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William Kaufman
@kaufman_film
Writer/Director. Genre action films, no apologies. Irish Channel Studios, New Orleans. MAN OF WAR - OUT NOW!
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A year on, and this is still the scene people bring up. Jaren Mitchell sings here, but it’s not just a song dropped into a movie. My producers secured the rights, then Jaren and my composer, John Roome, took it somewhere else entirely. They made it ours. You get moments on set where the plan stops mattering and you let the actor go. This was one of them. The room went quiet. Crew stopped moving. You could feel everyone leaning in. Jaren absolutely owns the moment. 🎬 OSIRIS --AVAILABLE NOW on HULU, YOUTUBE, GOOGLE PLAY, DISNEY+, PRIME and APPLE TV. 💬 What’s the scene in a movie you always go back to? The one that stuck with you years later.
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TRUE ROMANCE. 1993. Tarantino wrote it. Tony Scott shot it. The poster hangs on my studio wall today. One of my favorite films. Clarence at the sink. The gold jacket over his shoulder, half a face in the mirror, talking low. "I like you… always have, always will." Kilmer isn't even credited as Elvis — the estate wouldn't have it, so the credits just say "Mentor." Eight hours in the makeup chair for two days of work. A mirror, a silhouette, and a voice. Best cameo of the decade. And Scott never lets the violence off the hook. Every bullet in that picture has a receipt attached. Blood on the wallpaper, a father in a chair, a kid who wanted to be Elvis. That's the job — make it cost something. Thirty-three years on. Still holds. What's the scene that stuck to you? #TrueRomance# #TonyScott# #ValKilmer# #Tarantino# #FilmCraft# #IrishChannelStudios#
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“And the Road Warrior? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now… only in my memories.”
Sat down with The Action Desk to talk Man of War. Where it came from. Why the action has to hurt. I don’t make violence look fun. Never have. War is a monster — chaos, fear, brutality. If you flinch, we did our job. Big thanks to Jordan Crucchiola and the rscl films team for the conversation and the kind words. Full interview at the link. Man of War is out now on digital everywhere — Apple TV and Prime Video. #ManOfWar# #ActionCinema# #IndependentFilm#
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Incoming! Don’t miss it… ABOVE & BELOW from my friend, Director Jesse V Johnson
This week’s shark movie announcement: Antonio Banderas in “ABOVE & BELOW,” with trailer and poster - Rue Morgue via @ruemorgue
BOOM. Released three years ago. Still kicking doors in. 697K views. 28K likes. 7,094 shares. 11K saves. Still climbing. No studio machine. No ad spend. Just a crew that knows what a gunfight is supposed to look like… and an audience that can tell the difference. Swift. LOUD and Deadly! The Channel — streaming now on Prime Video and Apple TV etc.. And the new one, Man of War — out now on digital everywhere. #UnapologeticallyGenre# #IndieFilm# #ActionCinema#
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Agreed… He’s freaking amazing. Would love to work with him.
When I was like 13 I was reading Empire and Total Film every month. I remember one of them was talking a lot about how good Dirty Pretty Things was. Checked it out at the library, way too young, but remember seeing Ejiofor and thinking “this is the best actor I’ve ever seen”
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Thanx so much for sharing !
I really enjoyed the intense new rescue thriller MAN OF WAR, directed by action auteur @kaufman_film (SHRAPNEL, THE CHANNEL, MARINE 4). Great to see actor LaMonica Garrett shine in a leading role after his superb supporting turns in series like LIONESS, TERMINAL LIST and 1883.
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From the one and only @jessevjohns with @TheScottAdkins - Avengement is the real deal. Jesse V. Johnson knows exactly what he’s doing and Scott Adkins has never been better. Brutal, precise, and completely uncompromising. This is how you make action cinema. This one hits different. Love this film.
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