New Action Movies and TV Shows 2022

Updated: August 31, 2022

Get all of the important details about new action movies and TV shows on the way for 2022. Watch preview videos, learn rare facts, find out who stars in them and more.

Operation Seawolf

The action adventure movie Operation Seawolf starring Frank Grillo, Dolph Lundgren, and Hiram A. Murray is scheduled to premiere in theaters and on digital Friday, October 7. Click Here to watch the official trailer, see pictures, and learn all about this movie.

Cast List

• Frank Grillo as Commander Race Ingram
• Dolph Lundgren as Captain Hans Kessler
• Hiram A. Murray as Captain Samuel L Gravely Jr.
• Cody Fleury as Sgt. Rynhardt
• Luke Steinborn as Handel Speer
• Andrew Stecker as Lt. Erich Reinhart
• Edgar Damatian as Captain Haskell

The Infernal Machine

Primetime Emmy Award winner Guy Pearce stars in the thriller The Infernal Machine, premiering on digital September 23. Click Here to watch the official trailer, see pictures, and learn all about this movie.

Cast List

• Guy Pearce as Bruce Cogburn
• Alice Eve
• Alex Pettyfer
• Jeremy Davies
• Iris Cayatte

Section 8

Dolph Lundgren, Ryan Kwanten, and Scott Adkins are back doing what they do best in 2022. The trio will be delivering more action in the action thriller Section 8, set to premiere on AMC+ on Friday, September 23.

Complete Cast

• Ryan Kwanten as Jake Atherton
• Dolph Lundgren as Tom Mason
• Mickey Rourke as Earl Atherton
• Dermot Mulroney as Sam Ramsey
• Scott Adkins as Leonard Locke
• Justin Furstenfeld as Ajax Abernathy

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Avarice

Filmscope Entertainment announced that their action thriller movie Avarice starring Gillian Alexy is coming soon but a release date has yet to be revealed.

Complete Cast

• Gillian Alexy as Kate Matthews
• Luke Ford as Ash Matthews
• Tom O'Sullivan as Ryker
• Nick Atkinson as Thomas
• Ryan Panizza as Kane
• Campbell Greenock as Ben
• Priscilla-Anne Jacob as Susan
• Alexandra Nell as Reed
• Alex Fleri as Jim
• Andrew Lewis as Richard
• Candice Callaghan as Dr. Grace
• Soa Palelei as Mick
• Téa Heathcote-Marks as Sarah
• Victoria Fleri as Liz
• John McPherson as Neighbor

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Your Honor Season 2

Release Date: To Be Announced. Series Overview: In this Showtime action thriller series, a New Orleans judge sacrifices relationships and subverts the law to save his son from a vengeful organized crime family after his son is involved in a hit and run.

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Snabba Cash: Season 2

Release Date: Thursday, September 23, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: The entrepreneurial scene and the criminal world are more even more ruthless than ever. Leya is one of Sweden's rising stars in the startup scene. An initial public offering for Target Coach is coming up and Leya seems more successful than ever but the memories of Salim are tormenting her.

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Devotion

Release Date: November 23, 2022 in Theaters. Movie Overview: Two United Sates Navy fighter pilots risk their lives in the Korean War to become some of the Navy's best.

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Surfside Girls

Release Date: Friday, August 19, 2022 on Apple TV+. Series Overview: In this children's action adventure series, Jade (Miya Cech) and Sam (YaYa Gosselin) dive head first into mysteries in the town of Surfside that involve a pirate ship, hidden treasure, and a ghost.

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Blood & Treasure

Release Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 on Paramount+. Movie Overview: A new season of the globe-trotting drama Blood & Treasure returns as a brilliant antiquities expert and a cunning art thief form a duo to catch a ruthless terrorist who gets the funds he need for his attacks through stolen treasure.

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Day Shift

Release Date: Friday, August 12, 2022 on Netflix. Movie Overview: He has a pool cleaning job but the hard working blue collar dad who just wants to provide a good life for his young daughter is hunting and killing vampires as part of an international Union of vampire hunters.

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Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight

Release Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 on Netflix. Movie Overview: A giant panda kung fu master named Po Ping and partner the English knight Wandering Blade are on a mission to save the world from total destruction.

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The Umbrella Academy Season 3

Release Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: A reunited family of sibling superheroes attempt to solve their father's death and prevent an apocalypse.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Release Date: Friday, September 02, 2022 on Prime Video. Movie Overview: The legendary heroes of the fabled Second Age of Middle-Earth come together in this action drama, in a place thousands of years before the profound happenings of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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The Princess

Release Date: Friday, July 01, 2022 on Hulu. Movie Overview: A strong-willed princess (Joey King) must save the kingdom from a sociopath who is intent on taking her father’s throne after she is kidnapped and locked in a remote area of her father's castle.

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CRAWLSPACE

Release Date: Thursday, March 31, 2022. Movie Overview: A man hides in a cramped cabin crawlspace determined the live after witnessing a murder while the killers search the property for the hidden fortune.

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Black Adam

Release Date: Theaters Friday, October 21, 2022. Movie Overview: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars in this action sci-fi movie based on the DC Super Hero Black Adam who is freed nearly 5,000 years after he was imprisoned, soon after being gifted with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods. Now free, Black Adam is ready to deliver his type of justice on the modern world.

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Dragon Age: Absolution

Release Date: December 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: An animated action series of six episodes set in the Dragon Age universe empire of Tevinter, featuring new Dragon Age characters including elves, knights, demons and more.

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The Sea Beast

Release Date: In theaters June 2022 on Netflix July 8, 2022. Movie Overview: A young girl stowaway and a legendary sea monster hunter embark on an epic sea journey.

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TROLL

Release Date: Coming soon to Netflix. Movie Overview: Deep in Norway's Dovre mountain, a gigantic creature trapped for a thousand years, thought to exist only in folklore, awakens after a thousand years.

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The Old Man

Release Date: Friday, June 16, 2022 on FX on Hulu. Movie Overview: A former CIA hitman (Jeff Bridges) living off the grid thought he'd left his past behind winds up on the run from people who want to kill him.

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Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area

Release Date: Friday, June 24, 2022 on Netflix. TV Series Overview: When thieves take over the mint of a unified Korea with hostages, police must stop them and confront the mastermind behind it all.

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The Princess

Release Date: July 1, 2022 on Hulu. A beautiful, highly-determined princess is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father's castle when she refuses to wed a brutal sociopath. Now scorned, the princess must save her kingdom from a takeover by this villain.

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The Longest Night

Release Date: July 8, 2022 on Netflix. In this six episode series, armed men surround a psychiatric prison and cut off all communications. Their intent to capture incarcerated serial killer Simón Lago (Luis Callejo) but the prison director attempts to stop them.

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