piracy

Scott Adkins Speaks On CLOSE RANGE And WOLF WAR

It was announced back in late January that action fans would get to see another new collaboration between headlining action star and filmmaking duo, Scott Adkins and Isaac Florentine for the contained rural action thriller, Close Range. Adkins discussed the film among a list others and a few select topics in an interview with The Action Elite which aired on Saturday, describing the film as a “modern Western” crossover between films such as Die Hard and The Raid, in which he plays “Colton MacReady”, a man left vulnerable by a corrupt sheriff and his men while cornered in his own ranch and forced to protect his family from a blood-thirsty drug cartel after rescuing his niece from their capture. “It’s a good character, hard as nails… which I’m good at playing.”, he says. “It’s a full-on action movie where most of the story takes place in one area, so we’ll […]

Read NINJA 2 Star Scott Adkins’ PSA For Fans

Lee B. Golden III

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’)); Post by Scott Adkins Official Page. At one point, martial arts action star, actor Scott Adkins injured his back during the filming of a pivotal chase sequence in director Isaac Florentine‘s latest thriller, Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear, a point he explained in an interview with Crave to promote the film back in September during Fantastic Fest. If anything by now, this gives you a pretty good idea of what action stars with as much calibur as Adkins do for their fans, on top of stars like Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone, Tony Jaa, Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Khan and Donnie Yen to name a few. And to say the least, the critical success and upworthy reviews that the film has earned this summer speaks for […]

Is "KL Gangster 3" Doomed?

Lee B. Golden III

Some of you may recall how impressed you were by the awesomeness presented in the trailer for franchise writer and director Syamsul Yusof‘s explosive, martial arts action-packed Fall gangster thriller, KL Gangster 2. Fanfare around the internet buzzed heavily around the film in the two years before the film’s theatrical release as moviegoers around the world who learned of the film’s existence hoped to learn more about further distribution of the film beyond its Malaysian borders. For those concerned, the film took the top spot on its opening weekend, ultimately beating Gravity and Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2. But its success came with a lot of worry, particularly Yusof who avoided the press and was reportedly devastated to the point of nearly quitting filmmaking as local police began an investigation looking into several cases of the film’s online leak a month before its October 3 release. This evidently […]