Lee B. Golden III

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THE BUTTERFLY GUARD Holds Up In The First Trailer For The New Michael Worth MMA Drama

About fifteen years ago back when VHS tapes used a thing and long after being a viewer to the hit TV show, Acapulco H.E.A.T., I found myself relieved with Isaac Florentine’s direct-to-video action flick, U.S. Seals 2: The Ultimate Force, which brought actor Michael Worth back to my own attention as a fan. He’s since moved on to directing with films like War Wolves and Killing Cupid, and now with the aid of CNC Movie Factory, his newest effort, The Butterfly Guard, is poised for completion soon, and while it may not be too knee-deep into the action variety, Worth samples us a seemingly worthy protagonist with a story perfect for the kind of contemplative drama being aimed at here. SYNOPSIS: Two fighters on opposite ends of the world find their lives will soon cross in the MMA cage. Tyler has spent a life of sacrifice for the sport and […]

It's David Belle VS Darren Shahlavi In JAYA. Watch The New Trailer For Philippe Tullio's Sci-Fi Action Proof!

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Late actor Darren Shahlavi will always be remembered for the 25 years in which he’s lit up the screen, and largely as a prominent baddie for martial arts fans in films like Tai Chi II, Ip Man 2 and Ernie Barbarash’s 2015 thriller, Pound Of Flesh. Moving onward into the new year though, we have at least a few more appearances to expect of Shahlavi including John Stockwell’s Kickboxer: Vengeance which opens this Fall, and soon enough, that courtesy now extends over to the latest efforts from shortfilm director Philippe Tullio, from whom the new sci-fi action proof-of-concept, Jaya, now circulates online featuring our main villain opposite parkour extraordinare, actor David Belle of Banlieue 13 fame. SYNOPSIS: Semerkhet, a cruel and seemingly unchallengeable master, reigns as King over the Three Kingdoms. But when his little brother Jaya, learns that Semerkhet has forced princess Cassiopeia into marriage and that she is […]

LẬT MẶT 2: PHIM TRƯỜNG – Watch The Trailer For Ly Hai's Vietnamese Action Comedy Sequel

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It’s pretty unfortunate we don’t hear as often as we should when it comes to the action genre scene in Vietnam. When something does get heard, it’s worth celebrating even to some extent, and so we now bring our attention to actor and filmmaker Ly Hai with the newest trailer for Lat Mat 2: Phim Troung. The name has a couple of silly idiomatic translations but I’m just going to go out on a limb here with an interpret it as “The Flip Side 2: Film School”, following the adventures of the first film that saw a treasure hunt and the involvement of armed mercenaries. The sequel now leads us to the story of two brothers – stuntmen, who are trying to make a film only to fall into a load of money troubles; Judging by an earlier teaser and this week’s latest trailer, a whole lot of trouble ensues, […]

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HiGH&LOW: THE MOVIE Rallies A New Trailer!

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The epic size and scale of what has taken shape in the past year with Japanese supergroup, Exile Tribe, has imaginably been a fun one since last year’s Hulu premiere of HiGH&LOW: The Story Of S.W.O.R.D. in Japan. The premise in question, of course, lies in the action-packed drama and brutality that follow when a town ruled by five warring gangs (spell out the S.W.O.R.D. portion in the title) is thrown into upheaval when newcomers enter the arena to tip the balance of power. Produced by LDH president and Exile Tribe founder, Hiro, the show itself has been deemed as the world’s first comprehensive entertainment project with the promise of a series, and a slew of interactive marketing via social media ahead of its manga releases and upcoming live concerts themed around the drama itself. Alas, a second season is already underway and all seems to be paying off pretty […]

David Belle Returns In The New Studio + Series, BRUTAL: A TASTE OF VIOLENCE. Watch The Trailer!

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Actor, stuntman and parkour extraordinare David Belle has been an outstanding talent for many years now since breaking out with a lead role next to French action talent Cyril Raffaelli in Pierre Morel’s 2004 hit, Banlieue 13 and its Ultimatum sequel. He’s also popped up in a few titles thereafter with credits on both sides of the camera in Babylon A.D. and coordinating stunts in Oliver Megaton’s assassin thriller, Colombiana which is currently up for a sequel (he’s also been my personal pick for a hopeful spot as the lead for Fox’s Gambit movie – though I’ve learned to accept its current star if the film happens at all). So, with a resumé that’s nothing short of ripe and impressive, Belle has also been rare to hear from and only now are we starting to finally see his name make the rounds once more with projects that have been brewing […]

Moonstone To Produce LIONHEART Remake

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Action star Jean-Claude Van Damme has had quite the career sustaining himself as a bonafide action hero in both mainstream and direct-to-video markets. He’s one that fans amply love, specifically having left the impression he has with hits like Bloodsport, Kickboxer and Timecop, as well as Sheldon Lettich’s 1991 thriller, Lionheart (a remake of the 1975 Charles Bronson film, Hard Times) which saw him as a former legionaire who goes AWOL and returns to his impoverished neighborhood to fight for his late brother’s struggling family. Lo and behold, if you’ve been tuning in for the last several years, you know that a few of the aforementioned titles are up for remakes of their own, and apparently as of 2014, the list also includes Lionheart which was once tasked to Albert Pyun who directed Van Damme’s earlier 80’s sci-fi classic, Cyborg. Fast forward to 2016 and word is now circulating through […]

THE HIT LIST – April 25, 2016

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Well, it’s Monday morning on my end and belive it or not, I intially lost my entire draft for this week’s Hit List. So, this is me typing it all out for you again. You’re welcome. Short and sweet, our stunt reels begin the new playlist and the first comes by way of a Vimeo exclusive courtesy of Eunoia Creations’s own Ieisha Auyeung, followed by a YouTube playlist that features Ingun Yoo (a.k.a. Kickgun), Yoshua Sudarso, Slobo Panouvic, George Quinones, Emil Roe, Remi Bakkar and a fan-edited reel for capoeirista, actor and martial artist Lateef Crowder. The last is another Vimeo exclusive from none other than French screenfighting extraordinare Olivier Schneider, who we all hope to see behind the scenes and at the helm of his own films soon! As for promotional bits, the first is a poster marking the upcoming Sunscreen Film Festival premiere of filmmaker Bryan Williams’s new […]

SHERLOCK HOLMES 3 Advances With New Writer

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It’s been five years since the world saw actors Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law take on the nefarious Dr. Moriarty in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows. The film followed suit from Ritchie’s 2009 first from Warner Bros. with Downey Jr. and Law leading the way to box office fruition for an epic adventure centered on respective Holmes and Dr. Watson solve some of London’s most mysterious crimes of the late 1800s. Thus, it was writer Drew Pearce whose name began circulating since then to pen Ritchie’s third while Downey Jr. ultimately became a buoy as Marvel’s Iron Man for Disney’s growth toward a cinematic movieverse; The actor will soon appear once more opposite lead star Chris Evans in Captain America: Civil War amid a remainder of Disney titles for its MCU slate through Avengers: Infinity War – Part One in 2017 and its Part Two title […]

Renat Davletyarov's PURE ART Paints A New Trailer For The Upcoming Erotic Thriller

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Director Renat Davletyarov has a thing for skin and colorworks for his newest endeavor. Couple these with a few doses of hard-hitting suspense and you have what looks like a stellar opener later this year with action and intrigue for the release of Pure Art later this year in Russia. Leading the way is actress Anna Chipovskaya as a beautiful photographer forced to begin her own investigation after finding herself at the center of a unsolved murder and a fraud case involving painting. Sexual intrigue and danger awaken the very core of this story as it’s seemingly told with bullets flying and high-speed chases and such. Fun times! Watch the trailer below!

Snipes's TEMPLE Offsets New Deal With WWE Studios

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Actor Wesley Snipes’s current film trajectory was a bit of a mystery, save for earlier-reported news of his starring role in the upcoming action thriller, Temple from WWE Studios and Gene Simmons’s Erebus Pictures. Now we have a bit of an idea with news this week that Temple will mark the first of a slate of films in a new deal signed between Snipes and WWE along with Snipes’s Maandi Media both companies. as per Deadline: “We are always looking for the ideal talent to extend our brand and Wesley is the right combination of action movie star and savvy producer,” WWE Studios president Michael Luisi said. “We look forward to creating exciting new content with the perfect partner.” Added Snipes: “The action genre has been a very big and important part of my career. There is no better way to extend my love for dynamic action-based entertainment than with a […]

The Claws Come Out In The Final Trailer For X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

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I think it’s fair to say that almost whenever any kind of super hero movie news makes the rounds speculating that a certain character may or may not make an appearance, the truth in the end will be the opposite. We saw it when we first heard that Robert Downey Jr. wouldn’t appear in the third installment of Captain America: Civil War before that was exact opposite was confirmed (comic book aficionados likely knew better), and now after first learning that Hugh Jackman’s longstanding X-Men role as Marvel mainstay, Wolverine, wouldn’t appear in Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse, that all turns out to be a complete falsehood in the initial trailer tease for Monday’s third trailer release of the film which opens later next month. Sure, we don’t fully know in what capacity he’ll be in the film, but the claws at the end dictate the very fact that Jackman WILL […]

MECHANIC: RESURRECTION Awakens With Its First Still From Dennis Gansel’s Sequel

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Don’t write off actor Jason Statham just yet. He may not be “transporting” anymore, but the 2011 release of Simon West’s adaptation of Michael Winner’s 1972 Charles Bronson action classic, The Mechanic, boasted high marks of its own at the box office for a worthy sequel as of late 2014, which still very much makes this one prospective of its own success. Said sequel now comes in the form of Summit Entertainment’s Mechanic: Resurrection, having recently undergone extensive reshoots in the last several months. As such, with a release of date reset from this past January to August 26, 2016, the first image can be seen below. (H/T ComingSoon.net). Dennis Gansel directs from a script by Philip Shelby, Tony Mosher, Rachel Long and Brian Pittman. Featuring action sequences by J.J. Perry (The Expendables 3) and Allan Poppleton (Allan Poppleton), the new film sees Statham returning as master assassin Arthur Bishop following the […]

Funimation Films Announces Project Itoh's HARMONY For Limited Engagement Next Month

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I have to hand it to books – continuing to serve as terrific source material for film and TV properties. Bearing this in mind is the latest announcement from Funimation Films for the upcoming limited engagement of Harmony, the third of three of the late Project Itoh’s works in the last few years. Harmony arrives in select theaters May 17 + 18! Presented in Japanese with English Subtitles and English Dub. Check your local theater for specific days and times for your language preference. Based on the Philip K. Dick award-winning novel by Project Itoh, Harmony explores the nature of humanity and the significance of free will in a peaceful futuristic utopia. In a future ruled by an unwavering dedication to good health, three high school girls led by the defiant Miach Mihie attempt suicide as the ultimate act of rebellion. Tuan Kirie survives, but can’t shake the hatred she […]

Paramount’s Hasbro Movieverse Gets A Writers’ Room

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Last December saw some fantastic news of upscaling over at Hasbro, Inc.’s Allspark Pictures label to develop a conjoined cinematic movieverse along with Paramount Pictures for several of its properties. As such, an announcement made on Thursday for a writers’ room to convene and bring it all together, and who better to lead the charge than award-winning writer Akiva Goldsman? He’s recently been running things to help lead producer and director Michael Bay’s slew of upcoming Transformers movies and Bumblebee spinoff, and so with his feet already dug in, it appears he’s ready for the task, and in the good graces of an arsenal of stellar writers to boot. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Paramount Pictures and Hasbro, Inc. today unveiled its top talent writers room which will have responsibility for developing Hasbro’s cross-property interconnected onscreen universe featuring the brands G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike […]

Vince Vaughn Cast In S. Craig Zahler's BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99

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S. Craig Zahler, the director of the award-winning Western horror thriller, Bone Tomahawk was previously attached to direct MadRiver Pictures’s Breaking The Empire State back in January. If you’ve been tracking that project, then it looks like that one will have to wait a bit longer with news on a new action thriller set to go into production later this year. For this, we turn to actor Vince Vaughn whose recent stint in director Peter Billingsley’s father/daughter crime pic, Term Life opens in select theaters on April 29. The actor, most prominently known for comedy roles in films such as Wedding Crashers and The Watch will now continue his foray into action with Zahler’s own script in Brawl In Cell Block 99; Vaughn will star as a down-and-out former boxer and flailing auto mechanic whose last ditch effort to make some money at the behest of an old buddy and […]

Landmarks Fall In The New Trailer For INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE

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Director Roland Emmerich is back this year to attack the Earth once more as he did in 1996’s alien invasion blockbuster, Independence Day. A lot has happened since then as the newest trailer for his upcoming sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence, suggests, and all while jam-packed with plenty of sci-fi aerial dogfighting action with the same darn pesky aliens who won’t stop attacking us. SYNOPSIS: We always knew they were coming back. After INDEPENDENCE DAY redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global spectacle on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction. The calamity ensues on June 24 and stars Liam […]

Moscow Is Ground Zero In The New Trailer For Russian Action Horror, THE NIGHT GUARD

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Crime and comedy director Emilis Velyvis is seuging into something much more spectacular with a film clearly aiming as his own response to films like Twilight and Underworld. For this, we turn to the less comically-leaning The Night Guard, (formerly Wings) which opens in 3D in Russia this summer and boasting a darker and moodier tone that nonetheless accomodates some big scale visuals, slick editing and action-packed setting. Actor Ivan Yankovsky leads the film from a script by Oleg Malovichko which tells of a delivery boy who thwarts an attack on a woman by a mysterious horde of creatures, and incident that puts him in the throes of a secret organization working with the police to monitor and intervene supernatural beings living on Earth. Of course, a love story also ensues which also guarantees a little something for the YA crowd, but the usual protagonistic plot points of self-discovery also […]

Screener Review: GRIDLOCKED (2016)

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Director Allan Ungar first impressed me with his 2014 mixed-martial arts revenge drama, Tapped Out. The film put actor and martial artist Cody Hackman on the radar for a lot of us action fans while the star continued to make strides in film under his Hackybox Pictures banner, and now we continue onward with Hackman next to actor Dominic Purcell in an albeit delightful pairing in Ungar’s newest, Gridlocked. From jump, Ungar, who wrote the film with co-scribe Rob Robol, minces no images in the first several minutes while clarifying this is going to be an action picture, from shots of bad guys locking and loading during the opening sequence, to meeting our protagonist, Purcell, in the role of David, a peppered, worn and tough New York detective who’s seen the business end of a gun more times than several. And in the middle of it all: Hackman starring as […]

You Know His Name, Now Watch The New JASON BOURNE Trailer

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You’ve known his name for fourteen years since he was salvaged from the sea, and you’ve followed him as he fought his way through swarms of government assassins while trotting the globe in search of his past. Now he’s back in director Paul Greengrass’s Jason Bourne, and in case you missed it, you still know his name, unless his real name is Matt Damon, but forget all that. Because you know his name! Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in Jason Bourne. Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bournefranchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the shadows. For Jason Bourne, Damon is joined by Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel and Tommy Lee Jones, while Julia Stiles reprises her role in the series. Frank Marshall again produces alongside […]

The 80's Allure With Anti-Drug Warfare In The New Trailer For THE INFILTRATOR

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And to think that film and TV favorite, actor Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Godzilla) was once a prospect for the role of Lex Luthor – nope, still not over it. Still though, his dimensions as an actor are ever noteworthy and he works them quite fine in the costumes he wears as a once-active real-life Federal Agent in director Brad Furhman’s new crime bio, The Infiltrator. SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Federal agent ROBERT “BOB” MAZUR (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar’s drug trafficking scene plaguing the nation in 1986 by posing as slick, money-laundering businessman Bob Musella. Teamed with impulsive and streetwise fellow agent EMIR ABREU (John Leguizamo) and rookie agent posing as his fiancé KATHY ERTZ (Diane Kruger), Mazur befriends Escobar’s top lieutenant ROBERTO ALCAINO (Benjamin Bratt). Navigating a vicious criminal network in which the slightest slip-up could cost him his life, Mazur risks […]