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Is A WOLF WARRIOR Sequel Coming?

If you didn’t mind contributing to the blockbuster success or nationalistic fervor of Wu Jing‘s solo directorial debut, Wolf Warrior back in Spring, then you will be happy to learn that a sequel is now on the way. Asian Film Strike is now buzzing that Wu will return to direct as well as star alongside actress Yu Nan once more with action choreographer Li Chung-Chi likely to return to direct the action. The first film saw Wu in the role of an insubordinate PLA sniper whose second chance at being a soldier with the help of an elite squad commander, played by Yu, is tested to its ultimate when a local crimeboss with nefarious plans sends in foreign mercenaries after him to avenge his brother’s death. The film, which pits Wu against martial arts star Scott Adkins for the first time on screen, was one of the more recent and physically […]

WONDER WOMAN Gets A New Image With Filming Now Underway

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With director Zack Snyder honing in on his superhero movie-making skills for the next several years on with the Justice League films, he’ll be among several directors now embodying the formula to accumulate the long-awaited DC Cinematic Universe following Man Of Steel. That said, there’s plenty to look forward to from Warner Bros. with more Batman movies and so on, but it IS high time that our own Gal Gadot will be getting her day on the big screen this coming March in Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice as Wonder Woman. Gladly enough though, her story will continue from there with her own standalone contribution as well from Monster helmer Patty Jenkins. It’s a film that has taken way too long to happen as well after so many years in comic book ink, games and television, and thankfully that’s about to change. Just a few production photos have already […]

Marko Zaror's REDEEMER 『ザ・リディーマー』Gets A Japan DVD Release Date

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Strictly for the fans in Japan, Ernesto Diaz Espinoza’s latest revenge thriller, Redeemer 『ザ・リディーマー』, is heading to DVD and digital on February 3, and the trailer arrived this week. Action star Marko Zaror is a man on a spiritual mission to test his will to live through acts of vigilantism, to which an array of explosive action and martial arts sequences ensue, and much to our delight! It’s old news for most folks stateside, but it’s still very much relevant for fellow fans in the far East which makes it all the more relevant. Plus, who in their right mind doesn’t love a good martial arts movie anywhere in the world? Endulge, my friends! Itadakimasu!

Watch The First Trailer For CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE Starring Kevin Hart And Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson!

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Pitting two bankable film stars in the same movie is one thing, but just what exactly does one look like with actors Kevin Hart and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson? Well, for starters, director Rawson Marshall Thurber has an answer to that which begins with the newest trailer for the upcoming action comedy, Central Intelligence, with a plot that surely flips the script, shoots it, crashes into it and throws it out the damn window. Screaming. SYNOPSIS: The story follows a one-time bullied geek who grew up to be a lethal CIA agent (Johnson), coming home for his high school reunion. Claiming to be on a top-secret case, he enlists the help of the former “big man on campus” (Hart), now an accountant who misses his glory days. But before the staid numbers-cruncher realizes what he’s getting into it’s too late to get out, as his increasingly unpredictable new friend drags […]

Christopher McQuarrie On Track To Write And Direct Sixth MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Film

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It was back in the summer that actor Tom Cruise went public with the news of an upcoming sixth installation of the Mission: Impossible franchise now in development. That update came in the good graces of this summer’s box office hit, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which accumulated nearly $700 million dollars following its July 31 release, and not for nothing either. Paramount Pictures and Skydance are clearly thriving off of the franchise and doing so in a way that allows it to grow further beyond its films, with a storyline that continues to evolve and achieve tenfold in the years since its origins as a television series. Cruise is at the center of it all as a secret superspy dodging close calls at every corner with the help of a loyal few while battling some of the world’s worst of the worst, and even when a few wildcards tend […]

It's A War Of Words And Wing Chun In The New Trailer For IP MAN 3

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With the promise of a January 22 release of director Wilson Yip‘s Ip Man 3 in the U.S., folks in Hong Kong and China aren’t too far off with film getting its day a month earlier this Christmas. Alas, this week’s new trailer for the film comes just at the right time, and it may very well just be action star Donnie Yen‘s last foray in kung fu cinema, though time will tell if that changes. For now though, we’re taking it all in. The Ip Man trilogy from the Yip/Yen end of the spectrum has been nothing short of memorable for fans of the action star and its legendary co-stars past and present, even amidst criticisms of its lack of historical correctness in some capacity. Yuen Woo-Ping also joins in on the Wing Chun fun as the film’s action director and for what it’s worth, Ip Man 3 looks […]

Pierce Brosnan Joins Jackie Chan In Martin Campbell's Latest From STX And SR Media

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It’s a busy Fall season for action star Jackie Chan in the wake of promoting his newest globetrotting comedy, Skiptrace, with his Abu Dhabi-set Kung Fu Yoga and Ding Sheng’s Railroad Tigers still on deck. However, chances are he’ll be well onto director Martin Campbell‘s forthcoming production soon enough with Campbell to begin Relativity’s Hunter Killer next Spring. The film in question still doesn’t have a title but does have a premise and a slowly-accumulating cast which now includes actor Pierce Brosnan as of this week’s report from The Wrap. The report describes the role as that of a former IRA-turned-government official who factors into the life of a Viet Cong-turned-South London restaurant owner who sets out to avenge the death of his family at the hands of the IRA. Formerly titled The Foreigner, Chan is to lead the film, based on an adaptation of the 1992 Hodder and Stoughton […]

EXTRACTION Delivers A Swift Kick To The Guts In The New Trailer!

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December 18 is going to be one crowded day at the movies with so many titles to choose from. However, if you haven’t had a plate-full by then and have a little more room left, Steven C. Miller‘s new action thriller, Extraction, ought to help hit the spot…you know, like a superman punch to the face or a swift kick to the sternum. Or something. SYNOPSIS: When a terrorist group kidnaps retired CIA field operative Leonard Turner, his son Harry Turner, a government analyst who has been repeatedly turned down for field service, launches his own unsanctioned rescue operation. While evading highly skilled operatives, deadly assassins, and international terrorists, Harry finally puts his combat training to the test in a high-stakes mission to find his father and to stop a terrorist plot. Simon Rhee coordinated the action you’re about to see featuring Bruce Willis, Kellan Lutz and Gina Carano whose […]

F*ck The Rules! Watch The Explosive New Teaser For Kellie Madison’s THE GATE!

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Strange things happen when The Raid 2 co-star Cecep Arif Rahman gets angry. But does actress and martial artist Amy Johnston care? Nope, she just goes all in with kicks to the face of anyone who gets in her way! Yes, it’s the new teaser for director Kellie Madison‘s upcoming nine-minute proof pitch, The Gate. The project is still in post production and as promised on Tuesday, Madison has brought the goddamn thunder this week in an explosive teaser that literally shatters the rules and gives a hardcore ass-kicking, just the way we want it. And yes, you doubters out there can OFFICIALLY eat your words! CASSIE WESTON (played by Amy Johnston) is a world champion fighter and master of the ancient Indonesian martial art form- PENCAK SILAT. When possessed by an angelic force, Cassie gains extraordinary abilities that she uses to fight crime in New Orleans as a super […]

Andrey Kravchuk's Trailer For VIKING Is An Opus Of Fire, Blood And Warfare

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You have to give it to director Andrey Kravchuk this week. Having been in development for a few years and finally making sales rounds this past Spring and Summer, his latest endeavor, Viking is garnering some heavy attention ahead of its December 22 release in Russia next year. Based largely on 11th century East Slavic manuscripts, the film stars Danila Kozlovsky as a royal son who pairs with an old warrior to assemble an army and face the man who killed his father and older brother, his power-hungry younger brother. The trailer is online and viral via Russian media sites, emulating a dark and wintery setting, grim luster, raging viking warfare in a three-minute opus of pure fire, blood and vegeance with stunning visuals and drama. It’s pretty ambitious and fair that this would rightly be hard to pass up. Watch the trailer below!

Sam Riley Joins Rupert Sanders's Manga/Anime Adap, GHOST IN THE SHELL

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It’s no easy thing to deal with a Hollywood adaptation of a beloved Japanese animated property and such a case includes the latest developments surrounding Snow White & The Huntsman helmer Rupert Sanders’s latest, Ghost In The Shell. The brouhaha hasn’t really settled since actress Scarlett Johansson was cast for the lead role which happens to be Japanese with an associated name based on the classic anime, and with filming set for New Zealand, further casting announcements are being made that stray farther from the Japan setting in the preceding manga and anime. Thus, with Johansson and actor Pilou Asbæk joining in the role of “Borgen”, Variety confirms that actor Sam Riley has been cast to play the main villain. Dreamworks and Paramount are backing and producing the film for its release in March of 2017 with a script by Straight Outta Compton scribe Jonathan Herman. Production starts sometime between January […]

Indie Fight Drama, ENTER THE CAGE, Gets A Festive Pound-For-Pound Teaser

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Just a year off of his latest award-winning Cannes favorite, The Eleventh Hour, director K. John McDonagh is back with his newest independent fight flick, Enter The Cage. Filming began back in the Summer with actor, P.K.A. Middleweight Champion and stunt coordinator, Dean “Crazy Legs” Williams leading the cast following earlier crowdfunding efforts while photography expected to continue between now and next year upon its release. For now though and with all that’s left to do, the production just ponied up a teaser this week to present a glimpse of what the film will look like, and though the story is set in the U.S., the film is largely being shot in various locales of Birmingham in the U.K. to help present a concurrent North American MMA atmosphere. There isn’t much dialogue in the teaser, although if you don’t mind some 80’s new wave rock to coincide with your dose […]

Watch Harrison Ford Make Fans Cry And Enter To Win Tickets For An Early Screening Of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS!

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Forget the TV spots if you will, lest you spoil yourself with too much footage what with a month left before the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The promotion team is launching a campaign for select winners to win four tickets to see an early premiere and you learn more about it at the official non-profit charity platform, Omaze.com, current home of the “Force For Change” campaign. In the meantime, if you love Han Solo, chances are you’ll be catching the forthcoming spin-off movie already in the works for its 2018 release. More to the point though, if you want to learn how to make fans cry tears of joy whilst coerceing them in his corner, actor and franchise star Harrison Ford gladly demonstrates how in the Omaze campaign video below.

Iko Uwais Goes To Work In A New Action Still From HEADSHOT

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The current production of the new Indonesian action thriller, Headshot, still has about a month left, but directors Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel are gracing fans through social media with several raw pics and stills of the production. The latest one, however, lends us a glimpse into the upcoming film’s action sequences hosted by lead actor Iko Uwais and his premiere troupe, Uwais Team, with the crew having completed one of its first action scenes just last week. Check it out below, and say hello to “The Snake” as well! First look of @iko.uwais in one of his fight scenes. #headshotmovie #headshot A photo posted by Timo Tjahjanto (@timobros) on Nov 18, 2015 at 9:54pm PST Meet the snake. #headshot #headshotmovie A photo posted by Timo Tjahjanto (@timobros) on Nov 13, 2015 at 3:55am PST Tjahjanto and Stamboel, pennamed as The Mo Brothers and helmers of their previous film, Killers, […]

THE MONKEY KING 2 Gets Its First Teaser!

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It’s great to see that director Soi Cheang‘s return to the helm for next year’s 3D endeavor, The Monkey King 2, only took two years to arrive. The fact that the first film became such a box office hit in 2014 undoubtedly plays a role in that, but with its initial actor, Donnie Yen out of the picture, it’s returning actor Aaron Kwok, no longer the Bull Demon King he was but now in costume as our title hero based on Chinese folklore. Alas, the first teaser has arrived and not only to we get a look at a few of our actors in action, but we get a couple of great up-close shots of Kwok in all those layers of Monkey King make-up. Time will tell how this one goes but the visuals look great and has a damn good director, and Sammo Hung designed the action sequences, so […]

Watch The Official Green-Band Trailer For Henry Rollins's HE NEVER DIED

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Director Jason Krawczyk‘s new horror comedy, He Never Died, has plenty to feed off of from its residual acclaim following SXSW earlier this year. It’s finally making its way to theaters on December 18 following earlier crowdfunding efforts which are currently on-going, although to that effect, we now have a work-safe trailer which grants us all the same – a carnivorous, cantankerous and brazen badass character in actor Henry Rollins who finds a new lease on other than at the bottom of a bottle sitting at Bingo. SYNOPSIS: In HE NEVER DIED, Jack (Henry Rollins) is in a rut. His existence has been whittled down to sleeping and watching TV and he sees the human race as little more than meat with a pulse. When Jack suddenly finds his long lost daughter taken by the city’s crime syndicate, he must combat his inner demons as he embarks on a bloody […]

Well Go USA's MOJIN: THE LOST LEGEND, Scores A U.S. Trailer

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Formerly titled The Ghouls, director Wuershan‘s latest, Mojin: The Lost Legend has an official U.S. trailer out this week. You can pretty much guess where this adventure goes judging by its artwork or its initial teasers and trailers, and that’s not to take away from the spectacular visuals and scope we get in turn. Plus the sight of actress Shu Qi leading the cast is always an endearing one. SYNOPSIS: Some people have a special gift. They’re able to travel between the realms of the Living and the Dead…and Tomb Raiding can mean Big Business. Welcome to the world of the Mojin. Based on the #1 Bestselling series of novels and starring Shu Qi, Chen Kun, Angelababy, and Huang Bo, MOJIN: THE LOST LEGEND pits a trio of legendary grave robbers against scholars, rivals, and the law – until an offer from a mysterious stranger tempts them into one last […]

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THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER'S WAR Is No Kids' Fairy Tale. Watch The Trailer!

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Monday’s character posters for Cedric Nicolas-Troyan‘s The Huntsman: Winter’s War, were all the hint we needed in learning just how this latest derivative take on childhood folklore would look, aside from its trailer tease on Tuesday. Today, we get a full on trailer and not for nothing either with sweeping views of a kingdom rife with luster and beauty, suddenly overcome by looming darkness and evil by two evil sisters, and with Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastain as our only hope for salvation; considering how action-packed and electrifying it looks, I’d say I’m pretty sold on this. SYNOPSIS: The fantastical world of Snow White and the Huntsman expands to reveal how the fates of The Huntsman Eric and Queen Ravenna are deeply and dangerously intertwined. Chris Hemsworth and Oscar® winner Charlize Theron return to their roles in The Huntsman Winter’s War, an epic action-adventure in which they are joined by […]

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ZOOLANDER 2 Gets A Trailer With More Magnum And Blue Steel. And Justin Bieber Dying.

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To think there was once a time that a film like Zoolander would only appeal as somewhat an awkward and goofy comedy, is pretty much the antithesis of its box office success. For that you have to give it to actor and director Ben Stiller who, after fifteen years of containing museum exhibits, ‘Fockers‘ and a secret life, is finally back with Zoolander 2, now with even more left-turning and mopey faced Stiller as he and Owen Wilson try to stave off death by old age, ugly looks and bad fashion. Penelope Cruz joins in as well, along with an eye-browless Benedict Cumberbatch, Justin Bieber dying before a selfie, and Will Ferrell, in a muscle suit for some reason. The second trailer is below and it does offer some nice little action and spectacle to accomodate the awkwardness and goofdom.

Watch The New Promo For ABC's AGENT CARTER

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With the Marvel Cinematic Universe now venturing into its third phase and Netflix still heating things up, it’s only fair our heroes in ABC’s Agent Carter get the same growth. Hayley Atwell wholly steals the screen in the title role for the first film and its subsequent show, and nearly in the same capacity on social media throwing Dubsmash jabs at her fellow Marvel ilk between Comic-Con appearances and such, so it’s safe to say Marvel’s made the right decision here. Thus, with a second season now looming as of May, we finally get to sample just a piece of the bustling life of our newly relocated heroine. And of course she won’t be alone with James D’Arcy back as Edwin Jarvis and actors Chad Michael Murray as Agent Jack Thompson and AMC’s Preacher star Dominic Cooper back in the early years as Howard Stark, with cult favorite thesp Kurtwood […]