Director Wong Jing (Mercenaries from Hong Kong) and co-director Woody Hui (who served as “executive director” on Wong’s Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch) are back for Money Empire, also known as Once Upon A Time in Hong Kong (not to be confused with Felix Chong’s currently-filming Once Upon A Time in Hong Kong with Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu Wai). AFS calls the title change a “classic Wong Jing move” and … Continue reading →

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 →