PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND Brandishes A Shotgun-Wielding Nicolas Cage In New Stills For The Sion Sono Thriller
I’m sorry… was that a Nicolas Cage film you wanted?
I’m sorry… was that a Nicolas Cage film you wanted?
Best known for reimagining 1989’s Kickboxer with two storied back-to-back reboots, filmmaker Dimitri Logothetis segways into the comic book genre for the first time, adapting Acme Rocket Fuel’s in-house IP, Jiu Jitsu. Teeming with action-heavy talent per usual, the film rejoins Logothetis with Kickboxer Vengeance and Kickboxer Retaliation star Alain Moussi, having since escalated from stunt performance to achieving leading man status for the martial arts niche.
Right about now if you’re a Nicolas Cage or Tony Jaa fan and you’ve been caught up in the buzz for the new film, Jiu Jitsu, chances are you’re already lining up your viewing plans for next Friday going forward.
At long last after two Kickboxer reboots, martial arts fans can now take a gander at what director Dimitri Logothetis has in store with sci-fi thriller, Jiu Jitsu, starring Nicolas Cage, and Kickboxer reboot star of late, actor and martial artist Alain Moussi. And if you’re gettin’ some Mortal Kombat-meets-Predator vibes, I guess you’re not alone!
Dimitri Logothetis is currently plotting a return to Cyprus for the production of Man Of War, details pending. In the meantime, his new sci-fi martial arts adventure, Jiu-Jitsu, will bow on November 20 courtesy of The Avenue Entertainment, Highland Film Group’s U.S. theatrical release venture announced on Wednesday.
Normally, resident “book dragon” Christina Ortega Phillips takes it upon herself for the website to lock in on the more fantastical and supernatural stories that are in-bound. She’s busy working on something a bit more near and dear at the moment while I’m compelled now to help introduce the first official trailer for director Richard Stanley’s latest H.P. Lovecraftian opus, Color Out Of Space.
One of the best things to come out of Japanese cinema in the last twenty years is the budding friendship between actor Tak Sakaguchi and director Sion Sono. To date, their bloodlettingly hilarious 2014 action comedy, Why Don’t You Play In Hell? is one of my own loosely listed top-ten favorite films in the last ten years (I’ll probably make a decent list before the year is out… we’ll see), and it’s been an especially wonderful journey of my own to discover Sono during my readership of his work on numerous sites before launching my own.
Collider’s own Haleigh Foutch brought the latest look at writer and director Jason Cabell’s new crime thriller, Running With The Devil. Central to the narrative is a union of talent such as Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne, and with Barry Pepper headlining the story.
RLJE Films is proudly presenting Shawn Ku’s latest directorial feat with actor Nicolas Cage in A Score To Settle. The film also stars Benjamin Bratt, Karolina Wydra, Mohamed Karim and Noah Le Gros and looks to open in select theaters, VOD and Digital HD on August 2.
Following events at FilMart upon announcing intergalatic martial arts adventure, Jiu-Jitsu, trade news at Screendaily is confirming a quintet of casting additions.
AWOL-72 helmer Christian Sesma is reteaming with Vigilante Diaries team, screenwriters Nick Vallelonga and Paul Sloan for Nicolas Cage action thriller, 10 Double Zero. Andreas Wiseman reported the news out of Cannes over at Deadline with news that Wonderful Global is selling the film internationally.
Much has been ado with Alain Moussi and the Kickboxer reboot franchise which still awaits a third entry in Kickboxer: Armageddon.
Alex Ritman’s newest exclusive at The Hollywood Reporter is continuing the stimulus from last year’s news with Nicolas Cage addition to Sono Sion’s American debut, Prisoners Of The Ghostland. Set to begin production in the Spring, Cage will be joined by Green Room actress Imogen Poots who now joins the film which is currently being shopped in Berlin from XYZ Films.
You can pretty much chuck this right next to Mom And Dad and 211 if you’re keeping up lately with all the Nicolas Cage fan fare and he’s not stopping anytime soon now that he’s got a Sion Sono film lined-up. Cage absolutely rages in the Mandy footage we now have; Axes, chainsaws and all dipped in darkly-tinted anarchy and reds stronger than any amount of gore you might see in an action horror of this kind…
It’s pretty much Nicolas Cage’s world and were all just living in it.
Indeed, that makea three headlines this week for the upcoming 211 star whose latest attachment comes by way of Japanese auteur Sono Sion’s new post-apcolyptic actioner, Prisoners Of The Ghostland, which XYZ Films has included in its sales raft at Cannes. News comes just a day following Cage’s attachment to Millenium’s forthcoming detective noir thriller, Kill Chain.
Sono, the acclaimed helmer of such favorites as Love Exposure, Tokyo Tribe and Why Don’t You Play In Hell will make his English language debut from a script by Aaron Hendry and Reza Sixo Safai. As Patrick Hipes at Deadline reports, Prisoners Of The Ghostland sees Cage in the role of notorious criminal Hero, who is sent to rescue an abducted girl who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence.
Safai is producing via his Black Light District Entertainment next to Laura Rister of Untitled Entertainment, Eleven Arts’ own Ko Mori, and Nate Bolotin of XYZ Films.
It’s a great time to be Nicolas Cage amidst week with several films coming down the pipeline. His latest, Mandy, directed by Panos Cosmatos, internationally sold out EVERYWHERE at Cannes according to an exclusive at Variety this week and now Alex Ritman at The Hollywood Reporter is telling of what’s being described as in the vein of the “greatest detective noir films”.
Kill Chain is the name of the project to be directed by Numb3rs series producer and The Replacement Killers scribe Ken Sanzel with a story centered on the lives of three strangers who inevitably become entangled in a conflict none of them are prepared for. Paul Hertzberg is producing the film which Millenium is selling in its catalogue next to the like of Rambo V, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, The Expendables 4, and more.
Cage’s 211, also being sold at Cannes from Millenium, arrives in the U.S. on June 8.
Also starring are Cory Hardrict, Michael Rainey Jr., Ori Pfeffer, Weston Cage, Sophie Skelton, and Alexandra Dinu. Check out the trailer!
The film reunites Cage accordingly with Patriot Pictures’s own Michael Mendelsohn (Vengeance: A Love Story, USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage) who will serve as producer next to Jim Steele. Mike Nilon and Natalie Perrotta are executive producing next to Etchie Stroh who also represents international sales on the film, and with full financing by Queen of Colombia Pictures, LLC.
Also starring are Sarah Lind, Hugh Dillon and Jakob Davies. Watch the trailer!
The Humanity Bureau VRevolution arrives on March 2 with theatrical and premium VOD releases for The Humanity Bureau on April 6. Variety broke the news last month as the film signals yet another foray into immersive theatergoing with titles like The Maze Runner films, Wesley Snipes headlier The Recall, and Star Trek: Beyond.
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