THE BATMAN: Warner Bros. Confirms Its Star
Warner Bros. Pictures officially confirmed on Friday that Robert Pattinson will don the cape and cowl for The Batman. Pre-production begins this summer for a start date to be announced.
Warner Bros. Pictures officially confirmed on Friday that Robert Pattinson will don the cape and cowl for The Batman. Pre-production begins this summer for a start date to be announced.
I reckon I might have seen a trailer floating around many years ago for director Maksim Korostyshevsky’s 2012 action pic, Soliders Of Fortune – about a special forces captain forced to protect a bunch of thrill-seeking millionaires who want to experience war. Beyond that, I hardly remember this title and never saw the film for that matter as the marketing couldn’t have been great prior to the film’s release on only fifty screens here in the states that year.
Director Zack Snyder’s new zombie action thriller for Netflix, Army Of The Dead, is officially set for a July shoot according to announcements from the streaming service as of Tuesday. The Dawn Of The Dead, Justice League, Watchmen and Man Of Steel helmer is also scripting with Joby Harold and Shay Hatten.
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s new Netflix action thriller adaptation, The Old Guard, is revving up at Netflix and is currently underway with casting announcements and this summer’s production.
Jeremy Kay reports for screen out of Cannes with news of crime thriller Blindsided, currently on the market floor from Premiere Entertainment Group. Shooting will commence in Pennsylvania with Species actress Natasha Henstridge starring as a woman hiding from assassins with a young girl in her care whose father is about to testify as a key witness against a Colombian drug cartel
Production is set to commence this August for The Abandoned helmer Eytan Rockaway’s gangster biopic, Lansky, based on the life and times of American monster Bugsy Siegel’s close cohort. Harvey Keitel, best known for roles in hit films like Bad Lieutenant and Pulp Fiction will star alongside Emory Cohen, Sam Worthington and Austin Stowell. Alexandra Daddario and Tony Danza are in talks to join.
Just as the official trailer for Cinemax crime series, Jett, rolls online ahead of its June 14 premiere, its star, actress Carla Gugino is making headway adding to the roster of badassery for Gunpowder Milkshake from Big Bad Wolves directing duo Aahron Keshales and Navot Papushado.
We last heard back in 2017 about producer Lauren Shuler Donner’s efforts with Cristal pictures for the production of female-fronted buddy action comedy, Twin Blades. Now as of Friday with news from Deadline‘s Nancy Tartaglione, actress Beth Behrs (The Neighborhood, 2 Broke Girls) will join Ma Li (Soccer Killer, Goodbye Mr. Loser) for the production said to commence soon in Hong Kong and China with Eva Jin (Sophie’s Revenge) attached to direct.
AWOL-72 helmer Christian Sesma is reteaming with Vigilante Diaries team, screenwriters Nick Vallelonga and Paul Sloan for Nicolas Cage action thriller, 10 Double Zero. Andreas Wiseman reported the news out of Cannes over at Deadline with news that Wonderful Global is selling the film internationally.
If you enjoyed the latest actress/director pairing on Netflix for Vicky Jewson’s Closer featuring Noomi Rapace, fret not. The two will be back together for Sylvia, which Jewson will pen with Close writer Rupert Whitaker tackling the 2010 biography, “Sylvia Rafael: The Life and Death of a Mossad Spy”, from author duo Ram Oren and Rafael’s former trainer, ex-Mossad agent Moti Kfir.
Fresh from the Rocky fray, Aquaman co-star Dolph Lundgren will star in Wanted Man. Michael Worth wrote the script from a story he and Lundgren put together.
The title itself is as apt for an action thriller feature as one could be with actor Chris Pine’s newest role in Violence Of Action. Heading to Cannes for sales courtesy of STXinternational with CAA Media Finance repping the U.S., cameras roll this Fall with The Nile Hilton Incident helmer Tarik Saleh directing from J.P. Davis.
Of course nowadays contemporary action persona John Wick is gonna be the go-to persona for someone selling a concept. Such is the case for Becky, headed to Cannes from the respective international and US rights holders, Highland Film Group and UTA Independent Film Group.
Michelle Yeoh is making her return to action with Gunpowder Milkshake. As the trades cycled on Friday, the Star Trek: Discovery actress will join Karen Gillan of MCU franchise fame for the female-fronted thriller along with Lena Headey (Game Of Thrones), Angela Bassett (Black Panther), and Paul Giamatti (Shoot ‘Em Up, Billions).
Far from any talk of retirement, actor Liam Neeson is back for another action role in The Minuteman which rolls cameras this September. Directed by Robert Lorenz, Neeson will play a retired Vietnam veteran who finds himself caring for a young boy being hunted by the cartel.
It was only a matter of time following our report and common knowledge among those in the know, but the hit Cinemax series, Warrior, officially added five new faces to the battlefield of the recently-renewed series.
Jesse Quinones’s new MMA drama, Cagefighter, is still on the way to principal photography, but casting is still going and Deadline‘s own Andreas Wiseman brings word that Dean Ambrose (a.k.a. Jonathan Good) is joining the cast.
It’s the action romance that won’t die with actor/director duo Scott Adkins and Isaac Florentine back for a ninth outing together called Strapped. Production begins later this year with Adkins starring as a former MMA fighter forced to confront the heart of his dark past following a brutal robbery and the theft of his championship belt.
If you’ve been keeping score with all things Cannes, you’ve likely come across news about Mel Gibson’s new dark action comedy, Fatman, which shoots early next year following the release of his next thriller, Boss Level, featuring Frank Grillo.
Filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour could be on the way to directing a female fronted version of Renny Harlin’s 1993 action blockbuster, Cliffhanger, after spending a year preparing for the project. Indeed, the buzz is real including over at Deadline which also has fresh key art front and center as it will show once it hits the sales floor next week at Cannes. Check it out below!
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