Marvel Comics antihero, Ghost Rider is going to return on the big screens next month in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. This sequel to the 2007 film “Ghost Rider” features Nicolas Cage returning to reprise the lead role as Johnny Blaze a.k.a. Ghost Rider. Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, this upcoming movie also starring Johnny Whitworth, Fergus Riordan, Ciaran Hinds, Violante Placido, Idris Elba and Christopher Lambert. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is set to open on 17th FEB 2012 in both conventional and 3D format.
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In conjunction of the celebrations of 2012 Lunar New Year, another Hong Kong action movie will hit the cinemas near you - The Viral Factor, which starring Taiwan multi-talent artist Jay Chou and Hong Kong Academy Awards winner Nicholas Tse. Both of these superstars play the role of two brothers whom due to family circumstances are led down different paths in life. The filming locations include Hong Kong, China, Jordan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore. Directed by Dante Lam (“Beast Stalker”, “Stool Pigeon”), this upcoming film also starring Andy On, Bai Bing, Carl Ng, Elaine Jin, Liu Kai-chi and Lin Peng. The Viral Factor is slated to be released next week on 19th JAN 2012.
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Another sci-fi action horror film which depicts an alien invasion in Russia is going to celebrate this year’s Christmas with you, The Darkest Hour. While most films about alien invasions are centered in the USA or have an international scale, this upcoming thriller tells an alien invasion from the Russian’s perspective and focuses on what happens after the aliens have dominated the planet. This American-based production is directed by Chris Gorak and stars Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman and Max Minghella. The film is set to release on 25th DEC 2011 worldwide in conventional 2D, 3D, IMAX and IMAX 3D.
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Have you ever seen the Snow White in a gritty and more violent version? Next year, you’re going to experience a very different tale of Snow White from the one you’ve grown up with in Snow White and the Hunstman, which turning the classic tale upside down and adapt it into a fairly epic and dark fantasy film. The breathtaking new vision of the legendary tale is directed by acclaimed commercial director and state-of-the-art visualist Rupert Sanders and starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Sam Claflin and Ian McShane. This fantasy action-adventure film is slated to hit theaters on 1st JUN 2012.
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A Korean war epic movie about friendship and love, My Way will be hitting the cinemas near you end of this year. My Way is set in World War II telling a story about a Korean man is conscripted into the Japanese army and follows him as he participates in the Normandy invasion. This film is a reunion for Korean hunk Jang Dong-gun and the director Kang Jae-kyu, who directed the classical blockbuster film “Taegukgi” six years ago. Other casts including Japanese actor Joe Odagiri, Fan Bingbing from China, Kim In-kwon, Han Seung-hyeon and Yang Jin-seok. This trans boundary film is officially set to be released on 22nd DEC 2011 in South Korea.
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The heroic protagonist of Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ 11-volume “Barsoom” series, John Carter will be adapted into a sci-fi action adventure movie to hit the big screen next year! The film is largely based on “A Princess of Mars”, the first novel to feature John Carter which was originally published as a magazine serial in 1912 and then brought out in book form in 1917. This upcoming novel adaptation movie is directed by Oscar winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton and starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Polly Walker and Willem Dafoe. John Carter is set to be released on 9th MAR 2012 in conventional, Digital 3D and IMAX 3D formats.
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Hong Kong renowned film director, Tsui Hark will conclude the year of 2011 with his latest production, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, which is being the first Wuxia film shot in 3D. This ancient Chinese martial arts epic movie is loosely based on Tsui Hark’s 1992 classic film “New Dragon Gate Inn”, which was the remake of King Hu’s famous “Dragon Gate Inn” back in 1966. Tsui Hark has actually made some changes for this new version and the story should take you from the Imperial court to the promising “Lost city under the desert” with a highly possible political background, also interesting and nuanced characters all trying to achieve their own goal. Starring International martial star Jet Li, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Li Yuchun, Kwai Lun-mei, Louis Fan and Mavis Fan, this upcoming film is set to be released on 22nd DEC 2011.
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Like I had said before in previous post, some great Oriental epic movies are going to conclude this year for you. Besides “Legendary Amazons“, White Vengeance is another one! From director Daniel Lee, the film recalls the well-known event in 206 B.C. known as the “Banquet at Hong Men” where warring general Xiang Yu organized a banquet so that he could assassinate his biggest rival, Liu Bang. The event often memorialized in Chinese history, novels, and drama, including in Beijing opera and in Chinese idiomatic usage, “the Feast at Hong Gate” has often been used to refer to a trap or a situation ostensibly joyous but in fact treacherous. This ancient Chinese war period action epic has a star-studded cast including Leon Lai, Zhang Hanyu, William Feng, Anthony Wong, Jordan Chan, Andy On and young actress Crystal Liu Yifei. It’s set to be released on 24th NOV 2011.
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There will be a few great Oriental movies set to conclude the year of 2011 and one of those is Legendary Amazons. Formerly titled as “Lady Generals of the Yang Family”, this Chinese folklore adapted epic movie is based on a famous Chinese opera set in the Song Dynasty about how the women from the Yang family of Song Dynasty stepped onto the battlefield to avenge the deaths of their warriors husbands, who died while fighting the invading Xia army after being sold out by a traitorous Song official. Executively produced by famous Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan and directed by Frankie Chan, who has also worked on a few Jackie Chan movies, this big budgeted and star-studded cast war period martial arts movie starring Cecilia Cheung, Cheng Pei Pei, Richie Ren, Liu Xiaoqing, Yu Na, Kathy Chow, Yukari Oshima, Jin Qiaoqiao, Ge Chunyan, Zhou Xiaofei, Li Jing and Wu Ma. The film is scheduled to be released on this upcoming 17th NOV 2011.
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The whole suddenly “in” trend of alien invasion films in Hollywood during recent years is going to continue in next year. After “District 9″, “Skyline” and “Battle: Los Angeles”, the next installment of such kind of movie is Battleship, an epic action-adventure that unfolds across the oceans, in the skies and over land as human being fights for survival against a superior alien force. Based on Hasbro‘s classic naval combat game of the same title, the film is directed by Peter Berg and stars Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna and Liam Neeson. This upcoming science fiction naval war movie is scheduled to be released on 18th MAY 2012.
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