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EMPEROR Rides Home In The UK On Digital And DVD This Spring

Mark Amin’s explosive period tale, Emperor, will get its day in the UK from Kaleidoscope Entertainment. The film is dated for a Digital release on March 1, followed by a DVD release on April 5. From the producer of Django Unchained comes Emperor, an inspirational and timely portrait of courage and resilience set during a turbulent time in American history. This epic story is inspired by the legend of 19th century freedom fighter, Shields “Emperor” Green (Dayo Okeniyi, The Hunger Games, Shades of Blue), a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. A man fighting to free his family and bring an end to tyranny, Emperor fights his way north, joining forces with abolitionist John Brown for a daring raid on Harper’s Ferry, helping to alter the course of American history in the process. An action-packed and powerful epic shining a light on one of […]

Dystopian Futuristic ZORRO Film Starts Shooting Next Year

Lee B. Golden III

Now how’s this for a reboot concept? The last known effort to bring New York pulp author Johnston McCulley’s 1919 character, “Zorro”, was in 1998 from TriStar Pictures with a sequel that followed featuring actor Antonio Banderas in the title role. Apparently Fox was on track with its own version of the character sometime thereafter, though it’s been fifteen years since that was ever a thing. Now, word has it from THR that Lantica Pictures and Sobini Films are partnering for Zorro Reborn, a post-apocalyptic version of the classic masked vigilante to start shooting at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios next March. Good Kill producer and Sobini CEO Mark Amin is producing the film which will still retain the core concept of the character, but in a near-futuristic setting, compared to the character’s normal early nineteenth-cetury bearings as the defender of poor peasants and farmers. Pantelion Films will represent the film […]