When we last saw Hutch Mansell — family man, former government assassin, and the formidable antihero of the 2021 action movie Nobody — he’d burned down his house, taken out most of the Russian Mafia, and resettled in another suburb. The world’s deadliest middle-aged dad also took a mysterious phone …
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So many of us stumbled blindly into that first John Wick movie, back in 2014 — how were we ever so young and innocent?! — and settled in for what seemed like a simple B-movie starring one half of the Point Break bromance duo/Bill and Ted team. From the moment …
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Halsey and Evanescence singer Amy Lee have teamed up for impassioned single, “Hand That Feeds.” The thundering pop number was written for Ballerina, a forthcoming film set in the John Wick universe. The intensely-performed track sees the vocalists trading verses before coming together over the chorus: “Too late ’cause you …
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Keanu Reeves‘ action-packed John Wick movies are getting at least one more installment. On Tuesday, during CinemaCon, Lionsgate announced that Reeves will return to the film franchise for John Wick 5. “Keanu, Chad, Basil and Erica would not return unless they had something truly phenomenal and fresh to say with …
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In the Ballerina trailer, a flame-torching, axe-throwing Ana de Armas embraces the death-defying stunts and stealthy choreography that made the John Wick movies a standalone, action-packed franchise. The Len Wiseman-directed Ballerina follows Armas, a ballerina and assassin who is learning from the teachings of the Ruska Roma. Armas, who plays …
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Ana de Armas blends the graceful agility of ballet with the violence of hunting assassins in the first trailer for From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. In theaters June 6, the film goes back in time to recount the unseen events following 2019’s John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum …
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J ohn Woo couldn’t miss. The godfather of gun fu, who helmed a number of balletic, bullet-riddled Chinese actions hits — A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled among them — before taking his talents to the States, was coming off four consecutive Hollywood smashes. First came the Jean-Claude …
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They sold it with a list of surnames: Stallone. Statham. Li. Lundgren. Couture. Austin. Crews. Willis. The only name missing was Schwarzenegger, and that’s simply because they wanted his cameo to be a surprise. (He’d make the poster for the sequel.) Two of them came from the worlds of pro-wrestling …
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Why do people love the John Wick movies? Is it because of the charisma and soulfulness of star Keanu Reeves? Is it because of the jaw-dropping action sequences? Or is it because we’re all just fascinated by the gold coins, the High Table, and all the other rules and lore …
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Ring the bell and check back into the world of John Wick with The Continental, Peacock‘s three-part prequel series. Turning the clock back to the 1970s NYC sanitation strike with the city literally flooding with trash, the series explores the titular hitman hotel that served as a safe haven for …
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