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A while back, we shared a Best Movie You Never Saw video on the action thriller Sniper, which was given a theatrical release in 1993 and spawned a direct-to-video franchise that is continuing to this day. In fact, a trailer for the eleventh film in the franchise, Sniper: The Last Stand, has just arrived online and can be seen in the embed above. The film is set to receive a digital release on January 21st.

Tom Berenger took on the lead role of sniper Thomas Beckett in the original film, and came back for Sniper 2 (2002) and Sniper 3 (2004). As of 2011’s Sniper: Reloaded, Thomas’s son Brandon, played by Chad Michael Collins, became the lead character in the franchise, and his story has continued through Sniper: Legacy (2014), Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016), Sniper: Ultimate Kill (2017), Sniper: Assassin’s End (2020), Sniper: Rogue Mission (2022), Sniper: G.R.I.T. – Global Response & Intelligence Team (2023), and now Sniper: The Last Stand.

"Where will you be in the thick of it?" Sony Pictures has revealed the official trailer for an action thriller B-movie called Sniper: The Last Stand, which is being released direct-to-vod later this month. Definitely not a theatrical movie by any means - looks more like direct-to-vhs. "One last stand for humanity." Ace sniper Brandon Beckett and Agent Zero are deployed to Costa Verde to lead a group of elite soldiers against an unrelenting militia. This is the latest in a "sniper" franchise starring Chad Michael Collins as Brandon Beckett - it also includes (yes these are real) Sniper: Reloaded (2011), Sniper: Legacy (2014), Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016), Sniper: Ultimate Kill (2017), Sniper Assassin's End (2020), Sniper: Rogue Mission (2022), and Sniper: G.R.I.T. - Global Response & Intelligence Team (2023). The The Last Stand cast includes Ryan Robbins, Sharon Taylor, Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz, and Arnold Vosloo. Yeah this is for Sniper fans only. Why are they...

The vision for the ninth annual Platino Awards is coming into focus with the announcement of the night’s musical performers.

Ana Guerra, Ana Mena, Ángela Aguilar, David Bisbal, Diana Hoyos, Gerónimo Rauch, Májida Issa, Mariaca Semprún and Monsieur Periné are set to take the stage at the Gran Tlacho theater at Xcaret Park in Riviera Maya on April 20.

Per intel from event organizers, the ceremony will feature original compositions for the occasion like one performed by Hoyos and Rauch to a score by composer Lucas Vidal. The roster of talent is meant to spotlight the richness of Ibero-American stars and music. Guerra, Mena and Bisbal hail from Spain, Aguilar from Mexico, Hoyos, Issa and Monsieur Periné from Colombia, Rauch from Argentina, and Mariaca Semprún from Venezuela. Traditional Mexican music will have a prominent place in the ceremony thanks to Guerra, Issa and Semprún. Mena is on deck to pay tribute to Rocío Dúrcal,...

Stars: Jeremias Amoore, Will Attenborough, Sophie McIntosh, Colm Meaney, Phyllis Logan, James Carrol Jordan, Grace Nettle, Manuel Pacific | Written by Andy Mayson | Directed by Claudio Fäh

The poster for No Way Up says that it’s from the executive producers of the 47 Meters Down series. That’s not a good sign because it means it’s from the money men behind those films, not the writers, directors or any of the creative types. This time around, they’ve decided to offer their finny cash cows an all-you-can-eat buffet and, taking a cue from Airport 77, they’ve crashed an airliner into the Pacific. That leaves the survivors trapped on the ocean floor in a rapidly shrinking air pocket and surrounded by sharks.

As No Way Up starts things are already looking bad for Jed and Kyle. Kyle’s date for their trip to Cabo backed out at the last minute.

The final week of 2023 was another big one for Young Sheldon, as it claimed the top spot among acquired shows in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for a second straight week. Disney+ got more strong returns from Percy Jackson and the Olympians as well, ad Prime Video’s Reacher ascended to the top overall spot.

Young Sheldon scored 1.31 billion minutes of viewing time on Netflix and Max for the week of Dec. 25-31, topping second-place Bluey (1.11 billion) by about 200 million minutes. The Crown (1.04 billion minutes) also topped the billion-minute mark for Netflix.

Reacher scored 1.44 billion minutes for the week after Nielsen resolved an issue related to audio asset capture on Prime Video. Earlier figures put the show at 943 million minutes of viewing. The revised rankings also moved Sound of Freedom into the top 10 movies for the week.

As for Percy Jackson, the series grew to 700 million minutes of viewing on Disney...

From the executive producers of 47 Meters Down, the rating and release date for the new shark horror film No Way Up have been revealed.

Per Horror News Network, No Way Up has officially been rated R ahead of its upcoming release from Rlje Films. Its rating is for "bloody, grisly images and language," and that should come as welcome news for many horror fans. Also revealed was the movie's release date, as it's set to hit theaters and VOD platforms starting on Feb. 16, 2024. The trailer for the film, which many can't help but refer to as "Sharks on a Plane," can be viewed below.

Related Sharknado vs. Birdemic: Which Is the Schlockbuster King? The original Sharknado is now turning 10 years old, with its wild, ridiculous nature makes it comparable to a similar low-budget animal thriller.

The movie, per the official synopsis, is a "high concept combination of disaster movie and survival thriller,...

If you paid any attention to Netflix in late 2023 you may have noticed a couple of films from a franchise you'd probably never heard of hitting the Netflix Top 10. Those movies were "Sniper: Assassin's End" and "Sniper: Ultimate Kill," both of which are part of the remarkably long-running "Sniper" franchise. The series started with 1993's Tom Berenger-led "Sniper" before becoming a direct-to-dvd series with 2002's "Sniper 2." Since then, Sony has churned out a further eight films, all of which have gone straight to home video/streaming.

Berenger starred in the first three films as Master Gunnery Sergeant and sniper extraordinaire Thomas Beckett. While the first movie was met with middling reviews and made around $18 million at the box office, the great Roger Ebert seemed to like it well enough, giving the film three out of five stars and proclaiming it to be "a pleasure to watch," even if it wasn't "a particularly original film.

Two Sniper movies have become popular on Netflix, including Sniper: Ultimate Kill and Sniper: Assassins End. These movies rank higher than major contemporary blockbusters like Meg 2: The Trench and Gran Turismo. The Sniper movie franchise has a total of 10 films, with 6 starring Tom Berenger and 7 starring Chad Michael Collins.

Two different Sniper movies have become Netflix streaming hits in the U.S. The movie franchise originated in 1993 with Sniper, which followed Tom Berenger and Billy Zane as a pair of snipers attempting an assassination in Panama. The movie didn't get its first sequel until 2002's Sniper 2, which was then followed by eight more installments through 2023's Sniper: G.R.I.T. – Global Response & Intelligence Team. This brought the total to 10 movies, six of which starred Berenger as Master Gunnery Sergeant Tom Beckett, and seven of which starred Chad Michael Collins as his son, Marine Sergeant Brandon Beckett.

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Billy Zane returned as Richard Miller in Sniper: Reloaded after 18 years and acts as mentor to young Brandon Beckett. The Sniper series has evolved from serious action thrillers to taking on a more comedic tone across its ten entries. Zane hasn't returned since 2017's Sniper: Ultimate Kill and there's no news of an eleventh movie.

Billy Zane made his return for Sniper: Reloaded 18 years after starring in the original and missing out on the previous two sequels. It's doubtful anybody involved with the Sniper movie franchise could have foreseen how robust it would become. The original Sniper cast Tom Berenger as veteran marine sniper Tom Beckett, while Billy Zane played Richard Miller, a rookie agent he's assigned for a mission. The film was partly a psychological thriller and partly an action movie, and while it was only a modest success in theaters, it became a cult favorite.

Despite its modest origins,...

Only '90s kids raised in video stores — or, more likely, their dads — will recall Luis Llosa's 1993 military thriller "Sniper" with any clarity. "Sniper" stars Tom Berenger as Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett as he becomes lost in the jungle while trying to complete an assassination mission with a militarily inexperienced sharpshooter played by Billy Zane. The bulk of the film takes place in the woods of Colombia, although it was shot in Australia. The film was well-liked but critics noted that it was pretty generic; Roger Ebert gave "Sniper" three stars, noting that it was competent but lacked originality. The film boasts a 38 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but that comes from a mere 13 reviews.

What only fans of "Sniper" might know is that Tom Berenger returned to play Thomas Beckett in Craig R. Baxley's "Sniper 2" in 2002 and P.J. Pesce's "Sniper 3" in 2004. These two sequels...

You is back with a bang. Season 4, Part 1 of the murder-mystery series put up 92.1M hours viewed since its February 9 release date, making it Netflix‘s most-viewed title of the week.

According to Netflix, the episodes were in the Top 10 in 90 countries. To gear up for the new season, fans also revisited Season 1 and Season 3, which landed in the Top 10 with 19.24M hours viewed and 11.44M hours viewed, respectively.

Only five new episodes of You were released last week. The remaining five episodes of Season 4 will drop on March 9, which is in line with Netflix’s recent release strategy for highly anticipated series like Stranger Things.

Ginny & Georgia Season 2 stayed in second place this week with an additional 25.7M hours viewed. Wednesday remains at No. 3 with 22.7M viewing hours.

Ginny & Georgia Season 1 also remains in the Top 10, as did Lockwood & Co. — although that title fell from first place down to No.

Stars: Conrado Osario, Andrea Esquivel, Yuri Vargas, Sharon Guzman, Johan Camacho | Written and Directed by Juan Diego Escobar Alzate

Luz: The Flower of Evil was shot in two and a half weeks under the simpler title of Luz and renamed to avoid confusion with Tilman Singer’s film of the same name. It’s part of the folk horror revival of the last few years. A revival that includes films like The Witch, Midsommar and Hagazussa. It’s cousin the acid-western has even reappeared in films like Day of the Stranger. Writer/director Juan Diego Escobar Alzate channels Alexandro Jodorowsky to unite the two genres with this, his debut feature.

A major hit on the festival circuit Luz: The Flower of Evil takes a different path from most other folk horror films by not involving older pagan beliefs. It centers itself on Christianity or at least one particular interpretation of it.

Exclusive: Derek Kolstad, scribe and creator of the John Wick franchise and co-writer of the upcoming Marvel mini-series The Falcon And the Winter Soldier, is teaming up with Swiss producer-distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment, director Claudio Fah (Northmen – A Viking Saga) and producer Christopher Milburn (Unhinged) on action-thriller Acolyte.

The longtime Kolstad passion project, about a simple man who reveals himself to be anything but as he assembles his old crew to rescue his kidnapped wife, has attracted DoP Lorenzo Senatore (Hellboy) and will be produced by Ascot Elite’s Ralph S. Dietrich, Karin G. Dietrich and Stephan Giger with Milburn serving as executive producer.

The casting process is underway in London and Ascot Elite is aiming for the film to become the first in a series of related features.

Leading Swiss distributor Ascot Elite, which also acquires for Germany and Austria, has released films this year including Unhinged, Bill & Ted Face The Music,...

Dark Sky Films is bringing Luz: The Flower of Evil to digital and VOD on September 15th, and we have a look at the official trailer!

"El Señor, the leader of a small cult in the mountains, returns to his village with a child who is purported to be the new Messiah. But when only pain and destruction befall the community, El Señor finds himself under attack from his own followers, including his three daughters, whose burgeoning femininity has already caused them to question their faith.

Equally mystical and terrifying, Luz: The Flower Of Evil is a fantasy folk horror film where tranquility belies a simmering evil."

Written & Directed by: Juan Diego Escobar Alzate Language: English dub and Spanish/Original with English subtitles Genre: Drama Distributor: Dark Sky Films Produced by: Juan Diego Escobar Alzate Cast: Yuri Vargas, Conrado Osorio, Andrea Esquivel, Sharon Guzman, Jim Munoz (TV's One Way Out...

Stars: Chad Michael Collins, Tom Berenger, Sayaka Akimoto, Ryan Robbins, Lochlyn Munro, Emily Tennant, Michael Jonnson, Vincent Gale, Sasha Piltsin, Bethany Brown, Gerald Paetz | Written by Oliver Thompson | Directed by Kaare Andrews

The Eighth(!) installment of the Sniper film series, Sniper: Assassin’s End is a sequel to 2017’s Sniper: Ultimate Kill and sees Special Ops Sniper Brandon Beckett (Chad Michael Collins) is set up as the primary suspect for the murder of a foreign dignitary on the eve of signing a high-profile trade agreement with the United States. Narrowly escaping death, Beckett realizes that there may be a dark operative working within the government and partners with the only person whom he can trust, his father legendary Sniper Sgt. Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger). Both Becketts are on the run from the CIA, Russian Mercenaries, and a Yakuza-trained assassin with sniper skills that rival both legendary sharp shooters.

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Netflix is famously tight-lipped when it comes to revealing how many people are tuning in to its endless supply of movies and TV series, though the streaming giant does occasionally toot its own horn when one of its titles does especially well. Now the company is experimenting with a weekly list of its most-watched offerings in the UK, with nature docuseries “Our Planet” topping the first edition.

In a Twitter thread, the company announced that it will be releasing such lists on a weekly basis from here on out. To compile them, “we look at the most-watched individual season of a show, film or special (regardless of when it launched). ‘Watched’ means members finished at least 70% of one episode.”

“It’s a test as we want to make sure this information is useful for you,” Netflix added. “So we may tweak it in the weeks ahead. eg. we’re not including kids right now.

Billy Zane has taken the lead role of Marlon Brando in Waltzing With Brando, by writer and director Bill Fishman, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The film, which Zane will also produce, is based on a 2011 memoir by Los Angeles-based architect Bernard Judge, Waltzing With Brando: Planning a Paradise in Tahiti. During the early 1970s, Judge found himself living on an unpopulated atoll in the South Pacific with his client, a Godfather-era Brando, as they built an environmentally sustainable private retreat.

There's no word on who will play Judge. Zane, whose recent films include Adventure Club and Sniper: Ultimate Kill, will also ...

Billy Zane has taken the lead role of Marlon Brando in Waltzing With Brando, by writer and director Bill Fishman, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The film, which Zane will also produce, is based on a 2011 memoir by Los Angeles-based architect Bernard Judge, Waltzing With Brando: Planning a Paradise in Tahiti. During the early 1970s, Judge found himself living on an unpopulated atoll in the South Pacific with his client, a Godfather-era Brando, as they built an environmentally sustainable private retreat.

There's no word on who will play Judge. Zane, whose recent films include Adventure Club and Sniper: Ultimate Kill, will also ...

Exclusive: Never Back Down screenwriter Chris Hauty’s debut novel Deep State has been sold to Simon & Schuster’s Emily Bestler Books and is being shopped for film and TV rights by literary agency Original Artists.

The agency describes the book as a contemporary Three Days of the Condor-style thriller with a strong female lead as it focuses on a young woman who leaves the Army to become a White House intern. Haunted by her own demons, she becomes aware of an assassination plot against a very polarizing president.

Hauty’s book – the writer’s first novel – was sold by Ann Rittenberg at Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency to Emily Bestler Books in what is said to be a mid-six figure deal that includes a sequel titled Counter Measure.

“I wanted to explore the unlikeliest of heroes,” Hauty tells Deadline. “A true fish out of water in Washington, D.