Skybound Entertainment (The Walking Dead) and Korea’s Contents Panda are adapting the 2017 Korean actioner The Villainess into an English-language TV series. Jeong Byeong-gil (Confession of Murder), who directed the original film, is on board to helm the series’ pilot. According to Deadline, the series, also titled The Villainess, follows Anes, who was kidnapped from her home in Korea and raised as a deadly assassin in Los Angeles. Just when Anes believes she has … Continue reading →

As Paul Bramhall says in his 2017 article: Just like Hollywood believed that a western audience would rather watch a western (re: Caucasian) cast, so countries like Japan, Korea, and India have followed the same thinking, that local audiences would also be more likely to watch local stars than check out the foreign original. AFS reports that Hwang Jeong-min, the star of The Wailing, The Battleship Island and A Violent Prosecutor, will be … Continue reading →

Filmmakers Alan Mak and Felix Chong – the duo behind Infernal Affairs and The Lost Bladesman – have a new crime film in post-production titled Integrity (read our review), which will be the first installment in a planned trilogy. Integrity stars Lau Ching Wan (Call of Heroes), Nick Cheung (Helios), Karena Lam (Bounty Hunters), Anita Yuen (Thunderbolt) and Alex Fong (Kung Fu Jungle), via AFS. The story follows a leading anti-corruption agent who is forced to team up with his ex-wife to salvage … Continue reading →

Following HBO Asia’s successful 2016 release of Master of the Shadowless Kick: Wong Kei-Ying and Master of the Drunken Fist: Beggar So, the network, along with China Movie Channel, will be releasing Master of the White Crane Fist: Wong Yan-Lam and Master of the Nine Dragon Fist: Wong Ching-Ho on February 20th and 21st, 2019, respectively. Guo Jianyong directed Master of the White Crane Fist: Wong Yan-Lam, which tells how kung fu master Wong disguises himself and cracks … Continue reading →

Steven Spielberg is developing a TV series version of Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic, Rashomon. The 88-minute film will be reimagined and remade as a ten-episode TV series (via EO). Kurosawa’s original, which was based on the 1922 short story In a Grove, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, revolved around the rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband, which are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the … Continue reading →

South Korean heavies Ha Jung-Woo (Tunnel, Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds) and Lee Sun-Kyun (A Hard Day, Advocate: A Missing Body) are pairing up for Take Point (read our review), a military actioner from director Kim Byung-Woo (The Terror Live). On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, Ahab and his team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea’s Armed Forces Minister in an underground bunker … Continue reading →