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Any action fan, or even dedicated viewer of Corridor Crew's "Stuntmen React" series, should know the name Scott Adkins. Long before Adkins went all out for his role as German gangster Killa Harkan in "John Wick: Chapter 4," the British stunt performer and actor made a name for himself working as a stuntman for prominent Hong Kong action directors in the early 2000s. He went on to appear in dozens of action movies, from starring opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in four separate films to doubling for Ryan Reynolds' Weapon XI in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." For his role as Gunnery Sergeant Barton Geddes in 2019's "Ip Man 4: The Finale," Adkins said star Donnie Yen — who also faced off against Keanu Reeves in "John Wick: Chapter 4" — requested him for the film by name.

Having remained somewhat of a B-movie action star for most of his career, Adkins is finally starting to get more mainstream recognition.

FBI: International fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 3 Episode 3 episode titled Magpie!

Find out everything you need to know about the Magpie episode of FBI: International, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

FBI: International Magpie Season 3 Episode 3 Preview

Get ready for an intense new episode of “FBI: International” titled “Magpie,” airing on CBS at 9:00 Pm on February 27, 2024. In this gripping installment, the team is thrust into the opulent world of Monaco when tragedy strikes during an extravagant sweet sixteen celebration.

When the mother of the birthday girl is discovered dead near the family’s European estate, the team must navigate the high-stakes world of international intrigue to uncover the truth behind her untimely demise. As they delve deeper into the investigation, they unravel a web of secrets and deception that threatens to unravel the...

Stars: Scott Adkins, Waleed Elgadi, Tom Berenger, Meena Rayann, Michael Jai White, Aaron Toney | Written by Jamie Russell | Directed by James Nunn

Not only is One More Shot filmed with the illusion of being one long take like its predecessor 2021’s One Shot, it does something more important. It reunites director James Nunn and writer Jamie Russell with the previous film’s leads, Scott Adkins as Navy Seal Jake Harris and Waleed Elgadi as terrorist Amin Mansur.

Following the events of the first film, Harris is escorting Mansur back to the US where they plan to get him to reveal the whereabouts of a dirty bomb set to explode during the State of the Union Address, which the President, of course, refuses to postpone. For leverage, CIA Agent Marshall has brought Mansur’s pregnant wife Niesha to meet his plane. But they’re not the only ones there to meet the flight.

Watching a Navy Seal single-handedly take on a coach-load of mercenaries requires more than a little suspension of disbelief in this soulless sequel

A faint whiff of spoof hangs over this all guns blazing action thriller set in an airport where a military jet has landed with a terrorist on board. Inside the terminal, spooks in black suits woodenly bark homeland security jargon at each other: “Prepare for the evacuation of the asset!” The movie already feels faintly ridiculous, then in stomps martial arts actor Scott Adkins. He plays Jake Harris, a super-tough Navy Seal escorting the terrorist. And the thing about Harris is he’s unkillable; fling him over a balcony or karate chop him in the neck, and up he pops again, knife in hand, ready to stab another bad guy in the throat.

The film is a sequel to 2021’s One Shot, which saw insurgents attack a...

In 1948, making a film of the stage play Rope, Alfred Hitchcock decided to try to make it appear as though the action took place in a single take. At that time, the technology didn’t exist to allow him to actually achieve this and so every ten minutes the viewer will notice a zoom on a static object, something that will allow Hitchcock to dissolve and link to the next ten minute take.

In almost 75 years, technology has advanced much further. Today, cameras allow for shooting entire features in a single take and editing has advanced to a point that transitions needn’t be the slow, awkward moments seen in Rope, meaning that films like Birdman and 1917, while shot in multiple takes over many days, can appear to be a single shot.

One Shot is a real time action film that finds Jake (Scott Adkins) and his Navy Seal team...

Stars: Scott Adkins, Ashley Greene, Waleed Elgadi, Ryan Phillippe, Emmanuel Imani, Dino Kelly, Jack Parr, Jess Liaudin, Lee Charles | Written by Jamie Russell | Directed by James Nunn

One Shot is both the title of the new Scott Adkins film, it’s also the film’s gimmick and reason for being made in the first place. Director James Nunn, working from a script by Jamie Russell, has given us a feature-length action film shot in one continuous take.

Needless to say, One Shot keeps the plotting to a minimum. CIA operative Zoe Anderson has been assigned to bring terrorist Amin Mansur (Waleed Elgadi; Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar) from a Black Site to the US for questioning. The base’s commander Jack Yorke doesn’t think that’s a good idea and is refusing to release him.

Lt. Jake Harris (Scott Adkins) and his team, Whit (Emmanuel Imani; Hold the...

“He is our one shot to fix this thing,” junior CIA analyst Zoe Anderson says during “One Shot,” and somewhere an angel got its wings, the happy result of not only the film’s title being uttered in dialogue, but its very gimmick as well.

Zoe is trying to retrieve information from a detainee on a CIA black site island prison — the only one left, she’s proudly told upon arrival — though she’s remarkably cagey about what she needs and why she needs it handled in Washington, DC. Perhaps she’d have been more forthcoming had she known her visit would coincide with Jihadists after the same man, and more than willing to slaughter anyone who gets in their path. Luckily for her — and for that detainee, Mansur — they luckily happen to have as their guide Navy Seal Lt. Jake Harris, as accomplished a marksman as he is in hand-to-hand combat,...

There’s a whole lot of ammo going blammo over the course of “One Shot,” an action movie couched as a battle in real time between Navy SEALs and insurgents on a U.S.-controlled, Guantanamo-style island detention facility, presented in what appears to be a single, continuous shot.

Of course, as in other recent films like “Birdman” and “1917,” the “real time” is an illusion created by hard-to-detect editing together of several long, elaborately blocked individual shots — this movie was shot in 20 days, not 90 minutes. Still, director James Nunn’s reunion with star Scott Adkins does effectively use that device to heighten immediacy in an effort that may not transcend their usual B-grade, adrenaline-fueled macho fare, but does bring some welcome novelty to the genre.

Seal Lieutenant Jake Harris (Scott Harris) has been emergency-tasked with flying a CIA representative to an ambiguously located high-security isle whose unwilling guests represent a “United Nations of terror,...

"We screw up and one of these guys hurts the homeland, it's all over CNN!" Screen Media has launched an official trailer for an action film titled One Shot, which is indeed a "one shot" movie with a continuous long take. But it's from a filmmaker you've probably never heard of, who hasn't made anything worth watching before this. An elite squad of Navy Seal's, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack while trying to rescue the same prisoner. The action looks solid, but the rest of it looks extremely cheesy, not to mention a plot involving torture tactics to try and get intel out of a guy who doesn't seem to have any knowledge to offer. One Shot stars Scott Adkins, Ashley Greene, Ryan Phillippe, Emmanuel Imani, Dino Kelly, Jack Parr, and Waleed Elgadi. It's also...

"Enter town, then get out of it." Netflix has launched the first official trailer for Mosul, an intense action-thriller directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan, an acclaimed screenwriter making his feature directorial debut. This film premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, and also stopped by TIFF, and is produced by the Russo Brothers - Joe & Anthony. One of their first big non-Marvel projects following all the Avengers movies. An extraordinary true story of heroism in the face of overwhelming odds, a police unit from Mosul fights to liberate the Iraqi city from thousands of Isis militants. Shot entirely in Arabic - the movie stars Suhail Dabbach (Major Jasem), Adam Bessa (Kawa), Is'haq Elias (Waleed), plus Hayat Kamille, Waleed Elgadi, Thaer Al-Shayei, Ben Affan, and Mohimen Mahbuba. This looks like one hell of a rough & tumble action movie, and I'm so glad they made it without ...

Netflix has acquired “Mosul,” an Iraq War drama funded and produced by Anthony and Joe Russo’s production company Agbo, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap. 101 Studios was originally going to acquire the war drama, but talks fell through. Netflix will release “Mosul” in November 2020.

Matthew Michael Carnahan, who wrote the Agbo film “21 Bridges” starring the late Chadwick Boseman, wrote and directed “Mosul.” It’s inspired by an article in The New Yorker by Luke Mogelson about the Nineveh Swat team, an elite police squad of soldiers composed of local Iraqis all fighting Isis. The drama first premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, followed by Toronto.

Waleed Elgadi, Suhail Dabbach and Adam Bessa star in the film as a police squad moving block by block to reclaim their city from Isis, all while nursing their own personal traumas at the hands of the terrorist group.

The Curse of Hobbes House is a United Kingdom shot feature. From director Juliane Block (3 Lives), the film's story focuses on a large inheritance and creatures that roam the Hobbes' Estate. Co-written by Wolf-Peter Arand, this film stars: Mhairi Calvey (Robert the Bruce), Makenna Guyler (The Barge People), Waleed Elgadi and Kevin Leslie. A trailer was just released for the film this week and can be found below. The trailer shows Jane (Calvey) arriving at the estate. She is greeted by her half-sister, Jennifer (Guyler). The inheritance is ready to be divided up, when creatures begin to appear outside. Instead of a windfall, these characters will have to find a way off the grounds, before nightfall. 4Digital Media will show the film in the U.S., this December 15th. In the United Kingdom, indie film fans will have to wait until 2021, when Screenbound Pictures shows the film in theatres. Until then,...

101 Studios has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to “Mosul,” an Iraq War drama funded and produced by Anthony and Joe Russo’s production company Agbo, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.

Matthew Michael Carnahan, who wrote the Agbo film “21 Bridges” starring Chadwick Boseman opening this month, wrote and directed “Mosul.” It’s inspired by an article in The New Yorker by Luke Mogelson about the Nineveh Swat team, an elite police squad of soldiers composed of local Iraqis all fighting Isis. The drama first premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, followed by Toronto, and 101 Studios will now release the film in 2020.

Waleed Elgadi, Suhail Dabbach and Adam Bessa star in the film as a police squad moving block by block to reclaim their city from Isis, all while nursing their own personal traumas at the hands of the terrorist group.

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We present our interviews from the Tiff premiere of Iraq war drama Mosul, telling the harrowing story of the occupation of the city of Mosul from 2014 to 2017. The film was written and directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan., and produced by Avengers directors Joe and Anthony Russo. The film stars Waleed Elgadi, Hayat Kamille, Suhail Dabbach, Adam Bessa, Mohimen Mahbuba, Ben Affan and Isaac Elias.

The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, and these are the interviews from the red carpet.

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Between 2014 and 2017, Isis occupied the Iraqi city of Mosul. During those years, the only group to fight the occupiers continuously was Nineveh province’s Swat unit, made up of local men who had either been injured or had a family member killed by Isis. Carnahan’s Mosul is a gripping tribute to these fighters for whom the incentives were intensely personal. Kawa (Adam Bessa), a 21-year-old police officer,...

Zombie Project Ltd has joined forces with producer / director Juliane Block on a Brit Indie zombie action thriller, Hobbes House. Starring Mhairi Calvey, Kevin Leslie (Rise & Fall of the Krays), Makenna Guyler (King of Crime) and Waleed Elgadi (A Hologram for a King), the three-week shoot …

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Zombie Project Ltd has joined forces with producer/director Juliane Block on a Brit Indie zombie action thriller, Hobbes House. Starring Mhairi Calvey, Kevin Leslie (Rise & Fall of the Krays), Makenna Guyler (King of Crime) and Waleed Elgadi (A Hologram for a King), the three-week shoot commences February 17th in locations around Bristol, UK.

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When down-on-her-luck Jane Dormant (Mhairi Calvey) learns about the death of her Grandmother, she travels to a remote estate to attend the reading of the will. She’s expecting a life-saving inheritance, but the trouble is, so is Jennifer (Makenna Guyler), her estranged and more successful half-sister, who has arrived with her lover Nigel Thatcher (Kevin Leslie) in tow. But when a storm cuts the estate off from the outside world, the brewing family tensions have to be put to one side when a horde of blood-thirsty zombies invade. And it’s not the money they’re after…...