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Ten Action Sequels The World Needs To See

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Originality be damned in Hollywood, it’s time to look at some action sequels the world needs… Recently it was announced that Sly Stallone would be donning his climbing gear and hitting the mountains for a Cliffhanger sequel. That sent the Flickering Myth office into a frenzy of ideas… actually, it was just me in a […]

Are the Old School Action Veterans Headed Into Forced Retirement?

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With diminishing returns and a lack of interest from big-screen audiences, are old-school action heroes heading to the retirement home…? In the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn’t move for action heroes. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger led a musclebound movement that led to younger, more grounded heroes like Will Smith, Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise […]

Constantine 2 will start development after Thanksgiving holidays confirms director Francis Lawrence

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With his new film in The Hunger Games franchise, the prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, out in theatres now [read our review here], director Francis Lawrence is already looking to the future as he is keen to get back to work developing Constantine 2, a long-awaited sequel to the 2005 supernatural film starring Keanu Reeves […]

Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 gets a first-look preview from Boom!

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Boom! Studios has shared a first-look preview of BRZRKR: Fallen Empire, a new chapter in creator Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR mythos from The Batman Part II screenwriter Mattson Tomlin (BRZRKR) and artist Rebekah Isaacs. Check it out here… The lone survivor of Olos, a long-dead–once thriving–empire, tells a tale of B.’s distant past and the death […]

Chad Stahelski reveals who and what the John Wick spin-offs will focus on

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Even with how great many felt the John Wick: Chapter 4 finale was, we all know the universe would continue. With limited series, animes, and movies all in the works, we’ll see more very soon, and Chad Stahelski is revealing the subject of these spin-offs. Speaking to The Discourse podcast, the director says the mysterious High […]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Overblown, Excessive and Indulgent But Brilliant

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Francis Ford Coppola’s adaption of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, released on this day in 1992… The early 90s. One of the greats of cinema, Francis Ford Coppola had seen his star fall from its apex in the 70s, after some indulgent experimentation in the 80s. Still considered one of […]

John Wick and Caine get the Hot Toys treatment with John Wick: Chapter 4 sixth scale figures

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Sideshow and Hot Toys have unveiled two collectibles from John Wick: Chapter 4 with the John Wick and Caine sixth scale figures which are based on the likeness of Keanu Reeves and Donnie Yen as the assassins in fourth instalment in the action thriller franchise. Check out the promotional images here… Keanu Reeves has been […]

Constantine sequel with Keanu Reeves still moving forward, confirms director Francis Lawrence

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The Hunger Games filmmaker Francis Lawrence has revealed to Gamespot that the planned Constantine sequel with Keanu Reeves is still happening despite the recent DC Studios overhaul, but the Hollywood strikes held things up. Lawrence reveals, “So Constantine 2 got obviously held up by the writer’s strike, and we had to jump through a bunch […]

The Kings of Cool

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Who are the undisputed Kings of Cool? We take a look at the coolest actors to grace the silver screen… Some stars are pretty good at what they do. Maybe it’s hard work and in the case of being a tough guy, that means hours at the gym. Then there are gifts that just come […]

There’s ideas for at least five more John Wick movies, reveals director Chad Stahelski

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There was never really a doubt John Wick would return, even if the fourth film tries to send the character off into the sunset. But is it wild to think that filmmaker Chad Stahelski could quickly cook up five more movies following the epic John Wick Chapter 4? In a new interview with Inverse, the […]