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Originally set for release on Blu-ray combo pack, DVD, Digital and On Demand January 30th, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment just pulled Death Race: Beyond Anarchy and the accompanying 4-movie collection from release. No new date was given, but a statement reads that it was a “strategic decision”. Franchise newcomers Zach McGowan (“Black Sails”) and Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon, Saw, Predator […]...

Another chapter in the Death Race franchise is going straight to a home release with Death Race 4: Beyond Anarchy with Danny Trejo returning to the movie and Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon) joining the cast. The unrated and unhinged is coming to Blu-ray™, DVD, Digital and On Demand January 30 along with a 4-movie collection featuring the three previous movies. Check out the bonus features arriving with the new release.

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Death Race: Anarchy, the fourth film in the series that began in 2008 and the sequel to 2013’s Death Race: Inferno, is already finished and is looking at a 2018 release date. We spoke with writer Tony Giglio, who says… Continue Reading →

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Danny Trejo’s life will soon be the subject of a new documentary titled “Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo.” Directed by Brett Harvey, the film will chronicle his tumultuous upbringings, from an early life of drugs, his time in prison, getting clean and his eventual rise to fame.

Trejo will give a a firsthand account of everything he faced in his past, to getting a second chance and changing his life, to becoming a movie star and giving back to the community.

“Today, Danny Trejo is temperate, benevolent and likely one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. But he wasn’t always this way”, said producer Adam Scorgie in a statement. “Growing up in the mean streets of Pacoima, California, he was raised and mentored by his uncle, a drug addict and armed robber. By the age of 12, he had tried heroin. By age 15, he was...

World-renowned actor Danny Trejo has teamed up with award-winning filmmaker Brett Harvey (Ice Guardians, The Culture High) to tell a story 71-years in the making. Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo, currently in production in California, explores the life and career of Hollywood's most unlikely hero, Danny Trejo. Trejo, whose myriad of TV and motion picture work includes Desperado, Machete, Sin City, Predators and Sons of Anarchy, executive produces alongside proficient producing team Adam Scorgie, Rocky Mudaliar, Iliana Nikolic and Craig Balkam.

From an early life of drugs, armed robbery and hard prison time, to the red carpets of Hollywood blockbusters all the way to helping troubled addicts; Trejo gives a firsthand account of one of the greatest transformations of human character ever put to film. Adam Scorgie, whose credits include recent success Ice Guardians and upcoming Chasing Evel: The Robbie Knievel Story, shed some light on the actor's amazing story in a statement.

It’s been four years since the release of the second sequel to the reboot/remake of Death Race – Death Race: Inferno – and three since the fourth film was sneakily announced by it’s writer Tony Giglio on Twitter, but now news reaches us that Death Race 4, now retitled Death Race: Anarchy has completed filming.

Not to be confused with Roger Corman’s own remake of Death Race, entitled Death Race 2050 (which actually comes from the same production company, Universal 1440 Entertainment), Death Race: Anarchy sees the return of Danny Trejo as Goldberg and Frederick Koehler as Lists – both of whom appeared in Death Race 2 and Death Race: Inferno.

Joining the Death Race family are Black Sails’ Zach McGowan, Christine Marzano, Danny Glover, Lorina Kamburova and a number of homegrown talent from here in the UK: Cassie Clare, Nicholas Aaron, Lucy Aarden, Julian Seager, Lee Shone, Kellie Blaise and Cameron Jack as The Warden…...

World-renowned actor Danny Trejo has teamed up with award-winning filmmaker Brett Harvey (Ice Guardians, The Culture High) to tell a story 71-years in the making… Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo, currently in production in California, explores the life and career of Hollywood’s most unlikely hero, Danny Trejo.

Trejo, whose myriad of TV and motion picture work includes Desperado, Machete, Sin City, Predators and Sons of Anarchy, executive produces alongside proficient producing team Adam Scorgie, Rocky Mudaliar, Iliana Nikolic and Craig Balkam.

Official synopsis:

From an early life of drugs, armed robbery and hard prison time, to the red carpets of Hollywood blockbusters all the way to helping troubled addicts; Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo gives a firsthand account of one of the greatest transformations of human character ever put to film.

Upon his release from prison in 1969, Danny’s life took a turn for the better.

As one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces, actor Danny Trejo has played thugs, assassins, villains, monsters and even hero vigilantes.

Now his life story will be seen in a documentary Inmate #1: The Rise Of Danny Trejo.

Award-winning filmmaker Bretty Harvey (Ice Guardians, The Culture High) has teamed up with the actor to tell his personal story.

The film is currently in production in California.

Fans know Trejo from his various roles that includes Desperado, Machete, Sin City, Predators and Sons Of Anarchy. And that’s the tip of the iceberg of hundreds of roles he had played in the past.

The untold story is Trejo’s life. He entered an early life of drugs by the age of 12, in which he tried heroin. By 15-years-old, he was in jail for the first time. At 23, he was sentenced at San Quentin for selling $30,000 bag of heroin to an undercover agent.

Starring Sophie Skelton, Marcus Vanco, Jeff Gum (Exeter, The Vault), Lorina Kamburova (Nightworld, Leatherface Death Race 4), Nick Loeb, Rachel O’Meara, Debbie Sherman, Luke Cousins, Nathan Cooper, and Cristina Serafini, the Day of the Dead remake is currently filming under the direction of The Corpse of Anna Fritz‘s Hèctor Hernández Vicens. Day of the Dead follows a former medical student tormented by a dark figure […]...

Starring Sophie Skelton, Marcus Vanco, Jeff Gum (Exeter, The Vault), Lorina Kamburova (Nightworld, Leatherface Death Race 4), Nick Loeb, Rachel O’Meara, Debbie Sherman, Luke Cousins, Nathan Cooper, and Cristina Serafini, the Day of the Dead remake is currently filming under the direction of The Corpse of Anna Fritz‘s Hèctor Hernández Vicens. Day of the Dead follows a former medical student tormented by a […]...