International Trailer Delivers a Headshot
Steve Barton
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A third international trailer for the Indonesian action-thriller Headshot (review) has arrived, and it’s brimming with action and violence.
Headshot Release Details:
XYZ Films and Vertical Entertainment are partnering with multiple territories on the global distribution of Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto’s Indonesian action thriller Headshot, which made its World Premiere during the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle, and Chelsea Islan and is based on a script by Timo Tjahjanto.
Vertical Entertainment and XYZ Films are releasing the film theatrically in North America and globally on digital platforms, with Screenplay Infinite Film and partner SCM handling Indonesian distribution and Nikkatsu handling Japan and the rest of Asia. The global release will include theatrical releases concurrent with the digital releases in territories including: UK (Arrow Films), Germany/Italy (Koch Media), Australia/New Zealand (Vendetta Films), France (AB Groupe), Scandinavia (Star Media Entertainment), Russia/CIS and The Baltics (Cinema Prestige).
The film is produced by Mike Wiluan, Sukhdev Singh, Wicky V. Olindo, and Shinjiro Nishimura. Executive producers are Sutanto Hartono, Haruhiko Miyano and Kenji Ishibashi. The film is financed by Screenplay Infinite Film, Surya Citra Media (SCM), Amuse Entertainment Singapore, and Nikkatsu Corporation Japan.
Headshot centers on a mysterious young man who, after months in a coma from a gunshot wound to the head, is nursed back to health by a young student-doctor, Ailin. Realizing that the man has lost his memory and identity, the two quickly grow closer, not realizing that behind their momentary peace lays danger. Soon their lives collide with a gang of dangerous criminals led by an enigmatic crime lord – and with every violent confrontation, his memory brings him closer to a dark truth as the lethal personality awakening within him starts to reveal who he really is.
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