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THE EQUALIZER 3 Official Trailer Hits A Red-Band Nerve For The Final Chapter Of The Action Trilogy!
“You seem like a man who understands violence…” That’s at least one line that sticks out in the brand new trailer for Sony Pictures’ The Equalizer 3 starring Denzel Washington and fellow Man On Fire cohort Dakota Fanning and based the hit classic TV series. Antoine Fuqua directs this the third and final installment from a script by returning scribe Richard Wenk with a Fall release set for September in theaters. Also, mind you, mind your surroundings as well when you watch the trailer as it’s very much in red-band territory. It’s Washington in one of the finest and most memorable, and quite possibly one of the most violent and brutal roles of his career, and three films in after other meaty action roles in recent history including in Safe House and The Book Of Eli, he’s lived up to some mighty expectations. Enjoy! Since giving up his life as […]
Need A Lyft? Check Out The New Trailer For THE EQUALIZER 2!
Well, I know what I’m doing on July 20, and it’s got plenty to do with Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 2 which arrives on July 20. I’ve payed less attention to the sports-tethered promos that have went live and mainly because I don’t really watch sports, but it’s good to see Sony buckling down on the hype again. The first trailer has already sold me and so while that hasn’t changed, I only fear that I’ve spoiled myself some. Ugh. Denzel Washington returns to one of his signature roles in the first sequel of his career. Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed – but how far will he go when that is someone he loves? Check out the new trailer!
Start The Clock! The Official EQUALIZER 2 Trailer Is Here!
I’ve been busy in a cave somewhere the last 24 hours doing some editing for an interview which will go live soon. Going forward however, it actually has nothing to do with the latest arrival of the official trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s hugely anticipated sequel, The Equalizer 2, but I’m all for it all the same by the time it opens on July 20 from Sony. Denzel Washington is back in the role that originally inspired the classic CBS TV series of the same name as the monastic, stoic badass, clock-startin’, bone-breakin, people-stabbing-and-stomping do-gooder that all of us cheered for in 2014. Denzel Washington returns to one of his signature roles in the first sequel of his career. Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed – but how far will he go when that is someone he loves? Richard Wenk penned the script once more on […]
Pedro Pascal Is Up To Join THE EQUALIZER 2
It’s funny. I haven’t had a lot of incentive to get into such a variety of streaming TV programs what with all the amime I’m already taking in. However, being already familiar with the work of actor Pedro Pascal and reading of his latest attachment to The Equalizer 2 for Sony Pictures and Escape Artists, I’m actually inclined now to check out Netflix’s Wagner Moura-led crime series, Narcos when I get around to it. But…yeah. Pascal is in talks now for a starring role opposite returning actor Denzel Washington whose 2014 presentation under helmer Antoine Fuqua not only generated box office promise, but garnered the celebrated actor his first-ever sequel. Due on September 14, 2018, Fuqua, as reported last September, is returning to direct the sequel further adapting its classic television show predecessor of the same name, centered on a former black ops agent who sets out to make the […]
Review: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (2016) Upholds The Western Frontier With Gravitas And Tact
While Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven is a remake of the 1960 film by the same name, I like to think of it as a direct reimagining of its original incarnation of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai from 1954. It bears noting that Kurosawa is, to this day, still Stephen Spielberg’s totemic inspiration behind his every endeavor, which calls to mind the question of how much that influences have made it into those films both thematically and narratively. I would say that the influence manifests like the whimsy of a film student’s interaction with the arguments that give sustenance to a story of camaraderie. A story like this one, especially, that arrives on contact with the bold charisma of a gunslinger. I’m calling it; if this sort of Western is an analog to another form of cinematic expression, it would be to anime a la Voltron or Gundam Wing – a […]
Fuqua Will Return To Direct THE EQUALIZER 2 Starting Next September
This weekend begins the theatrical run of Antoine Fuqua’s latest endeavor, The Magnificent Seven, reinterpreting John Sturges’s own 1960 remake classic inspired by Kurosawa Akira’s earlier epic, Seven Samurai. The film has been on the campaign trail following a string of trailers and promos leading up to its premiere at TIFF earlier this month, and with select cast and crew on deck for the publicity tour as of late, fans and onlookers are getting a little more first-hand insight on the film, which headlines an ensemble cast led by actor Denzel Washington. The film reunites the actor/director duo following their stellar 2001 crime drama, Training Day, and their 2014 reunion, The Equalizer, inspired by the popular 1985 television series of the same name. Joining Washington with actress Chloë Grace-Moretz and actor Martin Csokas, Richard Wenk wrote the script which centered our lead actor in the title role – a former […]
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Rolls Out A New IMAX Poster
As far as remakes and reboots go, the 2014 adaptation of hit TV series, The Equalizer, seems to signal that director Antoine Fuqua knows how to gel with certain properties on par for big screen prospects. Thus, his latest comes by way of another remake classic, The Magnificent Seven, previously iterated by John Sturges with respect to late film auteur Kurosawa Akira. Landing our main roster of heroes and villians in the old West, Fuqua reunites with actors Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke among an ensemble cast that sees the heroes take on an evil industrialist. The most recent trailer from July certainly lends an appealing view for Fuqua’s treatment while we may very well get a second trailer with the film currently due in just over three weeks. In the meantime, the marketing campaign continues as per the current rollout of character vignettes, and Fandango’s exclusive presentation of the […]
Meet THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN In The Explosive New Trailer!
If there was ever a director as of late who has compelled me more for a Western, it would be Antoine Fuqua. Thus, we get The Magnificent Seven with actor Denzel Washington leading the way for any and everyone still fond of last year’s The Equalizer and Washington’s Academy Awarded role in 2003’s Training Day. Rooted as a retelling of the classic Jim Sturges remake of Kurosawa Akira’s Seven Samurai, it’s also pretty rewarding for anyone who enjoys good old-fashioned tales of a ragtag band of grey-shaded heroes out to do good. And not for nothing either with fellow Fuqua cohort Ethan Hawke joined by everyone’s favorite raptor whisperer, Chris Pratt, and the beautiful Haley Bennett who looks like she’ll bring more than meets the eye here. SYNOPSIS: Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ and Columbia Pictures’ The Magnificent Seven. With the […]
Watch The Sizzling New Trailer For THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
I’m already a long sold fan of director Antoine Fuqua, and I don’t say that lightly. I dug The Replacement Killers in 1998 as well as thrillers like Training Day and Shooter. I could probably go on all day about how much I enjoyed his 2014 big screen reboot of The Equalizer but I won’t; that it’s a box office success getting a sequel is enough for me. As for this week, Sony and Columbia are off to spend the rest of the year guaranteeing us another solid piece of work in the reboot category pairing our dear director with a terrific ensemble cast in The Magnificent Seven. Photos and stills from the movie have already begun circulating for the last week or so with images coming out of CinemaCon and as recently as USA Today with actor Denzel Washington leading the way once more in a Fuqua vehicle, and […]
THE EQUALIZER 2 Gets A 2017 Release Date!
Hopefully all of the glowing reviews published online (including mine) and the overall box-office success of Antoine Fuqua’s 2014 hit, The Equalizer, garnered enough reason for you to at least see it on disc or VOD by now. It’s one of the best action films in recent memory next to John Wick and led by Denzel Washington, a stellar actor with just the right amount of gravitas to give the main character the cinematic boost it needed on the big screen as it did then on television starring Edward Woodward. Surely enough the film finally greenlit the sequel back in April, which probably wasn’t much of a surprise for those who were able to attend test screenings for the film, and with delightful results to boot. Alas, various media sites including Collider are now reporting an official release date set for September 29, 2017. There’s no word yet on who […]
Wagner Moura Adds To Fuqua's THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
For all the bruhaha from some critics over director Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 sci-fi epic, Elysium, at best, it was a film I ultimately enjoyed. It especially landed actor Wagner Moura on my radar while I haven’t yet seen his previous films, Elite Squad and Elite Squad 2 – they’re on my watchlist, so all things in good time. Meanwhile, Moura‘s screen presence is defintely something I look forward to, particularly with director Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming remake, The Magnificent Seven. The film itself is one that’s come up on occasion in the last few years, interestingly enough with the previously-mentioned and hopeful involvement of Martin Scorsese and action duo Donnie Yen and Yuen Woo-Ping for a remake of Seven Samurai, the 1954 Kurosawa Akira classic on which helmer John Sturges’s 1960 western in question was based. For now though, it’s Sturges’s movie in the headlines and Training Day trio, stars Denzel […]
Fuqua's THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Gets A Release Date!
Director Antoine Fuqua‘s western thriller revival, The Magnificent Seven, is still in the casting phase with just five actors enlisted, so there’s still a ways to go before we hear anything about who gets to apprear. In the meantime, MGM is planting its flag for the film’s release on January 13, 2017, according to reports forwarded by ComingSoon.net. Actress Haley Bennett, and actors Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke are all tapped to star in the film alongside leading man Denzel Washington in his latest return to the set with Fuqua in what will be their fourth pairing since the 1999 film, Training Day and last year’s box office reign of the hit action thriller TV adaptation, The Equalizer. Netflix’s Daredevil co-star, actor Vincent D’onofrio is expected to join the cast as the main villain in a story based on John Sturges’s titular 1960 film inspired by the 1954 classic, Seven […]
Ethan Hawke May Reunite With 'Training Day' Cohorts For THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
There’s something to be said about a certain type of project and the goodness it brings when all the right people come together. In 2000, that very project came in the form of the award-winning crooked cop thriller, Training Day, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington. If you haven’t seen it, just know that you’re missing out on one of the most terrific cinematic experiences you’ll ever have as it turns out with a handful of some of the best performances you’ll ever see. It certainly did the trick years after my own recognition of Fuqua came with action star Chow Yun-Fat’s hit role in The Replacement Killers, and you would be especially advised to make note of the director as well following the accolades he receivged with his paring with Washington for The Equalizer. All things considered, Fuqua and Washington may very well be […]
Haley Bennett Reunites With Washington And Fuqua For THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN!
Last year’s go-around with the Denzel Washington/Antoine Fuqua hit pairing, The Equalizer, turned out some really amazing from its cast. One such performance came from supporting actress Haley Bennett who plays a friend to that of lead actress Chloe Grace Moretz in the story of a monastic former government operative whose fight for a young girl’s freedom from human traffickers turned into a sprawling one-man war against an entire criminal organization, and at the rate we’re going, we could very well see a sequel. Before then, director Fuqua and our lead actor Washington are bound to rejoin for the production of The Magnificent Seven as of last June – a remake of the original 1960 classic western directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen. Actor Chris Pratt was announced for a possible role in the film last December as well, and now, Deadline is reporting the […]
REVIEW: THE EQUALIZER (2014)
SYNOPSIS: In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a former black ops commando who has faked his death to live a quiet life in Boston. When he comes out of his self-imposed retirement to rescue a young girl, Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), he finds himself face to face with ultra-violent Russian gangsters. As he serves vengeance against those who brutalize the helpless, McCall’s desire for justice is reawakened. If someone has a problem, the odds are stacked against them, and they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer. REVIEW: I know who the late Edward Woodward was, and I may have seen a few of his works over the years. However, I was pretty young at the time the CBS TV series, The Equalizer was a popular show in its heyday, and I’ve only ever seen bits and pieces of the show so I can’t really […]
Denzel Washington Means Business In A New Extended Clip From THE EQUALIZER
Director Antoine Fuqua‘s newest action thriller venture with actor Denzel Washington, The Equalizer, has already sprung the prospects of a sequel, as well as reports confirming his return to the set with his lead star for a remake of The Magnificent Seven. Needless to say, the duo long known for captivating audiences with the 2001 crime drama, Training Day make an awesome pairing, and moviegoers in North America will get to see more of this when The Equalizer releases on September 26 in 2D and IMAX from Sony Pictures; As for whether or not Washington will get to be the next Bond, well, your guess is as good as mine. In the meantime, we now have a brand new extended international clip which you can watch below. Washington stars with Chloe Grace Moretz, Martin Csokas and many more.
Check Out A New Clip And More For THE EQUALIZER!
Yahoo! Movies has a brand new poster and clip for the upcoming September 26, 2014 release of the new action thriller, The Equalizer, from Sony Pictures. The film is also getting an IMAX, and a sequel has already greenlit following positive feedback from early test screenings, so I’m already sold. SYNOPSIS: McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He […]
THE EQUALIZER Gets A New IMAX Poster
Director Antoine Fuqua’s newest action thriller, The Equalizer, is well on the way toward what looks to be promising opening September weekend with the early positive reports it has received. Promotion is steadily underway for the new film which headlines actor Denzel Washington in the title role, based on the hit CBS television series of the 1980’s, and with a few set pics, posters and trailers already having gone viral, IMAX Corporation has presented a brand new poster of its own. The following poster comes just a few weeks after an official press release was issued for the film’s IMAX announcenet late last month. You can check out the new poster and IMAX press release just beneath. IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced that The Equalizer, the highly anticipated reteaming of Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington and acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua, will be digitally […]
Denzel Washington's Heroic Silhouette Graces The New Poster For THE EQUALIZER
Actor Denzel Washington gets his day as the monastic avenger against criminal injustice when his new film, The Equalizer, releases in theaters on September 26. Not much to add here except we’re now three months away from the film’s theatrical release and the prospects of a sequel are already looking good, so we’re bound to see what Sony’s strategy here will be between now and then, following Wednesday’s brand new poster reveal for the film which can check out below: SYNOPSIS: In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a former black ops commando who has faked his death to live a quiet life in Boston. When he comes out of his self-imposed retirement to rescue a young girl, Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), he finds himself face to face with ultra-violent Russian gangsters. As he serves vengeance against those who brutalize the helpless, McCall’s desire for justice is reawakened. If someone […]