world war ii

Peter Landesman To Helm WW2 Drama, THE LAST BATTLE

Concussion and newly-wrapped Felt helmer Peter Landesman is on deck to rewrite and direct World War II drama, The Last Battle. As Deadline reports, the film is inspired by Stephen Harding’s 2013 Da Capo Press bestseller, The Last Battle: When U.S. And German Soldiers Joined Forces In The Waning Hours Of World War II In Europe, wherein the film will focus on the latter end of World War II as American and Russian forces battled it out with Hitler’s NAZI army. via Da Capo Press: May, 1945. Hitler is dead, the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble, and no GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. The Last Battle tells the nearly unbelievable story of the unlikeliest battle of the war, when a small group of American tankers, led by Captain Lee, joined forces with German soldiers to fight off fanatical SS […]

'Metro Manila' Helmer To Direct WWII Assassination Thriller, ANTHROPOID With Jamie Dornan And Cillian Murphy Starring

Lee B. Golden III

Oscar and BAFTA-nominated British director Sean Ellis is coming off a great precursor with his 2013 foreign language crime drama, Metro Manila, which picked of a slew of 9 wins and 11 nominations within the film festival scene at the time. Nowadays and 14 years into his career with his own inspiration, Ellis can be found preparing to take his his newest directorial efforts on location to Prague, pitting him right in the middle of World War 2 in the new assassination thriller, Anthropoid, with actors Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy leading. Written by Ellis and co-scribe Anthony Frewin, the film title is a reference to the Allied forces operation in 1942 carried out by two British-trained Czech soldiers who parachuted into their homeland in what led to a nearly-failed mission to kill Reinhard Heydrich, a top official in Adolf Hitler’s NAZI regime nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague” for his […]

FURY Blasts Away With A Second Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Writer and director David Ayer‘s new World War II epic, Fury, started picking up some steam over the summer having already released a featurette and a first trailer back in late June. The new war drama from Sony Pictures has since continued making headlines this month with word of its official closing event premiere for the forthcoming London Film Festival, which launches on October 8 and ends on the 19th. Accordingly, its close will take place two days after the film opens in theaters just two days prior, moved from its previous date on November 14, and now the film has a second trailer to accompany its October date. SYNOPSIS: FURY is set at the very end of World War II, in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man […]

Brad Pitt Fights To The Bitter End In The New Trailer For FURY

Lee B. Golden III

After the upbeat response earned by E3 panel footage earlier this month, the first official trailer has arrived for Sabotage helmer David Ayer‘s epic war drama, Fury. Actor Brad Pitt leads the cast with story that centers on a war-torn, battle-fatigued tank squad in the firefight of their lives as they near the tail end of World War II. The center of much of the antipation, of course, centers on the gritty, explosive tank action that pits the odds against our principle cast with a desperate enemy, which should make for a lovely, plentiful set up for a Holiday blockbuster this November 14th in the U.S.. SYNOPSIS: FURY is set at the very end of World War II, in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a […]

Check Out The New IMAX Trailer For STALINGRAD 3D

Lee B. Golden III

Following a press release unveiled a few weeks ago, we now have a new IMAX trailer for next month’s one-week engagement of the upcoming blockbuster World War II epic, Stalingrad 3D from director Fedor Bondarchuk. The film is written by Ilya Tilkin and Sergey Snezhkin and stars the newly cast Avengers: Age Of Ultron actor Thomas Kretschmann along with Petr Fedorov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Mariya Smolnikova and Yanina Studilina. The film kicks off its one-week programming in IMAX theaters in North America on February 28, 2014. SYNOPSIS: Stalingrad is a drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of Stalingrad on the other side of the Volga, but the operation to cross the […]

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STALINGRAD 3D Set To Fire Away At North American IMAX Screens This February

Lee B. Golden III

Director Fedor Bondarchuk is touring the world in select countries to share his latest explosive venture in film with the forthcoming release of the World War II epic, Stalingrad 3D. Despite some mixed reviews, the film became the highest grossing movie upon its domestic theatrical Release in October. And through the help of its upcoming one-week engagement in North America through Sony (Columbia Pictures), Bondarchuk is ready to show the rest of us why. Ergo, the press release: Columbia Pictures will release Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad in the United States for a one-week exclusive engagement in IMAX 3D theatres nationwide on Feb. 28. The 3D World War II drama has recently become the highest-grossing Russian movie of all time, earning $66.1 million in its six-week theater run. Stalingrad, which is Russia’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film to the Academy Awards, is also the first Russian movie made completely in […]