Stunt coordinator-turned-director, James Mark (filmmaker behind 2017’s Kill Order aka Meza) is back in action with Vertical Entertainment’s Enhanced, an upcoming sci-fi thriller that’s “in the vein” of X-Men. In Enhanced, a young woman with enhanced abilities finds herself hunted down by a sinister government organization. But when an even stronger enhanced serial killer emerges on the scene, agents and mutants are forced to question their allegiances. Enhanced stars George Tchortov … Continue reading →

Director Wong Jing (Return to A Better Tomorrow) is planning a Chasing the Dragon 3: Chinatown, which will be a follow up to his crime series that started with the 2017 Donnie Yen/Andy Lau thriller Chasing the Dragon. Expect Chasing the Dragon 3: Chinatown be an unrelated, “by title-only” follow-up, similar to Wong’s 2019’s Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch, which was based on a real-life spate of kidnappings that … Continue reading →

Chad Stahelski – co-director of the original John Wick and sole director for John Wick: Chapter 2 and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum – is attached to direct an adaptation of Sucker Punch Productions’ action adventure game Ghost of Tsushima for Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions. Game’s official premise: It’s the late 13th century, and the Mongol empire has laid waste to entire nations in its campaign to conquer the East. Tsushima Island is all that … Continue reading →

Jackie Chan will be one of the stars to appear in All U Need is Love, an action comedy from Vincent Kok (Keep Calm and Be a Superstar), who directed Jackie Chan over 20 years ago in 1999’s Gorgeous. According to AFS, All U Need is Love is a benefit film for industry workers impoverished by the Covid-19 crisis. It’s just one of the many films – along with Andrew Lau’s … Continue reading →

Filmmaker Park Hoon-jung (The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion, Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale) returns to The New World territory with Night in Paradise (read our review), an upcoming crime-thriller starring Um Tae-goo (The Age of Shadows) that hits Netflix on April 9th. Directed and written by Park Hoon-jung, while less than 10 years ago Hoon-jung’s calling card was being known as the man who wrote the scripts for I Saw the Devil and … Continue reading →

From director Daniel Zirilli (The Asian Connection) comes Hollow Point, an upcoming actioner starring Luke Goss (Cartels). When his wife and daughter are senselessly murdered, a grieving man (Goss) finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and the crime that infests their city. Hollow Point also features an all-star cast that includes Juju Chan (Savage Dog), Jay Mohr (Jerry Maguire), Michael Pare (The Debt Collector), Bill Duke (Predator) … Continue reading →

Valiant Entertainment’s Jason Kothari (Bloodshot) has acquired rights to Bruce Lee’s original screenplay for The Silent Flute, which will be adapted into a special limited series by writer John Fusco (Marco Polo, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny). “As a lifelong martial artist and practitioner of Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do, the chance to help bring his personal opus to life is an honor and privilege. What Bruce wrote, along with … Continue reading →

Keanu Reeves (John Wick 1, 2 and 3) is set to star in and produce BRZRKR, a Netflix’ live-action film adaptation of his BOOM! Studios-published comic book of the same name. The film will be followed by an anime spinoff series. BRZRKR is about an immortal warrior’s 80,000-year fight through the ages. The man known only as “B” is half-mortal and half-god, cursed and compelled to violence… even at the sacrifice of … Continue reading →

On March 23, 2021, Vinegar Syndrome will be releasing the Blu-ray for Death Promise (aka Slumfighter), a 1977 cult actioner starring Charles Bonet (Way of the Black Dragon), Speedy Leacock and Bill Louie (Fist of Fear, Touch of Death). Check out the official details below: The residents of a dilapidated New York tenement building are being harassed and threatened by Iguana Realty, the dummy corporation which owns the land, in … Continue reading →