New Action Trailers — Week of August 31 – September 6, 2026
Happy Kanako's Killer Life Season 2 — Trailer
Trailer released: August 31, 2026
DMM TV released the trailer for season two of Tsutomu Hanabusa's Happy Kanako's Killer Life, with Non back as the office worker who discovers her new employer is a contract-killing outfit. The action package is small-scale television work and worth reading as such: assassin-versus-assassin material built on close-quarters knife and firearm choreography, comedic hard falls and impact gags, all designed around a performer-forward lead rather than a heavy doubling programme. That combination — comic timing plus real contact — is a harder choreography brief than it looks, because every beat has to land as a joke and as a hit in the same take, which puts the load on rehearsal and on precise, repeatable contact rather than on rigging. Makoto Yokoyama was credited action director across six episodes of season one; whether he returns for season two is pending on IMDb, and the official season-two staff announcement names only director and writers. No stunt coordinator, rigger, stunt driver, named stunt double or 2nd unit director credited. Five episodes stream weekly on Thursdays from September 17, 2026, exclusive to DMM TV.
IMDb: Happy Kanako's Killer Life (2025– ) · Trailer: YouTube
One Last Shot — Official Trailer
Trailer released: September 1, 2026
The trailer for James Nunn's One Last Shot is the most interesting piece of action design in this week's batch, because the third entry in the Scott Adkins One Shot franchise keeps the constraint that defines the series: the picture is built to read as a single continuous take. That is a stunt-department problem before it is a camera one — no cut means no reset, so every fall, disarm and body-throw has to be choreographed to land in sequence with the performers' recovery, the camera operator's path and the next beat's start position, and a blown gag costs the whole run rather than a take. Tim Man returns as action director and fight choreographer, his long-running partnership with Adkins going back to Ninja 2, and Adkins has singled him out for designing to the camera and the edit rather than to the floor — the specific skill a one-take package demands. The headline sequence is the Adkins–Kane Kosugi rematch, also a Ninja 2 callback, with Dolph Lundgren, Steven Cree and Hannah Ware filling out a cast working a West London shoot. Digital release September 22, 2026 worldwide via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and on Sky in the UK and Ireland. Stunt coordinator, rigger, stunt driver and named stunt double credits pending on IMDb; no 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: One Last Shot (2026) · Trailer: YouTube · Source: M.A.A.C. — Scott Adkins & Kane Kosugi Gear Up For Epic Rematch In One Last Shot
Fortitude — Official Trailer
Trailer released: September 2, 2026
Simon West premiered the trailer for Fortitude, a WWII picture built around Operation Fortitude, the D-Day deception campaign, with Nicolas Cage as double agent Dusko Popov and Matthew Goode, Ed Skrein, Ben Kingsley, Michael Sheen, Alice Eve, Jordi Mollà, Paul Anderson and Ron Perlman filling out an unusually deep cast. For anyone reading the package rather than the star list, a period espionage picture at this scale means the work sits in gunplay, squibs and pyro around dressed period vehicles and inflatable decoy tanks rather than in fight choreography — practical-effects coordination and armourer discipline over hand-to-hand. West is a director with a long action résumé (Con Air, The Expendables 2), which usually means the action is shot to be covered rather than implied, and Cinesite is attached on the visual-effects side, so the practical and digital sides will be splitting the deception set pieces between them. No release date announced beyond "coming soon," from Simon Afram Productions and Op-Fortitude. Stunt coordinator, fight choreographer, stunt driver, rigger and named stunt double credits all pending on IMDb; no 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: Fortitude (2026) · Trailer: YouTube · Source: UPI — Nicolas Cage plays real James Bond in 'Fortitude' trailer
Street Fighter — New Trailer
Trailer released: September 2, 2026
Paramount and Legendary dropped the second trailer for Kitao Sakurai's Street Fighter, launched off a World Warrior Tour event in Tokyo and pushed as a playable trailer on YouTube. The choreography brief here is the hard one in video-game adaptation: the cut moves between grounded, contact-based striking and the game's signature special moves, which means the fight team had to build beats that read as real impact and then hand the same performers off to wire and VFX assists for the finishers without the grammar changing between them. Cast physicality is doing real work on this one — Andrew Koji as Ryu and Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim both bring genuine martial backgrounds, Cody Rhodes as Guile and Hirooki Goto as E. Honda come out of pro wrestling, and Olivier Richters as Zangief brings the size — which is a doubling-and-matching problem as much as a casting one. Shot in Australia between August and November 2025 under the working title Punch. In theaters and IMAX October 16, 2026. Stunt coordinator, fight choreographer, rigger and named stunt double credits pending on IMDb; no 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: Street Fighter (2026) · Trailer: YouTube · Source: Action-Flix — Martial Arts Chaos Levels Up in the New Trailer
The Beast — Official Trailer
Trailer released: September 2, 2026
Aura Entertainment put out the first trailer for Renny Harlin's The Beast, with Samuel L. Jackson as a US president who ends up behind the wheel of the armoured presidential limousine after a militia coup and Joel Kinnaman as the wounded Secret Service agent riding with him. Read as a package rather than a premise, this is vehicle work first and almost everything else second: locking the picture to one hero car means precision and performance driving, car-to-car gunplay, ramming and hard vehicle hits, plus the interior rig work that lets two leads play whole sequences from inside a moving armoured shell — process trailers, low-loader and pod setups, camera-car passes — instead of a fight or wire programme. Harlin has been shooting practical vehicle action since Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger, which usually means the driving unit is asked to deliver the hit in camera rather than hand it to plates, and the Spanish shoot — Madrid and the Canary Islands from October 2024, lensed by Jacques Jouffret — puts that unit on real road, a road-closure and safety brief as much as a stunt-driving one. In theaters October 9, 2026 from Aura Entertainment. Stunt coordinator, stunt driver, rigger and named stunt double credits all pending on IMDb; no 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: The Beast (2026) · Trailer: YouTube · Source: Action-Flix — Samuel L. Jackson Decimates Ample Amounts of Bad Guys in the Bullet Laced Trailer
The Florist — Official Trailer
Trailer released: September 1, 2026
Saban Films cut a trailer for Babak Najafi's The Florist, with Dennis Quaid as a horticulturist working nights as an assassin and Jean Reno opposite him. The action reads close-quarters and gun-heavy — room-clearing gunplay intercut with hand-to-hand, staged in the tight interior geometry that makes reload beats and weapon retention the choreography rather than set dressing. Quaid is 72 in this; expect a doubling plan built around short, hard bursts and clean face-forward inserts rather than sustained fight continuity, which is the pattern for leads of that age in this subgenre. Digital release October 9, 2026. Stunt coordinator credit pending on IMDb; no 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: The Florist (2026) · Trailer: YouTube
S.W.A.T. Exiles — Official Trailer
Trailer released: September 2, 2026
Starz released the full trailer for S.W.A.T. Exiles, the spin-off that moves Shemar Moore's Hondo off CBS and onto premium cable with a new team of recruits. The move matters to the stunt department more than to the cast list: broadcast standards shaped the original show's violence, and a Starz order means harder contact, more blood-work and squib coverage, and breach-and-clear sequences that can play through rather than cut away. Series regulars Patrick St. Espirit, Jay Harrington and David Lim carry over. Premieres September 25, 2026 on Starz. Stunt coordinator credit pending on IMDb; no 2nd unit director credited.
IMDb: S.W.A.T. Exiles (2026– ) · Trailer: YouTube
