainment’s own Company B with Ehud Bleiberg and Richard Donnermeyer producing from a script by co-producers Chad Law and Shane Dax Taylor. Actress Caitlin Keats and actors Nick Chinlund, Madison Lawlor, Jake La Botz and Tony Perez round out the cast.
H/T: Screendaily
You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down In The New US Trailer For EVERLY
Watch new trailer and gear up for the film’s forthcoming VOD release this Friday on January 23. The film makes its big screen debut on February 27.
PSYCHO PASS Releases In Japan With US Date Pending
Following its serial run since 2012, director Shiotani Naoyoshi‘s latest feature-length installment of Production I.G.’s action packed sci-fi anime, Psycho Pass is making its theatrical run as of January 9 courtesy of Toho. Funimation currently has the rights while North American audiences await a release date, but those familiar with the franchise may enjoy what the film has to offer from Urobuchi Gem’s screenplay with Fukami Makoto.
SYNOPSIS:
The year is 2112. Rookie inspector Akane Tsunemori and enforcer Shinya Kogami cross paths with one man. That man, Shogo Makishima, turns out to be the mastermind of a past case and Kogami’s target for revenge.
When Makishima goes on to shake the foundations of a peacekeeping system, he poses the question about where justice exists. In time, Kogami takes justice into his own hands against Makishima before he goes into hiding…
In the year 2116, the government of Japan begins exporting the Sibyl System and unmanned robot drones to conflict areas in an attempt to spread its system to all corners of the globe. SEAUn — the Southeast Asia Union — decides to test the Sibyl System, and with it the floating city of Shambhalafloat achieves fleeting peace and security.
However, shortly thereafter, terrorists from SEAUn enter Japanese soil…
With the involvement of one man, the terrorists attempt to sneak through the Sibyl System and launch an attack against the system’s brain. Akane Tsunemori of the Criminal Investigation Division sets off to investigate Shambhalafloat.
The truth of the justice brought down on a new land is revealed…
Promotion for the film began back in November last year, but you can watch its latest trailer in the player below.
H/T: Sci-Fi Japan
NBC's New Martial Arts Drama, WARRIOR, Now In Development
In a grounded, contemporary multicultural and sometimes magical milieu, a damaged heroine works undercover with physical and spiritual guidance from a mysterious martial arts master to bring down an international crime lord.
"MacReady" And "Cruz" Headline First Look Pics From The Set Of CLOSE RANGE
Actor Scott Adkins and co-star/fight choreographer Jeremy Marinas took to social media this week to share a first look at the characters they’re be playing on the set of currently-filming new thriller, Close Range. There isn’t much to add on to the updates here aside from their roles since it’s very early and these photos are from the first day of filming, but it’s the first of many methodically published teases we can expect as the month progresses. Check them out:
CHAPPIE Takes On Big Robots And Bigger Dreams In A New Trailer!
Sharlto Copley reunites with Blomkamp in a career that has seen our actor in many larger-than-life dimensions, even as his inherited role from Scott Bakula in the A-Team remake was shortlived. Time and again, the two prove consistently to be a formula that work, and Chappie certainly aims to do the same, featuring a stellar cast that includes Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel, Alien franchise star Sigourney Weaver and X-Men favorite Hugh Jackman, in addition to an assortment of deadly robots and awesome mech gear. Yes, this looks awesome.
Armor-Up For New Trailer For Down Under Zombie Apocalypse Thriller, WYRMWOOD: ROAD OF THE DEAD!
It’s been a long road for Aussie filmmaking/producing duo, brothers writer/director Kiah and co-writer Tristan Roache-Turner, but now their long-awaited zombie apocalypse thrill ride is ready to make a splash on the big screen for Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead.
Watch The New Teaser Trailer For TERMINATOR: GENISYS
Today is a great day to be a Terminator fan if you’ve been waiting for the earliest possible teaser for the upcoming trilogy reboot from Paramount Pictures and Skydance. Certainly while many continue to lawd the prospects of remakes, the marketing strategy has thusfar proven nothing short of highly anticipatory, and now, Terminator: Genisys finally gets a full teaser ahead of its summer 2015 release, and just as promised, Arnold Schwarzenegger is back and leading a stellar cast featuring Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke and Jai Courtney.