Actor Kellan Lutz will star in writer/director Javier Reyna’s new action thriller, Palido. Further casting is already underway with L.A.-based Premiere Entertainment Group announcing the pic this week with sales art to present at next week’s Cannes market repping worldwide sales.
Director Kimble Randall’s new film, 7 Guardians Of The Tomb, has since made its initial run in China following news of its U.S. landings. Thus, Gravitas Ventures is prepared to oblige with a limited theatrical, digital and VOD date stamped for February 23 to take in the thrills and chills headlined by actress Li Bingbing who hails yet another turning point in international film stardom from whipping her hair at Jackie Chan in Rob Minkoff’s The Forbidden Kingdom to battling evil alien robots in Transformers: Age Of Extinction.
Gravitas Ventures and Signature Entertainment have also acquired rights to the film for the U.S. and the U.K. respectively with release dates for both territories pending. Kellan Lutz and actress Li Bingbing star along with Kelsey Grammer and Chinese popstar Wu Chun from a script by Rendall and co-scribe Paul Staheli, and with Deng Shuo, Arclight chief Gary Hamilton, Ying Ye and Mark Lazarus serving as producers.
Kimble Randall’s third outing has arrived in time to put film fans on notice. Hailing with a January 19 release is the new action adventure thriller, Guardians Of The Tomb, ripe with a new official trailer this week, its title upgraded from its previous iteration as NEST, and boasting an ambitious 3D release with a cast aiming staunchly for wide markets.
Infini and Gabriel helmer Shane Abbess’s latest, The Osiris Child, has reportedly landed a U.S. distributor in RLJ Entertainment by way of a new press announcement this week. Abbess co-wrote the film with Infini scribe Brian Cachia per the film’s production start in 2015 under the working title, SFv1.
Twilight franchise co-star, Extraction and Java Heat star Kellan Lutz makes his return to the leading man forefront as Sy Lombrok an interplanetary drifter with a haunted past who forms an unlikely alliance with Kane, an off-world military contractor to save Kane’s daughter amid an impending global crisis created by Kane’s company, Exor. Daniel MacPherson joins in as Kane next to the role of Indi, played by debut actress Teagan Croft with Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Knight of Cups), Temuera Morrison (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith) and Rachel Griffiths (Hacksaw Ridge, Six Feet Under) also starring.
“We’re excited to be releasing this action-filled, science fiction film,” RLJE Chief Acquisitions Officer Mark Ward made the announcement on Tuesday. “Writer/director Shane Abbess is a true visual talent who cleverly applies his knowledge of filmmaking to bring a futuristic action-packed, adventure-filled story to the big screen.”
“We wanted to bring back a type of movie that seemed all but extinct – the old school sci-fi action/adventure from the 80’s with monsters, prison planets, sky battles and a host of fun, colorful characters. It’s a big universe with a huge story arc and we’re ecstatic to introduce it to the world with this first installment,’” said Abbess.
The film, which is planning for a theatrical and VoD Fall release, is produced by Matthew Graham, Brett Thornquest, Sidonie Abbene and Abbess via their Storm Alley and Eclectik Vision banners, in association with Phonetic Images and executive produced by Steven Matusko. The producing team previously collaborated on Infini and Terminus and most recently the upcoming thriller Better Watch Out.
RLJ Entertainment’s Ward and Jess De Leo negotiated the deal with XYZ Film’s Co-Founder Nate Bolotin on behalf of the filmmakers.
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The final trailer for Hercules: The Legend Begins aired this week in the final weeks before the film’s North American release on January 10th, 2014.
Following a recently settled lawsuit between Lionsgate and MGM, Summit Entertainment has since unveiled its newest retitling of director Renny Harlin‘s epic fantasy action adventure, Hercules: The Legend Begins, now rebranded as, The Legend Of Hercules.
In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the king and restore peace to a land in hardship. But this prince, Hercules, knows nothing of his real identity or his destiny. He desires only one thing: the love of Hebe, Princess of Crete, who has been promised to his own brother. When Hercules learns of his greater purpose, he must choose: to flee with his true love or to fulfill his destiny and become the true hero of his time. The story behind one of the greatest myths is revealed in this action-packed epic – a tale of love, sacrifice and the strength of the human spirit.
Variety is reporting that Summit Entertainment (Lionsgate) has announced its acquisition of distribution rights for director Renny Harlin‘s large scale fantasy epic, Hercules: The Legend Begins for a February 7, 2014 2D and 3D release. The news follows the explosive premiere of the film’s extended trailer at New York City Comic Con, accompanied by a star-studded panel back in October, previously teased by the film’s lead actor, Kellan Lutz from the set of The Expendables 3 which releases this August.
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