David Harbour is a badass Santa Claus who interrupts a hostage situation while delivering presents to a wealthy family’s compound and battles the mercenaries to free the family in December’s Christmas action movie, Violent Night.

Amazon is developing a James Bond-inspired reality competition, Netflix cancels Archive 81, The CW renews 7 of their current shows, Marvel is working on a project for Nova, Godzilla vs Kong’s sequel begins shooting later this year, and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

The fourth entry in the franchise is out this week on DVD and Blu-ray and you can head back to 2008 and watch the original Never Back Down in the latest Everything Action Theater, which puts an over-the-top MMA spin on The Karate Kid formula.

In a dystopian future ruled by The Church, Priest goes against his vows and leaves to help a sheriff from a small town track down Priest’s kidnapped niece, who was taken by a resurgent hive of vampires that The Church believed had been destroyed after a centuries-long war.

Denzel Washington leads a team of gunslingers that includes Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio in Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the classic western The Magnificent Seven.

Gina Carano uses her particular set of skills to try and rescue her husband after he’s kidnapped during their honeymoon in the Caribbean.

The third Nicolas Cage movie of the year is a home invasion thriller from Joel Schumacher called “Trespass” and co-starring Nicole Kidman.

The bar for this Summer’s blockbusters has been set extremely high by Fast Five and Thor. Can Priest reach those standards or should it have been released in earlier in the year like Paul Bettany’s previous actioner Legion?