Hitman: Agent 47, which hits theaters on Friday (August 21), successfully challenges Hollywood’s notion of the damsel in distress. Katia (Hannah Ware), who was leading a dull and detached ...

The same formula is at work in “Hitman: Agent 47,” a stylized shoot-em-up based on a video game, of which no previous knowledge is required. Rupert Friend plays the titular character: an elite ...

The same formula is at work in “Hitman: Agent 47,” a stylized shoot-em-up based on a video game, of which no previous knowledge is required.

And indeed, this is how Hitman's Agent 47 was initially depicted: a clinical killer so precise in approach that he can't even afford to have a hair on his head.

This year’s “Hitman 3” completed the “World of Assassination” trilogy. And, though Agent 47 operates as a lone wolf for a majority of the series, that changed in the latest installment.

Fox International’s video game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47 has been pushed back six months from February 27, 2015, to August 28, 2015. The film, based on the popular video game, will star ...

Fox International’s video game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47 has been pushed back six months from February 27, 2015, to August 28, 2015. The film, based on the popular video game, will star ...

LOS ANGELES — The idea of the high-tech, emotionless super-soldier is so popular in movies, it’s practically a convention. The “Terminator” and “Bourne” franchises, and even last year’s animated “Big ...