KFC Edition: Bits & Pieces

7th May 2020

Eureka Entertainment to release the acclaimed masterpiece THROW DOWN; Johnnie To’s gloriously inventive and empathetic action drama; presented on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration in its UK debut as part of The Masters of Cinema Series from 18 May 2020. The initial print run of 2000 copies to feature a Limited Edition O-card Slipcase.

Courage has no borders in action-packed World War II thriller Enemy Lines. November 1943. A British commando squad is teamed with an American officer (Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl) on a covert mission into Poland, deep behind enemy lines. Working with the resistance they cross the harsh wilderness intent on kidnapping and extracting a sought-after scientist, Dr Fabian (Pawel Delag, Schindler’s List) from the Nazis. With a German hunter unit on their tail, and a Russian squad intent on kidnapping Fabian for their own ends, it’s a race against time to change the shape of the war.

Hanxiong Bo’s topical film Drifting focuses on a young man who struggles with his gender identity after being raised as a girl. This story was inspired by true events and was a semi-finalist at the 2019 Student Academy Awards. This film has been selected for San Sebastian Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Busan International Short Film Festival and FilmFest Dresden International Short Film Festival, due to the Coronavirus outbreak, these festivals have been postponed until September.

In Red Rover, coming to digital this May, after feeling he has nothing left to live for on earth, a lonely geologist tries to qualify for a one-way mission to Mars with the help of an offbeat musician who is just as lost as he is.

Offering front-row excitement with front-room access, Doc’n Roll TV is a new pay-per-view video on-demand platform serving up a wide range of acclaimed music documentaries to viewers across the UK and Ireland. Launching with 28 feature-length films covering genres as diverse as electronic and blues, grunge and death metal, and with prices starting from just £3.20, Doc’n Roll TV’s menu of offerings is set to grow rapidly in the coming months.

A decorated pilot with dreams of running the Air Force, four-star general Mark R. Naird (Steve Carell) is thrown for a loop when he finds himself tapped to lead the newly formed sixth branch of the US Armed Forces: Space Force. Skeptical but dedicated, Mark uproots his family and moves to a remote base in Colorado where he and a colorful team of scientists and “Spacemen” are tasked by the White House with getting American boots on the moon (again) in a hurry and achieving total space dominance. From co-creators Carell and Greg Daniels (The Office), SPACE FORCE is a new kind of workplace comedy, where the stakes are sky high and the ambitions even higher. John Malkovich, Lisa Kudrow, Diana Silvers, Tawny Newsome, Ben Schwartz, Jimmy O. Yang, Alex Sparrow and Don Lake also star. Howard Klein/3Arts (The Office) serves as executive producer, as well.

Academy award-nominee Eric Roberts, Nick Moran (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), J.P. Manoux (Veep), former boxing champion of the world Shannon Briggs, and horror icon Bill Oberst Jr (The Devil’s Rejects) star in writer-director Dana Ziyasheva’s (Defenders of Life) timely GREATLAND.

Starring acclaimed actor Mario Van Peebles, A Clear Shot is inspired by the true story of the 1991 Good Guys Electronics Store siege in Sacramento, California, the largest hostage siege negotiation ever attempted in the United States.

“Boris and the Bomb” is about what happens when an EX-KGB Agent gets in the back seat of a “Yuber” with a Nuclear Bomb he has just 48 hour to fix before it goes off. It premiered at the 2019 Valley Film Festival and is a Finalist in the Deep Focus Film Festival.

The Movie Partnership will be releasing Screened Out (cert PG) on digital download from 1st June. This eye opening feature length documentary about screen time shares groundbreaking insights and studies from eleven world class experts.

STUDIOCANAL will be releasing a special 40th anniversary 4k restoration of FLASH GORDON from August 3rd. It will be available as a Collector’s Edition, Steelbook, Blu-ray, DVD and on VOD. Special events are TBC.

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