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Marvel Studios reportedly expected Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania to be a huge hit.

Joanna Robinson, who wrote the book MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, talked about the current state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe on The Watch podcast with hosts Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald. After talking to various insiders while writing her book, Robinson revealed that Quantumania's negative reception took the executives at Marvel Studios by surprise. "Quantumania really shook them because they felt like they had something good," she said. "Like they all internally thought everyone's gonna love this." She further claimed that the failure of Quantumania made Marvel executives realize that their opinions on projects no longer align with what audiences think.

Related: Disney+ Updates MCU Timeline to Include Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

With a 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was not received well by critics. The film, which came out...

Welcome back to Strike Back. Deadline reports Cinemax and Sky have ordered a reboot of the popular TV series.Based on the novel of the same name by Chris Ryan, the original action drama followed the missions of Section 20, a classified branch of the British Defence Intelligence service. The cast included Richard Armitage, Andrew Lincoln, Colin Salmon, and Shelley Conn. The show lasted for five seasons before ending in 2015.Read More…...

With Jason Bourne arriving this week, we’re looking back on the career of director Paul Greengrass. As the person who single-handedly popularized the technique of “shaky cam” for the new millennium, Greengrass has seen his signature style emulated in action films as wide-ranging as Quantum of Solace and Taken 2. While so many of these pictures exploit the visual chaos of handheld camerawork to mask lazy fight choreography, Greengrass has always wielded the aesthetic with visionary purpose, whether that purpose be visceral, political, or both.

Indeed, shaky cam may be Greengrass’ most recognizable trademark, but it is the filmmaker’s purposefulness in confronting social and political issues that most fully unites his work past and present. Prior to making feature films, Greengrass worked for ten years at World in Action, a British investigative current events program known for its forceful and unorthodox journalistic style. Leaving a trail of controversy in its wake,...

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With plenty of macho fights, practical stunts and shoot-outs, Strike Back was an uncomplicated action TV show par excellence...

Action series Strike Back is destined to never be included in the pantheon of great TV shows. While The Sopranos or Breaking Bad are held in such high regard for their superlative writing, acting and drama, Strike Back will instead be remembered for the kick-ass action, gratuitous nudity and excellent chemistry between the lead actors.

For fans of the show, that’s a good enough legacy.

So what is it about Strike Back – which can best be described as the lovechild of 24 and a Cannon Group action movie – that works so well? In this case it might just the very thing that keeps it off the 'Greatest TV Shows Ever' lists; its simplicity. For the most part the show is a meat-and-potatoes action thriller, containing all the elements...

You loved it on the small screen. Now, Strike Back is about to explode across cinema screens all over the world! Yes, Cinemax's hit action series is coming back, bigger and better than ever before. Left Bank Pictures is currently in development on a feature film that will continue the story of this cult hit.

The Strike Back movie is still in the early stages. London-based Lbp has struck a deal to develop the action-packed adventure alongside European pay TV giant Sky. And the hope is to have Philip Winchester and Sullivan Stapleton return to reprise their roles once the film is green lit. Producers are currently in talks with Cinemax to join as a partner, and to insure U.S. distribution. As of yet, no domestic deal has been struck.

Once everything falls into place, which is expected to happen soon, Strike Back will shoot in South America throughout...

Left Bank Pictures is reportedly developing a feature film based on the cult hit Cinemax action series "Strike Back".

Left Bank is said to have a deal to develop the film with European pay TV giant Sky. Stars Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester would likely reprise their roles if the film goes forward, though both are currently committed to American TV series "Blindspot" and "The Player" respectively.

Producers are also in early talks with Cinemax to get them onboard too, and if approved the movie would shoot in South America next year and potentially be the launchpad to an ongoing film franchise.

Based on Sas soldier Chris Ryan's novel, the story follows a secretive branch of the British Defense Intelligence service who take on high risk missions around the globe.

Source: EW...

Strike Back is back for one last mission, and going quietly is not an option.

A brand new trailer for the final run of episodes confirms that the show will return to Sky1 this summer on Wednesday, June 3.

Damian Scott (Sullivan Stapleton) and Sgt Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) team up one more time to solve a missing person's case in Bangkok.

Their investigation uncovers a global terrorism plot that they must race against time to stop.

The action drama is based on the work of Special Air Services veteran Chris Ryan.

Cinemax will debut Strike Back on Friday, July 31 in the Us.

Strike Back's final season will premiere in 2015, it has been announced.

The action-adventure series was delayed in February when actor Sullivan Stapleton suffered a serious off-set injury in Thailand.

Strike Back is a co-production from Cinemax in the Us, Sky in the UK and Left Bank Pictures.

It has been adapted from a novel of the same name by former Sas soldier Chris Ryan.

The series centres on the Section 20 division of the British Defence Intelligence service, which carries out dangerous missions around the globe.

Strike Back originally premiered in May 2010.

Strike Back star Sullivan Stapleton has reportedly been injured in Thailand.

Filming on the action-drama's latest season will go on a forced hiatus to allow Stapleton to recover, Deadline reports.

The Australian actor plays Us operative Damien Scott on Strike Back, which will halt shooting for six months.

Though details of Stapleton's condition are yet to emerge, it is reported that he was injured off-set and not as a result of filming.

The new season of Strike Back - confirmed to be the show's last - was scheduled to debut on Cinemax in late 2014. However, the production hiatus could now lead to the premiere date being pushed back.

The series - which also stars Philip Winchester and is based on the book by Chris Ryan - is a co-production between Cinemax, Sky and Left Bank Pictures.

Strike Back: Shadow Warfare: The boys talk sex, singing and stunts...

[This is a review of Strike Back: Origins episode 6. There will be Spoilers.]

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When you stop to consider the open-ended conclusion to Strike Back: Origins, it’s plain to see that the series had wrapped its first season with an eye toward the future of wrongly disgraced soldier John Porter and the various classified, disavowable exploits of Section 20. As we all now know, those plans did come to fruition, but not in the way fans of Origins (a.k.a. Chris Ryan’s Strike Back) had likely thought was coming.

But what’s interesting about Origins and where it fits into the overall story of Cinemax’s Scott and Stonebridge-led Strike Back is how the whole thing plays ...

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President of HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming Kary Antholis announced today that the popular action series "Strike Back" is set to return to Cinemax in 2014 for a final 10-episode season.  The British TV show is based on the novel of the same name by former British Special Forces soldier turned author Chris Ryan, and follows the Section 20 top secret British intelligence arm as it executes mission after mission around the world. Though the cast of next year's season four has yet to be announced, the series will again be produced by Cinemax/HBO along with partners Left Bank and Sky and will air in U.K. as well as the U.S. Season three of "Strike Back," was hailed by the Huffington Post as, "well made and damn fun," and by TV Guide as having, "blazed a new trail in hardcore pulp fiction."  Season 3 ended on October 18 and is now...

The British series that spawned the Cinemax action drama Strike Back is getting a U.S. run on the HBO sibling network. Branded Strike Back: Origins, the six-episode series starring Richard Armitage (The Hobbit) and Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead) will debut on Cinemax on October 25, taking over Strike Back‘s Friday 10 Pm slot. The Cinemax version, a co-production with British satcaster Sky and UK-based Left Bank Pictures, was inspired by the Armitage- and Lincoln-starring Sky/Left Bank series, which in turn was based on Chris Ryan’s book of the same name. The follow-up series introduced a brand new character with Armitage appearing in the first episode for continuity. Strike Back: Origins tells the story of John Porter (Armitage), an Sas soldier who realizes a connection between a current hostage situation and a mission he ran in Iraq in 2003. He appeals to Hugh Collinson (Lincoln), a fellow...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 7, 2012

Price: DVD $49.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $59.96

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Sullivan Stapleton gets the job done in Strike Back.

Strike Back: Season One, the original action-thriller television series that airs on cable’s Cinemax, arrives on disc a week-and-a-half before the cable channel premieres the series’ second season on August 17, 2012.

When a resourceful international terrorist group plots a major attack involving a cache of weapons of mass destruction, a charismatic former U.S. Special Forces operative (Sullivan Stapleton, Animal Kingdom) joins forces with a stealth British military unit led by a determined sergeant (Philip Winchester, TV’s Camelot) to stop them. Together, the two ass-kickers and their teams travel to such exotic locations such as India, South Africa, England and Chechnya to take down the bad guys.

Also starring Amanda Mealing (TV’s Holby City), Eve Birthistle (Silent Witness), Jimi Mistry (Blood Diamond) Rhashan Stone (TV...

Action series Strike Back goes to Africa, and David Chute likes it.South Africa plays itself, rather than standing in for India or Afghanistan, in the third episode of the excellent Strike Back. This dense and propulsive counter-terrorism action series (based on a novel by former Sas officer Chris Ryan), a Sky/Cinemax cross-pond co-production based in Johannesburg, location-jumps from inner city shanty towns that could be in Kingston or Mumbai, to red-earth desert landscapes that echo the Spanish scrub of the Sergio Leone westerns, but with a richer color palette. It makes a perfect, picturesque backdrop for the activities of covert operatives who have replaced the quaint old gentlemanly concept of a license to kill with the much more through and goal-oriented notion of the kill ...

Looking for a new TV series to add to your weekly viewing schedule? Cinemax would like to take a shot at filling the void with a six-minute preview of the first episode of Strike Back, premiering Friday, August 12th at 10pm. The show marks Cinemax’s first scripted primetime venture. The 10-hour series comes from the pens of Frank Spotnitz, Richard Zadjlic and Simon Burke, and is inspired by Sky’s Strike Back series, which grew from Chris Ryan’s best-selling book. The Cinemax version centers on two members of Section 20, a top-secret intelligence agency. Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester), a British sergeant, and Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), a discharged Us Delta Force...

HBO offshoot, Cinemax, is finally getting its feet wet in the scripted drama arena with Strike Back, the premium channel’s first foray into original programming that isn’t strictly adults only.

The series is based on the UK program of the same name, which itself is based on the book Strike Back by former Special Forces officer Chris Ryan. The original UK version aired in 2009 as a six-part mini-series staring Richard Armitage (The Hobbit) and Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead) in a story of a former soldier who is called back into action to assist with a Middle East hostage situation just before the Iraq invasion of 2003.

Cinemax plans to take the premise of the original 2009 Strike Back, and expand it into a more globetrotting, action adventure series that will suit the palates of ...

Click to continue reading Cinemax Ventures into Original Programming with UK Adaptation ‘Strike Back’...

Sky1's action drama Strike Back has landed a second 10-part series. The Left Bank Pictures production, based on the novels of ex-sas soldier Chris Ryan, will begin filming in late February on location in South Africa. Richard Armitage returns in the lead role as John Porter and will be joined by new cast members Philip Winchester and Sullivan Stapleton. The second run will include original storylines following Ryan as he teams up with Section 20 to stop an international terrorist group. The programme is the first ever co-production (more)...

We already knew that Sky’s action thriller Strike Back (based on the novel by ex-sas soldier Chris Ryan, I reviewed its premiere here) is returning for a second series, but The Independent are reporting that HBO will be co-producing with Left Bank Pictures on the new 10-part run.

This deal is unrelated to Sky’s acquisition of HBO’s programming for £150m over five years, but the two broadcasters are evidently getting close. The BBC previously co-produced Rome, Extras and The Special Relationship with HBO, but this is the first production partnership they’ve had with Sky. It also suggests that Strike Back will be broadcast on HBO soon.

Elaine Pyke, Sky’s Head of Drama:

“I really feel that this ambitious co-production highlights the importance of creating compelling original drama for our customers.”

Andy Harries, executive-producer at Left Bank Pictures:

“Strike Back was conceived as a high...