Budomate – Action Movie Magazine

A newly released still offers the first look at Gerard Butler in Empire City, an action thriller centered on a high-stakes hostage crisis inside New York City’s fictional Clybourn Building.
Butler stars as Rhett, a firefighter forced into a rescue mission that quickly turns into a fight for survival. When the situation escalates, Rhett teams up with his firehouse squad and his wife Dani, an NYPD officer played by Hayley Atwell, recently...

Jessica Brok arrives as a lean survival action thriller built around a simple, primal hook: a retired special forces operative must fight her way through hostile terrain and sadistic enemies to reclaim her kidnapped daughter.
Set deep within the African wilderness, the film blends manhunt tension with endurance-based combat, evolving from a military mission into a Hard Target–style hunt and Rambo-like survival scenario without overcomplicating its premise or overexplaining...

Italian filmmaker Gabriele Mainetti returns with the martial arts–driven action movie The Forbidden City, formerly titled Kung Fu in Rome.
Set in Rome’s culturally diverse Piazza Vittorio neighborhood, the story unfolds in one of the city’s most multi-ethnic districts. The film follows two strangers from very different worlds. One is the son of a struggling restaurant owner who vanished...

Aaron Taylor-Johnson headlines the new action thriller Fuze, teaming up with Theo James and Sam Worthington in a high-stakes London-set story built around chaos, timing, and opportunity. The film turns a real-world crisis into the perfect criminal smokescreen...