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SEIZED: Adkins Takes To Instagram To Confirm Isaac Florentine Thriller On Location In Mexico

Follow actor and martial arts star Scott Adkins on Instagram on Friday and you’ll spot a Story post highlighting his continued adventures with gym hype and his latest venture with WanWan Protein. The post also confirms his arrival to Mexico to commece production on the new action thriller, Seized, which was teased in the markets with a sales poster presented by Premiere Entertainment Group. Carl Rizk, an ex-covert operative who’s moved to a small quiet town in Oregon to raise his son and daughter gets awakened by a phone call and message from a modulated voice telling him that both his children have been kidnapped and buried alive with just enough air to survive for the next 5 hours. In order to ever see his children alive again, Rizk has to take on three distinct groups of highly-skilled criminals and kill each and every one of them. But he has […]

AFM 2018: Scott Adkins Thriller, KARMOUZ WAR, Shops Around For Premiere Through Next Week

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Peter Mimi’s latest 1952-set thriller, Karmouz War, saw a release in Egypt over the summer and now the film will be setting sail in the marketplace courtesy of Premiere Entertainment Group. The Los Angeles-based company has launched talks with buyers for the film which stars Amir Karara opposite action star Scott Adkins, and is penned by Mimi from a story by producer Mohamed El Sobky. A British soldier (Adkins) is locked up by his own army for military misconduct, but is unleashed by the British as their secret weapon when fighting the Egyptian soldiers, who are led by General Yousef al-Masri in Karmouz, Alexandria during English-occupied Egypt. Karim Gawish served as executive producer for Lucid Film. The project is also one of a few titles being handled by Premiere at the moment with the aforementioned action star and there aren’t any headlines officiating so I’m not mentioning it here, but […]

AVENGEMENT: Scott Adkins Goes To Prison In New Set Photos And Stills

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Production is already underway for Jesse Johnson’s entry next in Scott Adkins action film fandom Avengement, and both star and director have just featured the latest look at our protagonist in two new photos from the set. Judging by the overall look, costumes and hashtags, the new thriller sounds much like it’ll be in a prison/escape setting to foundate the plot, telling of Cain Burgess, a lowly criminal who sets out to his old stomping grounds to get even with the people who made him a cold-hearted killer. Joined by actor Louis Mandylor, Johnson and Adkins are freshly coming off of recent ceremony over gangster buddy action dramedy, The Debt Collector, one in a continuing string of titles they’ve principally shared in the last several years including Savage Dog and graphic novel adaptation, Accident Man. Dan Styles and Luke LaFontaine are rejoining the action design efforts according to Johnson’s Instagram […]

Review: THE DEBT COLLECTOR Pays In Full With Another Solid Adkins/Johnson Package

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The past several years have seen quite a bit from stunt multi-hyphenate and filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson. Notable efforts like the classy and cool noir, The Beautiful Ones, and down and dirty action thrillers like Savage Dog and Accident Man have all come to pass as some of the best the genre has put out by far, and not without the measured efforts of our director in his current stride with actor Scott Adkins – a dauntless screen talent with twenty years in film and television – who is a continual quest to break more ground as a prospective mainstream entertainer. It’s a period that’s lasted since before Johnson’s third film, Pit Fighter, on which Adkins appeared in a brief role; three years after the burgeoning action star laid claim in a breakout capacity on Isaac Florentine’s 2003 direct-to-video hit, Special Forces. Since then, the U.K. actor has been fortunate […]

IP MAN 4 Casts Scott Adkins

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If the recent, explosive trailer for Egyptian actioner, Karmouz Wars, wasn’t enough to get your blood pumping, take heed of actor, action star and celebrated “Boyka” screen persona, Scott Adkins who just blew more minds via Instagram hailing his addition to Ip Man 4 with reprising star/director duo Donnie Yen and Wilson Yip. Details on his role weren’t made available nor any other casting names, although the plot does hint at the return of a young Bruce Lee previously played by Danny Chan in the 2016 third installment. I’m extremely excited to report that I’m currently in China shooting Ip Man 4 with the great @donnieyenofficial who I have been a huge fan of since the 80’s. Donnie personally asked me to play this part and for sure you guys won’t be disappointed, especially with our action director being the legendary Yuen Woo Ping. I consider the Ip Man films […]

Trailer: Scott Adkins VS. All Of Egypt In KARMOUZ WAR!

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I imagine further retooling will be applied for any Western profusion of Peter Mimi’s latest, Karmouz War. Needless to say, he’s got something pretty feasible on his hands with local Egyptian actor Amir Karara starring as a police officer during the tumultuous reign of King Farouk – Egypt’s last king. He’ll be joined opposite martial arts star Scott Adkins in his Egyptian debut and no less judging by the trailer, turning Egypt upside down while going toe-to-toe with Karara in the course of things. The film will open on the week of June 14 in Egypt in time for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which is all we know until we learn which sales agency gets it first for market repping so, stay tuned for that news as well. Enjoy the trailer!

INCOMING: Scott Adkins Sci-Fi Thriller Lands An Official Trailer

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Eric Zaragoza’s directorial debut gets the pleasure of having one of the fandom’s most prolific and admired action stars, Scott Adkins, billed first, front and center. The official trailer for sci-fi actioner, Incoming, has been on a slow, progressive rollout this week ahead of a select May 4 release having initially debuted on iTunes. Peter Martin at ScreenAnarchy has exclusively presented a wider release of the trailer to help spark interest. The International Space Station is now a prison — the ultimate black site. No one’s getting out. And no one knows it’s there. But when the imprisoned terrorists take over the Station and turn it into a missile aimed at Moscow, only a shuttle pilot and a rookie doctor can stop them. Their task is complicated by a rogue CIA agent (Adkins) who has his own plans for the station and the terrorists within. Also starring are Aaron McCusker, […]

THE DEBT COLLECTOR Trailer: Big Balls, A Fast Fist And White Wall Tires Set The Pace For Another Johnson/Adkins Thrillride

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The renaissance of late seeing stunt professionals taking to the helm and winning sizeably has all but been signature for action genre fans. Adding to the excitement is the work of director Jesse V. Johnson whose momentum simply continues to increase in the wake of titles like The Package and The Beautiful Ones, along with subsequent several pairings in the last few years with actor Scott Adkins. Thus, gracing netizens everywhere this week is the latest trailer footage for The Debt Collector, pitching a swift crime thriller emboldened with dramtic wit and chemistry, and refreshing stunt sequences characteristic of Luke LaFontaine. There’s no precise info on release dates safe for mention of a June deadline depending on where you look but I imagine official details will get sharper as the weeks pass. French (Scott Adkins, Marvel’s “Doctor Strange”) is running a martial arts gym, training promising new fighters– but it […]

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FIGHTING SPIRIT FILM FESTIVAL 2018: Scott Adkins To Lead The One-Night Line-Up With ACCIDENT MAN Premiere And Q&A

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2016’s inaugural events at the Fighting Spirit Film Festival and the year that followed have amply set things in motion for the sustenance of martial arts fandom in the U.K.. Reasonably, it’s all the more reason to look forward to another evening of action-packed festivities headlined by none other than celebrated action star Scott Adkins who will headline the event to be kicked off with the official U.K. premiere of one of our own favorites, Accident Man. That means an early chance to view the beloved, martial arts-infused bone breaking comedic action thriller and engage a Q&A with the star on April 7 – just nine days ahead of its official regional release on April 16. The programme will also be ripe with several winning independent action gems from last year’s FSFF – namely Eric Jacobus’s Blindsided, Beau Fowler’s Express Delivery, and Leif Johnston’s crowdfunded action short, Kowloon Killers starring […]

CALL TO ACTION: Want NINJA 3? This Is What Scott Adkins Wants You To Do…

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On the count of actor and martial artist Scott Adkins being correct, there’s a chance a third installment into the direct-to-DVD Ninja franchise could very likely happen. The Accident Man star and producer posted on his Facebook and Instagram pages stating his case to potentially get the film moving forward if producers can be swayes via reacting and commenting to the posts. Do me a favour guys. If you want to see Ninja 3 – please LIKE and COMMENT and maybe I can convince the producers to make it happen. Who wants to see Ninja 3? Both the 2009 and 2013 installments were shepherded by none other than Isaac Florentine in his fruitful pairing with Adkins for a splashy return of the very genre once popular in the 80s. The most recent offering, Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear, was riotous big screen hit at the festivals and among fans alike. […]

TRIPLE THREAT: Producer Mike Selby Talks Buddies, Monsters, Machines And The Pursuit Of Perfection

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Photo: Mike Selby If all goes as expeditious as planned, stunt multi-hyphenate Jesse V. Johnson’s latest contribution with all-star Asian headliner, Triple Threat, should see a release midway this year. Post-production still remains pending completion for the new action thriller written by Joey O’Bryan and Paul Staheli, and filmed early last year and with fans pining for Johnson’s latest exciting follow-up to this week’s release of Accident Man, I managed to touch base with Mike Selby, manager to one of the film’s leads – action star Tony Jaa. It was Selby, who served as one of the producers as he did on Skin Trade, Jaa’s 2015 two-hander with action heavy-hitter Dolph Lundgren opposite Ron Perlman and Michael Jai White, who aided us in getting in touch with his client for an in-depth interview several years ago. At the time, he and I chatted and I made a passing mention about […]

SAVAGE RESOLVE: An Interview With Stuntman And Filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson

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From left to right: Scott Adkins, Jesse V. Johnson and Marko Zaror on the set of SAVAGE DOG (2017) Back in the early two-thousandsies, my DVD purchase of director Jesse V. Johnson’s Pit Fighter was certainly a blind-buy for me. What attracted me the most, of course, was the appearance of actor and martial artist Dominique Vandenberg on the cover and having especially noticed him delivering a barrage of kicks as the Outworld minion who gets smashed after Sub-Zero gives spectators the infamous “taste of things to come” in the 1995 feature, Mortal Kombat, I pretty much thought I’d give it a shot. The film’s delivery earned a mix of reviews on the now-defunct HKFlix.com whereas my own opinion of the film was half-and-half. My own tastes were evolving so I didn’t appreicate it as much as I probably would now if I gave it a rewatch…and I’m not just […]

A Case For Better Action Movies: Jesse V. Johnson’s ACCIDENT MAN Is The Quintessential Scott Adkins Action Movie

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Martial arts fandom persists with the help of flourishing successes in film and TV. Direct-to-video releases, an underdog portion of the current market, sputters due no less to the profusion of torrents but nevertheless remains tenacious in its stability for fans and consumers. It’s an endurance that keeps burgeoning actors like UK martial artist and fan favorite, Scott Adkins, relevant long enough to see progress on more than one front in the last twenty years as he has been. Indeed, twenty years is a long time for anyone to put their physicality and well-being through the blender to maintain peak screenfighting athleticism, and all while forseeing prospects in a field where the likes of celebrated crossover stars such as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, and the emerging crop of stunt and film talent from around the internet, have all brought to question the legitimacy of growing stunt professionals into principal […]

Scott Adkins Actioner TWILIGHT ZODIAC Rolls Cameras As Production Goes Underway

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Actor Scott Adkins is staying on his feet well into the new year in lieu of the upcoming release of his latest with director Jesse Johnson, Accident Man. The multifaceted martial arts star is currently in China making headway with a raft of actors for Twilight Zodiac as confirmed by Adkins’s Facebook fanpage with the martial arts star reuniting with helmer Ernie Barbarash following the 2011 Jean-Claude Van Damme headliner, Assassination Games. Plot details are thin while several photos can be seen via social media featuring the likes of Adkins who rejoins with action director Tim Man for their fifth project together, and with actor and martial arts star Andy On who rematches once more with his fellow Black Mask 2: City Of Masks co-star. Also starring is lead actress Anna Troung best known for shepherding recent Vietnamese actioners with director Cuong Ngo on Huong Ga (2014) and Truy Sat in […]

HARB KARMOOZ: Scott Adkins Joins Amir Karara-Led Egyptian Period Actioner

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With a swathe of projects coming in through next year, actor and martial artist Scott Adkins is adding to the list having headed to Egypt for his latest endeavors, Thus, advancing the production of the new movie, Harb Karmooz (Karmooz Wars), is director Peter Mimi who also rejoins Amir Karara, the star of Mimi’s recent framed fugitive TV series drama, Kalabash. Details on Adkins’s role remain hidden while the overall plot sees our setting during the middle of the 20th century under the reign of Egypt’s last royal, King Farouk. Mohamed el Sobky’s script sees Karara starring as Youssef el Masry, a police officer living in the district of Karmooz in Alexandria where he fights and fends off numerous villains and at one point saves a girl from being raped. Karara is joined by a predominant cast of locals including Mostafa Khater, Ghada Abdel Razek, Bayoumy Fouad, Fathy Abdelwahab and […]

ACCIDENT MAN: Scott Adkins Has Some Accidents To Plan In The U.S. Trailer For Jesse Johnson’s Comic Book Adaptation

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Ready for another brutal and bloody round with Savage Dog actor/director Scott Adkins and Jesse Johnson? Den Of Geek just presented the exclusive first official trailer for Sony’s upcoming U.S. release of Accident Man inspired by the comic book adaptation of the same name. Based on the underground British comic Toxic! by Pat Mills (creator of the “Judge Dredd” comic) and Tony Skinner, this darkly humorous and stylishly violent adaptation stars Scott Adkins (Doctor Strange, The Expendables 2) as Accident Man, a stone-cold killer who must face off against a rogue’s gallery of ruthless assassins in order to uncover the truth about his ex-girlfriend’s murder. Co-starring Ashley Greene (Twilight series), Oscar® nominee David Paymer (Best Supporting Actor, Mr. Saturday Night, 1992), and action fan favorites Ray Park (Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace), Ray Stevenson (Thor series) and Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight), ACCIDENT MAN hits its target […]

AUREA MEDIOCRITAS: A Word With SINNERS AND SAINTS: VENGEANCE Writer Chad Law

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Chad Law and Farah White on the set of DAYLIGHT’S END I still actually have a ways to go in catching up with certain titles that fell off the radar for me in the last several years. William Kaufman’s small scale 2010 film Sinners And Saints is one of them, especially after managing to snag a few viewings of his 2005 killer thriller, The Prodigy, which absolutely impressed me. Assuredly, I’m not the last one to gush about Kaufman’s work. Leave it to screenwriter Chad Law who knows a lot better and more having gotten in as many as four projects with the director while they now prepare for their fifth pairing, Sinners And Saints: Vengeance, which goes before cameras very soon with Johnny Strong and Scott Adkins first to front the casting. It’s early in the process for the film but the goal is reportedly to furbish it as […]

SINNERS AND SAINTS: VENGEANCE Pairs Johnny Strong And Scott Adkins For A Franchise Reboot

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Anchor Bay Entertainment/XLrator Media With the upcoming rollout or Jesse Johnson’s The Pay Up, Accident Man and Triple Threat in his wake, leave it to action star Scott Adkins to help carry the mantle with word on the upcoming action thriller revisal, Sinners & Saints: Vengeance. Adkins will reunite once more with Chad Law-penned Jarhead 3: The Siege helmer William Kaufman who, in turn, reunites with actor Johnny Strong who led the initial 2011 revenge cop thriller. The film aims as a stand-alone sequel which tells of a New Orleans detective who journeys to Moscow to avenge the murder of his partner at the hands of a syndicate enforcer with the help of an old war buddy, and the enforcer’s lover. Law, whose writing credits also include Kaufman’s zombie hit thriller, Daylight’s End and Isaac Florentine’s Adkins-led home invasion action pic, Close Range, is scripting with Saints And Sinners scribe […]

TRIPLE THREAT Sells To Multiple Territories Worldwide For Theatrical And Netflix Releases In 2018

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July was a great month to be a martial arts fan with all the excuse in the world to repeat-watch the comic-con teaser trailer for the new martial arts thriller, Triple Threat. Of course, critical results are pending but the trailer ponies up everything you could want in a movie of its genre with Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais and Tiger Chen leading the cast and Savage Dog helmer Jesse V. Johnson directing. The movie opens in 2018 with plans for a sequel already underway and Well Go USA has already snagged first dibs on the upcoming ensemble action pic. That leaves off a number of territories to be accounted for which brings us to Screendaily‘s exclusive on Monday for the U.S. based company to release the film in the U.K. and Australia as well, in addition to the following locations: Germany (Koch), Latin America (Swen), Italy (Movies Inspired), Portugal (Cinemundo), […]

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OPINION: Why Everyone Needs To Watch BOYKA: UNDISPUTED On Netflix. NOW.

The Champ Is Here! This past week was cause for celebration amongst action fans. After an eight-year long wait, everyone’s favorite Russian prison fighter has returned to the ring in Boyka: Undisputed. The reason for the long wait has been well documented (rampant piracy) and if fans don’t support this film, we may never see Boyka again. To all the fans who supported this film by buying it on disc, you are awesome people and we appreciate you for fighting the good fight. But our work as fans doesn’t end there, the war must be fought on a new front; we need to make this a hit on Netflix! A Genre Against the Ropes? It’s no secret that the career of Scott Adkins (and by extension, the entire DTV Action genre) has been undercut by internet piracy. It’s lead to lower budgets, tighter schedules and has prevented the hard working […]