THE BLACK DEMON: ATLANTIS Casts Up Shark Thriller Sequel For May Shoot From ‘El Chicano’ Director
Highland Film Group is handling worldwide sales at EFM.
Casting
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.
[UPDATED] NEON BLOOD: Iko Uwais Reteams With Timo Tjahjanto For Indonesian Action Thriller, XYZ Leading EFM Sales
NEON BLOOD will be at the upcoming EFM in Berlin next week with XYZ Films launching world sales.
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.
DIE BY NIGHT Adds Trio For Creature Survival Thriller As Protagonist Launches Sales Ahead Of EFM
Ben Hardy, Isabelle Fuhrman, and Scoot McNairy are starring in the new creature survival flick from the director of BLOOD FOR DUST.
QUIZTOPIA: ‘The Naked Director’ Star Leads New Dystopian Quiz Show Drama From ‘Alice In Borderland,’ ‘Yu Yu Hakusho’ Team
Actor Takayuki Yamada (Crows Zero, “The Naked Director”) stars in the new dystopian thriller series coming soon to Netflix!
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, […]
THE TRIP: Cast Announced As Jorma Taccone Sets Sail For English Language Remake Of 2021 Norwegian Thriller
Filming is underway in Tampere, Finland for Jorma Taccone’s (Pop Star: Never Stop Stopping, MacGruber, SNL) new thriller, The Trip. Actors Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, and Juliette Lewis are starring from a script by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, which re-envisions Tommy Wirkola’s Norwegian 2021 thriller of the same name. Here, Segel and Weaving play a dysfunctional couple who head to a remote cabin to “reconnect,” but each has secret intentions to kill the other. Rounding out the cast are Paul Guilfoyle, and UFC Octagon legend Keith Jardine. XYZ is financing and producing alongside 87North’s Kelly McCormick (The Fall Guy, Bullet Train, the Nobody franchise), Lee Kim (Dual, Get Away), and Guy Danella (Violent Night, Love Hurts). Taccone and Wirkola are exec producing with Karen Gillan co-producing. 74 Entertainment’s Jørgen Storm Rosenberg and Kjetil Omberg who produced the original are also on board and exec producing. The movie […]
COYOTE: Justin Long And Kate Bosworth Star In New Survival Thriller Now Filming In Colombia
Cameras are now rolling as of this weeks in Bogota, Colombia for survival thriller, Coyote, from director Colin Minihan (What Keeps You Alive, Grave Encounters) as announced by Capstone Studios’ CEO Christian Mercuri. Cast includes Justin Long (Barbarian) and Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns, 21, Remember the Titans) with a script storied by by Daniel Meersand & Nick Simon (The Pyramid, The Girl in the Photographs) and Tad Daggerhart (The Expendables 4, Black Lotus), and written by Daggerhart and Simon. Daggerhart, Long, and Bosworth are also exec producing Coyote, which follows a family fighting for their lives against a pack of crazed coyotes during a raging wildfire in the Hollywood Hills. Nathan Klingher (Land of Bad) and Ford Corbett will produce for Gramercy Park, along with James Harris (Fall) of Teashop Productions and Jib Polhemus (Old Guy) of Source Management. Capstone’s Roman Viaris and Ruzanna Kegeyan are also exec producers next […]
PROTECTOR: Milla Jovovich To Star In Action Thriller From ‘Rambo 5’ Director
Resident Evil franchise star Milla Jovovich is set to star in Protector, a new action thriller Rambo: Last Blood helmer from Adrian Grünberg. Production begins this winter in New Mexico and hails Highland Film Group which is co-financing and repping world sales at the AFM. Grünberg directs from a script by Bong-Seeb Mun, which stars Jovovich as Nikki, a former war hero, thought she’d left her violent past behind for a peaceful life with her daughter, Chloe. That peace is shattered when Nikki awakens bound in an abandoned factory, only to discover that Chloe has been kidnapped. Quickly escaping, Nikki plunges into the city’s criminal underworld and in her quest to find Chloe, she draws the attention of both the police and the military, shooting her to the top of the most wanted list. But the deeper she goes, the more she uncovers a shocking truth that threatens everything she’s […]
DEDICATION: Daisy Ridley Headlines New Martin Campbell Action Thriller For Q2 2025 Shoot
Daisy Ridley (the Star Wars franchise, Young Woman and the Sea, Magpie) will star in Dedication, a new action thriller from director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye). Highland Film Group is co-financing the pic and handling international sales at the AFM in Las Vegas this week, as production readies for a Spring 2025 shoot in the Philippines and Europe. Campbell will direct from a screenplay by Dan Gordon (Wyatt Earp, The Hurricane) which centers on Major Billie Jean Parker (Ridley), a decorated Marine Corps commander relieved of duty after a high-stakes mission in the Philippines results in civilian casualties, despite capturing anarchist leader Omar Romatas. Facing the loss of her career, she visits her dying father, Clyde, a former Marine, who asks her to attend a dedication ceremony for a school building named in his honor. The event takes a deadly turn when Omar Romatas’s vengeful son, Bento, launches an assault, taking hostages. Forced back into combat, Billie Jean sets traps and executes precise strikes […]
SIERRA MADRE: First Look Still Reveals Kiefer Sutherland In New Action Thriller, Additional Casting Announced
Emmy winner Kiefer Sutherland’s new action thriller, Sierra Madre, is making the rounds in Las Vegas this week with casting addition as of Tuesday. Production is underway in Colombia as well, with world sales firm Highland Film Group repping the film on the ground at AFM this week, showcasing a first look still from the film which you can view above. When Captain Jordan Wright (Kiefer Sutherland) and his squadron are granted leave from their mission to attend a crewmate’s wedding in Mexico, festivities are interrupted by a cartel’s murderous descent on the small village. As Jordan attempts to lead his remaining men to safety, war breaks out between his squad and the cartel. Now under siege in the enemy’s deadly stronghold, Jordan has no other option but to engage in a full-scale battle to save the only family he has. Also starring are renowned Mexican actor Omar Chaparro (Warner […]
THE RUNNING MAN: UK Filming Underway Rebooting The Dystopian Action Classic For Q4 2025
Production is now underway in the UK for Edgar Wright’s iteration of The Running Man. Hit Man and Twisters star Glen Powell is starring along with Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones and William H. Macy. An action classic reboot of the 1987 TriStar release with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wright takes a page from “Richard Bachman” to provide something much closer to pennamed author Stephen King’s 1982 novel. Wright penned with co-scribe Michael Bacall and is producing alongside Simon Kinberg and Nira Park for the film’s November 2025 release. Based on the 1982 Stephen King novel, The Running Man centres around a deadly game show in which one man must outrun professional killers over 30 days to win a cash prize and save his sick child. Read more at Screendaily. Lead photo image: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Wikimedia Commons.
PAINTER: Amber Midthunder And Alan Ritchson Topline Stunt Coordinator Garrett Warren’s Feature Debut
Painter is the name of the latest action franchise hopeful from stunt-multihyphenate Garrett Warren (Road House, God Is A Bullet, Logan) who will make his feature directing debut. John Wick penman Derek Kolstad will write the script for a cast led by Amber Midhunter, and Alan Ritchson, according to Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman who has more: Painter centers on a young woman, trained from a young age, who must employ every skill in her arsenal to rescue her father after he is kidnapped. Ritchson and Kolstad are just two of the producers listed for the film which FilmNation is taking to buyers at the American Film Market in November. That it’s a female-fronted endeavor with Midthunder leading makes it all but promising given the reception of Hulu hit “Predator” saga entry, Prey, which shot to acclaim among fans and critics. The same goes for Ritchson who is already gearing up for […]
JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND STYLES: Eddie Griffin To Star In Epic Kung Fu Fantasy From Hong Kong Stunt Veteran Robert Samuels – EXCLUSIVE
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker, actor and martial artist Robert Samuels is set to direct Journey Of A Thousand Styles, with actor and comedian Eddie Griffin (Double Take, A Star Is Born) starring. Samuels, who shared the helm with James Lew on 2021 action comedy, Made In Chinatown, will make his solo directing debut from a script by Robert Jefferson. The fantasy urban kung fu adventure sees Griffin in the role of Eddie Stiles, a disheartened kung fu teacher who finds himself and his son trapped within an endless universe of kung-fu movies, ensnared by a mysterious VHS tape. To break free, they must embark on a journey of self-discovery, embracing new perspectives on life and mastering the art of kung fu in ways never imagined. Additionally, Samuels will produce through his R4 Films LLC banner, rejoining Made In Chinatown cohort Mark V. Wiley who will produce via Tambuli Media. Also producing is […]
DRIVE THROUGH FIRE: Michael Jai White Actioner Underway, Red Sea To Shop At AFM In November
Jimmy Carlson and Lauren Bond are directing Drive Through Fire which has Red Sea Media launching world sales at the upcoming American Film Market in November. The 3CB production is already underway in Oklahoma with the banner announcing Michael Jai White for the cast along with Carlson, and co-stars Dan Bakkedahl, Jennifer Bond, and Kate Duffy. The story follows an addict war veteran turned rideshare driver who helps a terrified passenger escape a human trafficking ring serving wealthy clients. White will play a veteran detective who gets involved in the case while violent mobsters pursue the woman. Carlson and Bond are directing from Carlson’s screenplay. Melodie Garneau, Matt Moulton, and Roman Kopelevich and Crystal Hill of Red Sea Media are exec producers. Red Sea Media founder Kopelevich brokered the rights with Lauren Bond on behalf of 3CB and said, “I’ve known Lauren a long time and I’m excited to partner […]
FAST AND LOOSE Is Back On Track At Netflix, Michael Bay To Direct Will Smith Action Thriller
Setting things in motion once more is the reteamimg of Will Smith and director Michael Bay for Netflix action thriller, Fast And Loose. Deadline’s Justin Kroll notes that a start date hasn’t been made but the film would nonetheless be a likely next for 6 Underground helmer Bay who launched the Bad Boys franchise featuring Smith and co-lead Martin Lawrence in 1995. Fast and Loose follows a man who wakes up in Tijuana with no memories. As he pieces together his past, he learns he’s been living two lives: one as a crime kingpin and the other as an undercover CIA agent. The film had been in the works for years with David Leitch coming aboard to produce the film via his 87 North label with Kelly McCormick back in 2020. Leitch left the project prior to Netflix – the latter who parted from the film back in 2022 following […]
GAYONG: October Martial Arts Biopic Prod Taps ‘Mat Kilau’ Co-Star For Malaysia’s Answer To ‘Ip Man’!
I highly suggest looking into Malaysian actor Beto Kusyairy’s filmography, particularly if you’re a reader of this website and others like it. One quick-to-point title I’ll throw out is Syamsul Yusof’s Mat Kilau, readily available on Netflix and has Kusyairy joining lead actor Adi Putra in the story of a band of warriors rebelling against British colonial rule in the 1890s. Kusyairy has one of my more favorite moments in the movie that really got my action fanboy blood flowing and ultimately put him on the map for me as someone I’d like to see more of. That day finally arrived in recent weeks with Sol Pictures Sdn Bhd putting the word out for director Faisal Ishak’s upcoming production of Gayong, taken from the name of the titular Malaysian fighting style of Silat Gayong. What’s more is Kusyairy will star in the lead role of Silat Gayong grandmaster Datuk Meor […]
TIGER COP: PROJECT A: Richard Norton Joins In As Maria Tran And Adrian Castro Hail Next Chapter In The Nostalgic HK Style Shortfilm Saga
Fans of the independent Fideo Films and Phoenix Eye platforms are reconvening once more for another entry into the cult “Tiger Cop” shortfilm saga with Tiger Cop: Project A. Aussie director Adrian Castro will reteam with rising star Maria Tran (Tracer, Suka, Echo 8) on the new short with cameras rolling in Sydney and Melbourne in December. Tran will lead a cast that also lists Melbourne-based collaborators Vinh Nguyen, martial artists Louis Damien Chaurémootoo and David Hong, and comedian/actor Georgina Neville. Further bolstering the roster is legendary action star Richard Norton, whose credits partly include Twinkle Twinke Lucky Stars (1985), China O’Brien (1988) and its 1990 sequel, as well as Mr. Nice Guy (1987), Mad Max: Fury Road and its 2024 prequel, Furiosa, and upcoming Cynthia Rothrock Western vehicle, Black Creek. The concept behind Tiger Cop: Project A is a highly celebrated one for fans of the 80s and early-90s […]