Isolation and Masquerade helmer Shane Dax Taylor is back with the new hostage thriller, The Best Man. Saban Films is out and about on Thursday with an official trailer and a theatrical, digital, and VOD release date set for April 21.
Christian Sesma seemingly never stops working. A self-taught filmmaker, Sesma has been directing since 2006 at an incredibly productive rate. In that time, he has completed (and found distribution) for more than twenty feature-length genre films.
Filmmaker Steven Luke (WAR PIGS) is one of many creatives working in the realm of DTV. He has learned two valuable lessons about how to get noticed in the glut of low-budget titles that appear consistently throughout the year though. The first is to use recognizable, yet reliable, actors that can draw attention when placed on a cover. The second is to have a niche that appeals to a dedicated fanbase. What is that for Luke? Historical war dramas (with a bit of action sprinkled in) like his latest: the World War Two naval battle film OPERATION SEAWOLF, featuring Dolph Lundgren (CREED 2), Frank Grillo (COPSHOP), and Hiram A. Murray (THE TERMINAL LIST) in prominent roles.
Years ago, I became obsessed with listing my “top-tens” or “fives” in final fight scenes. There was a UK website that produced such lists and for their final fight scene list, it bothered me for the longest time that it never had the one featured in Drive between Mark Dacascos and Masaya Kato, so you can imagine how fulfilled I felt when the page loaded and I finally saw it listed.
Published November 29, 2021: I can’t fully imagine the struggle actor Scott Adkins must have faced at one point trying to branch out as something more than an action figure to the genre moviegoing masses. For this, I’ve always hoped he would become more actor-centric than anything, but it’s especially nice to know that his next (and even bigger) break isn’t too far off in Hollywood.
A new trailer for the upcoming film featuring Scott Adkins (The Expendables 2, Doctor Strange) and Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV, The Expendables franchise) was released today by Scott Adkins, on his official Youtube channel. Featuring our leading men in a variety of exciting scenes, the trailer sets up the viewer for a thrilling chase for millions of dollars in cash.
Screendaily‘s Jeremy Kay is exclusively reporting the additions of Sheila Shah, Jacob Scipio and Levy Tran to the current cast roster of the fourth installment of The Expendables franchise.
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With Acceleration already in tow, it’s on Lionsgate to roll out the red carpet for another churned-out straight-to-DVD and digital release on December 10 for Dolph Lundgren actioner, Hard Night Falling. Also starring are Hal Yamanouchi, Natalie Burn and Andrea Scarduzio from director Giorgio Bruno, and with a trailer online this week above.
Michael Merino and Hollow Point director Daniel Zirilli’s new thriller, Acceleration, comes to select theaters and VOD on Novemeber 8, followed by a December Blu-Ray and DVD release from Cinedigm. Hailing from Cinetel Films and 7Heaven Productions’, Acceleration stars Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints), Dolph Lundgren (Creed II) and Chuck Liddell (Kick-Ass 2) with Natalie Burn (The Expendables), Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson (The A-Team), and Danny Trejo (Machete).
The hits are heavy for what Flame Ventures is now planning for an hour-long action drama series being developed by the label’s own Tony Krantz who will exec produce. The project, pitched this week to sevral major networks (sans ABC) aims to reunite Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren with the latter to star.
Fresh from the Rocky fray, Aquaman co-star Dolph Lundgren will star in Wanted Man. Michael Worth wrote the script from a story he and Lundgren put together.
SOUTHPAW, written by Kurt Sutter of the successful, long-running show Sons of Anarchy, came out in July of 2015. Ryan Coogler’s CREED, co-written with Aaron Covington, released four months later of the same year. Before seeing either of them, I expected to enjoy Creed but like Southpaw better, aesthetically. I have always been a huge fan of the Rocky series, but I was more recently a fan of Sons, so there, admittedly, was bias filled in my assumption that went beyond my reaction to their inaugural trailers. I was wrong, it turned out. Southpaw, though I loved it and still do, was, well, written by a television writer and felt like it. This is not to say it was bad by any measure, but the emotional beats bordered a bit much on the grandiose. And while this is great for a show with the breathing room of a serial, as a device it was constricted by the tight conventions of cinema and in the movie registered as ..depressing.
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