John Wick

Lionsgate is hoping that Keanu Reeves' 'John Wick: Chapter 4' will continue the franchise's miraculous upwards trajectory at the domestic and worldwide box ...

John Wick: Chapter 2 was a classic breakout sequel, opening amid a crowded February in 2017 (on the same weekend as The LEGO Batman Movie and Fifty Shades Darker) with $30 million before legging out to $92 million domestic and $172 million worldwide on a $40 million budget. It still “only” rose 58% domestic and 62% worldwide from The Winter Soldier ($259 million/$714 million). John Wick: Chapter 3, obviously working with smaller grosses, jumped 86% domestic and 87% worldwide without a penny from China. Back in 2019, I wondered aloud whether John Wick: Chapter 4, which in a non-Covid world would have opened in the same mid-May slot in 2021, might take a massive overseas upswing as we saw with Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, Jason Bourne and Fast & Furious (all “part four” in their respective character-specific franchises) while keeping domestic strength. March is ridiculously crowded as at least three of these biggies (John Wick 4, Aquaman 2 and Creed 3) were supposed to open elsewhere in 2022. John Wick debuted in late October of 2014 with a surprisingly strong $14 million debut before earning $43 million domestic and $88 million worldwide on a $30 million budget. It also kept chugging to $171 million domestic and $323 million worldwide on a $75 million budget. My wife is out of town with the oldest.

At San Diego Comic-Con 2022 fans got a first glimpse at John Wick 4 in a new trailer, which stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Donnie Yen, ...

I’m not entirely sure how vacation time works in the complicated world of assassins. But it also raises an important question: where does all of this finally end? John Wick 4 — which, according to the trailer, appears to be titled simply “John Wick” — is due to hit theaters on March 24th, 2023.

Ana de Armas' update about hiring Academy Award-winning screenwriter Emerald Fennell to write on the John Wick spinoff Ballerina is huge news.

Hiring a woman to write the script was clearly important to de Armas, and getting one with Fennell's unique style is a great fit. Only time will tell if Ballerina can end up outdoing John Wick entirely but so far, it's on the right track. In addition to acting in various projects over the past decade, Fennell has received numerous plaudits for her script work on Killing Eve and Promising Young Woman. Fennell also served as director on Promising Young Woman, which earned very good reviews. Fennell's hiring opens the door for Ballerina to be a more interesting movie than any of the John Wick films. The project has been kicking around in pre-production since 2017, but things picked up when Ana de Armas officially signed on in 2022. As de Armas explained in a recent update, the Cuban actress has so much clout at the moment that she got to handpick a writer to work on the project.

Various fight scenes have occurred throughout the clip, including one that sees Reeves fight with both a gun and sword. Joining Reeves on the franchise's newest ...

The new trailer also gives fans a glimpse of Bill Skarsgard’s character, while still highlighting Yen and Hiroyuki Sanda’s cahracters. Joining Reeves on the franchise’s newest film is Laurence Fishburne, Lance Reddick, Rina Sawayama, Ian McShane, Shamier Anderson, Scott Adkins and Clancy Brown. In the all-new sneak peek for the fourth installment of John Wick, new footage showcases Wick enacting revenge with just about any weapon he can find.

Keanu Reeves takes on Donnie Yen and confronts Bill Skarsgard in the first John Wick 4 trailer.

This isn't the same trailer that was shown at CinemaCon, but with almost a year to go, there's plenty of time to show off what Reeves and company have in store. Lance Reddick (Netflix's Resident Evil) returns as Charon, the concierge of the Continental, with Laurence Fishburne portraying The Bowery King, the head of the underworld intelligence network known as The Soup Kitchen. It's only about a minute, but we're treated to sword fights, fist fights, and even a nunchuck fight.

John Wick actor, Keanu Reeves made a surprise appearance during Collider's Directors on Directing panel at the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con.

Following the death of his wife Helen (Bridget Moynahan), Wick spends his retirement with his dog Daisy, the only connection the man has left to his wife. Reeves, who fans know from a range of Hollywood blockbusters, has portrayed the revered hitman Jonathan "John" Wick since 2014 when audiences were first introduced to Derek Kolstad's tragic antihero. Once the convention-goers, and Miller, settled down Weintraub asked the star and director about the upcoming film and what it was like to film internationally. Not before flashing a peace sign to the fans who cheered as he left. One of those films being Stahelski's highly-anticipated fourth installment to the neo-noir John Wick franchise, John Wick: Chapter 4. You know, it's like big picture and humanity and all of your works of art - communicating that.

In Room 32ABC at the San Diego Comic Con, authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross showed up to argue the case with panel moderator Scott Mantz. Mark and Edward ...

The sequel, John Wick 2 did much more and John Wick 3 did even more than that. Even this didn’t guarantee production, nor did the presence of Keanu’s stunt double from The Matrix, Chad Stahelski, as director because no one makes a stunt man the director [Hal Needham, director of the classic SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, would beg to differ if he weren’t busy in Heaven driving fast cars]. Finally, after numerous meetings with studio executives that complained about killing the dog, Lionsgate stepped in and John Wick went into production. Thing about the early John Wick script is that John Wick was written as a 70 year old man. the origins of John Wick. This propels John into a rampage of violence against the gangsters who killed the dog, starting in New York City and continuing over three continents through three movies. Did the John Wick film series need a history?

Chad Stahelski's onnection to the series' star Keanu Reeves goes back even further than most realize.

His colleague informed him the film was going to be a blend of science-fiction and kung-fu, and that he felt Stahelski's kung-fu background might make him the perfect fit for the star — Keanu Reeves. He was then introduced to Keanu and spent the next few hours being pulled through the stunt man ringer, even saying he might have been concussed by the time he left. He joked that while he's never said it out loud, he sometimes does think about stepping in for Keanu in the "John Wick" movies for old times' sake. Stahelski's first big stunt job was on the set of "The Crow," where he served as the double for the late, great, Brandon Lee. Less than two years later, Stahelski would be auditioning for a little film called "The Matrix." As Stahelski tells it, a fellow stunt performer he had been working with approached him at 9 a.m. after working a long shift on a TV series, encouraging him to audition just a few hours later. He said he "didn't know what he was doing," but by pure luck, he managed to grab the big gun, pull off the stunt, and that's what ended up in the movie. Universally hailed for its magnificent action sequences, part of the reason the " John Wick" series is so phenomenal is because Stahelski worked for decades as a stunt performer and coordinator.