cannes 2019

RAMBO: Cannes Announces Sylvester Stallone’s May 24 In-Person Buzz For Final Film, And 4K Screening Of 1982 Original

Actor Sylvester Stallone is gonna be peppering up Cannes quite a bit starting next week. He already has a remake of upcoming South Korean Don Lee starrer, The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, in his wake, and his 1993 classic hit movie, Cliffhanger, is also under Ana Lily Amirpour’s remake microscope without his involvement. For this, we now turn to news over from Cannes that the celebrated action star is bringing a double dose of Rambo to the 72nd Festival de Cannes, firstly promoting Rambo V: Last Blood with an exclusive first look. And second, to screen the world premiere of a 4K rendering of Ted Kotcheff’s original novel adaptation, Rambo: First Blood. Read on: As he will be present at Cannes, Sylvester Stallone will have the honor of a special screening in the Palais des Festivals on Friday, May 24 at 10:30PM. He will introduce on stage some exclusive […]

Cyberpunk Thriller DANGER DIVA To Rock The Palais des Festivals Next Week

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The latest of two trailers arrived this week for Danger Diva from filmmaker Robert McGinley (Shredder Orpheus), and featuring the lively sounds of Seattle rock band, Thunderpussy whose Molly Sides leads the cast. The new cyberpunk rock-and-roll thriller is screening at the Palais des Festivals et des Congress in Cannes on May 17 at 8:00pm prior to a pending worldwide release from Adler & Associates Entertainment, Inc. Described as “a science fiction futurist nightmare for the ages”, Danger Diva takes audiences on a dystopian journey into the near future with hard rock singer Devi Danger (Sides) as she is coerced into becoming an electronically enhanced new-music diva. Her singing voice is used to control and energize the brains of indoctrinated employees (also known as “Brain Cattle”) that are being used as external processors for the advancement of corporate high tech clients. Operating in a digital sweatshop, these “Brain Cattle” process […]

TAU CETI 4: McTiernan Lines Up Thurman, Fimmel For Intergalactic Action Sci-Fi

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Notable blockbuster director John McTiernan may finally get back into his element this year rounding up new sci-fi in Tau Ceti 4. This might find itself retitled to something more commericially viable unless he finds a way to make Tau Ceti 4 work, but that’s the title he and his current company at IMR are going with as Cannes sales approaches next week. Set to star Uma Thurman (Kill Bill saga) and Travis Fimmel (Vikings, Warcraft), Tau Ceti 4 is the titular planet of the Tau Ceti solar system – it’s a war-torn planet where three heavily-armed strangers have landed with the goal of targeting and killing off all the various oligarchs and militant terrorists. McTiernan, best known for delivering 80s and 90s hallmark action cinema glory with Die Hard and Predator, penned the script and will produce with Thurman, and with Gail Sistrunk and Anthony Katagas. CAA and Paradigm […]

FESTIVE FILM BITS: Invincible Fighters, Kung Fu Killers, Schwarzengger And More

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I’ve missed posting about a few events this month, but here’s some worth taking a gander at: At current, there’s still no wide U.S. release update yet for director Vasan Bala’s award-winning hit Indian martial arts comedy opus, The Man Who Feels No Pain. Still. And THAT hurts. STILL. At least for some, thankfully, there still lies hope for local areas stateside who still run festival screenings. Thus, this particular, and STILL highly celebrated hit movie out of festival circulation in Toronto and Mumbai last year will also get its day on May 18 at this year’s attending crowd for the DFW South Asian Film Festival. Starring Abhimanyu Dassani and Radhika Madani and employing the stewardship of action director duo Eric Jacobus and Dennis Ruel, the film centers on a young boy who grows up with a congenitial tolerance to pain – a condition with which he applies through training […]

FIRST LOVE Adds Takashi Miike’s Latest World Premiere Action Thriller To Cannes’ Directors Fortnight Line-Up

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Want some more Miike for your moviegoing? Then take a gander at HanWay Films’ latest nab of the auteur’s new action thriller, First Love. The UK-based international sales/distro banner acquired rights to the Japan/UK co-prod which reteams Miike with Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas’ Recorded Picture Company for a fourth time following Hara-kiri: Death Of A Samurai, 13 Assassins, and Blade Of The Immortal. Deadline‘s Andreas Wiseman notes the film’s description as cited by the producers as follows: Set over one night in Tokyo, the film will follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call girl and an addict but still an innocent. Little does Leo know, Monica is unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads. […]