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LA DICTADURA PERFECTA: Check The First Trailer For Luis Estrada's Latest Political Satire

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LA DICTADURA PERFECTA: Check The First Trailer For Luis Estrada's Latest Political Satire

LA DICTADURA PERFECTA: Check The First Trailer For Luis Estrada's Latest Political Satire

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 03:00 AM PDT

While Mexican director Luis Estrada and star Damián Alcázar did a couple of films together before, their real partnership began in 1999 with the political satire Herod's Law (La Ley de Herodes). Since then, Estrada has directed only similar films, all starring Alcázar. A Wonderful World (Un Mundo Maravilloso, 2006) depicted the times of Mexican president Vicente Fox, while 2010's El Infierno (aka El Narco) was a take on president Felipe Calderón and the ongoing war against drugs. If you thought of those films as Estrada's sociopolitical trilogy, well, you better think again. La Dictadura Perfecta (the literal translation would be "the perfect dictatorship"), Estrada's new collaboration with Alcázar, is hitting Mexican theaters on October 16 and is going for the same formula. La Dictadura Perfecta is Estrada's...

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Jaycee Chan Drug Bust May Hurt Career But Save Relationship With Father Jackie

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 01:58 AM PDT

In a strange twist of fate, the recent arrest of Jaycee Chan on drug charges seems to have brought him closer to his action star father, Jackie Chan. Earlier this week news surfaced that 32 year old Jaycee Chan, also known as Fong Cho Ming, was arrested along with 23 year old Taiwanese actor Ko Chen Tung, after they were caught smoking marijuana at a foot massage parlour in Beijing. Police promptly searched Chan's house, where more than 100 grams of the drug was found. The Lee's Adventure star has subsequently been put under criminal detention for "providing a shelter for others to abuse drugs" and could face 6 months inside, while Ko, who shot to fame in 2011's You Are The Apple Of My Eye,...

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852 Films Serves First Teaser For Derek Kwok's Badminton Flick FULL STRIKE

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 11:12 PM PDT

The first teaser for Full Strike has just hit online, showing off the impressive line-up of talent in director Derek Kwok's upcoming badminton tournament flick. Produced by Josie Ho's 852 Films, the film sees the actress star alongside Ekin Cheng, Susan Shaw, Ronald Cheng, Gardner Tse, Edmond Leung, Wilfred Lau, Andrew Lam, Wang Lin and Bao Chunlai.Josie plays a former badminton champ who, 10 years after being expelled from the sport, reluctantly agrees to coach Ekin and his rag-tag gang of reformed criminals in an amateur competition.The tone of this brief trailer seems to suggest a comedy, which will put the Gallants director back in more comfortable territory following last year's As The Lights Go Out - a star-studded and financially successful firefighter drama that...

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THE DROP: New Clips And Images Reinforce A Tough Guy Tone

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 01:01 PM PDT

The eagerly-awaited new feature from Bullhead director Michael R. Roskam, The Drop will open in U.S. theaters on September 12. According to the official synopsis...The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters - "money drops" in the underworld of Brooklyn bars.  Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv (James Gandolfini), Bob finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past.Noomi Rapace, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ann Dowd, and John Ortiz also star. Dennis Lehane adapted his own short story, and all indications are that this is a tough, terse movie that should play well to the strengths of the people involved. We've got...

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New Trailer For AUTOMATA Is Intense And Epic

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 12:30 PM PDT

Just a week after the first posters emerged, we now have a trailer for Gabe Ibáñez's new sci-fi film Automata. And it looks pretty great, if I do say so myself. It looks a lot like it takes after Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, with the inclusion of laws of robotics and somewhat familiar motifs of the self-conscious artificial life form. But there's something definitely new here, with not only the usual futuristic noir city, but the desert landscapes, prevalence of global dystopian issues and a more international flavour. The year is 2044. Earth is in political and ecological turmoil. An insurance agents of a robotics corporation routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of...

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Win A Prize Pack From Pierce Brosnan Starring Spy Thriller THE NOVEMBER MAN

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 12:15 PM PDT

You just can't keep a good spy down and Pierce Brosnan is back in the international espionage game with the upcoming thriller The November Man. Code named 'The November Man'; Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan) is an extremely dangerous and highly trained ex-CIA agent, who is lured out of quiet retirement on a very personal mission.  He must protect valuable witness, Alice Fournier, (Olga Kurylenko) who could expose the truth behind a decades old conspiracy. He soon discovers this assignment makes him a target of his former friend and CIA protégé David Mason (Luke Bracey). With growing suspicions of a mole in the agency, there is no one Devereaux can trust, no rules and no holds barred. Hitting screens on August 27th - that'd be a...

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Canadian Cult Horror Flick THE EDITOR To Open Mayhem Film Festival

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT

The Editor UK Domination Tour, with members of Astron-6 in attendance, will continue this Fall with a stopover at the Mayhem Film Festival in Nottingham, England. This will be the second festival stopover for their film on the island nation. The Mayhem Film Festival is celebrating its ten year anniversary. The Editor will open the fest on Thursday, October 30th!Astron-6's Matthew Kennedy is looking forward to their visit: "like most Canadians, Adam, Conor and I are of European descent. It will be with great pleasure that we return to our homeland and sour the minds of our ancestry with our latest macabre masterpiece, The Editor. While in Nottingham we hope to meet Robin Hood and perhaps work with him on his next film." Chris Cooke, Mayhem...

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Watch An Exclusive Red Band Clip From Techno Thriller CAM2CAM

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT

You never really know who may be on the other side of that email address or social media account and you certainly never know what they really want from you. That simple premise forms the basis of indie thriller CAM2CAM and with Joel Soisson's film hitting cinemas in limited release from IFC Midnight on August 22nd we've got an exclusive red band clip to share.In this dark and haunting thriller from director Joel Soisson, five Bangkok tourists have gone missing after making online contact with an unknown party. Newly-arrived Allie Westbrook (Tammin Sursok, "Pretty Little Liars") meets a pair of ex-pats, Michael and Marit, who perform on a provocative interactive website. The dark menace beneath Michael's easy charm and the strange magnetism of the group's...

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Destroy All Monsters: The Human Race Can't Handle Its Imminent Demise, And Other Things I Learned From The Summer of 2014

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 08:01 AM PDT

Spoiler warning for several 2014 summer movies. Grosses were down, year-over-year, in the summer of 2014 at the domestic box office. Even the solid hits of the frame -- Maleficent with a sleeper breakaway; Guardians of the Galaxy, at the very tail end of the season, with a bases-clear home run -- weren't the kind of mega-grossers that have ruled the past half-dozen summer seasons at the movies. There was no Avengers or Dark Knight, which admittedly don't happen very often; nor was there an Iron Man 3 or Despicable Me 2, which is the kind of thing we've been more reasonably able to expect at least once or twice per summer. There wasn't -- and this is astonishing -- a single film that crossed...

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