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  • First Images of Tom Hardy in ‘Havoc’

    Tom Hardy in 'Havoc'. Photo: Netflix.
    Tom Hardy in ‘Havoc’. Photo: Netflix.

    Preview:

    • The first pictures of Tom Hardy in new thriller ‘Havoc’ are online.
    • He’ll play a detective who has to unravel a web of corruption.
    • Gareth Evans wrote and directed the movie.

    A new action movie? From the director of ‘The Raid’ and its sequel, Gareth Evans? And starring Tom Hardy, a man with no little experience in the genre?

    ‘Havoc’ is the example of a movie we figured would be on the fastest of fast tracks, but despite backing from Netflix when it was originally announced in 2021, it has been a slow road to screens for the movie.

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    Most of that can be chalked up to tricky scheduling –– after an initial shoot, he knew he needed to tweak certain scenes and had some footage he needed to add, but between the in-demand Hardy and the variety of brawlers and other actors in the cast, he had to wait.

    Yet Evans, who has also worked on the likes of ‘Apostle,’ sees it as an advantage.

    This is what Evans said about that to Empire:

    “It’s had a profound effect on the film. It allowed me to better streamline it and make it what it was always intended to be, which is a blistering, fast-paced action-thriller with nods to the Hong Kong cinema that I grew up watching.”

    Related Article: Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan Starring in Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Associate’

    What’s the story of ‘Havoc’?

    Tom Hardy in 'Havoc'. Photo: Netflix.
    Tom Hardy in ‘Havoc’. Photo: Netflix.

    After a drug deal gone wrong, bruised detective Walker (Hardy) must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unravelling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.

    Here’s Evans talking up Hardy:

    “When it comes to a film called ‘Havoc, with me and Tom Hardy, we deliver on the action front. That’s the primary focus. But with Tom, what you get as well is an intensely muscular central performance, and really well-developed character. There’s a lot going on under the hood.”

    Who else appears in ‘Havoc’?

    (Left) Tom Hardy in 'Havoc'. Photo: Netflix.
    (Left) Tom Hardy in ‘Havoc’. Photo: Netflix.

    The cast for Evans’ latest also includes Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Michelle Waterson, Sunny Pang, Jim Caesar, Xelia Mendes-Jones with Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant and Forest Whitaker (the latter of whom plays the politician Hardy must help).

    When will ‘Havoc’ be on screens?

    If you’ve been waiting for this one for a while, you’ll need to hold on a little while longer –– the movie is scheduled for a 2025 release on Netflix, but the streamer has yet to confirm an exact date.

    Tom Hardy in 'Havoc'. Photo: Netflix.
    Tom Hardy in ‘Havoc’. Photo: Netflix.

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  • Paramount’s ‘Overlord’ Coming to Fantastic Fest 2018, First Wave of Programming Announced

    Paramount’s ‘Overlord’ Coming to Fantastic Fest 2018, First Wave of Programming Announced

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    One of the quirkier film festivals on the circuit just announced the first batch of titles that it will be screening at its annual event: Austin’s Fantastic Fest is gearing up for what it dubs “the very best in mind-melting mayhem and madness from all corners of the globe.”

    That superlative certainly applies to one of the highlights of the festival, “Overlord,” the new flick from J.J. Abrams‘s Bad Robot production company that mashes up a WWII setting with a horror-thriller vibe. Here’s how Fantastic Fest describes the flick:

    This exhilarating, nerve-shredding ride tells the story of American paratroopers dropped into occupied France on the eve of D-Day who discover a secret Nazi lab carrying out terrifying and bizarre supernatural experiments.

    Other notable events slated for the fest include the premiere of “Apostle,” the latest flick from Gareth Evans (“The Raid” series); a focus on international female genre filmmakers; and an exploration of South Korean cinema and the Korean Quota Quickies from the 1970s.

    The announced lineup so far is below. The 14th Annual Fantastic Fest is set to take over Austin from September 20 though September 27.
    FIRST WAVE FILM LINEUP:
    APOSTLE
    United Kingdom, 2018
    World Premiere, 129 min
    Director – Gareth Evans
    The year is 1905. Thomas Richardson travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.
    BAN GEUM-RYEON
    South Korea, 1981
    Regional Premiere, 90 min
    Director – Kim Ki-young
    From Park Chan-wook’s idol comes a twisted tale of lecherous lords and murderous mistresses. Presented outside of Korea for only the second time, Kim Ki-young’s masterpiece BAN GEUM-RYEON is a lush smorgasbord from Korea’s most demented cinematic mind.
    AGFA and BLEEDING SKULL PRESENT: BLOOD LAKE
    USA, 1987
    World Premiere of New Preservation, 82 min
    Director – Tim Boggs
    The finest vacation from hell ever captured on VHS, rescued from the original 1″ master tapes!
    BURNING
    South Korea, 2018
    Texas Premiere, 148 min
    Director – Lee Chang-dong

    Lee Chang-dong’s latest triumph weighs the delicate balance between creation and destruction as a writer runs into an old classmate who gets him caught up in a mystery bigger than both of them.

    CAM
    USA, 2018
    US Premiere, 94 min
    Director – Daniel Goldhaber
    In Attendance – Writer/Producer Isa Mazzei
    Alice is a camgirl with principles. She doesn’t do public shows, she doesn’t tell her fans she loves them, and she doesn’t fake her orgasms. But when a mysterious lookalike takes over her channel, the rules no longer apply.
    DOG
    France, 2017
    US Premiere, 87 min
    Director – Samuel Benchetrit
    A dark fable about loneliness, perfectly illustrated by Jacques Blanchot’s loss of humanity and slow transformation into a dog. Director Samuel Benchetrit shares a subtle commentary on our current world, and its social, interpersonal, and political issues.
    AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN
    USA, 2018
    Texas Premiere, 108 min
    Director – Jim Hosking
    Fantastic Fest alumni director Jim Hosking (THE GREASY STRANGLER; RENEGADES) is back with a second feature as absurd, crazy, and funny as his first. Follow Lulu Danger’s very own revolution in a Lynch-meets-Waters run-down version of America.
    THE GUILTY
    Denmark, 2018
    Austin Premiere, 85 min
    Director – Gustav Möller
    A horrific crime; an emergency responder struggling to stay off the edge; a kidnapping victim calling in for help. This is all we’re going to tell you about first-time feature filmmaker Gustav Möller’s unmissable and gripping debut thriller.
    HOLIDAY
    Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, 2018
    Texas Premiere, 93 min
    Director – Isabella Eklöf
    The sun-drenched dream of the eponymous summer vacation has its dark side revealed in Isabella Eklöf’s powerful debut feature HOLIDAY, an unforgettable exploration of the fraught, brutal experience of young womanhood.
    HOUSE OF SWEAT AND TEARS
    Spain, 2018
    World Premiere, 104 min
    Director – Sonia Escolano
    In Attendance – Director Sonia Escolano
    “She,” the leader of a violent cult, rules her flock with an iron fist to ensure they never stray from the path. But a series of events and a mysterious outsider threaten the pattern of their reality in this electrifying exploration of faith and belief.
    AGFA PRESENTS: I WAS A TEENAGE SERIAL KILLER
    USA, 1993
    World Premiere of New Restoration, 27 min
    Director – Sarah Jacobson
    Sarah Jacobson’s punk-spirited DIY films combine B-movie aesthetics and riot grrrl feminism in brand new 2K preservations.
    KEEP AN EYE OUT
    France, 2018
    North American Premiere, 73 min
    Director – Quentin Dupieux
    An absurd all-night interrogation set in a camp ’70s police station, Quentin Dupieux’s latest opus, KEEP AN EYE OUT, is a celebration of his own brand of quirky, offbeat humor, performed by France’s most refreshing comedic talents.
    LADYWORLD
    USA, 2018
    US Premiere, 93 min
    Director – Amanda Kramer
    In Attendance – Director Amanda Kramer and Actor/Co-Editor/Production Designer Noel David Taylor
    In Amanda Kramer’s daring low-budget debut LADYWORLD, a birthday party quickly devolves into chaos when a mysterious earthquake traps eight teenage girls alone in a house, challenging their friendships, identities, and eventually their grip on reality.
    LAIKA
    Czech Republic, 2017
    Regional Premiere, 88 min
    Director – Aurel Klimt
    In Attendance – Director Aurel Klimt
    This is the story of Laïka the space dog who, unlike in real life, did not die aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957. In this bizarre and charming stop-motion musical, Laïka crashes on a peculiar planet where she meets new friends.
    LUZ
    Germany, 2018
    US Premiere, 70 min
    Director – Tilman Singer
    In Attendance – Director Tilman Singer
    Luz enters a police station at night to report an assault. As the interrogation progresses, it becomes clear a demonic entity wants to possess her in this audacious, psychotropic horror film shot on 16mm.
    MADAM YANKELOVA’S FINE LITERATURE CLUB
    Israel, 2018
    International Premiere, 90 min
    Director – Guilhad Emilio Schenker
    Desperate, aging, Sophie only needs to seduce one more handsome victim – excuse me, date – to become a worry-free Lordess in MADAM YANKELOVA’S FINE LITERATURE CLUB, Israeli director Guilhad Emilio Schenker’s delightfully twisted debut feature.
    MANIAC
    USA, 1980
    World Premiere of New 4K Restoration, 88 min
    Director – William Lustig
    In Attendance – Director William Lustig
    The 4K restoration of grindhouse auteur Bill Lustig’s 1980 slasher landmark features splatter SFX artist Tom Savini’s gnarliest work, as well as one of horror’s finest, sweatiest performances from legendary character actor/co-writer Joe Spinell.
    AGFA PRESENTS: MARY JANE’S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE
    USA, 1997
    World Premiere of New Restoration, 98 min
    Director – Sarah Jacobson
    Sarah Jacobson’s punk-spirited DIY films combine B-movie aesthetics and riot grrrl feminism in brand new 2K preservations.
    MURDER ME, MONSTER
    Argentina, France, Chile, 2018
    North American Premiere, 109 min
    Director – Alejandro Fadel
    Visual horror masterpiece MURDER ME, MONSTER lures you into the fascinating and opaque underworld of serial murder, supernatural obsession, metaphysical hallucinations, forbidden love – and one nightmarishly gross monster.
    THE NIGHT COMES FOR US
    Indonesia, 2018
    World Premiere, 121 min
    Director – Timo Tjahjanto
    A former triad enforcer must protect a young girl while trying to escape his former gang, setting off a violent battle on the streets of Jakarta.
    THE NIGHT SHIFTER
    Brazil, 2018
    US Premiere, 110 min
    Director – Dennison Ramalho
    An attendant at a busy morgue who can also converse with the dead puts his loved ones in peril using his forbidden knowledge for vengeance in Dennison Ramalho’s (NINJAS; ABCS OF DEATH 2) twisted and gleefully icky feature debut.
    ONE CUT OF THE DEAD
    Japan, 2018
    Texas Premiere, 96 min
    Director – Shinichiro Ueda
    A filmmaker sets out to shoot a zombie film in an abandoned factory, but something is lurking on the outside. Is it a zombie apocalypse or just another shoot gone wrong?
    OPEN 24 HOURS
    USA, Serbia, 2018
    North American Premiere, 100 min
    Director – Padraig Reynolds
    In Attendance – Director Padraig Reynolds
    A young woman who had previously set her serial killer boyfriend on fire is now seeking normalcy by getting a job working the overnight shift at a 24-hour convenience store, where things are most definitely not going to be normal.
    OVERLORD
    USA, 2018
    World Premiere, TBD min
    Director – Julius Avery
    In Attendance – Director Julius Avery and cast including Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbaek, John Magaro, and Mathilde Ollivier
    In the upcoming WWII horror-thriller OVERLORD, a group of American paratroopers drop into Nazi-occupied France on the eve of D-Day. As they struggle to carry out their seemingly impossible mission, they discover a secret Nazi lab carrying out terrifying and bizarre supernatural experiments.
    PIERCING
    USA, 2018
    Texas Premiere, 81 min
    Director – Nicolas Pesce

    From the twisted mind of Nicolas Pesce (THE EYES OF MY MOTHER) comes a provocative two-hander chamberpiece – a tense battle of wits and desire between prostitute and trick, predator and prey.

    QUIT YOUR LIFE
    South Korea, 1971
    North American Premiere, 82 min
    Director – Park Nou-sik
    Presented in English for the first time, actor-director Park Nou-sik balances the scales of justice as he stalks around Korea with his noose of judgment in the relentless revenge drama QUIT YOUR LIFE.
    SCHOOL’S OUT
    France, 2018
    North American Premiere, 103 min
    Director – Sébastien Marnier
    In this dread-soaked cerebral thriller, a handsome young substitute teacher gets in over his head when taking on a class of gifted students after their former teacher’s dramatic in-class suicide.
    TERRIFIED
    Argentina, 2017
    US Premiere, 87 min
    Director – Demián Rugna
    In Attendance – Director Demián Rugna
    Strange things are going on in a Buenos Aires neighborhood. Demián Rugna’s constantly surprising and truly spine-chilling horror film has one goal: to scare the shit out of everyone.
    THE UNTHINKABLE
    Sweden, 2018
    World Premiere, 129 min
    Director – Crazy Pictures
    Something unthinkable is happening in Sweden. It starts with a few isolated incidents but suddenly, it’s all over the country. There are some who were prepared and others who weren’t. Ready or not, things will go out with a bang!
    VIOLENCE VOYAGER
    Japan, 2018
    Regional Premiere, 83 min
    Director – Ujicha
    En route to visit a friend in another village, two kids go looking for a fabled shortcut through the mountain. Instead, they stumble upon an amusement park called Violence Voyager, and that’s when everything goes to shit.
    WHEN THE TREES FALL
    Ukraine, Poland, Macedonia, 2018
    North American Premiere, 88 min
    Director – Marysia Nikitiuk
    In Attendance – Director Marysia Nikitiuk
    Scar and Larysa are desperately in love and suffocating under the tradition and archaic demands of their Ukrainian village. When the frustrations of each finally detonate, their world and the lives of those surrounding them are tragically shattered.
    THE WOLF HOUSE
    Chile, 2018
    North American Premiere, 73 min
    Directors – Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña
    In Attendance – Director Cristóbal León
    An animated tale, supposedly restored from the archives of a German colony by the Chilean government, THE WOLF HOUSE is the unsettling story of Maria, punished with a hundred nights alone in a cabin in the woods.