On November 21, 2018, audiences will be entering the stadium for Creed II, the upcoming sequel to Ryan Coogler’s 2015 Rocky spinoff, Creed. For Round 2, Steven Caple Jr. (The Land) takes over as director. In the first film, Adonis (Michael B. Jordan of Fruitvale Station), the grandson of Apollo Creed (portrayed by Carl Weathers in the Rocky films) is mentored by Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) – now a retired fighter-turned-trainer who takes him under his wing. In Creed II, newly crowned light-heavyweight … Continue reading →

Daniel Pinder has joined the cast of the independent supernatural movie Sarah with shooting starting in Los Angeles in late summer. The film centers on a teen harboring a dark secret as she visits her relatives for the summer. The Sarah cast includes Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen, The Florida Project star Valeria Cotto, D.B. Sweeney, Ava Allan, Spencer List, Youtube star Andy Schrock and Tallulah Evans. Pinder will portray … Continue reading →

Hong Kong star Ekin Chen (The Storm Riders, Full Strike, Tokyo Raiders) is back in CGI territory with Legends of the Three Kingdoms, an upcoming action fantasy from director Lv Kejing. The movie also stars some of Chen’s Young and Dangerous co-stars, such as Michael Tse (Wild City, The Blade), Jerry Lamb (Jian Bing Man, The Hunted Hunter), as well as Jia Qing (White Vengeance) and Yu Rongguang (The Great Wall, Fox Hunter). So what can you … Continue reading →

On June 22, EJ Entertainment will be releasing E.oni’s The Accidental Detective 2: In Action, a South Korean Action Comedy, to theaters in the U.S. and Canada on June 22. Check out the official details below: A comic book storekeeper, Dae-man (Kwon Sang-woo of Chinese Zodiac), and the legendary homicide detective, Tae-su (Sung Dong-il of RV: Resurrected Victims), who met on a previous case quit their jobs to open the very first private detective agency in … Continue reading →

Renny Harlin, noted Hollywood film director known for his 90’s blockbusters Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger, is preparing to helm Operation Somalia.  The upcoming thriller will be Harlin’s fourth Chinese film, following Jackie Chan’s Skiptrace and the upcoming Bodies at Rest and Legend of the Ancient Sword (via AFS). According to THR, Operation Somalia is a military action flick about a real-life rescue mission mounted by the Chinese special forces against Somali pirates. The film is being penned by Yi … Continue reading →

After his notable stuntwork in films such as Lucy and Now You See Me 2 – not to mention his breakout starring role in Jailbreak and indie The Division – Jean-Paul Ly takes lead in Nightshooters (read our review), a martial arts thriller directed by Marc Price (Colin). Nightshooters is the story of a film crew, led by stunt man Donnie (Jean Paul Ly) that stumbles upon a gangland hit. “With this film we’re hoping to create some of the best action … Continue reading →

The career of Cheng Pei-pei has seen her smash through the glass ceiling on multiple occasions. The world of martial arts was never the same after Pei-pei’s breakthrough role in Come Drink With Me in 1966, where she took watching audiences by storm by becoming the world’s first female martial arts star. That would be the catalyst film for Pei-pei to go on and transform the industry into how we … Continue reading →

Park Hoon-Jung (director behind New World, writer of I Saw the Devil) returns to dark territory with The Witch, an upcoming action-thriller that releases domestically later this month. According to TFS, Witch tells the story of a girl who, after premature memory loss and a violent upbringing, finds herself in a situation where she must fight against dark and unknown assailants. The Witch stars Kim Da-Mi (Marionette), Choi Woo-Sik (Okja), Jo Min-Soo (Pieta) and Park Hee-Soon … Continue reading →

Charlize Theron’s Atomic Blonde better brace herself, because there’s another unstoppable killer on the way. Pierre Morel, the director of 2008’s Taken, is prepping Peppermint, an upcoming female-centric actioner starring Jennifer Garner (Elektra). According to Deadline, Peppermint is a high-action revenge thriller, with a premise likened to John Wick and John Wick 2, only with a female protagonist. When her husband and daughter are gunned down in a drive-by, the heroine wakes up from a coma and spends years learning … Continue reading →