VIOLENT NIGHT Sequel Reunites Team From The First Hit Installment Ahead Of December 2026 Release
David Harbour will return for more hard-hitting Christmas cheer!
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Christmas Comes Early With The Announcement Of A VIOLENT NIGHT Sequel
The creative team behind one of last year’s biggest hits is coming back for more with The Wrap’s Drew Taylor reporting limited details confirming a sequel to Tommy Wirkola’s Violent Night. The report defers to quotes from Wirkola who verified the return of lead actor David Harbour in the role of a kick-ass Norse mythology-based Santa Claus who in the first film descends with a vengeance on a gang of home invaders led by John Leguizamo. Wirkola on the production status so far: “We have time to really crack the script and figure out the story,” Wirkola said. “And we have some ideas, me and Pat and Josh and the producers, we’ve been talking about where we want to take it and what we want to see.” That would be Pat Casey and Josh Miller who Wirkola is referring to as the writing duo will also be charged with the […]
David Harbour Serves Up A Seasons Beatings In VIOLENT NIGHT
Christmas has certainly come early for film goers with “Violent Night” being released in the cinemas Worldwide. Produced by David Leitch’s stunt driven 87North Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. Directed by Tommy Wirkola, Starring Stranger Things David Harbour as the big man in red and John Legiuzamo as the main antagonist aptly code named in the film Scrooge, supporting cast members are Beverly D’Angelo, Alex Hassell, Alexis Louder and someone to keep an eye out for Leah Brady who plays the sweet innocent girl who still believes in Santa. Poster Courtesy Of Universal Pictures UK The official synopsis – When a group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family, Santa Claus must step in to save the day (and Christmas). Check out the action packed adrenaline fuelled noel themed trailer below. In the opening sequence you are introduced to a haggard old Santa at a bar drinking […]
VIOLENT NIGHT: Time For Some Seasons Beatings In The Official Trailer!
Geez Louise, if anyone told me years ago that Stranger Things would have been a great time to start keeping an eye on David Harbour in a spell of action performances, you could have fooled me! Welp, since then he’s battled demons in the hit Netflix series as well as in the title role of Neil Marshall’s Hellboy and now we get a brand new look at the actor touting his Holiday best for genre favorite Tommy Wirkola in Christmas actioner, Violent Night. The official trailer is up above ahead of the film’s December release from Universal, so check it out and for all else, read below! To hell with “all is calm.” From 87North, the bare-knuckle producers of Nobody, John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw comes a coal-dark holiday action-comedy that says you should always bet on red. When […]
VIOLENT NIGHT: David Harbour’s Santa Sends Off A Merry Death Stare In The First Poster
Christmas has arrived early as folks looking forward to Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola’s upcoming action thriller, Violent Night, now gets a full facial of everyone’s favorite pissed-off Santa, actor David Harbour, in the official poster from Universal Pictures on Wednesday. Directed by Wirkola from a script by Pat Casey and Josh Miller, the film centers on Harbour stars as Saint Nick himself who must step in and save the day when mercenaries descend unto the estate of a wealthy family. The film also stars John Leguizamo, Beverly D’Angelo, Alex Hassell, Alexis Louder, Edi Patterson, Cam Gigandet, and André Eriksen. Pic hails from 87North, (Nobody, John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw) and is produced by Kelly McCormick and David Leitch. Universal Pictures will release the film in all territories on December 2, 2022. Peep the poster below!
THE TRIP: Noomi Rapace And Askel Hennie Are All Tied Up In The Official U.S. Trailer
Considering the raft of titles Netflix has been housing with actress Noomi Rapace front and center, it does make sense that the streamer would eventually nab her most recent pairing with actor Askel Hennie for black home invasion comedy, The Trip. She rejoins director Tommy Wirkola who previously directed her on What Happened To Monday, a sci-fi actioner I really enjoyed and one that certainly put Rapace on my radar as a screen action talent who shouldn’t be looked over. Best of all is The Trip is just five days away from its launch as of this post, so check out the trailer from last week and set the date for October 15. Lars (Aksel Hennie) and Lisa (Noomi Rapace) have lost much of the love that brought them together in the first place. Now, they’re struggling to maintain their marriage, and their ambitions. Lars’ career as a director has […]
THE TRIP Trailer: Noomi Rapace And Askel Hennie Battle Irreconcilable Differences And Criminals In Tommy Wirkola’s New Action Comedy
It’s safe to say that if Noomi Rapace hasn’t yet earned a place in your roster for action fandom and entertainment, you don’t deserve her. The star of the Millenium trilogy as well as actioners Bright and Close is already on deck for more thrills between now and next year, including having since reconvened with her What Happened To Monday? director Tommy Wirkola for their latest offering, The Trip (I Onde Dager). The film was announced back in September with XYZ Films financing the pic and launching sales out of the Toronto International Film Festival, with Nordisk Film Distribution handling its local release. It also stars Atle Antonsen, and headlines Rapace with actor Askel Hennie who last appeared with Ruby Rose and Jean Reno in Ryuhei Kitamura’s actioner, Doorman, and has Wirkola directing from a script he wrote with Nick Ball and John Niven. The film will follow a dysfunctional […]
THE FATHER: Donnie Yen, Alec Baldwin, Frank Grillo Star In New Action Thriller Shooting Early 2021
Donnie Yen (Ip Man franchise) will star in The Father, according to Variety‘s Manori Ravindran. AGC International has acquired international sales rights on the action thriller which will launch for buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival as of Thursday this week. CAA Media Finance will handle U.S. distribution rights for the film as cameras get ready to roll early next year. Also casting Alec Baldwin (Mission: Impossible franchise) and Frank Grillo (Beyond Skyline), The Father is set in South Boston, and centers on Yen in the role of “middle-class Hong Kong immigrant John Chung, who is making the best of his family’s new life in America while working as a modest fish broker in the city’s docklands. When his teenage sons stumble upon four kilos of heroin and are hunted down by a local crime ring and corrupt cops, Chung must stop at nothing to protect them.” Tommy Wirkola […]
WAR PIGS: Gibson, Farrell Cast For ‘Dead Snow’ Helmer’s Revenge Thriller
Tommy Wirkola (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Dead Snow, Dead Snow 2, What Happened To Monday?) will direct Millemium Films action thriller, War Pigs. Nick Ball and John Niven wrote the script stemming from its previous life as The Takedown with production set to comnence in October. As Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline noted on Tuesday, Mel Gibson and Colin Farrell will respectively star as The Pastor and Drex – members of a group of disillusioned ex-marines who wage vengeance against the multi-national drug cartel that killed one of their own and made off with millions of dollars in drug money. The film’s previous existence titlted it as The Takedown in the form of a Tarantino-esque thriller according to The Tracking Board in 2014. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian will produce at di Bonaventura Productions, along with Matt Berenson. Gibson’s next production stop afterward will be WWII action film, […]
WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY: Good Question, Great Trailer
Leave it to Dead Snow and Dead Snow 2 helmer Tommy Wirkola to set the tone accordingly with a dystopian tale that centers actress Noomi Rapace right in the thick of it all. What Happened To Monday is set to premiere on August 18 on Netflix and with a full-fledged trailer in its wake as of a week ago which I’m only just now catching wind of. Set in a not so distant future (2073) burdened by overpopulation, with a global one child per family policy, seven identical sisters (portrayed by Noomi Rapace) live a cat-and-mouse existence pretending to be a single person to elude the Child Allocation Bureau. This was a delightful find and will surely bode as an alternative to viewers looking for an competitive alternative as it opens opposite new superhero series, The Defenders that day. What Happened To Monday joins Rapace with Willem Dafoe, Glenn Close, Robert […]
Catch The Official U.S. Trailer For DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS. DEAD
Cult action horror director Tommy Wirkola‘s latest cinematic contribution with Dead Snow 2: Red Vs Dead has been nothing short of a celebrated favorite among film festival goers since the top of the year, and is soon set to take its place at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. However, if you’re going to be in Texas this week, then you’re in luck, as the film will also be kicking things off over at Fantastic Fest this Thursday, and here is how festival contributor Luke Mullen presents it: Picking up right where the first film left off, Martin narrowly escapes Colonel Herzog and his horde of Nazi zombies, losing his arm in the process. But Martin’s troubles are just beginning. When he wakes up in the hospital, the police believe that he was the one who killed everyone at the cabin. Not only that, but the doctors have accidentally reattached […]
TADFF 2014: New Trailer For DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS. DEAD Delivers Festive Zombie Anarchy!
Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola‘s new zombie apocalypse follow-up, Dead Snow 2: Red Vs. Dead has been making the film festival rounds all year and the reviews have been upbeat thusfar. The film is finally getting a limited theatrical North American release on October 10 from Well Go USA, prior to its upcoming appearance at this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Festival which kicks off a week later. SYNOPSIS: The gruesome army of awakened Nazi Zombies from fan favourite DEAD SNOW once again return to terrorize the Norwegian countryside! In this crowd-pleasing zombie action comedy follow-up, Martin, the sole survivor of the first movie, must join forces with an American zombie hunter (cult favourite FREAKS AND GEEKS’ Martin Starr) and a reanimated squad of dead Russians if he is to try to defeat the undead Nazi horde and their evil commander! Actors and co-writers Vegar Hoel and Stig Frode Henriksen return […]
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 […]
The Latest Teaser For DEAD SNOW: RED VS. DEAD Takes You Down With One Swing!
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 […]
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