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Action thriller “Badges of Fury,” starring Jet Li and Zhang Wen, has seen strong international sales prior to its Chinese opening next month. Arclight Films specialty label Easternlight is selling “Badges of Fury” at Cannes, signing Well Go for North America. Other territories sold include Australia/NZ to Topkey; Germany to Constantin; Hong Kong and Macaw... Read more »

Alrighty, fiends! The release of The Purge is right around the corner, and we're giving away tickets for some advance screenings in the following cities: New York City; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; San Francisco, CA; and Chicago, IL! If you live in one of them, read on for info regarding your hot ticket! To enter for your chance to win, just send us an E-MAIL HERE including your FULL NAME, MAILING ADDRESS, AND CITY OF CHOICE. We’ll take care of the rest. Directed by James DeMonaco (writer of Assault on Precinct 13 and The Negotiator), The Purge is produced by Jason Blum of Blumhouse (Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister) and Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form (The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) as well as Sébastien Kurt Lemercier (Assault on Precinct 13). It stars Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, and Adelaide Kane. Look for it in theatres on June 7th. Synopsis In an America wracked by crime, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity—including murder—is legal. The police can’t be called. Hospitals suspend help. It is one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON! Got news? Click here to submit it! Go nuts in the comments section below.

.I have of course posted still pictures from this scene in the movie Advice From a Caterpillar before, for a good long while it was the only naked Timothy Olyphant there was to be had, but now that I've hopped on the gif train I can go back and revisit these wonders anew, with motion and life! It's Timothy Olyphant's 45th birthday today - we do all agree that he's only gotten better with age right? I was going to use the "fine wine" line but he's really more a bourbon. Stiff, and he'll knock you right on the floor. I was checking what he's got coming up, other than more Justified which I am totally never going to catch up on, and I was reminded of Bone Tomahawk, the movie where he and Richard Jenkins and Kurt Russell and Peter Sarsgaard are going to play Wild West ruffians who set out to "to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers." Tell me you don't want to see that movie right this instant. It hasn't even filmed yet though, I don't think; it's set for next year. Gimme!

Trailer for Love City Jalalabad. Internationally renowned filmmaker and artist George Gittoes has learned that documentation of frontline action is not enough; he wants to use art to bring about change. He forms a Yellow House, an artists' collective, in the western Afghan city of Jalalabad - a province long controlled by the Taliban. Next he decides to make movies, recruiting female actors from Pakistan (there are no Pashtun-speaking Afghan women actors) to join Australian performance artist Hellen Rose, and action star Amir Shah. Determined to film an Afghan story, not a foreign one, Gittoes is often stymied in his attempts, but his dogged determination wins through. Filed Under: Love City Jalalabad Tags: Sydney Film Festival, Documentary, Foreign / Foreign Language

Chevy's demands have everyone in the agency turning to a shady doctor for 'creative assistance,' in 'Mad Men' season 3 episode 8: 'The Crash.'

Trailer for Lasting. Winner of the Cinematography Award at Sundance, Lasting is a sensual film about young love, and how a single moment can have grave repercussions for a couple's future - both together and as individuals. Michał and Karina are a pair of Polish students who meet and fall in love while working summer jobs in Spain. Using beautiful imagery, director Jacek Borcuch (All That I Love) captures the energy and exhilaration of young love and desire, and the feeling of great expectation at the beginning of a great romance. But both Michał and Karina return to Poland bearing secrets, one dark and one full of great promise. How they negotiate these secrets will dictate whether they can last together or not. Using a simple love story at the core, Borcuch has made a sophisticated and complex film that lingers long after it ends. Filed Under: Lasting Tags: Sydney Film Festival, Drama, Romance, Foreign / Foreign Language, Jakub Gierszal, Magdalena Berus

Tyrion and Sansa prepare to be wed, while Melisandre makes a demonstration out of Gendry, in 'Game of Thrones' episode 8: 'Second Sons.'

Glen Basner’s FilmNation has secured multiple major territory deals on Tarsem Singh’s “self/less,” marking the first pic to sell out at Cannes this year. FilmDistrict plans to unspool the Ryan Reynolds-toplined pic in the U.S. Among major deals unveiled Monday at Cannes include Canada (VVS), U.K. (Entertainment Films), Japan (Kino Films), France (SND), Spain (Dea... Read more »

Already a world leader in finished films, Cannes is entering the unfinished film business.

Martin Scorsese will present Brooks with the honor June 6.