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Biblical Epic THE BOOK OF CLARENCE, A Nod To Jeymes Samuel’s ‘The Harder They Fall’ Is In The Works

Jeymes Samuel (a.k.a. “The Bullitts”) is moving forward with Biblical epic, The Book Of Clarence, which will star Lakeith Stanfield (Death Note, Sorry To Bother You). The film rejoins the two following Samuel’s hit Netflix Western, The Harder They Fall, in which Stanfield portrays Cherokee Bill, a member of the notorious gang led by outlaw Rufus Buck, played by Idris Elba in the film. Plot details are under wraps, but according to a new interview over at Deadline on Monday, Samuels notes the film follows up from an easter egg in The Harder They Fall in a key dialogue moment where the Nat Love gang regroups with legendary sheriff Bass Reeves to confront Buck who was since pardoned for his crimes, forcefully retreived from a Yuma-bound prison transport and re-settled in Redwood City. You’re welcome to check out that scene in the film which is now available on Netflix, which […]

THE GOBLIN Haunts The Criminal Underworld With A Vengeance In The Latest Trailers

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Filmmaker Kim Hee-seong made a landing in 2015 co-helming with Kwon Soo-keyong for web drama, The Flatterer!. He’s since become more prolific in the action arena with first and second installments of The Techniques of Fighting and now, he’s at it again with a seething new crime thriller in The Goblin, starring Jo Dong-hyuk (Bad Guys: Reign Of Chaos) and Lee Wan (Cinema Street). The skinny? Jo plays an infamous gang enforcer who takes the fall for the murder of his boss at the hands of another member. When his fabled nickname is subject to use by another gang member, he resurfaces only to face reprisal by his gang when they kidnap his daughter in a desperate attempt to cover up the deadly incident from a decade earlier. The film took par in the Asian Contents And Film Market at last year’s Busan International Film Festival, and is currently slated […]

IN THE OCTAGON: Wang Baoqiang Directing And Starring In New MMA Drama Based On A True Story

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Actor and martial artist Wang Baoqiang (Kung Fu Killer, Rising Shaolin: The Protector) is currently en route with his second turn at the helm with In The Octagon (a Google translation reads the characters via Chinese media reports as “In The Octagonal Cage”). Wang’s In The Octagon centers on a coach’s efforts to train local orphans to become professional fighters in Chengdu, China. The film takes its cues from a real-life story back in 2017 when Chengdu-based Endo MMA, a gym reportedly launched in 2001 by a former police officer who is Tibetan, with the intended purpose of keeping young orphans away from a life of crime, instead drew controversy following the release of a viral video shortfilm documenting the fighting, which led to an investigation of the club. Wang, who previously directed and co-wrote (and starred in) 2017 adventure comedy, Buddies In India, is starring as the protagonist of […]

PREY: The Hunt Begins In The First Teaser For Dan Trachtenberg’s ‘Predator’ Movie

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Initially under the working title, Skulls, we now have a first look teaser for Dan Trachtenberg’s own take on “Predator” with the new film, Prey. The film stars a cast almost entirely comprised of Native and First Nations talent, including Amber Midthunder (The Ice Road, Roswell, New Mexico), and newcomer Dakota Beavers, along with Stormee Kipp (Sooyii), Michelle Thrush (The Journey Home), and Julian Black Antelope (Tribal). Set in the Comanche Nation 300 years ago, “Prey” is the story of a young woman, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled warrior. She has been raised in the shadow of some of the most legendary hunters who roam the Great Plains, so when danger threatens her camp, she sets out to protect her people. The prey she stalks, and ultimately confronts, turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal, resulting in a vicious and terrifying showdown […]

MAT KILAU: Meet The Legendary Malaysian Warrior In The Official Trailer

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Malaysian filmmaker Syamsul Yusof has been on the climb with local hits like actioners KL Gangster 1 & 2, KL Gangster spin-off Abang Long Fadil and horror thrillers Munafik 1 & 2 to name a few. Indeed though, he’s got a third canon installation of KL Gangster on the way but not for staking his claim with the long-awaited release of period action drama, Mat Kilau, starring Adi Putra in the title role. Yusof penned the script with Shahruddin Dali to adapt the story of the legendary warrior known for rebelling against the British in the late 19th century. The Studio Kembara production also stars Fattah Amin, Beto Kusyairy, Johan As’ari, Dato Jalaluddin Hassan, Dato Rahim Razali, Ellie Suriaty and action star Yayan Ruhian who also designed the action sequences. Mat Kilau: Kebangkitan Pahlawan (otherwise known via Google translation as “Mat Kilau: Awakening of the Hero”) opens in Malaysia beginning […]

ALIVEHOON: Ten Shimoyama’s Racing Thriller Sets Adrift In The Latest International Promo

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Muscle Heat and Shinobi: Heart Under Blade director Ten Shimoyama is back with a brand new drift-racing thriller with Alivehoon. The film stars Shuhei Nomura, Ai Yoshikawa and Takanori Jinnai, and is set to open in Japan from June 16 from Aeon Entertainment. A trailer has been making the rounds on several channels and as of this week we now have a short promo with English subs courtesy of international sales brand, Nikkatsu. A drift team on the verge of shutting down scouts out Koichi Oba, a shy, introverted gamer who is incredibly talented at Esport driving games. Koichi demonstrates his mastery in a real car, but he is up against professional drivers who challenge him in races of life and death. Koichi’s blossoming technique, passion, courage, and teamwork break down the barriers between the virtual and the real, taking him and his team to new extremes. This is the birth […]

HELL HATH NO FURY Review: War Games And Psy-Ops Outline A Peculiar Heroine’s WWII Tale

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Filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson has certainly lived up to the hype as one of the most prominent action genre directors working today; Frankly, I’m almost curious to see how well he would bode in the horror or sci-fi genres. To this end, he’s also one of the most consistent when it comes to his distinctive style at times, and an adherence to bygone cinema, history and philosophy plays well here, especially with his most recent World War II thriller drama, Hell Hath No Fury. The film sets sail at the tail-end of the war where we meet Marie (Nina Bergman), the former lover of an elite Nazi guardsman named Von Bruckner (Daniel Bernhardt). In the span of three years and with France gaining its freedom with remnants of Hitler’s army vacating, Marie finds herself in not-so-cozy bearings after spending three years in prison with her headshaven and a swastika painted […]

DHAAKAD: Don’t Miss The Stabby, Shooty, Screamy, Bloody, Punchy, Kicky And Explody New Trailer Ahead Of Its Release This Week

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Indian cinema is the gift that keeps on giving, especially if you’re a Westerner and not so easily exposed to news of a different language, and so I have to thank Twitter follow Al Tran for bringing director Razneesh Ghai’s Dhaakad to my attention and that of others with a new trailer that’s already garnered over 22 million views as of a few days ago. Agent Agni is on a mission to stop human trafficking and change the world. What will happen when she comes face-to-face with Rudraveer, who is equally strong-willed? This trailer is about as kick-ass as kick-ass gets, and features Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi star Kangana Ranaut leading the charge in every violent and vengeful way possible in the 2.5 minutes of exhilirating footage we’re getting. The action sequences are also apparently done by Indian stunt stalwart Parvez Shaikh (War) along with Brett Chan’s Hitz International […]

Don Lee Set To Reprise His Role In Third Outing For THE OUTLAWS Cop Thriller Franchise, Fourth And More Also In The Works

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Multiple Korean news outlets are reporting that a third follow-up to Kang Yoon-sung’s 2017 cop thriller vehicle, The Outlaws, is well on the way with a forth installment already in development. Lee Sang-yong, who directed the second film, The Roundup, will rejoin his star to helm the pic which is currently slated for a 2023 release. Partial casting details reported by Maeil Business Newspaper’s Han Hyun-jung further include Lee Jun-hyuk (Baseball Girl, Along With The Gods 1 & 2), Munetaka Aoki (Rurouni Kenshin franchise), Lee Beom-su (The Divine Move, Unfinished), and Kim Min-jae (Unstoppable, The Battleship Island). The report also hints that successes on the second, the pending third and fourth films could also lead to possible developments for four more titles in the line-up, totaling eight films altogether. Lee, who also stars in films like The Unjust, Kundo, Train To Busan and Derailed to name a few, headlined writer/director […]

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BOUDICA: ‘Hell Hath No Fury’ Helmer To Direct Warrior Queen Epic Later This Year

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Action veteran Jesse V. Johnson (Hell Hath No Fury, Savage Dog, Avengement upcoming White Elephant) will shoot warrior queen epic, Boudica, in Wales this August. Johnson will direct from his own script with actress Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace, Black Widow, Sentinelle) starring in the title role. Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire. Pic hails from Bleiberg Entertainment and Picture Perfect; Ehud Bleiberg is producing with Johnson, with Danny Dimbort, Nicholas Bennett and Ariel Bleiberg exec producing. Bleiberg/Dimbort will […]

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REIGN: Christian Larson And Ming Zhao Must Fight To The Finish In The New Sci-Fi Martial Arts Webseries

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The Immortal Wars indie sci-fi action saga director Joe Lujan’s got a smaller project going these days with webseries, Reign. The mini-series was created by Christian Larson who stars along with Ming Zhao, where two strangers find themselves trapped in a dystopian underground fight circuit headed by the New World Order. The mini-series is designed as a virtual comic book-style display which you can view vertically on your mobile devices and is currently avaliable on YouTube in five episodes so far as of this write-up. Also starring are Amy Lyndon, Caitlin Dechelle, Jay Hieron, Chelsea Goldsmith, Chris Cortez, Spidey Turner, Michael Krause and Stu Chaiken, with action sequences by Mike Chat.

PALIDO: Kellan Lutz Action Thriller Heads To Cannes With Key Sales Art For Premiere

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Actor Kellan Lutz will star in writer/director Javier Reyna’s new action thriller, Palido. Further casting is already underway with L.A.-based Premiere Entertainment Group announcing the pic this week with sales art to present at next week’s Cannes market repping worldwide sales. Lutz, whose credits partly include The Twilight saga, Extraction, The Legend Of Hercules, Java Heat and The Expendables 3, will play an attorney with a military past who hunts down the gang that killed his wife and brother, and took his daughter. Moctesuma Esparza (Selena, The Milagro Beanfield War), and Al Bravo are producing for Al Bravo Films alongside Elias Axume for Premiere, whose Carlos Rincon is exec producing. “We are excited to have Kellan on board the film,” said Premiere CEO Elias Axume. “He’s a dynamic actor with wide range that elevates any film to the next level.” Recent Premiere original productions include Jason Patric thriller Shrapnel and […]

HIDDEN: Jung Hye-In Throws Down In The Official Trailer

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Act helmer Han Jong-hoon is back for only his second turn at the helm with none other than Female Tazza star Jung Hye-in with action crime thriller, Hidden. A poster and trailer have been making the rounds for a few days now with an undated May 2022 release in tow and I’m obliged to share these on this platform as we’re all part of the film’s target audience, obviously. And for this, we get Jung shredding her long-flowing locks for a shorthair look and brandishing a tough-as-nails air with screenfighting caliber to match. Here, she plays an NIS international drug unit member who dives right into the underworld in search of an elusive crimeboss. The film also stars Kong Hyung-jin (Roman Holiday) and Kim In-kwon (The Cursed: Dead Man’s Prey).

DOUBLE THREAT Trailer: Danielle C. Ryan Shoots Her Way Out In Shane Stanley’s New Film

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Actress Danielle C. Ryan (Riot, Survivor) stars in the new independent action thriller, Double Threat, which is set for a VOD release on June 3. Shane Stanley directed from a script by C.J. Walley, all of whom also produced the pic along with Kurt Patino. Jeff Pink and Scott J. Jones exec produced. Jimmy (Matthew Lawrence) recently loses his brother and promises to scatter his ashes in the ocean. His plans, however, are derailed when a normal convenience store pit-stop becomes a mob attack on cashier Natasha (Danielle C. Ryan). As Jimmy tries to flee, he discovers Natasha hiding in the back seat, and learns that she isn’t some random cashier, but a woman on the run from the mob with a split personality: Nat and Tasha. After some convincing, Nat and Tasha tag along with Jimmy on a road trip across the country, hoping to escape on a boat […]

ACTION DONGJA Trailer: Korean Kung Fu Kids To The Rescue In Yongminne’s Long-Awaited Film Debut

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You’re forgiven if Choi Yong-min’s (or “Yongminne’s”) 2020 feature debut, Action Dongja, somehow slipped from under your POV. It did for me, unfortunately, though less so for anyone who managed to check out the film during 2020’s Bucheon festivities that summer and the Yubari crowd a year later, among others. Fast forward two years later and the film has since pushed some poster art and at least two trailers, one of which you can catch above. As for what this is all about? Welp, it’s billed as children’s martial arts action comedy about a school boy named Jingu who finds himself in a whirlwind of adventure among a crew of young crimefighting temple monks during a botched theft. This, and it’s a children’s martial arts action comedy? Say no more. It’s already out now in Korea so the answer as to how we get this in the rest of our […]

Don Lee Starrer THE ROUNDUP Takes To IMAX In New Poster Art

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I credit Yoon Jong-bin’s 2014 period adventure, Kundo, for my own discovery of actor Ma Dong-seok. It’s been terrific seeing some of his regional work, and being around for his career growth of late from relatively known Korean movie star to a burgeoning international hitmaker now starring in Marvel movies and circling Stallone projects. Who knows how long it’ll be before Ma gets there though? Of course, his progression has only made it easier having coined the stage name, Don Lee for Western adaptability, and with that, his posterity remains with prospective films like the impending The Outlaws sequel, Lee Sang-yong’s The Roundup, which is due out in South Korea from the 18th, and in Hong Kong SAR as of the 26th. Indeed there are more territories to come for the film’s release while we have a brand new IMAX poster to celebrate the occasion which you can view below. […]

DAY LABOR Trailer: Migrants Fight For Survival Against Menacing Border Game Hunters

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Director R. Ellis Frazier (Repeater) is now two-for-two this week, presenting a look at border crime thriller, Day Labor, which stars Roberto Sanchez, Louis Mandylor and Amy Johnston, and with actor Corin Nemec voicing over exactly the kind of seething villain that feels so prevalent and timely as the film does in whole. The narration definitely doesn’t let up on the ugliness. A Latino American veteran who seeks work as a day laborer in order to keep his family afloat. A regular day turns into a deadly game of survival when he is mistakenly dropped off at a private ranch in El Paso, Texas to be hunted for sport. Also starring are Kevin Gage, David Fernandez Jr., Denitza Garcia, Megan Henry, Armando Zamarripa and Gary Cairns. The film is produced by David Wach and Ojan Missaghi whose Toric Films will be present at the upcoming Cannes Film Market for buyers.

Meet Malay Warrior MAT KILAU In The First Poster And Character/BTS Reels

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Crossing over to Malaysia for bit, we’ve got a handful of behind-the-scenes character reels and an official poster for Mat Kilau, the latest from director Syamsul Yusof who is best known for the first and second KL Gangster action thrillers, as well as the award-winning horror Munafik and its 2018 sequel. Production actually took place roughly four years ago and from a few online reads, it wasn’t an easy shoot. According to Yusof himself, Studio Kembara reseached the legendary hero for two years and eventually tried its own incarnation of “Mat Kilau” but failed to make headway with just fifty percent of it completed. When Yusof was tapped to take over the project, he suggest a redo with his own touch, and from that point on, production still hit a few snags, sans details. Nonetheless, four years in and with random photos all but standing as the only evidence of […]

KODAMA Wraps: New BTS Stills Offer A First Look At Brian Tang’s Samurai SWAT Fantasy Action Short

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Director Brian Tang and set photographer Marshall Hall have revealed new behind-the-scenes photos of Tang’s new sci-fi fantasy martial arts action short, Kodama. The project wrapped shooting on Friday after a week of principal photography beginning last weekend, following a crowdfunding period through Kickstarter earlier this year. Blending Japanese fantasy aesthetics and folklore with modern-day tactical action, Kodama centers on Arthur, the new captain of an elite SWAT Samurai team who leads a rescue mission to recover his father from the spirit world where an evil “Kodama”, and a dangerous shapeshifting Fox Spirit hold him hostage. The cast is led by Brandon Soo Hoo (Supah Ninjas”, G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra and “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series”) and Chris Tashima (Go For Broke, The Perfect Weapon). Penny Lin is producing alongside Brendon Bennett and Norrie Palmer, with costume design by Poland-based Craft Collabo, an original score by Ahmed […]

ZORRO Taps ‘Elite’ Actor Miguel Bernardeau For Amazon Prime Series

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The latest report from Variety‘s John Hopewell brings word that Amazon’s Prime Video platform which will now also be host to its own Zorro series starring Miguel Bernardeau (Netflix series “Elite”) in the title role, and Mexican actress Renata Notni (Netflix’s “El Dragón: Return of a Warrior”). The ten-episode series is being billed as an up-to-date version of the classic Diego De La Vega character and his alterego, and hails from L.A.-based Secuoya Studios. It will be directed by Javier Quintas (“Money Heist”, “Sky Rojo”) and Miguel Angel Vivas, (“Locked Up”, “Unauthorized Living”) from a script by Carlos Portela (“Hierro,” “Velvet Collection”). More from the report: Zorro will be shaped by relationships from his youth, love and disappointment in love which will forge his development as a character and reflect a kind of masculinity far from stereotypes, Secuoya announced. His battle also takes in discovering who murdered his father, a personal […]