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J.J. Approved! Watch The New Trailer For Force Storm Entertainment’s Debut Short, THE BETRAYAL!

If you were around about a year ago or so, you may recall previous reports on the announcement of actor, martial artist, writer, producer and stuntman Noah Fleder‘s inspired production base, Force Storm Entertainment. Built on the brewing reinvigoration of impending Star Wars fandom, with thanks in large part to the facilitators at Crestec Studios in Torrance, California, Fleder and the folks behind the scenes have been working toward developing a substantive platform for the shared vision at Force Storm Entertainment to accomodate fans with a variety of shortfilms and skits ranging from mockumentary-style comedy and laughs to impeccable drama, action and stuntwork. Having previously worked with independent martial arts action cinema favorite, Unlucky Stars co-star and action director, filmmaker Vlad Rimburg on several online action shorts in the past including The Flow channel webseries, The Hunt, Force Storm Entertainment will debut its channel with the long-awaited action shortfilm release, The […]

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STAR WARS NEWS: ROGUE ONE Casts Its Lead, Gets Release Date With Ep. VIII One Year Apart

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Directors Gareth Edwards, Josh Trank and Rian Johnson are all poised to direct their own contributions to the Star Wars universe relative to the forthcoming release of J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens this December. That said, Disney CEO Bob Iger was on hand at a meeting of shareholders on Thursday morning where he unveiled the respective titles and dates among the few details to be made public. Edwards will begin filming Rouge One, the first in a series of spin-offs that will take place beyond the Star Wars canon with a script by Cinderella scribe Chris Weitz and will star Academy Award-nomimated actress Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything, based on an idea by executive producer John Knoll. Also executive producing are Simon Emanuel, and Jason McGatlin with Kathleen Kennedy and Tony To producing and John Swartz co-producing for the film’s summer shoot in London ahead of its December […]

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Harrison Ford To Return In BLADE RUNNER Sequel With Denis Villeneuve In Talks To Direct

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It was back in May of last year that actor Harrison Ford was tapped to return to the role of futuristic detective Rick Deckhard in the 1982 sci-fi action noir, Blade Runner. This week, with Alcon Entertainment now taking the reigns to help move the new film forward and long after all the hopes that Ford would return, the word from Deadline is that Ford is officially returning to the role with Prisoners helmer Denis Villeneuve is also now in talks to direct after just recently wrapping his own new crime pic, Sicaro. Written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, the first film is set in November in the year 2019, with Ford in the role of semi-retired LAPD detective Rick Deckhard, who, in the course of being pulled back to duty as a “blade runner” to hunt down and “retire” rogue humanoid beings called “replicants” following a bloody mutiny […]

'The Force Awakens' With THE RAID 2 Actors Joining The Seventh STAR WARS Film

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Well, nobody within a range too distant from the production of J.J. Abrams‘s Star Wars: The Force Awakens saw this coming, but it appears that The Raid 2 principal stars, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian and Cecep Arif Rahman will have roles of their own in the film when it releases this December. There are no details as of yet, and it also comes as a major, MAJOR fucking surprise since their names were nowhere seen in previous reports. Nonetheless, it’s a big step up from a group that has seen its cult success rise from the recent fanbase grown stemming from the successes of director Gareth Huw Evans whose films have signaled a sizable resurgence for Indonesia’s film industry with the releases of coming-of-age martial arts drama, Merantau, and two of the currently developing Raid Trilogy. It’s also another huge foray further into the mainstream for Uwais and Ruhian, who themselves […]

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Launches Its Official Teaser!

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Move over, fake trailers! Fans can now get a glimpse of the official new teaser for director J.J. Abrams‘s new trilogy reboot, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, courtesy of Apple. The teaser is also getting a theatrical screening in select theaters as well, and with a little over a year longer before its release, the wheels are already turning with further developments expected for one of the upcoming Star Wars spin-offs from director Gareth Edwards and writer Gary Whitta, which may or may not make it a heist movie depending on whether or not you believe the latest rumors; That spin-off arrives on December 16, 2016, one year before Looper helmer Rian Johnson‘s take on the second of the new trilogy which is expected for a 2017 release. In the meantime, followers of this long-enduring franchise can expect more gems in the coming months regarding what the trilogy itself, in […]