MORTAL KOMBAT 2 Debuts New Look At Johnny Cage, Scorpion, And More In New Stills
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MORTAL KOMBAT 2 Gets An ‘Uncaged’ Teaser Poster
The first official teaser poster is here! #MortalKombat2
MORTAL KOMBAT 2: Karl Urban In Negotiations As The Upcoming Sequel Finds Its Johnny Cage
Karl Urban is reportedly in talks to take the mantle for the role of Johnny Cage in director Simon McQuoid’s pending sequel to the Lewis Tan-led 2021 actioner, Mortal Kombat. Urban’s name marks the latest addition to the group of new and returning cast members to continue the story, with actor Joe Taslim already contracted for another installment following his debut as franchise character favorite, Lin Kuei ninja and Cryomancer Bi-Han, a.k.a. Sub-Zero. McQuoid will direct from a script by Marvel series Moon Knight scribe Jeremy Slater. Fan posts and blog updates around the web have been brewing with notes of a summer production start and rumors of potential casting choices for the sequel. Urban’s debut of Cage, a narcissistic Hollywood bad boy and martial arts movie star born with the fighting game franchise’s launch in 1992, is also the character’s newest successor on the screen following actor Linden Ashby […]
THE BOYS Official NSFW Trailer Delivers A Dose Of The Red Stuff And Then Some
Eight episodes enlist the first of what’s to come with upcoming Amazon Original series, The Boys. Season one will debut on July 26 and in case you’re not yet an Amazon subscriber, the streamer’s latest NSFW trailer is out to help continue to make the case they’ve been making. Hailing from NY Times Best Selling comic creators Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys is described as “a fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes – who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods – abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good.” The series stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capon and Karen Fukuhara, with Simon Pegg in a guest role. Rounding out the roles of the Supes of The Seven are Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford and Nathan Mitchell, and […]
BENT: Karl Urban Is Public Enemy No. 1 In The Official Trailer
Good old-fashioned cop thrills are abound with the official trailer for Bent starring Karl Urban and Sofia Vergara. Joseph O’Donnell’s 2009 novel, “Deadly Codes” serves the basis for the narrative adapted by 10th & Wolf helmer, writer and director Bobby Moresco for its March 9 day and date release from Lionsgate via Grindstone. When a drug bust goes wrong, ex-cop Danny Gallagher’s (Karl Urban, Lord of the Rings) quest for justice leads him to the car-bomb murder of a government official’s wife. As Gallagher learns the woman’s secret lover was a seductive federal agent (Sofia Vergara, “Modern Family”), he finds himself under fire. But from who — his own cops, a vengeful drug lord, the CIA, or someone even more ruthless? This pulse-pounding thriller also stars Grace Byers (“Empire”) and Andy Garcia (Ocean’s Eleven). Collider debut the official trailer this week as well as poster art which you can view […]
ACTS OF VENGENACE: Antonio Banderas Narrates Silent, Brutal Redress In The First Trailer For Isaac Florentine’s Revenge Thriller
He’s built up to 27 film and television directing credits to his name in all of thirty years as one of the foremost leading filmmakers in the action genre. Most recently, more prolific efforts there have been a string of genre titles and faves like the Undisputed sequels, Ninja movies and Close Range all headlined by actor Scott Adkins whose career took a greater turn eventually appearing in Scott Derrickson’s Marvel adventure, Doctor Strange. Nowadays and in the wake of a brief producing stint with Todor Chapkanov’s direct-to-video tournament martial arts action hit, Boyka: Undisputed, Florentine’s time in the director’s chair now furthers him some more long-awaited growth into the mainstream. This time, he’s got actor Antonio Banderas (The Expendables 3) taking the mantle and bringing his seasoned gravitas for a role peppered and spiced with heavy, meaty fight action from choreographer Tim Man (Boyka: Undisputed, Ninja: Shadow Of A […]
THOR: RAGNAROK Invites More Buddy Comedy To The Superhero Hype In The New Comic-Con Trailer
Marvel’s trajectory on the big screen has only ever gotten cooler these days, and especially with director Taika Watiti at the helm on Thor: Ragnarok. The film debut a second trailer for the comic-con crowd in San Diego over the weekend and subsequently online and while it wasn’t the only Marvel movie to peek out from behind the curtain, if the first trailer from April hasn’t sold you by now, perhaps this one will earn your favor. Beyond that, my hands are tied. In Marvel Studios’ ‘Thor: Ragnarok’, Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok—the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization—at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him […]
THOR: RAGNAROK Reacquaints Old Enemies And Frenemies In The First Teaser Trailer
If there’s one thing you have to commend Marvel for doing, is keeping their end of all things film such good fun no matter how much people pine for something R-rated or family-friendly. At best, they’ve maintained quite the balance on all ends with thrilling action and storytelling with a cohesive narrative that keeps things nonetheless grounded in the whirlwind of fantasy we’re immersed in. That is now something we get to test out with director Taika Watiti at the helm for his current delivery with Thor: Ragnarok with Chris Hemsworth back and donning a slightly more dapper hairdo to accompany the beefcake Asgardian appearance. Joining in on the fun is the ceremonial return of Marvel familiar’s Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk once more, with actor Karl Urban on the villain end of things as Skurge and Cate Blanchett in the seething role of Hela, […]
Karl Urban’s DREDD To Enforce The Law On 4K Blu-Ray This Summer From Lionsgate Unlocked!
Lionsgate From its Fall theatrical release in 2012 and then on, you will never see me not supporting or endorsing director Pete Travis’s 2000 A.D. hit adaptation, Dredd. Yes, it’s a hit both critically and from a cult perspective, and much more deserving than the reception it got five years ago when fans decided to save their money to make themselves dizzy the following month with Taken 2… I can’t even. Anyway, I’m glad this film is still celebrated by those who know great cinema whem they see it, and that Lionsgate Unlocked is giving it a 4K Blu-Ray release should make for a great way to heat things up this summer when it releases on June 6. For what it’s worth, while we will never see the sequel, Dredd is always a splendid reason to get excited as it’s one of the best action movies in the new millenium […]
Karl Urban Revenge Actioner, BENT, In The Works At AMBI
AMBI Media Group announced this week they are developing a new revenge thriller set to commence this month in Rome titled Bent. The film has cast Karl Urban for the lead role of a disgraced narc and ex-con who sets out to find the person who framed him and killed his partner only to discover greater stakes and treachery unfolding around him. Also starring are Sofia Vergara as a seductive government agent with Andy Garcia playing a retired cop and mentor to Urban’s role. AMBI’s Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi are producing with Deadly Codes Productions whose Joseph O’Donnell created the characters in the script written by Crash producer Bobby Moresco who will direct. via Screendaily: “Bent delivers on the best of film noirs – a main character driven by revenge, who is forced to choose between the truth he knows, the evidence against that truth, and the woman he […]
Banderas’s Battlescars Revealed The Set Of Isaac Florentine Actioner, STOIC
Courtesy of Antonio Banderas’s FB fan page The past several weeks have mostly seen Spanish-language headlines for the current production of the new action thriller, Stoic. Nowadays with the film’s star Antonio Banderas posting on social media, you can expect more English-language sites to finally pick up on the film currently shooting in Bulgaria. The film brings Banderas, in his latest foray into the genre following The Expendables 3, together with martial arts action auteur, filmmaker Isaac Florentine in this, his 15th film. Banderas is joined by Karl Urban (Dredd, Star Trek: Beyond) Paz Vega (Sex and Lucia) for the story of a lawyer desperate for vengenace against the person who murdered his wife and son. Tim Man, who stylized the fight fare for Florentine’s Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear and Todor Chapkanov’s Boyka: Undisputed, which Florentine produced, is directing the action to which Banderas had a front seat a […]
STAR TREK: BEYOND Teases Kirk's Last Mission In The Final Trailer
Prospects are looking great for anime classic, Akira with Justin Lin currently circling the long-awaited live-action adaptation according to much fan fervor stemming from last week. Time will tell to see if and how that latest bit sticks while it’s been a few years since Lin was attached to a few projects, including an iteration of Jet Li classic, Shaolin Temple. Of course, sci-fi fans and Trekkies alike may be thankful for his involvement on Paramount Pictures’s third installation of the Star Trek reboot epic, Star Trek: Beyond. The latest trailers since then have all been exciting and stimulating along with several key bits of artwork, which much of that energy is ado with those grieving over the loss of its co-star, Anton Yelchin last week. All for the better though, the studio’s promotional campaign rolls on for a film that will undoubtedly pay tribute to Yelchin whose brilliant adaptation […]
Marvel Confirms Urban, Goldblum For THOR: RAGNAROK
The omission of Thor from the roster of the Russos’ Captain America: Civil War surely leaves some curious as to what happened to the Asgaardian protector of Earth. Rest assured, that will all be explored when Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok releases next year, and with director Taika Waititi at the helm. Waititi’s latest assignment for Marvel comes amid some terrific prospects earned at Cannes this past week with his latest adventure comedy, Hunt For The Wilderpeople selling out to terrirories worldwide. Taking this to mind on top of a litany of wins and nominations as a filmmaker over the years, it’s fine knowing this film is in good hands, and especially with regard to its cast otherwise confirming favorites like Jeff Goldblum, and the man who continues to be the face of hope for all things Dredd in the years to come, actor Karl Urban. More from Marvel: Two-time Oscar®-winner Cate Blanchett (“Blue Jasmine,” […]
Garland: 'There Will Be No DREDD 2'
2012 brought movie goers our best possible chance at watching a decent adaptation of the 2000 A.D. title comic book, Dredd, with Pete Travis directing and lead actor Karl Urban starring, and the reviews consistently poured in to base claim appropriately. Unfortunately, the film commercially faltered and while some say this was due to bad advertising, others suggest that it probably suffered from the longstanding stigma behind its less-than-exemplary predecessor in 1995 with actor Sylvester Stallone at the time. Nevertheless, social media became the ultimate tool for fans of Urban‘s performance seeking a sequel and any and all updates have pointed minimal, yet hopeful signs that another would come eventually. Blurbs from tge filmmakers, Urban, lead actress Olivia Thirlby and even as recently as executive producer Adi Shankar have kept the movement going while other inspired content creators have lended their efforts to maintain the continued tone of Travis’s film […]
Producer Adi Shankar Gives DREDD 2 Hopefuls A Crash Course In Sequel-Making
It’s been more than two years since the release of director Pete Travis‘s Dredd 3D scored as a major hit among critics while failing commercially at the box office at large. Accordingly, fans who loved the film compared to its 1998 predecessor have been pouring in droves online to celebrate the film’s achievement in delivering a quality feature film adaptation while pressing hard for a sequel in some capacity, and as it stands, that goal has been slow to take, at best. For those not in the know, the 2012 film was written by Alex Garland and produced by Adi Shankar and starred Karl Urban and actresses Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey in the gritty story of a seasoned government lawman assigned to assess a rookie with psychic powers on the streets of Mega City One, only to find themselves trapped in one of the city’s most dangerous Mega City […]
DREDD 3D Gets A One-Night Screening At Tribeca Cinemas In New York City!
There may have been a point in time when director Pete Travis‘s live-action iteration of the 2000 A.D. comic book favorite, Dredd 3D, would have been lost to the ages as a commercial failure, thus crippling any hopes for a sequel. Well, it’s 2014, and if the latest second annual #DayOfDredd celebration on October 1, 2014 shows you nothing else, it shows you that Travis‘s 2012 has been nothing short of a huge success! And not for nothing either! The goal here has always been a sequel, and it is a goal that has only inched itself closer and closer, thanks in large part to support from fans and the leading voices at the Make A Dredd Sequel campaign on Facebook. Those efforts are also showing signs of live, largely with support from the film’s male and female lead, actor Karl Urban and actress Olivia Thirlby, whose assurances of continual support […]
Revisit Mega City One With Your Own Illustrated Screenplay For DREDD 3D
It’s been a year and a half since the theatrical release of director Pete Travis’s 2012 live-action thriller, Dredd 3D, made its way to critical acclaim and a level of fan-appreciation that only continued to amplify when the film’s subsequent commercial numbers dimmed the hopes of an immediate sequel from Lionsgate. Since then, with fan films, webseries projects and sequel comics trickling out public, and a petition that just hit the 100,000 mark in support of a sequel for the 2012 film, conversations are being had that we know little in detail, if anything, about what is particularly being said with Almost Human star, lead actor Karl Urban, screenwriter Alex Garland and the Lionsgate execs in the room. And yes, it’s frustrating to have to be this patient. But the important thing is that there are words being exchanged, and I suspect those details will come to us eventually. In […]
DREDD 2 Is "Dead", But The Shortfilms Live On
And now, hammering the last nail in the coffin is news we can pretty much file in the “No s#!+” category is the word from Charles Webb at MTV Geek according to producer Adi Shankar that the sequel to the 2012 cult fan favorite smash, Dredd 3D is invariably dead. The news comes as several independent filmmakers are making efforts to perform their own take on the vision from Alex Garland and Pete Travis shared in their film released last year from independent company, DNA, and distributed by Lionsgate, starring actor Karl Urban in the title role of the futuristic law enforcer alongside actress Olivia Thirby and the film’s villainous femme fatale played by Lena Heady. Adi Shankar explains: It’s because the movie totally bombed & R-rated movies are a tough sell to begin with. But I am working on a Dredd short in the vein of #DirtyLaundry … you’re […]
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