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RoboCop 2 4K Uhd from Scream Factory

RoboCop 2 will protect the innocent on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on June 18 via Scream Factory. The 1990 sequel has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision.

Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back) directs from a script by comic book legend Frank Miller and Walon Green (Eraser). Peter Weller returns to star with Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Tom Noonan, Belinda Bauer, and Gabriel Damon.

Special features include: commentaries by CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon and the RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop documentarians; Corporate Wars: The Making of RoboCop 2; Machine Parts: The FX of RoboCop 2; Ocp Declassified; and more.

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Bula Quo! is a fictional feature length film about British rock and roll duo Status Quo who, when on tour in Fiji, find themselves fighting for their lives having been caught up in a gangland murder operation in which they are prime suspects. Seriously. This is a real film. Oh and guess what, there’s already been a sequel announced.

Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt have been in the entertainment industry for an incredible 50 years, however there is nothing that can prepare them for their upcoming tour of Fiji, as they are scheduled to perform to thousands of adoring fans. With their publicity and security assistants Simon (Craig Fairbrass) and Caroline (Laura Aikman) running around after them like headless chickens, there is little anybody can do to prevent the ageing pair witnessing a callous murder, at the hands of local crime-lord Wilson (Jon Lovitz). With the law enforcement suspecting it...

Bula Quo!, currently being shot in Fiji, will feature a soundtrack of 12 songs by the British rockers

British rockers Status Quo are working on their very own action film in the vein of James Bond, reports NME.com.

Titled Bula Quo!, the movie will feature a soundtrack of 12 "classic" songs from the London-based band. It is currently being shot in Fiji, with Us comic Jon Lovitz and former EastEnders actor Craig Fairbrass joining the cast. British stunt co-ordinator turned director Stuart St Paul is in charge of the cameras for the project, which will hit cinemas next year.

"The one thing Quo fans know is to expect the unexpected," said singer Francis Rossi. Guitarist Rick Parfitt added: "This is an amazing chance for us to do something new and we're all really excited."

It is not known whether Rossi and Parfitt plan to star in the film themselves or merely take producers' credits.

Status Quo have been filming their own upcoming movie Bula Quo!. The rock stars, Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi, will star in the comedy-action project, taking place in Fiji. Jon Lovitz and Craig Fairbrass also star in the comedy caper, which is written and directed by Stuart St Paul, who previously worked on Batman and Aliens. New photos from the film show the pair crashing through a pane of glass, and emerging from the sea à la Daniel (more)...

Freight

UK DVD

Directed by Stuart St. Paul

Starring Billy Murray, Danny Midwinter, Craig Fairbrass, Stephen Uppal, Matt Kennard, Sam Kennard, Laura Aikman, Natalie Anderson

Released April 18, 2011

British cinema has long been associated with crime dramas. It is a long tradition which stretches from gritty gangster fares such as Get Carter and The Krays through to more recent underworld flicks like Gangster No1 and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Thanks to the success of these, the latest generation of British filmmakers has produced a constant reel of new British crime films in recent years.

These films, it has to be said, are of varying quality. Often they are films full of enthusiasm but slightly rough-around-the-edges and sometimes just downright boring. So I was slightly apprehensive when I came to watch the latest genre effort to make it on to DVD, Freight, the sixth film written and directed by ex-stunt coordinator Stuart St. Paul.

Restrepo (15)

(Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger, 2010, Us) 94 mins

This powerful frontline Afghanistan doc has been compared to a real-life Hurt Locker but here, war is all difficulty and very little glory. Closely observing a Us company in the hostile Korengal Valley, it's a mix of tense combat, bunker downtime and tricky "hearts and minds" local engagement efforts, interspersed with moving post-combat reflection. It all leaves you with a great deal of respect for the soldiers, and very little for the people who put them there.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (12A)

(Oliver Stone, 2010, Us) Michael Douglas, Shia Labeouf, Carey Mulligan. 133 mins

Nice timing for the return of Gordon Gekko, but has the lizard changed his spots? He's now preaching that greed isn't good, and taking in young buck Labeouf for dubious reasons, in a flawed but fun sequel.

Mr Nice (18)

(Bernard Rose, 2010, UK) Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis. 121 mins

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Ray Winstone has gone from hunting CGI monsters while hiding the salami Austin Powers-style to heading off in pursuit of a psycho who digs on hunting chicks in Stuart St. Paul's flying-under-the-radar slasher/thriller Red Snow.

The film, based on a short by Adam Mason, will be directed by St. Paul working from a screenplay that he penned. How news of this one has remained under wraps for so long remains a bit of a mystery, but we won't let it slip by any longer!

Check out the artwork and synopsis below courtesy of the official Red Snow website.

Synopsis

Declan likes to hunt. Although he’s learnt most of his hunting skills from watching cable television, he enjoys nothing more than leaving his family behind, taking his light airplane for a spin over Canada’s snowy outdoors, landing at his log cabin high in the mountains, and venturing...

Here's a bit of casting news to start the day. Ray Winstone has jumped onto Red Snow, a "serial killer thriller" in which Winstone will be "an ex-sas officer tracking down his missing daughter in the snow forests of a remote town in north Canada." Script and direction are by Stuart St. Paul based on the true story of a killer that targeted Alaskan towns in the '80s. You don't know St. Paul's name, but you know his work; he's been a stunt guy for over 30 years with credits including Aliens, some of the Roger Moore Bond films and the recent Red Riding productions. [THR] After the break, news for Goran Visnjic and Gwyneth Paltrow. ER's Goran Visnjic has joined Beginners, an indie that has already attracted a significant cast: Ewan McGregor, Melanie Laurent (Shosanna from Inglourious Basterds) and Christopher Plummer are in this one. Directing is Mike Mills,...

Run, Casting Tidbits, run! First up, Variety reports that Gwyneth Paltrow is joining Nicole Kidman in the semi-recently announced project The Danish Girl, an adaptation of David Ebershoff's novel to be directed by Thomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The story revolves around a man's transsexual metamorphasis after his wife, a portrait painter, asks him to stand in for an absent female model. Nicole Kidman plays the sex-changing husband Einar Wegener, while Paltrow will portray his wife Greta, who stood by her partner through the sex-change operation, finally letting go when she realized the man she married was gone. Red Snow Blood-splattered snow is in sights for Ray Winstone, as THR reports he is set to star in star in stuntman-turned-writer/director Stuart St. Paul's thriller about an ex-sas officer tracking down his missing daughter in the snow forests of a remote town in northern Canada. The...

Ray Winstone has signed on to star in writer/director Stuart St. Paul's serial killer thriller Red Snow.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Winstone will star as an ex-sas officer tracking down his missing daughter in the snow forests of a remote town in north Canada.

St. Paul, who also penned the script, is set to shoot the $4 million budgeted in Canada in April 2010, producer Andy Thompson said.

Red Snow is based on a true story of a serial killer in Alaska whose killing spree hit the headlines in the 1980s.

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Ray Winstone is attached to star in Stuart St. Paul's "Red Snow" as an ex-sas officer tracking down his missing daughter in the snow forests of a remote town in north Canada.

St. Paul, who also penned the script, is set to shoot the $4 million budgeted serial killer thriller in Canada in April 2010, producer Andy Thompson said.

Thompson is at this year's Afm negotiating with sales agents to roster the rights to St Paul's latest venure.

St Paul most recently wrote, directed and co-ordinated the stunts for "Freight," which details the story of a gang of Russian people traffickers operating in the North of England. That film has been snaffled for U.K. and

Australia by Icon Film Distribution.

"Red Snow" is based on a true story of a serial killer in Alaska whose killing spree hit the headlines in the 1980s.

Thompson will produce alongside veteran distributor Alan McQueen.