COMING ATTRACTIONS: Twenty Six MORE Titles To Look Forward To In The New Year
Last week’s Coming Attractions piece was a lot to put together, but that didn’t prevent the rest of week from signaling other new titles set to arrive in the new year. Indeed though, I was working on a bonus post just for this sort of thing, although it’s a fresh new gathering and, that’s not to say all of these will open in the New Year. Plenty of what’s been listed below has yet to matriculate any further detail on production or release plans beyond what’s already available online; Films like Mission Cross 2 and Crash Land were just announced and Irish Dog only remains a listing on IMDb as of this article, while David Mackenzie’s Fuze and Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Geisha War, and Indonesia’s Bandit and The Golden Kujang actually have some movement. I did want to add Maria Tran and Takashi Hara’s Echo 8 sequels, Echo 8: Beyond and Echo 8: Five By Five, but they’re currently in post and will likely see festival stops before any actual commercial or streaming releases occur.
Check out the listing below, and as always, set your moviegoing schedule for 2026 accordingly!
Fuze – TBA: Coming this Spring from Roadside Attractions and Saban, David Mackenzie directs the story of a heist gone awry after an unexploded WWII bomb is unearthed at a construction site. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Sam Worthington star.
Geisha War – TBA: Yoshihiro Nishimura’s new Japanese action-horror sees rival bosses of Japanese Yakuza and American Mafia battle for control over historic brothel/Geisha street in Yoshiwara. Robert Rhine, Costas Mandylor, and Chuck Johnson star along with Yoshika Nishi, Kakeru Nijiwo, Arata Yamanaka, Shun Sugar, Yuya Ishikawa, Fujio Zama, and Tamao Sato.
The Bryce Lee Story – TBA: Arnold Lim directs Rickie Wang who leads the compelling story of a kid whose need for acceptance pushes him to finagle his classmates by claiming a direct DNA connection to martial arts and film legend, Bruce Lee.
The Mark – TBA: Tom Hopper plays a single father unwittingly thrust into a world of espionage in the new spy thriller, joining leading lady Jessica Alba for the Justin Chadwick-directed film.
Labyrinth – TBA: Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, the new thriller stars Mekhi Phifer, Chris Klein, Shane West, Tommy Flanagan, and Alexxis Lemire, and follows group of strangers who are brought together to be judged for their past transgressions in a facility where they must survive a gauntlet of deadly challenges.
Hazel: Revenge Is Sweet – TBA: From Seq 8 Studios and Scene 8 Studio, Vitex Paguirigan and Sarah Chang star in the Taiwan-set story of a transgender ex-soldier who assumes the identity of their late sister to investigate her death while battling their own past trauma. Directed by Vincent Soberano.
In The Grey – TBA: Starring Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza Gonzalez, and follows two extraction specialists who have to designate a route of escape for a senior female negotiator. Written and directed by Guy Ritchie, and currently in limbo since wrapping in the summer of 2023.
Invader – TBA: Starring Amy Acker, Todd Stashwick, Doug Jones and Kareem Grimes, Mike Caron directs from Tommy Walker script the story of a Christmas family gathering thay becomes a fight for survival when Diane’s family is stalked by her vengeful ex-husband, released after 20 years and determined to destroy them.
Without Remorse – TBA: Philip Lui Koon-Nam directs a reunion between Philip Ng and Andy On with a cast that also lists Tiger Chen and Chen Jing. Story details are nil except for a brief translated logline over at Baidu as of this post which reads “Are they rivals or enemies? Will they rise like flames against the wind or face the maze alone?”.
The Golden Kujang – TBA: Peppi Piona directs a cast led by Qausar Yudhana, Vin Bramasta, Barry Prima, Sugesta Handayani, and Egy Fedly. The new fantasy thriller follows the story of a rift between two warriors over who is bestowed ownership of their martial arts school’s sacred symbol of honor.
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead – TBA: Zoran Lisinac and Domagoj Mazuran direct a cast led by Marco Ilsø for a propulsive dystopian tale set three centuries into the future where young Storm Riders dare to brave a colossal Storm that sets the terms for competitive racers. Think Mad Max meets Waterworld by way of Death Race.
Tio Choko: The Last Hope – TBA: Titularly played by Bruce Zelaya, the story follows a mysterious cowboy with a mustache enters a tournament to save the city. Filmatic’s Christian Briones is directing with Orlando Briones heading up cinematography.
Bandit – TBA: Starring Wafda Saifan, Roy Sungkono, and Claresta Taufan, Brian L. Tan directs a thriller about two friends down on their luck in Bali who decide to steal a car, only to make a gruesome discovery. Hunted by cops and gangsters alike, they have to evade their pursuers and escape from Bali before dawn.
The Beast – TBA: Joel Kinnaman and Samuel L. Jackson take on Renny Harlin’s direction with the story of the U.S. President’s fight to save America when a militia of unidentified hostiles coordinates a coup (likely not inspired by real events considering the orange muppet in charge these days).
The Pirate – TBA: This one’s not listed on IMDb yet as of this write up, but Deadline did cover it back in August, billed as The Raid on a pirate ship and a possible starring vehicle for Leitch to direct. Developing.
Mission: Cross 2 – TBA: Hwang Jung-min and Yum Jung-ah are back for a Netflix-bound sequel that follows the married respective ex-spec ops agent and detective pair on a whirlwind mission involving the retrieval of a stolen national treasure. Lee Myung-hoon directs the film Jung Man-sik, Cha Rae-hyung, and Lee Ho-cheol, Yoon Kyung-ho, Im Seong-jae, Cha In-pyo, and Kim Kuk-hee also starring. Filming.
Sierra Madre – TBA: Justin Chadwick’s new action thriller stars Kiefer Sutherland as a special forces captain forced to lead his men into full scale war with a violent cartel that’s invaded a small village in Mexico during a wedding.
Blade Of The Waning Kingdom – TBA: Chad Presley’s latest follows a Princess on a quest of self-discovery, guarded by a samurai in her journey to become a fierce warrior when the King is assassinated and she and her clan are marked for death. Vivian Lee stars along with Presley from a script they and scribes Yukiko A. Aizawa and Javier Navarrete wrote.
The Guardian – TBA: Jeong Jang-hwa’s long-awaited action thriller toplines Nam Woo-hyun to lead the story of a young man who risks everything to save his mother when she is kidnapped by a Korean gang in the Philippines. Park Eun-hye, Han Jae-suk, Kim Ok-joo, and others also star.
My Friend Is A Murderer – TBA: Ji Seung-hyun and Jung Hye-sung star in an action comedy from director Kim Hee-seong. The movie chronicles the last thirty days in which a man who struggles to keep a low profile in the quiet town where he’s lived in the fourteen years since accidentally killing someone, until the statute of limitations runs out.
Crash Land – Dempsey Bryk debut directs a coming-of-age stunt comedy starring Finn Wolfhard and Gabriel LaBelle in the story “about a group of small-town amateur stuntmen whose days revolve around drinking, antagonizing their community, and filming crude, Jackass-style stunts.”
Irish Dog – TBA: Info on this one seems dry at the moment, save for the citation of Jesse V. Johnson as writer and director. This one follows a London nightclub bouncer who reluctantly agrees to chaperone an old friend on a trip to Spain, only to find himself navigating a dangerous reunion of criminal power players, testing his resolve to leave his violent past behind. Seeing as it has a 2026 date for now, bookmark this one for sure.
Fast & Loose – TBA: Nearly a year since it was announced, this long delayed action thriller finally attached John Swab to direct the Will Smith action adventure about an amnesiac who wakes up in Tijuana and learns he’s been living two lives: one as a crime kingpin and the other as an undercover CIA agent.
One Last Fight – TBA: Announced in February, Isaac Florentine’s new martial arts thriller sets into Bangkok’s underground fighting circuit where a British ex-Muay Thai champ must fight to pull his family out from the stranglehold of a charismatic Nigerian gangster. The trades last reported Scott Adkins and Dimon Hounsou as the headliners.
Wind River: Rising – TBA: TV and film vet Kari Skogland is enlisted to shepherd a sequel to Taylor Sheridan’s wintery, scintillating 2017 Western noir, returning Gil Birmingham and Martin Sensmeier for the story of a newly-minted tracker U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service brought on to investigate a series of ritualistic murders, before finding himself embroiled in a desperate and dangerous fight between the authorities, a vigilante, and the Reserve he calls home.
Blood Passage – TBA: Featuring action by Sonny Sison, Pedring Lopez is at the helm of a martial arts vampire action horror feature set in Southeast Asia, and centers on a rescue mission gone wrong which pits a private military unit against relentless supernatural forces. Developing.
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