Dolph Lundgren and Danny Trejo in 4Got10 coming in October

Cinedigm has announced the October release date for the DVD and Blu-Ray of their upcoming film, 4GOT10.
The venerable stars of awesome action movies, Dolph Lundgren (Rocky), Danny Trejo (Machete), Michael Paré (Streets Of Fire) and Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill) team up in this hard bitten, kick ass action/crime movie.

According to Flickering Myth, the film is about a wounded man (Messner), who suddenly wakes up in the desert.
Surrounded by bodies, the mysterious stranger has no memory, but he comes loaded with three million dollars cash. On the run from the law and mob, the man with no name has to stay one step ahead from a ruthless DEA Agent (Lundgren), the Mexican Cartel Boss (Trejo) and the local sheriff (Paré). The amnesiac discovers that the more he remembers, the less he actually wants to know about who he really is.

Cinedigm says, Director Timothy Woodward Jr.’s vision created a modern, semi-western style which he’s described as “Django Unchained” meets “Memento”. In addition to his talent, Timothy is known for giving his actors the freedom to improvise, and encourages their creative input to help the scenes flow organically.

Woodward, Jr. explained how the concept came about,
"My team and I worked hard to create a stylized picture that captures the characters in this fascinating fictitious small town. The modernized western approach furthers our intention to encapsulate the grittiness of the world and the realness of the characters.”

Woodward adds, "Our use of practical effects (as opposed to CG) intensifies the grittiness of the world. When you use real effects - real fire, hot guns, true explosions - you throw the actors right into the middle of the situation, harvesting their most authentic reactions. This can be difference between a good action film and a great one.”

From us here at Dr.Action and the Kick Ass Kid we love our frequent doses of Lundgren and Trejo straight-to-video action. Yeah they can be a bit hit and miss but that only reminds us more of the heyday of video action films. The trailer and the talk from the director definitely has our interest piqued for this one.
After Skin Trade I hope Lundgren continues to pump out the interesting performances and the cool, ass kicking roles for a long time yet!

Check out the trailer below!

New Trailer for cool, female driven, action thriller Awaken

AWAKEN is a new psychological Thriller/Action/Horror film co-written, co-produced and starring Natalie Burn. It takes place in Central America and is a prison escape, jungle survival action film in which a small band of fugitives attempt to bring down a mysterious organ harvesting ring lead by the sinister and evil Daryl Hannah.
As you can see from the trailer it has some great action sequences, some strong photography and a killer cast that includes Daryl Hannah, Vinnie Jones, Edward Furlong, Robert Davi, Natalie Burn & Jason London.
More on this as we find out!

Bruce Willis is cranky and expiring?

Bruce Willis is going where his younger, also bald, Expendable compadre Jason Statham has gone before and has signed on to star as a hitman in a new $60 million dollar action thriller Expiration.
The plot would see Willis poisoned and having to frantically look for the cure before he expires.

The script is written by Broken City writer Brian Tucker, who must've never heard of Crank I guess, and the film is set to begin production in March 2014.

"The deal was announced in Cannes by Randall Emmett and George Furla, co-founders of Emmett/Furla Films. In addition to the firm, Tucker is also producing, with Steven Eads executive producing.

Emmett/Furla is in negotiations to lock in a director for the film and plans to present it to buyers in June." - Source The Hollywood Reporter

- The Kick Ass Kid

Scott Adkins and Randy Couture to star in Distant Shore

News announced tonight that Scott Adkins next film will be an action thriller called 'Distant Shore'.

His official Facebook page said
"Described as being in the vein of Dead Calm and The Grey, the story centers around a couple who sails into the ocean to commit suicide but are interrupted by the arrival of another mysterious vessel. Before long these two people who were ready to die are fighting to stay alive."

It is being produced by indie producers Joseph and Jack Nasser
The Nassers’ NGN Releasing is teaming up with Studio City Pictures to finance the film which has a script by Dan Benamor and Evan Jacobs and has Dominic James(Die) on board as director.

Reports are that this will be filmed later this year and then Couture will move on to the set of Expendables 3.

Source The Hollywood Reporter