DEATHSTALKER: New Sales Art Debuts Online
Shout! will release the film in North America from October 10.
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DEATHSTALKER Reboot Is Underway As First Look Goes Viral Of Daniel Bernhardt In Full Regalia
Already hitting the trades and genre film forums, a first look is already out and about with featured actor Daniel Bernhardt (John Wick, Nobody, Skylines) for Raven Banner’s Deathstalker. The label launched world sales at the Marché du Film over the weekend with cameras currently rolling in Canada. A reboot of the late Roger Corman’s cult Sword & Sorcery film franchise, Bernhardt stars as the titular character revised by writer and director Steven Kostanski (The Void, PG: Psycho Goreman). Bernhardt portrays the barbarian who finds himself cursed by a magical talisman that draws him into conflict with a malevolent wizard and a clan of monstrous assassins. Corman’s films capitalized on the 80s fan fervor of films like John Milius’ Conan the Barbarian, with a similar collision of pulp fantasy and lurid excess. Kostanski’s new vision promises a greater emphasis on exploring the series’ fantasy setting and filling it with monsters […]
MINORE Unleashes The Beast In A Gory, Spectacular NSFW Trailer!
Konstantinos Koutsoliotas is unleashing the beast in the UK later this month!
Locarno 2023 Review: In TRIGGERED (TOPAKK), A Salute To The Brave And Beleagured With Brutal Action Bombast
The film stars Arjo Atayde, Julia Montes, Kokoy De Santos and Sid Lucero, and is directed by Richard Somes.
TRIGGERED Trailer: Richard V. Somes’s Latest Unleashes Ballistic Old School Action
Discharged from the army due to post-traumatic stress disorder, Miguel gets embroiled in a different kind of war when a drug peddler seeks his protection against a vigilante death squad. All the while he must confront his own demons in order to earn his redemption. That’s the thick of things laid out for director Richard V. Somes’s Triggered, his newest thriller fresh out of international sales label Raven Banner Entertainment with a trailer ahead of its Locarno screenings beginning Monday. Somes also co-wrote the pic with Will Fredo and Jim Flores with a cast led by Arjo Atayde in a role both that nods to soldiers still struggling home, as well as cosigns a return to bygone action heroics of yesteryear, as so reflected by Somes in Marta Balaga’s Variety exclusive on Friday: “I am really inspired by the 1980s action films. It all started with ‘First Blood’ or even […]
Silent Comedy Adventure HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS Lands At Raven Banner For International Sales
Mike Cheslik’s feature debut, Hundreds Of Beavers, has landed at Raven Banner for international sales. The film has been running the festival circuit for nearly a year since its world premiere last year at Fantastic Fest, and just picked up another festive screening at Fantasia Festival in Montreal. Featuring action and stunt sequences by Jon Truei, Hundreds Of Beavers reteams Cheslik with Ryland Brickson Cole Tews who stars in the snow-driven silent adventure as Jean Kayak, a happy-go-lucky 19th century drunkard whose applejack business is destroyed by an intrusive beaver population, forcing him to survive the bitter wilderness with the occasional merchant trade. When the local merchant learns that his newest customer has eyes for his daughter, the disapproving merchant instead challenges Kayak to become North America’s greatest fur trapper in order to gain his blessing. Tews also penned the script with Cheslik, marking their latest reunion following Tews’ 2018 […]
THE FIGHT MACHINE: Exclusive Fight Scene Reveal Shows Greg Hovanessian And Dempsey Bryk, Mano-A-Mano
RLJE Films’ latest bare-knuckle action drama, The Fight Machine is now available on DVD in the U.S. as of this past Tuesday, and our third and final exclusive fight scene clip is now available to enjoy. Spare Parts helmer Andrew T. Hunt directs from a script by Craig Davidson (Rust & Bone) which sees two young men from different economic classes living on opposite sides of the Niagra River whose paths come to a head in a brutal clash of vengeance, retribution, and self-discovery in the unrelenting world of the underground bare-knuckle fight circuit. The clip below introduces lead actors Greg Hovenessian and Dempsey Bryk battling for all the marbles in the film’s brutal and bloody fight finale which you can view exclusively below, courtesy of Raven Banner and fight coordinator Wayne Wells. The scene also features Greg Bryk and Michael Ironside. Mind you, the action is about as R-rated […]
MAD HEIDI Lands Late 2022 North American Release From Raven Banner
Folks eagerly awaiting to check out Swissploitation thriller romp, Mad Heidi, will be pleased to learn that Raven Banner Entertainment has acquired the film for what’s being described as an “innovative” North American release plan. The release will include a two-week stay in theaters followed by a two-month run on the film’s official website from December 8 with all the proceeds going straight to the filmmakers – Johannes Hartmann and Sandro Klopfstein, as well as investors who helped push the film through crowdfunding. Starring Alice Lucy, the film tracks a tale of bloody revenge when Heidi is torn from her simple and pure life in the Swiss Alps after her lover is brutally murdered by a cheese fascist, transforming herself into a formidable warrior to liberate her country. Hartmann and Klopfstein make their directing debut on the film, five years in the making after flourishing the concept from a viral […]
TRIGGER: Raven Banner Loads Up Richard Somes’ New Philippines Action Thriller
We Will Not Die Tonight helmer Richard Somes’ latest, Trigger, has found a new home for international sales representation with Raven Banner Entertainment as of this week. The company released a first look which you can view above, featuring actor Arjo Atayde as an ex-soldier-turned-security guard whose PTSD becomes the ultimate modifier when he’s forced to protect a woman on the lam from a corrupt police death squad. Trigger hails from Fusee’s Wilfredo C. Manalang who is producing with Somes via Strawdogs Studio Production, Nathan Studios’ Ria Atayde and Sylvia Sanchez, and Theo & Atlas Production Inc.’s Michaelangelo Masangkay and Fernando Henna. Also starring are Julia Montes, Sid Lucero and Kokoy De Santos. “We’re excited to bring a new kind of action film from the Philippines. There were a lot of action movies in the early part of our film history, but the country has shied away from them for […]
THE SMOKE MASTER Review: A Bold, Comedic Experiment In Fighting As ‘High’ Art
Eight years of development and cultural edification, instilled enough to produce an independent kung fu feature that transcends the boundaries of comedy for a market not usually keen on controversy, now brings us to the forefront of the latest directing effort by debut film duo Augusto Soares and Andre Sigwalt with stoner martial arts romp, The Smoke Master. For this, we are invited to watch as an age-old vendetta begins to take shape for Daniel, (Thiago Stechinni) and his younger brother, Gabriel (Daniel Rocha) – prospective students of their surrogate father, Abel (Cleber Colombo) who is a Bagua Zhang master. The two routinely train together with other students at their local park where they are soon accosted by two thugs, and the harrassment only escalates further, until one day they brutally attack a classmate. The incident resulted in a near-fatal confrontation with the gang’s muscle bound leader, Caine (Tristan Aronovich), […]
THE FIGHT MACHINE: Don’t Miss The Trailer For The Latest Bareknuckle Brawler From Andrew T. Hunt
Raven Banner is on deck at Fantasia to screen its package at this year’s 26th in-person edition, including and not limited to company co-founder and Spare Parts helmer Andrew T. Hunt’s new action drama, The Fight Machine. Based on the novel “The Fighter” by acclaimed author Craig Davidson (Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone), Hunt co-penned the pic with Davidson for a cast led by rising stars Greg Hovanessian and Dempsey Bryk. In The Fight Machine, Paul Harris leads a sheltered existence. The son of a winery owner, his suits and cars are paid for, his career in the family business assured. He is insulated from the rough realities of life—until a vicious barroom beating sets him down a new path. Rob Tully also feels that his life is on a set course. A born boxer with natural talent, Rob trains with his father, Reuben, and his uncle Tommy, both of […]
THE SMOKE MASTER: Raven Banner Debuts Official Trailer For New Brazilian Stoner Martial Arts Comedy
The journey has been long and hard fought for directing duo Augusto Soares and Andre Sigwalt for Brazilian kung fu stoner comedy, The Smoke Master, which had its closing night premiere for the 18th edition of Fantaspoa earlier this month. The film is now making the Cannes sales rounds under Raven Banner Entertainment and has new trailer and poster assets to do the grunt work. The journey of Gabriel and Daniel, two brothers cursed by the Chinese mafia with its feared Three Generations Revenge, who has already reaped the life of their grandfather and their father. To survive, one of the brothers must learn the Smoke Style secrets, a little-known controversial martial art, based on cannabis usage and taught by a single master, high in the mountains of the far reaches of China. A Stoned Kung-Fu movie. The film stars Daniel Rocha, Tony Lee, Thiago Stechinni, Ravel Andrade and Yasmin […]
Director Andrew Thomas Hunt talks chainsaws, fight scenes, & his new film SPARE PARTS
Andrew Thomas Hunt has played a large part in the growing number of interesting, strange, macabre, or just plain fun genre films that have been hitting the international film scene from Canada for the better part of the past decade. He is one of the founding members of “Raven Banner”, a Canadian film group that produces and releases genre films of all types, both theatrically and to home mediums. Some of the films they have sent out into the world include TURBO KID, WOLFMAN’S GOT NARDS, DEATHGASM, and (most recently) PG: PYSCHO GOREMAN. So clearly, Andrew has a love of genre and he’s brought that affection with him to the director’s chair of the latest film release from Raven Banner, the splatter-punk fight fest, SPARE PARTS. SPARE PARTS tells the wild story of an all-girl punk band, cheekily named “Ms. 45”, who are kidnapped by a blood-worshipping death cult and […]
AMERICAN BADGER: Exclusive Trailer And Poster Reveal For Kirk Caouette’s New Hitman Action Thriller
Film Combat Syndicate is bringing you the exclusive trailer and poster for actor and stunt multi-hyphenate Kirk Caouette’s new film, American Badger. Caouette, a 25-year stunt industry multi-hyphenate for film and TV, marks his third outing in the director’s chair for which Toronto-based Raven Banner now reps for international sales at this year’s virtual AFM. Starring from his own script, Caouette takes center stage in the role of “The Badger, a cold-blooded hitman, who is assigned to befriend a local call girl. All hell breaks loose when his orders change, and he is told to kill her.” Featuring action sequences by Stanton Chong, Caouette stars along with Andrea Stefancikova and Michael Kopsa. Some of Caouette’s recent acting and stunt credits include Netflix series Travelers, Disney’s Kim Possible, and Dead Rising: Watchtower. Also on Raven Banner’s slate are genre-bending thriller Motherly starring Lora Burke (For The Sake Of Vicious), and director […]
FOR THE SAKE OF VICIOUS Gets A Truly Vicious NSFW Trailer
Following their sales launch late last year with the October shoot for action horror thriller, For The Sake Of Vicious, the newest trailer has arrived which you can view above. The film hails from Raven Banner who reps world sales, as well as produced the pic with Federgreen Entertainment and Latefox Pictures. It’s the middle of a searing summer, the power is out across the city, Romina is returning home after work to find an unforgiving Chris holding a formidable Man hostage in her house, and he’s not letting anyone leave until he settles the score. The film returns Gabriel Carrer (The Demolisher) back on set and sharing the helm with Reese Eveneshen (Defective) who penned the pic. For The Sake Of Vicious stars Lori Burke, Nick Smyth and Colin Paradine. Hat tip to Bloody Disgusting who debuted the trailer a few days ago, so if this is your first […]
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