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.
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!
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.
“We see a market for people who want to see something besides superhero movies.”
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!
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 On Digital, VOD, Blu-ray, and DVD release on June 29, 2018. IGN unveiled the official trailer which you can view below.
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 Bautista.
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 bustling ever since he catapulted into international cult fame since his starring debut in Gareth Huw Evans’s Merantau, followed by epic crime thriller, The Raid and its splashing 2014 sequel. The Headshot star would soon find himself among the likes of Disney and Lucas film with Star Wars: The Force Awakens prior to the festival hit that Liam O’Donnell’s Beyond Skyline became.
2018 will also be a milestone for the star with the upcoming July 20 release of STXfilms’s thriller Mile 22, followed by to-be-dated releases of Timo Tjahjanto’s The Night Comes For Us, Jesse Johnson’s Triple Threat reuniting Uwais with Man Of Tai Chi star Tiger Chen in addition to starring Tony Jaa, and the Mario Kassar-produced Foxtrot Six from director Randy Korompis.
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 PROJECT: STX will expand its relationship with actor Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, Blade Runner: 2049) through an original short-form action-comedy series. STXfilms is concurrently collaborating with Bautista on an action comedy feature film, which is also in the early stages of development.
THE KIEV EXCHANGE: A spinoff of STX’s MILE 22 film franchise, THE KIEV EXCHANGE is a short-form, live-action series from MILE 22 director Peter Berg. Written by Umair Aleem (Extraction, 2017 Blacklist for “Kate”), THE KIEV EXCHANGE is a gritty, pulse-pounding action-thriller following the CIA’s elusive paramilitary force, Ground Branch, as they negotiate a tense and complex hostage exchange in a public square. When all hell breaks loose they must come together to fight their way out of an ambush. Berg will produce for Film 44 and Film 45, along with Mark Wahlberg, Matt Goldberg and John Logan Pierson.
UNTITLED DEREK KOLSTAD PROJECT: From writer Derek Kolstad (The John Wick Trilogy), this original live-action short-form series, set in 1947, follows a mysterious government agent sent to investigate an aircraft crash in rural New Mexico. As he probes deeper, it becomes clear this is no ordinary incident. Kolstad is also writing STXfilms’ upcoming action-thriller Nobody starring Bob Odenkirk.
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 release.
Bautista’s next appearance will be in Anthony and Joe Russo’s Avengers: Infinity War, next month.
Ip Man 4 is set to have Yen and Yip roll camersd next month while Master Z: Ip Man Legacy stakes its claim at Filmart with Yuen Woo-Ping at the helm, a brand new sales poster ahead of its release. The film joins Zhang with Dave Bautista, Michelle Yeoh and international superstar Tony Jaa.
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 initially reported back in October.
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 Bushwick, and up-comers Cheung Tin-Chi and Escape Plan 3: Devil’s Station – both in which Max Zhang also stars, and Scott Mann’s Final Score.
Bautista also joins the MCU for Avengers: Infinity War next year.
The actor’s next big break arrives this weekend with Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner: 2049. (Deadline)
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.
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 Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Soi Cheng’s S.P.L. 2: A Time For Conseuqences (a.k.a. Kill Zone 2), and Ip Man 3.
Jaime King, Lydia Hull, Devon Sawa, Harry Shum Jr., and Malese Jow also star with EFO’s own Randall Emmett and George Furla, Atmosphere Entertainment’s Mark Canton and Boles/Schiller Film Group’s Zack Schiller producing with Jie Qiu, and Echo Su. Grindstone Entertainment’s Barry Brooker and Stan Wertlieb and The Fyzz Facility’s Robert Jones and Wayne Marc Godfrey are executive producing with Ted Fox and Mark Stewart with China’s Leomus Entertainment co-financing and Lionsgate distributing.
This is just to clarify things… Escape plan 2 has not come out yet, but we are working on the next installment.
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From the set of ESCAPE PLAN 2 (Twitter)
Stallone last worked with Herzfeld on the 2014 drama, Reach Me.
Bautista is currently set to star in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 which opens on October 6 and also joins Zhang and several other martial arts stars for an upcoming Ip Man 3 spin-off. Zhang’s own upcoming film slate additionally includes Jonathan Li’s The Brink and Steven DeKnight’s Pacific Rim 2: Uprising, as well as Fruit Chan’s The Invincible Dragon with Anderson Silva, and Jeff Lau’s Heavyweight Assassin. (Variety)
Amid the film’s backdrop are a mix of people either fighting against the militia, rioters and looters attacking innocent people, and victims desperately hiding from the terror that awaits outside. These all encompass the film’s vast, dark, embattled suburban atmosphere with a storyline that boldly confronts some of our worst prospects as a nation while using it to foundate the film’s emotive drama and suspense. The finale sequence is stark, grim view of our skyline, as necessitated for a film of this caliber.
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 & Armstrong movie with director Ruben Fleischer announced back in March.
In Valiant’s comic book mythology, the Eternal Warrior — aka Gilad Anni-Padda — is the brother of the “Armstrong” from the latter project; a third brother, Ivar Anni-Padda, features in the comic book series Timewalker.
The concept behind Eternal Warrior is a simple one: Resurrected using a mysterious artifact after a battlefield death millennia ago, Gilad has become functionally immortal with two unexpected side effects. Firstly, he can be killed — it’s just that he will come back to life afterwards, no matter how painful a process that might be. Secondly, across the centuries, he falls into the service of the Earth itself, defending the Geomancer, a being chosen by the planet to act as its champion in times of need. Needless to say, neither being the Geomancer nor their defender is an entirely easy — or un-dangerous — proposition.
The character is also subject to one of several among the line-up for Aaron and Sean Schoenke’s upcoming seperate series, Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe with actor John Morrison cast.
The news on the proposed film comes as updates are surfacing for the forthcoming productions of Harbinger and Bloodshot among others. Arrival scribe Eric Heisserer is providing the script for both while the latter has Dave Wilson attached to direct and a potential lead in Bautista’s fellow Blade Runner 2046 co-star, actor Jared Leto.
Ridley Scott is present here as he’s executive producing after helming the 1982 film but there’s no question that this one is in good hands with Villeneuve in the chair save for whatever else the studio brings to it, if any. Also starring are Ana De Armas, MacKenzie Davis, Sylvia Hoeks, Lennie James, Carla Juri and Robin Wright along with Dave Bautista looking as gristled and fine-tuned as ever in acting and physical form, and whatever that was the crew had to put up with from Jared Leto provided he wasn’t like that the entire time on set.
Brooklyn ain’t the same as it used to be for one unlucky girl caught amid a hailstorm of national insurrection in the new explosive action thriller, Bushwick. The official trailer is finally here following its spate of festival screenings and enough pull quotes to deem this one a worthwhile sell from RLJ.
Matthias Hoene: I had a very relaxing start into the year and am excited to share the movie with the world.
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