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MASTER Z: IP MAN LEGACY Commences An Epic Duel Of Masters In The Official U.S. Trailer

It’s high-time for everyone stateside who hasn’t yet torrented a copy of Ip Man 3 spin-off, Well Go USA’s Master Z: Ip Man Legacy ahead of its U.S. release on April 12. Enter a cadre of some of the biggest names in kung fu cinema of late with none other than Max Zhang making his next stride with the role of disgraced wing chun master Cheung Tin-Chi following his consequential battle with Donnie Yen’s title character in the previous film. Legendary action director Yuen Wo Ping draws on a stellar cast (Michelle Yeoh, Dave Bautista, Tony Jaa, and Max Zhang) to create a hard-hitting martial arts blast worthy of its place in the celebrated IP MAN universe. Following his defeat by Master Ip, Cheung Tin Chi (Zhang), tries to make a life with his young son in Hong Kong, waiting tables at a bar that caters to expats. But it’s […]

MASTER Z: IP MAN LEGACY Releases In Select U.S. Theaters On April 12

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The last few years have been crazy with news and updates over action star Max Zhang’s upcoming releases of which at least a few are now pending. For this we can finally include director Yuen Woo-Ping whose Master Z: Ip Man Legacy now has a U.S. theatrical release set for April 12. Well Go USA nabbed the rights in May 2017. Legendary action director Yuen Woo-Ping draws on a stellar cast (Michelle Yeoh, Dave Bautista, Tony Jaa, and Max Zhang) to create a hard-hitting martial arts blast worthy of its place in the celebrated IP MAN universe. Following his defeat by Master Ip, Cheung Tin Chi (Zhang), tries to make a life with his young son in Hong Kong, waiting tables at a bar that caters to expats. But it’s not long before the mix of foreigners, money, and triad leaders draw him once again to the fight. The film […]

Review: FINAL SCORE Is No ‘Sudden Death’ Tie Breaker, But ‘Die Hard’ Enough For The Right Crowd

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There’s no question going into director Scott Mann’s latest, Final Score. Hailing actor Dave Bautista in his second outing with Mann since the 2015 film, Heist, you get a solid, simple, genuine and bare-bones hostage flick with some really cool and fun moments and thrilling sequences. Similarly, might also wonder if Mann ever pondered a scenario in today’s era where a film in the vein of John McTiernan and Peter Hyams might earn the appeal of twenty-something moviegoers today. It’s an admirable idea worth discussing, although with Final Score playing front to back, it doesn’t change the fact that you’ve probably seen this movie already. Whether or not that’s a good thing is up to you to decide… Clearly taking a nod from action cinema of yesteryear is a story that reunites Mann with his fellow Heist co-star, actor Dave Bautista in the role of Michael Knox, a traveling ex-soldier […]

MY SPY: STX Reveals Dave Bautista’s Mystery Action Comedy Franchise Vehicle

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It was last October that actor Dave Bautista was tapped for an STXfilms starring vehicle – unnamed at the time but reported as bearing franchise potential. The status of that mystery project remained so even right when scribes John and Erich Hoeber were tapped to pen the script back in April. As of this week, it’s a mystery no more with word exclusively from The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit as of Monday for family action comedy pic, My Spy. Grudge Match and upcoming Second Act helmer Peter Seagal is directing the new film with Bautista producing next to Jonathan Meisner and Chris Bender. ‘My Spy’ will tell the story of a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family. According to the report, My Spy is but one of several projects on which the studio […]

Dave Bautista Action Thriller, FINAL SCORE, Lands A September 14 U.S. Release!

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Sky Cinema already has the UK and Ireland for Scott Mann’s new action adventure, Final Score. Accordingly, Saban Films is officially declaring a win with a VOD/Digital HD and select theatrical release for September 14, and a U.S. trailer to boot! After deadly terrorists abduct his niece at a soccer match, an ex-soldier with lethal fighting skills (Dave Bautista) wages a one-man war to save her and prevent mass destruction. Bautista is joined by Pierce Brosnan, Ray Stevenson, Julian Cheung, Lara Peake, Alexandra Dinu and Ralph Brown from a script by Jonathan Frank, David T. Lynch and Keith Lynch.

FINAL SCORE: Dave Bautista Ups His Game In The Official Trailer

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The Tournament and Heist helmer Scott Mann’s latest follow-up, Final Score, has been a long-awaited one. Nowadays with a teaser in its wake, an official trailer arrived this week with plans for a theatrical and on-demand release in Ireland and the UK from Sky Cinema starting September 7. It’s “Die Hard in a soccer stadium” when ex-soldier Michael Knox (Dave Bautista) has to use all his military skills to save the 35,000 capacity crowd at a top flight football match when they’re held hostage by armed kidnappers demanding a ransom. Bautista, of Marvel’s MCU, fame is joined by Pierce Brosnan, Ray Stevenson, Amit Shah, Lara Peake and Ralph Brown. There are currently no release plans elsewhere but we’ll be sure to help provide those updates in due time.

DOGTOWN: Dave Bautista To Star In Bold Films’ ‘Body Bags’ Adapation

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Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline is bringing the latest on comic adaptation, Dogtown, set up at Bold Films for Dave Bautista to star. Kyle Ward (John Wick: Chapter Two) is penning the film derived from Body Bags, Jason Pearson’s Dark Horse imprint publication which also shared space with Image Comics during its run from 1996 through 2008. Packed with quite a bit of R-rated potential, Dogtown aims to perpetuate the original comic book’s style and irreverence with Bautista playing Mack Delgado, a professional bounty hunter notoriously known as a “body bagger”. Things take an awry turn for Mack when the daughter he never knew makes a surprise entry into his life in hopes of reconnecting with him. Gary Michael Walters is producing at Bold Films, adding the film measures right in its potential next to hits like Baby Driver, John Wick and Atomic Blonde, saying: “We see a market for […]

The New Red Band HOTEL ARTEMIS Trailer Totally Kills It

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Leave it to Jodie Foster who throws down with one the best lines moviegoers can expect on June 8 with the upcoming thriller, Hotel Artemis. Drew Pearce makes his directing debut with an action-packed sci-fi dystopia tale about a hidden hospital within a rustic, old hotel for criminals. In HOTEL ARTEMIS, set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, Jodie Foster plays The Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals. Surrounded by an all-star cast that includes Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto, Charlie Day, and Dave Bautista, HOTEL ARTEMIS is a stylish, high-octane action-thriller written and directed by Drew Pearce (writer of IRON MAN 3, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION, SHERLOCK HOLMES 3). This week’s red-band trailer delight totally kills it, packed with stunt gems and zingers from our cast. Check it out below!

ESCAPE PLAN 2: HADES Welcomes You To The Zoo In The Official Trailer!

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If you’re sitting here and wondering just why in the name of all that is pure and true is Escape Plan 2: Hades, headed to the ancillary market instead of theaters, you’re definitely not alone. Indeed it’s happening though, gladly as one of two forthcoming sequels following the 2013 hit film starring A-listers, returning actor Sylvester Stallone and trilogy newcomer Bautista. Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world’s most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ever built, entirely computerized and constantly changing shape, Ray must track him down with the help of some of his former friends. Steven C. Miller directs with a cast that rounds out with Jamie King, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Jesse Metcalf, Huang Xiaoming and Wes Chatham for a […]

HOTEL ARTEMIS: A Hospitality Experiment Between Rules And Rulebreakers In The First Trailer

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Drew Pearce’s feature debut, Hotel Artemis, the first official trailer arrived on Monday following an announcement on Sunday evening. I imagined a much different look when I first heard about it two years ago, which doesn’t necessarily undermind what was applied here. The rustic, antique setting, dramatic, somewhat noir, edgy tone, set pieces and warm lighting with a touch of neon to its action thriller visage actually feels pretty appealing. Also, the added gloss of seeing actress Sofia Boutella in another fierce action role just warms my heart pretty dearly, and it actually gives me hope that she’ll be juxtaposed next to heavier hitters in due time. She joins actress Jodie Foster who leads the rip-roaring, dystopian tale now set off in the official trailer with actor Sterling K. Brown revving up the energy, and a cast that includes Charlie Day, Jeff Goldblum, Zachary Quinto, and the always rewarding Dave […]

STUBER: Iko Uwais Joins Dave Bautista And Kumail Nanjiani For The Upcoming Action Comedy

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Indonesian action star, actor Iko Uwais is continually rising to the occasion these last several years. His latest stake in Beyond Skyline put him on par for further profusion in film and it now has him on deck to join actor Dave Bautista and title star, actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani for upcoming action comedy, Stuber, for 20th Century Fox. Details on Uwais’s role remains pending per Patrick Hipes’s exclusive at Deadline which confirms it as so. Michael Dowse is directing the film from a spec script by Tripper Clancy which centers on Bautista as a tenacious detective who commandeers an unsuspecting Uber and its driver, played by Nanjiani, over one night of high jinks and mayhem. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are producing the film with Jake Wagner serving ad executive producer and Jeremy Kramer is overseeing for Fox. The film adds to Uwais’s career which has been […]

STX Entertainment Readies VR Agenda With MILE 22 Spin-Off, Dave Bautista, ‘John Wick’ Writer And More

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STX Entertainment has been stirring quite a bit behind the scenes in the last few years. As such, we can now list some of those prospects courtesy of a new press announcement detailing several new short form series projects for the company’s VR and immersive content channel, STXSurreal which will premiere later this year via apps or VR headsets. The two of five projects listed include live-action comedy programs featuring Ed Helms, and comedy duo Jason Mewes and Kevin Smth, a.k.a. Jay and Silent Bob. The other three pertain to a different nature more to our liking if you’re a reader of this site and are fully aware of previous reports on Dave Bautista’s STX-related endeavors last October, as well as that of John Wick trilogy scribe Derek Kolstad earlier this year, and the franchise-to-be following the July 20 release of Peter Berg’s Wahlberg/Uwais/Rousey headliner, Mile 22. UNTITLED DAVE BAUTISTA […]

Dave Bautista Action Comedy, STUBER, Casts Kumali Nanjiani To Lead

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Headlines late last year were bolstering actor Dave Bautista for great prospects. December gave rise to then-breaking news of action comedy, Stuber, currently housed at 20th Century Fox with Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley producing for Goon helmer Michael Dowse to direct. This week, the Uber-themed spectacle is signaling its relevance once more with the addition of The Big Sick star, actor Kumali Nanjiani for the title role of Uber driver, Stu, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tripper Clancy wrote the script which sees Bautista as a hard boiled cop hot on the trail of a brutal killer and desperate to catch him by comandeering an Uber and its reluctant five star-rated driver. Jake Wagner and Nick Thomas are executive producing with Jeremy Kramer overseeing for Fox. Daley and Goldstein are also joined in with efforts at Warner Bros. Pictures to helm DC Comics adaptation, Flashpoint, for a 2020 […]

MASTER Z: IP MAN LEGACY Brandishes New Sales Art For Mandarin Motion Pictures

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Longtime actor and producer Raymond Wong took to the floor at Filmart in Hong Kong to launch Mandarin Motion Pictures, ripe with a slate still fresh with titles both new and pending. The move comes following Wong’s sale of Pegasus Entertainment to Nice Rich Group Ltd. last October, which Wong launched in 2009 with son, Edmond Wong, after establishing himself for years as a staple film producer of Cinema City’s Aces Go Places franchise, and with Mandarin Films in 1991 which served to produce the first two Ip Man titles. This brings us to at least one important title to keep in mind with actor and action star Max Zhang whose career has since begun spanning across the world from Asia to North America. Moviegoers in the former will likely be first to bear witness to his latest headlining role in the Ip Man franchise spin-off, Master Z: Ip Man […]

Dave Bautista's STUBER Revs Up For Fox

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Actor Dave Bautista’s career progression steers ever further this week, and gladly with a new report on Friday from Deadline per 20th Century Fox’s upcoming action comedy, Stuber. Michael Dowse is directing from a script by Tripper Clancy in which Bautista will play a relentless detective who commandeers an unsuspecting Uber driver named Stu into a harrowing evening of hijinks and mayhem. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley who helped cook up development on the project will produce the film with Jake Wagner serving as executive producer and Jeremy Kramer overseeing for Fox. The film comes just as Bautista is about to ring in the new year with a flurry of titles, including Drew Pearce’s sci-fi actioner, Hotel Artemis, the Russos’ Avengers: Infinity War, Steven C. Miller’s Escape Plan: Hades, Scott Mann’s Final Score, Yuen Woo-Ping’s Master Z: Ip Man Legacy, and a tentatively untitled action comedy vehicle from STX […]

Untitled Action Comedy Franchise Being Developed At STX With Dave Bautista Starring

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I’m probably not the only blogger to have affirmed and re-affirmed exactly how befitting actor Dave Bautista has grown toward acting since getting his start in wrestling. He’s certainly worked his way up well into the mainstream and having performed a number of roles to showcase his versatility, STX has evidently taken notice. Thus, the independent studio has reportedly closed a deal to partner with the Marvel Cinematic Universe actor and co-star of Guardians Of The Galaxy and its 2017 sequel to develop an action comedy franchise in which he will star as well as produce. Jonathan Meisner will co-produce alongside the actor while Drew Simon will oversee for the studio. The move marks just the latest foray for Meisner who shares multiple credits on projects attributed to Bautista. He has served in some producer capacity on up to five current titles in which Bautista stars, notably Kickboxer: Vengeance and […]

BLADE RUNNER 2049: Watch The Three Prequel Shorts And The Final Trailer!

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I’m pretty sure Denis Villeneuve’s latest offering to sci-fi contemporary spectacle, Blade Runner: 2049, is selling itself these days. The reviews have all been faring largely well and intial box office numbers are looking toward $100 million dollars globally, which is properous for the most part. Best of all is its director is possibly in line to helm one other of Hollywood’s biggest franchises in 007 – this after earning vast favor with moviegoers on the hit 2015 crime thriller, Sicario. Personally, the first Blade Runner was a bore but I can understand its filmic and generational influence in entertainment for why it’s revered as a classic. I believe it’ll pay off very nicely if the critics’ reviews are anything to say for it. The trailers are a great emulation of what’s to come as are the three shortfilms preceding the new sequel from Villeneuve and directors Watanabe Shinichiro and […]

ESCAPE PLAN 3: DEVIL’S STATION: Stallone Welcomes Fans To ‘Club Dead’ As Production Starts; Bautista And Zhang, More Added To Cast

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Still to the surprise of many is the forthcoming second installment of the Escape Plan trilogy – Steven C. Miller’s Escape Plan 2: Hades, following Mikael Håfström’s initial 2013 hit pairing Sylvester Stallone with Arnold Schwarzenegger. A third was announced back in April and news this week now confirms the start of principal photography for upcoming threequel, Escape Plan 3: Devil’s Station with Death And Life Of Bobby Z and 15 Minutes director John Herzfeld at the helm. The new movie sees Stallone and actor Dave Bautista reprising their roles from a script by Herzfeld and screenwriter Miles Chapman which sees the two pairing up once again to break out one of their own from an inescapable prison. The two will be joined on screen by actor and martial artist Max Zhang whose credits span various facets in film from stunt double to principal actor with credits such as Crouching […]

Review: BUSHWICK Catches You Between The Mood, New York City, And Civil War

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Fast forward three years later and having proven themselves in the public arena with the 2014 horror favorite, Cooties, directing duo Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott are back with their latest conceptual head-turner. It is one that stems from darker auspices eeriely forecast through a nightmarish lens unto today’s American politics for something of pure fantasy and, ultimately, a show of strength in character-driven storytelling that is sure to leave an impression. For better or worse, Bushwick, in part, accomplishes this in the course of its kinetic, steadily and often fast-moving pace from a script by Nick Damici and Graham Reznick. Actress Brittany Snow takes the lead with actor Dave Bautista as the two shepherd the narrative in the respective roles of Lucy and Stupe, oddly and reluctantly paired as they fight to survive deadly skirmishes with an invading Texas militia canvassing the neighborhood with deadly force as part of […]

ETERNAL WARRIOR: Dave Bautista Hints At Possible Live-Action Comic Book Role

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As of Tuesday’s reveal, if all goes well, it appears that actor Ryan Reynolds will be one of at least three actors to date with at least two acting credits inspired by dueling comic book brands. Leave that suspense to Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy actor Dave Bautista who, in an update just shy of being too awesome, is up to potentially star in Valiant Comics property, Eternal Warrior. The co-star of the upcoming sci-fi sequel, Blade Runner 2046, as well as Ip Man spin-off, Cheung Tin-Chi and RLJ’s Bushwick, responded to a fan on Twitter pertaining to an earlier tweet, saying in part, “We are currently working to get the script fan-worthy, and then we’ll be full on from there.” THR reports that Valiant themselves haven’t commented on the development of an Eternal Warrior while sources within have otherwise confirmed the film’s relevance to Terry Rossio’s upcoming Archer & […]