Tag Archives: Action

A spate of comic book inspired films are coming up one after the other in the next couple of years. The news on the latest adaption of another comic book is that, Chris Pratt, a Marvel franchise golden boy, will star in Cowboy Ninja Viking. Who will be the director of …

Becca Thomas of Stranger Things fame, is slated to direct Malignant, a sci-fi action-thriller that James Wan is producing for 20th Century Fox. For Thomas, Malignant is the latest in a series of exciting projects to come the director’s way. Malignant is actually based on a Boom! Studios comic titled Malignant Man that Wan co-created. Zak Olkewicz, Lights Out …

Super cool-dude Sanjay Dutt, the man with the signature swagger, is back! In his comeback venture BHOOMI, he looks positively sturdy, and ready for action. The film carries shades of TAKEN with Sanjay Dutt as the protective father and Aditi Rao Hydari as his daughter. The trailer tells an emotional …

REVOLT stars Lee Pace as a US soldier attempting to fight back against a brutal alien invasion. This kind of film seems a bit like a blend of District 9 and Transformers, with robot-like alien creatures taking over. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, an American soldier (Lee Pace) and a French foreign aid worker …

Superhero comic, Black, about a world in which only black people have superpowers, has been confirmed as the latest project slated to be adapted into a film by Studio 8. The EVP, Jon Silk, was at the helm of acquiring the adaptation rights and he will oversee the development alongside fellow …

And you thought you’d seen enough of Divergent and its extensions, well, not as yet. The young adult sci-fi flick will be turned into a TV series. Based on Veronica Roth’s bestselling books, Divergent is set in a futuristic society where people are broken up into social and personality-related factions. …

All set to release, Nakshatram, an action-romance Telugu cop-drama with young hero Sundeep Kishan in the lead. Director Krishna Vamsi says he originally considered actor Sanjay Dutt for a crucial role in his forthcoming Telugu action-drama “Nakshatram”, which throws the spotlight on the lives of a bunch of policemen. Sanjay …

Warner Brothers Korea has just announced that the new film V.I.P. will hit theaters in August 2017. The crime action flick stars Jang Dong-gun, Kim Myung-min, Park Hee-soon and Lee Jong-suk. Shooting for the film ended in January after schedules at multiple locations including South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand. The film features …

Female empowered roles are taking the lead this year. After Wonder Woman, which has seen just over $789M takings worldwide, Atomic Blonde, however, is expected to  do well world wide. Currently it earned $18.5 million over the weekend, which is on the lowest end of realistic projections. As of today …

  Birth of the Dragon is the next attempt at a Bruce Lee movie (the press release is careful to point out that it’s “loosely inspired” by a specific event in his life). George Nolfi is the (The Adjustment Bureau) director, while Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen Rivele wrote the screenplay. Birth of …