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THE WHITE STORM 2: DRUG LORDS Opens In North America, Australia & New Zealand On July 12

Director Herman Yau’s latest follow-up to Benny Chan’s 2013 hit is just weeks away with The White Storm 2: Drug Lords. Andy Lau, Louis Koo and Michael Miu lead the cast for a July 12 release in North America, Australia and New Zealand from CMC Pictures ahead of its Hong Kong opening the following week. Former gang member Yu Shin-Tin turned businessman and philanthropist is a on a mission to take down Hong Kong’s most powerful drug lord. After losing his father to drug addiction, no price is too big as his offers a $100 million bounty for his head.

FANTASIA XXIII: Tokyo Ghoul: S, Ready Or Not, Promare, Kingdom, Bliss And Many More Illuminate The Full 2019 Line-Up!

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The first wave for this year’s Fantasia Festival was a real treat to take a gander at, but as always, the first wave was only ever a taste: Here you’ll find a raft of amazing titles that are making the rounds at many an event this year, including anime feature, Promare, and live-actioners Kingdom and Tokyo Ghoul: S – all three of which are set to make headwat at LA’s Anime Expo as we speak. Fantasia attendees will also get to immerse themselves in recent releases like Yuichi Fukuda’s Gintama 2: Rules Are Made To Be Broken, and Korean revenge thriller, No Mercy, as well as upcoming action thriller, Killerman, and recent Tribeca darling, Bliss. The line-up is a fully-loaded entree of wonder to get excited for and if you’re at all keen on this event, by all means, get your dibs ASAP! Long-running Montreal genre festival to host World […]

MIDWAY: The Official Trailer For Roland Emmerich’s Explosive WWII Epic Hits Online Shores

Lee B. Golden III

If there’s anyone who can possibly take the helm for a sprawling war epic (one that doesn’t necessarily have to involve Earth-shattering events and overzealous alien conquests), Roland Emmerich may certainly be that guy, and he’s working at proving so with a November release set for his ensemble-cast dramatic period thriller, Midway. MIDWAY centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome the odds. Midway stars Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas, Etsushi Toyokawa, Tadanobu Asano, Luke Kleintank, Jun Kunimura, Darren Criss, Keean Johnson and Alexander Ludwig, with Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid and Woody Harrelson. The film opens […]

FINAL FANTASY: Sony Pictures Television To Steer Live-Action TV Series Based On Hit Video Game Saga

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Video game franchise adaptations are back in the spotlight and you needn’t look further on Thursday as of Sony Pictures Television’s latest announcement to bring Final Fantasy to television. The series will be a joint effort with Hivemind (Amazon’s The Expanse, upcoming Netflix’s The Witcher), and global video game powerhouse Square Enix. Based on events from the 2013 installment, Final Fantasy XIV, SPTV’s Final Fantasy series will tell an original story set in the fantastic world of Eorzea. The new series will embrace the bold and genre-bending sensibilities of the revered and long-running RPG game saga as it explores the struggle between magic and technology in a quest to bring peace to a land in conflict. Filled with iconic hallmarks of the title’s revered mythology – magitek and beastmen, airships and chocobos – the forthcoming series will feature a mixture of new and familiar faces. Those will, notably, include the […]

COYOTE: Paramount Network Launches New Scripted Border Drama Starring Michael Chiklis

Lee B. Golden III

It’s difficult to not invoke the least bit of correlative timing for Paramount Network’s newest greenlit series Coyote, premiering in 2020. Emmy Award-winning actor Michael Chiklis (The Commish) is set to star in the new scripted drama which comes at a lately grim, politically tumultuous time in America encompassing the national dialogue surrounding the immigration polices of the current administration. David Graziano (American Gods, Southland) will serve as showrunner and co-write this particular endeavor which centers on Chiklis in the role Ben Clemens, a former border patrol agent who after 32 years in the field, is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of America. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black and white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties. I’m actually keen on this series as […]

MYST: Village Roadshow To Dive Deep Into Wide-Spanning Content Creation Based On Hit Video Game

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Village Roadshow Entertainment Group put the word out on Wednesday for their latest acquisition of film and TV rights to best-selling video game, Myst. The game first took off in 1993 from the minds of sibling creators Rand and Robyn Miller through their company, Cyan. The brothers will partner with Village Roadshow to develop and produce alongside co-creator Ryan Miller, as well as Isaac Testerman and Yale Rice at Delve Media. Apart from its 10,000 year-long canonical history, Myst primarily follows Atrus, a brilliant (if a bit naïve) grandson of Anna, a woman who triggers a world-shaping set of events when she discovers the D’ni civilization in a cavern deep below the New Mexico desert. The D’ni have a unique ability to write books that can link to other worlds. The discovery of their ability and the clash of cultures is the catalyst for novels and games. Until 2002, Myst […]

NEKROMANCER: Official Trailer For ‘Wyrmwood’ Director’s Newest Looks Crazy As Hell!

Lee B. Golden III

Kiah Roache-Turner, the venerable mind behind Wyrmwood is back to blow your f*cking head off with the new film, Nekromancer. The film has had a rousing festival run at places like Toronto’s TIFF last year and at Calgary, and we now have an official trailer following its acquisition by Momentum Pictures for a select theatrical, digital HD and VoD release August 9. Howard North, a down on his luck sewage worker, gets dragged into a global conflict between the Nekromancers, a family of badass demon hunters, and Finnegan (Monica Bellucci) – an evil demon who absorbs people’s souls to increase her power. When Howard finds out the truth behind Finnegan’s past and her dark plans for the future, he teams up with his new friends to discover he is the ultimate Nekromancer, the only one with the power to defeat her and save the world. Tristan Roache-Turner co-wrote the script […]

NO BLOOD OF MINE: Don’t Miss The Official Trailer For The New Crime Thriller From Global Digital

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Global Digital Releasing is proudly presenting Wesley Ellenwood’s new crime thriller, No Blood Of Mine. The film will roll out on June 28, 2019 in North America and several territories overseas including Apple TV (iTunes), Prime Video, Vudu, iFlix, TUBI TV and many more in the coming months. No Blood Of Mine stars Sierra Schermerhorn in the role of Victoria, a business woman from Duluth who takes out a loan from a North Dakota gangster to keep her trucking firm afloat. When her business crumbles, she is kidnapped by the gangster before she can skip town, ensuing another quandary when a detective’s investigation arises with incriminating evidence linking her to her wealthy father’s murder. Also starring are Matthew Thompson and Larry Yazzie. Check out the trailer above and poster below.

BEYOND THE LINE Review: An Overly-Contemplative Shoestring War Epic That Goes Beyond Its Runtime

Lee B. Golden III

I hadn’t seen any of director Jason Mills’ films up to this point, but having just screened his latest film, Beyond The Line, I’m hard pressed to give this one a pass even to those most fond of war movies. An allied forces plane carrying British soliders is shot down, leaving officer Baker (Chris Walters), fending for himself and surrounded by Nazis. Hours later, a chance meeting with Summers (Jackson Berlin), an American solider gone rogue following the loss of his team, pits the two very different soliders in a reluctant partnership that ultimately becomes an introspective testament to what surviving will really take on the battlefield. We spot that difference almost instantly throughout our protagonists’ screentime with Baker more fearful of taking a life on the battlefield than Summers, who is ardently driven to kill as many Nazis as possible while he’s still armed and breathing. Moral quandaries aside, […]

FESTIVAL NITS DE CINEMA ORIENTAL DE VIC XVI: Thai Retrospectives, Samurai Thrills And Jackie Chan Among 20 Titles To Look For

Lee B. Golden III

The Festival Nits De Cinema Oriental De Vic in Catalunya, Spain, is about to enter its sixteenth year in BIG fashion with some cool new premieres and retrospectives. The festival’s 32-title line-up will be giving deep into a variety of genres from horror and animation to comedy and drama, and for its Asian film coverage, you can especially predict there’ll be some terrific action titles making their European and otherwise international. Among some 20 titles we’ve gathered, the Thai retrospectives should be a crowdpleaser for fans looking to catch films like BKO: Bangkok Knockout and Panna Rittikrai classics like Hard Gun and Born To Fight. Family adventures will also make the rounds including Jackie Chan’s The Knight Of Shadows and Vidyut Jammwal’s elephant rescue actioner, Junglee, while Hong Kong takes aim with Big Brother starring Donnie Yen and Golden Job with Ekin Cheng, and Japan enters the fray with Takahiro […]

FURIE: Win A Copy Of Veronica Ngo’s Newest Action Thriller From Well Go USA Entertainment

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It’s the best week ever to be a fan of Asian movies with actress and film multi-hypenate Veronica Ngo. The upcoming Daniel A. Craft award recipient, special guest and juror for this year’s New York Asian Film Festival will get to strut her badass stuff with the special presentation of Furie from Well Go USA Entertainment. That presentation will be an exclusive theatrical feat this summer following its primary U.S. release in March, but you can still take the action home with a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack on shelves as of June 25 this week. Of course, if you’d like to win one of several of copies, keep reading after the following trivia question: In what key, specific way is Veronica Ngo’s role in Furie similar to at least one other action role she’s played in the last ten years? (Name the film, the character, and her m.o.) I only have […]

THE HIT LIST: June 24, 2019

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The next three or four weeks will determine if another installment of The Hit List will arise another two weeks from now. I sort of have a thing going and so my time might be a little more preoccupied and may vary in terms of what I normally cover on this site so, as always, it’s a wait and see. Actress and stunt performer Yadi Nieves hits us up via Vimeo just before Jon Beal and Kai Young kick off the playlist below featuring “All The Hits” from JK Films. The playlist finishes out with reels from Nathan Barris, Danny Rivera, Tamiko Brownlee, David Chen, Benjamin Zgorecky, Joseph Roark, Jonathan Vellner, Mariko Saito, Lukas Stoiber, Chris Cortez, Joshua Romeo, Damian Mavis, Cory Beeston, Dita Tantang, Rustam Popkov, Layne Herrin, Alyson Pickett, Steve Coleman and Micah Karns! There’s only two trailers in our midst for The Hit List and that goes […]

VORTEX Spirals Into Peril And Danger In The Latest Trailer

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It’ll be a relief going into the summer for fans looking to check out Gan Jianyu’s latest crime thriller, Vortex, with release date now set for August 16. The newest official trailer has also arrived and still serves up an enticing sample to take from until then. LIU is in desperate need of money after losing at gambling, again. A friend can help, he just needs to steal an unregistered car back and resell it. The simple scam becomes complicated when they find a little girl in the trunk of the car. The Thousand Faces Of Dunjia actor Da Peng leads the cast Ou Hao, Li Meng, Cao Bingkun and Sha Baoliang also starring and with Cao Weiyu and young actress Audyrey Duo.

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BARE KNUCKLE BRAWLER Trailer: Pete Passaro Fights To The Deadly Finish

Lee B. Golden III

Sometime last year I was made aware of actor and filmmaker Joe Gawalis’ third feature, Bare Knuckle Brawler. That film has since taken to a few exclusive festival screenings which explains the quotes on artwork, and now bares an official trailer to make its case to the public. For this, we get a cast led by actor Pete Passaro who plays Steve Calderon, the proverbial “loose cannon” in a family of cops and a subculture of discipline, he was a loose cannon. Among other things in the course of his begrudged return home, Steve will be driven to take matters into his own hands and infiltrate an illegal bare knuckle fighting circuit run by an untouchable crime family in order to avenge his younger brother’s death. The cast joins Passaro with resurrected Cobrai Kai series co-star, actor Martin Kove along with son, actor Jesse Kove, and with actors William DeMeo […]

MUTANT BLAST: Peep The Official Trailer For The Latest From The Minds Behind THE TOXIC AVENGER And BANANA MOTHERFUCKER

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This year’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival will be where attendes and fans fond of a good-old-fashioned all-you-can-eat-buffet of gonzo action and gore will get a glimpse of Portuguese filmmaker Fernando Alle’s latest, Mutant Blast, produced by Allé along with Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz. Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for the zombie apocalypse. Along the way, they meet Pedro, a slacker with a hangover. However, their escape is complicated by the existence of a nuclear bomb. Screen Anarchy caught wind of the official trailer following a teaser earlier this year along with some festival profusion in recent memory. Check it out above along with the official poster beneath.

THE ROOKIES: Catch The Newest Trailer And Poster For Milla Jovovich’s Debut Chinese Action Thriller

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The release of actress Milla Jovovich’s first Chinese film, The Rookies may have taken a few years to get off the ground but another push is going forward for what looks to be an official due date on July 12. Alan Yuen’s helms the new spy caper with Jovovich leading a cast that also lists Darren Wang, Sandrine Pinna, Timmy Xu and Lu Meitong. Peep the trailer above and poster below! An extreme sport enthusiast, a bumbling cop and her best friend are somehow dragged into the world of international espionage by chance. Their mission: To steal a priceless treasure and use it to complete an exchange with a mysterious businessman. When the exchange finally happens, a terrorist mastermind disrupts everything and escapes with raw materials for a weapon of mass destruction. Now, it’s up to the rookie spies to save the world!

BLACK AND BLUE: Naomie Harris Battles On The Frontlines And Color Lines In The Official Trailer

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Traffik and The Intruder helmer Deon Taylor’s name is one you ought to keep bookmarked, and he’s proven this aptly with the official trailer for his latest thriller, Black And Blue. The cast brings Naomie Harris into the butt-kicking fray among the likes of Tyrese Gibson, Mike Colter and Frank Grillo who himself is just weeks away from kicking butt in Joe Lynch’s own Netflix outing, Point Blank. BLACK AND BLUE is a fast-paced action thriller about a rookie cop (Naomie Harris) who inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her (Tyrese Gibson) as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage. There’s especially a social […]

HONEST THIEVES: Gor Kirakosian’s Armenian Caper Comedy Gets An Official Trailer

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Five features in, we now have another from writer/director Gor Kirakosian with Armenian heist comedy, Honest Thieves. There’s an official trailer out now which you can check out above while the film itself is actually headed for a screening at Alex Theater in Glendale, California on August 4, and with tickets currently on sale. Heading the cast is Armenian actor and recording artist Aram Mp3 Sargsyan for the story of a band of misfits on a rollicking adventure to steal an antique heirloom in order to turn it in to the police and collect the reward. David Tovmasyan, Rafael Yeranosyan, Levon Ter-Petrossian and Maggie Grigoryan also star.

BAC NORD: French Crime Thriller Shoots In August From ‘The Man With The Iron Heart’ Director

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Director Cedric Jimenez (The Man With The Iron Heart) is reportedly making some history with Studiocanal’s latest placement on upcoming crime thriller, Bac Nord. As Elsa Keslassy’s report at Variety notes, Gilles Lellouche (pictured) will lead the cast for a story centered on a police brigade that’s ventured into the dangerous northern neighborhood of Marseille, where crime levels are higher than anywhere else in France. Rounding out the cast is a roster of award-winning and nominated talent listing actors Francois Civil (Wolf’s Call) and Karim Leklou (The World Is Yours), and actresses Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Color) and Kenza Fortas (Shéhérazade). A Marseilles native, Jimenez co-penned the script in a collaborative effort with Audrey Diwan (The Connection, The Man With the Iron Heart) and Benjamin Charbit (En liberté!). Studiocanal has acquired all rights along with international sales and will serve to co-produce with France 2 Cinéma. Paris-based Hugo […]

BEYOND THE LINE: Two Allied Soliders Fight To Come Home In The Official Trailer

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Vision Films is proudly presenting wartime thriller, Beyond The Line, in association with Millspictures Studios. The film is directed by Jason Mills and stars Chris Walters (Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), Jackson Berlin (Man of Steel, Supernatural) and Darren Andrichuck (Standard Action, What We Once Were). It’s the close of World War II. Unwilling to surrender, rogue German forces shoot down a returning British squadron leaving Sydney Baker (Chris Walters) wounded and lost with the enemy closing in. He’s saved by American soldier, William Summers (Jackson Berlin) and the duo must face their fears, both internal and external, to defeat the enemy and make it back to friendly territory alive. Beyond The Line, born from Mills’ own fandom of war films and harrowing tales of heroism and brotherhood, was reportedly well-received by audiences earlier this month upon its premiere at The Cinematheque in Vancouver. The film is slated for June […]