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Butler plays a tough cop in the recently released heist action thriller film from director Christian Gudegast.

The film sees Butler as on-edge Los Angeles cop Nick Flanagan, going after a group of dangerous outlaws planning a major heist on the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Los Angeles. “You’re not the bad guys, we are,” Butler confessed in trailer.

The shoot-em-up film does seem like a modern-day version of the 1995 Michael Mann classic “Heat,” as advertised on the movie’s facebook page, and that hopefully will be a good thing. Here we see Butler mirroring Al Pacino’s Lt. Vincent Hanna as he pursues the bank robbery crew. Whether someone is actually going to step into De Niro’s role, we will soon find out.

Butler and Gudegast previously collaborated in “London Has Fallen” (2016) where Butler starred as a secret service agent while Gudegast wrote the screenplay. “Den of Thieves” marks Gudegast’s directorial debut.

From a script by Gudegast and Paul Scheuring, the film also stars O’Shea Jackson Jr., Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Maurice Compte, Sonya Balmores, Pablo Schreiber, Evan Jones, Dawn Olivieri, Mo McRae, and UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway.

Here’s the film’s synopsis:

DEN OF THIEVES is a gritty Los Angeles crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and the state’s most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.

Den of Thieves will be released on Jan. 19, 2018.

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Peter Jackson is set to return to cinemas next year with “Mortal Engines,” a science fiction action adventure film based on the novel of the same name by Philip Reeve.

This week, Universal Pictures has released the trailer to the effects-heavy epic film, something that Jackson’s name has been synonymous with since helming the series of films based on hobbits and the middle earth.

The trailer features action chases between cities moving on motorized wheels in futuristic, steampunk version of England that is characterized on the novel. Later we see giant mobile London devouring a small village through its flag embellished metal gates.

Intriguingly, it evokes the feel of Mad Max and Pirates of the Caribbean with Howl’s Moving Castle, all thrown in the mix. That is certainly a compliment: Mad Max series is undoubtedly one of the greatest action films in cinema history.

Jackson has written and produced the the post-apocalyptic film, with Christian Rivers directing, his feature debut. Rivers is a Jackson protégé, having worked on storyboards, visual effects on special affects on The Hobbit trilogy as well as served as its second unit director.

Starring Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Jihae, Ronan Raftery, Leila George, Patrick Malahide, and Stephen Lang, Mortal Engines is set to open on December 2018.

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Its been 10 years since the release of the original film “Mama Mia,” so its only fitting that a sequel is on the way, promising to give us an update of what the characters have been up to since. This week, Universal Pictures debuted the trailer to the sequel, aptly titled “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.”

The romantic comedy musical brings back Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried as mother-daughter pair Donna and Sophie. The trailer reveals a pregnant Sophie (Seyfried) and her worries about being a single mom. “I’m pregnant, but I don’t know how to do this by myself,” she says.

Cher, donning a blonde hair and sunglasses, appears later in the trailer, apparently playing Sophie’s grandmother Ruby. “Grandma, you weren’t invited,” Sophie says. “That’s the best kind of party little girl,” Ruby replies.

Lily James joins the ensemble cast as a younger Donna. Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Dominic Cooper, Andy Garcia, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters also star in the film.

The film’s teaser poster was revealed last Wednesday, highlighting the overalls worn by Streep’s Donna character in the original film.

“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” opens in theaters in July 20, 2018, just in time for 10th anniversary of the original film.

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The latest trailer for Alex Garland’s science fantasy action horror film “Annihilation” has been released, giving audiences a deeper look at the film’s mysterious setting and surreal world of ominous creatures.

The trailer shows star Natalie Portman playing a biologist who one day found her husband (Oscar Isaac) mysteriously ill. In her attempt to find answers, she leads her team team into a disaster zone “Area X” to retrace his steps, but instead encounters numerous threats and biological anomalies she did not expect. “It’s not destroying, it’s making something new,” says Portman’s biologist character.

The film is written and directed by Alex Garland, who rose to film prominence in 2015 with his break-out directorial debut Ex Machina, which was a critical and commercial success. The film was also one of National Board of Review’s ten best independent films for 2015.

“Annihilation” is based Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 book of the same name. It is the first in a series of three books, with “Authority and “Acceptance” being the other two, though director Garland previously stated that Annihilation was not originally conceived as part of a trilogy.

Annihilation also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson and Gina Rodriguez and is set to be released by Paramount on Feb. 23, 2018.

Filmmaker Liu Jian cements his place as a pioneering force in independent Chinese animation with whirlwind neo-noir HAVE A NICE DAY.

A hard rain is about to fall on a small town in Southern China.

In a desperate attempt to find money to save his fiancée’s failed plastic surgery, Xiao Zhang, a humble driver, steals a bag containing 1 million Yuan from his boss.

News of the robbery spreads fast within the town and, over the course of one night, everyone starts looking for Xiao Zhang and his money.