14 FISTS Clenches John Hannah And Bai Ling
Ascendant Films is steering away with the upcoming production of 14 FISTS, returning actor and rising martial arts star Jean-Paul Ly to the screen!
Casting
Stallone’s Balboa Prods. Lands SAMARITAN, HUNTER And GHOST For Feature Development
A recent announcement of a Jack Johnson biopic was the first project this year signaling the Stallone-owned Balboa Productions.
Michael B. Jordan Nabs THE SILVER BEAR Hitman Adaptation To Star, Produce
A director is still in search for the upcoming Frank Baldwin adaptation of THE SILVER BEAR, the first of Derek Haas’ ‘Assassin Trilogy’.
THE WITCHER Grows Its Cast For The New Netflix Series
With Henry Cavill nabbed principally for Netflix‘s latest stake in The Witcher as Geralt of Rivia, more names have been added to the roster. The sorceress Yennefer will be played by Anya Chalotra (The ABC Murders, Wanderlust). Actress MyAnna Buring (Ripper Street, Kill List) will leading the magical academy at Aretuza in the role of Tissaia, with Mimi Ndiweni (Black Earth Rising) and Therica Wilson-Read (Profile) as novice sorcerers Fringilla and Sabrina, and Millie Brady (The Last Kingdom, Teen Spirit) as the outcast Princess Renfri. The pivotal role of Ciri, Princess of Cintra, will be played by Freya Allan (The War of the Worlds, Into The Badlands) while other characters from the court at Cintra include Jodhi May (Game of Thrones, Genius) as Queen Calanthe and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson (Fortitude) as her husband, the knight Eist, and Adam Levy (Knightfall, Snatch) for the role of the druid Mousesack. Based on […]
BIRDS OF PREY Casts Rosie Perez As Renee Montoya
Cathy Yan is directing BIRDS OF PREY from a script by Christina Hodson with a release date now set for February 7, 2020.
WONDERLAND: Winston Duke Eyes Role in Wahlberg/Berg ‘Spenser’ Pic
It’s definitely actor Winston Duke‘s year following the success of his most recent breakout supporting role in Marvel’s Black Panther. Among other gigs, he’s snagged several upcoming roles since then, most notably as Kimbo Slice in Backyard Legend and just this week as a metal suit-wearing vigilante waging war on Aryan criminal scum in Kin scribe Dan Casey’s Heroine, and now he’s adding another to his credits with Peter Berg’s Wonderland adaptation, Netflix-bound with Mark Wahlberg starring. Robert B. Parker’s acclaimed detective novel series hit shelves 35 years ago, centered on the assignments of a former boxer and U.S. Army veteran-turned-private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts. Following previous iterations for the small screen, Wahlberg, in his fifth reunion with Berg, is set to be the latest actor to take on the role for the adaptation of the 2013 Putnam Adult publication – the second in the continued succession of books by […]
HEROINE: Winston Duke To Wear Metal Armor And Beat Up Aryan Scum In Paramount Players Actioner
Dan Casey (Secrets Of Fenville, The Death Of Michael Smith) is poised to make his next directorial move on action thriller, Heroine. Monday’s report at THR lists actor Winston Duke (Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War) will star in the film now currently set to shoot in the Spring. According to the report, Heroine foresees the story of a mother, a domestic abuse survivor who finds herself in danger when she witness an Aryan gang kidapping only after just moving into her new neighborhood. The aforementioned actor who memorably played M’Baku in the current MCU will tackle the role of her neighbor, a man who has crafted his own metal suit for the purpose of fighting crime and now has his sights set on the Aryans. Matt Kaplan (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) is producing the film at Ace Entertainment for Paramount Players. Casey is best known of late […]
FREE GUY: Ryan Reynolds To Lead Fox Action Comedy For Shawn Levy
Time will tell how things bode for actor Ryan Reynolds who is currently busy being himself at times as seen in the video above on the set of Michael Bay’s new Netflix offering, 6 Underground. In the meantime, the reigning champion title holder of all things dead or injured by on-screen Marvel persona, Deadpool, will now stake his claim in Shawn Levy’s Free Guy for 20th Century Fox. Matt Lieberman wrote the script (once a 2016 spec) which tells of a guy who, in Truman Show-fashion, teams up with an avatar to prevent the shut down of his world after learning he’s a background character living in a video game; The Truman Show (1998) starred Jim Carrey under director Peter Weir about a man who realizes he’s lived his whole life as the star of a fictional television show. Reynolds will produce at Maximum Effort with 21 Laps whose Levy […]
HE IS BACK: Bruceploitation Makes A Contemporary Comeback For Abb Li’s Starring Debut Next Year
Relatively known Afghan Bruce Lee, Abbas Alizada, will resurrect the dragon in HE IS BACK from director Chitah Yajnesh Shetty starting in January.
MONSTER HUNTER: Tony Jaa Joins The Milla Jovovich-Led Cast For The Live-Action Game Adaptation
EXCLUSIVE: The last two years saw the quiet development of Monster Hunter from Resident Evil franchise duo Paul W.S. Anderson and producing partner Jeremy Bolt. The adaptation of the hit 2004 video game IP is now finally taking shape with word that actor and martial artist Tony Jaa will play The Hunter, joining the casting line-up announced earlier this evening at The Hollywood Reporter. 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. As The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit noted on Tuesday evening, actor and recording artist T.I. Harris is joining the cast as Link with famed Hellboy persona Ron Perlman playing Admiral, leader of the Hunters’ crew. The film […]
EMBATTLED: Indie MMA Drama Shoots This Week
Stephen Dorff is currently cast in MMA drama, EMBATTLED, from Georgian filmmaker Nick Sarkisov who will also produce for LA-based Blitz Films
VENGEANCE 2: Casting Ramps Up For Ross Boyask’s Action Thriller Sequel Filming This Week
Ross Boyask’s latest sequel effort, VENGEANCE 2, starts filming on Tuesday with Stu Bennet returning to star.
THE GREAT WAR OF ARCHIMEDES: Yamazaki Takashi’s Manga Adaptation Sets Course For Summer 2019
Yamazaki Takashi (Parasyte 1 & 2, Eternal Zero, Returner) is just about done filming his next epic, The Great War Of Archimedes. The new film is based on Mita Norifusa’s 2015 manga publication, set in the 1930s as the Imperial Japanese Navy undergoes plans to build the world’s biggest and most powerful battleship, the Yamato. Actor Suda Masaki fronts the cast thusfar as mathematical genius, Kai, brought aboard at the behest of an eager admiral, only to uncover discrepancies in the cost of its construction, as well as another potential conspiracy. Suda’s most recent credits include starring in Fukuda Yuichi’s Gintama franchise, Kishi Yoshiyuki’s two-part boxing drama, Wilderness, and Nagai Akira’s Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High. Further details remain pending ahead of the film’s expected release next summer.
xXx4 Casts TF Boys’ Own Roy Wang
Production on the fourth installment of the xXx franchise is still months away as Vin Diesel remains on the set of his latest thriller, Bloodshot. The aforementioned franchise title, currently home at Paramount following a rousing third installment release last January has D.J. Caruso on board to helm once more and with word that TF Boys member Roy Wang is slated to star as of last week. There aren’t any details yet on what the fourth installment may entail. The film sits as one of several titles delineated in a recent deal officiated between The H Collective and Chinese streaming company, iQIYI which would allow the film to share releases in the U.S. as well as in China. iQIYI debuted its first international distro title, action thriller The Blizzard with theatrical releasea in Canada beginning last week on September 14.
MEDIEVAL Adds Til Schweiger
Monday will mark the start of principal photography for Czech action epic, Medieval. The film’s latest exciting addition to the cast now brings news of actor Til Schweiger, according to Jeremy Kay at Screendaily. Ben Foster covets the central role of legendary 14th century war hero and strategist, Jan Zizka, who, along with his band of men are bound with the fate of an heiress to take down a rival king. As the report notes, Schweiger will portray Rosenberg, the wealthiest lord in the land with Caine playing Lord Boresh, Czech King Wenceslaus IV’s right-hand man. Schweiger is best known for 2016 TV series of late, Tschiller: Off Duty, as well as roles in Green Inferno, Atomic Blonde and as the terse and terrifying Nazi killer Hugo Stiglitz in Inglorious Basterds. Petr Jákl is directing this, his third film his own script with Cassian Elwes producing. Medieval hails from from […]
BRUISED: Halle Berry To Replace Previous Star And Director For The New MMA Drama
Oscar-winning actrees Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball, Kidnap) is making 2019 her banner year with the March production of MMA drama, Bruised. Berry will star as well as make her directorial debut according to an exclusive by Amanda N’Duka at Deadline on Tuesday. Michelle Rosenfarb penned the script which will see Berry play the role of Jackie “Justice”, a disgraced former MMA fighter who must now conquer her demons to face one of the sport’s fiercest rising stars if she is to win back Manny, the son she walked out on when he was six. The news comes a little over a year and change when actress Blake Lively was tapped to star for director Nick Cassavetes months prior to the production of Reed Morano’s action thriller, The Rhythm Section. Lively reportedly injured her hand in December of last year, with production resuming this past summer. That film arrives on February […]
EVE Casts Two More For Jessica Chastain’s New Action Drama
Director Tate Taylor’s new black ops action drama, EVE, films in three weeks and stars Jessica Chastain
WWII Revenge Thriller, RUIN, Casts Robbie And Schoenaerts
Margot Robbie, currently starring in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, is now set to join Assassin’s Creed Helmer Justin Kurzel for WWII thriller, Ruin. As Deadline reports, will headline next to actor Matthias Schoenaerts from a script by Ryan and Matthew Firpo with Marc Butan of MadRiver Pictures is producing alongside Kurzel. Ruin is set to commence filming early next year in Prague, set in the ruins of post-WWII where a Holocaust survivor (Robbie) reluctantly forms an unlikely alliance with an ex-SS captain (Schoenaerts) to hunt down the surviving members of the captain’s former Nazi death squad. The film is described as something in the vein of gritty period revenge thrillers like Inglorious Basterds and Fury. Reports on the film previously took shape stirring mention of actress Gal Gadot who is still readying her next marquee role on Patty Jenkins’ sequel, Wonder Woman 1984. MadRiver’s Ara Keshishian […]
KNIVES OUT: Daniel Craig Sharpens Up For Rian Johnson’s Indie Crime Flick
Writer/director and self-described Agatha Christie “nut” Rian Johnson and producing partner Ram Bergman are currently readying a company of their own to help finance their next film, Knives Out, ahead of Toronto International Film Festival this week. Deadline reported exclusively on Tuesday that actor Daniel Craig is set to have accepted the lead role in the new project which Johnson had previously staked in for Craig, a move that sets up a potential A-list roster in upcoming casting news. The film is best described as a modern day murder mystery in the classic whodunit style, infused with Johnson’s original voice that informed films from Brick to Looper. Production moves forward in November with CAA Media Finance repping North American distro rights, FilmNation on international rights and both co-prepping its rights for China. Knives Out adds to Johnson’s current plate of to-dos for Disney’s Star Wars saga, while nonetheless an opportune […]
THE WITCHER: Netflix Casts Henry Cavill To Lead The New Series Adaptation
The fate of Warner Bros.’ DCEU feature slate remains unclear. That’s not stopping Henry Cavill from loading his arms and swinging hard and heavy like he did in this summer’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, a segue now as he makes his chartered approach toward toplining Netflix‘s eight-episode production of The Witcher, adapting Andrzej Sapkowski’s beloved short stories and novels. Based on the best-selling fantasy series, The Witcher is an epic tale of fate and family. Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. But when destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress, and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together. Cavill, who will lead the cast of The Witcher saga as Geralt of Rivia, comes full circle with his attachment to the series upon […]
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