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International Trailer Released for Hayek’s Action Film “Everly”

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Salma Hayek is ready to fight mightily everly after…

The first official international trailer for Everly, starring the 48-year-old Mexican actress, has been released.

Salma Hayek in Everly

Hayek says “Yippee-ki-yay” to Japanese mobsters and hired killers in the clip for director Joe Lynch’s ode to Asian cinema and the action classic Die Hard.

Hayek, an Oscar nominee for her performance in Frida, stars as a Yakuza prostitute-turned-informant who must find her inner John McClane and fend off assassins before she can whisk her young daughter away to a new life.

Akie Kotabe and Hiroyuki Watanabe also star in Lynch’s follow-up to Knights of Badassdom. Yale Hannon wrote the script.

Radius-TWC will first debut on iTunes and On Demand on January 23 before it hits theaters on February 27.

Dimension Films and Radius-TWC Have Acquired Rights to Hayek’s Action Thriller “Everly”

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She portrayed in dastardly drug lord in Oliver Stone’s Savages… But now Salma Hayek’s switching sides.

Dimension Films and Radius-TWC have acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the 47-year-old Mexican actress’ intense action thriller Everly.

Salma Hayek

Directed by Joe Lynch from a script by Yale Hannon, the film centers in Hayek’s character. She’s described as a down-on-her-luck woman forced to fend off waves of assassins sent by her ex, a dangerous mob boss, while trying to save her estranged mother and daughter.

Togo Igawa, Masashi Fujimoto and Hiroyuki Watanabe also star in Everly, which is slated for a fourth quarter 2014 release.

“We’ve been on the hunt for a female driven action franchise and we’ve finally found it in Everly,” said Radius co-presidents Tom Quinn and Jason Janego. “Salma is utterly transcendent.”

It’s the latest project from the Oscar-nominated actress to make headlines in recent days.

Hayek previously signed on to star opposite Shohreh Aghdashloo in the thriller The Septembers of Shiraz, the film adaptation of a Dalia Sofer novel.