Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ (Kong: Skull Island, the upcoming Metal Gear Solid) is set to direct a live-action adaptation of the popular anime series Gundam for Legendary and Netflix. The film will be scribed by comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man). Yoshiyuki Tomino’s Mobile Suit Gundam, which was first launched in 1979, grew in popularity through the 1980s due to a wide proliferation of adaptations across animated feature films, … Continue reading →

Low budget action filmmaker Christian Sesma – best known for films like 2016’s Vigilante Diaries and 2020’s Paydirt – is back with Take Back, an upcoming thriller that Shout! Studios is releasing VOD, digital and in select theaters on June 18, 2021. Zara (Gillian White, Welcome to Sudden Death) and Brian (martial arts star Michael Jai White, Triple Threat) are living the perfect small town life when a mysterious stranger from Zara’s secret past kidnaps … Continue reading →

Hi-YAH!, Well Go USA’s very own Asian/martial arts streaming channel has just announced their New Release line up for the month of April, which includes a New film added to Hi-YAH! every Friday! Keep on reading for the full list: April 4 | Born to be King – Triad member Chicken is designated by Taiwan’s San Luen Gang to marry Nanako, the daughter of the fifth generation leader of the Yamada Gang in … Continue reading →

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 →