Kandahar (DVD)

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There were 15 other movies released on the same date, including The Machine, The Little Mermaid and About My Father. There are vehicular chases across deserts gorgeously captured by cinematographer (MacGregor), including a helicopter battle where the most useful equipment might be night vision goggles. The film's screenplay was written by Mitchell LaFortune, and is based on his own personal experiences as a military intelligence officer working during the chaos of the Snowden leaks. In the midst of the Afghanistan War, a CIA operative and his translator are forced to flee from special forces after exposing a covert mission. It was announced today that Open Road Films has acquired the North American rights to Kandahar, an explosive action thriller starring Gerard Butler.

Basil Iwanyk, Brendon Boyea, Erica Lee, Butler, Alan Siegel, Christian Mercuri, Ali Jaafar and Scott LaStaiti produce. Kandahar” marks the third collaboration between director Ric Roman Waugh and actor Gerard Butler, with the pair previously dealing with a presidential threat in “Angel has Fallen,” and the end of the world in 2020’s “Greenland. Things are fine until their cover is blown by a reporter trying to break a story on what the CIA is doing in the middle east, and now they must go into hiding while the nuclear plant explodes. She receives evidence from a whistle blower of the CIA's ongoing sabotage of Iran's nuclear programs.Even though the CIA agent is on the run, Roman asks for one more short-term job to destroy another power plant, to which Harris says yes for some reason.

Anthony Mackie ( The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Sharlto Copley ( District 9) and Kingsley ( Gandhi, Schindler’s List) head up a glittering cast that also features British-Saudi actress Aiysha Hart ( Line of Duty, A Discovery of Witches). Tom and Mo are chased by Farzad and ISI agent Kahil Nassir but they elude both pursuing parties and escape to the desert. But pobody's nerfect, and Flicks Ltd nor any advertiser accepts liability for information that may be inaccurate.By 2030 it is expected to have six sound stages and former twofour54 Abu Dhabi chief operating officer Wayne Borg has been taken on to help develop it. YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: 15 Great Feel-Good Sing-a-Long Movies When Movie Artwork Was Great Action Movies Blessed with Stunning Cinematography Ranking Horror Movies Based On Video Games The Best of Arleen Sorkin as Harley Quinn The Most Iconic Moments of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Bad Video Game Movies You Probably Forgot Existed 2003 vs 2013: Which Year Had The Better Blockbusters? It follows Battuta from his native Morocco to Makkah, meeting Bedouins, bandits and fellow pilgrims on the way. Bruce Neibaur’s Imax docudrama makes full use of the giant screen technology to bring the epic desert landscapes of 14th-century Islamic explorer Ibn Battuta to life. He must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding the elite special forces tasked with hunting them down.

For more than three decades cinemas were banned in Saudi Arabia, but since the kingdom relaxed its laws in December 2017, it has gone into an overdrive in its mission to become the region’s leading hub for movie production. This also becomes a bigger issue since roughly the first hour is character-driven, where the only one that stands out is Mo.After his mission is exposed, he must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point inKandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.

She tells the Iranians she suspects a link between the facility's destruction and the Swiss contractor because their contracts are next to government sites. Kandahar tells the story of Tom Harris, played by Gerard Butler, an undercover CIA operative who finds himself stuck in hostile territory in the country of Afghanistan. The Ric Roman Waugh-directed feature joins other big theatrical titles over the four-day holiday like Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Lionsgate’s Sebastian Maniscalco-Robert De Niro movie About My Father, and Sony’s action comedy The Machine. Meanwhile, Roman stops communicating with the CIA and arrives in Afghanistan to join the Afghan SF Commandos masquerading as ISIS-K unit.

Kandahar was shot in the AlUla region of Saudi Arabia, a location perfect for setting the mood for Butler’s intense new thriller. Director Spike Lee’s 1992 biopic of the influential civil rights activist Malcolm X was shot in the kingdom as long ago as 1992.