OMNISCIENT READER: THE PROPHET Novel Adaptation Gets An Official Trailer
The new novel adaptation opens in Korea and North America this summer!
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HOLY NIGHT: DEMON HUNTERS: Capelight Reveals North American Trailer For May Release!
Don Lee will punch things in North America next month!
VETERAN 2: I, THE EXECUTIONER Review: Ryoo Seung-Wan’s Crackling Action Crime Sequel Shows Us He Didn’t Forget Us
VETERAN 2: I, THE EXECUTIONER, is now available on Digital and VOD from Capelight Pictures and MPI.
VETERAN 2: I, THE EXECUTIONER Lands On Digital And VOD This Month. Catch The Trailer!
Capelight Pictures and MPI Media Group will release the film on Digital and VOD on February 11.
I, THE EXECUTIONER: North American Official Trailer Revealed For New Korean Crime Thriller
Hwang Jung-min’s return to the role that made director Ryoo Seung-wan’s 2015 crime flick, Veteran, a hit has proven ever to be a treat for fans of Korean action. The Cannes-selected thriller, I, The Executioner, is now poised for a run via Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for its North American Premiere, while Capelight Pictures has since stepped up with an official trailer and a September 27 theatrical release to break to fans! The veteran detective Seo Do-cheol (HWANG Jung-min) and his team at Major Crimes, relentless in their pursuit of criminals, join forces with rookie cop Park Sun-woo (JUNG Hae-in) to track down a serial killer who has plunged the nation into turmoil. Typically a lot of these releases go to disc or straight to streaming, so if you’re trying to get in on the fun at a theater, your local listings for this one might be your best […]
PROJECT SILENCE: Don’t Miss The Official Trailer For The Explosive New Action Horror Thriller
Someone really dropped the ball a while back on being one of the first to announce some key acquisition details on Kim Tae-gon’s latest sci-fi action horror, Project Silence. Thankfully, it wasn’t me, but at least the good folks at Rue Morgue are here to spread the gospel with the latest trailer now out from US distro label Capelight Pictures for its July 12 theatrical release. Jung-won and his daughter are on their way to Incheon Airport when a thick fog causes a massive chain-reaction crash on the airport bridge. They get stuck in the chaos with a group of people including a brash-yet-harmless tow truck driver. Things take a turn for the worse when mutated military dogs are accidentally released from their transport vehicle and start preying upon humans, putting the group in a terrifying life-or-death situation. As the bridged is shut down, it is now up to Jung-won […]
THE LAST KUMITE Review: Mathis Landwehr Kicks Ass To A Nostalgic Soundtrack In Middling Martial Arts Tourno Thriller
5 min. read Martial arts fans now have another addition to their 2024 viewing slate with Capelight’s latest digital and physical release, The Last Kumite. The film is directed and penned by Ross W. Clarkson, and co-written by Sean David Lowe who produced the film, and shepherded the film’s initial crowdfunding campaigns in its earlier development stages. Coralling a bevy of nascent and veteran screen talents led by German action star Mathis Landwehr, The Last Kumite centers on Michael Rivers, a widower and seasoned tournament champion exiting the circuit to focus on his school, and raising his teen daughter, Bree (Kira Kortenbach). Seizing the opportunity while attending an afterparty in Michael’s honor, a man named Ron Hall (Matthias Hues) approaches Michael with a sereptitious “business opportunity”: A Kumite in Eastern Europe, and the chance to win a million dollars. Nevermind the consequences of albeit cordially turning down the offer. For […]
THE ROUNDUP: PUNISHMENT Trailer Pits Don Lee Against Cybercrime For The U.S. Release!
As a small courtesy, I’m just going to mention here that there’s a mid-credits scene in Lee Sang-yong’s The Roundup: No Way Out, which connects straight to the franchise’s latest entry. That would now be The Roundup: Punishment, with the undoubted reunion of leading man Don Lee and character actor Park Ji-hwan for another rippling crime story ripe with rib-breaking action and laughs to boot. During the investigations of a drug trafficking app, the Monster Cop Ma Seok-do (Don Lee) and his team discover a connection between the wanted app developer, who was killed in the Philippines, and a massive illegal online gambling organization. Meanwhile in the Philippines, Baek Chang-gi, a former elite soldier, has been controlling the Korean online illegal gambling market, terrorizing it with kidnap, assault and murder. His partner, the IT genius CEO, Chang Dong-chul plans an even larger scheme in Korea. To put an end to […]
THE ROUNDUP: NO WAY OUT Review: Don Lee Is Thrice The Muscle And Bustle In Lee Sang-Yong’s Hard-Hitting Action Comedy
Lee Sang-yong’s The Roundup has a shorter runtime in comparison to Kang Yoon-sung’s 2017 predecessor, The Outlaws. I’m fascinated by this in terms of its characteristics for success, and the momentum handed to it in course of its fruition as a franchise nowadays with a total of four movies in its deck. The same goes for its third chapter, Lee’s The Roundup: No Way Out, which opened in Cannes and in South Korea last summer. Whatever the case is or may be, there’s no question that Lee capitalizes on just about everything that worked in the 2022 sequel. That film’s writer Kim Min-sung, as well as its Cha Woo-jin, paired up to pen The Roundup: No Way Out, for a story that beefs things up plenty in the action department without losing a beat in the energy that keeps it going. Par for the course is frontman Don Lee, centerstage […]
THE LAST KUMITE: New Trailer Revealed For Capelight’s German 2-Disc 4K/Blu-Ray Bundles Launching In May!
Ross W. Clarkson’s fan-funded martial arts tourno thriller, The Last Kumite, has a new trailer online exclusively from German portal KinoCheck. Capelight Pictures is heading up its German blu-ray release in May in two editions, including a two-disc 4K UHD/Blu-Ray package loaded with special features and a media book, and more. Produced by Wayne A. Graves and penned by Clarkson and co-scribe Sean David Lowe, The Last Kumite joins Mathis Landwehr with a bevy of martial artists and genre stars on screen including Kurt McKinney, Matthias Hues, Billy Blanks, and Cynthia Rothrock. A director’s cut is also in toe while Capelight slates a U.S. rollout this summer in association with MPI Home Video. Read on below, and click to visit Capelight’s page to pre-order the European disc releases, and be mindful of region coding as well, because that’s definitely still a thing. Available from May 16, 2024 as a 2-Disc […]
THE LAST KUMITE: Sample The Sounds Of Paul Hertzog And Stan Bush In The Newest Teaser For Ross Clarkson’s Throwback Martial Arts Thriller
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 […]
THE LAST KUMITE Official Teaser: ‘Kampfansage’ Star Mathis Landwehr Is Back For His Newest Thriller Coming In 2024!
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 […]
Trailer: THE ROUNDUP: NO WAY OUT Rounds Up A June 2 U.S. Release!
Capelight Pictures is proudly releasing Lee Sang-yong’s hotly anticipated threequel, The Roundup: No Way Out, on June 2 in North American theaters. The film returns actor Don Lee back in the spotlight for another round as the no-frills and no BS detective Ma, following 2017’s The Outlaws in which he tracks down a notorious mobster in South Korea’s Chinatown district, and in last year’s The Roundup in which he hunts down a vicious killer. Cue the obligatory “…but wait, there’s more!”: The beast cop Ma Seok-do returns — This time, to the Metro Investigations! Seven years after the roundup in Vietnam, Ma Seok-do (Don LEE) joins a new squad to investigate a murder case. Soon, he finds out this case involves busting a synthetic drug and starts to dig deeper… Meanwhile, the guy behind it all—Joo Sung-chul (LEE Jun-hyuk)—doesn’t stop looking for trouble, and the Japanese drug distributors, Ricky (Aoki […]