SKIN TRADE (Ekachai Uekrongtham, 2014)

[Jox]

Thai merchandise (to win?)

[Jox]

[dude hallenbeck]

That really doesn't go with the film. Maybe if A Man Will Rise has been completed and released, it would've suited that film, but fashion pouches with the words 'skin trade' on them seems a bit offensive.

Unbelievable, the Gary Daniels starring Skin Traffik is coming out the exact same day as Skin Trade in Australia;

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/DVD/skin-traffik/dp/6166257

[Jox]

That really doesn't go with the film. Maybe if A Man Will Rise has been completed and released, it would've suited that film, but fashion pouches with the words 'skin trade' on them seems a bit offensive.

Yeah that's silly and makes no sense but we've seen ridiculous things for EX3 in Japan as well so who knows the ways of marketing in Asia, either the distributors are even less sensitive to the products they're selling, or this is how you appeal to the crowds...

Unbelievable, the Gary Daniels starring Skin Traffik is coming out the exact same day as Skin Trade in Australia;

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/DVD/skin-traffik/dp/6166257

I don't know if it's good or bad but SKIN TRAFFIK will certainly profit from it more, even though it probably won't stand the comparison. I also honestly question its genesis and if they didn't produce it after hearing about SKIN TRADE (which has taken some time to get made). But it's kind of like the Asylum projects...

German covers:


More stills:

[bomaz]

Yeah, first still with Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa, I was starting to believe his part was scrapped.

[Jox]

Be aware that Tagawa's a relatively small part if I'm not mistaking.

Some tentative release dates have been unveilled on the international ST page, although since Cambodia's upcoming one is wrong (and they're missing Australia's) I wouldn't take all those for granted, notably UK's May 25th (wouldn't it be announced by now?):

United States - May 8th
Canada - July 7th
Thailand - April 23rd
UK - May 25th
-Russia and CIS Countries - Tentative September
Latin America - Tentative September
Germany - June 15th
South Korea - May
Singapore - April 16th
Indonesia - Mid June
Malaysia - May 8th

EDIT:
Thailand is getting hot for SKIN TRADE:

[dude hallenbeck]

I don't know if it's good or bad but SKIN TRAFFIK will certainly profit from it more, even though it probably won't stand the comparison. I also honestly question its genesis and if they didn't produce it after hearing about SKIN TRADE (which has taken some time to get made). But it's kind of like the Asylum projects...

I believe the film was sitting around unreleased titled The Human Factor for a long time.

Here's a concept teaser from January 2012.

http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/strange-teaser-trailer-for-human-factor-shows-up-featuring-the-likes-of-eric-roberts-and-tom-sizemore

[Tom]

I don't know if it's good or bad but SKIN TRAFFIK will certainly profit from it more, even though it probably won't stand the comparison. I also honestly question its genesis and if they didn't produce it after hearing about SKIN TRADE (which has taken some time to get made). But it's kind of like the Asylum projects...

I believe the film was sitting around unreleased titled The Human Factor for a long time.

Here's a concept teaser from January 2012.

http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/strange-teaser-trailer-for-human-factor-shows-up-featuring-the-likes-of-eric-roberts-and-tom-sizemore

I think that's an entirely different project. The producer/director of Human Factor obviously never got funding in the end, or went ahead with it. It seems he's done primarily shorts. That teaser was pretty amateurish and it's surprising that any newsites even bothered picking it up. He clearly did it to drum up financing and probably never even got any of the actors signed on.

Skin Traffik is the first major feature for British director/producer Ara Paiaya. It's impressive he pulled together the cast and managed to get it made, but by most accounts (as it's leaked online) it's pretty terrible. But again, he shows that if you push for it, anyone can get a movie made and these actors will do anything as long as they're paid.
I would imagine the film is more of a Taken cash-in rather than anything else, but I would imagine titling it Skin Traffik was also a way to try and ride off Skin Trade a little to.

[Jox]

Tony Jaa sporting the Thai release SKIN TRADE t-shirt


Michael Jai White character poster

[Jox]

SKIN TRADE ranked #5 (after FURIOUS 7, THE COBBLER, HOME & CINDERELLA) at UAE box office last week with $79,267 (not sure how many screens)
http://www.gulffilm.com/boxoffice

[bomaz]

Promo featurette, no spoilers and new scenes.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/skintrade/

[Jox]

Review from Singapore theatrical release:
http://www.moviexclusive.com/movie/skin-trade-2014

Vietnam theatrical release May 8th

[Jox]

Ron Perlman's Thai character poster:



FB post

[Jox]

Review from Felix who saw it in Singapore:

Just saw SKIN TRADE, Jox. I liked it quite a bit.

I'll rate this as almost reaching UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: REGENERATION levels. Production Values didn't look DTV cheap (at least on the big screen). The action was cleanly shot and easy to follow.

Two fights in particular are the highlights

1) Dolph vs Tony Jaa
2) Jaa vs Michael Jai White

The latter fight in particular was my favorite. A lot of technique shown by Jai White. Made me worry for Tony Jaa's character (he speaks really good English here).

I'll give this a 7.5 or 8/10.

http://www.chud.com/community/t/86300/t ... ead/120950

More stills:

[dude hallenbeck]

Ron Perlman's Thai character poster:

Somebody tell Perlman his hand is on fire!