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FIVE-A-DAY ROUND-UP X: Showdown In Manila, Savage Attack, Maximum Impact, Escape Plan: Hades, Escape Plan: Devil’s Station

There’s no way we’re not including five more beefed up reasons to look out for more action titles to come in 2018. Here’s the latest Five-A-Day round-up!…

Keep in mind what lies ahead from multifaceted actor and producer Alexander Nevsky who made a steady and feasible effort in the past year with Black Rose. His biggest project thusfar, Mark Dacascos’s Showdown In Manila aims to top it having already been a reported hit in Russia and now stakes a U.S. release from ITN with Nevsky and actor Casper Van Dien who summon a team of badasses to tackle a terrorist organization upon uncovering a murder. January 19 is the limited theaters date followed by a Digital and VoD rollout on January 26.

Romeo Must Die and Cradle 2 The Grave helmer Andrzej Bartkowiak’s new film, Maximum Impact, is still a bit of an anomaly. The project doesn’t yet have a trailer but it is completed and has since garnered screenings at the American Film Market back in November with none other than Nevsky starring and producing for an ensemble cast. With a premise that sees agents for the CIA and Russia’s FSB joining forces to thwart an assassination attempt that could light the fuse for World War III, it’s a project that reads rightly for the kind of films that Nevsky expresses interest in making, and I look forward to the final product.

Long before Showdown In Manila had a release date and with Maximum Impact still waiting to have some…well…impact, Alexander Nevsky made public his intentions toward the production of Savage Attack. Currently in development, Nevsky is producing along with Maximum Impact helmer Andrzej Bartkowiak producing with a concept that sets in Asia and mingles Assault On Precinct 13 with Gareth Evans’s The Raid. The search for a director aside, let’s hope actor and fight choreographer Yayan Ruhian will be on board as well.

Actor and action star Sylvester Stallone is actually still surprising some people with the existence of sequels to the 2013 thriller, Escape Plan. Thus, we have Escape Plan: Hades, foreseeing the return of protagonist Ray Breslin forced to fight his way through an elaborate, evolving and computerized prison when one a member of his team gets kidnapped. Steven C. Miller directs with Curtis Jackson reprising, and actors Dave Bautista and Wes Chatham also starring from a release date pending from Lionsgate.

On location filming EXCAPE PLAN 2 HADES WITH Dave Bautista and Jesse Metcalfe … The scene was interesting challenge and turned out great … the film it really has a lot of energy and action Very glad to be part of it. I got a feeling they may be wanting to do a third one pretty soon… Count me in.@davebautista #Lions gate #EscapePlan2

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John Herzfeld takes the reigns thereafter with Escape Plan: Devil’s Station, bringing back Stallone, Bautista and Jackson once more for a story that sees Breslin engaged in a new prison setting in order to rescue the woman in his life from the son of one of his former enemies. One other cast member listed is actor Max Zhang who has been hitting it big in Asia and with titles like this and the upcoming Pacific Rim: Uprising, Zhang is bound to hit bigger.

Wrapping up a VERY rough day 15 hour day with award-winning Asian star Max Zhang ,after many physical fights and stunts … Max is fantastic and I had a great time and now moving onto the next project. #escapeplan3 #emmettfurlafilms #actionmovies #healthylife #exercise #mansfeildprison #ohio

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Stay tuned for the next five on Monday!

ESCAPE PLAN 3 In The Works As Sequel Nears Completion

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The baffling nature behind actor Sylvester Stallone’s departure from franchises like Rambo and The Expendables is still something of a mystery. In the meantime, it’s become clearer and clearer that he’s ready to devote his time to the current potential now thriving in the upcoming sequel to Mikael Hafstrom’s Escape Plan which currently has Extraction helmer Steven C. Miller directing.

Thus, follow Stallone on social media enough and you might be keen on any number of update which have so far included a teeny bit of teaser footage from the movie featuring Stallone and actor Dave Bautista, as well as shots at a robot like fixture on the set emulating what appears to be some form of A.I.. Actress Jamie Bell and reprising actor Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson also star in the film as do The Philly Kid star Wes Chatham and Ip Man 2 co-star Huang Xiaoming for its forthcoming release with a script by Miles Chapman.

The film will likely bow next year as it wraps this week and on that note, Deadline now has it on good terms that a third is already being planned – something that Stallone hinted at once or twice in previous weeks. E/F/O Films and Leomus are backing the film with Miller directing and Chapman scripting. Producing are Randall Emmett, George Furla, Mark Canton and Zack Schiller with Ted Fox, Mark Stewart, Barry Brooker, and Stan Wertlieb executive producing.

Lionsgate Premiere will present the sequel in the U.S. as it will for number three with Leomus Pictures co-producing and distributing in China, thus granting Stallone an otherwise new property to thrive on, Expendable or not.

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From a ESCAPE 2 with Dave Batista. We worked well together…

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Wes Chatham Joins ESCAPE PLAN 2

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Principal photography commenced in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday this week for the new sequel, Escape Plan 2 which currently has actor Sylvester Stallone reprising his role from the 2014 hit movie from director Mikael Hafstrom. Extraction and Marauders helmer Steven C. Miller is directing from a script by Miles Chapman and while plot details remain pending, casting did make other confirmations in the previous week in which Dave Bautista was also confirmed.

For this, we have news from Deadline as of several days ago that actor Wes Chatham has been cast in the film as well with an undisclosed role. Chatham’s recent credits include recently renewed SyFy series, The Expanse, and films such as Jason Connery’s hard-hitting MMA action drama, The Philly Kid, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Western thriller, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, and Lionsgate’s two-part Mockingjay finale of The Hunger Games. Also starring are actress Jamie King and Escape Plan co-star Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, following Bautista’s addition.

Emmett/Furla/Oasis is co-producing with China’s Leomus Pictures. Executive producing are Ted Fox, Mark Stewart, Barry Brooker and Stan Wertlieb with the Fyzz Facility’s own Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones.

ESCAPE PLAN 2 Casts Dave Bautista

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Most of you have already plotted your moviegoing course for the May release of James Gunn’s Guardians Of The Galaxy: Vol 2, and you would be forgiven. Actor Dave Bautista has certainly garnered the attention a bit in the years since parting ways from wrestling and MMA and with a career ever flourishing it appears his upcoming role with a rumored cameo by actor Sylvester Stallone in the Marvel sequel won’t be all to their presence together on screen.

This brings us to the latest report from THR regarding Emmett/Furla/Oasis’s upcoming China co-production with Beijing-based Leomus Pictures, Escape Plan 2 which is set to roll cameras in the Spring, and news confirming Bautista’s attachment to the film. Stallone, also poised for a fourth Expendables movie in the months ahead, is reprising the role of a prison security expert following his 2013 performance under helmer Mikael Hafstrom with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vincent D’onofrio, Curtis Banks, Jim Caviezel and Vinnie Jones.

The film also marks his second outing with director Steven C. Miller following their recent work on heist thriller, Marauders with Bruce Willis and Christopher Meloni. Bautista is also expected to appear in Blade Runner: 2046 this October while his continuing MCU run in the forthcoming Avengers: Infinity War resumes for its 2018 premiere. Other titles in the pipeline currently include Drew Pearce’s sci-fi assassin thriller, Hotel Artemis, and RLJ Entertainment’s U.S. invasion action thriller, Bushwick.

‘Extraction’, ‘Marauders’ Helmer Steven C. Miller Will Direct ESCAPE PLAN 2

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Following actor Sylvester Stallone’s confirmation for Escape Plan 2, The Tracking Board writes that Steven C. Miller has officially been tapped to direct the sequel. Miles Chapman, who wrote the first film is returning to script the second installment which will be co-produced and co-financed between Emmett/Furla/Oasis and Beijing-based Leomus Pictures.

Plot details are unclear as is the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger pending talks to reprise his role next to Stallone as seen in the 2013 hit film directed by Mikael Håfström. Randall Emmett and George Furla are producing with Leomus CEO Jie Qiu and Mark Canton, Zack Schiller and Robbie Brenner. Executive producing are Ted Fox, Mark Stewart, Barry Brooker and Stan Wertlieb with The Fyzz Facility’s Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones.

Miller himself has become a credited director with titles such as Bruce Willis headliners, Extraction and Marauders, and Nicolas Cage/John Cusack thriller, Arsenal, noted for his ability to bring high production value on low budgets and short schedules. Schwarzenegger and Lionsgate just rolled out their latest trailer for upcoming revenge drama, Aftermath, which opens in April.

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Sylvester Stallone Is Confirmed For ESCAPE PLAN 2

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The jury is still out on the otherwise confirmed fourth Expendables movie that will see just some of Hollywood’s mightiest action heroes reprising their roles from the trilogy, including Sylvester Stallone. In the meantime, there is at least one other title well on the way following last year’s reporting on Chinese co-production attachments to a sequel to the 2013 hit, Escape Plan, announced next to another installment of the Now You See Me franchise for Lionsgate.

Still in search of a director, Escape Plan 2, was last reported for a production start between a few weeks ago through March, although this week’s reporting from THR might suggest different. At any rate, new reports are confirming Stallone’s return to the role of Ray Breslin, a prison security expert who, in the first film, gets brutally duped into landing behind bars at a black site prison facility with a heavy-handed security system of his own design. Co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger is still in talks to reprise his role as well from the Mikael Håfström-directed thriller which took in $137 million dollars worldwide.

Emmett/Furla/Oasis and Beijing-based Leomus are partnering on the film to co-produce as well as co-finance. Randall Emmett and George Furla are producing with Leomus CEO Jie Qiu and Mark Canton, Zack Schiller and Robbie Brenner. Executive producing are Ted Fox, Mark Stewart, Barry Brooker and Stan Wertlieb with The Fyzz Facility’s Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones.

ESCAPE PLAN 2 Is A Go; Stallone, Producers Returning

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ESCAPE PLAN 2, Chinese NOW YOU SEE ME Spinoff In The Works At Lionsgate

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Reports are now coming out that plans are under way for a Chinese spin-off of the hit heist franchise, Now You See Me in the wake of its sequel which opened in June. The film is one of two titles in a new co-production deal between the film’s studio, Lionsgate, and Beijing-based Leomus Pictures.

“We’re working closely with Lionsgate on the story,” Leomus Pictures CEO Jie Qiu tells THR. “And a Hollywood writer will be involved to make sure the spinoff is aligned with the Now You See Me franchise and has the same level of quality.”

The move was reportedly off-set by the success of the Hollywood sequel in China surrounding a quintet of magicians forced into a battle of wits and tricks with a villanous tech wizard. Filmmaker Jon M. Chu, who has already been tapped to direct the third film for Lionsgate, helmed the film which doubled its opening weekend gross to the tuned of $43 million compared to its U.S. release last month.

As per the two-film co-production deal, the report also tells of a possible sequel for Mikael Håfström’s 2013 heavy hitter, Escape Plan which starred Sylvester Stallone as a prison security expert forced to fight his way out of a facility located in the middle of nowhere. The film, a wall-to-wall thriller with Stallone joined by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vinnie Jones and Jim Caviezel, opened to $23 million in China compared to its U.S. weekend debut at $10 million.