Coming from the team that brought you Spanish action hit Xtreme is the new sci-fi action thriller Awareness, now headed to Prime Video from director Daniel Benmayor following his recent goings-on with Netflix series, Welcome To Eden. Benmayor and Xtremo partner Ivan Ledesma penned the script, with Genaro Rodriguez serving up the action once more.
It’s been a bit since I managed to catch up with Jed Mercurio’s political espionage thriller series, Bodyguard. That was my intro to Richard Madden in the wake of Priyanka Chopra Jonas’ success with hit series, Quantico, so it’s easy to see the package deal that both actors now offer as the official trailer for Amazon Prime’s April 28 launch of new series, Citadel is now online following a brief delay.
Sales agent LevelFILM was out and about back in 2019 hitting festival floors with Jovanka Vukovic’s coming-of-age thriller romp, Riot Girls. I hadn’t heard or seen from the film ever since but I’ve only just discovered its availability on Amazon Prime here in the U.S. and its worth a watch for anyone curious.
Jason Moore’s long-awaited action comedy, Shotgun Wedding, will release on Amazon Prime from January 27. Lionsgate is releasing the film in multiple territories outside the U.S..
It’s a damn good day to be a Reacher fan as production on the second season of the hit Amazon series is now underway. Even lead actor Alan Ritchson took the mantle on Friday to host the festivities in bigger-than-big fashion through his Instagram page:
It was last November when the long-gestating remake of 1989 United Artists action thriller, Road House, managed to set actor Jake Gyllenhaal and director Doug Liman together on the project. As of Tuesday, the film, once designated for MGM, is now home at Prime Video with additional casting info announcing Billy Magnussen, Daniela Melchior, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Lukas Gage.
Sylvester Stallone’s got quite a bit going on this year. He’s got a remake of a hit Korean thriller in the works as well as a new series making headway at Paramount+ later this year, and he’s also got a new role of his own now in superheroic form with upcoming action adventure, Samaritan.
The latest report from Variety‘s John Hopewell brings word that Amazon’s Prime Video platform which will now also be host to its own Zorro series starring Miguel Bernardeau (Netflix series “Elite”) in the title role, and Mexican actress Renata Notni (Netflix’s “El Dragón: Return of a Warrior”).
Actor Chris Pratt’s fruitful dealings of late with Amazon’s Prime Video service following sci-fi actioner, The Tomorrow War, continues with a first look still at Pratt in action for Amazon Original series The Terminal List.
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As I’ve discussed before here at Film Combat Syndicate, the thriving South Indian film scene has become a major boon to worldwide streaming video providers like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Both juggernauts have begun to feature more and more content from this region and it has proven to be such a winning formula that both are now licensing exclusive rights to films and television shows from there that range from small independent productions to large scale action-packed blockbusters.
Creator Eric Kripke’s 2019 live-action serial comic adaptation, The Boys, was a superb hit in many of its parts, drawing together an interwoven tale of ragtag outlaws out to uncover the dark side of superheroism in all its corporatized glory and idolatry.
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