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MAD HEIDI Reigns With Vengeance For One Night Only In North American Theaters!

Alice Lucy & Casper Van Dien star in this one-night-only event that is dripping with blood…and cheese! Fathom Events is partnering with Raven Banner Releasing and Swissploitation Films for a one-night only U.S. theatrical presentation of Mad Heidi on June 21 at 7:00p.m. local time. The film, from directors Johannes Hartmann and Sandro Klopfstein, circled the festivals last year to wide acclaim and ceremony before hitting a limited online on-Demand release late last year. Mad Heidi is billed as a modern grindhouse “Swissploitation” epic that took a five year-long ground-up effort to develop and produce. Tickets go on sale beginning Friday at the official website, with to Fathom Events hosting screenings with a exclusive recorded intro by the film duo and lead actors Alice Lucy and Casper Van Dien. Canada screenings will be held select Cineplex locations on the same evening. Mad Heidi initially made waves for its innovative crowdfunded […]

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THE FIGHT MACHINE: First Exclusive Fight Scene Premiere From The New Bareknuckle Action Drama

Andrew T. Hunt’s new hard-hitting action drama, The Fight Machine, is set to make its Canadian theatrical run via Raven Banner in select Landmark cinemas on Monday, February 13, with RLJE Films scoring a DVD release in the U.S. beginning February 21. The film stars Greg Hovanessian, Dempsey Byrk, Noah Dalton Danby, Greg Byrk, and Michael Ironside, and centers on two young men from opposite sides of society whose paths of hardship and inner turmoil find their way toward each other in the violent underground bare-knuckle fight circuit. The hard-hitting action scenes were coordinated by Wayne Wells who, in association with Raven Banner, has handed Film Combat Syndicate the keys to exclusively premiere the film’s key fight sequences in the days and weeks ahead. I definitely won’t share the action all at once to avoid being too spoilery, and those of you who haven’t seen the film yet and wish […]

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This Official Trailer For SPARE PARTS Is Simply ‘Beyond Thunderdome’!

This trailer is something else… and pardon the Mad Max pun. My friend Joey uses it often. I definitely got echoes of Noboru Iguchi here with Sweet Karma director Andrew T. Hunt’s new film, Spare Parts. The pitch here roars with outlandish gore, explosive action and dystopian, escapist extravagance with what looks to be some thrilling performances by Michelle Argyris, Emily Alatalo, Kiriana Stanton and Chelsea Muirhead, and actor Julian Richings. In a godforsaken bar in the middle of nowhere – an all-girl punk band, Ms. 45, rip the stage apart with their punk spirit. Their performance impresses an enthusiastic fan who lures the girls into a trap, sedates them and starts… customizing them. The four wake up with an axe, drill or chainsaw attached to one arm and are forced to fight gladiator-style, in an arena style auto-wrecking yard for the amusement of the Emperor and his sadistic townsfolk. […]

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THE DEAD ONES: Raven Banner Present At AFM With New Siege Horror Thriller

Jeremy Kaster’s new siege horror thriller, The Dead Ones, is currently stirring about at AFM this week. Penned by Zach Chassler, the anarchy ensues when a masked, armed gang known as the Four Horseman Of The Apocalypse descend unto a high school, locking in four outcast teens punished into cleaning after a horrific incident, and hunting them down one by one. Toronto-based Raven Banner has picked up worldwide sales rights to the film which premiered at Brussels and will soon make its U.S. premiere in December, at Another Hole in the Head Film Festival. Raven Banner’s Michael Da Silva and Michael Paszt brokered the deal with Colin Geddes of Ultra 8 Pictures and director, Jeremy Kasten.

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FOR THE SAKE OF VICIOUS: ‘The Demolisher’, ‘Defective’ Helmers Pair With Raven Banner For Toronto Action Horror Shoot

Gabriel Carrer’s The Demolisher is still on my watchlist. Provided I can find it, it’ll likely be my entry into his work in the last several years just as he stakes his next efforts with Reese Eveneshen (Defective) for action horror, For The Sake Of Vicious. Toronto-based genre specialist Raven Banner announced the new project which starts rolling cameras on October 4, and centers on a nurse and single mother whose late arrival on Halloween Eve leaves her in the crosshairs of violent intruders. Lori Burke stars with Nick Smyth and Colin Paradine. For The Sake Of Vicious is described as “relentless, punch-in-your-face action horror” and stars Lora Burke as a nurse and single mother who returns from a late shift on Halloween to find a maniac hiding out with a hostage. As a wave of violent intruders descend upon the neighbourhood and lay siege to her home, the nurse […]

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THE PREY Makes A Stand In New Key Sales Art From Raven Banner

Director Jimmy Henderson’s new actioner, The Prey, is now on par for the course as we enter a new year of festivals and market updates. As such, the production has paired up with Toronto-based Raven Banner for international sales ahead of EFM which launches on February 7 in Berlin. Actor and martial artist Gu Shang Wei makes his return to the screen since handing out a pretty fair performance in the 2016 action drama, Bloody Destiny. Undoubtedly and as of the film’s premieres at BFI in the UK and at Busan in South Korea late last year, this ought to be an ample segue for him onto the world stage. My review will be up this week first thing. In the meantime, Raven Banner’s acquisition as of last week, as reported by Screen Daily, now signals new poster art to help make its case. Check it out below! RAVEN BANNER […]

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RENDEL 2 Moves Forward At Raven Banner

The last few years have seen the wheels turn quite a bit for director Jesse Haaja who made history in debuting Finland’s first comic book superhero movie, Rendel. Nowadays he’s developing other properties including Furrow, but that doesn’t necessarily count out prospects for a sequel while genre specialist Raven Banner has anything to say for it. Such is what includes Jeremy Kay’s Screen International report this weekend with word that sales on a sequel to the Finnish superhero hit film have launched at the Cannes market. Producers at Black Lion Pictures and Frozen Flame Pictures are planning an early 2019 shoot on Rendel 2 which has Haaja returning to the helm to follow up the story of a family man previously resurrected from near-death with a brutal, masked alterego to seek revenge in the name of a city crying out for justice against a criminal organization and their pharmaceutical cohorts. […]

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SNOWFLAKE Trailer: Crime Comedy With A Touch Of Fisticuffs And The Crazy

Signaling a feature debut of their own, Adolfo J. Kolmerer and William James were proudly featured among the roster for Raven Banner’s presentation at EFM this week. Among the line-up is German action thriller, Snowflake, billed accordingly on the artwork and with a fine trailer now online that mixes and mingles crime comedy with a mix of gonzo that aims to assure a crowdpleaser for audiences. Take a dash of Tarantino, a splash of Coen brothers, a metric ton of pretzel-logic self-awareness, and a fast-paced series of humorously violent misadventures, and you’re halfway to grasping the magnificent German madness of this bizarre import. Hunting down the murderer of their families in a near-future Berlin, a gang of lowlife characters all want revenge on each other, but along the way they must contend with a myriad of wicked fairytale types—assassins, madmen, a blood-covered angel, and an electric-powered superhero—all apparently come to […]

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STEGMAN IS DEAD In The Official Trailer For David Hyde’s Dark Hitman Comedy

Currently making its run throught select cinemas in Canada, David Hyde is paving the way with his latest debut at the helm, Stegman Is Dead. Raven Banner already has an official trailer running, host to a festive look at Hyde’s dark comedy crime tale telling of a dead pornographer, an incriminating VHS tape, and an array of bizarre hitmen. Meet Stegman. He’s dead. In this crime comedy, bizarre assassins must come together to unravel the puzzle of Stegman’s blackmail secret, and why he’s already dead on the set of his own porn film. Stegman’s secret is somewhere within the rooms of his expansive suburban seventies bungalow, and the cops are already circling. Gus and Evy, two of the central characters, must escape Stegman’s house only to discover the true nature of his secret at last, and with it, the awful realization that now… they have to break back in. Starring are […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Mark Debuts On The Official Sales Art For Martial Arts Sci-Fi Actioner, MEZA

Look to the vast reaches of the internet and it won’t be too difficult to find a number of independently produced martial arts demos and action shorts from various up-and-coming stuntfighting and film groups. Canada’s own Team 2X is a product of that evolution where their members have since righteously earned their career growth into the professional field of mainstream stuntwork, including James Mark, having proven himself for fourteen years and now with TV and film credits like Nikita, Covert Affairs, Falling Skies, Pacific Rim, Wolves and Scott Pilgrim VS. The World. Clearly for Mark, the sensible move from there was to seuge into filmmaking, and with none other than brother, fellow martial artist, stuntman and actor Chris Mark who shares similar credits with the elder Mark in addition to Warcraft, Allan Ungar’s 2015 action hit, Gridlocked, and the blockbuster DCU adaptation of Suicide Squad as of late. Thus, following several […]

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Raven Banner And Sinister Cinema To Showcase TURBO KID In Canada Next Month!

RKSS’s award-winning forthcoming post-apocalyptic fantasy fare, Turbo Kid, has seen quite the electric journey from its inception as a shortfilm entry to a fully-fledged and dazzling epic. The reviews are in and the fallout is nothing short of upworthy, and with the film releasing soon in select territories to expand after next month, I’m fairly certain at this point that audiences won’t be disappointed. I haven’t been able to screen it myself, but I’m sure enough of the tone among folks who have, and suffice it to say I can’t wait to get my butt into a theater seat for this one thanks to North American distributor Epic Pictures Group. Simultaneously, Canadian distributor Raven Banner Releasing is granting a nationwide release throughout Canada on August 27 and 28 in select Cineplex outlets as part of Sinister Cinema’s monthly series. This ought to be interesting to attend there, aye? Anyway, I […]

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