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THE RAID 2 Director Bids Thanks, Tweets Final Stages Of Post Production

Sweet fucking mayhem – car chase mix is sounding pretty amazing. Your heads will explode. #TheRaid2Berandal — Gareth Evans (@ghuwevans) January 16, 2014 Gareth Evans, the ever humble and hard working writer and director of the second installment of his growing martial arts crime saga, The Raid 2: Berandal, took to Twitter this week to announce the final stages of post production on his new film, bidding a heartfelt thanks to the post production crew who have worked tirelessly to get the film done in time for its three-night premiere at the Sundance Film Festival beginning on January 21. Earlier on, Evans reflected a little bit more on the earlier conception of the new film then-titled “Berandal” which originally meant to be something entirely different in following up his previous success with Merantau, which would further catapult its lead actor, Iko Uwais to martial arts cinema stardom. “4yrs ago..” he […]

Watch The New Trailer For THE RAID 2: BERANDAL

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Clockwise from top left: Yayan Ruhian, Cok Simbara, Oka Antara, Kazuki Kitamura, Iko Uwais, Arifin Putra, Alex Abbad, Ryuhei Matsuda, Cecep Arif Rahman, Julie Estelle, Very Tri Yulisman, Kenichi Endo and Tio Pakusadewo. Of all the historic moments in action cinema history, today’s first teaser for The Raid 2: Berandal has to be it. The upcoming follow-up to the 2011 thriller in an expected trilogy to come, The Raid: Redemption (a.k.a. Seruban Maut) already has tons of momentum since earning its worldwide fanfare from the stellar success of the first film. In the seven months it took to complete filming, writer and director Gareth Huw Evans updated his Twitter account regularly, giving his followers a steady stream of mini progress reports detailing and documenting everything from casting and filming, and all so far included in the day and the life of the artist responsible for taking what he did in […]

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The Gang's All Here In The First Official Artwork For THE RAID 2: BERANDAL

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Not a day after announcing a possible air date for the teaser, writer/director Gareth Evans’ up coming martial arts action thriller, The Raid 2: Berandal, the first official poster art has arrived exclusively via Twitchfilm from graphic designer Omar Hauksson. The new art depicts the new cast line up featuring Iko Uwais reprising his role as a rookie tactical team from the first film as one of the few survivors of a botched raid into a crimelord’s 15-floor apartment building. For the second go around, the sequel takes place just a few hours after the first film ends as Uwais‘ character goes undercover and into the lions’ den to investigate the corruption in the police force. Also starring are Tio Pakusadewo, Putra Arifin Scheunamann, Alex Abbad, Roy Marten and returning actor Yayan Ruhian, along with Marsha Timothy, Julie Estelle, Very Tri Yulisman, Cecep Arif Rahman, Oka Antara and Epy Kusnandar, and Japanese actors Ryuhei Matsuda, Kenuchi Endo and Kazuki Kitamura. The film arrives in 2014. Stay […]

Gareth Evans Announces Teaser Date For THE RAID 2: BERANDAL

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On Thursday night, Twitter followers of action maestro Gareth Evans watched as he decided to tweet everything fans could possibly want to hear at this stage of the post production process for The Raid 2: Berandal after wrapping in July: “Teaser trailer sent for VFX work & grading. Scoring done. Sound mix next. Aiming at putting it out around 7/11 Nov if all goes smooth.” “Saving a bunch of stuff for the main trailer hopefully end of December early January.” “Not planning to put too many clips out there – seems a lot of films these days are showing way too much before they even release.” “We have 17 action sequences in the film – so there’s going to be a lot fresh material unspoiled by any teaser or trailer we release.” “At most both combined would equate to 3mins 30s. Last I checked – the action alone clocked in around […]

Say Hello To The Bat-Man In A New Photo From THE RAID 2: BERANDAL!

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Meet Baseball Bat Man played by the amazingly talented @mpe_very – follow him & say nice things 🙂 #TheRaid2Berandal http://t.co/b3XPxJlZ3D — Gareth Evans (@ghuwevans) September 23, 2013 Director Gareth Huw Evans has taken to twitter to finally unveil the actor who would play the brother to actress Julie Estelle‘s “Hammer Girl”. Actor Very Tri Yulisman can now be seen available via twitter donning his deadly weapon of choice in the upcoming blockbuster action-packed sequel thriller, tentatively titled The Raid 2: Berandal. The photo also comes with news bearing pending poster art from graphic designer and Twitchfilm.com writer Omar Hauksson, in addition to Evans’ shameless tease about the final fight to take place, telling followers “Sorry I never normally do this, but fuck me the final fight is pretty fucking awesome! Great work by @iko_uwais and… no spoilers here :)”. A fan poster was released several months ago before wrapping in […]

Gareth Evans Teases The World With A Bloody New Screenshot Of 'Hammer Girl' Julie Estelle From THE RAID 2: BERANDAL

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Director Gareth Evans took to Twitter over the weekend to release the latest still of actress Julie Estelle who plays the claw-hammer wielding “Hammer Girl” in the tentatively-titled film, The Raid 2: Berandal. The still shot comes from a roughly edited action preview Evans brought to the 14th annual Film4 Frightfest a few days ago where a variety of horror films were showcased to festival goers in the UK as of August 22, 2013. The festival runs through Monday, August 26. Previous character stills of the actress were released during production, with the first still introduced in April, with a second one released in late-May. Twitchfilm contributor Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg posted an article on what happened while visiting Film4 Frightfest, illustrating the moment Evans stepped out to introduce the clip, and also detailing the style actress Estelle uses to perform her character in the film, and a bit more on […]

Gareth Evans Unveils THE RAID 2 Character, Prakoso

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Director Gareth Evans took to twitter today to set the record straight on images taken from the set that we proclaimed to be of the character, Prakoso, from the set of The Raid 2, also known as its Indonesian title, Berandal, meaning “Punk”. “Okay so a few people have started posting snaps of @YayanRuhian during downtime on set as images of him as Prakoso in #TheRaid2Berandal” he tweets. “Those photos aren’t him in character… This is Prakoso #TheRaid2Berandal” he says, sharing the photo which can be seen on the left. Berandal, which is slated for North American release sometime in 2014 as “The Raid: Retaliation”, began production in January 2013 from PT Merantau Films and XYZ Films with the promise of a larger scale story with a slightly bigger budget to promise more brutal and bloodier action than before, with such sequences including a prison riot, a bathroom brawl, some […]

UPDATED: New (Fan Made) Character Poster For BERANDAL

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Correction: When I shared the poster below, I was under the impression this was actor Very Tri Yulisman according to a cast listing I saw on Facebook. I tweeted Gareth several hours ago and this was his response: “@ghuwevans: @FCSyndicate not sure where that came from but it’s not from us and that’s not our actor for baseball bat man.” So, I bet we will see some more verifiable material in the days and months ahead. It took me a while to gather just who this particular character was in this peculiar-looking character poster below floating around Facebook today promoting director Gareth Evans‘s latest urban Silat action martial arts blockbuster The Raid 2: Berandal. Well, after lots of googling and searching, I came to find out that the name of the individual with the brilliant physique branding a considerably threatening baseball bat and an inconspicuous tattoo on his shoulder is […]

UNVEILED: The Raid 2's Julie Estelle As HAMMER GIRL

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From a 20-man toilet brawl to a mud-soaked prison right, heralded action filmmaker Gareth Huw Evans has been keeping his fans and followers posted with all kinds of tweets and blurbs detailing the production of his latest sequel to the 2012 Indonesian urban-martial arts action hit, Seruban Maut, known in the U.S. and abroad as The Raid: Redemption. With the release of new photos since production began in January, the expectations for this sequel have only been growing higher and higher. The action and scope of the upcoming film will be much larger, compared to the first. Gareth Evans explains in a statement from last year: “We’re expanding the universe now, so it’s not going to be set in the building any more, it’s going to be out on the streets, and so it’s a much bigger film, it’s a much more ambitious movie. We’ve got some big action setpieces […]

New Poster Art From THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Highlights A Year Loaded With Promise

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Best year ever? I’d say. Let’s get started. 😉 Back in 2010 through May of 2012, as PT Merantau Films made headlines with the impending international success of director Gareth Evans hit films like Merantau and Seruban Maut a.k.a. The Raid: Redemption, it was also reported that the same company, in addition to the upcoming sequel in the works, would also be putting out two new genre films. Today, one of those films is back in the headlines with some gritty new artwork as Twitchfilm now reports the first film with a script still in the process of being written will be a neo-noir hitman thriller set in the U.K. titled, The Night Comes For Us. The film, which is neither a martial arts nor a horror film (making this one possibly just an action thriller, though the jury is still out, I’d say) is being co-written by director Timo […]