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Kill Evil Mercs With Sharlto Copley In The New Indiegogo Promo For HARDCORE!

It’s been a year since producer Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) officially announced production for what he and the crew are billing as “the world’s first ever POV sci-fi action movie”, titled Hardcore. It came at the height of popularity over director Ilya Naishuller‘s explosive viral music video sensation, “Bad Motherfucker”, which featured its own theme filled with first-person POV-style parkour and car chase sequences, fist fights and whimsical elements of science fiction to boot, ultimately garnering millions upon millions of views on YouTube and multiple sites. Well, we are a year and a half into waiting now, and with starring actor Sharlto Copley gaining timely traction for the upcoming release of Chappie, the team behind Hardcore are going public with a serious progress report in the form of a three-minute clip showcasing just what lies ahead for the film’s release. Mind you, what they were promising moviegoers was a feature-length thriller […]

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RUROUNI KENSHIN: KYOTO INFERNO Sets Ablaze In The UK Later This Month!

RUROUNI KENSHIN: KYOTO INFERNO Sets Ablaze In The UK Later This Month!

If your name is Otomo Keishi and you make movies for a living, chances are you’ve been having an awesome year, and the accolades that have been pouring with the recent releases of the two-part finale of the Rurouni Kenshin saga, are nothing short of proof. Both Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno and Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends – the remaining two films to the titular trilogy that began in 2012, have reached major box office heights with both films topping each other upon their releases between August and September throughout parts of Asia. This, on top of any and all reviews and critiques since then, speaks fervently of the films’ overall reception by fans far and wide who’ve grown to love the original source material and the recent films, and much to the favor of leading actor Satoh Takeru in the title role. What is troubling is that big screen […]

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Kung Fu Comedy Calls In The New French Action Short, ANGRY PHONES

It took about a year to complete in between tasks, but post-production is finished and director Vincent Gatinaud is out with another taste of indie action for the fans now in the form of the new short, Angry Phones. And with a title and font like that, you could probably imagine where this might go. French actionistas, actors Kefi Abrikh, Cedric Cirotteau and my dear friend Anthony Pho, all star in this little gem, spoofing the classic three-way fight scene from the 1988 hit, Dragons Forever; A footchase and flurries of fists and kicks and ensue, on top of phone juggling, random bilingual conversations…and of course, an angry chicken with an egg to hatch. Bombs away! Check out Angry Phones below and subscribe to Abrikh‘s channel!

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Terracotta Distribution Releases HERO OF SHAOLIN On DVD Next Week

If you’re familiar with Terracotta, then you might be more familiar with the company’s place in the UK’s Asian Cinema niche as hosts to Terracotta Far East Film Festival, reportedly the biggest event of its kind in London. As of next week however, Terracotta will be stepping forward next week with distribution of its fresh new line of classic 80’s kung fu features in pristine high quality video with English dub with the release of the 1984 film, Hero Of Shaolin, starring Alexander Lo Rei.  SYNOPSIS: A troop of monks from the Shaolin Temple embark on a mission to get the Golden Sutra to Tibet after the Shaolin Abbot is killed by their traitorous teacher. They are joined on their quest by a beautiful, female warrior – with aims to avenge her father’s death. They traverse forests and mountains on their mission, all the while fighting off deadly ninja assassins, […]

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Cuts And Bruises A Plenty In A New Featurette For RISE OF THE LEGEND

Moviegoers in China are less than a month away from the theatrical release of director Roy Chow‘s newest, Rise Of The Legend. As such, you can expect the usual order of TV spots, promos and featurettes along the way before then, including this week for which one other featurette has made its onto YouTube. The new film highlights the rebellious origins of martial arts master and legend, Wong Fei-Hung and his fellow cohorts in their enduring battle against human traffickers, gangsters and the criminally corrupt. Talks of injuries have been had in the year or so since filming, a few of which can now be viewed here with lead actor Eddie Peng trying to punch his way through a fake pillar, and co-star Max Zhang, who damn near went half blind while filming, basically. And all for our amusement as film lovers, no doubt, which is all the more reason […]

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Lunar Stunts Presents: EAT. PRAY. NINJA.

Ninjas! That’s it! Simply add ninjas and you’ve got a great script…unless of course it was by accident. Yes, one year after starting, the word is out and director Eric Nguyen‘s newest short rom-com actioner, Eat. Pray. Ninja. is finally online as of a few days ago. Nope, no globe-trotting here, this one stays in the confines of one woman’s insufferable, drunken quest to become a paid screenwriter under the supervision of her sleazy studio exec. The result? A story packed with perpetual randomness and tongue-in-cheek laughter, all told with great characters and comedic timing and pacing, and to top it all off…ninjas. You can’t go wrong there. SYNOPSIS: A passionate romantic comedy screenwriter must add ninjas to her script in order to sell her script to a major motion studio. In the film we follow Adela, a rom-com screenwriter right out of college, poor, sitting in the studio waiting […]

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The Game Begins In The First Full Trailer For Korean Actioner, THE BIG MATCH!

The Game Begins In The First Full Trailer For Korean Actioner, THE BIG MATCH!

2014 has been a great year for the Korean action genre, and looking to continue the tradition this December is director Choi Ho with promotion now underway for his pending holiday action adventure thriller, The Big Match. The plot itself isn’t anything new, really, but nonetheless graces Ho‘s new venture with an energizing feel and plenty of action-packed feats with actor Lee Jeong-jae at the center of it all, and from the looks of things, I don’t see a reason to complain. SYNOPSIS: A Korean UFC rookie, ring name ‘Zombie’, Ik-ho (LEE Jung-jae) seemed as though he would have a smooth journey in his career until his father figured brother is haunted by police on a false murder charge. Police start to look at Ik-ho with suspicion, and they arrest him. He gets a random phone call from Ace (SHIN ha-kyun), director for an illegal gambling ring. Ace has created […]

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Comikaze ’14: Rob Liefeld Talks DEADPOOL With Mention Of A 'Cable' Movie

This year’s fourth-annual Comikaze in Los Angeles was just where you wanted to be if you wished to learn more about 20th Century Fox’s upcoming Deadpool film, based on the Marvel character from Rob Liefeld who sat on stage to discuss a little bit about the process behind getting the film going. The film has taken about four years or so to come to fruition having shot some outright juicy concept footage with VFX whiz Tim Miller in the director’s chair and actor Ryan Renyolds giving a rather well-received all-around performance at Blur Studios. As time would prove much later, however, said footage remained locked away at the prominent motion-capture studio without anyone ever knowing how awesome a job they did beyond their walls until it was finally leaked online earlier this year, and much to Liefeld’s own approval at that. “…Cut to that footage is in the locker for […]

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Cai O'Leary Fights Dirty In The New Shortfilm Trailer For MAN IS BEAST

Welsh actor and martial artist Cai O’Leary is reaching a new milestone in his young career as an up-and-coming filmmaker with signs of life for his latest pending shortfilm, Man Is Beast. Penned as his Mandarin-language directorial and writing debut, O’Leary‘s endeavors began earlier on with a crowdfunding campaign that came short of its goal upon ending back in May, but as time proved since then, O’Leary was bent on finishing this newest venture, now fully equipped with a teaser which, for the most part, guarantees a little something for the MMA crowd in its dramatic delivery, with actor Stephen Hoo getting in on the ground-and-pound action as well. SYNOPSIS: Man is beast is a short Chinese language (Mandarin) film set in London.  It follows the story of two underground fighters Sai Hu and Hei Xiong, as they prepare for their upcoming fight.  We are taken in mockumentary style flashbacks […]

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Illustrious Poster Art Paves The Way For 3D Fantasy Actioner, ZHONG KUI: SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL

Director Zhao Tianyu is making some headway this week with the unveiling of some illustrious new character poster art for the pending release of Desen International Media’s upcoming fantasy action epic, Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal. The film arrival next year comes in the good graces of being one of China’s first films to embrace technological advancements in 3D filmmaking and motion capture, thanks to the presence of Oscar-winning cinematographer Peter Pau working the lens and producing, along with the folks over at Weta Workshop and Macrograph, collectivel known for dishing out their best film magic in a handful of Marvel flicks, in addition to Avatar, The Hobbit Saga, Dredd 3D and Journey To The West: Conquering The Demoms. Shot in scenic locations in Mainland China, Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal depicts the story of Chinese legendary anti-hero Zhong Kui, a young man endowed […]

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A Case For Better Action Movies: DIE FIGHTING (2014)

Die Fighting – Trailer from Z Team Films on Vimeo. SYNOPSIS: The Z-Team, four Shaolin-forged martial artists has just won the top award at a Film Festival. FABIEN, LOHAN, DIDIER, and JESS immediately set their sights for Hollywood, but from within the shadows emerges a new challenge: the four find themselves in front of the seemingly inescapable eye of a mysterious DIRECTOR who forces them to “act” in his own brutal reality film, with the lives of their loved ones at stake. Their every move watched through hidden cameras like mice in a maze, the Z-Team are forced to run a gamut through the seedy underbelly of LA – from robbing an armored truck, encountering a Drug Lord, breaking an entire dojo of BLACKBELTS, evading a SWAT team, surviving a blazing gunfight…and it’s all a part of the Director’s script. A dark filmmaker’s game culminating into a shocking ending which […]

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The First Teaser Trailer For FURIOUS 7 Is Here!

It is an age where trailers have become as eventful as the films they are pitching, and on Saturday, Universal Pictures proudly held a star-studded get together of their own with the folks at E! and E! Online to broadcast the first official teaser trailer for their next big screen venture, Furious 7. The teaser comes just after the studio unveiled the first ever principle banner and poster art this week, in addition to a launching a week-long promotional campaign for the new movie under the theme “The Road To Furious 7”, showcasing seven-second Vines and retrospective featurettes with the cast providing their insight on various aspects of the franchise, from the story and setting, to the hard-hitting action and stuntwork. Directed by James Wan, April 3, 2015 is the date when the film is slated to grace 2D and IMAX screens everywhere, promising every bit of explosive, emotionally-charged, high-powered […]

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The New Shortfilm Teaser For YAKUZAMBIE Pits A Mob Princess And Her Sex Slave Against The Undead!

Garage Hero founder and independent filmmaker Bueno (Gun Caliber) is back with a shortfilm straight from the inner workings of Japan’s criminal underworld now ravaged by zombies in Yakuzambie. The project was shot on one of Legendary Pictures’ own sets as part of YouTube’s House Of Horrors project introduced back in September by visionary filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro, and based on what we have going on right now in the new grindhouse-style teaser, I wouldn’t miss out on this one when it goes online, and hopefully soon! SYNOPSIS: When the daughter of a late Yakuza Boss inherits her father’s mansion, she decides to seduce his right hand man as her own personal sex slave. However, their lustful acts are interrupted…by the UNDEAD! Keisaku Kimura, Aimi Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Keiichi Takagi and Takaaki Irobe star. Watch the teaser below!

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Ken Ochiai’s UZUMASA LIMELIGHT Releases In Select US Cities This December

Actor and seasoned stuntman Fukumoto Seizo has been the recipient of much-deserved popularity as of late following his acting debut in Ochiai Ken‘s new film, Uzumasa Limelight. While delivering its fair share of suitable swordplay action and drama, Ochiai‘s award-winning film festival favorite of 2014 serves largely as a poignant character study bearing virtually much more similarity to that of its lead actor, and not for nothing. Fukumoto has spent close to 80% of his life in the world of film, leaving an otherwise unchallenged legacy as one of the hardest working performance artists in his field. The film is still running its festival course with a screening gearing up for the Philidelphia Asian American Film & Filmmakers Film Festival on November 14. Thankfully though, the good-natured folks over at Eleven Arts have the film in their custody and will be granting the film a limited North American theatrical release on […]

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Charlie Hunnam In Training For Thai Prison Fight Drama, A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN

Sons Of Anarchy star, actor Charlie Hunnam is preparing to show off his Muay Thai chops according to a new report from ScreenDaily with news on the pending production of A Prayer Before Dawn. The news comes as one in a batch of recent casting headlines in the last several months which also include a potential lead role in Guy Ritchie’s forthcoming King Arthur film saga and the recently-announced Pacific Rim 2. Seniorita Films and Hurricane Films are producing the new thriller for Hunnam, now training in Muay Thai to portray the role of Billy Moore who originally unveiled his story in a Maverick House publication back in March. The book synopsis itself reads as follows: A Prayer Before Dawn: A Nightmare in Thailand is the true story of one man’s fight for survival inside Klong Prem Prison, the notorious “Bangkok Hilton”. Billy Moore travelled to Thailand to escape a […]

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Channing Tatum's GAMBIT Movie Gets The Greenlight And A Screenwriter

Channing Tatum's GAMBIT Movie Gets The Greenlight And A Screenwriter

The ever-expanding Marvel movie multiverse has been on a warpath this year with its amazing franchises already coming into fruition. The work currently being done with Tim Miller’s Deadpool and Marvel’s 2015 Netflix line-up, in addition to talks of a female spidey feature film, as well as the possible revival of semi-human vampire hunter, Blade, and L.L. Cool J’s most recent Tweet boasting a future Marvel role have pretty much overshadowed that of the recent announcement Warner Bros. made for its own superhero line-up a few weeks ago; They’re catching up, but in the eyes of comic book fans in both camps, apparently not fast enough. That said, it remains to be seen what the future of the X-Men saga from 20th Century Fox will hold, although we already have a pretty gnarly idea about the possibilities in that regard. However, we have heard little on what will entail for […]

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NORTHMEN: A VIKING SAGA Sets Sail For North America

Director Claudio Fäh‘s action-packed period epic, Northmen: A Viking Saga is currently enduring a theatrical run through Europe, introducing a harrowing tale of survival about a group of maurauders who must survive their way through to a Viking settlement after getting shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland. The film itself has some mixed reviews although the trailers themselves divulge plenty their fair share of epic viking brutality and danger which ought to woo anyone who loves a good sword-swinger of a thriller. Alas, moviegoers who love a little Norse action period storytelling may get their wish when the film is finally gets released in North America after landing a new home at Starz, according to Deadline. The IMDb page currently lists the film as due for a March 2015 release, however this could change with more official news pending. Tom Hopper, Charlie Murphy, Danny Keogh, Ryan Kwanten, Ed Skrein and […]

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Director Christian Sesma's VIGILANTE DIARIES Gets A New Poster

Director Christian Sesma's VIGILANTE DIARIES Gets A New Poster

From L to R: Paul Sloan, Jason Mewes and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson Not too long after the unveiling of the latest teaser trailer for director Christian Sesma‘s 2015 action thriller, Vigilante Diaries, the production released the first of pending poster art ahead of its upcoming presentation at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California next month. The film is offering a mixed bag of new faces to its old line-up originally stemming from its earlier roots as a hopeful Chill.com exclusive webseries, boasting crazy, high-octane action and spectacle with stylish storytelling, and fully-loaded characters to make this feature-length expansion worth every playing minute. Check out the new poster art below, in addition to the latest explosive teaser trailer just beneath! SYNOPSIS: Based on the graphic novel web series, VIGILANTE DIARIES the feature film, explodes with a genre bending, action packed ride following documentary filmmaker Mike Hanover (Jason Mewes) as […]

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Amr Waked On Netflix's MARCO POLO: "Lots Of Action, Sex, Politics & Nudity!"

The December 12, 2014 premiere date for Netflix’s SVOD series, Marco Polo grows ever near, and the latest trailer premiered this week, granting a first glimpse of what fans can expect. The series itself took a few years to move forward following its initial embarkment on Starz before switching gears onto subscription video with John Fusco (The Forbidden Kingdom, Kung Fu Panda, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend) on board as series creator and producer. Leading the way is Italian actor Lorenzo Richelmy who will play the title role for the series whose story is based on the famed explorer’s adventures set in Kublai Khan’s court in 13th century China – a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry; Indeed, the Netflix-exclusive series has been selling itself on how far it will push the envelope for its 18+ audience, similar to that of other popular cable shows […]

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