LES ORPHELINS: Alban Lenoir And Dali Benssalah Seek Their Own Brand Of Justice In The Official Trailer
Starring Alban Lenoir and Dali Benssalah, LES ORPHELINS is directed by Olivier Schneider, and opens in French cinemas on August 20.
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THE ORPHANS: Cast Announced As Production Starts On Olivier Schneider’s New Action Thriller
Action steward Olivier Schneider is underway with The Orphans (a.k.a. Les Orphelins) as of just a few days ago, at that. Schneider is directing this, his second feature after completing upcoming Netflix actioner, GTMax. After a quarrel, Gab and Driss’s lives have taken different paths. Gab is a cop in Internal Affairs. He plays by the books. Driss is a fixer for the mob. He sells himself to the highest bidder. They are brought back together by the brutal death of Sofia, their childhood friend from the orphanage. Killed in a car accident, Sofia leaves behind Leïla, her 17-year-old daughter. Determined to find the killer, Leïla unknowingly tracks down the son of a ruthless businesswoman who relies on vicious henchmen to protect her family’s secrets. With no time to settle their personal scores, the two orphans must now join forces to find Leïla before she commits an irredeemable act. The […]
BLOOD COAST Official French Crime Series Trailer Runs Red With Pulsating Action And Drama
December 6 will see the official premiere of Kamel Guemra’s six-part action-packed crime series, Blood Coast (French title Pax Massilia). Ivan Fegyveres and Olivier Marchal each share directing duties on the hourlong series which hails from production house Gaumont and stars Tewfik Jallab, Jeanne Goursaud, and Nicolas Duvauchelle. As a vicious drug dealer tries to overtake Marseille, a rogue police captain and his daredevil team welcome a new recruit with an agenda of her own. Also starring are Moussa Maaskri and Gino Montesinos, along with Florence Thomassin and Samir Boitard. The official trailer is now online below.
Gaumont Wins Bidding War To Remake Korean Zombie Hit, TRAIN TO BUSAN
Animator Yeon Sang-Ho made his live-action debut this with the hit action horror, Train To Busan. The film was a festival favorite during the summer and has since earned the favor of many a critic and moviegoer, in addition to a raft of studios competing for the English-language remake rights in a few months prior to its release. As it turns out, according to Variety, the victor now lies with Gaumont, beating out Canal+, Sony and other studios for the remake rights. Starring Gong Yoo and Ma Dong-Seok as a follow-up to Yeon’s 2014 animated movie, Seoul Station, the film centered around a father struggling to reconnect with his young daughter, only to get swept into an epic battle for survival when a mysterious viral outbreak consumes the Busan-bound bullet train they’re on, turning its passengers into rabid zombies. per Variety: “We are more than happy to start our business […]
Statham Actioner, VIVA LA MADNESS, Goes To TV
Action star Jason Statham made headlines two years ago with producer Steve Chasman upon the announcement of their acquisition of UK crime novelist, author J.J. Connolly’s 2011 literary Layer Cake sequel Viva La Madness. Since then the plan was to adapt it for film following the first film adap in 2004 which featured Daniel Craig in the role of a nameless drug dealer whose exit from the field gets a monkey wrench tossed in with Neo-Nazis in search of missing Ecstasy and a wealthy socialite’s missing daughter. This week, reporting from THR is news that instead of the big screen, Connolly’s work is now headed to television. Gaumont International Television is producing the series with a script by Connolly himself who journeys our character from the Caribbean back in the throes of the criminal underworld thanks to two money launderers, only to see himself caught in the middle of a […]