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Check out a new TV spot from Lionsgate's horror "Daybreakers." The film stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Christopher Kirby, Mungo McKay and Emma Randall. See it in theatres on January 8th. The year is 2019. A mysterious plague has swept over the earth, transforming the majority of the world's population into vampires. Humans are now an endangered, second-class species – forced into hiding as they are hunted and farmed for vampire consumption to the brink of extinction. It’s all up to Edward Dalton, a vampire researcher who refuses to feed on human blood, to perfect a blood substitute that might sustain vampires and spare the few remaining humans. But time and hope are running out – until Ed meets Audrey, a human survivor who leads him to a startling medical breakthrough. Armed with knowledge that both humans and vampires will kill for,...

"We're the folks with the crossbows" - Willem Dafoe in "Daybreakers." The latest trailer for Lionsgate's "Daybreakers" has been embedded. I think the first one was better, that's just my opinion. Still, if you want to voice yours, do it directly in the video player by clicking on the bubble, joining the group and posting your comment. All opinions welcome but please keep it clean. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Christopher Kirby, Mungo McKay and Emma Randall. See it in theatres on January 8th.

We have new images as well as a new poster from Lionsgate's "Daybreakers," starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Christopher Kirby, Mungo McKay and Emma Randall. Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig-helmed and written horror opens on January 8th and is produced by Chris Brown, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst. Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Ed, a researcher in the year 2017, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute...

Check out this new TV spot for Lionsgate's "Daybreakers" horror. The film opens on January 8th and is produced by Chris Brown, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst. Starring are Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Christopher Kirby, Mungo McKay and Emma Randall. Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig direct from their own screenplay. Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Ed, a researcher in the year 2017, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human...

Check out these new pics from Lionsgate's "Daybreakers," starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Christopher Kirby, Mungo McKay and Emma Randall. Catch Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig-directed and written horror in theatres on January 8th next year. See the official site at www.daybreakersmovie.com. Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Ed, a researcher in the year 2017, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

"Daybreakers" from Lionsgate has a new poster available. The action horror/thriller stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Christopher Kirby, Mungo McKay and Emma Randall. Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig direct from their own screenplay. Producing are Chris Brown, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst. The film sees theatres on January 8th next year. Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Ed, a researcher in the year 2017, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out.

Several new posters have been added including Lionsgate's horror actioner "Daybreakers" which sees theatres on September 11th this year. The film is helmed by Peter and Michael Spierig and produced by Chris Brown and Furst Films Sean and Bryan Furst. Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Christopher Kirby, Mungo McKay and Emma Randall star. Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Ed, a researcher in the year 2017, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race. of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

See Ethan Hawke sporting a crossbow in this pic from Lionsgate's "Daybreakers" horror. The film also stars Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Christopher Kirby, Mungo McKay and Emma Randall.   Peter and Michael Spierig, helmers of the horror comedy "Undead," direct and write the film produced by Chris Brown, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst.   Release date is September 11th this year.   Ethan Hawke stars as 'Edward' in Daybreakers, written and directed by Australian horror filmmakers Peter and Michael Spierig. Photo credit: Ben Rothstein   Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Ed, a researcher in the year 2017, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out.  However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one...

See Ethan Hawke sporting a crossbow in this pic from Lionsgate's "Daybreakers" horror. The film also stars Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Christopher Kirby, Mungo McKay and Emma Randall. Peter and Michael Spierig, helmers of the horror comedy "Undead," direct and write the film produced by Chris Brown, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst. Release date is September 11th this year...

See Ethan Hawke sporting a crossbow in this pic from Lionsgate's "Daybreakers" horror. The film also stars Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Christopher Kirby, Mungo McKay and Emma Randall. Peter and Michael Spierig, helmers of the horror comedy "Undead," direct and write the film produced by Chris Brown, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst. Release date is September 11th this year...

SYDNEY -- A brazen kinkiness and a breakneck pace should help the Australian crime drama "The Hard Word" leapfrog out of the festival circuit and into art houses in the United States and elsewhere. The presence of two of Oz's biggest cinematic exports, Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths, won't cut its chances either.

The Twentyman brothers -- Dale (Pearce), Shane (Joel Edgerton) and Mal (Damien Richardson) -- are bank robbers with a simple credo: Nobody gets hurt. Working with corrupt lawyer Frank Malone (Robert Taylor) and two rotten cops (Paul Sonkkila and Vince Colosimo), the Twentyman boys are set up on jobs while officially still in prison, stitching them into instant alibis. However, their mettle is tested when they're shouldered into pulling the biggest stickup of their career.

Frank has the boys marked to pull a daring daylight robbery during the Melbourne Cup horse race. Only he loads them up with incompetent sidemen, with whom they've never worked before. Meanwhile, Carol (Griffiths), Dale's avaricious and sexed-up wife, is sleeping with Frank and playing head games with them all. Who'll come out on top?

Fortysomething writer-director Scott Roberts helms "The Hard Word" with the energy and audacity usually found in filmmakers fresh out of film school. A longtime scriptwriter, Roberts puts slick camera moves and visual emphasis on hold in favor of dialogue -- long, steaming passages of it. With a predilection for language and vernacular (the Twentyman brothers actually have their own pidgin language, derived from their family heritage in the butcher trade), Roberts turns his script on ferocious reams of street talk and perverse wordplay.

The film's shuddering shifts from wordy comedy to explosive violence do occasionally jar. "The Hard Word" doesn't quite hit the seamless tonal quality of Quentin Tarantino, but Roberts always grounds the film with the consistency of his characters and manages to punctuate proceedings with an "Am I really seeing that?" moment about every 10 minutes. Meanwhile, images of rugged, haphazard sexual couplings, combined with a lurid subtext, push "The Hard Word" into territory not often charted by the average crime film.

If the film is affected by a slight uncertainty of tone, its performances go almost uniformly in one direction: over the top. Playing at a near hyper-real pitch, the cast practically tears strips off the screen. Covered in prison tattoos, his hair lank and greasy, and sporting a grubby beard, Pearce is the very picture of a hard-core criminal, spitting dialogue out with rippling aggression and bringing even more edge to an already edgy character.

No stranger to sexual libertines ("Six Feet Under") or tough broads ("Blow"), Griffiths makes Carol a quintessential queen bitch, ready to use everything she's got to get what she wants. Griffiths doesn't shy away from anything the script throws at her, whether it's hard-shaking sex scenes or language of the coarsest sort. With platinum hair and fixed snarl, Griffiths is a vision of the classic femme fatale, though with a wholly modern brand of fatality.

Rock-solid support comes from the naturally charismatic Edgerton, as the hotheaded, handsomely muscular Shane, and newcomer Richardson, who imbues Mal with a warmth and sweetness. Sonkkila and Colosimo ooze oily menace as the corrupt cops. Only Taylor plays Frank the lawyer a little too straight compared to the florid performances that surround him.

THE HARD WORD

Lions Gate Releasing

Alibi Films International and Australian Film Finance Corp. present a Wildheart production

Credits:

Screenwriter-director: Scott Roberts

Producer: Al Clark

Executive producers: Gareth Jones, Hilary Davis

Director of photography: Brian Breheny

Production designer: Paddy Reardon

Costume designer: Terry Ryan

Editor: Martin Connor.

Cast:

Dale Twentyman: Guy Pearce

Carol: Rachel Griffiths

Shane Twentyman: Joel Edgerton

Mal Twentyman: Damien Richardson

Frank Malone: Robert Taylor

Detective Jack O'Riordan: Paul Sonkkila

Detective Mick Kelly: Vince Colosimo

Running time -- 103 minutes

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