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Only a few weeks after the Prime Video streaming charts witnessed the surprising success of a poorly received War of the Worlds re-imagining, and the Paramount+ charts saw the unexpected success of a movie that doesn't even have an official Rotten Tomatoes score, a similarly low-key title is achieving major attention on HBO Max. According to FlixPatrol, the number two movie on HBO's global charts on September 3 was the Mexican shark thriller The Black Demon. The only movie ahead of it on the leader board was the longtime champion Final Destination Bloodlines, which made nearly $300 million worldwide during its box office run earlier this year.

The Black Demon, on the other hand,...

Exclusive: Jorge Dorantes, the co-creator, executive producer and co-showrunner of the upcoming Netflix series The Gringo Hunters, has signed with Vision Entertainment for management.

Expected to begin streaming later this year, The Gringo Hunters delves into the operations of the International Liaison Unit, a real-life elite Mexican police unit known for apprehending American fugitives who flee to Mexico. Based on an article by Kevin Sieff in The Washington Post, the show is also exec produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Kristen Zolner for Imagine Entertainment and Stacy Perskie for Redrum.

Dorantes previously co-created The Chosen One for Netflix, based on Mark Millar’s hit comic book series American Jesus. Starring Diana Agron, the series made the Netflix Top 10 in 44 countries. Dorantes also co-created Aquí en la tierra (Here on Earth) with Gael García Bernal and Kyzza Terrazas, a political thriller which was the only Latin American series selected for...

Highland Film Group has released the first image of “Protector,” starring Milla Jovovich as Nikki, a former war hero who thought she’d left her violent past behind for a peaceful life with her daughter, Chloe.

In the film, Nikki’s quiet life is shattered when she wakes up in an abandoned factory, only to discover that Chloe has been kidnapped. After she quickly escapes, Nikki plunges into the city’s criminal underworld and in her quest to find Chloe. As she desperately searches for her daughter, she draws the attention of both the police and the military, shooting her to the top of the most wanted list. As she goes deeper, she uncovers a shocking truth that threatens everything she’s fighting for. In this high-stakes race against time, Nikki must find the strength she thought she left behind to restore the hero her daughter desperately needs.

Starring alongside Jovovich,...

Highland Film Group is excited to share the first look photo from the action thriller Protector starring Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil franchise), Matthew Modine and Isabel Myers (Mixed-ish). Adrian Grunberg, whose credits include Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo, and The Black Demon, will be directing Protector from a screenplay by Bong-Seeb Mun. Production has recently wrapped in New Mexico. Take a look at the preview photo below.

The official synopsis reads,

“Nikki (Milla Jovovich), a former war hero, thought she’d left her violent past behind for a peaceful life with her daughter, Chloe. That peace is shattered when Nikki awakens bound in an abandoned factory, only to discover that Chloe has been kidnapped. Quickly escaping, Nikki plunges into the city’s criminal underworld and in her quest to find Chloe, she draws the attention of both the police and the military, shooting her to the top of the most wanted list.

Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in February. The Peacock February 2025 schedule includes Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Pharrell Williams’ Piece by Piece, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, Valentine’s Day titles, and more.

Dive into the colorful world of Pharrell Williams on February 7 when the streaming premiere of Piece by Piece debuts exclusively on Peacock.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

The premiere of Peacock’s Original Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is coming just in time for Galentine’s Day on February 13. Tune in to catch up with our girl “Bridge” in the fourth installment of the beloved series.

Whether you’re celebrating with your sweetheart or flying solo and loving it, Peacock has you covered with a heartwarming lineup of over 300 titles that will make you fall in love with love all...

Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich may have moved on from that franchise, but she stays busy. We’ll soon be seeing her face off with Dave Bautista in her husband Paul W.S. Anderson’s fantasy film In the Lost Lands (a George R. R. Martin adaptation), we recently heard she’ll be working with Rosario Dawson and Alexandra Shipp on the action thriller Midnight, she’s gearing up to work with director Brad Anderson on both the sci-fi film World Breaker and the zombie movie Twilight of the Dead, and now The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that she’s set to star in the Taken-esque action thriller Protector.

Adrian Grunberg, whose credits include Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo, and The Black Demon, will be directing Protector from a screenplay by Bong-Seeb Mun. Filming is expected to take place in New Mexico this winter.

Jovovich will be taking on the role of Nikki,...

Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich is set to headline Protector, a Taken-esque action thriller that Highland Film is pitching to buyers at this year’s American Film Market. Adrian Grünberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) is set to direct from a screenplay by Bong-Seob Mun. Production is slated to begin this winter in New Mexico.

The film’s log line has Jovovich playing Nikki, a former war hero who believed she had left her violent past behind to raise her daughter, Chloe, in peace. When she wakes up in an abandoned factory and learns that Chloe has been kidnapped, Nikki has navigate the city’s criminal underworld, pursued by both the cops and the military, to get her daughter back.

Protector is one of a slew of action projects heading to AFM this week as producers double down on a return to shoot-’em-up thrillers.

Kenneth Kim, Bang-Ok Joo...

Lionsgate has shared the official trailer and poster for the high-stakes suspense thriller Flight Risk, which will open in theaters on October 18, 2024.

The movie was directed by Mel Gibson, who previously helmed such films as The Man Without a Face, Braveheart, The Passion of The Christ, Apocalypto, Get the Gringo, and Hacksaw Ridge.

In Flight Risk, Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg plays a pilot transporting an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial.

As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar, and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.

Jared Rosenberg wrote the film, produced by John Davis, John Fox, Bruce Davey, and Mel Gibson.

The executive producers include Alex Lebovici, Jenny Hinkey, Ryan D. Smith, Natasha Stassen, Allen Cheney, Christopher Woodrow, K. Blaine Johnston, Christian Mercuri, Petr Jákl, Vicki Christianson, Nick Guerra, Russell Hollander, Jon Huddle, Patrick Josten, Walter Josten,...

Mel Gibson, Garrett Hedlund, and Willa Fitzgerald star in the first trailer for Desperation Road, a modern noir thriller based on the acclaimed novel by Michael Farris Smith. The film centers on a former criminal trying to build a new life, seeking help from his father, but complications arise when a woman enters his life. Desperation Road is Nadine Crocker's second film as a director, and the script was written by Michael Farris Smith, who has adapted other novels to film.

Mel Gibson, Garrett Hedlund and Willa Fitzgerald star in the first trailer for Desperation Road, the upcoming drama movie from Lionsgate directed by Nadine Crocker, which will be released on October 6.

Based on the novel by the same name written by Michael Farris Smith, the story centers on a former criminal trying to build a new life once he gets out of prison. To accomplished his mission he...

Call it Montezuma’s revenge. Or more precisely in this case, Tlaloc’s revenge.

Amid the hype for the second season of the The Summer I Turned Pretty or feature Red, White & Royal Blue, another Amazon title has quietly been reigning over the streaming service’s top 10.

The Black Demon, a shark movie with a supernatural and Latino bent, has claimed in the number one spot on Amazon’s streaming rankings for seven consecutive days since its debut Aug. 22, beating out not just those Amazon sensations, but also major studio fare such as Universal’s Cocaine Bear and Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons, which also sit in the streamer’s daily top 10 ranking of most-watched entries in the U.S.

It’s an impressive feat, given that the film, made for under $10 million, had just a small marketing spend, though without actual viewing numbers, it’s hard to judge the...

Stars: Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Venus Ariel, Carlos Solorzan, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Jorge A. Jimenez | Written by Carlos Cisco, Boise Esquerra | Directed by Adrian Grunberg

After the trainwreck that was Cocaine Shark and with the spectre of Jurassic Shark 3: Seavenge looming over me, The Black Demon, or any other shark film for that matter, may not have been an obvious choice. But this one caught my attention when it was announced and the idea of a finned fear film with enough of a budget to give it some bite was hard to say no to.

Paul Sturges is the safety officer for Nixon Oil, a corporate name that does not exactly inspire confidence. He has been sent to Baja to inspect one of the company’s rigs and has brought his family along. He may have to work but his wife Ines, daughter, Audrey, and son Tommy can have a vacation.

As Braveheart’s William Wallace once put it, “Every man dies, not every man truly lives.” And has a man truly lived until Mel Gibson has bailed him out of a jam on the side of the road in the pitch black of night? In a viral video, the star is seen as a true road warrior, helping a citizen air up his tire in an act that has garnered praise for Gibson. While the video has been around for well over a year, new exposure has helped shed a new light on Mel Gibson – no, really, he needs you to shine a light on the pressure gauge for him.

The video, which is embedded below, finds the stranded man askingMel Gibson, “Why are you alone?” The Academy Award-winning actor shrugs his shoulders and responds, “Why are you?” The fella in distress replies, “I am alone because I am not famous,...

Lionsgate has nabbed global distribution for “Flight Risk,” an action-thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and directed by Mel Gibson. This will mark the first film Gibson has directed since his blockbuster ($175 million on a $40 million budget) and Oscar-nominated “Hacksaw Ridge” in 2016. The mini-major will be launching the project, featuring Wahlberg as a pilot transporting a dangerous criminal for trial, at Cannes.

“We love the undeniable electric pairing of Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Joe Drake said. “These world-class talents combining for this dynamic, character-driven film will make ‘Flight Risk’ one of the most suspense-filled, must-see events of the year.”

Wahlberg and Gibson have starred in a few projects together, including “Daddy’s Home 2” and last year’s faith-based “Father Stu.” Considering the number of high-concept or true-story action movies Wahlberg has made with director Peter Berg over the last decade, it is a mild surprise that Gibson will be in charge.

Stars: Manolo Cardona, Dagoberto Gama, Adriana Paz, Fernando Becerril, Juan Carlos Remolina, Maribel Verdú, Carla Adell | Written by Gavo Amiel, Julieta Steinberg | Directed by Manolo Cardona

Death’s Roulette (Uno Para Morir) opens on a familiar note, a group of strangers wakes up to find they’ve been kidnapped and brought to an unknown but opulent location for an unknown reason by an unknown person.

In this case, it’s a cop named Simon. Armando who is a surgeon. There’s a stewardess named Teresa and Jose who is retired.

The only ones with an obvious connection are three members of a family, wealthy businessman Esteban, his wife Marta, and their daughter Lupe, a human rights lawyer.

Director Manolo Cardona (Rubirosa) and writers Gavo Amiel and Julieta Steinberg let things play out pretty much as we expect they will. Everyone introduces themselves, there’s speculation about why they’re here and...

Exclusive: Netflix has put Bandidos, a thriller series about an underwater heist, into production.

The drama follows the story of Miguel (Alfonso Dosal) and accomplice Lilí (Ester Expósito), who are joined by a group of bandits as they attempt to retrieve treasure from an underwater grave of a Spanish galleon that sunk in the Gulf of Mexico during the War of Independence. However, they’re not the only ones after the bounty.

Shot in Spanish, the series also stars Juan Pablo Medina, Mabel Cadena, Nicolás Furtado, Andrés Baida, Andrea Chaparro, Juan Pablo Fuentes and Bruno Bichir among others.

Pablo Tébar is writer and showrunner on the series, which our sources say will feature a “massive underwater heist.” We understand the action will occur in several different settings, however.

Rambo: Last Blood and Get the Gringo director Adrian Grunberg is the director.

The series is set to launch in 2024. It marks...

It isn’t every day that you get to speak to one of your childhood heroes on the phone, but that’s precisely what happened to me recently when given the opportunity to interview the one and only Mel Gibson. The legendary star is out promoting a movie he’s in called Bandit, which tells the true story of bank robber Gilbert Galvan Jr (played by Josh Duhamel), who, in the 80s, robbed 59 banks all over Canada with little more than a handful of disguises and some frequent flyer miles. Gibson plays a shady character named Tommy Kay who helps fund his caper; in it, he seems to be having the time of his life. Indeed, Gibson seemed thrilled with how the film turned out and the experience of working with both director Allan Ungar (the famous Uncharted Live Action Fan Film) and Duhamel. We’ll have the full Q...

Fernanda Urrejola and Julio Cesar Cedillo will star alongside Josh Lucas in “The Black Demon.” The survival thriller is the latest film from Adrian Grünberg, the director of “Rambo: Last Blood” and “Get the Gringo.”

The film centers on an oilman who finds himself and his family stranded on a rig where he is targeted by a megalodon, a prehistoric shark.

Urrejola is best known for her work in “Narcos: Mexico,” the “Party of Five” reboot and Clint Eastwood’s most recent drama, “Cry Macho.” Cedillo played the title role in “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” and also appeared in “All the Pretty Horses,” “Cowboys & Aliens” and “Sicario.” He recently starred in Netflix’s acclaimed film “The Harder They Fall.”

Also joining the cast are Jorge A. Jimenez (“Machete Kills”), Héctor Jiménez (“Nacho Libre”), Raúl Méndez (“Narcos”), Edgar Flores (“Sin Nombre”), Venus Ariel (“Dmz”) and Carlos Solórzano (“Flamin’ Hot”).

Written by Boise Esquerra,...

Josh Lucas will battle a giant shark in “The Black Demon,” a survival thriller from “Rambo: Last Blood” director Adrian Grunberg. The film was written by Boise Esquerra (“Blackwater”) and is set to start principal photography in December on location in the Dominican Republic.

Here’s the logline for this sea creature chiller: “The film follows oilman Paul Sturges (Lucas) as he takes his family on vacation to Bahia Azul. There, the coastal town he and his wife once knew has mysteriously crumbled and the locals are nowhere to be found. Paul starts off his day with a routine visit to inspect his nearby oil rig, but before he knows it, his entire family has landed with him on the rotting metal tower. From the depths of the ocean rises a massive megalodon known only by its name: the Black Demon. Under constant threat from this primeval species of shark,...

It may be less than a month since Kevin Smith enthusiastically announced that filming was underway on the belated second sequel to Clerks, and just like the original movie, it appears that the shoot has been lightning quick and is almost done according to Smith's latest Instagram update on the production. Smith has been sharing updates on pretty much a daily basis, sharing images from the set, teasing some of the familiar locations returning in the threequel, and plenty of behind the scenes information. In his latest update, he ended by quietly mentioning that they are almost done.

Smith wrote about finishing up Clerks 3, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation! They say that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Well, I never forgot #Clerks, but I've still spent the last month repeating it. The Movie-In-Movie moments in #Clerks3 have been the most fun to shoot, as...

Mel Gibson has slowly been mounting a comeback over the last few years, although at this point, his best chance of regaining his former status as one of the biggest stars in the business is a lot more likely to happen on the other side of the camera.

As a director, Gibson has lost none of his visual or storytelling prowess, as evidenced by his last effort Hacksaw Ridge earning $180 million at the box office and picking up six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, where it walked away with wins for Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing.

As an actor, the 64 year-old has struggled to gain any real momentum lately and has largely been relegated to supporting roles in forgettable genre fare or headlining the occasional hidden gem like Get the Gringo or Blood Father. Lethal Weapon 5 has the potential to deliver Gibson’s biggest...

Late last year, We Got This Covered reported that Lethal Weapon 5 was happening and a couple of months later, producer Dan Lin confirmed our scoop, saying that director Richard Donner and stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover were all set to return. And while the movie is still in the early stages of development, and may even now face a delay as well due to the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve got a little something to tide you over in the form of an awesome new fan trailer.

Of course, the mantra of the action franchise is, “I’m getting too old for this sh*t.” Gibson uttered those words in the original movie back in 1987 and if he considered himself old 33 years ago, what’s he going to look like now? Well, this new clip answers that very question, showing us detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh back in action...

One of the most buzzed-about horror movies from 2019, Issa López's Tigers Are Not Afraid is coming out on Blu-ray/DVD SteelBook and DVD on May 5th from Rlje Films, and we've been provided with a look at the cover art and the full list of bonus features, including a 43-minute behind-the-scenes video and an audio commentary with López.

Read on for the full SteelBook Blu-ray/DVD and DVD release details, and in case you missed them, read Heather Wixson's interview with López and Ben Larned's review of Tigers Are Not Afraid.

Press Release: Los Angeles – Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Shudder’s, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, Tigers Are Not Afraid which releases on May 5, 2020 on DVD and DVD/Blu-ray SteelBook. Written and directed by Issa López (Secondary Effects), the horror/thriller stars...

Rambo: Last Blood director Adrian Grunberg may not be a household name to the moviegoing audience, but he’s quietly led a storied career as a first assistant director and second unit director on such films as Man on Fire, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Apocalypto and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Grunberg’s work with Mel Gibson even led to his directorial debut via 2012’s Get the Gringo, which was surprisingly well-received despite the embattled status of Gibson.

After a career of working with Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grunberg recognizes that his experiences alongside ...

Rambo: Last Blood director Adrian Grunberg may not be a household name to the moviegoing audience, but he’s quietly led a storied career as a first assistant director and second unit director on such films as Man on Fire, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Apocalypto and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Grunberg’s work with Mel Gibson even led to his directorial debut via 2012’s Get the Gringo, which was surprisingly well-received despite the embattled status of Gibson.

After a career of working with Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grunberg recognizes that his experiences alongside ...

As a hardcore fan of Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo franchise, I was super stoked for Rambo: Last Blood! I thought I knew what I should expect from this movie before seeing it, but in certain ways, it was very different than any of the previous Rambo films. But, in other ways, it had exactly what I was hoping to see.

For me, the film’s story played out like one of those Lifetime original movies. Even the script and dialogue had the same tone and mediocracy of those kinds of films, which was off-putting for me. On top of that, the acting was weak and there were some aspects of the film that didn’t really make any sense.

In the film, Rambo is a troubled individual and is wrestling with Ptsd as he takes care of his farm and his horses. He’s trying to live a peaceful life...

When we last saw John Rambo — Vietnam vet, social pariah, savior of POWs and stoic killing machine — he was saving missionaries and mercenaries in war-torn Burma at the end of Bush II’s second term. Then our man returned home to Arizona, walking down the dusty path to the front door of the Rambo family ranch and, presumably, towards a sense of peace. That was then; this is now. Rambo: Last Blood, the maybe, possibly, could-be final chapter of the franchise (though does anything besides scores of nameless, faceless bad guys ever really die?...

The montage at the end of “Rambo: Last Blood” — snippets from all the “Rambo” films stretching back four decades — turns out to be a scrapbook browse of action-trope quaintness, when all a “Rambo” movie ever really needed was a loving camera hold on a sweat-slick, buff, and snarling Sylvester Stallone armed to the teeth or surrounded by explosions.

There was death, sure, but mostly posturing, and it’s worth remembering that scarred ex-Green Beret John Rambo wasn’t a serial killer in “First Blood”; he just did his guerrilla maneuvers, hurt a lot of mean cops, and blew things up. But when Stallone reached Medicare age, 2008’s “Rambo” (the fourth) sacrificed roided-out preening and younger man’s athletics for wall-to-wall butchery and a body count in the hundreds.

That vogue for ultraviolence (facilitated by CGI splatter tech) continues with “Rambo: Last Blood,” a title of hoped-for finality which spends more...

We’ve got an awesome new red-band TV spot to share with you for Rambo: Last Blood, and in it we see Sylvester Stallone brutally destroy anyone who gets in his way. This footage is just packed full of Rambo killing people in the most bloody and savage ways. As you’ll see, he doesn’t hold back his anger and rage.

In the film, Rambo is “deeply troubled and wrestling with Ptsd as he picks up casual work wherever he can. When long-time family friend and estate manager Maria informs Rambo that her grand-daughter has gone missing after crossing into Mexico for a party, he sets off with her to find the youngster. What ensues is a violent descent into hell as Rambo uncovers a sex-trafficking ring. He teams up with a journalist whose half-sister has also been kidnapped and must deploy all his skills to save the girls...

Home has always been an abstract concept for John Rambo, which is what the last scene of 2008’s otherwise expendable “Rambo” sequel finally gave the iconic Sylvester Stallone character: a moment when this unsettled Vietnam War survivor, looking very much the worse for wear, lumbers up to a mailbox bearing the character’s surname. At last, somewhere in Arizona, this dutybound embodiment of American military might had found his way back to the family ranch.

Such closure was in nearly every way antithetical to the spirit of “First Blood” — that is, the Ptsd-fueled franchise’s inaugural movie and the eponymous David Morrell novel that inspired it, both of which traded on the notion that a good man who’d gotten a taste of killing had serious difficulty turning off that deadly skill set upon his return. As a result, a sum total of zero viewers saw that ending as a...

Midway through “Rambo: Last Blood,” Sylvester Stallone mumbles a heartfelt monologue, grasping for poignance after four previous movies of grisly showdowns with foreign threats. Points for effort, Rambo, but no such luck. Tragedy strikes, destroying whatever faith in humanity the beleaguered Vietnam vet somehow cultivated since 2008’s “Rambo.” And so the body count rises once more. If there was any doubt about this cycle of mayhem dominating Rambo’s life wherever he goes, then this apparent conclusion seals the deal, forcing him to unleash yet more carnage on waves of ugly stereotypes with savage finality.

Yet nearly 40 years after the comparatively bloodless first installment, the grunting warrior still can’t catch a break, this time taking on hardened Mexican sex traffickers across the border. If only “Last Blood” had more to say about that beyond the jingoistic mishmash of dime-store sentimentality and half-hearted vengeance it shrugs into existence, bidding farewell...

Sylvester Stallone goes to war one final time in Rambo: Last Blood, but this time it’s personal.

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The strange thing about Rambo: Last Blood, the fifth and possibly final chapter in the long-running Sylvester Stallone franchise about a traumatized Vietnam vet turned avenging global warrior, is how unlike a Rambo movie it feels at first. For one thing, Rambo doesn’t really look like himself anymore. The long locks and bandanna are gone--which is just as well for the 73-year-old Stallone--and Rambo looks more than anything like the aged Rocky Balboa of the two recent Creed films.

Secondly, Rambo: Last Blood is the first film in the series in which John Rambo is not either dealing with the aftermath of his own war experiences in Vietnam (as he did in the first two movies) or cleaning up a mess left behind by someone else (as he...

We’ve got a new TV spot to share with you for Rambo: Last Blood. It’s called “Old School,” and Uncle John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is out for blood when some stupid unfortunate souls decided to kidnap his niece. Nothing is going to stop him from brutally destroying anyone involved. The latest spot for the film calls back to some of the original films in the Rambo franchise.

In the film, Rambo is “deeply troubled and wrestling with Ptsd as he picks up casual work wherever he can. When long-time family friend and estate manager Maria informs Rambo that her grand-daughter has gone missing after crossing into Mexico for a party, he sets off with her to find the youngster. What ensues is a violent descent into hell as Rambo uncovers a sex-trafficking ring. He teams up with a journalist whose half-sister has also been kidnapped and must deploy...

Sylvester Stallone has dropped a new teaser trailer for his upcoming film Rambo: Last Blood, and in it we see him back in the role of Rambo who goes on a rampage as he ruthlessly fights to save his granddaughter from a drug cartel.

I am so pumped up for this movie! I’m such a huge fan of the Rambo films, and this one looks like it’s gonna be awesome! You can check out the new teaser trailer below.

In the film, Rambo is “deeply troubled and wrestling with Ptsd as he picks up casual work wherever he can. When long-time family friend and estate manager Maria informs Rambo that her grand-daughter has gone missing after crossing into Mexico for a party, he sets off with her to find the youngster. What ensues is a violent descent into hell as Rambo uncovers a sex-trafficking ring. He teams up...

Sylvester Stallone's John Rambo is all set to ride into gory battle once more in Get the Gringo director Adrian Grunberg's Rambo: Last Blood this September. And for those of you out there that may have been worried that Stallone and company would go all The Expendables 3 on us and bring us a PG-13 entry in the Rambo saga, no worries.

Today we have word from Sylvester Stallone himself over on Instagram that the new Rambo movie has just snagged a "hard R" rating from the powers that be over at the MPAA. Specifically, Stallone writes this.

"Great day! We got our Hard R Rating today! What's coming is going to be unlike anything you've ever seen..." ...Death is coming," John said."

While it may seem silly to be worried this new Rambo movie would go PG-13 on us, it's not a completely unfounded fear. After all,...

Exclusive: Things are heating up in regards to the Venice Film Festival after we exclusively reported yesterday that Warner Bros’ Joker is eyeing the awards season launchpad. Now comes word that Sylvester Stallone could light up the Lido with Rambo: Last Blood, which is due to get a September 20 release stateside via Lionsgate and an Italian release soon after. Nothing has been set, but buzz is building about a potential special screening. Sly has previous history with the festival having received its Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award in 2009 and also being on hand for the official screening of Cop Land back in 1997. Stallone was feted at Cannes this year where he showed a rapt audience first footage of the fourth installment in the money-spinning Rambo franchise. This go-around Sly’s John Rambo pits his wits against a Mexican Cartel. Adrian Grunberg (Get The Gringo) directs the well-sold Millennium movie...

This September we will finally see the return of Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo in Get the Gringo director Adrian Grunberg's Rambo: Last Blood. And based on the recently released teaser trailer, this new entry looks to be brutal and bloody as hell, which is just how us fans like our Rambo. But that said, and as the title suggests, I'm wondering if this "Last Blood" will really be, you know, the final Rambo movie we see hit the big screen in the franchise? Well, it seems that the answer is a big old, "No." At least if Stallone has anything to say about it. The actor was recently out and about talking up the newest Rambo film and let us all know that if it works, he'll just keep going.

Specifically, Sylvester Stallone said this about possibly returning to the role of John Rambo in Rambo 6: The...

As he keeps the Rocky franchise going, Sylvester Stallone is also pumping blood into another one of his series: Rambo. Ever since the 2008 installment, he’s been trying to get another follow-up off the ground and it’ll finally arrive this fall with Rambo: Last Blood. Directed by Adrian Grunberg (Get the Gringo), the fifth film in the series follows our action hero going up against the Mexican cartel, and the first trailer has now arrived.

“In every film, Rambo never goes home, he goes out the to the jungle or Afghanistan,” he tells Deadline. “In the new one, he does come home, but in a way he never arrives. He’s there, but he’s not. That’s what the whole story is built around. As soon as he walks outside his door, he has no more control. The world controls you.”

See the trailer and poster below for...

“I want them to know that death is coming, and there’s nothing they can do to stop it.”

The first trailer for Rambo: Last Blood has been released, and this movie looks incredibly badass! As you’ll see in the trailer, we find the aged and emotionally damaged war veteran played by Sylvester Stallone locked in a brutal battle with a drug cartel. It looks to me like the war has come to him on his own turf.

I loved this trailer, and I can’t wait to see this movie! In the film, Rambo is “deeply troubled and wrestling with Ptsd as he picks up casual work wherever he can. When long-time family friend and estate manager Maria informs Rambo that her grand-daughter has gone missing after crossing into Mexico for a party, he sets off with her to find the youngster. What ensues is a violent descent...

Sylvester Stallone is back in Rambo’s bloodied shoes in the first trailer for Lionsgate’s “Rambo: Last Blood,” the fifth entry in Stallone’s action franchise that first started in 1982. Stallone found great success reviving his beloved “Rocky” franchise in 2015 with Ryan Coogler’s “Creed,” which grossed over $170 million worldwide, spawned a sequel in last year’s “Creed II,” and earned Stallone an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Can Stallone make the same lightning strike again with the “Rambo” franchise? That’s surely the intention.

“Rambo: Last Blood” centers around Stallone’s troubled Vietnam War veteran and former U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier as he tries to pull off one final mission involving a vicious Mexican drug cartel. Joining Stallone for the fifth “Rambo” movie is a supporting cast that includes Adriana Barraza, Paz Vega, Yvette Montreal, and Sergio Peris-Mencheta as the drug cartel leader. The movie will...

Sylvester Stallone and director Adrian Grunberg's Rambo: Last Blood will be upon us this September and will see Rambo blasting his way through Mexico to save a friend's daughter who has been kidnapped by the Mexican cartel. Stallone returns as Vietnam War veteran John J. Rambo and today we have a dangerous new behind the scenes pic from the flick to share with you guys. It features the movie's on-set photographer getting up close and personal with Stallone as he points a cocked, locked, and ready to rock bow and arrow right at the lens. As Stallone himself says over on Instagram, it's a dangerous shot indeed! You can check it out from yourself below.

This fifth film is obviously another entry in the First Blood series which began back in 1982 with director Ted Kotcheff's adaptation of David Morrell's novel. That first entry found Vietnam veteran and drifter John J.

Exclusive: Paradigm has signed director-screenwriter Adrian Grunberg, whose next film Rambo 5: Last Blood, starring Sylvester Stallone reprising his iconic role, will hit theaters September 20 via Lionsgate.

The Spanish filmmaker had been an A-list first assistant director on movies including Man on Fire, Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Jarhead and Gibson’s Edge of Darkness. He made his feature helming debut in 2012 on the Gibson-starrer Get the Gringo which he also co-wrote.

He also has worked as first assistant director on Netflix’s Sense8 and a second unit director on the streamer’s Narcos and Narcos: Mexico.

Grunberg second feature as director is Rambo 5, which co-stars Paz Vega, Sergio Peris-Mencheta and Oscar Jaenada. The plot of the franchise’s fifth and final chapter: When the daughter of one of his friends is kidnapped, Rambo — who has been working on a ranch — crosses the U.S.-Mexico...

The pieces are starting to come together for Rambo 5, with Deadline reporting that the movie now has its villain in actor Sergio Peris-Mencheta.

The Snowfall star is set to play Hugo Martinez, the leader of a Mexican drug cartel that forces a group of girls into their sex trafficking ring. The incident brings John Rambo out of his quiet retirement on an Arizona ranch and across the border, with presumably brutal results. In his treacherous mission, the famed action hero will be joined by another recently announced cast member, Paz Vega, who’ll be playing a reporter who specializes in covering the Mexican drug trade.

Though we’ve yet to get a glimpse of the bloodshed to come, we have seen a few pics of Sylvester Stallone looking ready for the fight. The latest photo from the upcoming flick saw the star sitting in what he himself described as Rambo’s “man cave,...

Isaac Lee, the former chief creative officer of Univision and Televisa, has formed an ambitious new company called Exile Content and he has acquired Mexican production services company Redrum.

Redrum founder Stacy Perskie will run Exile’s studio along with his team of partners, including Adrian Grunberg, who is currently directing “Rambo 5” and helmed Redrum’s first original in-house production, “Get the Gringo,” starring Mel Gibson. Exile Content will have offices in Mexico and Los Angeles.

Redrum has provided production services to some of the most prominent films to shoot in Mexico, including “Godzilla: King of Monsters,” “Blade Runner 2049, “Bel Canto,” “Spectre” and “Elysium.” On the TV side, it has worked on Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico” and season two of Amazon Prime’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” among others.

“Exile is about premium content and no one in the region has more experience producing with the highest production values then Redrum,...

Sylvester Stallone is continuing to tease the production start of Rambo 5 with a new social media post. The latest update follows a video that the actor released a few weeks ago featuring him in training to prepare for filming. Stallone is in his 70s and is seen doing 250lbs tire flips, while telling fans not to let age get in the way of their "pumping" and "pushing." Stallone did the same type of video when he and Dolph Lundgren were training for Creed 2.

With Creed 2 currently in the post-production phase, Sylvester Stallone is focused on Rambo 5. He posted a picture of John Rambo in the rain, clutching a machete with a caption that reads, "Starting soon and getting very excited... The world may be changing but not him. Nothing Is Over!" After seeing the training video and this new image, it's clear that Stallone is ready to return...

Slowly but surely, Rambo 5 is finally – finally – beginning to fall into place.

Yes, casting is now officially underway for Sylvester Stallone’s action sequel (codenamed Rambo: Last Blood), in which his beefed-up John Rambo will be coming up against the Mexican cartel.

He won’t be doing so alone, mind you, as the titular hero will be currying favor from an unnamed member of the press as he seeks to dismantle the dangerous trafficking ring responsible for kidnapping his friend’s daughter. Imagine Taken, except on steroids. But who will be calling the shots from behind the camera for the iconic action star’s new effort?

Though some thought that Stallone himself may take on that duty, we’re now hearing that Rambo 5 has tapped Get the Gringo and Narcos director Adrian Grunberg for the job. Given his work and experience with those two aforementioned projects, he seems...

Rambo 5 is gearing up to begin shooting next month, and it was believed that Sylvester Stallone was going to be helming the project. Stallone directed the last installment in the franchise with mixed results. However, new reports state that Get the Gringo director Adrian Grunberg has been tapped to direct the project instead. Grunberg has also worked on several episodes of Narcos as a second unit director as well as the assistant director on Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and on Sense8.

Adrian Grunberg's experience working on Narcos makes him a perfect fit for Rambo 5, since it will be dealing with some of the same themes. The official synopsis for the sequel has John Rambo living on a ranch in Arizona in an attempt to live the quiet life. That all changes when a human trafficking ring starts to abduct young women and bring them across the border.

Mike Cecchini Joseph Baxter Feb 28, 2019

Rambo 5: Last Blood, Sylvester Stallone's last go-around in the franchise, now has a release date.

John Rambo is at it again. Rambo 5 is underway, with Sylvester Stallone returning as the wayward one-man army from whom society drew first blood. Apropos to that description, it has just been revealed that the fifth film will go by the full title, Rambo 5: Last Blood.

Adrian Grunberg (Get the Gringo) will serve as director, working off a screenplay by Stallone, joined by producer Avi Lerner. Rambo 5: Last Blood will see Stallone's John headed south of the border to take on the drug cartels.

Here's everything you need to know about Rambo 5: Last Blood...

Rambo 5 Release Date

Per The Hollywood Report, Rambo 5: Last Blood, will premiere on September 20, 2019. The fall is as good a time as any for John Rambo's last go-around.

Rambo 5 Cast...

Mike Cecchini Joseph Baxter Oct 11, 2018

Rambo 5 is in production, with Sylvester Stallone's Rambo returning to wage a one-man war on a Mexican drug cartel.

John Rambo is at it again. Rambo 5 is getting underway with a shoot in Bulgaria, with Sylvester Stallone returning as the wayward one-man army from whom society drew first blood. Apropos to that description, it has just been revealed that the fifth film will go by the full title, Rambo 5: Last Blood.

Adrian Grunberg (Get the Gringo) will serve as director, working off a screenplay by Stallone, joined by producer Avi Lerner. Rambo 5: Last Blood will see Stallone's John headed south of the border to take on the drug cartels.

Here's everything you need to know about Rambo 5: Last Blood...

Rambo 5 Cast

Sergio Peris-Mencheta will play the Rambo 5 villain, reports Deadline. His character will be Hugo Martinez, the leader...

Mel Gibson‘s comeback hasn’t quite hit the mainstream. While “Hacksaw Ridge” saw the actor/filmmaker back in the awards spotlight, he remained behind the camera for the grisly WWII drama. Thus far, in front of the camera, he’s mostly stuck to genre flicks like “Blood Father,” “Get The Gringo,” “The Expendables 3,” and “Machete Kills.” Well, now he’s hoping to be hugged by the public once again with a little help from Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg.

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“There’s nothing worse than a politician without ambition.” So says the newly inaugurated president of Argentina in Santiago Mitre’s “The Summit.” It’s the kind of boilerplate dialogue you could hear in any broody portrait of politics and power, but it sounds particularly egregious coming from this one. Despite its larger festival platform and starrier cast, “The Summit” remains a wan, frustrating, and narratively unambitious follow-up to Mitre’s Critics Week prizewinner, “Paulina.”

With big-name actors and top-level access, Mitre’s third feature is an impressively scaled-up production. “The Summit” opens in the halls of the Casa Rosada, the sprawling presidential palace in the heart of Buenos Aires, and Mitre shot in the actual palace. As the steadicam rigs sweep from the back entrance to the kitchen to the gilded corridors of power, it introduces us to the characters who make the country run. First among equals is...