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Acorn TV has announced the titles that will be available on the AMC-owned streaming service in August 2025. The Acorn TV August 2025 slate expands the service’s diverse lineup of acclaimed English and foreign-language dramas, engaging comedies, documentaries, and more.

The August schedule includes Acorn TV Original series Irish Blood and The Madame Blanc Mysteries Season 4, as well as the Acorn TV exclusives The Sommerdahl Murders Season 6 and Summertide.

Irish Blood Acorn TV August 2025 Highlights

Irish Blood (Acorn TV Original Series) – Two-Episode Premiere Monday, August 11; New Episodes Premiere Weekly Until The Season Finale on September 8

A new six-part murder mystery, Irish Blood focuses on Fiona (Alicia Silverstone), whose path in life is earmarked by her father, Declan, who seemingly abandoned her and her mother on her tenth birthday.

After years of channeling anger toward him, to the benefit of her litigious clients, a message from her father sends her to Ireland.

Acorn TV has announced the titles that will be available on the AMC-owned streaming service in July 2025. The Acorn TV July 2025 slate expands the service’s diverse lineup of acclaimed English and foreign-language dramas, engaging comedies, documentaries, and more.

The July schedule includes the Art Detectives season finale, Battle of the Bagpipes, The Madame Blanc Mysteries Season 4, Kostas, A Stitch in Time, Summertide, and more.

The Madame Blanc Mysteries Season 4 Acorn TV July 2025 Highlight

The Madame Blanc Mysteries Season 4 (Acorn TV Original Series) – New Season Premieres Monday, July 7

Created by and starring Sally Lindsay, the thrilling series is set to return with a two-episode premiere on Monday, July 7 in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Additional episodes of the 7-episode fourth season will drop weekly on the platform.

The fourth season of The Madame Blanc Mysteries returns to the wonderful world of Sainte Victoire, packed with unusual antiques and objéts d’art,...

This Warrior review contains spoilers.

Warrior Season 2 Episode 7

This episode picks up right where the last one left off – Young Jun (Jason Tobin), Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), and Hong (Chen Tang) return from their successful mission to face Father Jun’s (Perry Young) wrath.

The Jun father-son relationship has been trying since the beginning, and it comes to a head when Father Jun blackballs his son from the Hop Wei with a ritual to ‘burn’ him out. Hop Wei members show their loyalty with branded forearms, so Father Jun burns out Young Jun’s brand with what appears to be the flat side of red-hot sword tip.

It’s a brutal ritual and bothersome to anyone who knows swords. No one ever does this. Swords are heat treated so getting one red hot like that would spoil the temper of the blade. In Warrior’s defense, all we get is...

The Bang Bang Club tells the true story of four photographers who risked their lives amid gunfire - hence their name - to take iconic and shocking pictures during the last, violent days of South Africa's apartheid.

Their harrowing stories are captured in this thought-provoking film, which is released on DVD this week by Entertainment One.

Set in 1994, The Bang Bang Club is made up of four young South African men: Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe - Cruel Intentions, I Know What You Did Last Summer), Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch - X Men Origins: Wolverine), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and João Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld), as they set out to document some of the best, yet most horrific images of their lives - in some of the most hostile and turbulent places in the world.

Greg is a freelance photographer who follows his instincts to capture the rebels' point of view...

Here’s the first UK trailer for hard hitting movie, The Bang Bang Club which has screened at a number of film festivals around the world including, Edinburgh Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Canada, Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea and Torino Film Festival, Italy to critical acclaim. You can read our review of the movie here. It stars Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Ryan Phillippe, Frank Rautenbach, Patrick Lyster, Neels Van Jaarsveld and is directed by Steven Silver.

Entertainment One have just sent over the new UK trailer for the movie which hits DVD 3rd October (pre-order / rent your copy here). As you’ll see from the trailer below, the movie is a hard watch but really does show that one photo can change the world. The movie is based on the true story of four remarkable photographers taking iconic and shocking pictures in South Africa during the last days of the apartheid.

To mark the release of The Bang Bang Club on DVD 3rd October, EOne Entertainment have given us three copies of the movie to give away. It stars Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Ryan Phillippe, Frank Rautenbach, Patrick Lyster, Neels Van Jaarsveld and is directed by Steven Silver.

Set in 1994, The Bang Bang Club, is made up of four young South African men, Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe – Cruel Intentions, I know what you did last Summer), Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch – X Men Origins – Wolverine), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and João Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld), as they set out to capture some of the best, yet horrific pictures of their lives – in some of the most hostile and turbulent places in the world.

Greg is a freelance photographer who follows his instincts to capture the ‘rebels’ point of view; during his time in Soweto he meets Kevin, Ken and João who work...

So you want to be a photographer, bru? Bru being South African for .bro. it would appear. However, in those trenches there is some camaraderie as four photographers find themselves in a war zone as South African endures a civil war cumulating in the election of Nelson Mandela. South African freelance photographer Greg Marionvich (Ryan Phillippe) comes across the aftermath of a killing by a rival group of black South Africans. He also comes across some other photographers shooting the same scenes, freelancers Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch) and Joao Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld) and newspaper photographer Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach). The other photogs leave the scene thinking no more is to be seen, but Greg ventures, perhaps...

DVD Playhouse—August 2011

By Allen Gardner

High And Low (Criterion) Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 adaptation of Ed McBain’s novel King’s Ransom is a multi-layered masterpiece of suspense and one of the best portraits ever of class warfare in post-ww II Japan. Toshiro Mifune stars as a wealthy businessman who finds himself in a moral quandary when his chauffer’s son is kidnapped by ruthless thugs who think the boy is Mifune’s. Beautifully realized on every level. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince; Documentary on film’s production; Interview with Mifune from 1984; Trailers and teaser. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 4.0 surround.

Leon Morin, Priest (Criterion) One of French maestro Jean-Pierre Melville’s rare non-crime-oriented films, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a devoted cleric who is lusted after by the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. When Fr. Morin finds himself drawn to a...

Adapted from the autobiographical book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War co-written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva, writer-director Steven Silver’s dramatization charts the experiences of four photojournalists in the days prior to the downfall of Apartheid in South Africa.

Initially working freelance, Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe) soon finds himself under the tutelage of Kevin “forget the long lens, bro” Carter (Taylor Kitsch), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld), having won their respect with a series of provocative pictures taken inside one of the warring townships. Working for photo-editor Robin Comley (Malin Åkerman), the quartet are eventually dubbed “The Bang Bang Club” as they put their lives on the line to capture the brutality and desperation of a country nearing the end of Apartheid.

It would be easy to criticize The Bang Bang Club for glossing over certain hard truths and questionable morals to focus...

Born in Sweden, but raised in Southern Ontario, 33-year-old blond beauty Malin Akerman’s career path has veered from model to musician (she sang with the band The Petalstones) to rising movie star.

A role in the cult comic-book pic Watchmen as Silk Spectre II was followed by turns in studio comedies The Proposal and Couples Retreat. However, you won’t find much laughter in her new movie, The Bang Bang Club, a gripping drama based on the real-life exploits of four photographers (played by Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Frank Rautenbach and Neels Van Jaarsveld) whose pictures of harrowing violence and massacres during the final days of South African apartheid shocked the world.

Akerman plays Robin Comley, a photo editor who ensures the group’s pictures are seen around the globe, and who falls in love with snapper Greg Marinovich (Phillippe).

We spoke with Akerman at last fall's Toronto International Film Festival,...

There's a truly amazing, insightful, and thoughtful story surrounding the lives of the Bang Bang Club -- four photographers working in South Africa during the Apartheid period between 1990 and 1994 -- one that is anguishing, fascinating, and ultimately, a real goddamn bummer. It's a story that soars with thematic conflict, about the violence between the Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and President F.W. de Klerk's supporters, the struggles between documenting and exploitation, and between art and atrocity. Unfortunately, that story is nowhere to be found in Steven Silver's crushingly awful Bang Bang Club, an inert, atrociously acted, pitifully directed film based on Greg Marinovich and João Silva's book, The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War.

Bang Bang Club is the worst kind of film, one that takes all the drama out of a naturally gripping story, reducing it to a disorganized mess of lifeless snapshots weaved...

Behind every great man, there.s a great woman, right? Well, that.s certainly the case with the Bang Bang Club. While the real life photographer foursome risked their lives snapping images in the violent townships of South Africa at the end of Apartheid in the early 90s, photo editor Robin Comley held things together at the office, ensuring their work was seen and also just keeping them as level-headed as possible while working in the midst of such a devastating environment. In the film version of the Bang Bang Club.s story, Malin Akerman assumes the role of Robin Comley. The film kicks off as Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe) is inducted into the group and hits the dirt alongside Kevin Carter, Joao Silva and Ken Oosterbroek (Taylor Kitsch, Neels Van Jaarsveld, Frank Rautenbach). Together they were seemingly unstoppable, dashing into the line of fire with no-fear attitudes and catching...

From left: Frank Rautenbach, Neels Van Jaarsveld, Taylor Kitsch, and Ryan Phillippe. Photograph by Marcus Cruz. In the war-photography movie The Bang Bang Club, photojournalist Greg Marinovich can see life only through his viewfinder. It is both his blessing and his curse. And as he focuses his lens on a man being beaten unconscious in an apartheid-era South African ghetto, he barely avoids a knife swung at his back. For a moment he pauses, considering his own safety; then someone sets the man on fire. In an instant Greg’s entire being focuses, and he snaps frame after frame, ultimately capturing the soul-shivering shot that will win him a Pulitzer Prize.

Malin Akerman was the lucky lady in the middle of a Ryan Phillippe and Taylor Kitsch sandwich last night at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC. They were on hand for the premiere of their new film, and BuzzSugar has a quick Bang Bang Club review. The trio actually shot the project back in 2009 in South Africa, where the actual story of the four war photographers took place in the '90s. Malin is the leading lady among a cast of guys that includes Taylor, Ryan, and the South African actors Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach. We snagged a minute with Malin as she hustled inside to the screening, and she spoke about how fun it was to be a girl among the many guys. Malin said, "I love being a girl! And I love being one of the boys." View Slideshow ›...

This is a strange week to review "The Bang Bang Club." When I saw the film about ten days ago, it was a biopic about the past, and war photographers in 1990s South Africa. Today it feels like a movie about the present. Sitting here, trying to write about the film, I can't stop thinking about "Restrepo" director and war photographer Tim Hetherington, who was killed earlier this week covering the civil war in Libya. We think of movies as these fixed things. But they change right along with us. When I saw "The Bang Bang Club" ten days ago, I liked it. Now, I feel haunted by it.

The film is about a real-life group of photojournalists who were known as "The Bang Bang Club." They went into the most dangerous parts of South Africa and took photographs that others were too afraid to get. In the process, they...

"The Bang Bang Club" is the Canadian-South African feature written/directed by Steven Silver, starring Taylor Kitsch as 'Kevin Carter', Ryan Phillippe as 'Greg Marinovich', Frank Rautenbach as 'Ken Oosterbroek' and Neels Van Jaarsveld as 'João Silva', portraying the lives of four photo-journalists, active within the townships of South Africa during the Apartheid period, 1990-1994.

Malin Akerman ("Watchmen") plays 'Robin Comley' who does everything she can to ensure that the photographers' pictures are published.

"The Bang Bang Club" adapts the auto-biographical book "The Bang Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War" co-written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Bang Bang Club"...

The new trailer for Steven Silver’s The Bang Bang Club has gone live over at RopeofSilicon.

The film, which stars Ryan Phillippe (The Lincoln Lawyer), Taylor Kitsch (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Malin Akerman (Watchmen), will hit cinemas on April 22, having been picked up by Tribeca Film.

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Based on real events, The Bang Bang Club centres on Greg Marinovich (Phillippe), Kevin Carter (Kitsch), Joao Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld) and Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach), four combat photojournalists who worked through the first free elections in post Apartheid South Africa during the early 90s.

With early reports from its screening at Toronto last year bathing the film in a relatively positive light, it was left to Variety’s Peter Debruge to argue that the filmmakers should have taken more liberties and risks with the story. Regardless of such early reviews, however, the trailer does show considerable promise.

I doubt anyone has ever questioned just how brave and ballsy photojournalists must be in order to work in such hostile, war torn environments.  In the upcoming movie The Bang Bang Club moviegoers will get the opportunity to see what great lengths these people go to to get the most telling photographs of the violence and brutality to send to the folks back home. 

Steven Silver's The Bang Bang Club is the dramatic true story of four combat photographers who put their lives at risk to capture pictures during the final days of aparteid in South Africa.  Ryan Phillipe, Taylor Kitsch, Malin Akerman, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach star in this tragic retelling of the violent events tied to the nation's first free elections during the early 1990s, which saw photojournalists win two Pulitzer prizes for their coverage.

True-life tale The Bang Bang Club might have some snickering at that suggestive title, but the subject is deadly serious: it follows four young, driven combat photographers capturing the brutal death spasms of Apartheid in South Africa. And now the trailer has arrived online, which you can watch below.We’re introduced to Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe), Joao Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld), Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch) and Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach), the four camera handlers who share a calling documenting the more violent side of life. As they struggle with the consciences watching people get killed and humanity tearing itself apart, it begins to have a real effect on them, particularly Marinovich.And then there’s Robin Comley (Malin Akerman), the editor who tries to keep them in line, yet who finds herself falling for Marinovich.It’s taken a while for Steven Silver’s film to find distribution (it...

The first trailer has arrived for the upcoming true-story drama The Bang Bang Club, which will hit theaters on April 22. Click below to watch the first footage from this combat drama, which stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, and Taylor Kitsch. You can also take a look at the first poster below the trailer.

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The Bang Bang Club is the real life story of a group of four young combat photographers - Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek - bonded by friendship and their sense of purpose to tell the truth. They risked their lives and used their camera lenses to tell the world of the brutality and violence associated with the first free elections in post Apartheid South Africa in the early 90s. This intense political period brought out their best work (two won Pulitzers during the period) but cost them a heavy price.

Ryan Phillippe in The Bang Bang Club

Photo: Tribeca Film I wanted to catch The Bang Bang Club in Toronto last year but scheduling prevented me from doing so, but I am still interested in giving it a look as it was picked up by Tribeca Film and will hit theaters on April 22.

This is one of those "based on a true story" movies centering on Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe), Joao Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld), Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch) and Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) as four young combat photographers who captured the brutality and violence associated with the first free elections in post Apartheid South Africa in the early '90s.

Screen Daily's Mark Adams called it "extremely watchable" and added saying, "Intense and often very brutal (though rarely overly graphic), The Bang Bang Club is a film that deserves careful distribution, and will appeal to lovers of the gonzo journalist movie.

Year: 2010

Director: Steven Silver

Writer: Steven Silver

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Marina Antunes

Rating: 6 out of 10

Not everyone’s cut out to be a combat journalist. You have to be an adrenaline junkie, a little crazy and willing to put your life on the line to get that amazing photograph.

South Africa. Early 90s. Nelson Mandela is free and the end of Apartheid seems near. Violence is everywhere as are the reporters and photographers, all vying to capture the violence on film and share it with the rest of the world. A group of photographers, referred to as The Bang Bang Club, are particularly fearless, capturing the shots that often grace international papers as well as local publications. The group is fiercely competitive but also loyal and between the four of them, they provided some of the most striking images to come out of the country during that time.

Canadian distributor sold The Bang Bang Club to U.S. distributor Tribeca Film.

While the Canadian release, which was initially expected for October 29, was postponed, the U.S. release in theatres is expected "in the second quarter of 2011, as well as on video-on-demand, and other platforms" according to Tribeca Film.

The film is adapted from the book of the same name written by Greg Marinovich and Jao Silva. Besides, the film also stars Malin Åkerman, Ashley Mulheron and Russel Savadier.

This film directed by Steven Silver (The Last Just Man) takes place during the final years of the apartheid in South Africa during the 1990s. These days are seen through the eyes and lens of four young photographers who, among other things, captured the fight between the National Peacekeeping Force and the African National Congress in the Tokoza township. These photographers are Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch), Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe...

The relatively young distribution arm of Tribeca Enterprises, Tribeca Film, just grabbed the Us rights to The Big Bang Club in what may prove to be it’s biggest acquisition to date. Tribeca will be theatrically releasing the film, which had it’s world premiere at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, in the second quarter of 2011, as well as on video-on-demand, and other platforms. The character-driven drama was written and directed by South African Steven Silver, who exec-produced Shake Hands With The Devil and another 2010 Tiff premiere, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie. Gist: With a B-list cast of Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach, The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise of apartheid.

Tribeca Film has acquired Us rights to The Bang Bang Club, a gripping drama based on the incredible lives of a group of young photojournalists whose graphic images drew the world’s attention to South Africa during the last stages of apartheid while enduring the stresses, tensions, and moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme conflict.

The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise of apartheid. The film, based on the page-turning book of the same name, tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of these young men – and the extraordinary extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures.

The film stars Ryan Phillippe (Stop-Loss), Malin Akerman (Watchmen), Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights), Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach.

The second trailer of The Bang Bang Club is now online and the Canadian release has been postponed.

This film directed by Steven Silver (The Last Just Man) takes place during the final years of the apartheid in South Africa during the 1990s. These days are seen through the eyes and lens of four young photographers who, among other things, captured the fight between the National Peacekeeping Force and the African National Congress in the Tokoza township. These photographers are Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch), Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and Joao Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld).

The film is adapted from the book of the same name written by Greg Marinovich and Jao Silva. Besides, the film also stars Malin Åkerman, Ashley Mulheron and Russel Savadier.

After it had being screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Bang Bang Club will be released in Canadian theatres on October 29. For the moment, no U.S. or European release dates have been confirmed for this Canadian film.

This film directed by Steven Silver (The Last Just Man) takes place during the final years of the apartheid in South Africa during the 1990s. These days are seen through the eyes and lens of four young photographers who, among other things, captured the fight between the National Peacekeeping Force and the African National Congress in the Tokoza township. These photographers are Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch), Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and Joao Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld).

The film is adapted from the book of the same name written by Greg Marinovich and Jao Silva. Besides, the film also stars Malin Åkerman, Ashley Mulheron and Russel Savadier.

Ever the attractive red carpet twosome, Malin Akerman and Ryan Phillippe were side-by-side for the premiere of "The Bang Bang Club" in Toronto, Canada on Wednesday night (September 15).

Held at Roy Thomson Hall as part of the 35th Toronto International Film Festival, the "Couples Retreat" cutie and her hunky co-star greeted fans and media members before heading inside to join co-star Frank Rautenbach and director Steven Silver for the evening screening.

As for the movie, "The Bang Bang Club" is "a drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa."

In related news, Miss Akerman just nabbed herself another movie gig - as she's joined the cast of the Universal comedy "Wanderlust".

Joining current cast members Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux, the movie is about "a married couple (Aniston, Rudd) who try to escape the trappings of modern...

If you plan to attend to the 15th Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea, have in mind that eight Canadian films will be part of its line-up. The festival will be held from October 7 to 15, 2010.

All the eight Canadian films will be part of the festival's official selection.

World Cinema Program: 2 fois une femme

Director: François Deslile

Starring: Evelyne Rompré, Marc Béland, Étienne Laforge, David Boutin, Michelle Rossignol, Marie Brassard, Alexandre Goyette, Catherine de Léan and Brigitte Pogonat

After having her life threatened by her violent husband one night, Catherine heads for northern Quebec with her son under another identity. Slowly, she rebuilds her confidence and rediscovers who she is while trying to win over her son’s affection. Les amours imaginaires

Director: Xavier Dolan

Starring: Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri and Niels Schneider

The film is about two friends (Xavier Dolan and Monia Chokri) who meet a guy (Niels Schneider) during a party.

#19. The Bang Bang Club The Gist: Starring Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach, the Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise of apartheid. The film tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of these young men – and the extraordinary extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures. Director: Steven Silver (Diameter of the Bomb)Sales Agent: E1Selling Point: The film packages fact based events, with good looking cast and thriller elements. Suited For: Debuted at the Cannes market, this is suited for a distributor looking to grab the moviegoer segment who are inclined to read/watch the world news and would have paid to have seen Hotel Rwanda or The Devil Came on Horseback.

One of the many films premiering at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival is writer-director Steven Silver’s The Bang Bang Club – which stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach. Here’s the synopsis:

The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers: Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe), Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and Joao Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld), whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa. The film tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of these young men – and the extraordinary extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures. Robin (Malin Akerman) is their photo-editor, who looked out for them, protected them and made sure their photographs were seen across the world.

While the first thing we normally see is a trailer, we’ve been provided with four movie...

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Ryan Phillippe in The Bang Bang Club A pair of promo trailers for a couple of Toronto International Film Festival films have just arrived along with a selection of pictures from each. Neither film has a domestic distributor yet, but should they prove their worth they should find one shortly. Also know this is just the start of my preview of all the films that will be in the Toronto Film Festival, which runs from September 9-19. There is a lot more to come in the next few days.

The first film is The Bang Bang Club directed by Steven Silver and starring Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch (Gambit from X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Malin Akerman (Watchmen), Frank Rautenbach and Neels Van Jaarsveld. The film gets its name based on a group of four young wartime photographers known as "The Bang Bang Club" whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white...

The Bang Bang Club, a dramatization of a true story about four photographers who documented the end of apartheid in South Africa, is scheduled for a world premiere next month at the Toronto Film Festival. I thought we'd covered this film in the past, but there's little about it on the site. So while this trailer (which I believe is a sales trailer, rather than an official theatrical one) isn't super-new, this is a good time to present it. South American documentarian Steven Silver directed the film, with Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Frank Rautenbach and Malin Akerman as the core cast. Superficially, you might assume that's a group that looks a little, let's say...pretty...for a this group of photographers. But the footage looks intriguing, and I do like the cast. I'm happy to see Kitsch on movie screens in something that isn't a big-budget action deal, too. The...

Firstshowing via Vulture have unearthered this  promo trailer for The Bang Bang Club. The action-drama was shown in Cannes as part of their sale screenings, and it was announced last week to be part of the 35th Toronto Film Festival.

The Bang Bang Club was directed by Steven Silver (Gerrie & Louise), and features performances from Ryan Phillipe (MacGruber), Malin Akerman (Watchmen), Frank Rautenbach (Hansie) and Taylor Kitsch (Snakes on a Plane).

The film is loosely based on real life stories of four photographs, as recorded by Greg Marinovich in his book, The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War.

Check out the promo trailer below:

The Bang Bang Club will be screened at the Toronto Film Festival in September.

Yesterday we showed you the promo trailer for the 35th Toronto International Film Festival premiere, Trust and today we have another. The Bang Bang Club is directed by Steven Silver and stars Ryan Phillipe, Taylor Kitsch, Frank Rautenbach, and Neels Van Jaarsveld. The tonally ridiculous trailer runs over three minutes and you can check it out below.

Plot: A riveting drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers in South Africa, who gained international fame and local notoriety for capturing violent images from the final days of apartheid.

What do you think of The Bang Bang Club trailer? Will you see it at TIFF10?

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Officially premiering at the Toronto Film Festival next month is The Bang Bang Club, an action-drama based on the true story of four combat photographers in South Africa shooting the final days of apartheid. Starring as the photographers: Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Malin Akerman and Frank Rautenbach. My friend Boye saw this at Cannes (at a sales screening) and really liked it, so I'm interested in checking it out. This three-minute promo trailer isn't that new, but Vulture dug it up and featured it recently, and since we've never written about it, I thought we'd show it as well, especially with Tiff coming up. Watch below! Check out this early promo trailer for Steven Silver's The Bang Bang Club: Based on real experiences of combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa. The Bang Bang Club was produced & directed by South African filmmaker Steven Silver,...

The promo trailer for the drama The Bang Bang Club has gone online. Like yesterday’s promo trailers for Trust and Barney’s Version, this trailer comes ahead of the film’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from September 9 – 19th. However, Bang Bang Club will open in a wider release on September 10th. It’s an interesting release date since it doesn’t allow the movie to build buzz on the festival circuit, but allows for the possibility that you could be hearing about how great the film is on the 9th and then you have the opportunity to see it on the 10th even if you’re not at Tiff.

The trailer itself is all over the place. It starts out very solemn as we see photographers (played by Ryan Phillipe, Taylor Kitsch, Frank Rautenbach, and Neels Van Jaarsveld) take pictures of South Africans following the end of Apartheid.

What we do know from the list below is that along with Black Swan, we have Barney's Version, The King's Speech, Potiche and The Town heading to Venice. The Debt is likely to debut there as well, joining Helen Mirren in The Tempest, but for some reason I'm seeing it more as a Telluride item. Among the world premieres that will service the Toronto public well, we have a pair of buyer titles in Little White Lies and The Conspirator and we have the shot in the streets of Toronto, Casino Jack (no longer being called Bagman). Among the off the radar selections, I'd say not many were expecting Emilio Estevez's The Way, Barry Blaustein's Peep World, David M. Rosenthal's Janie Jones. The Bang Bang Club Steven Silver, Canada/South Africa World Premiere The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich,...

Every year, the Toronto International Film Festival showcases some of the year’s most exciting and must-see movies, and 2010 isn’t going to be any different. Fifty films showing at this year’s festival have been announced and I’m (unsurprisingly) bitter-as-hell that I’m not going to be there. Films making their various premieres (World, North American, etc.) include Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go (image above), and Ben Affleck’s The Town. While the line-up includes plenty of films that have already premiered at other festivals (including Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful, Julian Schnabel’s Miral, and Stephen Frears’ Tamara Drewe), it will be the first time they’ll be showing up on our quaint little 9.5 million square mile-continent.

Hit the jump for a list of all 50 films. The 2010 Toronto International Film...

Here comes the 35th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, and the line-up thus far of Galas and Special Presentations (that is code for High Profile Films) is looking quite stellar. In this first taster, there are new films from Kim Ji-Woon, Andrew Lau (and not even in the Midnight Madness portion, those films have not been announced yet!) Stephen Frears, Mark Romanek, Darren Aronfosky, Michael Winterbottom, Sylvain Chomet, Mike Leigh, François Ozon, Tran Anh Hung, Guillaume Canet, John Cameron Mitchell, Danis Tanovic, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Julian Schnabel and Im Sang-Soo. Please sirs, I want some more! 

No signs of Terrence Malick yet, but fingers crossed!

Full Press Release from Tiff:

"On the occasion of our 35th anniversary, we are thrilled to announce this selection of important and notable films," says Piers Handling, Director and CEO of Tiff. "The richness and diversity of this year's Galas and Special...

By Sean O’Connell

Hollywoodnews.com: Attention shifts this morning from San Diego (and the Comic-Con gathering) to Canada, where representatives for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival unveiled its lineup of Gala Premieres and Special Presentations.

According to this morning’s announcement, Tiff — which runs Sept. 9-19 — boast world premieres of new films by Robert Redford, Michael Winterbottom, Guillaume Canet, John Cameron Mitchell, Kiran Rao, Mike Mills and Andrucha Waddington.

In addition, critically acclaimed filmmakers Woody Allen, Sylvain Chomet, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Tran Anh Hung, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mike Leigh, Julian Schnabel and Im Sang-Soo will make their North American premieres in Toronto. Meanwhile, the Galas and Special Presentations announced today feature on-screen performances by Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Aamir Khan, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen, Colin Firth, Juliette Lewis, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton, Christopher Plummer, Natalie Portman, Om Puri, Ryan Reynolds,...

The Toronto International Film Festival will be celebrating its 35th year this September and it has announced today the first batch of big premieres. Some highlights include Darren Aronofsky‘s Black Swan, Robert Redford‘s The Conspirator, John Madden‘s The Debt, Tom Hooper‘s The King’s Speech, and Mark Romanek‘s Never Let Me Go. Check out the initial line-up below.

Galas

The Bang Bang Club. Steven Silver, Canada/South Africa World Premiere The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise of apartheid. The film tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of these young men – and the extraordinary extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures. The film stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch,...

The 35th anniversary edition of the Toronto Film Festival has set the first part of its film program. So far, the fest has announced 15 Gala premieres and 35 Special Presentations, and 25 World Premieres. Toronto has secured many of the highest profile films, including many that figure to factor in the Oscar race. Here’s the film rundown for the fest, which runs from September 9-19: Galas The Bang Bang Club. Steven Silver, Canada/South Africa World Premiere The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise of apartheid. The film tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of these young men – and the extraordinary extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures. The film stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman,...

Toronto -- Turning up the star wattage, the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled world premieres for new films by Robert Redford, Guillaume Canet, Michael Winterbottom, John Cameron Mitchell and Mike Mills.

Toronto's 35th edition also booked North American bows for the latest movies from Woody Allen, Sylvain Chomet, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mike Leigh, Julian Schnabel and Korea's Im Sang-Soo.

Redford's "The Conspirator, which stars James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, will receive a gala screening at Roy Thomson Hall, traditionally a fall launchpad for Oscar contenders.

So will Canet's "Little White Lies," a beachside drama that stars Marion Cotillard, Benoit Magimel and Gilles Lellouche, and "The Bang Bang Club," Steven Silver's Canada/South African co-production starring Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach.

Also receiving a world bow at Roy Thomson Hall is George Hickenlooper's "Casino Jack," which stars Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff,...

For the moment, no release date has been announced for the film The Bang Bang Club, a co-production between Canada and South Africa. However, the film's teaser can be seen.

This film directed by Steven Silver (The Last Just Man) takes place during the final years of the apartheid in South Africa during the 1990s. These days are seen through the eyes and lens of four young photographers who, among other things, captured the fight between the National Peacekeeping Force and the African National Congress in the Tokoza township. These photographers are Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch), Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and Joao Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld).

The film is adapted from the book of the same name written by Greg Marinovich and Jao Silva. Besides, the film also stars Malin Åkerman, Ashley Mulheron and Russel Savadier.

Finally, The Bang Bang Club is currently showcased at the 2010 Cannes Film Market.

While Xavier Dolan's Les amours imaginaires and Noah Pink's ZedCrew are competing at the Cannes Film Festival, other Canadian films will be looking for distributors. Now, let's have a look at the Canadian presence at the 2010 Cannes Film Market.

2 fois une femme

Director: François Deslile

Starring: Evelyne Rompré, Marc Béland, Étienne Laforge, David Boutin, Michelle Rossignol, Marie Brassard, Alexandre Goyette, Catherine de Léan and Brigitte Pogonat

After having her life threatened by her violent husband one night, Catherine heads for northern Quebec with her son under another identity. Slowly, she rebuilds her confidence and rediscovers who she is while trying to win over her son’s affection.

Stained

Director: Karen Lam

Starring: Tinsel Korey, Sonja Bennett, Steph Song, Anna Mae Routledge and Stephen Lobo

When Isabelle’s former lover suddenly appears at her shabby bookstore, she is elated and they resume their relationship. Her protective foster sister, Jennifer,...