Two tough detectives, impeccably played by award-winning actors Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom, investigate a brutal murder in post-Apartheid South Africa in this gripping, violent, and action-packed thriller.

Forest Whitaker (Academy Award Winner® The Last King Of Scotland)
Orlando Bloom (The Hobbit; The Lords Of The Rings)
Jérôme Salle, Director (The Tourist; Duplicity)

When a teen girl is discovered brutally murdered in Cape Town’s botanical gardens, Chief of Police Ali Sokhela (Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker) and cop Brian Epkeen (Orlando Bloom) are tasked with solving the crime. However upon investigating the murder they uncover a sinister synthetic drug ring with a worldwide network, releasing a new illegal substance into the market, which is spiralling out of control. Sokhela and Epkeen are soon placing their own lives in danger in an attempt to end further devastating and disturbing consequences.

This 2013 Official Cannes Selection opens with an intense sequence of shocking violence and only gets more gripping from that point on!

With a fierce beach-based shootout being a definite high-point, “Zulu” balances exciting action with emotional drama, inspiring Orlando Bloom into a career-best turn - his conflicted cop with a past is worthy of several spin-offs. Which isn’t to diminish Forest Whitaker’s compelling turn - his Chief is the heart of the film, and Whitaker is as mesmerising as ever.

Director Jérôme Salle guides the action with an auteur’s eye, building to an epic climax that needs to be experienced to be believed.

“The picture is first-rate, benefiting from the expert combo of Denis Rouden’s vibrant-hued photography and superb location scouting. A stunning helicopter shot of Cape Town announces the film’s sweeping sociological intentions at the outset, and Salle provides fascinating glimpses of the city at every level, from the cluttered shantytowns to the wide-open sand dunes where the climactic action unfolds” Variety

About Anchor Bay Entertainment

Anchor Bay Films is a division of Anchor Bay Entertainment and provides quality distribution with operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and offers distribution capabilities in other key territories. Anchor Bay Films uniquely offers the creative community a fully integrated distribution capability on all platforms and an international solution extending beyond the United States. The company focuses on a platform release strategy for its films with an eye toward maximizing their potential across all ancillary distribution platforms. Upcoming releases include its first in-house production WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY starring Ian Ogilvy, James Cosmo and Steven Berkoff and World War Dead starring Ray Pathaki. Films in its library include the theatrical release of Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem starring Sheri Moon Zombie and genre favourite Ken Foree, 10 Yearsstarring Channing Tatum and Rosario Dawson, the critically-acclaimed comedy City Island starring Andy Garcia and Solitary Man starring Michael Douglas as well as Kill the Irishman starring Ray Stevenson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken and Cannes 2011 premiere Corman’s World. Anchor Bay Entertainment (www.anchorbayentertainment.com) is a Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) business, www.starz.com.