Rising star Wesley Wong (Pacific Rim Uprising), son of legendary Hong Kong actors Angie Chiu (Private Eyes) and Melvin Wong (Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit), will star in the GenFilms’ original production Qi : Spacetime Warriors, an upcoming sci-fi actioner directed by Jessie Kerry and renowned Hong Kong/Hollywood action director/stunt coordinator Andy Cheng (Red Line, End Game, Rush Hour). The following information is from the film’s official press release: Qi takes … Continue reading →

Filmmakers Nonthakorn Thaweesuk (Muay Thai Giant, Monkey Twins) and Senzo Zindela (The Right) are sharing the director’s chair for Red Cargo, an upcoming Thai production starring martial arts stars JeeJa Yanin (Chocolate, Hard Target 2) and Dan Chupong (Vengeance of an Assassin, Dynamite Warrior). According to Zindela, here’s what you can expect from this South African-set actioner: Zulu and Thailand cultures clash when the son of Lion slayer, Senzo, confronts a dangerous Thailand con man. Vitaya controls rhino poaching … Continue reading →

Popular Hong Kong actress Sandra Ng (Jian Bing Man, In the Line of Duty 3) makes her directorial debut with a horror-comedy titled Yao Yao Ling (aka The Monsters’ Bell). The film will be available exclusively on Digital this April 3rd from Well Go USA under the title Goldbuster. A quirky internet star, a pair of retired gangsters, and the black sheep of a prolific family of herbalists are a few of the oddball tenants that … Continue reading →

The Trailer for Netflix’ upcoming thriller The Outsider has landed. The film, which is set in post-World War II Japan, stars Jared Leto (Suicide Squad) as a former American G.I. who becomes part of the Japanese yakuza. Originally, the The Outsider was intended to be Takashi Miike’s (Blade of the Immortal) English-language U.S. debut, but when Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road) backed out of the the project, Miike couldn’t stick around while producers searched … Continue reading →

South Korea’s Jung Byung-gil – the director behind Confession of Murder and The Villainess – will be the latest Korean filmmaker to be imported to Hollywood, thus, following the footsteps of Kim Jee-woon (The Last Stand), Park Chan-wook (Stoker) and Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, Okja). According to Deadline: Original Film, G-BASE and Endurance Media are setting action director Jung to helm the Gerard Butler-starrer Afterburn, which will be scripted by Matt Johnson (Into the Blue). The film has long been a passion for Butler, and … Continue reading →

On February 23rd, 2018, CJ Entertainment is giving Golden Slumber (read our review), a limited theatrical run in the U.S. In the film, a newly elected prime minister is assassinated as part of a conspiracy, and a deliveryman (Gang Dong-Won of A Violent Prosecutor) has to flee for his life when he is framed and the evidence against him begins to accumulate. Golden Slumber is directed by No Dong-Seok (Boys of Tomorrow) and also stars Kim … Continue reading →