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Brad Pitt Fights To The Bitter End In The New Trailer For FURY
After the upbeat response earned by E3 panel footage earlier this month, the first official trailer has arrived for Sabotage helmer David Ayer‘s epic war drama, Fury. Actor Brad Pitt leads the cast with story that centers on a war-torn, battle-fatigued tank squad in the firefight of their lives as they near the tail end of World War II. The center of much of the antipation, of course, centers on the gritty, explosive tank action that pits the odds against our principle cast with a desperate enemy, which should make for a lovely, plentiful set up for a Holiday blockbuster this November 14th in the U.S..
Dominic Purcell To Get GRIDLOCKED With Cody Hackman Next Week!
Director Allan Ungar is ready to get back to the set once more and reunite with actor, martial artist and producer Cody Hackman for the forthcoming production of the new action thriller, Gridlocked. The two initially started the year having released Ungar‘s directorial debut, Tapped (a.k.a. Tapped Out) which featured Hackman alongside co-stars Anderson Silva, Martin Kove and Michael Biehn.
This time production will commense under Hackman‘s banner, Hackybox Pictures with filming set for July 7 in Ontario. Gridlocked is also co-written by Ungar, and joins Hackman and Purcell in a story of a detective chauffeuring an legally embattled movie star when the training facility is attacked.
Purcell can currently be seen in his newest DVD release of writer and director Damian Lee’s boxing drama, A Fighting Man, now available wherever movies are sold. Check out the trailer below and stay tuned for further updates on Gridlocked.
H/T: THR, The Tracking Board
The New Trailer For THE BRONX BULL Arrives Online
For what it’s worth, those who have seen director Martin Scorsese’s 1980 Oscar-winning classic, Raging Bull, are about to get an unofficial follow-up from director Martin Guigui titled The Bronx Bull, based on the events of co-author and former boxer Jake LaMotta. The film took a while to come through as producers were forced to dissociate the new film from the first movie with said title upon settling all legal differences in court with MGM, who own the rights to first refusal for a sequel, after the studio filed a detailed lawsuit nearly two years ago to stop the film from happening under its previous title, Raging Bull 2.
There’s no release date planned as of yet, but we do get to see a trailer for the time being. And for stunt aficionados, fans can look forward to what the film offers in its boxing sequences, courtesy of stunt coordinators Larnell Stovall (Undisputed 3) and Arnold Chon (Arena).
*Just so you know, some websites have already posted the trailer with a few being sent cease and desist notices to take it down. It’s been several hours now, so hopefully with the trailer having gone viral, I can leave my article here with a decent embed for your own viewing pleasure. However, if it disappears, you know why.
SYNOPSIS:
Based on the tumultuous real-life experiences of legendary boxing champion Jake LaMotta, “The Bronx Bull” is a dramatic and stylized biopic with an outstanding ensemble cast. Chronicling LaMotta’s violent childhood, to his rise as a world-class boxer, through his life after leaving the ring, “The Bronx Bull” offers an unflinchingly honest look into the heart of a champion. Veteran character actor William Forsythe (“The Rock,” “Boardwalk Empire”) stars as the enigmatic fighter, while Paul Sorvino (“Goodfellas”) plays his father. Also starring Joe Mantegna (“Criminal Minds”), Tom Sizemore (“Saving Private Ryan”), Penelope Ann Miller (“The Artist”), Natasha Henstridge (“Species”), and Ray Wise (“Robocop”).
Victor Ortiz Joins Antoine Fuqua's SOUTHPAW
Director Antoine Fuqua has just begun filming his latest boxing drama in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for The Weinstein Company titled Southpaw, and this week brings the start of a second significant step forward in acting with a co-starring role for former boxing champion and The Expendables 3 co-star, Victor Ortiz. The film is written by Richard Wenk and Sons Of Anarchy series creator Kurt Sutter, and casts Ortiz as “Ramone”, fellow up-and-coming boxer whose story will be attributed somewhat similarly to Ortiz‘s own life story leading up to his career as a WBC Welterweight champion until earlier this year.
Ortiz joins lead Prisoners co-star, actor Jake Gyllenhaal who himself leads the film as “Billy Hope”, a welterweight boxer rising in the ranks while his while his personal life falls apart. Actress Rachel McAdams and Star Wars VII cast member, award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o, and actors Forest Whitaker and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson round out the current cast. The film was initially announced last year with hip-hop artist and actor Eminem as the lead before newly casting Gyllenhaal back in March.
Ortiz will appear in the upcoming theatrical release of The Expendables 3 from director Patrick Hughes on August 15 from Lionsgate. Meanwhile, Fuqua, has other films in the works, including Narco Sub from a script by David Guggenheim, a hopeful sequel to Wenk’s script for actor Denzel Washington’s upcoming appearance in the September 26, 2014 release of The Equalizer based on the original TV series, and the forthcoming theatrical remake production of The Magnificent Seven.
Stay tuned!
H/T: Deadline
Assassins Get No Love In The Latest Teaser For BEAUTIFUL DESTROYER
JAKE MORRISON (Christopher Dorrah) is a dedicated and respected criminal psychiatrist trained to help individuals cope with traumatic events in their lives. In one of his most bizarre cases, Jake finds himself going down a road that he never imaged traveling. It’s through intense and mind boggling sessions that he discovers a common trait that he and his psychotic patient unknowingly share. The NYPD’s newest in-mate, LEIGH (Numa Perrier), is a woman scarred by a devastating childhood. She witnesses the brutal murder of her mother by the hands of the woman that raises her. VICTORIA (Vivienne Powell) is a ruthless drug lord that forces Leigh into living a life ruled by lies, betrayal, and murder. It’s only when Leigh meets GREG (Bivas Biswas) that she begins to understand the true meaning of love, but it appears to be too late. When she realizes that her criminal life has robbed her of any chance of true happiness is when she goes into a fit of rage. It’s only through elimination and confinement that she is finally able to escape from a tormented life. Meanwhile, Jake is so engrossed with his personal life that he has a difficult time separating fantasy from reality. He is at odds with his wife SARE (Tahiry Jose) and painfully struggles to mend the pieces together in his personal life and he will stop at nothing to regain what has been lost. Jake eventually finds himself forced to make an emotional decision that will change the course of his life forever. It’s both the psychiatrist and patient’s real life events that send them to a point of no return. This breath-taking story makes BEAUTIFUL DESTROYER a thriller that will leave you intrigued by the complicated relationships that we allow to dominate our lives.
Pedro Pascal Joins Netflix Crime Drama, NARCOS
HBO’s Game Of Thrones is one of those shows I usually end up having to watch in pieces, particularly because there simply aren’t enough hours of the day for me to enjoy much of anything. Thankfully however, I did get to enjoy the most recent episode featuring actor Pedro Pascal in last week’s episode (and I will not say what I saw, but if you saw it too, know that I felt your pain).
The New Trailer For YASMINE Channels Bruce Lee With A Woman's Touch
Things are now settling after director Siti Kamaluddin and her fellow film cohorts at Origin Films spent the past few weeks garnering attention from onlookers and buyers in Cannes this year for her new coming-of-age martial arts action drama Yasmine. The film is the currently the beneficiary of several firsts, including being Brunei’s first commercial picture in up to five decades, as well as being Kamaluddin’s directorial debut starring breakout actress Liyana Yus in the title role. And since premiering the first teaser back in March, the film is already leaving quite an impression among genre fans curious to see what Yus has in store.
That day is now coming with the film’s domestic release scheduled for slated for August 21, and to accomodate this, we now have a brand new official trailer which you can check out with a behind-the-scenes clip – the first of four featurettes from the film’s official website until the film’s release. Yasmine also stars Arifin Putra, Reza Rahadian, Carmen Soo, Dian P. Ramlee, Roy Sungkono, Mentari De Marelle, and Nabila Huda. The film is written by Salman Aristo and features fight choreography by former Jackie Chan Stunt Team member Chan Man Ching.
SYNOPSIS:
Love is never an easy matter, especially for Yasmine. The boy of her dreams, Adi is back in town but he hooks up with Dewi, her longtime rival. Tired of her school and tied up in an underdog Silat club, she decides to take matters into her own hands and start leading the team. At first, Yasmine’s secret activities are well hidden. However, when her father eventually finds out, he decides once and for all to save Yasmine from what he believes to be her downfall.
Liam Neeson Walks The Grim Line To Redemption In The New Trailer For A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES
Nope, nobody took anything from actor Liam Neeson this time, but that won’t stop him going above and beyond the call of duty to deliver his own brand of justice in writer and director Scott Frank’s newest crime thriller, A Walk Among The Tombstones. The film is also likely love letter to book enthusiasts familar with the original 1992 publication of the same name by novelist Lawrence Block, centered on fictional lead character, Matthew Scudder, a former NYPD detective whose story is featured in Block’s 17 novels.
Kozo Takeda Takes Center-Ring In The New MMA Action Drama, DEATH MATCH
As common as it is nowadays to see the birth of an acting career with former fighting athletes, filmmaker Arty Morgan (a.k.a. Atsushi Muroga, helmer of the Gun Crazy film franchise) isn’t afraid to do step in the ring and do just that. In fact, he did so about a few years ago on location in the Philippines with the production of his latest action drama, Death Match (once known as The Death Match: Fighting Fist Of Samurai Joe).
The film appears to be the English-language feature-length screen debut of former welterweight K-1 kickboxer Kozo Takeda who has already done some television work within the past few years. This time, Takeda takes the stage as a former mercenary who partakes in street fights to help a woman pay off her unclaimed debt to a gangster, following a six-year prison sentence for rescuing her from her abusive husband by killing him.
The film had its premiere in the Peace category of the 5th annual Okinawa International Film Festival last year and is finally making its way to a domestic theatrical release on June 21. Takeda is joined by actress Elle Velasco and actor Alvin Anson.
Check out the trailer below and stay tuned for more news when available.
Ken Ochiai's UZUMASA LIMELIGHT Honors The Unsung Heroes Of Chambara Cinema
H/T: Emmanuel Manzanares
Cop And Criminal Join Forces In The New Film, EAGLE AND HAWK
As kids, Washio and Takamura were best buddies and rollerskating rivals. Twenty years later, they’re on completely different paths in life — Washio (Osawa) is a member of the yakuza and Takamura is now a police detective. While investing the local heroin trade, Takamura (Morohoshi) looks up his old pal and they join forces to crush Washio’s bitter underworld nemesis.
'Consequences' Surround The New English Title For SPL 2
Thai action star Tony Jaa just got some screentime in Cannes with the unveiling of footage from his new internationally cast action thriller, Skin Trade with Dolph Lundgren and Michael Jai White, which could lead to some exciting distribution news in the days or weeks ahead. In the meantime, principal photography is already underway as of May 1 for Jaa’s new action thriller, Sha Po Lang 2, and the second of two posters have already begun circulating the internet for the film’s presentation in Cannes this month.
View it below:
In light of the new poster unveiling this month, co-producer Mike Selby has confirmed from producers Wilson Yip and Paco Wong who designed the new poster that the film’s accompanying English sales title will be A Time For Consequences. Serving as a thematic sequel/prequel following the spectacular 2005 crime pic, Sha Po Lang, the new film is directed by Cheang Pou-Soi will center on Kit, a tough undercover cop betrayed by his supervisor and forced to break out of prison with the help of reluctant Thai prison guard, Chai (Jaa), to stop and catch a notorious crimeboss and reunite with his dying daughter as her only means of survival.
With further casting news and other developments to be made, the news is slowly developing for what is expected to be another dazzling martial arts crime actioner for Cheang following up from the January release of The Monkey King, now poised for sequel of its own with a new sales poster for presentation.
Set to release next year, SPL 2 / A Time For Consequences stars Jaa along with returning actors Simon Yam and Wu Jing, and newly added cast member Max Zhang with a cameo by actor Louis Koo.
An Assassin Becomes His Victim's Ultimate Savior In The New Trailer For NO TEARS FOR THE DEAD
Cannes attendees are going to have a ball next week when they get an eye-full of director Lee Jeong-beom‘s latest hitman crime thriller, No Tears For The Dead. The film is getting three screening dates starting next Wednesday, and in light of this, there’s a new trailer to help further retain your interest.
SYNOPSIS:
After immigrating to America and being abandoned by his own mother, Gon is raised to become a hit man. One day during a job, Gon accidentally kills a young girl and is plagued by guilt over killing an innocent child. His boss gives the despondent hit man a new job – to kill the young girl’s mother. Gon’s new target, Mo-gyeong, works as a risk manager at an investment firm. The grief-stricken mother buries herself in her work without knowing that she is in the heart of a dangerous conspiracy. Then, she meets a man who wants to tell her the truth behind the death of her child.
No Tears For The Dead stars Jang Dong-gun, Kim Min-hee, Kang Han-na and Brian Tee, and launches in Korean cinemas this June. Check out the lovely footage and keep your eyes and ears peeled for some distribution news!