FUZE: Official Trailer Debut For David Mackenzie’s New Explosive Crime Thriller
Coming in April from Roadside Attractions and Saban Films!
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TRANSFUSION Official Trailer Sees Sam Worthington Walk The Line To Save His Son
Saban Films is taking the mantle with the official trailer for action thriller, Transfusion, written and directed by Matt Nable. The film will release in theaters, and on VOD and Digital from March 3 with Nable joining a cast led by Sam Worthington and Phoebe Tonkin To protect his son, an ex-special forces operative (Sam Worthington) plunges into the criminal underground for one final mission in this muscular, emotionally charged thriller.
BREATHE: Jennifer Hudson, Milla Jovovich And More Head New Survival Action Thriller For Capstone And Thunder Road
Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Respect) will head up action survival thriller, Breathe, from Indie Spirit Award-winner Stefon Bristol (See You Yesterday). The film will also star Sam Worthington (Avatar) Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil franchise), Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Annie) and Academy Award-winner Common (Wanted, Suicide Squad) will also star. Bristol will direct his sophomore pic from the Black List screenplay written by Doug Simon (Dimension’s Demonic). In Breathe, after Earth is left uninhabitable due to lack of oxygen, a mother Maya (Hudson) and her daughter Zora (Wallis) are forced to live underground, with short trips to the surface only made possible by a state of the art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband, Darius, whom she presumes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker, but are […]
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Teaser Trailer Reveals Jake Sully’s New Family Life, Adventures And Danger
Twenty eight years and well over $2.8 billion dollars in global box office gross, James Cameron’s Avatar franchise has only grown toward bigger aspirations as fans of the inaugural 2009 film gear up for Avatar: The Way Of Water, opening in theaters from December 16. Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water” begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure. Avatar: The Way Of Water is the second of a current five-film line-up at 20th Century Studios. The latest film is produced by Cameron and Jon Landau, and features a mix of new and returning stars like Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel […]
9 BULLETS Trailer Fires Away Online With Lena Headey And Sam Worthington
Writer and director Gigi Gaston’s new thriller, 9 Bullets, is out and about with an official trailer on Friday. The film was acquired in February by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc.’s Screen Media Films who will release the film theatrically and on digital from April 22. A former burlesque dancer turned author (Lena Headey) discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents’ murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss (Sam Worthington), who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety. Also starring are Dean Scott Vazquez, Cam Gigandet, La La Anthony, Martin Sensmeier, and Barbara Hershey.
Redbox Takes North America For Western Thriller, THE LAST SON
Donnybrook helmer Tim Sutton’s new western, The Last Son, is currently selling hard for multiple buyers via the Cannes market this week. The film, starring Sam Worthington, Colson Baker, Thomas Jane, and Heather Graham has since landed home at Redbox Entertainment for North American rights from sales agent VMI Worldwide; Other territories include France (Ace Entertainment), Italy (Blue Swan), German-speaking Europe (Constantin), Australia/New Zealand (Defiant Screen Entertainment), Middle East (Phoenicia Pictures International), and Africa, Benelux and Turkey (SPI International). Set in the Sierra Nevada in the late 19th century, THE LAST SON centers on Isaac LeMay (Worthington), a murderous outlaw cursed by a terrible prophecy, hunting down his offspring to prevent his own murder before targeting his son Cal (Baker). With bounty hunters and the enigmatic US Officer Solomon (Jane) on their tail, all are set on a collision course toward a brutal game of cat-and-mouse. Sutton directed the film on location in Montana last year […]
CROSS: Son Ye-Jin, Lee Sun-Kyun, Sam Worthington To Star In New Dystopian Class Warfare Sci-Fi From ‘In Time’ Director
Long since his development efforts in the 1990s with ambitious sci-fi thriller, Cross, it looks as if filmmaker Andrew Niccol will finally get to move forward. According to Pierce Conran at Kobiz, actress Son Ye-jin (The Pirates, The Negotiation) and Lee Sun-kyun (Parasite, Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage), will headline the film with actor Sam Worthington (Avatar franchise). Exact plot details are underwraps but the story is set in a diverse, albeit dystopian country where the lives of the rich and the poor are separated by a giant border wall that appearently no one is allowed to cross. Son and Worthington will take on the respective roles of the impoverished and rich residents on opposite sides, with Lee cast as the ruthless head of border security. A March 2021 start date is reportedly being set with scenes to be shot on location in Korea as well. Judging by the premise, […]
LANSKY: Keitel, Worthington Lead Cast For Upcoming Gangster Biopic
Production is set to commence this August for The Abandoned helmer Eytan Rockaway’s gangster biopic, Lansky, based on the life and times of American monster Bugsy Siegel’s close cohort. Harvey Keitel, best known for roles in hit films like Bad Lieutenant and Pulp Fiction will star alongside Emory Cohen, Sam Worthington and Austin Stowell. Alexandra Daddario and Tony Danza are in talks to join. Investigated and pursued for decades by the FBI, the aging crime boss Meyer Lansky is now living in quiet anonymity in Miami Beach. When Lansky enlists a young journalist named David Stone (Sam Worthington) to tell his story, the Feds use him as a pawn to track down the hundreds of millions of dollars that Lansky has been suspected of stashing away for over half a century. As Lansky spins his dizzying tale, Stone finds himself caught in the middle of a game of cat & […]
THE TITAN: Sam Worthington Goes Supernatural In The First Trailer
Debut director Lennart Ruff’s The Titan hails the return of Sam Worthington who is currently busy playing with alien technology for the laboring long haul of James Cameron’s Avatar saga at Fox. In the meantime, the actor now takes shape in a stimulating new sci-fi narrative from a script by Max Hurwitz and with a UK release set for April, Voltage Pictures has unleashed its own upload of a trailer now going viral. A military family takes part in a ground-breaking experiment of genetic evolution and space exploration. Hotshot Air Force pilot, Rick Janssen (Worthington), is chosen for a military experiment that will create a human being capable of surviving the harsh environments of Saturn’s moon, Titan. The experiment is successful, turning Rick into a super-human, but it also creates deadly side-effects which threatens the life of Rick, his wife and family, and possibly humanity itself. There’s no news of […]
Sam Worthington Says THE HUNTER’S PRAYER In The First Trailer
With the stagnant development of the next Avatar films seuging into full-on production later this year, the window finally starts to close some on how long we can watch actor Sam Worthington in human form before he goes all-in with the Na’vi for the next several years. For this, we have a glimpse of his latest, The Hunter’s Prayer, following its announcent in 2014 and subsequent acquisition by Saban Films last Fall, and with a new trailer to spare. Based on author Kevin Wignall’s 2004 publication “For The Dogs”, which received critical acclaim and made available in the U.S. that year and in several territories thereafter, Jonathan Mostow directs Worthington in the role of an assassin for hire who turns on his employers after a failed assignment to kill a young girl forces them both on the run for their lives, with the only option of uncovering why her family was […]
Saban Films Picks Up Assassin Thriller, THE HUNTER’S PRAYER, Starring Sam Worthington
We’re a ways from anything Avatar right now, so I reckon something a little more grounded will make for a nice change of pace. It’s the new film, The Hunter’s Prayer, announced in 2014 and now the latest prospect of Saban Films with events now underway at TIFF in Toronto this week. Read on! TORONTO – September 9, 2016 – Saban Films announced that they have acquired US distribution rights to The Hunter’s Prayer, directed by Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) and starring Sam Worthington (Avatar, Clash of the Titans) and newcomer Odeya Rush (The Giver, Goosebumps). John Brancato and Michael Ferris (The Game) adapted the action-thriller from Kevin Wignall’s critically acclaimed novel, For the Dogs. The Hunter’s Prayer follows Lucas (Worthington), a solitary assassin, hired to kill a young woman, Ella, (Rush), who is unaware that her family’s questionable business dealings have cost them their lives. […]
Sam Worthington Will Say A HUNTER'S PRAYER, Filming Next Year
Actor Sam Worthington is only a few months away from starting production in New Zealand with the rest of the accumulating cast of director James Cameron’s epic Avatar saga between now and the next several years. In the meantime, the actor also has his hands full on a lesser CG-heavy action thriller which he will start shooting next year in Hungary with director Jonathan Mostow. The film is titled Hunter’s Prayer, based on author Kevin Wignall’s 2004 publication “For The Dogs”, which received critical acclaim and made available in the U.S. that year and in several territories thereafter. Worthington will play an assassin for hire who turns on his employers after a failed assignment to kill a young girl, forces them both on the run for their lives, with the only option of uncovering why her family was wiped out earlier on, and delivering justice to those responsible. Casting remains […]