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Ferrara and Snipes re-team for 'Game of Death'

12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

Almost two decades since they last worked together on King of New York, Abel Ferrara will be re-teaming with Wesley Snipes in Game of Death - which is not a remake of the Bruce Lee film. - Almost two decades since they last worked together on King of New York, Abel Ferrara will be re-teaming with Wesley Snipes in Game of Death - which is not a remake of the Bruce Lee film. The state of Michigan will offer a tax benefit for the action thriller that in a perfect world would put Snipes back on the map. Screen Daily reports that Sony already holds the Us rights to the story of a hospitalised politician’s bodyguard who discovers the truth behind his mission as he tries to stop five of the world’s top assassins from killing his boss. Billy Dietrich (exec producer on Giallo) and Rafael Primorac »

- Ioncinema.com Staff

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Game Of Death Loses Director Abel Ferrara

1 November 2009 2:12 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

King of New York fans will be disappointed to find out that Abel Ferrara has backed out of directing the action flick Game of Death. The film was supposed to mark the reunion of Ferrara with his King of New York cast member, Wesley Snipes, but for unknown reasons Ferrara has stepped aside. Game of Death focuses on a diplomat.s bodyguard (Snipes) injured during an assassination attempt. After the incident, everyone is taken to the hospital where this bodyguard meets a nurse played by Zoe Bell. Together they try to protect the diplomat from a gang of assassins led by Gary Daniels as a guy named Zander. Movie Hole says Giorgio Serafini will take Ferrara.s place. Scratch that, actually Mh says Georgio Serafini will direct, but I assume they are referring to Italian director Giorgio Serafini. If so, little is known of his work Stateside since his resume »

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The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Taiwanese Transformers Defend Us from Melancholia

11 October 2009 7:34 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

From Saw to Chainsaw—We're smack dab in the middle of a 3-D renaissance right now, and for every exciting project like Avatar, there are party-poopers who are just using the technology as a fad to follow rather than a storytelling device. With the success of The Final Destination 3-D, we're now seeing horror movies lining up to jump out of the screen. Have a look at which are coming, and find out how being a screenwriter can get you out of sticky situations.

The Good

• I mentioned back in June how, not to be outdone by Tokyo's life-size Gundam, Kobe decided to build a life-size replica of Gigantor (better known there as Tetsujin 28-go). The 60-feet tall statue was finally completed last week, and unlike the life-size Gundam—which has now been dismantled—the life-size Gigantor is a permanent fixture in Kobe's Wakamatsu Park.

More photos from the Mainichi Daily News. »

- Arya Ponto

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Wesley Snipes On Ferrara Game Of Death

11 October 2009 12:15 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »

Wesley Snipes is teaming up with director Abel Ferrara for “Game Of Death,” according to Variety.com. Snipes will star as the bodyguard of a politician who must defend his client when the politician is targeted by five of the most lethal assassins in the world. Zoe Bell and Robert Davi co-star in the project as well. Ferrara and Snipes last last worked together on 1990’s “King of New York.” James Agnew wrote the script for “Game Of Death”, which Billy Dietrich and Rafael Primorac are onboard to produce. Roger Grad, Nicolas Chartier and Nadine de Barros are executive producing. Production on the project starts in [...] »

- Costa Koutsoutis

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Wesley Snipes To Star In ‘Game of Death’

8 October 2009 8:30 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Wesley’s jump-kicking his way back into theaters with a new action flick from Abel Ferrara, the man who brought us Bad Lieutenant and King of New York back in the early nineties.

A little birdie over at First Showing told me that Game of Death follows Snipes’ character, a “politician’s bodyguard who must fend off five of the world’s top assassins.”  Is anybody else thinking of Ninja Scroll right now and resisting the urge to expect an amazing movie? There’s a lot of room for creating super bad-ass villains here and if these guys are smart, they’ll recognize that a huge draw for the movie could be the creative, deadly specialties of the surely-to-be-thwarted killers.

 

For those who don’t know, Snipes and the U.S. Government had a falling out.

This guy spends his life playing characters who never back down and then he »

- Scott Miller

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Snipes, Ferrara to play the 'Game'

8 October 2009 10:51 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Wesley Snipes and director Abel Ferrara are working together again on the action-thriller "Game of Death."It would be their first project together since Ferrara's 1990 cult gangster film "King of New York," which also starred Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne and David Caruso.Snipes will star as a politician's bodyguard who must fight five of the world's top assassins. Zoe Bell and Robert Davi co-star.The script was written by James Agnew. Billy Dietrich and Rafael Primorac are producing. Voltage Pictures' Nicolas Chartier and Nadine de Barros, and Roger Grad will executive produce. Alastair Burlingham and Steve Robbins of Perpetual Media Capital also executive produce.According to Variety, the film started shooting this week in Detroit. »

- Adnan Tezer

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Wesley Snipes Teaming Up with Abel Ferrara Once Again for Game of Death

8 October 2009 8:40 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Things haven't been so great for Wesley Snipes post-Blade 3. He appeared in a string of direct-to-video action movies, ran into a bit of tiff with the federal government, and pretty much seemed to fall of the radar. Now it looks like Snipes' luck could be changing for the better: He has a role in Antoine Fuqua's upcoming Brooklyn's Finest, and today we've learned that he's reteaming with Abel Ferrara (who directed Snipes in King of New York) for a new action thriller, Game of Death. If you were expecting Snipes to be climbing an ascending pagoda fighting a variety of martial artists, expect to be disappointed. In this film Snipes will star as a bodyguard who is tasked with protecting a politician from five of the world's best assassins. Now that I've written that out, I could see the film potentially being some sort of spiritual successor to »

- Devindra Hardawar

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Wesley Snipes Back in Action in ‘Game of Death’

8 October 2009 7:16 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Don't call it a comeback for Wesley Snipes and director Abel Ferrara, they've been here for years. Of course, it's been a long time since they've been at the top of their games -- notably in 1990, when they teamed up to deliver the cult hit King of New York. Since then they've chosen different paths. Snipes went on to become a major action star of the 90s (and beyond) with films such as Passenger 57, The Fan and the Blade trilogy. He's been off his game since about 2005 due to some off-camera tax problems. Ferrara, on the other hand, has been off his game for much longer than that. He followed King of New York with several solid efforst over the next four years, including Bad Lieutenent, a not quite awesome horror remake Bodysnatchers and the Harvel Keitel and Madonna led pic Dangerous Game. But he's been far from the spotlight ever since. Perhaps »

- Neil Miller

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Wesley Snipes Will Play a Game of Death

8 October 2009 5:11 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Wesley Snipes will join Bad Lieutenant director Abel Ferrara for Game of Death, a film which likely has nothing at all to do with the Bruce Lee film of the same name.

Snipes, who seemed to be at a high a few years ago with a starring role in Blade Trinity, was last seen in the direct to video Art of War II: Betrayal. His career has been rocked by a three-year prison sentence for tax evasion, and he needs a film to get him back on track. Since the details regarding Game of Death’s plot are sparse, it’s hard to tell if this is the one that’ll do the trick. Snipes will simply play “a politician’s bodyguard who must fend off five of the world’s top assassins.”

Snipes and Ferrara previously worked together on King of New York in 1990. Game of Death will co-star »

- John Cooper

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Wesley Snipes To Play Game Of Death

8 October 2009 3:53 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »

Wesley Snipes and director Abel Ferrara are reuniting to work on the action thriller Game Of Death.

The pair last worked together on the underrated 1990 cult crime thriller The King of New York. For Game Of Death, Ferrara will direct Snipes playing a politician's bodyguard who must fend off five of the world's top assassins. Zoe Bell (Gamer) and Robert Davi (The Dukes) co-star in the script penned by James Agnew.

Shooting begins this week in Detroit.

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Wesley Snipes playing a Game Of Death

8 October 2009 12:33 AM, PDT | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »

Despite tax troubles and a stint mostly doing straight-to-video action guff, Wesley Snipes can still count on some contacts - like Abel Ferrara. The director has cast Snipes in his new thriller Game Of Death, which sees the pair working together for the first time since 1990's King Of New York. In the film, Snipes will play a politician's bodyguard, who must stop five of the world's best assassins from taking out his boss. Zoe Bell and Robert Davi are also in the cast and Ferrara started shooting this week in...

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- James White

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Wesley Snipes and Abel Ferrera Will Play a Game of Death

7 October 2009 11:19 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Wesley Snipes might be the only actor to make the jump from vampire hunting to tax evasion.  While Snipes has certainly had his fair share of great performances, his spotlight gradually faded.  Let's face it, an actor has a real problem when there's an entire section on his Wikipedia page dedicated to "legal problems." But everyone loves a comeback, and Snipes is attempting to make the leap from straight-to-dvd releases back to theatrically released films as Variety reports he's teaming with director Abel Ferrera (who last worked with Snipes on the 1990 cult film King of New York) for the action-thriller Game of Death. This particular game follows "a politician's bodyguard [Snipes] who must fend off five of the world's top assassins." Sounds like it would be more successful as a video game, but it'll probably have lots of good action. The script is the first to be produced from writer »

- Ethan Anderton

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Wesley Snipes To Play The Game Of Death

7 October 2009 10:02 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Apparently Wesley Snipes is still an actor. You could have fooled me. I.m one of those dudes that thinks he should.ve stuck with what he was good at and stayed on board for all of the Major League sequels. He just made so much sense as Willie Mays Hayes. Yeah, sure, the Blade movies were okay, but it.s the playoffs, and the Major League franchise deserves some credit. Unfortunately, Snipes will not be a baseball player in his next movie role. Instead, according to Variety, he.ll be teaming back up with director Abel Ferrara, the guy who directed Snipes in King of New York, to star in Game of Death. The film has Snipes playing a politician.s bodyguard, who must protect his client from five of the world.s top assassins. No, seriously. That.s the plot. The movie will co-star Zoe Bell and Robert »

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Wesley Snipes and Abel Ferrara Team for Game of Death

7 October 2009 7:33 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Wesley Snipes and director Abel Ferrara are re-teaming for the action-thriller Game of Death, marking their first project together since Ferrara's 1990 cult feature King of New York.

According to Variety, Snipes stars as a politician's bodyguard who must fend off five of the world's top assassins. Zoe Bell and Robert Davi co-star.

Game of Death was penned by James Agnew.

The film started shooting this week in Detroit.

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Game of Death, or Whoa, what’s Abel Ferrara Doing Directing a Wesley Snipes Direct-to-dvd Action Movie?

7 October 2009 9:34 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

Apparently Abel Ferrara has a long overdue house payment to make, because he’s currently directing a (sure to be direct-to-dvd) action movie starring Wesley Snipes called “Game of Death”. The film has Snipes playing a politician’s bodyguard who discovers the truth behind his mission, even as he tries to to stop the world’s top five assassins from killing his boss. I’ll admit that I’m not an expert on Abel Ferrara or his filmography, but aside from “King of New York” in 1990 (which also co-starred Snipes as a cop trying to bring down Christopher Walken’s drug dealing kingpin), I don’t think he’s actually ever directed a straight-up action movie like this before. Nicolas Chartier of Voltage Pictures calls “Game of Death” a “very edgy and exciting action film”, but we’ll just have to see if it diverts significantly, if any, from Snipes’ recent spate of bland, »

- Nix

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50 Cent's Jekyll and Hyde Poster and Plot Revealed

15 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »

Back in May it was announced that Forest Whitaker and rapper 50 Cent had signed on to play the lead roles in "Jekyll and Hyde," the classic tale about a doctor who invents a potion that unleashes his violent alter ego. The new film is directed by Abel Ferrara (King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) who started shooting during the Summer. Now, thanks to Bloody-Disgusting, we have the official plot synopsis and a low-res promo poster for the film. Check out both below. Plot: Dr Jekyll (Whitaker) is a rich doctor of great generosity who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Mr Hyde (50 Cent) is a sadistic murderer with a reputation that strikes fear in to the hearts of people throughout New York. Peter Utterson, Dr Jekyll's lawyer and friend, investigates the mystery of who Mr Hyde is and why he is the sole beneficiary of Jekyll's will. The »

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Jadakiss Claims Throne With "The Last Kiss"

18 April 2009 6:26 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

While Nas and Jay-z battle for the "King Of New York" throne, Jadakiss has quietly become the undisputed prince.

Play a Jadakiss track at your local house party or favorite watering hole, and New Yorkers resoundingly take notice.

The road to the top for Kiss started at age 17, when he gained aclaim for his battle-rap skills at the "Jack the Rapper Competition" in Florida. Dee and Wah of the Ruff Ryders (then a management company) took notice. Kiss began battling outside the Ruff Ryders' studio where artists like Dmx made their first hits.

In 1994, Jadakiss, Sheek Louch and Styles P formed a group they called the Lox and were signed to Bad Boy Records. The Lox formed a close relationship with deceased rap legend Biggie Smalls, and got their first multi-platinum single with "We'll Always Love Big Poppa", a tribute to B.I.G.

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17 articles from 2009

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