Tag: John Wick

  • Lionsgate Will Distribute Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

    Lionsgate Will Distribute Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

    A Hollywood legend is finally getting his passion project released. Francis Ford Coppola, the director of, to name a few, The Godfather and its sequels, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, has been trying to get a sci-fi epic called Megalopolis made since 1983, and he finally started putting the film together in 2019, financing…

  • John Wick Director Chad Stahelski Signs on to Make More Action Movies for Lionsgate

    John Wick Director Chad Stahelski Signs on to Make More Action Movies for Lionsgate

    Lionsgate is investing in the action business. In a statement released this morning (via Variety), Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson announced that Chad Stahelski, the former stuntman who directed all four John Wick movies (the first with fellow stuntman-turned-director David Leitch), has signed a “multi-year, first-look production deal” with the studio for his…

  • Ballerina Having Reshoots by John Wick Director

    Ballerina Having Reshoots by John Wick Director

    The John Wick spin-off had to call in the big guns. In an interview with the British talk show The One Show, actor Ian McShane, who plays Winston Scott, Wick’s friend and manager of the Continental Hotel, spoke about Ballerina, the upcoming film set in the John Wick universe. Ballerina was originally going to be released on June 7, 2024,…

  • David Leitch No Longer Directing Jurassic World 4

    David Leitch No Longer Directing Jurassic World 4

    Well, that was fast. Just a few days ago, news broke that David Leitch, co-director of John Wick, would be directing Jurassic World 4, or whatever they call the next Jurassic Park sequel. But another Deadline exclusive says that the talks have ended, and Universal is going another way. Creative differences are the given reason for…

  • Donnie Yen to Star in Kung Fu Movie from 87North

    Donnie Yen to Star in Kung Fu Movie from 87North

    After this year’s The Fall Guy, 87North is adapting another classic action TV show. Deadline reports that the burgeoning action studio is developing a movie version of Kung Fu, based on the 70s TV series starring David Carradine. In the new film, Donnie Yen will play Kwai Chang Caine, the lead role originated by Carradine. David…

  • John Wick 5 Script Being Written

    John Wick 5 Script Being Written

    There’s no stopping the Boogeyman. In May, Joe Drake, then the president of Lionsgate, said that the studio was developing a number of films in the John Wick universe, “including 5,” indicating that a fifth John Wick movie was on its way. Since then, there hasn’t been much movement; a lot of that was due to the…