Jim Caviezel, Cung Le, Harold Perrineau, and Peter Weller films among After Dark Action festival movie release set

Dark Castle and After Dark Films will debut a new action movie franchise called After Dark Action, according to After Dark Films’ President Courtney Solomon. The first generation of After Dark Action movies includes five original, adrenaline-pumping films starring international stars such as Jean Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Peter Weller, Jim Caviezel, Cung Le ….

Manny Pacquiao to host premiere party for ground-breaking Filipino mainstream U.S. movie release

The Road is a ground-breaking foreign language horror film by acclaimed director Yam Laranas. As one of the first all-Filipino mainstream releases in the U.S., The Road anticipates a huge response, similar to the popular foreign action feature The Raid. Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao will host the The Road Premiere and After-Party on May 9th, ….

Freestyle to release Mario Van Peebles’ blues drama Redemption Road on streaming and disc

Freestyle Digital Media has nabbed DVD and VOD rights for filmmaker Mario Van Peebles’ drama Redemption Road from Liberty Road Entertainment and Heavy Duty Entertainment. The company also picked up the same rights to writer-director Marcus Dean Fuller’s supernatural drama One Fall from Compass Entertainment, Dean Silvers and Marlen Hecht. Both films will be released ….

Michael Pena to play labor organizer Cesar E. Chavez in biopic opposite America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson

Actor Michael Pena will see his dream role become a reality, as the Crash star is set to play 1960s and ’70s labor organizer Cesar E. Chavez in the indie biopic Chavez, which Diego Luna will direct, Variety reports. Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera will co-star as his wife, Helen Chavez, while Rosario Dawson (Sin City) ….

Men in Black III writer to make directorial debut with Boy Scouts vs. Zombies

Men in Black III writer Etan Cohen is in talks to make his directorial debut on Paramount Picture’s horror-comedy Boy Scouts vs. Zombies, according to Heat Vision. Boy Scouts vs. Zombies centers on a troop that must save a group of girl scouts from a pack of zombies that intend to turn a camping trip ….

Guy Pearce sci-fi thriller Lockout gets new release date

Lockout, the upcoming sci-fi thriller from the producers of Taken, will now be released one week earlier in the U.S., on April 13th, 2012. In Lockout, falsely convicted former government agent Snow (Guy Pearce) must rescue the President’s daughter (Maggie Grace) from an outer space maximum security prison after it is taken over by violent ….

Tim Burton animated film Frankenweenie IMAX news plus new images

IMAX and Walt Disney Studios today announced that Tim Burton’s stop-motion animated film, Frankenweenie will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX 3D format and released in IMAX digital theatres worldwide on October 5th, 2012. Frankenweenie marks the first black and white Hollywood feature and first stop-motion animated movie to be presented in IMAX. From ….