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ATOMIC BLONDE: Charlize Theron Brings The Pain In The Final Trailer

Director David Leitch is already hitting the pavement with the current production of the sequel for R-rated action-packed Marvel thrillride, Deadpool. Alas, if you know Leitch and/or unless you’ve been tuning in to the current campaign for his solo debut at the helm, Atomic Blonde, you already get an idea of the metric by which you can guess just how fun this film looks like it will be. Oscar® winner Charlize Theron explodes into summer in Atomic Blonde, a breakneck action-thriller that follows MI6’s most lethal assassin through a ticking time bomb of a city simmering with revolution and double-crossing hives of traitors.  The crown jewel of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission.  Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized […]

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Tell Your Cluster! SENSE8 Is Coming Back With A Two-Hour Finale In 2018

The Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski created and launched something both beautiful and enthralling with the award-winning sci-fi action series, Sense8. Telling of a cluster of 8 people all born on the same exact date and of the same age with a unique DNA, the story spanned globally into the lives of these eight people who discovered a sudden ability to psychically connect and ultimately come to the aid of one another in times of need as an evil doctor conspired to hunt them down and kill them. The show brought two great, eclectic, energizing seasons ripe with action and drama weighing equally on themes of love, LGBT pride and friendship. Season two kicked off in April and continued building on its story concepts by adding and exploring more on the “Sense8” phenomena with the additions of new characters, and a cliffhanger finale that promised something major for a potential […]

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ARMED RESPONSE: Wesley Snipes Charges Into The Unknown In The Official Trailer

Wesley Snipes is back in the limelight this week with a first trailer for director John Stockwell’s latest, Armed Response. It’s nothing fancy but it looks solidly acted and performed up to par as a watchable feat from the auspices ot WWE Studios. A team of special forces soldiers approach the designer of a high-tech military compound to investigate the disappearance of another team guarding the facility.   The compound, known professionally as a Temple, is an artificial intelligence powered facility designed for interrogating high level prisoners.  Upon entering the Temple, the soldiers quickly find the earlier team horrifically slaughtered but no evidence as to who is responsible. Almost immediately, the crew begins to experience strange and horrific supernatural phenomena as they attempt to uncover who killed the previous team. Soon enough, they find a lone survivor, a dangerous terrorist who may hold the key to who killed the soldiers. […]

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JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Transports You Too An All-Too Familiar Story In The First Trailer

To be honest, I didn’t care too much for the first Jumanji installment and I really have no huge interest invested in the sequel, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. It does look pretty epic, cheesy and silly which means it will probably be a lot of fun for fans following all things Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. I might even rent this one as it looks like a rad two-hour time-waster. In the brand new adventure Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the tables are turned as four teenagers in detention are sucked into the world of Jumanji.  When they discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of, they are immediately thrust into the game’s jungle setting, into the bodies of their avatars, played by Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan. What they discover is that you don’t just play Jumanji–Jumanji plays you. […]

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Superhero Politics Melt Down In The First Trailer For MARVEL'S INHUMANS

The next chapter in the Marvel saga is coming in IMAX and serial form for home viewing with Marvel’s Inhumans this September. With a second official poster in our wake, we now have our first official trailer teasing internal upheaval and ultimate conflict within a superhuman family. “Marvel’s Inhumans” explores the never-before-told epic adventure of the royal family including Black Bolt, the enigmatic, commanding King of the Inhumans, with a voice so powerful that the slightest whisper can destroy a city. After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where they are greeted with surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them.   Now they must find a way to reunite with each other and return to their home before their way of life is destroyed forever.  The first two episodes of Marvel’s Inhumans will premiere exclusively in IMAX cinemas […]

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Two Women Plan Their ESCAPE FROM ENSENADA In The Latest Trailer And Poster

Director Brandon Slagle has at least two films coming, one of which now already has a teaser trailer running online as well as new international artwork. Escape From Ensenada succeeds its previous title whilst centering still on two College students vacationing in Baja only to find themselves forced to fight their way from captivity or risk being sold into sex slavery. Newcomer Bronwyn Carrie-Wilson leads the cast next to scream queen Devanny Pinn (The Black Dahlia Haunting), Jacqui Holland (Limelight), Louis Mandylor (Daylight’s End), Eric Etebari (2 Fast 2 Furious, The Lincoln Lawyer) Jose Rosete (Inferno By Dante), Victor Boneva (The Bridge, Constantine), Sarah French, Michelle Romano, Kevin Caliber (Supergirl) and Telenovela starlet Adriana Fonseca (Corazon Valiente). Black Belt Magazine contributor Jason McNeil serviced the film’s action amply teased in the trailer from May. Check it all out below along with the new artwork.

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DOMINO: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actress Carice van Houten To Give Chase In De Palma’s Epic Cat-And-Mouse Crime Thriller

Production is now underway for Brian De Palma’s new thriller, Domino, with locations in Belgium, Spain, Denmark and The Netherlands as per the story’s epic setting. Nicolaj Coster-Waldau and Christina Hendricks were officially cast in the film as of May but will now have Coster-Waldau’s fellow Game Of Thrones cohort, Carice van Houten starring in Hendricks’s place. Petter Skavlan (Kon-Tiki, Sophie’s World) wrote the concurrent script setting the film on course through a Europe shaken by terrorist attacks with Coster-Waldau and van Houten playing a pair of Copenhagen cops seeking vengeance for the murder of their fellow comrade. In lieu of their journey will be troubling revelations about the man they are chasing, and the CIA operative hunting down the ISIS cell behind the Europe attacks. “I am delighted to join the cast of Domino; it’s a privilege to be working with such an iconic director,” the Dutch-born van Houten said. “And who […]

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PILGRIMAGE: Jon Bernthal Reveals Battle Scars In The Official Poster

Brendan Muldowney’s new film, Pilgrimage, is poised for a limited theatrical, VoD and Digital HD release on August 11. Following its Tribeca premiere back in March, we now have a first look at the film’s official poster which you can view below. Leaving his Irish monastery for the first time, a young novice (Holland) departs with a devoted group of monks and a mysterious former Crusader (Bernthal) as they attempt to transport a holy relic to Rome. Threatened at every turn by savage tribes, traitorous Norman soldiers and those that seek the power they believe the relic holds, the young man finds surprising courage while faced with deadly challenges that will push his body, mind and spirit to the breaking point. Richard Armitage, Tom Holland and Jon Bernthal star along with John Lynch and Stanley Weber. Check out the poster immediately below as well as a set of images all courtesy […]

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Watch The Trailer For Yuhe Li’s Crime Comedy, ABSURD ACCIDENT

Taking on some of today’s bizzare headlines, director Yuhe Li chose the route of a black comedy as the template for his debut film, Absurd Accident. Having now garnered festival nominations from Shanghai and Macau, the film is now poised for more locations during its limited North American run as of May, as well as a spot in Brooklyn, New York’s Asian American International Film Festival which kicks off from July 26 through August 5. Bouncing with nail-biting suspense and ingenious humor, young Chinese filmmaker Li Yuhe’s feature debut portrays a puzzling crime happened in a rural small town, where greed, lust and wit battle it out in one night. It all starts from a sexually impotent motel owner hiring a pro to murder his cheating wife. Everything goes exactly as planned, until two blind daters, a robber, a policeman and a strange dead body unexpectedly arrive. Absurd Accident is executive […]

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EIFF 2017 Entry, ELITE FORCE: OPERATION MEKONG, Heads To UK DVD And VOD This July

After partaking in the current line-up at the Edinburgh International Film Festival through next month, CineAsia will be accomodating the UK home releases of Dante Lam’s award-winning action thriller, Elite Force: Operation Mekong. The film is one of China’s highest all-time grossers of 2016 and is soon to be followed up by Lam’s upcoming Hong Kong thriller, Operation Red Sea which opens later this year. Following a sudden international crisis when Chinese commercial vessels are ambushed on the Mekong River, an elite team of narcotic officers are dispatched to the Golden Triangle region, on evidence the attack resulted from a notorious drug cartel operating in the area. Led by Captain Gao Gang (Zhang Hanyu), who partners with intelligence officer and undercover specialist Fang Xinwu (Eddie Peng), this team embarks on a death-defying mission to bring the ultimate takedown of a ruthless drug lord. With ferocious action direction from Tung Wai […]

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BOYKA: UNDISPUTED 4 Comes Home On August 1

Todor Chapkanov is the last person I think anyone would have expected to be attached to any of the Undisputed films following up from director Isaac Florentine’s work in recent memory. That being said, the trailers that have been circling online and early reviews of the new movie, Boyka: Undisputed 4, have been nothing short of approving following its out-of-phase release in Sweden and subsequent release in France this year. Well, North America is next on the rollout front and we have a brief new trailer from Universal Pictures to mark the occassion. The high-octane action series Undisputed is back with BOYKA: UNDISPUTED 4. Scott Adkins is Boyka, the most complete fighter in the world, a man looking for his shot to fight for a championship belt. After he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring, Boyka reaches out to the fallen opponent’s wife. But when the wife gets kidnapped […]

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Doug Liman To Helm Action Sci-Fi Drama Pilot, IMPULSE, For YouTube Red

Newly launched SVoD service YouTube Red is bringing Jumper to the small screen. For this, we turn to brewing developments of the new sci-action drama series, Impulse, based on the third book in Steven Gould’s Jumper novel series as YouTube Red looks to ramp up its line of programming, including sci-fi drama Lifeline from producer by Dwayne Johnson and Studio71, gaming comedy Good Game from producer Dan Harmon, and a Step Up reboot. Impulse will have its 2018 premiere on YouTube Red ahead of a series order with The Wall and Edge Of Tomorrow (a.k.a. Live.Die.Repeat.) helmer Doug Liman directing and executive producing. The hour long gender-bending pilot from Universal Cable Productions and studio-based Hypnotic is the first UCP series for YouTube, telling of Henry, a rebellious 16-year-old girl whose oddball standing from her peers often leaves her longing to venture away from her small town life. She eventually discovers […]

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GINTAMA Gets An International Trailer Ahead Of Its Singapore Release

Fukuda Yuichi’s live-action adaptation, Gintama, is primed for a July 14 theatrical release in Japan with a world premiere in tow at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal. It also helps that Encore Films will be releasing the film theatrically on August 3 and for this, we now have an English-subbed international version of the film’s first official trailer to bring further context for non-fluent types. From beetle hunting to the search for the world’s deadliest sword… Who said life as a yorozuya is easy?  After the aliens invaded and conquered Edo Japan, a prohibition on swords is established and the samurai are treated with disdain. Gintoki Sakata (Shun Oguri), a former samurai once feared as the “White Demon” in battle, now operates an odd jobs house with his friends Shinpachi Shimura (Masaki Suda) and Kagura (Kanna Hashimoto).   One day, Gintoki receives a job request from a swordsmith […]

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THE HIT LIST: June 26, 2017

Well guys, my hiatus was a brief but fair one. It was a necessary breather to help recoup from the workload and best part about all this is that people are still creating! So yeah, that’s a nice thing to come back to. That’s what The Hit List is for and I’ve found (and have also been sent) some GREAT stuff to share this week. It’s also a lot to unpack so without further ado, the stunt reels are up first as always and we begin with Amy Sturdivant‘s most recent Vimeo upload. I meant to share hers before going on break but YouTube parameters were a factor and Vimeo was the only option left. So, better late than never, and with a demo reel as substantive as this being all the more reason worth sharing. Following that is a playlist ripe with awesome stunt and action demos by Francis […]

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THE ACCOUNTANT Calculates Sequel Prospects At Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Warner Bros. is reportedly advancing director Gavin O’Connor’s latest action drama, The Accountant, with a sequel. O’Connor along with screenwriter Bill Dubuque and starring actor Ben Affleck are at the table in talks as well as producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Mark Williams for a continuation of the intial film that could see the return of actor Jon Bernthal. The first film saw Affleck in title character, Christian, an autistic from childhood who is subsequently acclimated to his father’s miltary and psychological training and grows up as a mathematical prodigy. Operating nimbly under the watchful eye of the governement as a forensic accountant for criminals, his latest assignment at a Robotics firm leads to a series of deadly twists that eventually put him face to face in a violent reunion with his long lost brother, Braxton, played by Bernthal. The Accountant grossed just over $155 million dollars for […]

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Tom Paton’s BLACK SITE Casts Its Heroine And Supervillain

Production is already underway for Pandorica helmer Tom Paton’s third feature film, Black Site. For this, news of actor Mike Beckingham’s casting now precedes this week’s breaking news of its official casting of actress Samantha Schnitzler (TV series 50 Ways To Kill Your Lover!, upcoming feature film Darkness Wakes) Black Site hails from AirPick Pictures and Tom Paton Film and is described as a mix of elements from The Raid and the vision of H.P. Lovecraft. Schnitzler, who shares stunt credits on Scott Derrickson’s Marvel adaptation, Doctor Strange, will play the film’s central protaginist, Ren Reid, a member of an organization known as Artemis which detains and deports rogue members of a species known as Elder Gods. The film sets itself twenty years after the murder of Reid’s parents, wherein Artemis finally captures Erebus, the Elder God responsible only to face a new threat when its worshippers attempt to free their deity from […]

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Marvel’s THE INHUMANS Presents A New IMAX Poster, Affirms TV Premiere Date

September will be one of at least two Fall bookmarks for moviegoers and TV viewers keeping up with all things Marvel. For those explicitly following Marvel’s The Inhumans however, the ABC television series has been officially slated to air two back-to-back episodes on September 29 between 8:00pm and 10:00pm EST. Marvel’s Inhumans explores the never-before-told epic adventure of the royal family including Black Bolt, played by Anson Mount, the enigmatic, commanding King of the Inhumans, with a voice so powerful that the slightest whisper can destroy a city. After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where they are greeted with surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them. Now they must find a way to reunite with each other and return to their home before their way of life is destroyed forever. (Deadline) The announcement comes following a […]

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More Ghoul Action And Suspense In Two New Promos For TOKYO GHOUL

Hagiwara Kentaro’s latest IP adaptation, Tokyo Ghoul, is still on deck for a Japan release on July 29. With its Anime Expo premiere pending it’s worthwhile to consider the prospects of a U.S. release anyday now and one that would be even more so for fans of the hit manga and subsequent anime. Actor Kubota Masataka leads the cast of the film which tells of an ordinary college student who befalls the ills of a near-death transformation to a half-human “ghoul”, stumbling into a hidden world of other monsters where epic battles await. Rounding out the cast are Shimizu Fumika, Aoi Yu, Suzuki Nobuyuki and Oizumi Yo. Check out the new minute-long and 30-second promo from Shochiku.

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PARADOX Gets An August Hong Kong Release

PARADOX Gets An August Hong Kong Release

There’s nothing new in the latest trailer for Wilson Yip’s upcoming crime thriller, Paradox, although save for a release date in Hong Kong now stamped for August 25. You get Louis Koo, Tony Jaa, Wu Yue and Chris Collins among the roster along with action director Sammo Hung on board designating all available means of screenfighting brutality surrounding a story that poses more than meets the eye. Hong Kong cop Lee (Louis Koo) goes on a search in Thailand for his missing daughter Chi (Hanna Chan). Thai Chinese police officer Chui Kit (Wu Yue) lets Lee join the investigation, having no idea that Lee is going to use the mass media to hunt for clues.  A short clip which accidentally filmed Chi’s capture is uploaded to the police website, but subsequently deleted. Chui Kit and colleague Tak (Tony Jaa) tracks down the clip owner, but the evidence is destroyed before […]

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THE FOREIGNER: Jackie Chan Menaces With A Vengeance In The First Official Trailer

Taking a rare pivot from the usual family-friendly tone of a Jackie Chan film, the mood can be both seen and felt in the official teaser trailer for upcoming action thriller, The Foreigner. Casino Royale helmer Martin Campbell is certainly tapping into the dark and gritty millieu here, and it’s an appropriate fit for a brooding revenge film that has the honorary Oscar-winning action star leading the cast. The Foreigner takes its cues from Stephen Leather’s 1992 novel and with none other than Chan starring as a London restaurant owner who reverts to his former skillset accrued in his dark past when the justice system fails him in an IRA terrorist attack that kills his daughter. Chan stars opposite Pierce Brosnan in their first appearance together on screen with Liu Tao and Katie Leung also starring. The Foreigner will release throughout Asia in September with a U.S. release in tow […]

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