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MOSCOW MISSION Trailer: CMC Pictures Announces October Theatrical Releases Outside China

CMC Pictures is taking the reigns with select releases in multiple territories for action adventure, Moscow Mission. Rejoiing screen leads Andy Lau and Zhang Hanyu since Feng Xiaogang’s A World Without Thieves and Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall, director Herman Yau’s latest is based on a true story set in 1993, and centers on a pair of Chinese detectives on a mission to hunt down ruthless robbers plaguing the trans-Siberian railway with violence and chaos.

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THE WHITE STORM 3: HEAVEN OR HELL International Ultimate Trailer Arrives Ahead Of Thursday Premieres

We’re at the final leg of the current campaign for the international releases of The White Storm 3: Heaven Or Hell from CMC Pictures. A new “ultimate” trailer is now out this week as the film readies to hit screens in North America, Australia, New Zealand and the UK on July 20, on the same day of Louis Koo’s on-hand intro of the film’s NA premiere at the Walter Reade Theater for the New York Asian Film Festival. Here are the programming notes via NYAFF:

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THE MEG 2: THE TRENCH: The Apex Predator Is Back And More Terrible Than Ever!

The excitement of fans watching Jason Statham ideally chin-check a shark hasn’t waned since Jon Turteltaub 2018’s summer spectacle, The Meg. The sequel, directed by Ben Wheatley and nodding to Steve Alten’s 1999 novel, is now in toe and with an August 4 release from Warner Bros. Pictures announced following an electric day of social media hype, the official trailer has finally arrived for The Meg 2: The Trench, and it is out to show us its teeth!

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Lu Yang’s ASSASSIN IN RED To Slay In The 2021 Lunar New Year

Reportedly two years in post-production according to Variety, director Lu Yang (Brotherhood Of Blades, Brotherhood Of Blades 2) is back in the headlines with long-awaited fantasy actioner, Assassin In Red. Long since incidentally having to wait out the Covid-19 pandemic that all but paralyzed Chinese film production until about month ago, the new film is currently readying a Lunar New Year release set for February 12, 2021.

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Review: Herman Yau’s THE WHITE STORM 2: DRUG LORDS, A Violent Tale Of Rivaling Tycoons And A City Caught In The Middle

Benny Chan’s The White Storm was a riveting, explosive crime epic in 2013, packed with riveting and high drama led by Louis Koo, Sean Lau and Nick Cheung for its heroic bloodshed narrative. That was six years ago, and with the time its taken for The White Storm 2: Drug Lords to arrive, newly-installed Herman Yau crafts an explosive, spectacular sequel that swells the bodycount.

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Han Han’s PEGASUS Flies To Screens In Australia And New Zealand February 5!

Moviegoers in Australia and New Zealand have a theatrical release coming with Duckweed helmer Han Han’s latest adventure comedy, Pegasus. The film stars Shen Teng, Huang Jingyu, Yin Zheng, Yin Fang and Winston Chao among the cast for the story of a cocky racing champion whose fall from grace rouses a comeback into the world of motorcross five years later along with his team, as well as his son.

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ANIMAL WORLD To Unleash Puzzling Intrigue And Killer Clown Spectacle On Netflix, And In Theaters Globally Next Week!

Following its Shanghai Film Fest premiere last week, Patrick Brzeski at The Hollywood Reporter writes that Netflix users can expect Han Yan’s dazzling manga adapation, Animal World, for its arrival in the coming months outside China, having acquired all global digital streaming rights. The mega streaming platform will also be joined by CMC Pictures who are said to be shepherding a hefty worldwide theatrical release along the way starting Friday, June 29.

Drifting aimlessly through life, Kaisi (Li Yi Feng: Hundred Flowers Winner Mr. Six, Guilty of Mind) has racked up debts of several million having borrowed money from his friends. Lured with the promise of writing it all off, Kaisi leaves his ailing mother and childhood sweetheart Qing (Zhou Dongyu: Golden Horse winner Soul Mate, Under the Hawthorn Tree, The Thousand Faces of Dunjia) to board the ship Destiny and attend a gambling party controlled by the mysterious Anderson (Michael Douglas: Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, Wall Street). 

All players join the game with stars. For each game they lose, their opponent captures a star. Everyone is holding daggers behind their backs plotting dirty means by which to overcome their opponents. The game quickly deteriorates into a slaughter and Kaisi must battle save his own skin… 

Animal World is China’s The Hunger Games meets The Matrix. A suspenseful action-packed blockbuster, Animal World is the new film from director Han Yan, best known for Go Away, Mr. Tumor which represented China for the 88th Academy Awards, and producer Chen Zhixi, famed for her hit films Lost in Thailand and Detective Chinatown.

The Enlight Pictures production marks the latest cinematic iteration following two previous live-action Japanese releases inspired by the original manga, Ultimate Survivor Kaiji. Actors Li Yi-Feng and Michael Douglas, and actress Zhou Dongyu star.

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WOLF WARRIOR 2 Lands An August 4 U.K. Release!

Starting this Friday will be a limited theatrical rollout in sync with China’s Friday release of star and director Wu Jing’s new movie, Wolf Warrior 2, in two English territories. Well Go USA’s release will be this Friday and will then follow through with a U.K. release a week later on August 4 from Cine Asia and CMC Pictures.

China’s deadliest Special Forces operative, known as the Wolf Warrior (Wu Jing – Call of Heroes, Kill Zone), hopes to settle into a quiet life by the sea. But after he crosses paths with a ruthless band of mercenaries, overseen by a volatile and sadistic leader (Frank Grillo – Warrior, Captain America: Civil War), he must reaffirm his duty as a soldier to put an end to the terrorizing of innocent civilians. Fists, bullets, tanks and missiles will fly in this tour-de-force of bravura action filmmaking, all culminating in a climactic battle between the highly skilled Wolf Warrior, and the brutal mercenary leader.

Cine Asia and CMC have since accompanied their release plans with an official trailer of their own. It’s pretty much the same as the last one but it’s all the more fun as it’s the most clickiest, boom-boomiest, explodiest one there is. Trailer making really is an art. Observe it below!

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Hey U.S.! Canada! U.K.! Here’s Where You Can Catch Derek Kwok’s WU KONG!

Folks attending Fantasia Festival this month can expect to catch Derek Kwok’s latest Eddie Pang headliner, Wu Kong, next week. In the meantime, moviegoers looking to catch the film sooner can look toward releases slated for the U.S. and Canada, and select locations in the U.K..

Three powers collide. Long ago, Sun Wukong, was born in Huaguo Mountain with a heart of stone. Ji Hua, a powerful general from the heaven planned to terminate him. However Wukong was rescued by Bodhi and became his pupil. Jian Yang, is a being who was given an opportunity to become a strong god, but for this he needs to kill Zixia, the daughter of the Heaven Emperor’s rival, who he is in love with. Tianpeng, Ji Hua’s bodyguard, was given the secret order to investigate Wukong. All three of them entered the Heaven school together, and their lives are about to change.

Cine Asia has since aired its own trailer for the film’s limited U.K. release on July 14 with tickets now available for select locations at MyVue and Odeon locations through their respective websites here and here.

For North America, CMC Pictures has confirmed its tandem release of the new Hezai Jin novel adaptation of the folkloric Chinese legendary hero in the U.S. and Canada this Friday. Listed beneath are the exact theaters and locations confirmed in the U.S. and Canada courtesy of CMC.

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Herman Yau’s SHOCK WAVE Reaches The U.K. On May 5

Furious 8 won the season with its billion dollar success coming into May. That didn’t stop Herman Yau’s new bomb disposal thriller, Shock Wave from hitting the top spot at the box office just this past weekend in China, thus lending an ample start for the film’s run as it hits screens overseas.

For this, you can learn more about the film at its official website for Cine Asia who are partnering with CMC Pictures for its U.K. screenings at the Odeon on Panton Street in London, and at The Printworks at 27 Withy Grove in Manchester. Andy Lau leads the cast with Jiang Wu, Song Jia, Philip Keung, Ron Ng, Wang Ziyi and Felix Wong starring.

Officer Cheung [Andy Lau], a senior inspector in the Hong Kong Police Force, is the most respected member of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit. Before rising through the ranks, Cheung worked undercover within a criminal gang, lead by a ruthless crimeboss notoriousnfor his expertise in explosives. 

After Cheung’s undercover work leads to the break-up of the gang and the arrest of the boss’s brother, the gang boss swears to take revenge on the man responsible for ruining him. Seven years on, after the criminal mastermind disappears without a trace, he returns to Hong Kong to wreak havoc. Explosive attacks begin breaking out across the city, escalating until a shocking hostage situation unfolds within one of the world’s busiest tunnels, the Cross-Harbour tunnel. With the city facing what seems to be an impossible to stop threat, it is only Cheung who has the skills needed to end the crime boss’s revenge spree.

Courtesy of Cine Asia/CMC Pictures

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