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Tom Arnold has joined the cast of writer, producer, and director Rohit Karn Batra’s drama “The Gun on Second Street.”

The film, for which Storyboard Media launched international sales during last year’s Cannes Film Market, is produced by Guy J. Louthan of Ransom Films with Rikin Shah serving as one of the executive producers.

An allegory of the gun crisis in the United States, “The Gun on Second Street” follows two Pittsburgh police partners and best friends who are called to an uneventful domestic violence dispute on Second Street. This quickly escalates to a violent scuffle as Officer Tj Meadows III accidentally shoots and kills his partner, Officer Kevin Cooper, with his backup gun. Years later, no longer a cop and still traumatized, Tj moves back to Pittsburgh and finds his way to Kevin’s widow, Kacie. Arnold will take on the role of Police Chief Richard “Dick” Steinberger,...

To play a character, an actor has to empathize with them. How does Charlie Cox connect with Matt Murdock/Daredevil, who he's played (noncontinuously) since 2015?

In a Reddit Ama conducted by Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio, Cox was asked, "Are there any parts of Daredevil's personality that you also see in yourself?"

He answered: "In our show, we get to see Matt Murdock experience great inner conflict and doubt over what he is doing. Hopefully, that makes him seem more human and is something that I relate to a great deal."

Cox doesn't specify how he relates to Matt's internal conflict, but I have an educated guess. Like his character, Cox is a Catholic. In 2011, he starred in the film "There Be Dragons" as Father Josemaría Escrivá, the priest who founded the Catholic sect Opus Dei. Cox also told the blog Patheos in 2016 that playing Matt got him to think about his own Catholicism more.

Stars: Raymond E. Lee, Juan Cruz Rolla, Camila Pizzo, Laura Casale, Zhongbo Li Zhang | Written by Santiago Fernández Calvete | Directed by Federico Finkielstain

Ghost Project, also known as Side Project and Paranormal Encounters in the UK, begins with a trio of ghost hunters equipped with a device that looks like an old video camera crossed with one of the rifles from Aliens investigating a factory that was the scene of a deadly fire. They find quite a few ghosts who don’t seem too happy to be found, blinding Mike by making his glasses explode and dragging the other two into the darkness.

Brian recently lost his girlfriend Ellen in a car accident. Unable to deal with it, he uses VR to talk to an avatar of her. But since it can’t talk back, the result is creepy in all the wrong ways. While testing an improved version of...

Paris-based sales boutique Alpha Violet has acquired Spanish filmmaker Victor Iriarte’s directorial debut, “Foremost by Night” (“Sobre Todo de Noche”).

Described as a noir story with a political background, “Foremost by Night” revolves around two women who meet for the first time, one who was forced to give up her newborn child for adoption when she was young, the other who, unable to bare children of her own, adopted a child she raised as her own.

The film, which stars Ana Torrent, Lola Dueñas and Manuel Egozkue, was among this year’s winners at the Malaga Film Festival’s Work in Progress awards, where it secured the Latido Films distribution prize and the Aracne Digital Cinema award for post production services.

The Spanish-Portuguese-French co-production was produced by Spain’s La Termita, Inicia Films, Atekaleun and Csc Films; Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes; and 4A4 Productions in France. The film also shot in all three countries,...

Mexican producer-director Iria Gómez Concheiro is unveiling at Guadalajara “Here Be Dragons,” a co-production between her own label Ciudad Cinema – alongside exec producer Rodrigo Ríos Legaspi – and Colombia’s Trilce Cinema, with Alejandro Rey and Claudia Sánchez.

Set in a vaguely anachronistic 2040, “Here Be Dragons” is a sci-fi drama-adventure movie which follows 18-year old Candelaria as she tries to survive an uncertain, devastated country where sinister military forces rule.

Fearing an imminent barbaric invasion, Candelaria flees from her father and a chaotic, brutal regime, while undertaking an initiatory trip to unveil the truth about love and this menace. The title refers to the Latin inscription “hic sunt dracones” (dragons are here) used on old navigational maps to signal unexplored or dangerous areas.

Project “Here Be Dragons” wil be prsented at the Guadalajara Festival Co-Production Meetings from Sunday.

Previously it has been put through the Morelia Lab, where it won a special mention,...

A TV series about the Wwi spy Mata Hari, directed by Roland Joffe, is one of two projects that adorn the debut slate of new production company Palanquin. Noir-thriller “Call Center” completes the initial line up.

Palanquin is jointly headed by producer Guy Louthan and Joffe. The company will focus on producing Southeast Asian projects including India-based film and television projects.

Joffe believes that that the true story of Mata Hari is more bizarre than the lurid reputation that she has since attracted as an exotic dancer and spy. To be produced by John Fitzgerald and Julian Grimmond (“The Amazing Race”), “Mata Hari” is structured as an eight-part series that charts the extraordinary life of Magritte, a Dutch girl who escaped an abusive childhood, fled to the Far East with a brilliant but manipulative adventurer who was more than twice her age, and was sucked into the world of espionage,...

Roland Joffe will direct the independent mobster drama “The Legitimate Wiseguy,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Joffe received Academy Award nominations for best director for “The Killing Fields” and “The Mission,” which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986. He also helmed “The Scarlet Letter,” “The Forgiven,” “City of Joy,” “Time Traveller,” and “There Be Dragons.”

“The Legitimate Wiseguy” is based on the true coming-of-age story of veteran writer/producer Nicholas Celozzi, and centers on his relationship with Tony Spilotro, a mob enforcer who was the inspiration behind Joe Pesci’s character of Nicholas “Nicky” Santoro in Martin Scorsese’s 1995 film “Casino.” Spilotro was murdered in 1986.

“Though Tony and I had a father-son relationship, I was playing checkers while he was playing chess,” Celozzi said. “He was always many moves ahead of me.”

Monaco Films is founded by Celozzi and partner Michael Sportelli, who will co-produce “The...

As The Expanse enters the final three episodes of the season, the scope of the universe continues to expand while our far-flung character’s paths begin to intersect. This continues tonight with Here There Be Dragons, the eleventh episode of the season. Syfy’s episode description simply reads “Bobbie makes a decision that changes her life forever”. While Bobbie is a fan favorite character for readers of the novels, up until this point in the show she has been very difficult to connect with. Sure, she is a badass Martian marine but her hyper-nationalism and aloofness as well as being apart from the main story...read more...

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After spending the 1970's in television, Roland Joffé burst onto the scene with back-to-back critical hits with The Killing Fields (1984) (winning three Oscars from seven nominations) and The Mission (1986) (winning one Oscar from seven nominations)--a sophomore slump anyone might be proud of. Both films set in exotic locals during a periods of socio-political upheaval and both are marvelous. Then things go quiet, critically speaking, with incredible speed. Last I caught up with Joffé was There Be Dragons (2011) set during the Spanish Civil War--seemingly tailor-made for triumph--but failing to provide much of an impression of that little-covered topic because of his dedication to a oft-formulated love story. His latest outing is The Lovers (2015), which IMDb incredibly claims was released theatrically, about an exotic location during a period of socio-political upheaval that is, as the title may suggest, overshadowed by a oft-formulated love story.

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Here at the Guadalajara Film Festival (Ficg), Verónica Cura is presenting her latest film, "Death in Buenos Aires" ("Muerte en Buenos Aires"), an Argentine policier. She is also meeting with her international sales agent, Film Factory, the Mexican distributor and the director, first-timer Natalia Meta. The film stars Demian Bichir, Chino Darin , Monica Antonopulos , Carlos Casella , Hugo Arana, Jorgelina Aruzzi , Emilio Disi, Fabián Arenillas, Humberto Tortonese, Gino Renni , Wullich Martin and Luisa Kuliok.

After one month in release in Argentina, it has racked up admissions which is astonishing for a first feature with no TV backing. Its returns were greater than 2014 and first semester 2015’s hit by Daniel Burman, " The Mystery of Happiness" ("El misterio de la felicidad”) .

One of Argentina’s top producers, Verónica Cura ’s opinions on the business and on the importance of education are crucial to understanding what is happening in Latin American production today. Not only does she teach about film production from an artistic and organizational perspective, starting from the moment the idea takes hold, to project development, to shooting and all the way to theatrical exhibition, but her productions are seminal to the cinema of Argentina.

Vero started working in 1992 as a director and head of production. In 2001 she began producing her own films. From 2007 to 2009 she was President of the Association of Independent Producers and Vice President of the Chamber of Film Producers from 2009 to 2011. Veronica has been Vice President of the Argentina Productions Companies Union from 2011 to 2013 .

She was the line producer on 2009’s U.S.- Spain coproduction "There Be Dragons" directed by Roland Joffe. Her credits go as far back as the 1995 film “Moebius" and the 1993 documentary "Radio Olmos," both directed by Gustavo Mosquera. She has been involved in films such as "The Headless Woman" ("La Mujer Sin Cabeza") by Lucrecia Martel (Cannes Competition), "The Other" by Ariel Rotter (Berlinale winner of two Silver Bears and the Jury Grand Prize).

She was executive producer on "Las Acacias" by Pablo Giogelli (Camera D’Or, Cannes 2011), an Argentina–Spain coproduction, as well as "Whisky Romeo Zulu" … and many many more including "One Love" ("Un Amor") by Paula Hernandez in 2011, "In the Eyes Abides the Heart" by Mary Sweeney, a short for Turner Classics Channel, all directed by women, which is something of importance in today’s world. She also produced "Live-in Maid" by Jorge Gaggero (Sundance Special Jury Prize), "Torrent 3" by Santiago Segura, "The Dead and Being Happy" by Javier Rebolla and "The Game Maker" by John Paul Buscarini, among others.

She was the Academic Coordinator for Production at Enerc and teaches in different labs and schools throughout Latin America. She is also a former student of La Fuc. Most recently she spent 1 1/2 weeks in Cuba at the International Film School (Eictv) giving a week's seminar and working with a director and two writers on scripts as part of a new Doctorate program for screenwriters.

"Regarding The film business today, as in every part of the world, cinema in Argentina is facing new challenges. Only about 20% of the theaters remain Un-digitized. Producers must be thinking about budgets, distribution and new forms of exhibition."...

There be dragons here. Simple and wonderfully effective is this final poster — known as Key Art — for Game of Thrones season 5. This is the final impression that HBO would like to leave us with before the show returns to our television screens on April 12. Guess what, they want us all to know that this season is fraught with danger. Big, fire-breathing danger. Standing right in front of all that danger is everyone’s favorite, Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage). There is still much to learn about this upcoming fifth season and we’ll undoubtedly have plenty to say before it airs, so for now let’s just enjoy this poster. It’s grand, it’s moody and it evokes the dangerous territory that lies ahead (even for book readers).

"This Game of Thrones Season 5 Poster is a Monster" was originally published on Film School Rejects for our wonderful readers to enjoy. It...

What pleasures await in Panama! As part of the invited press corps, I attended the first ever Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano where I met numerous journalists from all over the world, though most particularly from Latin America.

As part of the expanded International Film Festival of Panama, running April 3 to 9, 2014, the Platinum Awards Ceremony was held in the huge Convention Center Theater just across from the Sheraton where we were given four days.

Watch this compendium of Iberoamerican cinema on You Tube: http://youtu.be/VXxgtudHzz0 (or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXxgtudHzz0)

The old city of Panama is undergoing extensive modernization and gentrification. When finished, it may look a beautiful as Cartagena…both are Colonial styles, but there is unbearable traffic in the Panama streets which was not the case in Cartagena. The city not only reveals layers and layers of history, from the indigenous days to the Spanish days of conquest and colonialism where it was the starting point of the quest to conquer the Incas, to the days when all the gold and silver of Latin America passed through the isthmus here on its way to Spain, to the first 80 years of independence from Spain as a part of Colombia, from its independence from Colombia with the aid of the U.S., to the days when the French attempted to build the Panama Canal followed by the early 20th Century when U.S. succeeded, to those days of Noriega which U.S. terminated by invading Panama in Operation Just Cause under Commander in Chief George W. Bush in 1989, to today when you can see the capital of the world pouring into the economy, building massive sky scrapers and restoring the old town to its colonial and later French splendor.

What struck me most after the horrible traffic, were the fabulous artisanal goods, of embroidery, straw weaving, bone carvings, gourds, panama hats! This picture of a Guna woman is an example of one of many selling their wares in rich markets. I could spend a lot of money here if and when I return!

The Panamanian economy has been among the fastest growing and best managed in Latin America. Latin Business Chronicle had previously predicted that Panama would be the fastest growing economy in Latin America in the five-year period of 2010–14, matching Brazil's 10% rate. This was obvious from our tour. The expansion project of the Panama Canal, combined with the conclusion of a free trade agreement with the United States, is expected to boost and extend economic expansion for some time.

The Panama Canal during an empty moment, as shot by me from the terrace. We saw ships going through as well. In 2014, 100 years after its establishment, a new canal will allow larger container ships to transport goods between the two largest oceans in the world. This literally positions Panama as the trade crossroads of the world and it is experiencing an investment surge which astounds the first time visitor (like me!)

After our tour of Panama City and the night we were feted after taking another tour of the Panama Canal, we had dinner and a Festival party on the terrace overlooking it.

Panama’s film history is null, but it is quickly being rectified by Jose Pacheco, the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and also the President of the Panama Film Commission, along with his one-woman band, Arianne Marie Benedetti who has taken maternity leave for the moment.

They are responsible for instigating the new film law, for the four year old film festival, coproduction meetings, and hiring Toronto Latina programmer Diana Sanchez to program their festival and now the first Iberoamerican Platinum Awards, and much more.

The workshops at this event are outstanding. I wish I were able to hear all they have to say!

Jonathan Jakubobiwz , the producer of the $17 million Hands of Stone (Isa: Lotus) which tells the story of the Panamanian boxer Roberto “Mano de Piedra” Durán, spoke about how this production used 15,000 extras, was shot in over 140 locations. All was filmed and produced in Panama where the producers took advantage of a 15% cash rebate and a $2.8 million advance from the Panamanian government, the latter expressly offered to make sure they lensed the story about their national hero Roberto Durán in his native land.

“They gave us full support, dozens of free locations and a level of hospitality that made everyone feel at home,” said Jonathan Jakubowicz (Secuestro Express). With 15,000 extras and a stellar international cast led by Robert De Niro, Édgar Ramírez, Ellen Barkin, John Turturro and Usher Raymond, Hands of Stone recreated four cities and four decades in Panama. “The footage is a million times better than even I expected,” Jakubowicz said.

Another workshop was given by one of Argentina’s top producers, Verónica Cura. Thirty-five filmmakers, mostly from Panama took part. Vero spoke about film production from an artistic and organizational perspective, starting from the moment the idea takes hold, to project development ,to shooting and all the way to theatrical exhibition. Vero started working in 1992 as a director and head of production. In 2001 she began producing her own films. From 2007 to 2009 she was President of the Association of Independent Producers and Vice President of the Chamber of Film Producers from 2009 to 2011. She has been involved in films such as The Headless Woman by Lucrecia Martel (Cannes Competition), The Other by Ariel Rotter (Berlinale, 2 Silver Bears and the Jury Grand Prize), Las Acacias by Pablo Giogelli (Camera d’or, Cannes 2011), Live-in Maid by Jorge Gaggero (Sundance Special Jury Prize), There Be Dragons by Roland Joffe, Torrente 3 by Santiago Segura, The Dead and Being Happy by Javier Rebolla, One Love by Paula Hernandez and The Game Maker by John Paul Buscarini, among others.

Panel – Producing in Central America

The panel that reads like a Who’s Who of Central America discussed producing in Latin America. These active figures in current Central American production, shared their experiences on film production in the region. Moderated by Pituka Ortega (Iff -Panamá), the speakers included

Pablo Schverdfinger (Argentina )

After his film studies in Argentina, in Avellaneda Film School and then at the Universidad del Cine, Pablo began working with the filming of Highlander II and from there he developed his career as director of photography . In 2010 he founded Dragon Films and began directing commercials and documentaries for the local market in Panama. The 2012 he started Mangrove Films, a more ambitious bid to expand its services to the local Panamanian market with prestigious directors representation opening the doors to international markets by adding the alliance with Argentina Concrete Films.

Ileana Novas (Argentina)

Ileana Nova studied Social Communication at the Universidad del Salvador in Argentina . She worked many years in production at Flehner Films and Sorin Cine, for many local productions and especially in the international department providing production services abroad. Post Production Coordinator : The Other ( Ariel Rotter - Silver Bear at Berlin Intl Film Festival 2007 ) , Hide ( Canadian Production of KCBascombe - 2007), The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, co-produced by France, Italy, Spain and nominated in the Cannes Film Festival 2008 ). Then , while working on The Acacias (Pablo Giorgelli won three awards at Cannes Film Festival 2011) , the idea arose to establish herself in Panama . Her previous work experience in Panama in 1999 encouraged her to decide to move there in 2010 where she set up Mangrove Films.

Rafael González (Guatemala )

Rafael worked on The Wagon (TV) and The Comal House in Guatemala as a producer and screenwriter. He has been looking back on the history of his country for the last 15 years, and he created Back to Home in which he addresses the issue of Guatemalan refugees in Mexico. He was a sound technician and producer on the documentary La Camioneta selected for the Festival of Guadalajara 2013. Currently he is directing and producing the documentary Flight of Azacuán , a coproduction with Doctv Latin America.

Neto Villalobos (Costa Rica )

Neto graduated with a BA in Sociology from the University of Costa Rica and later graduated in film direction at the Centre d 'Estudis Cinema de Catalunya in Barcelona. His first feature film All About the Feathers was selected for the International Film Festival in Toronto and then in the International Film Festival of San Sebastian. All About the Feathers was also at other international festivals such as Rotterdam, Miami , Buenos Aires, Toulouse, Vancouver, Stockholm, Havana, Prague, Geneva, Kerala, Cleveland and won Best American Film and Best Director at the Icarus Film Festival of Guatemala. Neto is working on his second feature film called Majijo

Luis Rafael Gonzalez (Santo Domingo )

With extensive experience in various branches of the film industry, founding member of the International Film Festival of Santo Domingo, Deputy Director of Programming and Broadcasting (2004-2006) and CEO (2007-2011) of the Dominican Cinematheque, Representative of the Dominican Republic in the Congress of the International Federation of Film Archives (Fiaf) , the International Federation of Film Clubs ( Ficc ) and the First Latin American Congress of Culture dedicated to Cinema and Audiovisual, Luis Rafael has also participated in developing the law on the Promotion of Film Activity in the Dominican Republic. He won the top prize for a script at Les Films de L' Astre, 2011 with his Gods without Twilight. He is also part of the Dominican Film Selection Committee to select the Dominican film for Oscars and other international awards. He serves as Vice President of Acquisitions and Distribution for Palmera International, a distributor which operates in the territories of the United States, Central America and the Caribbean.

María Lourdes Cortés (Costa Rica )

Costa Rican and Central American historian, professor at the University of Costa Rica, a researcher at the Foundation of New Latin American Cinema and director at Cinergia, Maria Lourdes was also director of the first School of Cinema and Television founded in Costa Rica (Universidad Veritas) and the Costa Rican Film Production Center. She has won the Joaquín García Monge Prize in cultural diffusion and twice the Essay Prize Achilles J. Echeverría for the books Love and Treachery, Film and Literature in Latin America (1999), and The Broken Screen. One Hundred Years of Cinema in Central America (2005). For this last book, she received the honorary award Ezequiel Martínez Estrada by the Casa de las Americas (Cuba ) for the best essay published in that year (2005). She is currently preparing research on Gabriel García Márquez and film and on the textual work of Silvio Rodriguez. She has been jury in film festivals in France, Holland, Cuba and Mexico where she has also given talks and workshops. The Government of the Republic of France awarded her with the rank of Knight of the Order with the Merit of Honor (2005).

Another workshop featured Cameron Bailey, the Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the most important festivals in the world and one of the largest in North America, discussed how Tiff’s position has been achieved and the importance for the Latin American industry of participating in this event. Cameron is also part of the School Advisory Council at the University of Western Arts and Humanities and the School of Cinema Institute of Haiti. He lectures on programming and preservation at the University of Toronto and is also a member of the Board of Tourism Toronto and the former co-chair of the Working Group Arts and Culture Civic Action Toronto. Former board member of the Ontario Film Development Corporation and member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of the Royal Ontarios Museum for Contemporary Culture, in 2007 he was part of the delegation accompanying the General Governor of Canada, Michaelle Jean on her state visit to Brazil.

On this week's episode of The Golden Briefcase, Tim and Jeremy are joined by guest Dave "Da7e" Gonzales of Latino Review and the Fighting in the War Room podcast to go through their latest picks of the week, the newest DVD & Blu-ray releases and much more. The main topic of the night was a discussion on the acting career of comedian Will Ferrell, in honor of his new movie Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues hitting theaters everywhere this week. The guys talk over Ferrell's various performance in the years past, his relativity as a comedic actor and where they hope to see him turn up in the future. Listen in! Download #182 or Listen Now: [audio href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/firstshowing/EP182.mp3" title="The Man Behind the Mustache (Guest: Da7e Gonzales)"]The Golden Briefcase #182/audio] Subscribe via: RSS or iTunes Previous Episode: Here There Be Dragons! (Guest: AICN's Eric Vespe) Our Guest: Dave Gonzales: @da7e Picks of the Week: Jeremy: Johnny To's Drug...

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The legendary author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is getting his own feature length biopic! The project is set up at Fox Searchlight and Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment is producing it.

According to THR, the movie will "chronicle the key moments in Tolkien’s life that shaped him and led him to write Hobbit, the classic children’s book, in 1937 and then starting in 1954, his Rings trilogy."

The film already has a script written by David Gleeson, who wrote a sci-fi spec called The End of History. The movie is currently in development, and there's no word on whether the Tolkien estate will be involved.

Here's a little information on Tolkien from the report:

Tolkien led a fascinating life. He saw combat in World War I in which he saw countrysides torn to shreds and friends killed. He was close friends with C.S. Lewis,...

This weekend (November 23rd & 24th) sees the McM Comic Con and Memorabilia show take place at the NEC in Birmingham. We’ll be there on the Saturday, checking out what’s happening at one of the UK’s biggest conventions. If you haven’t grabbed a ticket yet, what are you waiting for? Ok, ok, so some of you may still be undecided, so let me tempt you with a rundown of just some highlights of the guests attending the event this weekend…

Red Dwarf Reunion – Chris Barrie (Arnold Rimmer); Hattie Hayridge (Holly); Danny John-Jules (The Cat) and Robert Llewellyn (Kryten) from much-loved British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf. Quadrophenia Reunion – Stars Phil Daniels (Jimmy); Toyah Willcox (Monkey) and Daniel Peacock (Danny) celebrate the ultimate mod movie, based on The Who’s 1973 rock opera.

Richard Donat and Kate Kelton from popular sci-fi series Haven. Donat plays Vince Teagues, leader of The...

There be dragons in the trailer for "Game of Thrones" season three, below, as well as flaming swords, funeral pyres and armies in array. The preview for the upcoming season of HBO's hit fantasy series, which returns to the air on March 31st at 9pm, was premiered last night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" before being released online. The trailer's only a minute, but packs in looks at everyone's favorite characters, from Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) to Arya (Maisie Williams) to Daenerys (Emilia Clarke). It also makes a solid case for the series as having a scope and production value equal to that of a studio film.

We recently spoke with film composer Robert Folk about his tenure on the re-edited version of Roland Joffe’s epic, There Be Dragons. As a follow-up to that interview, film director / producer / wiz-kid James Ordonez provides us with the inner workings of the film’s progress from religious biopic to ambitious drama.

Ordonez has taken the time to give WhatCulture an exclusive journey into the re-invention of Joffe’s project. The film bombed on release, and despite some positive reviews, it sank into the abyss of nothingness. Despite this firm rejection, Ordonez was unwilling to let the film die, and took this opportunity to help revive it. Join us now as Ordonez tells us about controversial beliefs, onset spats and the millions spent to redeem a potential modern classic.

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“There Be Dragons was originally conceived before Roland [Joffe] was involved, as a biopic for one of the main characters Josemaria Escriva,...

WhatCulture! recently sat down for an exclusive interview with renowned film composer Robert Folk. Best known for his work on ‘Beastmaster 2’, ‘The Neverending Story 2’, ‘Toy Soldiers’, ‘Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls’ and of course, ‘Police Academy’, the 63-year-old L.A based musician is spritely and charming. Folk, who was born in New York, has an East Coast accent with a soft warm roll in it; something which one comes to associate with the cultured and educated members of American society. Sporting a healthy glow, he sits in an office decorated with posters of the films he has previously scored – a customary sight amongst film professionals.

During our one-to-one in depth chat Folk talks about IMAX ballet, the ‘Police Academy’ reboot and his work as replacement composer on Roland Joffe’s soon to be released, re-cut, re-mixed, re-packaged historical epic ‘There Be Dragons’ entitled ‘There Be Dragons: Secrets of Passion’.

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Even legendary prequel naysayer Simon Pegg has made up with Star Wars. Why?

“The Clone Wars. Making Star Wars cool again, twenty minutes at a time,” he tweeted in February, shortly before voicing Empire Strikes Back bounty hunter Dengar in an episode. But you don’t have to take Pegg’s word for it. Instead, check out Darth Maul and the Death Watch battling for galactic supremacy in this dark, kinetic new trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ fifth season, set to debut on Cartoon Network this September. Cynical as you may be about the franchise, it’ll make...

Over the past few years, we’ve become privy to something known as the 'Liam Neeson Punch' trilogy. Films like Taken, Unknown and the best of the bunch, The Grey, have not only proved that Neeson is a viable action star, but that people will pay to see this man physically assault everything from sex slave traders to wolves. And now, he’ll get his chance to take out some flight attendants with an old partner of his.

Read more on Jaume Collet-Serra set to direct Liam Neeson while he saves an international airliner full of passengers in Non-stop...

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Say what you will, but the pair of director Jaume Collet-Serra and actor Bradley Cooper may be two of the more underrated members of their craft.  Collet-Serra has a deft eye for thrills and chills (and camp, in many cases) and Cooper is quite a solid thespian. The duo now appear to be eying a new project to combine their skills.

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Frankenweenie

Directed by: Tim Burton

Starring: (voices of) Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara

Rating: Not Yet Rated

Release Date: October 15, 2012

Trailer Score: 8/10

Thoughts by Tsr: Tim Burton has been hit or miss for me throughout his career, but one thing that’s remained consistent is that I’ve always liked the animated films he’s been involved with. That’s why it pleases me to no end to see Burton returning to the world of stop motion. Frankenweenie looks to be very much in the same vein as what came before, and that’s a very good thing.

I love that the film is in black and white. When combined with the stop motion animation it makes it really feel like a Tim Burton movie, but not to the point where it comes off as self-parody. It’s also appreciated that it only gives away the basic idea...

Directed by Pedro Almodovar and starring Antonio Banderas, The Skin I live In will be available in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack on March 6th. We’ll be publishing our review tomorrow, but until then, we have a photo gallery and videos for you to check out.

Oscar® winning Writer/Director Pedro Almodóvar (Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk To Her, 2002) and three-time Golden Globe® nominee Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro, Desperado) team up for the sixth time on The Skin I Live In, debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack March 6th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This psycho-sexual thriller, which also stars Elena Anaya (Savage Grace, Van Helsing), Marisa Paredes (High Heels, All About My Mother), Jan Cornet (There Be Dragons) and Roberto Álamo (Take My Eyes), follows a brilliant plastic surgeon (Banderas) who is haunted by past tragedies and by his present patient: a mysterious woman (Anaya) who...

DVD Playhouse—February 2012

By Allen Gardner

To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.

Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...

Title: There Be Dragons Directed by: Roland Joffe Starring: Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Geraldine Chaplin and Dougray Scott Running time: 122 minutes, Rated PG-13, Available on Blu-ray An investigative journalist pays a visit to Spain to research Josemaria Escriva, the Roman Catholic saint and founder of the controversial Catholic group Opus Dei. He discovers that his own estranged father Manolo, grew up with Josemaria, yet they both took seperate paths – Josemaria became a priest, and Manolo became a nationalist fighter in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930′s. Okay I’ll start off by saying this film has got to be one of the most misleading titles next to Naked...

Another week, another Monday. So it’s time for the rundown of DVDs and Blu-rays hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s another packed week, with plenty of movies waiting to take you money, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, February 20th 2012.

Pick Of The Week

Fright Night 3D (DVD/Blu-ray)

Meet the sexy new neighbour, Jerry Dandrige (Colin Farrell). He’s dangerously charming – and utterly lethal. That’s because he just happens to be a vampire, and out for blood…buckets of it. After high school senior Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) makes the connection between Jerry’s suspicious activity and a steadily rising body count, he vows to end the reign of terror next door. But he can’t do it alone. His only hope is Las Vegas magician/vampire-slayer Peter Vincent (David Tennant). Together,...

★★☆☆☆ Let's be clear about this - there are no dragons in Roland Joffé's There Be Dragons (2011). Or, rather, the dragons are metaphorical. If that knowledge makes you fear a long and turgid film from Joffé, you'd be right - but not for those reasons. There Be Dragons doesn't suffer from a lack of CGI monsters; it suffers from too much of everything else.

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Depending on how it’s used, voiceover narration can either be a pivotal part of the storytelling process or a crutch. Sometimes it’s both. There Be Dragons leans heavily on the latter to the point where any support the voiceover could have given the story of man discovering his own past by investigating another’s snaps under the pressure. There isn’t so much a cohesive narrative to be found in There Be Dragons as there is a narration with sparse scenes breaking up the voiceover’s monotony. At some points it gets so bad that you can’t help but wonder if Roland Joffe intended to make a film, or an audio book. The over-the-top acting would have felt more at home in a radio dramatization, and were it not for some well filmed (but poorly edited) scenes of war, There Be Dragons would be every bit as...

DVD or Blu-ray? Redbox or Netflix? Streaming? Get your home entertainment options settled before midnight on Saturday, Februrary 11 -- because that's when "Breaking Dawn," the latest installment of "The Twilight Saga," arrives in stores. We've got the highlights and lowlights on the week's new releases, plus an exclusive preview of the Blu-ray debut of Disney's "Lady and the Tramp." Moviefone's Pick of the Week "Project Nim" What's It About? This documentary from the Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind "Man on Wire" chronicles Nim Chimpsky, a newborn chimp that was raised like a human for a controversial study on linguistics. See It Because: If you're looking for a cute movie about cute animals doing cute things like cute babies, this isn't that movie; instead "Nim" is an honest and captivating look at the complex relationship between man and nature, and the too-simple definitions we try to apply to the animal kingdom. Also...

A couple of weeks ago we brought you the first news regarding the Blu-ray and DVD release of the much talked about film The Skin I Live In, and now we've sunk our claws into the official artwork. Dig it!

Sony's Blu-ray/DVD combo pack presents the film in its 1.85:1 original aspect ratio with Spanish (w/English subtitles) and French 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio tracks.

From the Press Release

Oscar® winning Writer/Director Pedro Almodóvar (Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk To Her, 2002) and three-time Golden Globe® nominee Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro, Desperado) team up for the sixth time on The Skin I Live In, debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack March 6th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This psycho-sexual thriller, which also stars Elena Anaya (Savage Grace, Van Helsing), Marisa Paredes (High Heels, All About My Mother), Jan Cornet (There Be Dragons) and Roberto Álamo (Take My Eyes...

It's another somewhat underwhelming week of DVD and Blu-ray releases, but fortunately the most significant title of the week is also one of Film Junk's favourite movies of 2011: Bennett Miller's Moneyball. Other new discs include a handful of action flicks including Killer Elite starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert DeNiro, 1911 starring Jackie Chan, and the direct-to-dvd sequel The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption, plus a few other odds and ends like the Anna Faris rom-com What's Your Number?, Roland Joffé's There Be Dragons, and Jean-Luc Godard's divisive Film Socialisme. In terms of TV, we've got the first seasons of HBO's Boardwalk Empire and the Karl Pilkington travel show An Idiot Abroad, plus the long-awaited release of the early '90s version of the G.I. Joe animated series. Got to get tough... Yo Joe! What will you be buying or renting this week? Check...

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Moneyball I've watched it twice and can safely say this is great movie and one I would say is worth the purchase. I haven't seen it on Blu-ray, but I would expect the rich blacks and lush greens look excellent in high definition, but above all else this is simply a great movie. You can read my review from the Toronto International Film Festival right here.

 

Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season I am now five episodes into this series and I will say it's good, but not great. One thing I particularly take away from so many of the outdoor scenes is how much it looks like they are shooting on a set. Everything about some of these scenes just feels wrong and plastic. Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to throw in disc three and...

This week, Brad Pitt makes a pitch for Oscar gold in "Moneyball," Jason Statham teams up with Robert De Niro and Clive Owen in the action flick "Killer Elite," Anna Faris revisits her exes to see if any of them are worth another go in "What's Your Number?" and the heartwarming "Billy Elliot" dances on Blu-ray for the first time.

'Moneyball'

Box Office: $75 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 95% Fresh

Storyline: Based on a true story, this biographical sports drama is about how Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and his assistant Gm (Jonah Hill) took a non-traditional sabermetric approach to scouting players and scored big time by winning 20 consecutive games during the 2002 season. The award-nominated film is adapted from the 2003 book by Michael Lewis and is helmed by Oscar-nominated "Capote" director Bennett Miller.

Extras! Get a sense of the actual people behind the story with "Billy Beane: Re-Inventing the Game,...

One man.s quest for sainthood is another man.s deep, dark past when the critically-acclaimed historical epic There Be Dragons arrives on Blu-ray and DVD January 10 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment… and Wamg is giving away copies!

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London-based investigative journalist Robert Torres (Dougray Scott, Hitman) travels to Spain to research a book about Josemaría Escrivá (Charlie Cox, The Merchant of Venice), the controversial founder of the Catholic instiution Opus Dei. Robert.s visit is on track until he hits a wall, both professionally and personally, when his most promising source – his own father,...

We’re all pretty much onboard with this one, right?

I mean, there are varying degrees of appreciation, and I certainly have some issues with the script, but I was hard-pressed to find anyone who outright hated Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which was...kind of nice, actually. So while I don’t buy that a laboratory wouldn’t know one of its apes was pregnant (much less had given birth), or that James Franco wouldn’t tell Freida Pinto (or she wouldn’t ask) about where Caesar came from for five years, or that a laboratory wouldn’t quarantine and keep tabs on a technician who was exposed to an experimental medicine, the film is still damn entertaining, and has a pretty decent emotional arc as well. All of the stuff involving Caesar and his slow assembly of the army of apes is fantastic, genuinely rousing, and...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 10, 2012

Price: DVD $22.98, Blu-ray $29.99

Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Wes Bentley (American Beauty) and Dougray Scott (The Diplomat) star in the 2011 film There Be Dragons, which is based on the true story about the lift of saint Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of controversial Catholic institution Opus Dei.

Written and directed by Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields), the biography movie follows investigative journalist Robert Torres (Scott), who’s researching a book about Escrivá (Charlie Cox, Moby Dick). His work gets derailed when his father Manolo (Bentley), his most promising source, turns uncooperative.

Robert discovers that Manolo was a childhood friend with Escrivá, and they attended the same seminary. However, the two men took different paths in life, with Escrivá dedicating his life to his faith and Manolo getting involved in the brutal Spanish Civil War. The more Robert investigates, the more he finds out the lives of the two men overlapped.

One man.s quest for sainthood is another man.s deep, dark past when the critically-acclaimed historical epic There Be Dragons arrives on Blu-ray and DVD January 10 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

London-based investigative journalist Robert Torres (Dougray Scott, Hitman) travels to Spain to research a book about Josemaría Escrivá (Charlie Cox, The Merchant of Venice), the controversial founder of the Catholic instiution Opus Dei. Robert.s visit is on track until he hits a wall, both professionally and personally, when his most promising source – his own father, Manolo Torres (Wes Bently, American Beauty) – turns out to be his least cooperative one. Robert begins to unearth his father’s toxic secrets when he learns that Manolo was not only born in the same Spanish town as Josemaría, but that they were childhood friends and attended the same seminary. The two men take radically different paths in life, with Josemaría...

Photos from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hugo, Playing the Field, Brave, Arthur Christmas, This Must Be the Place, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Butter, and Ada Wong on the set of Resident Evil: Retribution.

Posters for Young Adult, Titanic 3D, Being Flynn, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Underworld Awakening and The Iron Lady.

"Summit Entertainment estimates that this weekend’s domestic opening of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" will be around $110 million to $125 million, behind only "New Moon"…" (full details)

"Comedy Central has renewed animated series "South Park" for three more seasons. The deal will keep the series on through 2016 and extend its run to twenty seasons…" (full details)

"Walt Disney Studios have proudly announced that a new animated short film based on "Tangled" will screen with "Beauty and the Beast in 3D" opening on January 13th 2012. The short spotlights the royal wedding of Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) and...

There’s only so many bankable classic works of fiction out there for Hollywood to pillage and water down that lately they have turned their attention to making movies based on the mysterious and fantastical hidden truths about the authors themselves. Some of them are so hidden, they are just plain made up.

We’ve seen biopics of Beatrix Potter (Miss Potter) and Jane Austen (Becoming Jane) in recent years as romance movies, John Cusack has recently shot The Raven – a movie about the capturing serial killers exploits of Edgar Allen Poe and there’s even a screenplay out there for a detective film based on an amateur sleuth team of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini!

In fact this week’s announcement that a movie based on the fictional adventures of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien isn’t even the first to have the idea!

With "Game of Thrones" off the air until next year's second season, now is as good a time as any to start reading "A Song of Ice and Fire," the novel series that provides the foundation for the HBO fantasy epic. It's an especially good time to come on board considering that "A Dance with Dragons," the fifth book in the series, is finally in stores after six years of delays. Needless to say, it's straight to the local book shop after work.

Though we're still years away from seeing "A Dance with Dragons" on the small screen (assuming, and hoping, that "Game of Thrones" lasts long enough to make it that far), it's never too early to get excited for more "Thrones" mania. After the jump, find five reasons why we're looking forward to dancing with "Dragons" in George R.R. Martin's latest adventure.

A fair warning — if you...

While Dario Argento is still trying to figure out how to work this 3D camera business, music maestro Claudio Simonetti (from the famed group Goblin) has been busy posting photos on Facebook from behind the scenes on Dracula 3D. Kidding aside, I have much respect and an endless love for the Italian director and sincerely hope that this new project lifts Argento out of the early grave he seems to be in. Dracula 3D has a talented director at its helm, and while looking through these photos, you will see an equally talented crew assisting the director on his first foray into 3D filmmaking. In the photos, which you can see after the break, you get a glimpse of Argento, Simonetti , the director of photography Luciano Tovoli (who previously worked on Suspiria and Tenebre), and Unax Ugalde (There Be Dragons), who Simonetti is saying is playing Harker! I thought Miguel Angel Silvestre is playing Harker?...

Two new actors are joining Kristen Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman. They are Lily Cole and Sam Spruell, now cast in Universal’s picture, which recently saw the addition of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides actor, Ian McShane.

Cole, a British redhead, acted in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and There Be Dragons, as well as recent Doctor Who episode “The Curse of the Black Spot”. Spruell, another Brit, enjoyed roles in Defiance, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and K-19: The Widowmaker.

Cole will play a character known simply as “Greta” while Spruell won the role of “Finn,” the Queen’s hitman of sorts.

Thanks to a recent boost, the film will premier June 1, 2012.

Of course Twilight‘s Kristen Stewart is Snow White (see the latest Breaking Dawn news now) and Thor star Chris Hemsworth is the title Huntsman. McShane is the head elf and Charlize Theron is the wicked queen.

Lily Cole will play Greta, a character we don’t remember from the original Brothers Grimm tale, while Sam Spruell will make a turn as Finn, the Queen’s henchman who is in charge of finding and killing Snow White and the Huntsman.

Movies based on fairytales have been doing well at the box office. Snow White and the Huntsman is a Universal’s fantasy film which is inspired by a Grimm fairy tale that’s been made into a movie the most number of times. In the original story, the huntsman is expected to kill Snow White but rather he lets her go.

In this story, the huntsman does more than just let her go. He becomes her mentor, teaching Snow White how to fight and survive in the wilderness and also how to escape the grasps of the Evil Queen, who will be played by the always sexy Charlize Theron.

Casting a live action version of "Snow White" would seem to be simplicity itself: you've got your Queen, you've got your Snow White, you've got your dwarfs, bing, bang, boom. Done.

But when you're trying to re-envision the whole fairy tale by focusing on the relationship between Snow White and the huntsman sent to kill her, well, things get a bit more complicated.

Case in point: according to Variety, Lily Cole and Sam Spruell have both signed on to join the cast of "Snow White and the Huntsman," where they will play characters that you've probably never heard of before. And for our money, that's a good thing.

After all, pretty much everyone in the world already knows the story of "Snow White." And considering how perfectly Walt Disney captured that story back in 1927, frankly there's never been a good reason to bother with a new version.

But thanks to "Snow White and the Huntsman,...

I swear when I first read this story, I thought that Lily Collins had jumped ship from Relativity.s Snow White and decided to join Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron in Universal.s Snow White and the Huntsman. But it.s actually Lily Cole who has been added to the cast alongside Sam Spruell, Variety reports. According to the trade, the newcomers will play Greta and Finn, henchmen to Theron.s wicked queen who are sent to kill Stewart.s Snow White and Hemsworth.s hunter. Though the Thor star is initially on a quest to take down the fairest of them all himself, he eventually turns into Snow White.s protector. Cole previously was seen in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and There Be Dragons, while Spruell acted in The Hurt Locker and Ed Zwick.s Defiance. None of this really matters, however, because we.re really...

The Last Circus (Balada Triste de Trompeta) – red band trailer

Directed by: Alex de la Iglesia

Starring: Carlos Areces, Antonia de la Torre

Rating: R

Release Date: August 12, 2011 (limited)

Trailer Score: 7/10

Thoughts by Tsr: The opening moments of this trailer look like a parody of an artsy European film. A sad clown, putting on make up before gazing longingly at a beautiful performer. Then things pick up and it starts to go a little off the rails. I actually had to watch this one twice to get a grip on it. I’m assuming the action occurs during the Spanish Civil War. After that we get kinky sex, what look like zombie clowns and an orgy of violence. This could be fabulous.

My one word of warning is for anyone afraid of clowns, I’m pretty sure just seeing this trailer will make it worse. It probably won’t help my fear of carnies either.

By Annlee Ellingson

(from Moving Pictures, spring issue, 2011)

Even if you’re not in school anymore, summertime evokes vacation: lazy afternoons at the pool under the hot sun, cool nights spent at sleepaway camp, sweaty cross-country road trips in the back of the family station wagon — or, these days, SUV. It’s perhaps these warm feelings that the studios are attempting to tap into with summer slates rife with films that aim to induce laughter.

Sure, the summer months are best-known for high-concept, special effects-laden blockbusters (see this year’s “Priest” in May, “Super 8” in June and “Cowboys & Aliens” in July), comic-book adaptations (including “Thor,” “Green Lantern” and “Captain America”) and the requisite sequels: “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “X-Men,” “Transformers,” “Harry Potter” and “Final Destination” all have installments coming out in April through August.

“There is a reason that studios make sequels and franchises, and that reason is simple: audience demand,...

By Annlee Ellingson

(from Moving Pictures, spring issue, 2011)

Even if you’re not in school anymore, summertime evokes vacation: lazy afternoons at the pool under the hot sun, cool nights spent at sleepaway camp, sweaty cross-country road trips in the back of the family station wagon — or, these days, SUV. It’s perhaps these warm feelings that the studios are attempting to tap into with summer slates rife with films that aim to induce laughter.

Sure, the summer months are best-known for high-concept, special effects-laden blockbusters (see this year’s “Priest” in May, “Super 8” in June and “Cowboys & Aliens” in July), comic-book adaptations (including “Thor,” “Green Lantern” and “Captain America”) and the requisite sequels: “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “X-Men,” “Transformers,” “Harry Potter” and “Final Destination” all have installments coming out in April through August.

“There is a reason that studios make sequels and franchises, and that reason is simple: audience demand,...

Sorry girls — I know the hellacious experience of being a bridesmaid could make for a hilarious girl-bonding film, but in this case it falls short.

Not since Sarah Jessica Parker humiliatingly called off her wedding in Sex and the City has a wedding-themed movie attacked the fertile ground surrounding one of the biggest milestones in a woman’s life.

But where every girl could identify with Carrie Bradshaw’s deep depression over being abandoned at the altar by her true love, Mr. Big, not all will bond with Kristen Wiig‘s crazed maid of honor, Annie.

Carrie poignantly had a nervous breakdown, crawling into bed and sleeping for several days straight before settling into life in a half-stupor — something highly believable. Kristen Wiig‘s best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph) just gets wacko. She starts talking romantic couples out of buying engagement rings at the jewelry store where she unhappily works.

Yo! Mayimbe here! Wes Bentley’s comeback seems to be in full effect. While he got There Be Dragons in theatres, he just got cast in Hunger Games in the pivotal role of Seneca Crane. But that’s not all. Check this out! We got your exclusive first look at Wes in the indie film Hirokin! Wes toplines the indie as Hirokin and also features Jessica Szoher, Angus Macfadyen and Julian Sands! Yes, Julian Sands! Memba’ him from back in the days as Warlock? In Hirokin, a reluctant hero marked by a dark past, must fulfill his destiny when forced to choose between avenging the murder of his family or fighting for the freedom of a people long abused. Directed by first time director Alejo Mo-Sun, Hirokin is currently in Cannes seeking distribution. So we got Wes looking like a really pissed off Jedi Knight on Tatooine, we got some...