Martial arts star Scott Adkins (Triple Threat, Eliminators) will be re-teaming with action director Isaac Florentine (Close Range, Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing) for a ninth time in an MMA-themed thriller titled Strapped, which begins production later this year. In Strapped, Adkins plays a former MMA fighter forced to confront the heart of his dark past following a brutal robbery and the theft of his championship belt (via FCS). Adkins and Florentine recently completed Seized, (with Solo … Continue reading →

Frant Gwo’s The Wandering Earth, which has already earned over $610 million at the Chinese box office, has now made a landing on Netflix. The Wandering Earth stars Li Guangjie (Drug War), Qu Chuxiao (Bloody Romance), Ng Man-tat (Shaolin Soccer), Zhao Jinmai (A Love For Separation) and martial arts star Wu Jing (Wolf Warrior II, SPL II).  Here’s a snippet of the film’s plot, which is based off a short story by Liu Cixin: In the near future, the Sun ages and is … Continue reading →

Max Zhang – the rising star of Ip Man 3 and The Brink – is working on a sequel to Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (read our review). Zhang will reprise his scene-stealing role as Cheung Tin-chi from Ip Man 3.  According to AFS, the sequel is taking a budget cut (around 13M$, down from the first film’s 28M$). It’s currently not known if Yuen Woo-ping (Miracle Fighters) will be returning to the director’s chair. The first Master Z film starred … Continue reading →

A sequel to 1999’s Gen-X Cops and 2000’s Gen-Y Cops (aka Metal Mayhem) is in-the-works with director Benny Chan (Call of Heroes) and the films’ original stars Daniel Wu (Sky on Fire), Stephen Fung (Bio-Cops), Nicholas Tse (The Viral Factor) and Sam Lee (Wild City) are all returning. According to FEF (via FCS), Tse has told the local media that the film’s script is currently being written and there will certainly be action scenes, … Continue reading →

It’s crazy to think about the rapid rise of Fortnite. It’s made Epic Games a billion dollar company and enthralled millions of people around the world, young and old, male and female. It’s well and truly been a revolution, with it being discussed almost daily. There are now 40 million players of the game. But what’s the secret of its success? Fortnite only launched little over a year ago but … Continue reading →

Veteran Hong Kong director David Lam (Street Angels) is once again firing up another storm in P-Storm, the follow up to 2016’s S-Storm, 2014’s Z-Storm and 2018’s L-Storm. The first three films followed the predicaments of William Luk Che Lim (Louis Koo), a lead investigator in the ICAC unit (Independent Commission Against Corruption), and his war with naughty organizations. According to AFS, the returning cast for P-Storm includes Louis Koo (The White Storm), Julian Cheung (The Suspect), Gordon Lam … Continue reading →

On May 17th, Netflix will be streaming Maria (read our review), the critically acclaimed Filipino action film from director Pedring Lopez (Nilalang). In Maria, a highly trained, ex-special forces agent-turned-cartel assassin (Reyes), has one last job to do. But when she deliberately misses her target, the cartel turns on her, thus, the hunter now becomes the hunted… Maria also stars Germaine De Leon (Buried Alive), KC Montero, Guji Lorenzana, Freddie Webb, Jennifer Lee, Cindy Miranda and features action/stunt choreography by Sonny … Continue reading →