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Raven Banner traps Cambodian action thriller 'The Prey' for international sales (exclusive)
By Jeremy Kay18 January 2019
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Toronto-based Raven Banner has picked up international sales rights to Cambodia’s first million-dollar action film The Prey and will launch sales at the EFM in berlin next month.

XYZ Films represents North American rights to the film, which capitalises on the popularity of Jailbreak, the first Cambodian film acquired by Netflix that was directed by Jimmy Henderson from a screenplay by Michael Hodgson.

Henderson returns as director on The Prey and reunites with Hodgson and co-writer Kai Miller on the story of Xin (Gu Shang Wei), an undercover Chinese cop who gets arrested during a raid on a gang he infiltrated.

When he is slung in a remote jungle prison, Xin is targeted by a corrupt warden who invites wealthy businessmen to hunt his criminal charges. Gu Sheng Wei and Vithaya Pansringarm star.

Raven Banner’s Michaelangelo Masangkay brokered the deal with producer Loy Te.
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September 20, 2019
Action thriller: ‘The Prey’ looks like a million bucks

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NEW action thriller “The Prey”, marking the return of Jimmy Henderson the director of Cambodian action blockbuster ‘’Jailbreak’, made its premiere on Tuesday night at the Major Cineplex Cambodia at Aeon2.

It is also reputedly the first action film produced on a million-dollar budget.

Renowned for his spectacular action films, Henderson’s latest movie also sees a reunion of screenwriters Michael Hodgson and Kai Miller to elevate the film to prominence in the Cambodia International Film Festival (CIFF).

In international screenings, Toronto-based ‘Raven Banner’ is promoting the Cambodia action thriller at the European Film Market in Berlin.
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On the run and fighting to stay alive is the core of “The Prey” which brings to the big screen spectacular action scenes featuring tense gun battles and explosions in the story of Xin (Gu Shang Wei), an undercover Chinese cop who becomes the hunted for a change.
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Sequel to Cambodian Action Hit 'Jailbreak' in the Works (Exclusive)
June 25, 2020 12:27pm by Borys Kit

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Jailbreak, Cambodia’s acclaimed — and first — action movie, is getting a sequel.

Jimmy Henderson is back in the director’s chair for what is being tentatively titled Jailbreak: Round 2 as are the leads, Jean Paul Ly, Dara Our and Tharoth Sam, who played cops that must break out of prison with a key witness during a riot.

Joining them for this new actionfest are Cecep Arif Rahman and Yayan Ruhian, action stars known for their chops in The Raid movies as well as John Wick 3 – Parabellum. Rahman and Ruhian will be playing villains.

Written by Kai Miller, the story sees Cambodia’s ragtag, renegade team of martial arts commandos band to defeat a fugitive crime lord “lodged atop 30 floors of hell,” according to producer Loy Te. Te’s Kongchak Pictures is behind the movie with additional financing from Westec Media.

The project is looking to shoot in 2021. Song Te and Michael Chai are exec producing.

Jailbreak won best action film at Fantasia Film Festival in 2017, also nabbing a special action award and a nomination for most innovative feature. The movie, which highlighted a fighting style known as bokator, was picked up by Netflix.

The movie proved a major hit and engendered comparisons to Ong-Bak and The Raid, marking a major leap for the local production scene. Actor Our went on to become the national coach of the Bokator federation and has been training the country’s army in the hand-to-hand combat using bokator techniques.

The project will be making its debut during the Cannes Virtual Market.
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lets hope this one is better, as jailbreak was one of the worst movies I have seen in ages
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FFS Richard, why do you take every opportunity to be so negative about Cambodia? It's not even amusing, give it a break.
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To be fair it’s pretty crap.
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Jailbreak had a bonafide porn actress not taking off her clothes and screwing someone over. The leading lady doesn’t look like a movie star built with enhanced cleavage. Loads of pointless action. Sure it’s not as slick as a Hollywood production. But way loads better than the average Khmer film.

It’s a good first effort. Can’t wait to see the follow up. It will only get better.
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newkidontheblock wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2020 10:01 pm Jailbreak had a bonafide porn actress not taking off her clothes and screwing someone over. The leading lady doesn’t look like a movie star built with enhanced cleavage.
Had to look it up and see who the actress was, she was a well-known porn star. I was always impressed by her acting when I was younger but lost track of her work at some point.
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‘The Prey’ Review: ‘Jailbreak’ Director Delivers Intense Rumble in Cambodian Jungle

Jimmy Henderson delivers another scrappy yet satisfying low-budget action movie in a country where the genre has been all but nonexistent.
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“The Prey” takes the classic “The Most Dangerous Game” scenario for a spin in the Cambodian jungle. Centered on a wrongly jailed cop being stalked by cashed-up creeps who get their kicks by hunting humans, this survival thriller doesn’t bring anything significantly new to the table but the frequency and quality of its gunplay and martial arts combat should keep most action fans happy. Directed, edited and co-written by Italian expat Jimmy Henderson, whose 2017 prison smackdown “Jailbreak” marked him as a talent to watch and was snapped up by Netflix, “The Prey” debuted at the Busan Film Fetival in 2018 and will open in select North American virtual cinemas on Aug. 21. VOD streaming commences on August 25.

Trumpeted as Cambodia’s first million-dollar action movie, “The Prey” can’t match “Jailbreak” for sheer excitement but does suggest that with more original and ambitious material Henderson could become a real force in Asian genre cinema. Audiences will next have the opportunity to check on Henderson’s progress when release details are confirmed for his recently completed boxing drama “The Guardian” (aka “Patron Saint: Desperate Rescue”). Plans to shoot a sequel to “Jailbreak” in 2021 have also been announced.

This variation on the tale that’s driven everything from Cornel Wilde’s Oscar-nominated “The Naked Prey” (1965) to Craig Zobel’s controversial “The Hunt” earlier this year kicks off in Phnom Penh, where undercover Interpol agent Xin (Gu Shang Wei) has infiltrated a cyber-crime syndicate. When cops raid the gang’s headquarters, Xin’s arrested and transported to Western Region Penitentiary, a hellhole located in a fictional DMZ some 125 miles from the Cambodian capital. The Chinese detective barely has time to activate a tracking device before he’s handed over to the prison’s boss, identified only as “the Warden” (Vithaya Pansingarm).

Adding to his impressive résumé of sinister authority figures, Thai actor Pansingarm (“A Prayer Before Dawn,” “Only God Forgives”) hams it up enjoyably as the jailer. Swaying along to country rock music while zapping Xin with electric shocks, the smiling sadist says he wants to see what happens “when a man becomes an animal.”
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