sundance 2014

DEAD SNOW 2 Will Rise From Its Grave In North America Soon!

Writer and director Tommy Wirkola will wrap up the screening slate for his newest film, Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead this Friday at midnight. However, fans of zombie action and horror will be pleased to learn that Well Go USA has acquired the North American rights to the Norweigian bilingual follow-up film, which they will distribute theatrically entirely in English-language with a release date now pending. The film is the latest collaboration between XYZ Films, Tappeluft and The Fyzz, and follows up the events from its 2009 predecessor, actors and co-writers Vegar Hoel and Stig Frode Henriksen returning for the sequel which now sees its lead character, Martin (Hoel) back and ready to brawl with undead Nazi scum, with a littlen extra help. Martin Starr, Ørjan Gamst, Ingrid Haas and Jocelyn DeBoer round out the cast. The official IMDb page for Dead Snow: Red VS Dead currently dates the film’s […]

Adkins To Evans: "Put Me In 'The Raid 3'!"

Lee B. Golden III

Word has it that it’s pretty cool to be writer and director Gareth Evans right about now. Tuesday night’s premiere of his newest film, The Raid 2: Berandal, starring breakout action star Iko Uwais, is being met with an internet-full of praise and acclaim from Sundance Film Festival attendees and critics alike, basically reassuring fans everywhere that the film absolutely will not disappoint upon its release in March. That said, if you have been following Evans on Twitter for the past year or so, you were likely to catch a few blurbs every now and again between the director, and fellow martial arts action cinema superstar Scott Adkins mingling ideas between tweets, and probably on a much smaller scale than anything they might have discussed in private, if anything. Adkins became the center of much of support from his worldwide fan base with recent hopes Universal Pictures would cast him in […]

THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Lands North American Distribution

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Following news of its worldwide sales back in November of last year, Radius/TWC has officially now acquired the North American rights to director Timo Tjahjanto‘s latest collaborative efforts with Merantau Films and XYZ Films for the new film, The Night Comes For Us. The news arrives on the eve of the forthcoming premieres of two films from both partnering production companies, Tjahjanto‘s latest co-directorial action horror thriller, Killers with director Kimo Stamboel, and filmmaker Gareth Evans‘ upcoming sequel crime saga installment, The Raid 2: Berandal. The Night Comes For Us sees action star Joe Taslim (The Raid, Fast And Furious 6) leading the way as a gangland enforcer named Ito who returns from a stint abroad, and is forced to deal with internal war brewing in his own local crime family while plotting its own campaign of territorial expansion. The film will reunite several names from The Raid franchise, which […]

New NZ/Australia Release Date + Win Sundance Tickets To See THE RAID 2: BERANDAL

Lee B. Golden III

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THE RAID 2 Director Bids Thanks, Tweets Final Stages Of Post Production

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Sweet fucking mayhem – car chase mix is sounding pretty amazing. Your heads will explode. #TheRaid2Berandal — Gareth Evans (@ghuwevans) January 16, 2014 Gareth Evans, the ever humble and hard working writer and director of the second installment of his growing martial arts crime saga, The Raid 2: Berandal, took to Twitter this week to announce the final stages of post production on his new film, bidding a heartfelt thanks to the post production crew who have worked tirelessly to get the film done in time for its three-night premiere at the Sundance Film Festival beginning on January 21. Earlier on, Evans reflected a little bit more on the earlier conception of the new film then-titled “Berandal” which originally meant to be something entirely different in following up his previous success with Merantau, which would further catapult its lead actor, Iko Uwais to martial arts cinema stardom. “4yrs ago..” he […]

The Latest Teaser For DEAD SNOW: RED VS. DEAD Takes You Down With One Swing!

Lee B. Golden III

While Halloween isn’t for another ten months, it’s never too late for moviegoers to check out a zombie flick on the big screen-a point made invariably with the forthcoming four-night Park City At Midnight premiere of writer and director Tommy Wirkola‘s sequelized Norwegian Nazi zombie slasher gem, Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead. Following up the events from its 2009 predecessor, actors and co-writers Vegar Hoel and Stig Frode Henriksen return for the sequel which sees its lead character, Martin (Hoel) back and ready to brawl with undead Nazi scum. Martin Starr, Ørjan Gamst, Ingrid Haas and Jocelyn DeBoer round out the cast. The film is reportedly set to hit the U.S. on February 14, 2014. SYNOPSIS: If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified […]

Watch The Final Trailer For KILLERS!

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Ahead of its four-night run at this year’s Sundance Film Festival premiering January 20, 2014, we have a final trailer for the “Mo” Brothers’ upcoming thriller, Killers. The latest collabroation between Nikkatsu, Merantau Films, Guerilla Merah Films and XYZ Films, Killers presents a bone-chilling international story of two men from different areas engaged in an online bromance made in murderous, bloody hell. Set for a theatrical release in Japan and Indonesia on February 1 and 9, respectively, Killers stars Kazuki Kitamura and The Raid 2: Berandal‘s Oka Antara, with Rin Takanashi, Luna Maya and Ray Sahetapy. The film was written by Takuji Ushiyama, and produced and directed by Kimo Stamboel, and co-writer Timo Tjahjanto. SYNOPSIS: Mr. Nomura is an eerily handsome, sharply dressed, sociopathic serial killer who preys on the women of Tokyo. In Jakarta, a world-weary journalist named Bayu finds himself unexpectedly falling into vigilantism after brutally killing two […]

Joe Taslim Goes MMA In A New Fight Choreo Clip For THE NIGHT COMES FOR US

Lee B. Golden III

While director Timo Tjahjanto continues to promote his latest co-directorial action/horror effort with fellow “Mo Brother” Kimo Stamboel titled Killers, things are still set in motion for Tjahjanto‘s own solo contribution as helmer of the latest collaboration between Merantau Films and XYZ Films for The Night Comes For Us. Some details have already been ironed out, including the plot, where we rising international action star Joe Taslim (The Raid, Fast And Furious 6) return to form, this time portraying a Gangland Enforcer named Ito who comes home to Jakarta after a stint abroad, and is forced to deal with internal war brewing in his own local crime family while plotting its own campaign of territorial expansion. In addition, we also learned in November that while actor Yayan Ruhian will be starring in the film, filmmaker Gareth Huw Evans (The Raid, The Raid 2: Berandal) has been previously reported to be […]

Gareth Evans Drops Details On THE RAID 2: BERANDAL Trailer And THE RAID 3

Lee B. Golden III

“@GaelicMohawk: The Raid 2 is gonna make me shit everywhere” I tend not to RT but this one I simply have to. — Gareth Evans (@ghuwevans) January 7, 2014 Back in December of last year, filmmaker Gareth Evans hosted a brief Twitter Q&A where among a few other things, he acknowledged his composers, Fajar Yuskemal, Aria Prayogi and Joe Trapanese for their work on the score for his upcoming film, The Raid 2: Berandal, in addition to somewhat jokingly teasing a three-figure bodycount. Evans also addressed Film Combat Syndicate’s inquiry on how soon The Raid 3 would begin production, tweeting “I have a basic outline for part 3 – depends on how part 2 does, maybe 2017.”. A new report from Dark Horizons now lists a series of tweets that partly expand just a tiny bit on what lies ahead for the third film according to Evans‘ most recent tweets. […]

Chords Of Violence And Chaos In The New International Trailer For THE RAID 2: BERANDAL

Lee B. Golden III

Arriving on March 28, 2014 in Indonesia and North America courtesy of Sony Pictures and Stage 6 Films is writer and director Gareth Evans‘s latest installment to his epic martial arts action crime saga, The Raid 2: Berandal. Building on the film’s four year premise, the film kicks off two hours after the events of the first film, The Raid (2011), with actor Iko Uwais returning to lead the cast among a list of new players added to the perils of one cop’s life-or-death undercover mission to infiltrate a Jakarta crime syndicate and flush out the corruption of his police force in exchange for his family’s safety. The film will be kicking off the new year at the Sundance Film Festival for four nights, before it goes stateside. So stay tuned for further trailer news as things are just getting started. A production of Merantau Films and XYZ Films, The […]

[UPDATED] FAN ART: Julie Estelle As "Hammer Girl" In THE RAID 2: BERANDAL

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UPDATE – 12/16: It has been confirmed that the artist behind the fan poster is Lloyd Stas. Special thanks to XYZ Films own Simon de Bruyn for the head’s up! Fan art continues to be a driving force for fans and followers of many popular properties such as movies, and director Gareth Evans‘s upcoming urban martial arts thriller epic, The Raid 2: Berandal is no exception, having seen its own fair share of unofficial fan-originated artwork from time to time. A lot of this kind of artwork simply goes viral without mention of its creator, which is kind of unfortunate considering that I would love to credit the person who forwarded this latest bit of art onto the internet to ultimately land in the hands of XYZ Films’s own, producer Nate Bolotin, which you can check out below, emulating actess Julie Estelle as “Hammer Girl” XYZ Films is currently in […]

Updates On XYZ With The Raid 2, Killers And The Dead Lands

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This week, Deadline is reporting that writer and director Gareth Evans’s upcoming film, The Raid 2: Berandal, will be joining the line-up for this year’s events at the Sundance Film Festival, which will be held at Park City, Utah between January 16th and the 26th of next year. In light of the news, the folks over at Comic Book Movie also forwarded a new image of from the film which you can view below featuring actress Julie Estelle as “Hammer Girl”. The Raid 2 follows up the epic, action-packed story from its 2011 predecessor, The Raid (a.k.a. Seruban Maut) starring Iko Uwais reprising his role as a rookie tactical officer who now must go deep undercover to fish out the corruption in his own police force. Currently tapped for a March 2014 release prior to a third film as part of a preiously announced trilogy tentatively set for 2017, the […]