BRZRKR Teams Star And Creator Keanu Reeves With Director Justin Lin For Netflix Live-Action Adaptation
Keanu Reeves will star and produce alongside Lin for the live-action adaptation being set at Netflix.
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THE SHADOW STRAYS 2 Is In The Works!
A sequel is officially in development at Netflix for Indonesian action thriller, The Shadow Strays, according to a social media post by Timo Tjahjanto on Friday. The director also hinted at the return of actress Aurora Ribero in a caption he wrote saying “She will return.” The line is a likely reference to Ribero’s portrayal of “13,” a member of an elite clandestine organization of ninja-like assassins whose forced hiatus in Jakarta results in a violent investigation into the murder of a young boy’s mother. Her quest escalates into an all-out war with a gang of politically-connected criminals, as well as her own organization. The film throws in a lot of moving pieces that definitely set up more story arcs, so this would be an ample opportunity for Tjahjanto to capitalize on those, particularly with the cameos of action star Yayan Ruhian, as well as actress Mawar Eva de Jongh. […]
Marvel’s THE PUNISHER: Jon Bernthal To Lock And Load For A 2026 Standalone Special
Jon Bernthal is currently set to reprise his role as Marvel mainstay, The Punisher, opposite leading man Charlie Cox in “Daredevil: Born Again,” streaming exclusively on Disney+ from March 4. In the meantime, the actor is reportedly getting back into character for a Punisher special according to the trades on Tuesday. Bernthal follows in the footsteps of Dolph Lundgren (1989) and Thomas Jane (2004), providing an extensive rollout of the character across several shows, between Netflix and Disney+, including his own in 2017 for two seasons. He is co-writing the standalone special with Reinaldo Marcus Green, who will also direct for its 2026 release, according to THR’s Etan Vlessing. The actor will next appear on the big screen alongside Ben Affleck in The Accountant 2, which opens in April in theaters from Amazon MGM Studios. Read more at The Hollywood Reporter. Lead image: Netflix/Jessica Miglio
SIFU: Netflix Nabs Rights To Live-Action Adaptation Of Hit Martial Arts Game, ‘The Maze Runner’ Scribe To Pen Script
T.S. Nowlin is penning the script for the movie which 87Eleven and Story Kitchen will produce for the streamer.
EXTRACTION Series Starring Omar Sy Is A Go At Netflix
Glen Mazzara (“The Walking Dead”) will serve as showrunner and executive producer in association with the team that brought the first two films to life starring Chris Hemsworth for Netflix.
STREET FIGHTER Nabs Director For The New Live-Action Adaptation
The movie opens on March 20, 2026
Warner Bros. Slates Summer Shoot For Third DUNE Film
An official title has not yet been set.
DETOUR: Scripting Is Underway For The Sequel To The Stunt People’s Indie Martial Arts Comedy Classic, ‘Contour’
Eric Jacobus starred in, and directed the inaugural 2006 martial arts hit film that launched The Stunt People into fruition.
Tony Jaa To Star In, Exec Produce ‘Muay Thai Trilogy’ For China-Thai Co-Prod
The martial arts trilogy will be directed by Yuthlert Sippapak, who will also produce and finance in the collaborative effort with China’s Stars Collective.
KILLER BEE Graphic Novel Is Getting A Live-Action Film Starring DeWanda Wise
“Killer Bee” is a new graphic novel by David Crownson who will serve as exec producer.
GUNDAM: Preliminary Poster Signals New Live-Action Co-Production Moving Forward At Legendary
Legendary Pictures and Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc will co-finance the first ever live-action Hollywood adaptation based on the hit robot anime franchise.
MAGIC: THE GATHERING Sets Up Film And TV Universe At Legendary And Hasbro
Hasbro and Legendary will partner up to build film and television projects based on the hit trading card game.
MONITOR: Brittany O’Grady Joins High-Concept Horror Planning March Shoot
Protagonist Pictures launched the new project at AFM late last year and will continue with international sales at EFM in Berlin next week.
Hollywood Storm Circles Adrian Paul, Sheldon Lettich And More As Label Ferments Production Slate Ahead Of EFM
Actor and producer Alexander Nevsky is ramping up a trio of titles on Hollywood Storm roster ahead of EFM in February, two of which are set to go into production in 2025. The slate includes the long-awaited Savage Attack, which has been in development since roughly 2017, with Last Heroes Of Rio Bravo set to complete his Rio Bravo trilogy with co-star/director Joe Cornet back at the helm, as well as upcoming Western actioner, The Wide West. Savage Attack is billed as “The Raid meets Die Hard”, in a story centered on a CIA operative who must save his former mentor from an insane asylum besieged by hired killers. Nevsky will star alongside Nick Baillie (Malicious), Tatiana Neva (Taken from Rio Bravo) and Cornet. Highlander franchise mainstay Adrian Paul is also circling the project in a potential reunion with Nevsky since Art Camacho and Andrey Bogatyrev’s 2019’s historical sports drama, […]
BLOODHOUNDS: K-Pop Star Rain Joins Season Two Of The Hit Netflix Action Series
I’m as surprised as anyone that Netflix series Bloodhounds is getting a second season. I didn’t expect as much considering the story arc of the first season provided enough closure, but to see another round of action and drama well on the way is a nice little pick-me-up to start the new year. Jason Kim of Officer Black Belt fame is returning to the show, back at the helm as writer and director for a cast once again led by Woo Do-hwan and Lee Sang-yi, along with the new addition of recording artist Jung Ji-hoon – a.k.a. Rain (Ninja Assassin). Studio N is producing the series along with Seven O Six, and Ghost Studio, based on Jeong Chan’s hit webtoon of the same name. Read last week’s announcement below for more, and feel free to revisit my review of the first season here. The production and cast of Bloodhounds Season […]
KILLER 11: ‘Haste’ Team Developing Hitman-On-Hitman Action Short
Award-winning indie director Aeddan Sussex is moving ahead with shortfilm, Killer 11, I can report as of Monday. Sussex is reteaming with actor and martial artist Jon Alagoa and a number of others as the team readies a crowdfuding campaign upon finalizing a budget and locations. Alagoa, who previously collaborated with Sussex on their 2023 project, Haste as writer and choreographer, will play the lead role of a hitman looking to climb up the ranks by going after his next target, “Killer 10”. Killer 11 also brings aboard Shinji Ishigaki, who previously worked with Sussex on 2018 kung fu comedy, Chopsticks!!, and Thomas Smart, who also collaborated with Alagoa on their earlier Kiwami webseries shorts. I’m told the project is described as dark in tone with a touch of absurdist comedy in a few areas, coupled primarily with swordplay action and some hand-to-hand between the performers. The short will also […]
Toho Announces GOLDEN KAMUY Sequel
Toho has announced a sequel to Shigeaki Kubo’s latest Meiji-era manga adaptation, Golden Kamuy. The film was adapted for the screen by Tustomu Kuroiwa and featured a cast led by Kento Yamazaki and Anna Yamada, and released in Japan cinemas back in January. Based on Satoru Noda’s award-winning Seinen manga out of Weekly Young Jump which ran from 2014 through 2022, Kubo’s Golden Kamuy hails from Credeus, Inc., the production label behind the Yamazaki-led Kingdom trilogy. Golden Kamuy is set during the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, and sees Yamazaki in the role of Sugimoto, a celebrated Imperial war hero who, along with an indigenous Ainu hunter named Asirpa, finds himself at the center of a mystery involving a band of prison escapees beholden to tattoos of a ciphered map locating a hidden cache of gold. The inaugural film went on to a wider release via Netflix the following May, […]
KILL Director, Producers Planning Sequel
Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s Kill is getting a sequel if producer Gurneet Monga has anything to say about it. The news comes by way of Screendaily whose Ellie Calnan reports via Film Bazaar in Goa on Monday. “We are discussing with Dharma, and Nikhil will be the director,” said Monga, whose credits also include The Lunchbox and Peddlers. “We have lots of ideas brewing and it is deep in development.” Bhat directed the original film starring actor Lakshya in the role of an outnumbered commando battling an army of bandits aboard a train to New Delhi while saving the estranged woman he loves, and her family. Dharma Productions produced along with Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment. The movie held its rousing premiere for the festival crowds in Toronto late last year and took the wheel ahead of a U.S. theatrical release back in July from Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions. Lionsgate is also involved […]
THE LOCK IN: Help Crowdfund Nathan Geering’s Latest Ambitious New Indie Actioner
The past year or so have seen my news feeds crackling a little with word of emerging talent, actor, martial artist, and newly-inducted Black Belt Hall Of Famer Nathan Geering. He’s got a feature film in development called The Lock In, and his Indiegogo pitch certainly reads like something right up my alley. A man trapped in a pub finds himself caught in the crossfire between a mysterious bartender and a gang hell bent on killing him at any cost. To make matters worse our hero has arranged to go on a romantic date at the pub. When his date arrives things immediately take a turn for the worse as the pub closes it’s doors and holds a deadly event known as The Lock In. What started out as a romantic evening turns into a fight for survival. Geering has won a ton of awards for his shortfilm work, most […]
A BITTERSWEET LIFE Script Underway For Netflix Remake Of Korean Neo-Noir Hit Thriller
Remember news of a potential remake development for 2005’s A Bittersweet Life? Well, that is a thing yet again. The word now from Deadline’s Matt Grobar has it that Kevin McMullin is penning the script for a production to be overseen by Netflix, and by Chernin Entertainment’s Alex Jackson. Kim Jee-woon’s Korean gangster flick starred Lee Byung-hun in the role of Sun-woo, a weary underworld enforcer who turns on his boss after refusing to kill his mistress for cheating, upon falling in love with her himself. The neo-noir hit played for Cannes that year and became a beacon of Asian cult cinema fandom for years to come with leading man Lee riding the wave to stardom in future hits like Kim’s 2008’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird, and 2010’s I Saw The Devil, and later appearing in Kim’s 2016 thriller, The Age Of Shadows. Kim’s body of work is […]