Showdown at the Grand Trailer Has Art Imitating Life in Wild Action Comedy

Summary

• Terrence Howard and Dolph Lundgren team up to save a family-owned movie theater from corporate developers in Showdown at the Grand.
• The film, directed by Orson Oblowitz, channels old school action comedy vibes and features a great cast, including Academy Award Nominee Terrence Howard.
• Showdown at the Grand hits theaters and on demand on November 3, and the trailer promises a showdown of epic proportions between Howard’s character, George Fuller, and Lundgren’s character, Claude Luc Hallyday.

Terrence Howard and Dolph Lundgren try to save a movie theater in the first trailer for Showdown at the Grand, Shout! Studios upcoming action comedy that feels old school in the best possible way.

After The Queen of Hollywood Blvd, Trespassers, and The Five Rules of Success, director Orson Oblowitz presents his next film led by a great cast that includes Academy Award Nominee Terrence Howard, and Rocky and Aquaman star Dolph Lundgren. Showdown at the Grand centers on a man’s struggle to keep his family’s business going, an old cinema that is at risk of disappearing into the hands of a large conglomerate, for which he will have to seek the help of a big movie star.

Shout! Studios has released the first trailer for the film which is coming to theaters and on demand on November 3. Check it out below along with the official synopsis:

“A proud movie theater owner, George Fuller (Terrence Howard), must defend his family business from corporate developers alongside a legendary action star, Claude Luc Hallyday (Dolph Lundgren) as art imitates life in a showdown for the ages.”

The cast of Showdown at the Grand also includes Amanda Righetti (Christmas at the Ranch), John Savage (The Deer Hunter), Piper Curda (American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules), Mike Ferguson (Amityville Uprising), Clemmie Dugdale (About Time), Jose Rosete (Monsters of Man), and Jon Sklaroff, who already worked with the director on The Five Rules of Success.

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Dolph Lundgren’s Busy 2023

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Since his famous participation in Rocky IV in 1985, Lundgren has become a great exponent of action cinema and other genres, collecting a long list of more than interesting titles such as Don’t Kill It, Castle Falls, Hail, Caesar! , Minions: The Rise of Gru, A View to a Kill, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, or The Punisher among many others.

Although the peak of his career was as an action star in the ’80s and ’90s, something he shares with his character in Showdown at the Grand, the actor has stayed busy throughout his career. In fact, in 2023, he participated in several projects and still has a number of pending releases.

His first release of the year was Shane Dax Taylor’s The Best Man. The film is set in a hotel during a wedding, when a group of mercenaries takes over the place, and groom, his best man and another guest are in charge of taking down the criminals in order to continue with the celebration. He then released Wanted Man, a film that he directed, wrote, produced and starred in.

On September 22, Expend4bles hit theaters, where Lundgren once again joins a long list of action heroes like Jason Statham and Sylvester Stallone in the latest installment of the franchise. In December, Lundgren will once again become King Nereus in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the long-awaited sequel to the 2018 film centered on Jason Momoa’s DC hero.

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