BUFFALO BOYS Get Bullish In The Explosive Second Trailer
Watch the brand new trailer below, and if you have a good eye and are familiar with the director, try and spot him. He gets an appearance as well!
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NYAFF 2018 Launches Ticket Sales For The Savage Seventeenth Edition
Things are in full swing for what’s being dubbed as the “Savage Seventeenth” installment of the New York Asian Film Festival launching June 29. From the robust opener with Dynamite Graffiti to a rowsing and eclectic line-up of Asian titles both new and ceremonial with special guests in attendance, right down to the hotly-anticipated closer with Erik Matti’s BuyBust, words such as “interesting” and “exciting” almost seem paling.
WE WILL NOT DIE TONIGHT Rocks Out To Stabby, Punchy And Bloody Anarchy In The Official Teaser
Filipino action and spectacle won’t be limited to the tasks of one director on the eve of this year’s New York Asian Film Festival. Enter Richard V. Somes who has directed at least two films with actress Erich Gonzales prior to their latest pairing for upcoming thriller, We Will Not Die Tonight.
A teaser was released on Gonzales’s own Facebook fanpage late last year and thus, I’ve only just learned about it myself per its festival plans this summer…
And this is why film festivals are so darn important!
As for Gonzales, she tackles the role of Kray, a stuntwoman forced to survive a single night of terror – and that’s about as much as I’ve been able to find for a plot with languishing too much through Google. The buzz also insists that Gonzales, who has up to more than a decade of acting experience, lived up to her hefty training regime involving Muay Thai as well as other matters of rigorous stunt preparation involving “staircase scenes, barbwires, sharp objects, rusty metals and nasty elevator shafts”, and rest assured the teaser below hints at some of these good and plentily in brutal fashion.
There isn’t an exact release date known yet, although with any luck we’ll find out soon and perhaps even yet learn of some acquisition news stateside. Until then, the teaser may already be familiar to those in the know, but if this is the first you’ve learned of it, take a look below and read more about what’s in store at NYAFF this summer!
Erik Matti’s NYAFF-Selected BUYBUST Opens In The U.S. And Canada On August 10
CORRECTED: Acclaimed filmmaker Erik Matti is positioning himself to direct a superhero film in the months ahead. Until then and with the current development of a sequel for his celebrated 2014 crime pic, On The Job, expect to hear more from Matti in the coming weeks while on the road promoting his hotly-anticipated action thriller, BuyBust, following its release date pushback from February in the Philippines.
BuyBust will instead have a summer outing in festivals, as well as select theaters with Well Go USA informing us directly that the film will open in select U.S. and Canadian theaters on August 10 (a correction issued following a Facebook post from Matti suggesting initally the film would open on August 15). The August 10 release will succeed from its World Premiere during the 17th annual New York Asian Film Festival which lasts from June 29 through July 15 as one of two Matti pics getting the NYAFF treatment.
Actress Anne Curtis who followed a hefty training regime for last year’s production slate among the cast with Sonny Sison coordinating the action, stars as the rookie member of an elite anti-drug narc squad forced to fight its way out of Manila’s most dangerous slum following a poorly-planned raid. The film also stars MMA champion Brandon Vera, with Joross Gamboa, Mara Lopez, Nonie Buencamino, AJ Muhlach and Victor Neri.
The addition of BuyBust to this year’s NYAFF slate also further amplifies the promise the event holds given the immense line-up; Films such as Dante Lam’s Unbeatable and The Beast Stalker, Sato Shinsuke’s Inuyashiki, Shiraishi Kazuya’s The Blood Of Wolves, Mike Wiluan’s Buffalo Boys, Xin Yukun’s Wrath Of Silence, Jonathan Li’s The Brink which also awaits a Well Go USA release, Shinichiro Ueda’s One Cut Of The Dead, Eisuke Naito’s Liverleaf, Kim Hong-Sun’s The Age Of Blood, and Harada Masato’s Sekigahara and Kakekomi make up a sizable sampling of the much larger affair of screenings, awards, tributes and more at NYAFF this year.
Hit up the official website for the full line-up and stay tuned for more BuyBust gospel.