Screen Gems Want To Remake 'The Raid'

The pitchforks and burning torches are already out on the internet, although how many of the people upset about this remake have seen the film is uncertain given it only just played at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it got a lot of love and won an award.

I've seen the trailer and it looks pretty violent so of course that means it's "cool" in the eyes upset at the death of the R rated action film in the US. The Hollywood Reporter got the scoop.

The Raid, the Indonesian action movie that is fresh off winning the Midnight Madness sidebar’s audience award at TIFF, is getting the Hollywood remake treatment.

Screen Gems is in negotiations on a remake, a move made possible for the label since sister arm Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions picked up North American distribution rights to the film during the Cannes Film Festival. The initial deal called for Sony to have an exclusive negotiating period and right of refusal on a remake in its deal with XYZ Films, the makers of the original.

The movie was the only Midnight Madness flick that already had a distributor when it premiered at TIFF’s Midnight Madness, the late-night screening series that showcases genre flicks. The movie kicked off the series and was a sensation from the get-go, becoming one of the talks of the festival.

The movie tells the story of a SWAT team that becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster, armed with two highly violent martial arts killers and an army of machete-swinging, machine gun-toting dealers and thugs.

One of the buzz-generating aspects of the movie is the Indonesian fighting form called silat that were put into it by writer-director Gareth Evans, who just signed with Management 360.

How this unique aspect would be handled by a remake is not clear although Screen Gems is aware the unique fighting style is one of the movie’s strengths.

The company is hoping to tie down a filmmaker shortly though it will not be Evans, who opted out of repeating himself and will focus on making a sequel that he hopes to shoot in February

Screen Gems has tackled remakes of foreign films in the past, most successfully with Quarantine, a horror movie starring Jennifer Carpenter which was a remake of the Spanish scary movie Rec.

Here's the trailer (NSFW) for the original:

A Clip From Batman: Year One

DC's animated arm has always delivered the goods, their last outing 'Under the Red Hood' being perhaps their best to date. Next month sees the release of their adaption of Frank Millers classic, game changing 'Batman: Year One', and Comingsoon.net via Warner Home Video has the first clip from the movie.

Anyone familiar with the book should love the clip, it's a classic and pivotal scene that has been translated perfectly from the book without any real fiddling.

'Batman: Year One' is released October 18th on Blu-ray, DVD, On Demand and for Download, and you can view the clip below.

Gangster Squad Set Pics!

This thing has a cast the size of a Football squad and Comingsoon.Net has the first set pictures, featuring indie favourite Ryan Gosling and the awesome Emma Stone.

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and—if he has his way—every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop... except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen's world apart.

 

Captain America Blu Ray Trailer!

Marvel have released a trailer for the forthcoming Blu Ray release of Captain America. I sadly missed it when it was on the cinema but the new footage in the trailer makes me even more excited to get hold of the Blu Ray. Plus there is a quick snippet in this trailer of a special BTS Avengers feature the Blu Ray contains amongst it's extras.

The Blu Ray hits stores on October 25th and you can see the trailer below.

J. Edgar Trailer

Everyone knows who Hoover is and his importance in the world of Law enforcement. Everyone knows DiCaprio is one of the best actors of his generation, could this be his Oscar win at last? Everyone knows Clint Eastwood is a living legend as both an actor and director. I shouldn't need to say more to convince you to check out the trailer below.

New Total Recall Set Pics

Comingsoon.net via WENN.com have gotten hold of some new pics from the set of Total Recall which is currently filming in Toronto.

Over the last month or so TMT has posted several pics and videos of the filming of a hovercar chase, using plinths and rigs, the pics below seem to be from the end of the chase, which Len Wiseman talked about at Comic Con, saying it's so complex it has taken twice as long to shoot as a normal action sequence.

Insane Stunt On The TDKR LA Set!

Yesterday I posted the video of the new Bat vehcile blasting at Bane's HEMTT, well today it met it's end by the looks of things from the stunning stunt captured on this video......Man i LOVE real stunt action!

Batwing vs Bane's HEMTT!

Well it's not officially the Batwing but we may as well call it that until team Nolan say otherwise. SHH poster Red Skull snapped these pics of the Bat vehicle and the monstrous HEMTT in LA today, ready for a big stunt sequence.

Below are the pics and a couple of of vids that caught the action as the two huge machines went head to head!

Premium Rush Trailer Cycles Online!

David Koepp divides opinion but this high octane chase thriller looks like good fun, and JGL being in the lead with Michael Shannon as the bad guy doesn't hurt things.

The fact the hero's ride is a mountain bike certainly opens up the possibilities for some imaginative chase sequences.

Premium Rush opens January 13th, 2012 and you can check out the synopsis and trailer below.

Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day's work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the best of New York's agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie -- super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.

But a guy who's used to putting his life on the line is about to get more than even he is used to when a routine delivery turns into a life or death chase through the streets of Manhattan. When Wilee picks up his last envelope of the day on a premium rush run, he discovers this package is different. This time, someone is actually trying to kill him.

Max Payne 3 Trailer

Rockstar are amongst the top dogs in the world of video-games, and today as promised they have debuted the trailer for Max Payne 3. It's been quite some time since Max and his noir stylings have been seen, but with Agent 47 also returning it's good to see some oldschool video-game badasses back on consoles.

Max Payne 3 takes Max out of the classic big city setting and transplants hi mm into the cutthroat Brazilian underworld. The game looks incredibly cool with Max's classic slow mo gun play in full effect with the modern technological advances seemingly being taken full advantage of.

Max Payne 3 is due out in the first quarter of 2012 and you can check out the trailer below.