The 2011 spy thriller, "The Double", from VVS Films, will be released on a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack, On Demand and Digital Download, January 31, 2012, in both English and
French.
From a screenplay by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, the co-writers
of "Wanted" and "3:10 To Yuma", "The Double" is Brandt's directorial debut.
Cast includes Richard Gere, Martin Sheen, Topher
Grace and Odette Yustman-Annabel :
"...when a US Senator is killed, the evidence points to a Soviet
assassin code-named 'Cassius', who was long-thought to be dead.
"'Paul Shepherdson' (Gere), a retired CIA
operative is paired with FBI Agent 'Ben Geary' (Grace), to stop Cassius before he finds his next target..."
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In celebration of the Chinese 'Year Of The Dragon', Sneak Peek
creator Milton Caniff's'Dragon Lady' character from the classic action adventure newspaper comic strip "Terry and the Pirates".
The character was based on a real woman pirate
from the South China Sea named 'Lai Choi San'.
Inspired by movie characters played by actress Anna May Wong,
the 'Dragon Lady' term has since been applied to powerful Asian women.
Caniff's 'Dragon Lady', aka 'Madam Deal', debuted in in the first "Terry and The Pirates" Sunday strip story (1934), as a beautiful, yet cold seductress, who unexpectedly fell in love with 'Pat Ryan'. In the years leading up to World
War II, she organized the resistance against the Japanese invasion of China.
D Films reports that actor/director Ralph Fiennes’ feature
film "Coriolanus" will open theatrically in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, January 20th, 2012 with further expansion across
Canada TBA:
"...a feared and revered military commander courts tragedy when
he enters the political arena in "Coriolanus', a driving action/drama that marks the directorial debut of the film’s
star, two time Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes.
"Updating William Shakespeare’s late-period tragedy of ancient
Roman setting to the 21st Century of guerrilla insurgencies, instant polling and 24-hour news networks, Fiennes delivers a
trenchant tale of honor, power, politics and pride.
"'Caius Martius 'Coriolanus' (Fiennes), a Roman General is at odds
with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother 'Volumnia' (Vanessa Redgrave)
to seek the exalted and powerful position of 'Consul', he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs
in order to secure the office.
"When the public refuse to support him, Coriolanus' anger prompts
a riot which culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy 'Tullus Aufidius'
(Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the city..."
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D Films reports that actor Paddy Considine’s award-winning
first feature directorial debut, "Tyrannosaur", winner of three 2011 British Independent Film Awards, including Best British
Independent Film, Best Debut Director and Best Actress (Olivia Colman), will open theatrically in Toronto, January 27th, 2012
:
"...'Joseph' (Peter Mullan) is a man plagued by violence and
a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As his life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form
of 'Hannah' (Olivia Colman), a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding
a secret of her own..."
"Tyrannosaur" was also the winner of the 2011 Sundance World Cinema
Awards for Best Director and Best Acting for both Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman.
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Kinosmith presents director Xavier Gens' post-apocalyptic thriller,
"The Divide", opening in Toronto, Friday, January 20, 2012 @ the Scotiabank Theatre .
The Canadian co-production starring Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia,
Michael Eklund, and Rosanna Arquette was shot in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The theatrical cut, running close to 2 hours, contains 13 minutes
of additional footage not included in the version that screened at festivals in 2011 :
"...nine strangers—all tenants of a New York high rise
apartment—escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building’s bunker-like basement. Trapped for days underground
with no hope for rescue, and only unspeakable horrors awaiting them on the other side of the bunker door, the group begins
to descend into madness, each turning on one another.
"As supplies dwindle, and tensions flare, each
act against one another becomes more depraved than the next. While everyone in the bunker allows themselves to be overcome
by desperation and lose their humanity, one survivor holds onto a thin chance for escape even with no promise of salvation
on the outside..."
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The 2011 spy thriller, "The Double", from VVS Films, will be released on a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack, On Demand and Digital Download, January 31, 2012, in both English and
French.
From a screenplay by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, the co-writers
of "Wanted" and "3:10 To Yuma", "The Double" is Brandt's directorial debut.
"...when a US Senator is killed, the evidence points to a Soviet
assassin code-named 'Cassius', who was long-thought to be dead.
"...when a US Senator is killed, the evidence points to a Soviet
assassin code-named 'Cassius', who was long-thought to be dead.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Double"...
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Double"...
