The latest break into the series format for action star Arnold Schwarzenegger now arrives in the form of Fubar, created by Nick Santora. The official trailer is here and for its Netflix launch set for May 25 with a cast that features actress Monica Barbaro as his double life-leading daughter per the show’s description:
The rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1980s is a thing of legend. After a highly successful bodybuilding career (and a not so successful film career) in the 70s, “Aunold” would break out onto the scene in a big way with 1982’s Conan the Barbarian. His ascension through the ranks of Hollywood was driven by the equally meteoric rise of action cinema in general. More than any other action star, Arnold was a brand unto himself; and with the 90’s fast approaching, he and the genre he now dominated were poised to take over the cinema landscape.
Nearly fourteen years in the making and through arduous production periods that finally gave director Oleg Stepchenko the first installment of his then-planned Viy trilogy in 2014, the second and long-awaited chapter has finally arrived stateside with Iron Mask (f.k.a. Viy 2 and Journey To China: Mystery Of The Iron Mask, among others).
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.
The last three Terminator films might have been a chore for fans and the producers and filmmakers involved in the saga.
Film multi-hyphenate and author Alexander Nevsky is currently in post production with upcoming period sports drama, Wild League from directors Andrey Bogatyrev and Art Camacho. There’s plenty of time to let that one simmer while fans who follow this site and others are welcome to take a gander at his latest book plug for authors George Snyder and Rick Wayne titled “Three More Reps! The Golden Age Of Bodybuilding”.
It’s been close to four years since Deadpool landed director Tim Miller on the radar for all comic-con and cult fandom. After choosing to move onto bigger-scale projects with the likes of James Cameron on board to produce a new Terminator movie for today’s audiences, it’s safe to say Miller has certainly found his calling.
Paramount Pictures has officially dated November 1 with the confirmed title, Terminator: Dark Fate, for Deadpool helmer Tim Miller. Natalia Reyes, Mackenzie Davis and Linda Hamilton lead the cast along with franchise mainstay Arnold Schwarzenegger, and actor Gabriel Luna rounding out the cast.
Kung Fury 2: The Movie is set in 1985, the best year ever. Miami is kept safe under the watchful eye of Kung Fury, the greatest damn cop of all time. His Thundercops are the ultimate police force assembled from across history to defeat the villainous Kung Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. After the tragic death of one of their members causes the group to disband, a mysterious villain emerges from the shadows to aid in the Fuhrer’s quest to attain the ultimate weapon. Kung Fury must travel through space and time to save his friends, defend the prestigious Miami Kung Fu Academy, and defeat evil once and for all.
For writer and director Oleg Stepchenko, the respective journeys toward completing 2014 fantasy epic, Viy, and its upcoming sequel, have both been arduous to say the least. Gladly having climbed over the hill now with the first film reigning in box office success, Stepchenko and the folks at Nashe Kino are looking to repeat their fruition for Russia/China co-production, Viy 2: Mystery Of The Dragon Seal heading to theaters this August.
The Russian Czar Peter the Great commissions Jonathan Green, an English traveller, to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire. Green sets off on yet another long journey, full of unbelievable adventures, which eventually leads him to China. On his way, the famous cartographer makes breath-taking discoveries, meets mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even Lun Van, the King of Dragons, himself. What could be more perilous than looking into the eyes of Viy? Only meeting him again… What will prevail this time — the unflinching scepticism of the scientist or ancient black magic, which has already gained influence over the Far East Lands?
Currently the second of a trilogy to be completed by next year, Stepchenko penned the script with scribes Dmitry Paltsev and Alexey Petrukhin for the return of actor Jason Flemyng back for the role of journeying cartographer Jonathan Green. The official trailer finally arrived as well and further teases an extra bit of fan service with a little fight scenery between action stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan (Around The World In 80 Days) who also serve as producers.
Rounding out the cast are Rutger Hauer and returning co-star Charles Dance, with Yuri Kolokolnikov, Vilen Babichev, Mikhail Mukhin, Xingtong Yao, Alexey Ogurtsov, Anna Churina, Pavel Volya. Watch the brand new trailer below!
The mega success of David Sandberg’s crowdfunded, stylish martial arts love letter to the 80’s Kung Fury, has opened the floodgates in fine form. The very shortfilm in question is the subject of the bustling news out of Berlin this week as Sandberg readies production on Kung Fury 2: The Movie with several big names attached, including that of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Hollywood Reporter notes.
The Maggie and Aftermath star is set to be joined by the newly added Michael Fassbender and David Hasselhoff with Sandberg directing as well as reprising in the title role. Sandberg is producing via his Laser Unicorns label with Fassbender next to It producers David Katzenberg, Seth Grahame-Smith at KatzSmith Productions with Aaron Schmidt. Also producing are Philip Westgren of B-Reel Films and Conor McCaughan with Pelle Strandberg executive producing on behalf of Laser Unicorns.
Taking its myriad cues from ultra-lit 1980s fantasy fervor, Sandberg leads the intial short as Kung Fury, a hard-edged Miami cop imbued with the powers of kung fu and forced to fight his way from the Viking Age and back to the future to kill Adolf Hitler once and for all. The sequel, Kung Fury 2: The Movie, sets in 1985 and sees our hero traveling time and space to reunite Miami’s ultimate police force, The Thundercops, and working through tragedy to save his friends and defend the prestigious Miami Kung Fu Academy from Adolf Hitler and the mystery villain aiding him.
Schwarzenegger is best known for contributing to some of the biggest and best action titles of the 80s and 90s. The actor and former California governor is also in tow with Oleg Stepchenko’s Journey To China, as well as forthcoming roles in Amazon shows The Legend Of Conan and Outrider, and Deadpool helmer Tim Miller’s forthcoming revival of the Terminator.
Production on Kung Fury 2: The Movie will set forth in the U.S. and Europe. Bloom is selling the film internationally at EFM.
Saban Films’s latest Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy headliner, Killing Gunther, is currently out in theaters. Home platforms are also about with a Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD release now slated for December 26.
I’ll be the last person to invest in any upheaval between filmmakers as much as those keen on what sci-fi auteur James Cameron has to say this week pertaining to Wonder Woman – except that I absolutely had fun seeing it this summer and I’m looking forward to the sequel. For this, we turn to more pertinent news regarding the current progress he’s now making with director Tim Miller on the future of the forthcoming Terminator trilogy finale.
Cameron is currently at the helm for a slate of Avatar sequels through 2025 but is also assisting Miller for the ambitious new Terminator trilogy starring actor Arnold Schwarzenegger whose title portrayal of the time-traveling cyborg killing machine from the future made him a household name between 1984 and 1991 with The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. He’ll be joined once again by actress Linda Hamilton who will reprise her role as Sarah Connor as seen in battle ready succession in the 1991 sequel with a story that will pass the torch unto a new heroine, upon news reported last Wednesday.
Upon revealing a July 26, 2019 release date, Cameron and Miller took to The Hollywood Reporter to share their insight on the reboot, why they chose this project over others, a few of its developing properties, and much, much more:
CAMERON: “There’s a pride of authorship in anything that you do, and when David and I started talking about this, it made sense for me to see if there was a way to bring it into this century and to relevance. I look at what’s happening now with the emergence of artificial general intelligence equal to or greater than humans’, and you’ve got Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking and others saying that this could be really bad for the survival of the human race. What was science fiction in the ’80s is now imminent. It’s coming over the horizon at us. And there’s been a resurgence of fear and concern about nuclear weapons and so on. So all of these apocalyptic elements are out there. The first two Terminator films that I did dealt with the angst around that and how we reconcile it for ourselves in a fantasy context. So I got excited about the idea of finding a story that made sense for now.”
On the approach:
CAMERON: “This is a continuation of the story from Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. And we’re pretending the other films were a bad dream. Or an alternate timeline, which is permissible in our multi-verse. This was really driven more by [Tim] than anybody, surprisingly, because I came in pretty agnostic about where we took it. The only thing I insisted on was that we somehow revamp it and reinvent it for the 21st century.”
MILLER: “The [first] films are more relevant today than they were when he made them. A lot of it seems like prognostication because it’s coming to be — the world we live in right now.”
On casting Hamilton:
CAMERON “…Linda and I have a great relationship. We’ve stayed friends through the thick and thin of it all. And she is the mother of my eldest daughter. [They were married from 1997 to 1999.] So I called her up, and I said: “Look, we could rest on our laurels. It’s ours to lose, in a sense. We created this thing several decades ago. But, here’s what can be really cool. You can come back and show everybody how it’s done.” Because in my mind, it hasn’t been done a whole lot since the way she did it back in ’91.”
MILLER: “As strong a character as she was, as meaningful as she was to gender and to action stars everywhere, I think it’s going to make a huge fucking statement to have her be the really seasoned warrior that she’s become.”
The new reboot hails from Skydance and Paramount, the latter who will distribute with Fox representing the film internationally. Cameron, who is producing, has a writers’ room with Miller in which also included are David Goyer (Blade trilogy, Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy), Charles Eglee (TV series Dark Angel) and Josh Friedman (TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).
Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
Such films include Jean-Claude Van Damme classic, Double Impact as well as the first two episodes of upcoming Amazon series, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, Schwarzenegger hit thriller The Running Man, Cambodian action romp, Jailbreak, Ted Geohegan’s new thriller, Mohawk and so much more. Not for nothing either with a raft of slated appearances by the likes of Van Damme and Schwarzenegger themselves, in addition to Vince Vaughn seeing to the premiere of RLJE Films’s most recent acquisition, Brawl In Cell Block 99, and cult figure Tommy Wiseau whose 2003 cult favorite, The Room is the subject of its own biopic, A24’s December release of The Disaster Artist.
You know, if action star Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t such a consistently fun person to watch on camera, you would think his career hit a fever pitch and that he should just call it quits. His latest turnout with Taram Killam’s Killing Gunther serves us ample counterpoint on the matter with an equally fun character and premise to boot.
James Cameron’s blockbuster smash hit, Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D, is heading back to theaters in North America in ceremonial fashion on August 25. However, on the chance that this won’t be enough for superfans reading this, it just so happens that Lionsgate has something exquisite in its 4K Ultra HD home release packaging, in both special features, as well as life-sized model EndoArm with its own stand autographed by the director himself.
• *NEW* “T2: Reprogramming the Terminator” 55 Minute Documentary Including Exclusive Interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron, Edward Furlong and More
• 2 Feature Commentaries including 23 members of the cast and crew, including director James Cameron and co-author William Wisher
• “The Making of T2” 30 Minute Featurette
• Seamless Branching to View 3 Different Versions of the Movie
• 2 Deleted Scenes with Audio Commentary
• Trailers
Time will tell what else, if anything, Cameron has in store for the future of Terminator on the big screen, but folks at home can assure themselves an October 3, 2017 street date for this fine parcel. Peep the artwork below and then some! (Dread Central)
There’s not a whole lot of consistency here with the current campaign for Oleg Stepchenko’s new epic, The Journey To China. The film is, however, slated for a local release from NBC Universal Russia while its biggest appeal come courtesy of its prominent editions, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan, along with the promise of grandiose signature martial arts action as teased in previous videos.
Apart from this, it’s actor Jason Flemyng’s stage here reprising his role from the 2014 film, Viy which, in also being helmed by Stepchenko, underwent its own evolution hampered by a number of issues. Flemyng returns to the role of cartographer Jonathan Green as he’s commissioned by the Czar to go on another adventure – one that ultimately lands him in China where he’ll crosspaths with Asian princesses, mystical creatures, skilled warriors and a Dragon King for good measure.
I’m sure Chan and Schwarzenegger, and Rutger Hauer will fit in somewhere in all this amid the Russian and Asian cast and we’ll learn how in due time. Meanwhile, a new teaser trailer has seemed to emerge online and until further notice, you can view it below. I’m also sharing an international teaser just beneath from last year which looks plenty crisp and worthwhile. Oh, and something about a mask…maybe? Idunno.
Check out both below!
I was but a toddler when director James Cameron’s Terminator was released, and it would be years before I could ever see it on VHS. That said, I saw a televised edit which familiarized me enough to garner excitement for its explosive sequel, Terminator 2: Judgement Day. I guess you could say it’s the film that drew me as a moviegoer for years to come having fallen in love with the action genre and the output of titles at the time and before, inherently earning me as an Arnold Schwarzenegger fan among millions.
And so with the years that have passed as production label Carolco dissolved, it’s rather unfortunate that the Terminator franchise floundered all the same and I contribute this to the lack of consistency as seen with the rotating door of actors playing the key role of human resistance leader John Connor. Discounting actor Michael Edwards who cameos as an older version of the role in the second film, we’ve seen three principle theatrical performances of the character with the most memorable being that of actor Edward Furlong, thus adding to the frustration and stagnation that this franchise has seen even through its spectacle and overall entertainment value.
Given this along with the criticisms this franchise has seen from the big screen, it’s easy to understand why the prospects of a new film after the fumbled Terminator: Genysis have waned more and more with headlines ever increasing the narrative going into news this Spring of Paramount’s removal of the project from its schedule. Is it indefinite? It feels like so, although Cameron himself is poised to attain rights to the franchise back in a few years after once selling them to producer Gale Anne Hurd for a dollar upon being allowed to direct the 1984 film.
I welcome Cameron, in partnership with ambitious Deadpool helmer Tim Miller to keep this going as they announced they would earlier this year, and if they can, although frankly I’m not about to rack my brains on it unless some more solid news comes after this. If Genysis IS the last of the lot, I won’t be sad or feel let down at all, especially given some of the great things this sci-fi property has accomplished in the history of cinema in all its celebrity, cult fandom and merchandising, including lending some of the most iconic characters their screentime who are now immortalized for the years to come. And for this, what better way to celebrate the franchise than to re-release its best installment, directed by none other than Cameron, coming more and more into his prime?
The release of his billion dollar hit film, Titanic, and his subsequent success with Avatar in 2009 have all but made the continued case for Cameron as the kind of director to invest in with time, manpower and creative freedom. Thus, recirculating a classic like Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and for a re-graded for a 3D presentation by way of James Cameron’s own Lightstorm, DMG Entertainment and Studiocanal, would not only be valuable to achieve in today’s age of moviegoing, but a long-awaited milestone for the film in its lifespan given the hopes for 3D filmmaking once upon a time. That milestone, which also lists the equally prudential casting of actress Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton and The Terminator co-star Earl Boen, arrives this August, with a U.S. and U.K. release slated for August 25.
It has been 10 years since the events of Terminator. Sarah Connor’s ordeal is only just beginning as she struggles to protect her son John, the future leader of the human resistance against the machines, from a new Terminator, sent back in time to eliminate John Connor while he’s still a child. Sarah and John don’t have to face this terrifying threat alone however. The human resistance have managed to send them an ally, a warrior from the future ordered to protect John Connor at any cost. The battle for tomorrow has begun….
James Cameron’s masterpiece starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his most iconic role, has been converted in immersive 3D by Cameron himself. First hitting our screens in 1991 with groundbreaking special effects, the 3D version will take the seminal blockbuster to the next level of effects and into the 21st century for the next generation of fans.
The halcyon days of summer blockbuster action are coming back, if but only for a few hours. Bask in it. Breathe it in. Own it. Watch the new trailer below.
His prospects as a reality TV host, there’s always room for another Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Alas, scooch over and make way for Aftermath from Blitz helmer Eliott Lester and a release date set for April 7.
SYNOPSIS:
Inspired by real events, AFTERMATH tells a story of guilt and revenge after an air traffic controller’s error causes the death of a construction foreman’s wife and daughter. Following the devastating plane crash, the two strangers’ lives become inextricably bound together.
Worth noting is his most recent zombie thriller, Maggie which continues to be a high mark in his career in the last few years next to the usual action and spectacle. Alas, expect a possible return to the fray with the likes of Stallone for other endeavors in the coming years, but let’s enjoy this portion of the ride. It’s what makes film such fun and the trailer below… my goodness. It’s solid right down to the last shot.
Schwarzenegger is joined by actor Scoot McNairy and actress Maggie Grace. Check it out!
The English traveler Jonathan Green receives from Peter the Great an order to map the Russian Far East. Once again he sets out for a long journey full of incredible adventures that will eventually lead him to China.
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