Thailand-based Joshua Dixon’s feature debut is unleashing Louis Mandylor to shepherd a tale of killer retribution with Hellhound, coming soon from Saban Films. Dixon directs from a script by Niccolô de la Fère who also served among the producers, and with actors Vithaya Pansringarm, Van Quattro, Winai Wiangkangkung and Jirayu Yimamphai rounding out the cast.
Saban Films is poised to release 3 Days In Malay, a new war thriller from actor and director Louis Mandylor and screenwriter Brandon Slagle. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Quentin “Rampage” Jackson also star in the film for its select theatrical, on-Demand and digital release beginning August 11.
Vision Films’ latest order of business now pertains to director Yadhu Krishnan’s new action thriller, Crossfire. The distributor is slating a North American VOD release for May 12 along with a TBA DVD rollout in early June.
Well Go USA is proudly releasing Jesse V. Johnson’s latest period WWII thriller, Hell Hath No Fury, on Blu-Ray and DVD from December 21. Actress, singer/songwriter and model Nina Bergman (Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (VG), Assassin X, The Wayshower) headlines the new film with a cast that also lists Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix franchise, John Wick, Atomic Blonde), Louis Mandylor (The Debt Collector, My Big Fat Greek Wedding I and II), Timothy V. Murphy (“Snowpiercer,” “Sons of Anarchy”), former French Foreign Legion Special Forces soldier and knife-fighting technician Dominiquie Vandenberg (Triple Threat, The Mercenary, Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York) and Josef Cannon (Helsing University).
Jesse V. Johnson loves cinema. Working in various levels of film productions since the early 1990s, the English-born filmmaker first made his name as a stunt performer working on such high profile projects as the original TOTAL RECALL, STARSHIP TROOPERS, WAR OF THE WORLDS, and dozens more. This led to Johnson being a stunt coordinator, a second unit director, and eventually an accomplished feature director. Staying true to his stunt background, the films Johnson has directed are action-packed affairs such as THE DEBT COLLECTOR, TRIPLE THREAT, and AVENGEMENT (to name just a few) that value practical effects and physical performers more than expensive CGI-laden spectacle.
Principal photography is already underway for Bring Him Back Dead, with a cast that lists Gary Daniels (The Expendables), Louis Mandylor (The Brave) and Daniel Baldwin (John Carpenter’s Vampires). Pic hails from Jeff Miller’s (The Russian Bride) Millman Productions and Korey Rowe’s Otsego Media LLC, as well as Ron Lee Productions and Salem House.
Blowback is the second production from Elias Axume (Premiere Entertainment Group) and Al Bravo (Al Bravo Films) following home invasion action-thriller The Commando, which was shot in November in New Mexico with Mickey Rourke, Michael Jai White, and Jeff Fahey starring. Premiere has also produced recently-released female action-thrillers such as Night of the Sicario starring Natasha Henstridge, and the upcoming Mena May 7 release of Locked In starring Mena Suvari.
Action thriller, Blowback, is currently in production starring actors Randy Couture (The Expendables, Final Kill), lead actor Cam Gigandet (Black Site Delta), and Louis Mandylor (The Brave, Avengement). Tibor Takács (The Gate, Lies & Illusions) is directing the heist revenge thriller from a script by Kevin Yarris and Robert Edward Thomas.
![Review: THE DEBT COLLECTOR Pays In Full With Another Solid Adkins/Johnson Package [Reprint/Revisal]](https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/review-the-debt-collector-pays-i-1024x576-260x150.jpg "Review: THE DEBT COLLECTOR Pays In Full With Another Solid Adkins/Johnson Package [Reprint/Revisal]")
The following review for Jesse Johnson’s The Debt Collector was originally published on May 28, 2018. Click here to read my review for the sequel, Debt Collectors, out in the U.S. on May 29 from Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Apart from Samuel Goldwyn’s domain in the U.S., Dazzler Media is coming to U.K. homes with Jesse V. Johnson’s new film regionally titled Payback. The film is already host to swaths of praise from action fans, as well as niche bloggers with early reviews already making the rounds.
Debt Collectors. Plural.
Sometime late last year, Robb Antequera of The Cinema Drunkie sought for the services of several online film reporters, bloggers and willing participants to help contribute to a top fifty list – with sets of ten of our own written summaries – of the previous decade’s best action gems. I contributed about twelve films among which can currently be read among a mix of forty others now opined online as of this article, and in the wake of entries published over at The Action Elite, Action Flix and Bulletproof Action, the series continues below.
On Friday, Jesse V. Johnson took to Instagram with set stills to officially publicize his latest endeavor with The Debt Collector 2.
Fans of independent action cinema keen on following figures like stunt professionals Mitch Gould and Dan Southworth were rightly onto something since both appeared together in Isaac Florentine’s U.S. Seals 2: The Ultimate Force. Both have flourished in the years since then in their crafts behind the lens and thus attributing their work now seen in Gould’s solo directorial debut, Battle DRrone, finally hitting Netflix and serving up a worthy piece of entertainment for select streaming audiences and action fans alike.
From L to R: Dom Fred, Max Repossi, Victor Chen, François Mequer
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