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KITE Gets A Brand New Poster, Trailer And U.S. Release Date

Writer and director Ralph Ziman kicked off the year unveiling footage from his latest live-action manga adaptation, Kite, prior to finally acquiring North American distribution courtesy Anchor Bay Entertainment. And this week, with its presentation at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada, the film finally received its official poster and first U.S. trailer. Here is how writer Éric S. Boisvert presents the film before its Fantasia premiere: Renowned Japanese anime KITE finally has its cinematic adaptation. The live-action version of controversial animated series, which many thought would never see the light of day, is coming to our screens — and it hasn’t lost its bite Sawa (India Eisley) is a young orphaned girl trying to find her away in a city overflowing with corruption, drugs and human trafficking. With the help of her father’s ex-partner, Karl Aker (Samuel L. Jackson), she tracks down her dad’s assassins. As the […]

KITE Flies Into U.S. Distribution

Lee B. Golden III

It was back in January that genre fans and filmgoers alike got to see new extended footage pertaining to the upcoming mystery sci-fi action thriller, Kite, starring actress India Eisley and actor Callan McAuliffe, with Samuel L. Jackson‘s in his latest return to live-action manga/anime storytelling since last year’s release of Oldboy. At the time the film didn’t have any distributors after TWC picked the film up for distribution in the summer of last year. This week, that all changed when Anchor Bay finally picked up the film for distribution rights in North America and Canada, finally bringing the film closer to a release date with more promotional material likely to come down the pipeline soon enough. Loosely based on Yasuomi Umetsu’s controversial 1998 original video anime, Ziman‘s adaptation takes you into a not-too-distant future where terrorism and financial collapse have turned society into a state run by a corrupt […]

Exploding Bullets, Exploding Heads And More In New Footage From KITE!

Lee B. Golden III

Actor Samuel L. Jackson‘s latest role after Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake reverts back once more to the cinematic live-action rendering of Japanese manga/anime storytelling, this time in filmmaker Ralph Ziman‘s upcoming mystery science fiction action crime thriller, Kite. Based on Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 original video anime, Ziman‘s revisionist adaptation takes you into a not-too-distant future where terrorism and financial collapse have turned society into a state run by a corrupt police force that also benefits from the trafficking of young homeless girls. And here, we are introduced to actress India Eisley‘s portrayal of a vengeful young female assassin on a drug-infused, bloodthirsty, self-destructive journey as she is forced to kill specific targets for her late-father’s ex-partner, while the defining lines between who she can and should not trust may become too blurred that she can’t break free. This week, we now have a brand new trailer and five-minute clip montage […]