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New EXTRACTION 2 Trailer Footage And Poster Art Puts You In The Line Of Fire!
Anyone else got plans on June 16?… I reckon at least a number of you out there will be staying home and tuning in to check out Extraction 2 on Netflix, and back to remind us all once more is a brand new trailer signaling, and further solidifying stunt professional-turned-director Sam Hargrave as a worthy add to the cadre of today’s best in action direction so far. The sequel teams Hargrave once more with Marvel main Chris Hemsworth back in the role of Tyler Rake, and for that matter, back from the dead following the events of Hargrave’s 2020 hit based on Ande Parks’ “Ciudad”. Thus, the black ops mercenary is now tasked with another deadly mission: rescuing the battered family of a ruthless Georgian gangster from the prison where they are being held. Joe Russo penned the pic, and joins Anthony Russo via their AGBO banner as two of […]
THE GRAY MAN: Ryan Gosling And Chris Evans Go Head-To-Head In The Official Trailer For Netflix’s July Release
It’s the moment every Netflix subscriber engaged with Cherry and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame helmer Anthony and Joe Russo’s latest film, The Gray Man, has been waiting for with the arrival of the official trailer on Tuesday. The film is based on the eponymous novel by Mark Greaney, with a script by Joe Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. THE GRAY MAN is CIA operative Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling), aka, Sierra Six. Plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), Gentry was once a highly-skilled, Agency-sanctioned merchant of death. But now the tables have turned and Six is the target, hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former cohort at the CIA, who will stop at nothing to take him out. Agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas) has his back. He’ll need it. Also starring are Regé-Jean Page, Jessica […]
CHERRY Trailer: Tom Holland Is A Fourth Wall-Breaking Bank Robber With A Story To Tell
Having earned their audience acclaim with Marvel’s movie franchises in the last seven years, directing duo Joe and Anthony Russo have since garnered plenty of clout as a producing powerhouse for hit films to this day. They’ve also managed to vie for other creative endeavors, including smaller scale dramatic crime opus, Cherry, after attaining the rights to Nico Walker’s best-selling novel. Casting Tom Holland (Spider-Man, Marvel’s MCU) and Ciara Bravo (Wayne, Small Engine Repair), the film now has an official trailer leaning delightfully into some fourth wall-breaking moments amidst the narrative. Cherry (Tom Holland) drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq—anchored only by his one true love, Emily (Ciara Bravo). But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world. Cherry will release in select theaters on February 26, and an exclusive run […]
SAIGON BODYGUARDS Is Getting A Remake Starring Chris Pratt And Wu Jing For Universal Pictures
Chris Pratt (Guardians Of The Galaxy/MCU, upcoming The Tomorrow War) and Wu Jing (Wolf Warrior franchise) are teaming up to headline a reimagining of Ken Ochiai’s 2016 action comedy, Saigon Bodyguards, for Universal Pictures. Thai Hoa and Kim Ly starred in the original film which was produced by Rhomhus Media and CJ Entertainment, and focused on two pals – polar opposites working as professional bodyguards who are assigned to protect a rich brat, only for the job to go completely downhill. The new film will be in the hands of Universal Pictures with Pratt and Jing starring from a script by Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck (What Men Want, HBO’s Veep). Pratt is producing through his Indivisible Productions banner, marking a reunion for both actors with powerhouse film duo Anthony and Joe Russo who had their hands on multiple titles within the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Pratt stars a […]
MAGIC: THE GATHERING Teams The Russos, Wizards Of The Coast And Allspark For New Animated Netflix Series
Post Marvel employment for sibling filmmaker duo Anthony and Joe Russo isn’t exactly running dry. The two have a raft of TV and film production titles pending in the last five years and on Monday, they’re officially adding Magic: The Gathering to their workload going forward. The brothers are pairing up with Netflix, Wizards of The Coast, and Hasbro’s Allspark Animation to develop an animated series based on the longstanding trading card game which took off more than 25 years ago. The Russos will create an original story for the show expanding on the Planeswalkers – unique magic-wielding heroes and villains as they contend with stakes larger than any one world can hold. Created in 1993, the Magic franchise has connected with over 38 million fans over the last 25 years and has been published in eleven languages and played in over 70 countries. The Russos will exec produce the […]
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR Goes First As The Russos Land AGBO/MGM Partnership
Actor Michael B. Jordan is still poised to take the lead in a revival of classic heist pic, The Thomas Crown Affair. For this, there’s word from Deadline that Marvel movie directors Anthony and Joe Russo may be in the running to helm the project. As Mike Fleming Jr. notes, the news comes just as the two sibs, founders of their AGBO label, inked a deal with MGM and officiated “a multi-film non-exclusive creative partnership to co-develop, co-produce and co-finance a slate of projects” from the MGM library. Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway starred in the title role in the 1968 flick from director Norman Lewison. The film centers on a billionaire businessman/career thief who ensues a romance with a beautiful insurance investigator when his latest job lands him on her radar. Director John McTiernan remade the film with a different ending in 1999 at the time with Pierce Brosnan […]
[UPDATED] AVENGERS: ENDGAME Trailer Reassures It’s All Come Down To This!
UPDATE (4:33pm EST): Marvel responded to fan backlash on Thursday by releasing an amended official poster for Avengers: Endgame, this time adding actress Danai Gurira’s name to the roster. The film marks Gurira’s third Marvel MCU appearance following Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, recurring in the role of Okoye, a member of Wakanda’s elite special forces unit, the Dora Milaje. EARLIER: Captain Marvel is making the rounds in theaters by now and on that note, the latest trailer for Avengers: Endgame is now online ahead of its April 26 release. The Russo Brothers are at the helm for what looks to be the last chapter for this particular canon of the MCU with Brie Larson’s own superhero stint connecting its own share of dots to weave the Marvel movie tapestry some. The trailer definitely reveals a bit from last year’s Infinity War so if you haven’t seen it yet […]
AGBO/Neon Actioner EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Sees Two ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Up To Star
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE is set to shoot next Spring from Neon and AGBO’s The Russo Brothers
DHAKA: Sam Hargrave To Debut Direct Chris Hemsworth Kidnap/Rescue Thriller
Today in stunt professionals taking the mantle, Thursday’s report from Deadline confirms India kidnap/extraction drama, Dhaka, to be filmed in India and Thailand for Netflix. Relatively known as Thor, MCU franchise star, actor Chris Hemsworth will lead the action thriller that tells of an emotional coward who comes to terms with his sense of self to liberate a kidnapped Indian boy. Hemsworth will be rejoined by Hollywood stunt multi-hyphenate Sam Hargrave who will make his directorial debut. Hargrave fits right in the mold next to some of today’s best and brightest talents in stunts and film, getting his start years ago with a training team of his own called Reel Kick, to climbing the ladder, performing and doubling for actors on set, to now shepherding major action sequences on some of today’s biggest films – namely including The Hunger Games franchise, both Captain America and Avengers titles of late, Atomic […]
DEADLY CLASS: SYFY Orders Graphic Novel Series Adaptation
Adam Targum (Banshee) is officially tapped to helm the pilot and serve as showrunner for forthcoming SYFY action drama, Deadly Class. The new series hails from Sony Pictures Television Studios and Universal Cable Productions and has wrangled a team of writers and executive producers to shepherd the pilot, including Rick Remender who co-created of the graphic novel from which the show is being adapted with Wes Craig. DEADLY CLASS follows a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal. Set against the backdrop of late 80s counter culture, DEADLY CLASS is a coming of age journey unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Targum and Remender are joined by Miles Feldsott in executive producing along with Russo Bros. Productions’ own Joe and Anthony Russo (The Avengers, Captain America) and Mike […]
The Russos Are Coming Out To Play With THE WARRIORS For Television
If there were ever a moment in film history where the process of remaking any particular film would have been unhindered, those days are long gone. Walter Hill’s 1979 classic, The Warriors, is certainly an example having made movie history and standing the test of time through cult fan support, and as such, a remake had been in-bound for well over a decade with the film passing through several hands – the last being Mark Neveldine as of last year. That said, we’re in a new era as of late with a viewing demographic that has grown ever cautious in some parts over Hollywood remakes of anything, and so who knows what will happen next for The Warriors and its future on the big screen? All we know now and can say for certain is that its prospects now lie on television with word from Deadline reporting that the Russo […]
REVIEW: CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR – What, Are We Supposed To Be Cool Now?
I should mention right out of the blocks why I chose the above title for this review. It is a nod to a scene in the movie that, I will swear upon at gunpoint, was a last minute reshoot to directly poke fun at Zack Snyder’s poorly received Batman V Superman: This Is Seriously The Title They Stuck With. You’ll have to see both films to get the joke, provided you’re not already keen to it by the flood of social media memes on the topic. Why Captain America: Civil War is comparable to BvS is the themes. Both films are an approximation of America’s kaiju, specifically the kaiju eiga, our “movie monster” representation of the ongoing conversation on the consequences of 9/11, with BvS being the solipsistic nihilist’s handbook on the subject while Cap 3 holds upon its shoulders the heavier idealistic volume. And the audience has spoken its […]
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