Director Gareth Evan's Indonesian action-fest, after having taken over $4 million at the US box office, is all set to assault the UK. Momentum have announced that The Raid will be opening on over 280 screens nationwide on May 18th, which considering the size of my old stomping ground is a hell of a lot. Even though I have regrettably still yet to see the film this news does make me a happy man. More news below, including links to the theaters that The Raid will be playing. I have also thrown in the US trailer and UK TV spot to further whet the appetite!
10
May 2012, London, UK – Momentum Pictures, an
Alliance Films Company, will release what film critics are calling “The Best
Action Film of the Year”, THE RAID, in over 280 cinemas across the UK and
Ireland on 18 May.
An up to date list of all the cinemas
playing THE RAID and show times is on the film’s Fan Hub page (www.totalfanhub.com/the-raid) or the
official UK Facebook page (www.facebook.com/theraiduk).
Deep in the heart of
Jakarta's slums stands an impenetrable apartment block; a safe house for the
city’s most dangerous killers and gangsters and considered untouchable to even
the bravest of police. Cloaked under the
cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite SWAT team is tasked with
raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. When rookie cop Rama is the last man
standing, he must fight his way to the top of the building to complete the
mission and escape with his life.
THE RAID stars the newest action
movie superstar, Iko Uwais, was written and directed by Welshman, Gareth Evans
and features a kick ass score by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and composer Joe
Trapanese.
Xavier Marchand, managing director of
Momentum Pictures commented, “Hands down, THE RAID is spectacular and
exhilarating, it’s an action masterpiece.
Gareth Evans has reinvented the action movie; he could be the godchild
of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo!”
Since its world premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival last September, where it won the Midnight Madness
People’s Choice Audience Award, THE RAID has wowed packed cinemas here and
abroad including Sundance and SXSW festivals.
At the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, THE RAID scooped both the
coveted Audience Award, and the Dublin Film Critics Circle Best Film – the
first time both awards have gone to the same film and received a 9 minute
standing ovation when it played within the Filmfour Frightfest strand at the
Glasgow Film Festival.
THE RAID will receive a special 12 screen
premiere across Wales on Wednesday 16th May and Evans will be on
hand for a preview and Q+A at Manchester’s Odeon Printworks on the night of 17th
May and in London on the day of release.
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