LOVE & WAR Wages Online In The Premiere For Amy Johnston’s Killer New Action Rom-Com Short
Starring Amy Johnston and Seth Austin
Amy Johnston
Shorts Watch: Trailers For LOVE & WAR, TACO TUESDAY, And NIGHT SHIFT
There’s a trio of shorts currently heeding my attention in the past week and I have some promo assets available for all three!… First up is the kind of action romance romp you might expect in Love & War, directed by Amy Johnston who stars along with Seth Allyn Austin. Here, the two play lonely assassins who find each other on a dating app, and on the run from the hitmen and women hired to kill them both. The project was written by Sean Crayne who recently unveiled the first official poster for his latest directing effort, Pay Homage, which also stars Johnston. The second comes from Adante Watts with a project I literally stumbled upon via social media last week. For this, we get Taco Tuesday which tells of a suburban housewife who embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue her husband from captivity in time for their dinner […]
DAY LABOR Trailer: Migrants Fight For Survival Against Menacing Border Game Hunters
Director R. Ellis Frazier (Repeater) is now two-for-two this week, presenting a look at border crime thriller, Day Labor, which stars Roberto Sanchez, Louis Mandylor and Amy Johnston, and with actor Corin Nemec voicing over exactly the kind of seething villain that feels so prevalent and timely as the film does in whole. The narration definitely doesn’t let up on the ugliness. A Latino American veteran who seeks work as a day laborer in order to keep his family afloat. A regular day turns into a deadly game of survival when he is mistakenly dropped off at a private ranch in El Paso, Texas to be hunted for sport. Also starring are Kevin Gage, David Fernandez Jr., Denitza Garcia, Megan Henry, Armando Zamarripa and Gary Cairns. The film is produced by David Wach and Ojan Missaghi whose Toric Films will be present at the upcoming Cannes Film Market for buyers.
THE HIT LIST: November 11, 2019
I would’ve posted an Instagram teaser on Sunday evening for the Hit List, but I definitely needed time to recuperate from Saturday evening. Needless to say, it was a blast from the Far East. Now it’s time to blast back into another installment of The Hit List, starting with a new round of stunt reels from today’s working professionals and up-and-comers: Christine Trinh, Rebecca Ferguson, Martin Wan, Nicklas Hansson, Omar Zaki, Judd Wild, Wilson Sze, Jeska Pike, Jessie Simpson, Ed Heavey, Mariam Macip, Alexandra Hansler, Line Phe, Michelle Andrews, Erin Haus, Jesse Haus and Garrett Dumas. Rounding out the playlist are stunt Ann Arbor’s own Ring Of Steel Action Theatre in Michigan, and reels by stunt coordinators Ian Eyre and T.J. White. In about two weeks we’ll be sharing a teaser for an upcoming Mortal Kombat fanfilm from the fantastic minds over at Barilliant Action. For now, I get to […]
IRON FISTS AND KUNG FU KICKS Trailer: Serge Ou’s New Martial Arts Cinema Doc To Screen For The 67th MIFF
The 67th Melbourne International Film Festival kicks off on August 1 with a versatile line-up of titles, several of which are making the rounds in other fests as we speak. This no less extends to prolific documentary filmmaker and producer Serge Ou who sits at the helm for the world premiere of Iron Fists And Kung Fu Kicks, thanks in key part to the festival’s MIFF Premiere Fund. From Hong Kong to Hollywood, the Shaw Brothers to The Matrix, iron fists and kung fu kicks have been busting box offices and breaking barriers since the 1960s. This is the wild story of how the way of the dragon became a global phenomenon. Veronica Fury (Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, MIFF Premiere Fund 2014) serves as producer with XYZ Films’ Nate Bolotin and Todd Brown exec producing. Host to classic clips of kung fu cinema yesteryear with […]
THE HIT LIST: April 29, 2019
I’m not even halfway done with the stuff I need to get finished with but it’s been two weeks and so it’s definite time for another installment of the Hit List to help keep things kinetic and moving for our devoted stunt talents out there. Actor Rob Mars is up first in the first playlist, comprised of the usual action acting, stunt performance and demo reels from some of today’s best and brightest, and in Mars’ case, pretty damn hard hitting! The playlist continues onward with entries by Xavier Luo, Rebecca Ferguson, Daniel Himschoot, Claire Hoogenboom, Danny Rivera, Elodie Pretorious, Timothy Flood, Jose Rodriguez, Amy Schumacher, Chad Mason, Holly Dowell, Cameron Tubbs, Lauren Okadigbo, James Ortiz, Ermias Baraki, Carin Nateal, Michael Blouin, Chelsea Goldsmith, James Procelli, Jisaura Cardinale and stunt coordinator Ken Quinn. We’ve also got some trailer stuff’n things to share, first of which you can already read more […]
ACCIDENT MAN Is The Quintessential Scott Adkins Action Movie (Reprint)
Martial arts fandom persists with the help of flourishing successes in film and TV. Direct-to-video releases, an underdog portion of the current market, sputters due no less to the profusion of torrents but nevertheless remains tenacious in its stability for fans and consumers. It’s an endurance that keeps burgeoning actors like UK martial artist and fan favorite, Scott Adkins, relevant long enough to see progress on more than one front in the last twenty years as he has been. Indeed, twenty years is a long time for anyone to put their physicality and well-being through the blender to maintain peak screenfighting athleticism, and all while forseeing prospects in a field where the likes of celebrated crossover stars such as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, and the emerging crop of stunt and film talent from around the internet, have all brought to question the legitimacy of growing stunt professionals into principal […]
OPTION ZERO Spotlights The Moral Quandry Of Heroism With Pulsating Action And Drama (Reprint)
We last learned that director R.L. Scott has been in the making for his most recent efforts on superhero thriller, Lazarus, which is one of at least two titles made known to us. He hasn’t been on social media since last summer and we haven’t heard much thereafter so it’s safe to say he might have a lot on his plate for his independent endeavors. Going forward however, we can at least share some progress being made on at least one other project we reported on back in 2014 which was initially designated as the pilot of a hopeful series. Per the nature of most non-mainstream projects left shelved or incomplete or falling by the wayside, Option Zero was in danger of almost never seeing the light of day until co-star and creator, executive producer Eliver Ling took the post-production reigns in late 2017. Hence, while the wait continues for […]
ACCIDENT MAN: Catch Actress Amy Johnston’s Livestream Commentary
On Saturday, actress Amy Johnston and fianceé Zac Morris took to her YouTube channel to showcase a livestream commentary of Jesse Johnson’s hit comic book adaptation, Accident Man. The film became a hit earlier this year standing as one of a raft of prospective titles from the Adkins/Johnson duo in which Johnston portrays Jane The Ripper, one of the members of a hitman outfit housed at a pub called the Oasis, owned and operated by Big Ray (Ray Stevenson). The film is still available on VoD and DVD wherever movies are sold if you haven’t seen it yet, so by all means, get your copy and support Johnston’s next hopeful endeavors, as well as that of Adkins and the remaining cast and crew.
THE HIT LIST: April 16, 2018
I’m pondering taking next weekend off for the Hit List. As it stands I have a few screeners that need screening and reviewing and I haven’t at all had the time for them. Plus, a little extra time for myself would be spiffy. L to R (top): Adele Elasmar, Marrese Crump, Amber Lamarca, Troy Butler, Amy Johnston L to R (bottom): Noel Schefflin, Monique Ganderton, John Wood, Niahlah Hope, Timothy Eulich Of course, all that could change depending on the content of the coming week and if it’s too good to hold back, you can expect another entry online stunts and hits. For now, its the 16th of April and back hand-springing in her element is stuntwoman Niahlah Hope for the inaugural reel of this week’s stunt playlist. Rounding it all out are reels by Max Laferriere, Thaddeus McQueen, John Wood, Amber Lamarca, Ivan Kasnyov, Nakamura Koji, Bryan Dodds, Beni […]
Review: OPTION ZERO Spotlights The Moral Quandry Of Heroism With Pulsating Action And Drama
We last learned that director R.L. Scott has been in the making for his most recent efforts on superhero thriller, Lazarus, which is one of at least two titles made known to us. He hasn’t been on social media since last summer and we haven’t heard much thereafter so it’s safe to say he might have a lot on his plate for his independent endeavors. Going forward however, we can at least share some progress being made on at least one other project we reported on back in 2014 which was initially designated as the pilot of a hopeful series. Per the nature of most non-mainstream projects left shelved or incomplete or falling by the wayside, Option Zero was in danger of almost never seeing the light of day until co-star and creator, executive producer Eliver Ling took the post-production reigns in late 2017. Hence, while the wait continues for […]
STILL FOLLOWING THE PATH: Amy Johnston Talks ‘Accident Man’, Epic Rival And The Providence Of Independent Film
Actress and martial arts star Amy Johnston is currently celebrating the release of her latest big milestone, the Jesse Johnson-directed Accident Man. The film marks another in a tasty handful of prominent movie roles for the actress who began training since the age of six with a love of her own for cinema before officially taking off several years ago in stunts and action acting, and gladly landing in our sites for a first interview in 2013. Accident Man entails her portrayal of Jane The Ripper in the new adaptation of the British comic from Pat Mills. Having filmed only a handful of scenes, the film unquestionably makes sure to take the actress’s talents to the business end of the lens along with her acting caliber, and Johnston herself couldn’t have been happier upon joining the film in 2016 when Johnson approached her. “After reading the script of Accident Man, […]
SAVAGE RESOLVE: An Interview With Stuntman And Filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson
From left to right: Scott Adkins, Jesse V. Johnson and Marko Zaror on the set of SAVAGE DOG (2017) Back in the early two-thousandsies, my DVD purchase of director Jesse V. Johnson’s Pit Fighter was certainly a blind-buy for me. What attracted me the most, of course, was the appearance of actor and martial artist Dominique Vandenberg on the cover and having especially noticed him delivering a barrage of kicks as the Outworld minion who gets smashed after Sub-Zero gives spectators the infamous “taste of things to come” in the 1995 feature, Mortal Kombat, I pretty much thought I’d give it a shot. The film’s delivery earned a mix of reviews on the now-defunct HKFlix.com whereas my own opinion of the film was half-and-half. My own tastes were evolving so I didn’t appreicate it as much as I probably would now if I gave it a rewatch…and I’m not just […]
A Case For Better Action Movies: Jesse V. Johnson’s ACCIDENT MAN Is The Quintessential Scott Adkins Action Movie
Martial arts fandom persists with the help of flourishing successes in film and TV. Direct-to-video releases, an underdog portion of the current market, sputters due no less to the profusion of torrents but nevertheless remains tenacious in its stability for fans and consumers. It’s an endurance that keeps burgeoning actors like UK martial artist and fan favorite, Scott Adkins, relevant long enough to see progress on more than one front in the last twenty years as he has been. Indeed, twenty years is a long time for anyone to put their physicality and well-being through the blender to maintain peak screenfighting athleticism, and all while forseeing prospects in a field where the likes of celebrated crossover stars such as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, and the emerging crop of stunt and film talent from around the internet, have all brought to question the legitimacy of growing stunt professionals into principal […]
Revenge Is A Family Business In FEMALE FIGHT SQUAD With Amy Johnston This August
Lady Bloodfight herself, actress and martial artist Amy Johnston is back for another round with the forthcoming release of Miguel Ferrer’s action thriller, Female Fight Squad. Honing in on the appropriate niche this week is the latest trailer now online from Lionsgate Unlocked and you can now view it below. A former fighter (Amy Johnston) reluctantly returns to the life she abandoned in order to help her sister survive the sadistic world of illegal fighting and the maniac who runs it. Female Fight Squad is getting DVD/Walmart, Digital HD and On Demand release on August 8 from Lionsgate with Dolph Lundgren, Cortney Palm and Sean Farris also starring. Take a look below and stay tuned for pre-order info!
ACCIDENT MAN Tumbles Online In A New Production Still
As filmmaker Jesse Johnson nears his end with Asian ensemble thriller, Triple Threat, so continues the journey of another with his other of several Scott Adkins headliners, Accident Man. Actress Amy Johnston (Lady Bloodfight) shared a recent photo of herself and our protagonist in gravity-defying fashion which you can view below. There’s no telling of a release schedule just yet as the film is still in post-production. Adkins, opposite Johnston, stars in the title role inspired by the once popular British comic book of the same name, telling of a cavalier “cleaning” expert who sets out for vengeance when his beloved girlfriend is murdered. Also starring are Ashley Greene, Ray Stevenson, Ray Park and fellow Triple Threat co-star Michael Jai White from a script by Adkins who also produces, and writer/co-star Stu Small
[UPDATED] Amy Johnston Debut, LADY BLOODFIGHT, Scores Its Official North American Trailer
Kiss Of The Dragon helmer Chris Nahon’s latest action adventure, Lady Bloodfight, took quite the time from its elongated development as a loose female-centric sequel to the 1989 hit, Bloodsport, to a movie all its own. Such the shape it has taken now lends Hollywood stuntwoman and actress Amy Johnston her first major stab at a lead role with a bevy of female screenfighting talents showcasing stylish action sequences by Hung Yan Yan (Coweb [U.S. title: Ninja Masters]). SYNOPSIS: Jane is a beautiful but troubled American girl backpacking her way through Hong Kong. When she successfully fends off three thugs trying to rob her, she draws the attention of Shu, a Wudang champion, who is impressed by her raw street fighting abilities. Shu recruits Jane and trains her to fight in the vicious, all-female, underground martial arts tournament known as “The Kumite.” After months of rigorous preparation, Jane is ready […]
All-Female Fight Thriller, LADY BLOODFIGHT, Lands A U.S. Release Date
It’s an endeavor that has gone for several years now but Chris Nahon’s Lady Bloodfight is finally gearing up for a limited U.S. release from Vertical Entertainment on May 26. The film marks the starring feature debut of actress and stuntwoman Amy Johnston who has all but begun her career ascension into acting and prominently so with several prospects already in tow. Johnston leads from a script by Bey Logan and Judd Bloch which centers on a young backpacker in Asia whose fighting prowess becomes the central query for a martial arts master looking to train her for a deadly underground tournament. An international cast that includes Jenny Wu, Jet Tranter, Mayling Ng and Muriel Hoffman will also partake in the action-packed line up with fight scenes directed by none other than Hong Kong cinema legend Hung Yan Yan. Trailers are already circulating while filmgoers in Asia can purchase their […]
LADY BLOODFIGHT: Catch The New Trailer For Amy Johnston’s Feature Debut
Last November’s initial trailer for director Chris Nahon’s Lady Bloodfight was an ample serving of actress and martial artist Amy Johnston for her lead acting debut in a film. This week, however, we have a new trailer which is much more color-graded and shorter which still sells what it promises in Johnston’s latest turn as an American backpacker in Hong Kong whose fight for survival now extends in an all-female underground fighting tournament between rivaling masters and apprentices. Consequently in this regard, the film is already being pirated like crazy online following its theatrical run in parts of Asia so don’t be surprised if you see fanboys and hack writers claiming to have the exclusive bits on the film. Yes, those jokers exist. That said, hopefully there is still a breath of life left for proper releases in various territories including North America, which would be a great send-off for […]
Jesse V. Johnson’s Comic Book Adaptation, ACCIDENT MAN Confirms Its Roster With Martial Arts Star Scott Adkins Leading
The past few weeks have been brewing something under the radar in a modest effort to surprise action fans before several details about Jesse V. Johnson’s latest film, Accident Man, were leaked online via IMDb. At this point it pretty much makes the best sense to report it all know and thus, the latest trade news via Deadline confirms most of the suspected cast along with a few surprises as follows. And indeed, it is the man himself, Marvel’s Doctor Strange co-star Scott Adkins who took to his Facebook fanpage earlier on to tease the project as a lifelong passion inspired by one of his favorite comic book characters in which he has since been confirmed to star. Stu Small is penning the film, based on the property created by Pat Mills and Tony Skinner and launched in the U.K. through formerly existing publisher, Toxic!, which sees British martial arts and […]
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