Lee B. Golden III

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THE BROTHERS SUN Official Trailer Arrives For New Netflix Series Launching In January

I’ve got some viewing lined-up for the new year, but I’ll definitely need something to tie me down until a fourth season of Warrior is ordered. Thankfully Netflix will be on hand with eight-part episodic crime drama, The Brothers Sun, now back with a new trailer ahead of its January 4 premiere following a teaser revealed last month during Geeked Week. The Brothers Sun is an action-packed, dark comedic drama, and family soap. The eight-episode series is set in Los Angeles and Taiwan. It is uniquely distinct, featuring an all-Asian writers room and all-Asian cast. It follows Taipei gangster, Charles Sun, who’s settled into his life as a ruthless killer. But when his father is shot by a mysterious assassin, Charles must go to L.A. to protect his mother and utterly-unaware younger brother Bruce. Such is the case for the character played by Sam Song Li who is joined by […]

ONMYOJI-0 Official Trailer, Posters Reveal Cast Led By Kento Yamazaki For Shimako Sato’s New 2024 Fantasy Epic!

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Warner Bros. Japan has unveiled the first official trailer for director Shimako Sato’s Onmyoji-0, the latest adaptation of Baku Yumemakura’s longstanding novels. The campaign is also pulling back the curtain off its casting line-up, featuring actor Kento Yamazaki in the title role. Sato, whose credits partly include the Eko Eko Azarak and Unfair films, as well as 2008’s Takeshi Kaneshiro starrer, K-20: Legend Of The Mask, penned the script under Yumemakura’s stewardship with Jujutsu consultation by essayist and author Nanami Kamon. Together, the team have crafted an all-new original story that focuses on the early days of Abe no Seimei in his studies to become an Onmyoji – a monastic practitioner of magic, mystics, astrology and divination. Onmyoji-0 marks a new career addition to Yamazaki who currently fronts director Shinsuke Sato’s Kingdom franchise based on Yasuhisa Hara’s hit manga series, as well as Takashi Miike’s live-action JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure: Diamond […]

YU YU HAKUSHO: Takumi Kitamura Is A Spirit Warrior In Training In The Newest Trailer

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Netflix’s five-part rollout of live-action series Yu Yu Hakusho is ramping up its campaign for its December 14 premiere, and with new stills already circulating, a brand new trailer is also online to make the show’s case. To boot, the streamer also revealed key details about the show’s use of visual effects, crediting VFX production house Scanline VFX in contributing to the recreations of many aspects of the show, including locations, CG characters and spectacular battle scenes to come. “To what extent CGI-characters can be shown close-up depends on the distance from the camera, whether there’s dialogue, and the facial expression,” said visual effects director Tomofumi Akahane. “With Scanline VFX on board, we were able to reach higher than any other Japanese title and achieve a quality where the average viewer won’t be able to tell that CGI is actually CGI.” Sho Tsukikawa directs the series from a screenplay by […]

AHITH 2023: The Legend Continues Debuting Alec Bonk’s Feature Presentation With Inspired Indie Crime Flick, BLIND COP 2!

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The evolution behind Alec Bonk’s feature debut here is funny as hell given the mythic nature of an inaugural “Blind Cop” movie. The official website has more info on why this is so, take it or leave it, but for better or worse Bonk and his team have taken an idea stemmed from a character created for a short 2014, and have all but run with it full speed ahead to produce what we now know as Blind Cop 2, billed as “a throwback to the 80s with over the top humor and violence and an antidote to factory made studio blockbusters”. Blind Cop, the former beacon of justice, is consumed by grief after the mysterious death of his partner. His once-illustrious career has been shattered and reduced to drunken disorderly conduct, putting him at odds with the police force. In his investigation of a new influx of arms trafficking, […]

NORYANG: DEADLY SEA Official Trailer Teases Admiral Yi’s Final Battle

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Charting the course for a December 20 rollout in South Korea is Lotte Cultureworks with the Korean release of Noryang: Deadly Sea. Actor Kim Yun-seok carries the lead role of admiral Yi Sun-shin for director Kim Han-min’s third and final cinematic expression of the historical figure with a story set in 1598, as Yi readies for his last valiant battle against the Wae army near the end of the seven year Imjin War. The film also stars Baek Yoon-sik, Jung Jae-young and Huh Joon-ho. Well Go USA will release the film stateside in the new year following its rights acquisition from sales agent Acemaker back in May. Catch the official new trailer below!

COMING ATTRACTIONS: One Hundred (And Twenty-Four) Films To Look Out For In 2024

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A new year is almost upon us, and so with that comes a whole new set of priorities. For some of us, that includes tidying up our moviegoing schedules and making room for any possibilities going into the next twelve months. If you’re keen, I’ve went and compiled more than a hundred films (124 to be exact) worth keeping an eye on as we follow the news blurbs along. To add, I ended up throwing in at least twenty-four more as the inspiration took over long before I was done with this list. Obviously, while most of these films are action-oriented as it’s the bread and butter for sites like this one, it’s not every film on the 2024 docket. I just went and dove into the matter to make my own list, and I’m certain there’s probably a hundred more where these came from, although I figured if we […]

GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE: Epic Rivals Double Team Against A New Foe In The Official Teaser Trailer!

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Anyone coming off the high of seeing Takashi Yamazaki‘s latest take on Godzilla’s decimation of anything sitting on the Earth’s crust will be pleased to know that director Adam Wingard is here to help carry you over into the new year for your proper kaiju fix. Enter Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, joining much of the cast of 2021’s Godzilla VS. Kong with a new cast, including new and formidable foes that now see our towering menaces double teaming to seriously f–k shit up. The epic battle continues! Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse follows up the explosive showdown of “Godzilla vs. Kong” with an all-new adventure that pits the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence—and our own. “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” delves further into the histories of these Titans and their origins, as well as […]

REACHER: Season Three Of The Hit Amazon Prime Series Is Now Filming

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Reacher series creator Nick Santora did the world some serious justice with the season one premiere of the hit show based on the novels by Lee Childs last year. With season two set to kick off its first three episodes on Amazon Prime in the next few weeks, the show is now being primed for a third season already in production according to a new video announcement attached to an extended clip courtesy of series star Alan Ritchson. News of the show’s third season broke at CCXP 2023 in São Paulo, Brazil, as reported by Variety on Saturday. Following the show’s three-part premiere, season two of Reacher will commence with weekly episodes on Fridays through January 19. Read more at Variety.

SALAAR: PART 1 – CEASEFIRE Trailer Sees Prahbas Speaking Softly, And Carrying Bloody Weaponry For The First Chapter

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Homable Films is touting its latest effort, Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire, with an official and extensive new trailer following a teaser rollout back in July. The film teams up leading man Prahbas – star of the upcoming Kalki 2898 A.D. – with director Prashanth Neel who comes off the perpetual success of his two-part period action tête-à-tête, K.G.F., which became a record-breaking box office hit with its second installment last year. Neel directs from his own script a story that chronicles the boyhood friendship that now shapes the present-day tale of a gang leader who vows to protect a friend whos father’s opponents seek to usurp power through violent, militarized means in the city of Khansaar. Prahbas is joined by Prithviraj Sukumaran and Shruti Haasan for the film’s December 22 global release in Telugu with multiple dubs including Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA Prequel Trailer Teases Anya Taylor-Joy’s Explosive ‘Mad Max’ Odyssey!

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Taking the reins from Charlize Theron is actress Anya Taylor-Joy in the title role of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, currently making a splash at CCXP 2023 in São Paulo, Brazil this week. The official trailer is now online for the newest prequel following up from 2015’s propulsive hit Mad Max: Fury Road, adding Chris Hemsworth to help outline the origin tale of the burgeoning wasteland heroine. As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home. Mad Max franchise mainstay George Miller is at the helm once more with a cast […]

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THE LAST KUMITE Official Teaser: ‘Kampfansage’ Star Mathis Landwehr Is Back For His Newest Thriller Coming In 2024!

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It’s been close to twenty years since German martial arts cinema came out of the woodwork bringing actor and martial artist Mathis Landwehr into the limelight as the star of Johannes Jaeger’s Kampfansage: Der Letzte Schüler, a feature expanded from a pre-existing indie action short concept. Landwehr has still been on radar from time to time in roles for projects like Lasko and Martin-Christopher Bode’s Ultimate Justice over the years, and even in Shawn Bu’s explosive hit fanmade Star Wars short flick, “Darth Maul: Apprentice” to name a few, although it remained to be seen just when exactly the actor would take the reins for a lead role in a new feature. I did have my eye on one project in which he would have starred but I don’t have any faith at the moment that it’ll ever see completion. Alas, leave it to the likes of noted cinematographer Ross […]

TIRA Official Series Trailer Signals The Arrival Of A New Hero

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Nearly a year after presenting its first look at actress Chelsea Islan (Headshot, May The Devil Take You franchise) in upcoming Disney+ Hotstar series, Tira, the newest official teaser has now arrived online which you can view below. Islan stars in the series which is premiering on December 16 following its introductory rollout at the 18th Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival this week. After rescuing nine kids from a human sacrifice ritual, Suci is struck with a curse — she’ll die within 40 days. The mysterious Ben helps her to find a cure through an ancient power. Suci needs to balance her budding career as a movie stuntwoman, maintaining her grades and scholarship on campus, while saving her own life. She’s getting dragged into a complicated situation when she finds out that the ancient powers belong to highly-acclaimed people who are caught in a secret war. Fly By Night director Zahir […]

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WARHORSE ONE Gets A Sequel Shoot In 2024

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A sequel to Warhorse One is in development, according to information shared on social media via actor Johnny Strong and the film’s official fanpage. The film, tentatively titled “Warhorse Two” as illustrated by current prelim artwork online, will reportedly begin production in the new year with a script by Strong who starred in the first film, as well as co-directed with filmmaker William Kaufman (Daylight’s End, The Channel). Plot details are underwraps for the new film in which Strong will be joined on screen once more by young actress Athena Durner. The two will reprise their roles from the first film – previously released by Well Go USA in the summer – which follows Strong’s character, SEAL Team Leader Richard Mirko as he fights to survive behind enemy lines in Afghanistan with the daughter of a murdered family of missionaries in his care. Details written on the film’s fan page […]

BLOOD COAST Official French Crime Series Trailer Runs Red With Pulsating Action And Drama

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December 6 will see the official premiere of Kamel Guemra’s six-part action-packed crime series, Blood Coast (French title Pax Massilia). Ivan Fegyveres and Olivier Marchal each share directing duties on the hourlong series which hails from production house Gaumont and stars Tewfik Jallab, Jeanne Goursaud, and Nicolas Duvauchelle. As a vicious drug dealer tries to overtake Marseille, a rogue police captain and his daredevil team welcome a new recruit with an agenda of her own. Also starring are Moussa Maaskri and Gino Montesinos, along with Florence Thomassin and Samir Boitard. The official trailer is now online below.

THE TIGER MASK: Kodansha Suits Up With Italian Film Firms For New Live-Action Adaptation Of Hit Manga

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Live-action adaptations of popular manga properties will still have their space going forward with an upcoming new take on Kodansha publication, The Tiger Mask. Variety’s Nick Vivarelli reported on Monday the development of the film via Rome-based Fabula Pictures and Brandon Box in Milan, alongside Kodansha. Penned by Ikki Kajiwara and inked by Naoki Tsuji, The Tiger Mask launched in 1968 with the story of Naoto Date, a heel wrestler who, after garnering success in America, returns home inspired and with the hope of becoming a heroic wrestler. That goal becomes par for the course as Date is forced to battle old foes from his former organization, the Tiger’s Den. The film marks the latest adaptation of the manga following two animated features released in 1970 from Toei by director Takeshi Tamiya who also shepherded the 1969 animated series. The latest iteration in live action starred Eiji Wentz in 2013‘s […]

[UPDATED] New KARATE KID Movie Casts Ralph Macchio And Jackie Chan Ahead Casting Call For Lead Star: ‘The Global Search Starts Now!’

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12:42pm: A previous version of this article has been updated with director and writer information, and a studio release date EARLIER: Actors Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan will star in a new installment of the Karate Kid franchise, according to the duo on Tuesday. A new video is now online via Sony Pictures hosted by the pair who have officially confirmed their additions to the film, while launching a global casting call for potential candidates to star as the film’s titular “Karate Kid”. The news comes a little over a year after Sony added a new Karate Kid film to its slate which would have had a summer 2024 release at the time, adding to the longstanding success of the franchise that began with John G. Avildsen’s 1984 hit trilogy starter, The Karate Kid, with Macchio and co-stars Martin Kove, William Zabka and the late Pat Morita, and followed up […]

Netflix’s THE GENTLEMEN Introduced In New Stills For Guy Ritchie’s Crime Drama Series Spin-Off

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With The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare still in toe among other prospects, director Guy Ritchie is also adding streaming to his 2024 itinerary with the upcoming episodic premiere of The Gentlemen, loosely spinning off his crackling British 2019 crime drama thriller of the same name which starred Matthew McConaughey. The series follows Eddie Halstead, who has inherited his father’s sizeable estate only to discover that it’s sitting on top of a weed empire owned by the legendary Mickey Pearson. Has this straight-up soldier got what it takes to master the dark arts of the British criminal underworld and take control of the entire operation? Ritchie directs the first two episodes as well as serves as executive producer, and co-writer alongside Matthew Read. The Gentlemen stars Theo James and Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, along with Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Giancarlo Esposito, Chanel Cresswell, Michael Vu, Max Beesley, Jasmine Blackborow, Harry Goodwins, […]

Universal Developing Fifth BOURNE Film From ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ Director

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The Bourne franchise remains potent according to Deadline’s Justin Kroll who reports that a fifth movie is in-development Universal. Edward Berger, director of the 4x Oscar-winning All Quiet On The Western Front, is up to take the director’s chair. Kroll says that Berger will be the only name attached to the project if a deal goes through. Further announcements are pending on whether or not franchise star Matt Damon, who took the reins for The Bourne Identity, Doug Liman’s 2002 reboot of Roger Young’s 1988 adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel, will reclaim the starring role. The Bourne franchise presently comprises of four films through 2016, largely chronicling the story of a CIA black ops agent whose amnesiac landing in France commences a breakneck journey across the globe, battling his way through hired assassins and mercenaries to expose the truth behind the program that he once volunteered for. Paul Greengrass […]

LOST PHOENIX: Check Out The Official Trailer For James Couche’s New Indie Espionage Thriller

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Writer/director James Couche is still in post-production on his independently-made feature debut, Lost Phoenix. The action adventure thriller, starring Wan DraL, Eliza Kelley, and David Norton, was filmed during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and hails from Couche’s longstanding independent film banner, Gunsavior Pictures. Set against the backdrop of a major social justice protest gone awry, DraL plays “Joe”, a runaway amnesiac who finds himself dodging ICE agents, heavily armed insurgents and a snipers from the distance as he fights to pursue tips and clues that could bring him closer to remembering his identity. Couche has since unveiled a trailer as of early last year which you can view here. In the meantime, take an extensive new first look at the independently-produced actioner in the official trailer below.

CREED IV: ‘Rocky’ Franchise Producer Rings The Bell For 2024 Production Start, Michael B. Jordan To Star And Direct Once More

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Rocky franchise producer Irvin Winkler confirmed the development of a fourth installment of the Creed saga with Michael B. Jordan at the helm, according to Deadline’s Destiny Jackson. Winkler made the announcement on Saturday during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles, telling the audience “We are planning to do Creed IV right now”. He added: “We have a really good story [and] a really good plot. We got a little delayed because of the strikes, but about a year from now we’re going into pre-production.” Jordan shepherded this year’s Creed III as both star and director following the work of past directors Ryan Coogler (Creed, 2015), and Steven Caple Jr. (Creed II, 2018). The film co-starred Jonathan Majors opposite Jordan in a story that saw our protagonist, Adonis, confronted by former childhood friend Damian, who sets out to lay claim to the boxing world. Development updates are yet to be made […]