Lee B. Golden III

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Celina Jade Rejoins Wu Jing For WOLF WARRIORS 2

There’s a lot happening in the next few years and especially with actor and martial artist Wu Jing who is still in production with his latest sequel offering, Wolf Warriors 2. The film follows up last year’s hit in the wake of a lengthy post-production, thankfully landing the film a nearly $90 million dollar gross in China, making it a Spring blockbuster. Here with Wu tackling the sequel once more as its director and star with a story set in a fictional war-torn African country, the new film is announcing its latest casting addition by way of Variety with actress Celina Jade (The Man With The Iron Fists, Skin Trade), reuniting with her star since initially working together on the 2006 movie, Legendary Assassin which Wu co-directed with the film’s action director, Nicky Li; Li directed the action once more on Wolf Warriors with Wu making his solo directorial debut […]

The Official Trailer For Andrew Goth Sci-Fi Action Thriller, MINDGAMERS, Is Just Mental!

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Gallowwalkers helmer Andrew Goth’s latest turns out to be a bit of a bigger deal than expected. The new film which headlines Sam Neill among its youthful cast was initially titled DxM as per its narrative about a brilliant group of students who discover the dark side of their latest scientific awakening. The film saw a trailer early last year while press on the film tapered off before long and remained off the radar until now. Apparently the folks at Terra Mater Film Group and Red Bull have big plans for the film between now and March, involving an interactive global online and real-world gaming experience functioning in tandem with the film’s dynamic puzzle challenges. You can read all about it at ComingSoon.net but needless to say, how this film, newly titled MindGamers, gets rolled out will be an interesting feat to witness, and one with world class freerunning extraodinare […]

HEADSHOT Ignites Online With Thrilling Behind-The-Scenes Footage

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Read our latest interview Singaporean action star Sunny Pang and you’ll learn quite a bit about his career, family life and goals through next year, including the currently completed Diamond Dogs, and the long-awaited production of The Night Comes For Us which starts rolling cameras in December. In the meantime, perhaps some of the best news you’ll see in press as of late will pertain to the upcoming release of the new ‘Mo Brothers movie, Headshot, releasing on December 8 in Indonesia followed by a wider release in 2017. Starring opposite Pang is actor and martial artist Iko Uwais who succeeds his stardom following his acclaim in Gareth Huw Evans’s Merantau, The Raid and The Raid 2. Uwais plays Ishmael, fondly named by the nurse caring for him when he discovered with a serious head wound and severe memory loss, only to trigger a series of events that put her […]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Confirms Michelle Yeoh In A Recurring Role

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A few days ago, ComingSoon.net reported that actress and martial artist Michelle Yeoh was up for a role in CBS’s forthcoming All Access series, Star Trek: Discovery. It wasn’t confirmed at the time, but developments in the last twenty four hours have finally made it official that Yeoh’s would be a Captain’s role. More specifically, Deadline‘s own exclusive coverage confirms that Yeoh, best known for her prolific stardom in nearly three decades as one of the world’s most versatile and beloved action stars, will play Han Bo, serving as the Captain of another ship named the Shenzhou which will have a major role to play in the series. Yeoh marks the first official casting of the program since the show was announced nearly a year ago today, followed by a first-look logo teaser during CBS’s Upfronts presentation back in May, and a Comic-Con teaser a few months later brandishing the […]

STEP UP: CHINA: First Teaser Poster Signals Ron Yuan’s Directorial Dance/Martial Arts Hybrid Debut For Lionsgate Co-Production

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It was going to happen eventually, I reckon. Indeed, pick almost any dance movie in recent memory and you’re bound to see some choreography blending a dose or several of martial arts. Such is what appears to be happening now over at Lionsgate who, joined by China’s Infinity Pictures/CMC and Yue Hua Entertainment Culture Communications, are now signaling their latest movement with the first teaser poster for a sixth installment of the Step Up franchise to begin on December 9 with locations in Beijing and Los Angeles. Ron Yuan, a multifaceted film, acting and stunt professional with credits such as Blade, Steve Wang’s acclaimed 1996 thriller Drive, The Art Of War, Black Dynamite, Blood And Bone and Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant, and hit shortfilms like the Michael Jai White-led Three Bullets and Ben Ramsey’s award-winning hit short, Black Salt, will be making his directorial feature debut. Casting news remains pending […]

ATTRACTION Gets Multi-Territorial IMAX Deals Worldwide

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It was back in June when Stalingrad helmer Fedor Bondarchuk dazzled the web with a teaser for his most recent endeavor, Attraction, from Art Pictures Studio and Vodorod Film Company. Indeed it’s some of the biggest sci-fi we’re seeing and as of late, news broke at Variety that the film has already been administered for distribution deals in up to forty three territories, including China, France and Italy. Obviously, here’s to hoping that screens in the U.S. will get their share of the carnage, from which you can sample below for yourselves in two other trailers totalling three for the film about an alien craft that puts Earth at a standstill when crashlanding in a residential neighborhood in Moscow. The teaser itsels was an exciting gem, but these bits are all about intensity, scope and lots of action making Attraction, as the fourth Russian production with an IMAX commitment to […]

GHOST SOURCE ZERO: Cyberwarfare And Artillery Go Big In The Slick New First Look Trailer!

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2011 saw ample opportunity for independent director and Planet Nerd Rage Productions founder Mark Cheng to leave an impression for the Hasbro fanbase, and so he did upon the release of G.I. Joe fan film, Operation: Red Retreival. Fast forward to 2016 and with the blessing of G.I. Joe creator and comic book auteur Larry Hama, Cheng is back once again with his latest in-house original testament to futuristic action and cyberpunk sci-fi, Ghost Source Zero. Hama co-wrote the script with Cheng for a story that focuses on Division 9, an elite anti-cyber crimes unit as they chronicle their mission to stave off a brewing android revolution that could threaten mankind’s existence. The film has been three years active in the making with Cheng filming an earlier proof-of-concept sequence to showcase the look he was going for before successfully crowdfunding in 2014 with Hama’s attachment to the project. Thus, small budgets […]

Chad Stahelski To Direct HIGHLANDER, Produce With David Leitch For Lionsgate

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2014 was a real milestone year for John Wick debut directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch. The hit film has since become the continuing reference point for both veteran stunt professionals and second unit directors as the two grew more and more prolific over the past couple of years with both names being in the mix to helm several titles. Keep that in mind while we pan over to the long-awaited reboot developments toward the fantasy sci-fi classic property, Highlander, which landed in 1986 from director Russell Mulcahy. The film was a flop but grew more and more popular as a cult hit over the years, spawning four sequels and several TV shows before Summit Entertainment’s own acquisition of the rights in 2008. The original film became the subject of a 4K restoration for its home release on Blu-Ray earlier this year for the film’s 30th anniversary, as well as […]

CROWDFUNDING ALERT: Help Keep The Dorans Together In Their Time Of Need Following Last Week’s San Leandro Shooting

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From L to R: Paul and Susan Doran, daughter Kaitlin and wife, Bridger I normally don’t discuss a lot of real world events seeing as how this site is normally rooted in entertainment and film news, but I am inclined to play a role in helping out where and when I can. It involves a near-fatal incident that happened last Thursday when a car fleeing a shootout with another car crashed into a Toyota Prius in San Leandro, California, injuring Paul Doran and wife, Susan. The jaws of life were reportedly needed to free the couple after the crash. As NBC Bay Area reported this week, the shooting is still being investigated while both Paul and Susan suffered extensive severe injuries; Paul,’ is currently in a medically induced coma and fighting for his life after sustaining multiple internal upper-body injuries while Susan suffered broken bones and torn ligaments in her […]

‘Resident Evil’ Duo To Tackle MONSTER HUNTER Franchise For The Big Screen

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Deadline reported on Monday that Paul W.S. Anderson and producing partner Jeremy Bolt are now well on the way to adapt the hit Capcom video game, Monster Hunter for the big screen. The widely popular game series hailing from Japan for the Playstation 2 first emerged in 2004 and has since succeed with up to a dozen games spanning several consoles and platforms with a thirteenth already on the way for March. For every Monster, there is a Hero. An ordinary man in a dead end job discovers that he is actually the descendant of an ancient hero. He must travel to a mystical world to train to become a Monster Hunter, before the mythical creatures from that world destroy ours. The news comes in the wake of major success for Anderson in the years since he proved himself back with the 1995 adaptation of Mortal Kombat. His latest milestone […]

HARD BOILED: Warner Bros. Mingles With Dark Horse Property For ‘High Rise’ Star And Director

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Did you ever catch director Ben Wheatley’s 2015 thriller, High Rise or notably the latest trailer for rousing crime flick, Free Fire? If not, take a gander at either and you might understand why it appears both Wheatley and High Rise star Tom Hiddleston are the current frontrunners for a new property at Warner Bros. As Deadline reported on Monday, the studio is in talks to acquire, the Dark Horse Comics publication, Hard Boiled, with the hopes of launching a co-production with Solipsist Films and Hollywood Gang. Created by Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow in 1990, the graphic novel miniseries focused on Carl Seltz, an insurance investigator who discovers he is a homicidal cyborg tax collector and ultimately robotkind’s last hope against programmed oppresion. Stephen L’Heureux, Bernie Goldmann and Gianni Nunnari are the named producers on the project should things follow suit. Details remain pending as nothing is finalized […]

THE HIT LIST: November 21, 2016

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Well, it’s been another work weekend for me as usual, but thankfully it comes with a few rewarding jewels – one of which came to me on Thursday last week. You’ll learn more about it at the bottom of this week’s installment of The Hit List, all fresh and ready to go with another weekly round of amazing stunt and training reels by some of today’s talented stunt performers and up-and-comers. Victor Plajas revs things up some with his own new reel followed by Erika Frase and 12 year old Bryton Miller whose own reel comes with a famous, uplifting movie monologue from a certain star of a boxing movie franchise. Rounding out the playlist are reels by Ivan Pecuh, Anthony Oh, Olivier Lunardi, Erika Keck, Craig Putman, Ari Loeb, Tyler Hall, Philippe Vonlanthen, Diandra Milliner Stoddard and Michel Quach. Click here or below and enjoy! There’s only one bit […]

Trailer For Legendary Russian Fantasy Epic, FURIOUS, Rages Online

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned in writing about film in the last several years is to not drop the ball on places like Russia. Here you’ll learn of Ivan Shurhovetskiy’s own directotial debut in the works for an April release next year with the film, Furious, and needless to say, that it looks! With that in mind, it’s also important to note that at some point the production decided to do away with making an historical period piece, and instead, make something a bit more fanciful with fantasy and spectacle. Films like Immortals, 300 and its 2014 sequel come to mind what with its production base at Central Partnership credit for titles hefty on visual gloss and scope like Duelist and Feodor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad. Whether or not it was the right choice doesn’t seem to be an issue here because the latest trailer itself has already drawn some positive […]

RONIN AT LARGE: An Interview With Sunny Pang

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Photo: Arnold Wells The latest Fall film festival premieres of the new ‘Mo Brothers amnesiac revenge thriller, Headshot, has already drawn waves of approval from most critics and fans able to attend film events in Texas, as well as in Busan and Sitges to name a few. The film also landed in Toronto before long where select cast members also intended the film’s Midnight Madness opener, including the film’s co-star, Sunny Pang who became known to me as early as 2012 by way of director James Lee’s action comedy, The Collector. Thankfully, friend and one of Canada’s best stuntmen, Alex Chung took to this year’s Toronto International Film Fest to screen Headshot for a review on our site. I also recommended it as a chance for him to meet Pang and the cast and unfortunately their meeting was too brief in the midst of the electricity in the room for them […]

DEADPOOL 2 Rebounds With David Leitch Directing

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I’m watching Deadpool as I’m writing this prior to your reading of it. It’ll be interesting to see how the upcoming sequel turns out under David Leitch who recently set out for his upcoming solo directorial debut on The Coldest City this July following his co-director services on John Wick a few years ago. Indeed, it’s finally been confirmed that Leitch will helm the film for Ryan Reynolds’s second stint seuguing from the hugely staked bid for the first film that took nearly a decade to make happen. Tim Miller directed the first film starring Reynolds based on the Marvel property as a fast talking merc-turned-mutant superhuman killer whose viciousness in wit is as deadly as his aim and fighting prowess. Miller reportedly left the sequel in October due to creative differences with Reynolds over vision, tone and casting prior to news that broke at Mashable regarding talk of Leitch’s […]

Screw The Rumors. Warner Bros’s MORTAL KOMBAT Now Has A Director

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More than a year after developments surrounding the forthcoming reboot film adaptation of hit fighting game, Mortal Kombat, the news is now finally out with word that Award-winning Australian commerical director Simon McQuoid is up to direct the film. The news comes long since a third follow-up from New Line Cinema’s PG-13 adaptation in 1995 and its lesser-performing sequel in 1998 went shelved, leaving little to hope for until filmmaker Kevin Tanchaoren breathed new life into the film with a leaked pitch in 2010 and two-webseries seasons for Machinima by 2013 before parting ways as well. Oddly enough, stunt coordinator Garrett Warren was last seen on set of a third season for an upcoming webseries from Blue Ribbon Content with updates yet to surface. Movement on the actual feature length endeavor with Friday’s news leaves a positive sign for the fans who’ve been long pining for updates from Aquaman helmer […]

Peng Zhang’s ASURA Details A Brewing Battle Between The Heavens In New Set Photos

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THR is presenting an in-depth glimpse at the gargantuan production scale of debut director Peng Zhang’s latest, Asura. The film takes its cues from ancient mythology and is centered on a story involving the titular dimension – defined as a realm of desire, which is threatened by an uprising from a lower heavenly kingdom. The film, marking the start of a hopeful trilogy, stars 16 year old actor Lei Wu as the protaginist of the film with veterans Carina Lau and Tony Lau also starring, as well as 18 year old Zhang Yi who plays our hero’s love interest. Partly Beijing-based actor Matthew Knowles also stars in addition to Damien Walters, known as one of the internet’s most eye-popping stunt performers to date, and contortionist Bonetics Junior. Painted Skin: The Resurrection hit film producer Zhenjian Yang is producing the film which is reportedly budgeted at a solid $100 million dollars, […]

JAGVELD Thrills In A Trio Of Teasers For The New South African Crime Pic

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Award-winning novelist Deon Meyer has become prolific in his days since taking up the craft full-time in 2009. Among a small list of other things he’s since added filmmaker to his credits with the 2013 film, Die Laaste Tango and is now back with Jagveld, a gritty new crime thriller slated for a March release. Actress Leandie du Randt plays a woman forced to defend herself when she finds herself as a targeted witness to a murder. Neels van Jaarsveld, Bouwer Bosch and Tim Theron star and while we await some more gems after this, two teasers and a full on teaser trailer have arrived since last month to fully immerse you in the searing tone of Meyer’s bloodletting vision of crime and intrigue. Check it all out below. H/T: ScreenAnarchy

Nic Mathieu’s Sci-Fi Action Thriller, SPECTRAL, Gets A Netflix Release In December

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One film we might all be able to look forward to this holiday season is the new sci-fi action thriller, Spectral, which was reportedly aiming for a theatrical release this summer that never came through. Instead, the film is heading to Netflix with a premiere date set for December 9 Legendary Pictures according to a new report this week at Deadline. Nic Mathieu, making his feature debut at the helm, storied with Ian Fried followed by scriptwork from George Nolfi which sees a DARPA scientist escorted into a battle-scarred, war-torn city by a Special Ops team of Delta Force where they end up facing off with mysterious phantom aggressors who’ve been the cause of a series of inexplicable deaths. James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer and Bruce Greenwood star. Jillian Share produced the film for its shoot in and around Budapest, Hungary, with Peter Jackson’s Weta Workshop and Weta Digital providing […]

THE CROW REBORN: Production Lands At Davis, Highland And Electric For 2017 Start; Momoa And Hardy Attachment Uncertain

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Pretty much any and every Jason Momoa fan out there is now investing their hopes in seeing how awesomely he’ll do in the forthcoming Aquaman and Justice League movies. They’re two of the more prolific of the bunch next to a couple of others like Braven, The Bad Batch and Sugar Mountain, though if you found yourself forgetting he was last tapped to star in Corin Hardy’s rendition of The Crow, it’s easy to see why. With Relativity Media’s own Ryan Kavanaugh aching to see the remake of the 1994 adaptaion to James O’Barr’s original graphic novel, the project currently titled The Crow Reborn, has been stewing for as long as eight years as it started bouncing between select directors such as Stephen Norrington and name actors like Tom Hiddleston and Jack Huston. Momoa’s attachment to the film came long after Relativity settled its bankruptcy differences and recovered following months […]