CinemaCon is underway in Las Vegas. A yearly movie trade occasion the place main Hollywood studios jump-start promotional campaigns to each exhibitors and press alike with their slate of upcoming characteristic movies. This means we get a treasure-trove of first-look footage, trailers, and posters all through the occasion. First up is Sony Pictures and so they’ve dropped a trailer for considered one of their large releases with the third installment from “The Equalizer” franchise.
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“Equalizer 3” sees star Denzel Washington and filmmaker Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day“) reunite as Washington’s character Robert McCall, an ex-Marine and D.I.A. Officer, is located in Boston doing random blue collar jobs to maintain below the radar whereas additionally being the go-to particular person for locals in his small orbit to assist with coping with harmful individuals after they can’t go to the authorities. One of the large antagonists from the primary film was the Russian mob with Marton Csokas within the position of gangster Nicolai Itchenko. The latest incarnation sees McCall’s companies required in Rome, Italy coping with the notorious mafia in Southern Italy.
It’s additionally one other mini-reunion with Washington working alongside his “Man On Fire” co-star Dakota Fanning (“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood“). Others on the call-sheet embrace David Denman (“13 Hours“) and Italian actress Gaia Scodellaro, who is an element of a giant native solid assembled for the movie.
Here is a logline for the pic:
Robert McCall finds himself at dwelling in Southern Italy however he discovers his mates are below the management of native crime bosses. As occasions flip lethal, McCall is aware of what he has to do: turn into his mates’ protector by taking over the mafia.
The franchise is loosely based mostly on the 1985 CBS sequence of the identical title that starred British actor Edward Woodward and apparently sufficient there’s a fashionable incarnation at present on the community starring Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall that debuted again in 2021. Screenwriter Richard Wenk (“Kraven The Hunter”) is behind the sequel’s script and it was shot by three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson (“The Hateful Eight“), who previously worked on Fuqua’s drama “Emancipation.”
Sony is about to launch “Equalizer 3” on September 1 and is being promoted because the “final chapter.” You can watch that aforementioned trailer beneath alongside an official poster for the motion pic.
