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Arch Angels | Blu-ray & DVD (Section 23) Posted: 05 May 2016 12:00 AM PDT Arch Angels | Blu-ray & DVD (Sentai Filmworks) RELEASE DATE: July 5, 2016 Sentai Filmworks presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Issei Oda’s Arch Angels, a 2006 action/fantasy based on 1987′s Warau Michael, a manga written by Izumi Kawahara. Arch Angels revolves around a group of misfit high school students who become infused with super powers. The film stars Juri Ueno (Kung Fu Kun), Megumi Seki (Sword of Desperation), Airi Taira (20th Century Boys: Chapter 1), Yusuke Iseya (13 Assassins) and Rinko Kikuchi (Pacific Rim). Pre-order Arch Angels from Amazon.com today!

Korea’s answer to ‘World War Z’? All aboard the ‘Train to Busan’ Posted: 04 May 2016 12:00 AM PDT "Train to Busan" Theatrical Poster A new movie that revolves around a zombie outbreak is hitting South Korea. The upcoming thriller, directed by Yeon Sang-ho (The King of Pigs), follows a group of survivors – led by The Suspect’s Gong Yoo – who attempt to escape their town city by catching a train to Busan, hence the film’s title, Train to Busan. However, there seems to be a shade of controversy surrounding the film’s creative origin. Filmmaker Arne Venema claims Train to Busan has been ripped off from a treatment he submitted to a film fund in Busan, 2 years ago. Venema had this to say on Facebook: “A year or two ago I submitted a treatment package to a film fund in Busan, Korea. The treatment was a horror film which focused around people going to a football game and then getting attacked on the train back by zombie like hooligans. We (Derrick Fong, who was the DP to be, and I) went as far as shooting promotional material. While Tony Salvaggio and myself wrote a very detailed outline/treatment, character descriptions, etc. The feedback we received from that very treatment was initially very positive telling us that the idea was very original, as well as exciting and at the time was very close to being funded; HOWEVER, the committee (which had some known producers and directors on it) later decided it wasn’t looking for exploitation films that year, and wanted to go for a more art house type film instead. Today, Mike Leeder shows me this trailer and it pretty much is the film I wrote. They even went as far as calling the film Escape from Busan. Never submitting anything again to a fund.” Even Leeder, a well known actor, casting director and producer – particularly in the Asian/martial arts film scene – wrote this comment: “This [trailer] looks suspiciously like a project young Arne Venema submitted to the Asian Cinema Funding programme at Busan a few years back. If the above is true, here’s hoping Venema gets the proper credit he deserves. Train to Busan hits theaters this Summer. Check out the film’s first trailer (via Paul Bramhall).

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