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John Wick: Chapter 3 gets summer 2019 release date

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Perhaps one of the most surprising hits of  2014, John Wick was the movie that relaunched the career of Keanu Reeves and gave us an action film that was simple, well directed and featured fantastic practical action. The sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2, also proved to be a success, expanding the world that Wick inhabits and gaining even […]

Have We Started To Settle For Mediocre Action Pieces?

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George Chrysostomou asks whether we’ve started to settle for mediocre action pieces… The action film will forever be in its heyday, for conflict drives any narrative forward – especially when that conflict results in a showdown between two or more characters. Audiences will forever be drawn to the cinema to witness larger than life sequences, […]

Movie Review – Atomic Blonde (2017)

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Atomic Blonde, 2017. Directed by David Leitch. Starring Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, Toby Jones, Bill Skarsgård, Sam Hargrave, James Faulkner, and Roland Møller. SYNOPSIS: An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a […]

Charlize Theron made Atomic Blonde because she is a “huge fan” of John Wick

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Did you enjoy Atomic Blonde? Well, you may have John Wick to thank for that. While sitting down with the Bill Simmons podcast, Charlize Theron reveals that the John Wick series compelled her to take on the film, and bring aboard director David Leitch… “I like those movies. It was actually because of the first […]

Lionsgate picks up female-led action thriller Ballerina as potential John Wick spinoff

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Over the past couple of months we’ve heard of several female-led action thrillers being snapped up as potential “female John Wick” movies – see Ruthless and Peppermint, for example – and now Lionsgate has got itself in on the act, only this time it may literally be a “female John Wick” movie. According to THR, […]

Comic book series to explore the origin of John Wick

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Back in December it was announced that Dynamite Entertainment is to launch a brand new comic book series based upon the hit action franchise John Wick, and now THR is reporting that the series will explore the origins of Keanu Reeves’ famed assassin. Check out the cover artwork to the first issue here… “I was […]

John Wick director talks spinoff TV series The Continental

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In addition to the upcoming John Wick: Chapter 3 and Dynamite Entertainment’s comic book series, Lionsgate has plans to bring the world of John Wick to the small screen with a prequel TV series. According to IndieWire, the project is going by the title The Continental, referring to the chain of hotels featured in the […]

John Wick screenwriter returning for Chapter 3

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Although John Wick directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch are currently preoccupied with their work on Highlander and Deadpool 2 respectively, the duo are pressing ahead with their plans for John Wick: Chapter 3, with THR reporting that screenwriter Derek Kolstad has now signed on to pen the script. Kolstad wrote the original John Wick on spec, […]

Chad Stahelski talks John Wick: Chapter 3, could shoot this year

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It looks like we may not have long to wait for the return of Keanu Reeves’ John Wick, as director Chad Stahelski has told Collider that the third instalment in the action franchise could go into production by the end of the year. “We’re currently in the middle of writing it right now,” said Stahelski. […]