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WOLF WARRIOR 2: A Patriotic Runaway Box-office Success

The film that has China watching with patriotic pride is Wolf Warrior 2. It has now crossed into uncharted territory of success, where previously only fantasies and comedies were box-office hits in China. Action movies have rarely been received well before. However, this Hollywood-style actioner  Wolf Warrior 2 passed the $600M mark at …

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Dwayne Johnson teams up with Universal

Universal Pictures will team with Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions and Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers to make an untitled action-adventure about the hunt for Genghis Khan’s mysterious tomb, which Universal just bought from screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos, who co-wrote Johnson’s 2014 Hercules movie. Even though this totally seems like the kind of movie that Dwayne Johnson would star in, …

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ARMED RESPONSE: Action Thriller

Saban Film’s Armed Response is a story about a crack team of armed soldiers, they infiltrate a facility controlled by an advanced artificial intelligence and, of course, things get ugly. Wesley Snipes is superb as an action hero, untapped talent there. Anne Heche is a strong character, and WWE’s Seth Rollins …

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