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Iko Uwais Actioner HEADSHOT Confirms Julie Estelle And Sunny Pang

Following Thursday’s initial reports, Twitchfilm confirmed the additions of actress Julie Estelle and Singaporean actor Sunny Pang in the new action thriller, Headshot, from SCTV Station and Screenplay Infinite Films. Action star Iko Uwais leads the cast with actress Chelsea Islan for the film’s production set to roll cameras within a week or so. The Mo Brothers, as pennamed with respect to their names, Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel, are directing with a script that centers on Uwais as an amnesiac with a head injury whose past comes back to haunt him upon being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Pang (re: solve, The Collector), is set to play one of the key villains as he has reportedly learning lines in Bahasa, which should already bode well on screen since he’s fluent in a few other languages, including English. Uwais reunites with Estelle following last year’s […]

Marko Zaror’s REDEEMER Takes On A New Poster

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We’re still a ways from Santiago Violenta helmer Ernesto Diaz Espinoza‘s latest stint with Chilean action hero, actor Marko Zaror in the bilingual revenge opus, Redeemer, following its stellar film festival run late last year. At any rate, the film is getting release in North America from MPI Media’s Dark Sky Films this summer with a date pending, and with an initial trailer already online, we now have a new poster making the rounds from the folks at XYZ Films who also produced the film. Take a look SYNOPSIS: Marko Zaror is Pardo, a man with a heavy burden on his soul, looking for a way to atone for his past sins. As a vigilante, he stops criminals in their tracks and gives them only one chance to ask for forgiveness. Bad guys being bad guys, they rarely listen, and so Pardo disposes of them in any gruesome way available […]

Screener Review: REDEEMER (2014)

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SYNOPSIS: Former hitman Nicky Pardo (Zaror) has made a deal with God. Pardo will begin every day by holding a gun to his own head and pulling the trigger. And every day he does not die he will take it as a sign that he is meant to continue hunting down the men he used to work for. REVIEW: By no means are your options limited here, particularly if you are a fan of the martial arts genre and always looking forward to something great to see. This was a lesson learned in my own evolution as a follower of these films while growing up, and as time passed, more and more talent has continued to emerge and drawing the attention of fans almost everywhere. Obviously this couldn’t be possible without the evolution of the internet, a tool that generally removes almost all boundaries so people can share a piece […]

Marko Zaror Mentioned For Superhero Role In ZAMBO DENDE

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Marko Zaror as ‘Dolor’ in Undisputed 3: Redemption (2010) Prospects for martial arts action fans alike can’t be greater than they are now, specifically for fans of Chilean action hero Marko Zaror (Mandrill). In recent years, he’s been earning even more attention with other titles, namely Isaac Florentine’s Undisputed 3: Redemption and a small, notable role in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills with Danny Trejo. And, in lieu of these and other projects and films still pending, we now have news of development for an upcoming film following a tweet by director Riccardo Gabrielli R which read the following: @markozaror mañana nos vemos para otro gran proyecto! #ZamboDende — Riccardo Gabrielli R (@riccafilm) October 18, 2014 “See you tomorrow for another great project.” As so hashtagged, the name of the film would be called Zambo Dende, based on the work of comic-book creator Nicholas Rodriguez following an announcement late last year […]

Marko Zaror Counts His Blessings With Bullets In The Upcoming Production Of Assassin Thriller, REDEEMER

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Chilean martial arts action superstar Marko Zaror has been one of the most influential cinematic performers of the past decade. And just after recently appearing opposite actor Danny Trejo in Machete Kills, it appears that the Undisputed 3 actor is ready to jump onto that very momentum he has earned since his early days as a stuntman and a trendsetting breakout action hero. Today, it is being announced that Zaror will re-team once more with director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza for a brand new Spanish-language action film titled Redeemer. The film is the second project being executive produced as of late by XYZ Films (the same studio behind The Night Comes For Us, The Raid trilogy and its forthcoming U.S. remake, in addition to Maori martial arts epic, The Dead Lands to name a few) with Zaror as the main lead since it was announced just a few years ago that […]

Fight Choreography Begins For THE NIGHT COMES FOR US

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Writer and director Timo Tjahjanto shot off a few tweets on Monday after a completing the first day of choreography for the upcoming production of The Night Comes For Us. Following his previous collaboration with The Raid 1 and 2 helmer Gareth Evans now in the producers chair since scribing Tjahjanto’s Safe Haven segment in the summer 2013 horror anthology, V.H.S. 2, The Night Comes For Us brings lead actor Joe Taslim and co-star Yayan Ruhian back together in a reunion that is likely to be one of the most celebrated after their stellar performances in Evans’ The Raid, featuring the two in one of the film’s most brutal, solid and most pulse pounding action sequences ever put on film, a signature quality of the work coming from Indonesian production platform PT Merantau Films. Described as a story of vengeance and redemption, the current synopsis for The Night Comes For […]