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What happens when you’re a CIA hitman who can no longer trust the nature of his work? Aaron Eckhart finds out in Saban Films‘ Classified trailer, featuring The Dark Knight and Thank You For Smoking actor in a hard-boiled action role with enemies approaching from all sides.

Roel Reiné directs Classified from a script by Bob DeRosa. Here’s the official synopsis for Classified courtesy of Saban Films:

“Operating alone in the field for more than 20 years, a CIA hitman (Aaron Eckhart) uses the “Help Wanted” section of the newspapers to get his orders from the Agency. His long-lost daughter (Abigail Breslin), now a UK MI6 analyst, tracks him down to deliver shocking news: his CIA boss (Tim Roth) has been dead for years and the division long since shut down. Together, they set out to discover whose orders he’s been executing.”

Abigail Breslin and Tim Roth...

Back when Kim Han-min made “The Admiral: Roaring Currents” in 2014, little did he know that the film would go on to become the highest grossing Korean film of all time, a record still held by it, or that he would go on to make a trilogy of features on its lead character, legendary real-life naval commander, the much loved Admiral Yi Sun-shin. Yet here we are, just under a decade since the release of “The Admiral”, and the final film in the Yi Sun-shin trilogy looks finally set to release, following on from last year’s “Hansan: Rising Dragon”.

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In 1598, the seven-year Imjin War nears an end as Wae invaders prepare to withdraw from Joseon. Admiral Yi Sun-shin leads an allied fleet of Joseon and Ming ships to annihilate the Wae army. Joseon, Ming, and Wae forces clash at Noryang Strait, the deadly sea where Admiral Yi fights his last valiant battle.

There’s a strange sense in which the Mandalorians killed the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Star Wars has always been a transmedia franchise; the first tie-in book, Alan Dean Foster’s Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, was published in 1978 – before the release of The Empire Strikes Back. But this so-called “Expanded Universe” only really became a hit in the 1990s, in the aftermath of Timothy Zahn’s “Thrawn trilogy.” The Star Wars franchise soon expanded across mediums including New York Times-bestselling novels, comics, and computer games.

And then, as the decade came to an end, George Lucas returned to make the prequel trilogy. Lucas didn’t want to be boxed in by the Star Wars Expanded Universe; although he took ideas he liked, in general he had no qualms about contradicting ideas from the EU. Lucasfilm adopted a tiered approach to canon; Lucas’ own productions were “G”-level, absolute canon,...

“Train to Busan” director Yeon Sang-ho is to direct a Korean, live action series adaptation of hit Japanese manga “Parasyte: The Grey.” Netflix is the exclusive distributor worldwide.

The story is about unidentified parasitic life-forms that live off human hosts and strive to grow their power. As they start to disrupt society, a group of humans wage war against the rising evil.

Korean stars Jeon So-nee, Koo Kyo-hwan, Lee Jung-hyun have been confirmed to head the cast. The series is being produced on behalf of Netflix by Climax Studio and Wow Point.

The series is adapted from a hit manga series created by Iwaaki Hitoshi about invasive life-forms that seize and control human bodies. Published by the Kodansha company in its Morning Open Zkan and its Monthly Afternoon magazine from 1988 to 1995, it sold over 25 million copies in over 20 territories and countries.

The story, which mixes up fantasy and philosophical themes,...

Back in 2014, director Kim Han-min’s “The Admiral: Roaring Currents” released in Korean and international theatres and in the process set a record for the highest grossing Korean film of all time at the domestic box office, a record that no other feature has managed to push it off of even eight years later. Based on one of the most important and famous naval battles in history, the feature benefitted from the legendary hero status of Admiral Yi Sun-shin, a man so revered and loved that he has a statue of himself in the center of Seoul. Following up such a successful production can be daunting for a person, but Kim Han-min went down a unique path to follow it up; he decided to do not one but two different features and do a full trilogy on Yi Sun-shin, with the second story coming in the form of “Hansan: Rising Dragon...

Stars: Jang Hyuk, Lee Chae-young, Lee Seo-young, Bruce Khan, Lee Seung-joon | Written by Nam Ji-woong | Directed by Choi Jae-hun

Not to be confused with John Woo’s classic film of the same name, The Killer (Jugeodo Doeneun Ai) is the new film from Choi Jae-hun and written by Nam Ji-woong based on a novel and webcomic by Bang Jin-ho. The film made its Canadian debut as part of this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival.

Eui-kang is a retired assassin, married and living a quiet life. When his wife goes on vacation with a friend he ends up, rather against his will, having to watch over the friend’s seventeen-year-old daughter Yoon-ji.

The first night she’s in his care however she becomes the victim of a ring of human traffickers specializing in underage girls. There’s only one thing he can do, come out of retirement to rescue her,...

I’m not crazy about adaptations

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, by disposition. I’d generally rather see new stuff in Creative Format X, rather than a Format X version of a story that worked well in Format Q.

I seem to be in a pretty small minority in that, though. The world demands movies from their comic books, TV shows from their novels, opera from their stories about historical figures, stage musicals assembled from random songs. And vice versa: look at the deeply incestuous “casting thread,” in which random observers squee over which actors in TV-shows-based-on-books should be their favorite characters in a potential movie-based-on-a-comic-book.

On the other hand, I don’t mind as much with old stuff. A new movie based on a Shakespeare play? Yeah, Ok – that’s closer to the point to begin with. A graphic novel based on that hundred-year-old book everyone has heard of? Well, I suspect...

While Disney originally didn’t care much about the Star Wars Expanded Universe and its numerous overarching narratives, Lucasfilm has recently shown an inclination to canonize some of the lore now that the Skywalker Saga has come to a close.

To that end, J.J. Abrams incorporated several references to a couple of the legendary Sith Lords from the days of the Old Republic in The Rise of Skywalker, including the fan favorite Darth Revan. Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni then took this further in The Mandalorian and Star Wars Rebels, respectively, by writing in Admiral Thrawn from the Heir to the Empire trilogy of novels. This narrative is generally held in high regard by fans and many of them believe, in fact, that it’s some of the best Star Wars out there.

Now, according to a new report by Mikey Sutton of Geekosity, future projects will draw on elements...

Fans of Disney’s hit show The Mandalorian finally got to lay their eyes on a genuine Jedi in last week’s installment.

Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker’s former apprentice prior to his turn to the Dark Side and transformation into Darth Vader, made her live-action debut in “Chapter 13,” an appearance which fans of the character have been waiting for ever since actress Rosario Dawson was confirmed to play the role earlier this year. Unsurprisingly, given the near universal acclaim heaped on the series by viewers and critics alike, showrunners Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni – the latter of whom created Ahsoka – hit yet another home run with the episode, with Dawson, too, deserving credit for her excellent performance.

To celebrate the release of season 2’s most anticipated act so far, Disney has now debuted a new poster featuring the Togrutan warrior and yes, it’s as badass as you’d expect,...

The Mandalorian brings a fan-favorite Jedi from Star Wars animation to live action in “The Jedi,” which takes us to the wasteland planet of Corvus, where an Imperial warlord rules with an iron fist. Along the way, we learn more about Baby Yoda’s origin as well as where the show might be headed. We also get some pretty neat callbacks to the classic films of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa.

Here are all of the easter eggs and Star Wars references we’ve found in “The Jedi” so far:

Ahsoka Tano

– Fan-favorite Jedi hero Ahsoka Tano finally makes her live action debut in “The Jedi.” She’s played by Rosario Dawson here. As if she simply leapt out of the animated series and onto The Mandalorian, Ahsoka looks almost exactly like she did on Rebels, wearing similar attire and armed with the white lightsabers she used before the Galactic Civil War.

Marge Champion, a dancer who achieved nationwide television fame in the 1950s with her husband and dance partner Gower Champion and even then had already contributed to cinema history as a movement model for three classic Walt Disney animated films, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 101.

Her death was announced by her son Gregg Champion. A cause was not specified.

The daughter of a Hollywood dance coach, Champion was already performing in public when she was recruited by Disney to serve as the movement model for the lead character in 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the same year she entered a three-year marriage to Disney animator Arthur Babbitt. Champion would also provide the movements for the Blue Fairy in 1940’s Pinocchio and the ballet-dancing hippos in 1940’s Fantasia.

But if her work had already been seen by millions, Champion didn’t become recognizably famous until the late 1940s,...

The plot details of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two have been carefully under wraps, until now.

The author, co-producer and co-screenwriter of Ready Player One revealed the details Friday morning at New York Comic Con in a panel moderated by Wil Wheaton; the details of which you can read below. The long-awaited sequel comes out in hardcover, ebook and audio editions from Penguin Random House on November 24 in the U.S. and UK followed by publication in more than 50 countries.

The first novel follows a young boy Wade, who lives in a trailer park in the future. However, most of his days he’s plugged into the virtual reality gaming world of the Oasis where he has many friends. When the creator the Oasis dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to the world’s users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.

In Ready Player Two fanboy news, Penguin Random House Audio has set Wil Wheaton to narrate the sequel novel by Ernest Cline. The first of which Steven Spielberg turned into a Warner Bros film. Wheaton’s the Star Trek: Next Generation and Big Bang Theory actor. The audiobook will publish simultaneously with the hardcover and ebook editions on November 24, 2020. The audiobook for Ready Player One was the inaugural #1 New York Times audio fiction best seller when that list launched in March 2018, and was the first book to ever hit #1 in print, ebook, and audio formats. The book went on to spend seven months on the audio bestsellers list in addition to over 100 weeks on New York Times print bestsellers lists.

Wheaton narrated that first audiobook and has done Cline’s Armada and books by John Green and Randall Munroe.

In a world shaken by pandemic, with hundreds of thousands of dead from a preventable failure of governments around the globe, much of humankind is searching for glimmers of hope in the United States’ electoral politics. Any modicum of bad news – whether it is a bad poll result or vain, Dunning-Kruegered rappers launching attention grabs disguised as presidential campaigns – is enough to set an enormous chunk of humankind into hair-shedding jitters. Hope is about the only thing sustaining many of us through these dark days.

You will find no hope here.

Ernest Cline, nostalgia peddler and author of books like Armada and Ready Player One has announced a follow up to his hit first novel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ready Player Two will be released this November.

Ready Player One asked readers tough questions, like “do you remember Zork?” and “wasn’t Thundercats cool?” It followed Wade Watts as...

This Brooklyn Nine-nine review contains spoilers.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 7 Episode 11

With everything that’s happening right now with the coronavirus pandemic, it’s nice to know that some traditions are still being observed. In the real world, we may not be able to celebrate Passover or Easter in a normal fashion. However, in the fictional version of Brooklyn on NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, there’s no virus putting the brakes on the annual heist. Well, ok, there are multiple breaks put on the Halloween Heist during “Valloweaster” but that’s all by crafty design.

Being our seventh installment of the heist, the whole endeavor runs the risk of growing stale, so new elements must be thrown in to keep things fresh. This year, within the show, that fresh element is random, handcuffed partners, while the writers take advantage of the season’s schedule no longer lining up with Halloween by...

Trailers From Hell is featuring more movies you never heard of this week, so my wine selections should be easy pairings – more wines you never heard of. Wine aficionados and movie buffs say those are the best ones, anyway. Everybody likes to think they are a cult of one. In my younger days, music at my place was like “stump the band.” If you had ever heard it anywhere else, it wouldn’t find my turntable. My fondness for Bruce Springsteen’s music knew no limits in those years, but diminished with each of my friends who signed on as believers. Oh, I still liked him as a superstar, it just wasn’t the same with everyone else on board.

The Admiral is a 2014 South Korean film, one of the many which did not receive an Academy Award for Best Picture. The South Korean director who did win mentioned that...

Title: Admiral (Aka: Michiel de Ruyter) XLrator Media Director: Roel Reiné Writer: Alex van Galen & Lars Boom Cast: Frank Lammers, Sanne Langelaar, Barry Atsma, Egbert Jan-Weeber, Rutger Hauer, Charles Dance Running time: 2hrs 2min Rating: Unrated (violence, language, nudity) Available On VOD And iTUNES: February 23, 2016 In Theaters: March 11, 2016 Biopic of 17th century Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, the founder of the Dutch Marine Corps and Netherland’s best strategist. After many successful victories, the Admiral is being pressured by his doting wife Anna ( Sanne Langelaar) to retire and help raise their children, because she is tired of waiting with bated breath for him to return from each battle. [ Read More ]

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Two powerful Naval armies square off for supremacy over the high seas in our exclusive clip from Admiral, arriving on VOD and Digital HD formats February 23, before arriving in select theaters on March 11. Frank Lammers stars as Dutch captain Michiel de Ruyter, who is featured in this clip as his ship engages in warfare. Will the Dutch fleet live to see another day? From the looks of this scene, it seems they're in quite a strong position.

When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and the country itself is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter. This film is based on the true story of Michiel de Ruyter, the 17th Century admiral who became famous for his battles in the Anglo-Dutch Wars. He scored several victories against both the English and French armies,...

Read More: Why 'Childhood's End' Doesn't Tell You How to Feel About That Ending In the new drama "Admiral," Dutch director Roel Reiné is uncovering an often overlooked part of European history. The official synopsis reads: "When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany, and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michiel de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon: the Dutch fleet."  With a robust and impressive cast including Frank Lammers, Sanne Langelaar, Rutger Hauer and Charles Dance, "Admiral" looks to be an entertaining adventure. The film will be released by XLrator on VOD starting February 23 and in theaters on March 11. Read More: XLrator Media Acquires Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Doc 'Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation'...

At the Holland Film Meeting (Hfm) several new projects and new policy initiatives have been announced.

Hfm (Sept 24-27) is the industry component of the Netherlands Film Festival, the 10-day event in Utrecht showcasing he best in Dutch film and which culminates with the most prestigious prizes in Dutch Film - the Golden Calf awards.

The festival itself started in rancorous fashion with the news that producer Klaas de Jong had pulled Roel Reiné’s seafaring epic Michiel de Ruyter from the competition.

De Jong was unhappy that the film hadn’t been nominated for a Best Picture award despite being one of the most commercial Dutch movies of the year.

He complained in the local press that the awards were too arthouse-oriented and didn’t pay enough attention to films that reached the popular audience.

Festival director Willemien van Aalst strongly denied that the festival was ignoring populist fare.

“The Netherlands...

Charles Dance (TV’s Game of Thrones, The Imitation Game) and Rutger Hauer (Sin City, Batman Begins) star in this epic adventure about a 17th century Dutch admiral, who must lead his fleet to defend his homeland from the terrorising forces of England.

Admiral Michiel de Ruyter is the most famous, and one of the most skilled admirals in Dutch history, most celebrated for his role in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century. He was held in the highest esteem by his sailors and soldiers, who used the term Bestevaêr (Grandfather) for him, as a result of his disregard for hierarchy and his refusal to back away from risky and bold undertakings despite his usually reserved and calculated nature.

We are giving one lucky reader the chance to win Admiral on DVD due to be released on 3rd August 2015. The winner will also receive a LG 42″ inch entry Led full HD TV,...

Known on it's native soil by the name of its titular character Michiel De Ruyter, the Dutch historical epic film by Roel Reiné has been picked up for North American distribution by XLrator Media on their Turbo label. Here in North America it will be simply known as Admiral because I am sure that no one wants to piss off the Dutch by pronouncing De Ruyter's name wrong. Especially our own Ard. That guy writes the nastiest e-mails when he has been slighted. Admiral tells the story of one of the most famous and beloved historical figures in Dutch history, Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. When the young republic of the Netherlands is attacked in the 17th century by England, France and Germany, and the country finds...

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XLrator Media has acquired North American rights from Arclight Films to the Dutch historical epic that premiered in Berlin earlier this year.

The distributor will release Admiral via its Turbo action label in early 2016.

Roel Reiné directed and Klaas de Jong produced the 17th century-set story that takes place during the Anglo-Dutch naval wars and centres on Holland’s Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. Charles Dance, Rutger Hauer and Frank Lammers star.

“Admiral is a dazzling film of epic proportions with larger-than-life naval battles that haven’t been seen since Master And Commander,” said XLrator Media CEO Barry Gordon.

“Audiences will be blown away by the amazing cinematography and action set-pieces, coupled with stunning performances from the entire cast. As proven by the huge success of the Game Of Thrones series and our own recent Ironclad films, action fans have a huge appetite for exciting content based on historical facts and themes.

“Admiral is a unique...

XLrator Media has snagged North American distribution rights to Admiral, with plans to release the pic on its Turbo action label in early 2016. Set in the 17th century during the Anglo-Dutch naval war, the film follows the famous heroic figure Admiral Michiel de Ruyter as he leads the Dutch fleet in a battle against England, Germany, and France at a time when the young republic of Netherlands was on the brink of its own civil war. Charles Dance (Game Of Thrones), Rutger…...

Arclight Films has sold Roel Reine’s Admiral - set for a gala screening at the Beijing International Film Festival (Bjiff) - to Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

The Dutch historical epic, which topped the Netherlands’ box office when it was released in January under the title, has sold to the UK (Signature Entertainment), Germany (Lighthouse), Japan (Transformer), Turkey (Aqua Pinema), Vietnam (Galaxy) and the Middle East (Italia Films).

Set in the 17th Century, the film tells the story of Dutch naval hero Michiel de Ruyter and his battles against the English and other forces at a time when the Netherlands was on the verge of civil war.

The film stars Frank Lammers, Sanne Langelaar and Barry Atsma, along with Charles Dance and Rutger Hauer.

“It’s very exciting to be selected for a gala event at the Beijing International Film Festival and have the opportunity to bring Admiral to a larger audience,” said Reine.

“I...

Speaking in Rotterdam, Netherlands Film Fund director Doreen Boonekamp has delivered an upbeat assessment of the state of the Dutch film industry.

Boonekamp has also revealed details of how the country’s new cash rebate system, introduced last year, is driving up production levels.

Some €78m was spent on Dutch production last year, a considerable hike on production investment in 2013, which was around €14m less.

Boonekamp said, as a result of the new incentive, “a lot of post production work is going back to the Netherlands”.

The incentive offers a cash rebate of 30% on the eligible Dutch spend.

Since the incentive was launched in June 2014, 51 film projects have received a total of €13.6m from the scheme.

These have included high profile projects such as Mike van Diem’s De Surprise, Alex van Warmerdam’s Schneider vs. Bax, Polish feature Math Sucks, Austrian movie The Night Of A Thousand Hours, and Roel Reiné’s epic seafaring yarn Michiel de Ruyter...

Leo Hannewijk, festival director at Film by the Sea in Vlissingen, has taken up a new, additional role as film commissioner in Zeeland.

His appointment comes as film activity in the region is intensifying, partly in response to the new Dutch cash rebate incentive introduced last year.

Recent films to have shot in Zeeland include Berlinale title Confetti Harvest, the first feature by Tallulah H. Schwab and Sergio Herman, Fucking Perfect, a feature doc about the titular master chef who decides to let go of his three-star restaurant Oud Sluis in the region in order to fulfill his dreams.

Also shooting in the region was Roel Reiné’s epic seafaring costume drama Michiel De Ruyter, starring Charles Dance, Frank Lammers and Rutger Hauer. A Film will be giving Michiel De Ruyter a 150-copy release in the Netherlands later this month.

Hannewijk and his colleagues in Zeeland will be meeting with Reiné next week to have talks about making...

Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster, Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein In Guanajuato and Alex van Warmerdam’s Schneider vs. Bax among those to receive a share of €8.5m ($11.4m) from the new Netherlands Film Production Incentive.Scroll down for full list of projects

A total of 34 film projects have received funding totaling €8.5m ($11.4m) from the budget of the new Netherlands Film Production Incentive.

It is anticipated that these projects will generate €47.9m ($64.6m) in Netherlands-based production expenditure.

Some 21 of the 34 successful applicants were international co-productions of feature films and documentaries, in which a Dutch producer has a majority or minority stake.

Productions include The Night Of A Thousand Hours by screenwriter/director Virgil Widrich, a co-production between Austria (Amour Fou Vienna), Luxembourg (Amour Fou Luxembourg) and The Netherlands (KeyFilm); The Lobster by director/screenwriter Yorgos Lanthimos, a co-production between Ireland (Element Pictures), France (Haut et Court), Greece (Faliro House), UK (Scarlet Films) and The Netherlands (Lemming Film); and...

Ten films get €2m ($2.7m), including projects from Wolfgang Becker, Kathrine Windfeld.

Amounts per project vary between € 50,000 ($68,760) and € 400,000 ($550,080).

Among the projects are films from Wolfgang Becker, writer-director of Good Bye Lenin, and Kathrine Windfeld, director of Hamilton: In the Interests of a Nation and TV series including The Bridge, The Killing and Wallander.

Becker’s drama Me and Kamiski, starring Daniel Bruhl, Denis Lavant, Jesper Christensen, Karlo Marcovics, Geraldine Chaplin and Amira Casar, is currently in post-production.

Lars Mikkelsen stars alongside Flemish actors Veerle Baetens, Koen De Bouw, Filip Peeters and Hilde Van Mieghem in Windfeld’s new European police series The Team.

The 10 projects to receive Screen Flanders support are:

• Another Day of Life

Dir: Raul de la Fuente & Damian Nenow; Main prod: Platige Images (Pl); Belgian co-prod: Walking The Dog; documentary

• Archibelge!

Dir: Sofie Benoot & Gilles Coton; Main/Belgian prod: Off World; documentary

• Deadline 25/5

Dir: Maarten Moerkerke; Main/Belgian prod: Menuet; fiction

• Dimitri

Dir: Agnès...

Screen Flanders has backed ten projects to the tune of €2m ($2.7m).

Amounts per project vary between € 50,000 ($68,760) and € 400,000 ($550,080) per project.

The 10 projects that receive Screen Flanders support are:

• Another Day of Life

Dir: Raul de la Fuente & Damian Nenow; Main prod: Platige Images (Pl); Belgian co-prod: Walking The Dog; documentary

• Archibelge!

Dir: Sofie Benoot & Gilles Coton; Main/Belgian prod: Off World; documentary

• Deadline 25/5

Dir: Maarten Moerkerke; Main/Belgian prod: Menuet; fiction

• Dimitri

Dir: Agnès Lecreux, Fabien Drouet, Ben Tesseur & Steven De Beul; Main prod: Vivement Lundi ! (Fr); Belgian co-prod: Beast Productions; animation

• La Tierra Roja

Dir: Martinez Vignatti Diego; Main prod: Entre Chien et Loup (Be); Flemish co-prod: A Private View; fiction

• Me & Kaminski

Dir: Wolfgang Becker; Main prod: X Filme Creative Pool (De); Belgian co-prod: Potemkino; fiction

• Michiel de Ruyter

Dir: Roel Reiné; Main prod: Farmhouse TV & Film (Nl); Belgian co-prod: Ciné Cri de Coeur; fiction

• Onder het hart

Dir: Nicole Van Kilsdonk; Main prod: Waterland...