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- Lee Byung-Hun drops out of John Woo’s ‘Manhunt’
- 80′s style illustrated poster for Kurando Mitsutake’s ‘Karate Kill’
- Well Go USA pulls XYZ Films’ thriller out of the ‘River’
- Code of Honor | Blu-ray & DVD (Lionsgate)
- Aaron Kwok is having ‘A Hard Day’ in ‘Perpetrators’
| Lee Byung-Hun drops out of John Woo’s ‘Manhunt’ Posted: 10 May 2016 01:00 AM PDT  "Manhunt" Japanese Theatrical Poster John Woo, the man behind action classics such as A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Bullet in the Head and Hard Boiled, is finally making a return to the genre that made him an internationally acclaimed director. After years making Hollywood films and big budget Chinese epics like Red Cliff and the recent The Crossing, Woo is going to remake the 1976 Japanese classic action thriller Manhunt (starring the late Ken Takakura), which is the story of a man who is accused of multiple crimes and trying desperately to clear his name. According to AD (via Kevin Ma), Zhang Hanyu (The Taking of Tiger Mountain), Lee Byung-Hun (I Saw the Devil) and Ha Ji-Won (Sector 7) are attached to the project. Masaharu Fukuyama (Suspect X) is currently in talks to join as well. Filming for Manhunt will begin later this year. The film will be set and shot in Japan; and feature Chinese, English and Korean dialogue. Media Asia is distributing the film with an attached release date set for 2017 (via Martin Sandison). Until we have more details, don’t miss the film’s teaser poster here. Updates: According to AFS, Lee Byung-Hun has dropped out of Manhunt, due to scheduling conflicts. |
| 80′s style illustrated poster for Kurando Mitsutake’s ‘Karate Kill’ Posted: 10 May 2016 12:00 AM PDT  "Karate Kill" Theatrical Poster When a mysterious loner and Karate master Kenji’s little sister goes missing in Los Angeles, whoever stands in his way of finding her will face the wrath of a lethal Karate Kill! That’s the plot for Karate Kill, an upcoming martial arts movie by Kurando Mitsutake (Gun Woman). The film stars Hayate, Asami (Prison Girl), Kamata Noriaki (Gun Woman), Jeffrey James Lippold (Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf), Carlee Baker (L.A. Slasher), WWE’s Katarina Leigh Baker and Akihiro Kitamura (Why Don’t You Play in Hell?). Don’t miss the film’s first teaser Trailer. Updates: A new, 80s-style, illustrated poster has emerged (via Twitch).
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| Well Go USA pulls XYZ Films’ thriller out of the ‘River’ Posted: 09 May 2016 12:00 AM PDT  "River" Theatrical Poster This July, Well Go USA is releasing XYZ Films’ (The Raid 2) River on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD. In River, American doctor John Lake (Sutherland), volunteering in the north of Laos, becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. When the assailant’s body is pulled from the Mekong River, things quickly spiral out of control. River is directed by Jamie M. Dagg and starring Rossif Sutherland (High Life), Ted Atherton (Max Payne), Sara Botsford (The Fog), and Vithaya Pansringarm (Lupin the Third). "It's terrific when we can find a film so riveting, it holds on to you from beginning to end," said Doris Pfardrescher, President and CEO of Well Go USA Entertainment. "That gripping tension is what's so exciting about it – [Sutherland] is so raw, and so believable, that you really want to see him escape, and the tension just builds and builds – it’s nearly claustrophobic. I was really impressed," she said. The film is currently scheduled for a Summer 2016 theatrical release. Don’t miss the teaser trailer for River. |
| Code of Honor | Blu-ray & DVD (Lionsgate) Posted: 09 May 2016 12:00 AM PDT  Code of Honor | Blu-ray & DVD (Lionsgate) RELEASE DATE: July 5, 2016 Lionsgate presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Steven Seagal’s Code of Honor, written and directed by Michael Winnick (Guns, Girls and Gambling). Code of Honor also stars Craig Sheffer (A River Runs Through It), Helena Mattsson (Iron Man 2), James Russo (Once Upon A Time in America), Louis Mandylor (The Quest), Griff Furst (The Green Lantern) and Rafael Petardi (Freezer). When his family is killed in a drive-by shooting, Robert Sikes (Seagal), a former special-ops operative, vows to rid his city of every last criminal. Sikes' former protégé, FBI agent Porter (Sheffer), with help from a witness (Mattsson), tries to find his vigilante friend before the police—or the maniacal mobster Romano—are able to. | Watch the trailer. Stay tuned for pre-order information! |
| Aaron Kwok is having ‘A Hard Day’ in ‘Perpetrators’ Posted: 09 May 2016 12:00 AM PDT  "A Hard Day" Theatrical Poster Aaron Kwok (Monk Comes Down the Mountain) is currently hard-at-work on Perpetrators, a Chinese remake of the 2014 Korean thriller, A Hard Day. Wang Qianyuan (Brotherhood of the Blades) co-stars. If Perpetrators is anything like the original, here’s what you can expect: In a 24 hour period, a detective (originally played by Lee Sun-Hyun) receives a divorce notice from his wife; next, his mother passes away; he then becomes the focus of a police investigation; to make matters worse, on the way to his mother's funeral, he commits a fatal hit and run… Updates: Here’s the first look Kwok in Perpetrators (via AFS), which is currently shooting in Malaysia. |
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