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Gareth Evans's THE RAID Is Getting A Comic Book Spin-Off

If you’re wondering when exactly a third installment to Gareth Huw Evans’s cult action crime saga, The Raid, your guess is as good as mine. That said, as far as THR is concerned, a 2018 deadline currently remains pending with Indonesian action star Iko Uwais expected to reprise his role as a rookie thrown into the whirlwind of a sprawling crime opera involving Indonesian and Japanese crime families. Let us hope for more developments as they come, but the word now is that Evans is teaming up with Titan Comics and production company XYZ Films for a comic book spin-off which will launch in 2016. “Gareth is a visionary and a huge talent,” says Titan editor Martin Eden. “It’s a pleasure to work with him on developing his characters for the comic book page. We promise to deliver the same thrilling, fifth-gear adrenaline that fans have come to expect from the […]

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Celine Tran Is A Sexy Vampire Hunter In The New Shortfilm Promo, HEARTBREAKER

Lee B. Golden III

It is not often that you see adult entertainment performers step into other aspects of film and acting, and there are quite a few people out there who are doing just that. If you would like an example, then look no further than actress and ex-porn star Céline Tran (formerly known as “Katsuni”), who is now taking her interests into the fun-filled world of comic book lore with Heartbreaker, a new edition of 619 Label’s French comic book anthology, Doggybags, from author, cartoonist and artistic director, Run (a.k.a. William Fox). And how do you suppose they would market this new installation? Well, the new shortfilm promo below should answer that question, directed by Run and featuring Tran in the lead role as our black-clad sword-wielding, vampire vaporizing superheroine in a full-on assault that takes bullet ballet to a whole new level of sexy! Wild Stunts (Europe) member Vincent Gatinaud designed […]

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Jackman Goes 'Raw' For X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

Lee B. Golden III

As you might know, if you have been keeping up with the latest bits on X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Twentieth Century Fox is about to launch the X-Men X-Perience, a massive promotional campaign tour in select cities around the world to be hosted by a select handful of stars from the film. The campaign is being notably spearheaded by Hugh Jackman who reprises his role once again in this seventh installation of Marvel pseudo-immortal franchise character, Wolverine, whose off-screen demise may finally be met in the upcoming serial publication of “Death Of Wolverine” when it hits comic book store shelves this September. For now, the character will live on through film as per the forthcoming release of X-Men: Days Of Future Past in theaters on May 23, 2014. And as such, Jackman decided to drop by the latest broadcast of WWE Raw, standing center ring with Dolph Ziggler who […]