Television

Arrow Video Channel Slays With GRAVEYARD OF HONOR (’75/’02), CRYSTAL EYES, THE HOLY RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES And More In September

Subscribers of the Arrow Video Channel can expect to make an absolute killing this September with its forthcoming arrivals. The subscription-based network launched its newest press release this week announcing the additions of such titles as horror classic Return Of The Killer Tomatoes, teen thriller Heathers and Argentinian giallo homage Crystal Eyes, as well as Kinji Fukasaku’s Graveyard of Honor, and Takashi Miike’s 2002 remake, and many more listed in the ‘seasons’ section. Crystal Eyes, Fukasaku’s Graveyard of Honor (1975), and Graveyard of Honor (2002) will be available September 1st on the Arrow Video Channel in the US and the UK. Read on below, and subscribe to the Arrow Video Channel through Apple TV in the U.S. or U.K., or on Amazon U.K.. September Additions: Crystal Eyes (UK/US) Exclusive Ivansxtc (UK/US) Exclusive Graveyard of Honor (1975) (UK/US) Graveyard of Honor (2002) (UK/US) The Holy Mountain (UK) Exclusive Fando Y Lis […]

WARRIOR: Cinemax’s Hit Series Has Some Unfinished Business In Season Two This October

Lee B. Golden III

As gutting as it was when many of us learned that Cinemax would be axing its original programming from its slate, it was a pill we all had to swallow. The good news, however, is that while Gangs Of London has a new home, the HBO network subsidiary is still taking to fans of their hit series, Warrior, with the promise of a TV and MaxGo.com October premiere date for the second season. Here’s the gist of it: The series follows Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances. After proving his worth as a fighter, Ah Sahm becomes a hatchet man for the Hop Wei, one of Chinatown’s most powerful Tongs (Chinese organized crime family). Season two follows rival Chinatown Tongs as they fight for dominance amidst the growing anti-Chinese fervor that threatens to destroy them all. Cinemax press […]

LUCIFER: Watch The All New Official Trailer For Season Five Of The Hit Series

Lee B. Golden III

Just when you thought it was all over at some point in the past year, Netflix found fruit in the prospective return of actor Tom Ellis and a deal that guarantees a promising new season of dark fantasy, action and tongue-in-cheek banter in the hit series, Lucifer. The official trailer is now online for the season five premiere slated for August 21 – 16 episodes to be split in half, reportedly – and you can check it out above. The show also stars Lauren German, Leslie Ann-Brandt, Kevin Alejandro, D.B. Woodside, Rachel Harris, Aimee Garcia and Tricia Helfer.

THE BATMAN Is Getting An HBO Max Spin-Off Series From Matt Reeves

Lee B. Golden III

HBO Max is readying yet another addition to the collection of spin-off shows in the Batman franchise. It doesn’t have a title yet, but Friday’s announcement from the streamer describes it as “an original DC drama set in the Gotham City police department”, set in the same universe as the upcoming film, The Batman, from director Matt Reeves. The groundbreaking television series to be written by Winter is set in the world Reeves is creating for The Batman feature film and will build upon the motion picture’s examination of the anatomy of corruption in Gotham City, ultimately launching a new Batman universe across multiple platforms. The series provides an unprecedented opportunity to extend the world established in the movie and further explore the myriad of compelling and complex characters of Gotham. This marks the first television project for Reeves under his recently announced overall deal with the Warner Bros. Television […]

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AMC Will Rule Gareth Evans’ GANGS OF LONDON In The U.S. This Fall, Will Co-Prod Season Two For 2022 Launch

Lee B. Golden III

Sky series Gangs Of London is currently slated for a summer Digital, Blu-Ray and DVD release in the U.K. as reported a few days ago, but the show isn’t done making headlines this week. The hit crime series, about the son of a gangster who vows retribution amidst the turmoil and upheaval within London’s seedy criminal and political underbelly, is now on par for a second season, and will be co-produced by AMC. The network has also acquired U.S. rights to broadcast the first season in a date to be announced for the Fall. Gangs Of London hails from Pulse Films and Sister Pictures, and is the brainchild of Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery, the respective director and cinematographer behind Indonesian action crime saga, The Raid and The Raid 2. It stars Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders), Sope Dirisu (Humans), Colm Meaney (Layer Cake), Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones) and Lucian […]

STAN LEE’S SUPERHERO KINDERGARTEN: Kartoon Channel Series Launches Genius Brands Partnership With Arnold Schwarzenegger

Lee B. Golden III

Genius Brands International, Inc. signaled Monday’s launch of Kartoon Channel with a sneak peek at upcoming animated series, Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten. Attached to the news is the addition of actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who will star in the series, has officially entered an agreement with the company as a significant investor, earning him a co-producer credit on the series through his Oak Productions banner. Genius Brands Chairman & CEO, Andy Heyward took to the outlets on Monday in a press letter stating the actor will be compensated through his ongoing partnership with the company. Citing Schwarnegger’s longstanding friendship with late Marvel Comics patriarch, Stan Lee, as well as the actor’s immense social media following across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as an influencer, Heyward adds the following: “This, added to the millions of Stan Lee followers, puts rocket fuel in our Genius Brands’ tanks, and it would […]

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UPGRADE: Leigh Whannell’s Explosive Sci-Fi Action Horror Lands A TV Sequel Series

Lee B. Golden III

Leigh Whannell’s 2018 Blumhouse-produced hit sci-fi action thriller, Upgrade, is officially headed for television. Whannell directed the SXSW Audience Award-winner, which centers on a tetraplegic imbued with STEM, an advanced A.I. tech that enables him to physically carry out his own campaign against the four supersoldiers that injured him and killed his wife, only to put him face to face with an even more nefarious conspirator. As Deadline‘s own Nellie Andreeva exclusively reports, Whannell, fresh off directing a reboot of The Invisible Man for Universal Pictures, is returning to direct the series, on which he will serve as co-creator and executive producer with Tim Walsh (Treadstone). Per the report, Upgrade, in its series form “picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host – imagining a world in which the government repurposes STEM to […]

GANGS OF LONDON: British Gangland Retribution Commences In The Official Series Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

The bell has officially rung as of Wednesday for Sky Original series, Gangs Of London. The series marks the latest foray for filmmaker Gareth Evans (Apostle) since his cult ascension among the action fandom proliferating then-burgeoning star Iko Uwais ten years ago. Evans is rejoined by noted cinematographer Matt Flannery, both who created the nine-part action drama which centers on a young crime org heir who sets out to restore order among the gangs while hunting his father’s mysterious killer. Joe Cole stars along with Sope Dirisu, Colm Meaney, Lucian Msamati and Michelle Fairley. Gangs Of London was also directed by Evans next to Xavier Gens and Corin Hardy, and was produced by Pulse Films in association with Sister. A release date remains pending while Sky is rolling out an official trailer for the action-packed series that shows in lucid, brutal fashion that Evans hasn’t lost his knack for delivering […]

ALTERED CARBON: Anthony Mackie Foreshadows Chasing Ghosts In The First Season Two Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

I caught a little something this morning about this Kickstarter for an Altered Carbon RPG. I’m not the type for these but you’re welcome to take a look, and with no better timing than the arrival of the first season two teaser trailer for the hit Netflix series based on the novel that launched the IP into sci-fi drama popularity. Altered Carbon takes place over 300 years in the future in a society transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent. Season Two of the sophisticated and compelling sci-fi drama finds Takeshi Kovacs (Anthony Mackie), the lone surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors, continuing his centuries old quest to find his lost love Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry). After decades of planet-hopping and searching the galaxy, Kovacs finds himself recruited back to his home planet of Harlan’s World […]

ONE PIECE Manga Lands Ten-Episode Live-Action Series At Netflix

Lee B. Golden III

A ten-episode live-action rendition of One Piece found a new home at Netflix on Wednesday according to trade news and a press announcement from the streamer. The news comes following word that broke in July of 2017 that a live-action series was in the works from Shueisha, and Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios, the same company involved with the current serial production of Cowboy Bebop – also for the streamer. A multitude of adventures outline One Piece which took off as a hit manga beginning in 1997. The franchise expanded itself greatly into television and original video animes with its story centered on Monkey D. Luffy and his epic, action-packed and sprawling quest to find said ‘piece’ and claim the title of “King Of The Pirates”. The manga has sold over 460 million copies in its nearing 23-year history, birthed from author/creator Eiichiro Oda who took to Twitter for a statement […]

HBO Max Head Signals End Of Original Content Production For Cinemax

Lee B. Golden III

A new report at Deadline on Wednesday cites HBO Max Chief Content Officer who told the crowd at this year’s Television Critics Association that Cinemax would not be producing any more original content. The word is also that original shows already on Cinemax would not be carried over to the new SVOD service which officially announced part of its slate and pricing late last year. Set in 1870s San Francisco, Warrior debuted last April, shepherded by exec producers Shannon Lee and co-creators Justin Lin, Jonathan Tropper and Danielle Woodrow, and starring Andrew Koji (upcoming Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins) as a gifted fighter whose efforts to reunite with his long lost sister find him deep in San Francisco’s Tong criminal underbelly as a Hop Wei hatchetman in order to survive. A second season was made official in June and was also filmed and wrapped with Joe Taslim and Dustin Nguyen […]

V WARS Series Trailer: The Vampires Are Coming!

Lee B. Golden III

William Lauren and Glenn Davis are taking their cues from the work of author Jonathan Maberry with action horror sci-fi, V Wars. All ten episodes are set to premiere on December 5 on Netflix from whom we now take a gander at the first series trailer. Dr. Luther Swann (Ian Somerhalder) enters a world of untold horror when a mysterious disease transforms his best friend, Michael Fayne (Adrian Holmes), into a murderous predator who feeds on other humans. As the disease spreads and more people are transformed, society fractures into opposing camps pitting normal people against the growing number of these “vampires.” Swann races against time to understand what’s happening, while Fayne rises to become the powerful underground leader of the vampires.

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KUNG FU Takes Shape At The CW

Lee B. Golden III

Years and years after numerous shortfallen efforts to revive classic zen action drama IP, Kung Fu, it now looks as if The CW will get a handle on things for a change. Trade news now reports a change over from Fox to its new home and with a new team on board to oversee its televised development. The hour-long female-centric action drama will center on a young adult Chinese-American college dropout whose quarterlife crisis sends her backpacking on a journey of self-discovery before arriving to an isolated monastery in China. She arrives home only to find her hometown overrun with crime and corruption, compelling her to apply her Shaolin training and values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice. Soon, she realizes her actions have made her a target by the person she’s looking for – the killer she suspects murdered her Shaolin mentor. Quinn’s House Production Company’s […]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: HBO Lines Up New ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel For Its Streaming Service

Lee B. Golden III

Not gonna lie. My work schedule made it difficult to keep up with Game Of Thrones all these years and so the likelihood of avoiding passing spoilerific mentions of it will be about as imminent as my next breath. Gladly enough the show has been immortalized as a global hit and so the fans are definitely in for more medieval fantasy action and adventure though as HBO has finalized ten-episode straight-to-series order, House Of The Dragon. The show is based on Game Of Thrones author and patriarch George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood”, which sets 300 years back before the events of Game of Thrones, and is centered on the story of House Targaryen. The news comes following news of a cancelled seperate prequel that was greenlit last June with Naomi Watts set to star. Post-production seems to be at the center of the difficulty. As announced at WarnerMedia Day […]

WALKER: TEXAS RANGER Sequel Series Moves Forward At The CW

Lee B. Golden III

Actor Jared Padalecki is officially set to forward with a follow-up series to CBS’ original action drama, Walker: Texas Ranger. The new series will broadcast on the CW in Padalecki’s latest career succession following fifteen seasons of the hit drama, Supernatural. The new series centers on Padalecki in the role of Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code. Upon returning home to Austin after two years undercover, he discovers harder work to come in reconnecting with his children, navigating clashes with his conservative family, and finding unexpected common ground with his new partner – one of the first women in Texas Rangers’ history. As the show moves forward, he grows increasingly suspicious about the circumstances surrounding his wife’s death. Walker: Texas Ranger launched in 1993 and became a Chuck Norris brand that also grew into a TV movie. The reboot is written/executive produced by […]

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Your A-To-Z Guide To Zombies

Christina Ortega

The month of October is synonymous with Halloween which is synonymous with hot cider, corn mazes, scary movies, and murder. You know, normal fall stuff. Often featured in these scary tales are the creatures known as zombies. But they’re not all the same. Don’t believe me? Keep reading. Let me present to you, your A to Z guide to zombies: Alice in Zombieland One of my favorite things to try is retellings, especially retellings of Alice in Wonderland. This series, White Rabbit Chronicles, is written by Gina Showalter and the first book is called Alice in Zombieland. This version shows Alice as she tries to avenge her family and becomes a zombie slayer. Badass Zombie Killers This is a great card game for two to six players. The game sounds simple enough: you put together a badass weapon to fight off the zombies. And I’m not talking about a chainsaw: […]

INVISIBLE CITY Begins Filming

Christina Ortega

Brazilian folklore stories will be coming to the small screen in an upcoming Netflix original series. Invisible City has begun production in Brazil. This series will be director Carlos Saldanha’s Netflix debut. Saldanha’s first live-action series will “take Brazilian folklore stories to the world under a contemporary perspective.” Here is the synopsis from a media release: After finding a strange dead animal on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, the policeman engages in a secret murder investigation and finds himself in the middle of a battle between two worlds – ours, as we know it, and another inhabited by mythical entities, invisible to humans. The cast includes Marco Pigossi as a detective and Alessandra Negrini as the owner of a nightclub. Caito Ortiz, Maresa Pullman, and Marco Anton are the executive producers with Mirna Nogueira as the head writer. Invisible City will be available only on Netflix in 2020. Stay […]

CBS’s WALKER: TEXAS RANGER Reboot Circles ‘Supernatural’ Star

Lee B. Golden III

With popular features like the Missing In Action trilogy, The Delta Force 1 and 2 among others in his wake, it was in 1993 when martial arts star Chuck Norris brought the hits to television with hit series, Walker: Texas Ranger. The show ran eight seasons from 1993 through 2001 with Norris delivering on screen with Walker’s own brand of justice, along with his own initial theme song composed by Tirk Wilder to boot. Fast forward to 2019 with CW series, Supernatural, well on its way to an end after fifteen seasons and apparently whose own Jared Padalecki is poised to star in a Walker: Texas Ranger television reboot according to the trades reporting on Monday. As a follow-up report from Variety notes, network attachment hasn’t been found yet as Padalecki makes his segue into potentially filling the shoes of a well known martial arts hero to many; Nellie Andreeva […]

Toggle Original Series THE DRIVER Trailer Teases A Screaming Mad Sunny Pang And Fistfuls Of Vengeance

Lee B. Golden III

The fact that actor Sunny Pang (Headshot, The Night Comes For Us) is out there, giving the world hell as one of the baddest cinematic baddies who ever lived is something that truly warms my cockles. That he’s one of the coolest dudes I’ve known in real life is an absolute plus, on top of being a fan of his work, which brings me to the time I’ve spent since last year wondering just what the heck The Driver is. Welp, now we have an answer with Golden Bell Award-winning actor Kaiser Chuang (Who Killed Cock Robin) leading the cast for the new series. Clocked in at around 11 one-hour episodes, The Driver centers on Jianyi, a former mob enforcer whose decision to leave the criminal life behind results in an already sealed fate. After avenging his family’s murder, he relocates to Singapore to find redemption, taking jobs as a […]

INVISIBLE MONSTERS To Become A Series

Christina Ortega

You might know the name Chuck Palahniuk as the author of the books Fight Club and Choke were based on. But now one of his novels is being adapted for TV. Invisible Monsters, published in 1999, has been optioned by Fabrik Entertainment. Jennifer Yale will be adapting the novel. Yale has written for Outlander, Legion, and Dexter. The executive producers will be Henrik Bastin and Melissa Aouate, the CEO and President of Fabrik respectively. In a statement, Bastin and Aouate said, “We are delighted to bring to life a book that has moved readers and built a devoted global following over the past two decades. This thrilling novel offers a rare combination of rich character work and shocking revelations that only Palahniuk can deliver, and in Jennifer Yale’s talented hands we are confident this will be an engaging, cinematic experience that will be sure to grab attention and make headlines.” […]