Lee B. Golden III

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FilMart Banner And Poster Images Arise For ‘Ip Man 3’ Spin-Off, CHEUNG TIN-CHI

Ip Man 3 Perhaps one of the biggest prospects coming out of FilMart last week was the addition of actor and martial artist Max Zhang’s upcoming role in Cheung Tin-Chi, spinning off lead actor Donnie Yen’s opposite in the 2016 hit, Ip Man 3. And it’s pretty big, too, for Zhang’s current career progression now landing him roles in several noteworthy projects to date from Asia through Hollywood, including The Invincible Dragon for Pegasus Motion Pictures, and Pacific Rim 2: Uprising for Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures. Front and center though is our title character, as seen in the aforementioned Ip Man 3 who learns of the legendary Wing Chun grandmaster’s skillset. Cheung, a struggling rickshaw driver working hard to feed his family, eventually sees an opportunity to captialize through his own proficient Wing Chun fighting prowess with the launch of his own school, and in doing so, forming his cordial […]

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Catch The Fearless New Trailer For EXTRAORDINARY MISSION

Details have been slowly rolling out ever since the teasers aired last year for the new action thriller, Extraordinary Mission from the team behind the Infernal Affairs and Overheard film franchises. The film has since staked itself a local theatrical release on April 6 and as such, Distribution Workshop now boasts a fresh new trailer with English subtitles to oblige. The film hails from directing duo Alan Mak and Anthony Pun with a script by Felix Chong which sees an undercover cop’s incursion into a drug cartel only to learn his boss’s colleague has been held captive for a decade. Actor Huang Xuan (Blind Massage) leads the cast along with actor Duan Yihong and actress Lang Yueting (Mountain Cry) with action sequences by Nicky Li (Wolf Warrior, Invisible Target). Watch the trailer below!

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BLACK BUTTERFLY Flutters With Chilling Resolve In The New Trailer

BLACK BUTTERFLY Flutters With Chilling Resolve In The New Trailer

Antonio Banderas is already on my radar for a few movies this year but Brian Goodman’s latest caught me by surprise. The new film, Black Butterfly, revised from Christian Faure’s 2008 award-winning TV movie predecessor joins Banderas with Jonathan Rhys Meyers and actress Piper Perabo for a limited theatrical release on May 26 from Lionsgate Premiere. SYNOPSIS: Outside a mountain town grappling with a series of abductions and murders, Paul (Antonio Banderas), a reclusive writer, struggles to start what he hopes will be a career-saving screenplay. After a tense encounter at a diner with a drifter named Jack (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Paul offers Jack a place to stay – and soon the edgy, demanding Jack muscles his way into Paul’s work. As a storm cuts off power to the isolated cabin, the two men begin a jagged game of one-upmanship that will bring at least one tale to an end. […]

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Fathom Events Announces One-Night Event For RESIDENT EVIL: VENDETTA This June Following May Wide Release

I couldn’t tell you much about any of the Resident Evil films, or the games for that matter. I’ve only seen maybe four out of the what? Six…live-action movies from Sony? Ugh…anyway, maybe one day I’ll catch up. As for now, there’s also been a trilogy of CG-animated feature films based on the game property as well dating back to 2008, and now the third, Resident Evil: Vendetta, is heading to select theaters in North America through Fathom Events for one night only on July 19 following its wide release on May 27. Fathom’s June event is serviced in part with Park Circus and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. “We are thrilled to bring ‘RESIDENT EVIL: VENDETTA’ to the big screen for its U.S. debut,” Fathom Events CEO John Rubey said. “This sequel is even scarier and more thrill-inducing than the previous titles, with mind-blowing CG animation that should be seen […]

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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Wraps Principal Photography

Princpal photography wrapped on Tuesday for the filming leg of writer and director Timo Tjahjanto’s solo directorial debut, The Night Comes For Us. Production on the pic took a near-seven year evolution and finally went underway last December with scenes filmed in and around Jakarta, Indonesia for its seventy-six day shoot following its resurrection last August. The film sees the return of actor Joe Taslim (Furious 6, Star Trek: Beyond) for his debut lead role as Ito, a gangland enforcer arriving from his stint at abroad and home to his crime family in Jakarta only to find himself caught in a web of turmoil, treachery and violent upheaval. Reuniting with Taslim is action star Iko Uwais following their appearance together in Gareth Evans’s The Raid (2011), while casting familars from Tjahjanto’s resume include the additions of Julie Estelle, Epy Kusandar, Sunny Pang, Zack Lee, Hannah Al Rashid and Shareefa Daanish […]

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Feel The SHOCK WAVE In The Official Trailer For The New Herman Yau Thriller

Andy Lau’s recent hospital stint has certainly kept him relevant and in the good graces and best wishes of fans after a bad horse riding spill back in January. Currently out of the hospital and on the mend, the good news arrives timely in the wake of the latest trailer now online for the new action thriller, Shock Wave, opening next month in Asia. Director Herman Yau’s sits at the helm for the movie, setting the stage in Hong Kong’s Cross Harbour Tunnel wherein Cheung (Lau), a senior explosives bureau inspector lands in a standstill with a vengeful terrorist whose younger brother and allies were jailed following an undercover op led by Cheung years earlier. Also starring are Jiang Wu, Song Jia, Phillip Keung, Felix Wong, Liu Kai-Chi, Babyjohn Choi and more. Check out the official trailer below as well as posters!

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Wes Chatham Joins ESCAPE PLAN 2

Principal photography commenced in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday this week for the new sequel, Escape Plan 2 which currently has actor Sylvester Stallone reprising his role from the 2014 hit movie from director Mikael Hafstrom. Extraction and Marauders helmer Steven C. Miller is directing from a script by Miles Chapman and while plot details remain pending, casting did make other confirmations in the previous week in which Dave Bautista was also confirmed. For this, we have news from Deadline as of several days ago that actor Wes Chatham has been cast in the film as well with an undisclosed role. Chatham’s recent credits include recently renewed SyFy series, The Expanse, and films such as Jason Connery’s hard-hitting MMA action drama, The Philly Kid, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Western thriller, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, and Lionsgate’s two-part Mockingjay finale of The Hunger Games. Also starring are actress Jamie King and Escape Plan […]

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Celina Jade And Jeeja Yanin Join TRIPLE THREAT

EXCLUSIVE: Actresses Celina Jade (CW’s Arrow) and Jeeja Yanin (Raging Phoenix) have been officially cast in the new ensemble action movie, Triple Threat from Arclight Films and SC Films Thailand. Jesse V. Johnson (The Package, The Beautiful Ones) is directing from a script by Joey O’Bryan for production to commence in Thailand on April 12. Triple Threat joins our female components with an ensemble cast encompassing a raft of heavy hitters, including Tiger Chen (Man Of Tai Chi), Tony Jaa (xXx 3) and Iko Uwais (Headshot) opposite Scott Adkins (Doctor Strange), Michael Jai White (Blood And Bone) and UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping (xXx 3). The action-packed story follows a billionaire’s daughter whose only hope for protection from a ruthless cartel are two ill-fated fighters and a third seeking vegenace on the others. Jade, who previously starred alongside Jaa opposite White in Ekachai Uekrongtham’s Skin Trade in 2015, will play […]

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STAR BLAZERS Moves Forward At Skydance With Zach Dean Scripting

Director Christopher McQuarrie is currently working to up the ante for the sixth installment of Paramount’s Mission: Impossible franchise. In the meantime, McQuarrie is also being poised to helm the forthcoming live-action adaptation, Star Blazers, according to the latest report at Deadline. The film is a nod to its origins as Space Battleship Yamato which had a raft of series runs airing in Japan beginning in 1974 from director Matsumoto Leji. Set in the year 2199, the series centered on mankind’s efforts to fashion a lightspeed battleship underground with superior technology during the course of their survival following a deadly alien attack that rendered the Earth’s surface uninhabitable. Plans to adapt its Americanized program, Star Blazers, began as far back as the 1990s at Disney before those plans were scrapped thereafter, while Returner helmer, award-winning director Yamazaki Takashi managed to bring forward his own adaptation in 2010. David Ellison then […]

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THE HIT LIST: March 20, 2017

Well, it’s been another close call but I finally managed to bring you this week’s installation of The Hit List for your own viewing pleasure. Last week was crazy packed with festival news upkeep from Asia along with posting our recent inteview with actress Yadi Nieves and managing to review Mitsutake Kurando’s new movie, Karate Kill, which releases this summer. Considering all this and then some, I’m ready for the weekend! But, it IS only Monday and so too, shall the norm continue with this week’s Hit List nearly packaged and ready to go, and with a new spate of stunt reels to kick things off, courtesy of a slick and sexy new stunt driving reel by stuntwoman Daylin Matthews. Rounding out the playlist are reels by Louis Sebastian, Joseph Roark, Nik Pelekai, Joe Gallina, Entony Ruscetta, Dean Gould, Noah Woods and D.L. MacDonald, and a spectacular new reel by […]

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The Iron Dragon TV ActionFest Extends Its Submission Deadline By Two Months

Filmmakers and performers will have a chance this summer to bring their projects to an audience in Austin events officially kick off for the Iron Dragon TV ActionFest. Submissions are still open but the word now is that the program has extended its deadline period (previously announced through May) through July 1 instead. The festival marks a first for Iron Dragon Productions CEO own Janell Smith, a proficent martial artist herself, who founded the film streaming service back in 2014 with an explicit goal toward the proliferation and posterity of classic and contemporary, hard hitting and edgy martial arts and Asian action titles by some of today’s top stars and directors. Iron Dragon TV is currently downloadable on multiple platforms. Iron Dragon TV ActionFest is an international film festival devoted to the multiple facets of action cinema. A festival that honors the men & women who bring the audience to […]

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GIVEAWAY: Win A Copy Of Johnnie To’s New Crime Thriller, THREE, On DVD Before April 4!

Johnnie To’s newest intriguing crime pic, Three, is currently available on Digital HD as of last week. In the meantime, the forthcoming DVD and Blu-Ray go on sale on April 4 which provides one of a few ways you can acquire either copy. Alas, Film Combat Syndicate has ponied up three DVD copies now up for grabs for participants limited only to residents in North America. All you have to do is send your name and mailing address to filmcombatsyndicate@gmail.com and share with us your favorite film from director To, or actress Vicky Zhao or actor Louis Koo. The contest expires on April 3 whereupon winners will be drawn at random and e-mailed to confirm their prizes! When a police sting goes bad, a cornered criminal (Wallace Chung, Drug War) makes a desperate choice: he shoots himself, forcing the officers to cease fire and rush him to the hospital. Once […]

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Catch The Season Two Highlight Promo For INTO THE BADLANDS!

AMC Sunday night’s premiere of Into The Badlands on AMC was nothing short of explosive. From the intro of ex-clipper Sunny’s captivity in the mines to the onslaught the Widow brought in the second half, the series, created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, has gone out of its way to raise the stakes just a little more from its previous run. With more episodes to come, catch a highlight promo teaser of what lies ahead and tune in every Sunday night on AMC. Into The Badlands stars Daniel Wu who executive produces with Stephen Fung as well as Gough and Millar, and with Emily Meachum, Ally Ioannides, Aramis Knight, Madeline Mantonck, Sarah Bolger, Oliver Stark, Stephen Lang, Nick Frost and Martin Czokas also starring. U.K. viewers may stream it on Amazon!

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Review: KARATE KILL (2017) Kills With Karate, And Lots Of It!

Prior to 2014, I had not been hugely familar with director Mitsutake Kurando’s work. Then, following Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf in 2009, Gun Woman happened and it essentially, vociferously, put him on my radar as I’m sure it did for many folks in festivals as well as other niche viewers who may all agree on the consensus here: His is a no holds barred, unapologetic, down and dirty, retro style of direction, done so with a sheer sense of clarity and understanding on how to assemble an action film, and importantly, without selling his performers short. It’s a quality that no less accomodates actor Hayate, essentially a fresh face in front of the camera following a small bit role in Kaneko Shunsuke’s Danger Dolls several years earlier, and having since made headway with the new movie, Karate Kill. Hayate makes his lead debut in the film with a script […]

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Chapman To’s Martial Arts Drama, THE EMPTY HANDS Teaser Arrives In Contemplative Form

Chapman To’s latest directorial offering has now arrived with a first teaser for his upcoming Karate drama, The Empty Hands. Actress Stephy Tang trained for the lead role of the film and invokes just a little of it in what we see below with the story of an unwitting Karate school heiress forced to fight for her late father’s legacy in lieu of its ownership by one of his worst students. Also starring is Trivisa and Z-Storm co-star Stephen Au with action legend Kurata Yasuaki, and To himself also starring. Golden Scene recently required the rights to release the film in Hong Kong while further details await of its rollout in other territories. In the meantime, the teaser below isn’t hugely of the commerical kind. This one is definitely a slow burn for the arthouse crowd but probably has its appeal. Check out the teaser below and stay tuned for […]

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SHADOW: Zhang Yimou Commences Filming On The New Three Kingdoms-set Pic

SHADOW: Zhang Yimou Commences Filming On The New Three Kingdoms-set Pic

Head over here to check out Marc Walkow’s piece at the Outtake column on Zhang Yimou’s 2002 Jet Li epic, Hero. Frankly I think it’s one of the better films from the director and it’s unfortunate that his most recent film undercuts some of his more glorious work according to some critics. No, I haven’t seen The Great Wall yet and I’m not holding my breath and penciling it in anytime soon – if it happens, it happens. The film did ultimately earn $171 million dollars in China while scraping some extra change in the U.S. and other territories to top well over $320 million, and so it’s earned Yimou another directing prospect now already underway. For this, reports of the new film, Shadow, are now abound with an unreleased plot line that otherwise denotes its setting within the Three Kingdoms era. Village Roadshow Pictures Asia and Le Vision Pictures […]

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Review: IRON FIST (2017) – No, You Still Can’t Change My Mind

Review: IRON FIST (2017) – No, You Still Can’t Change My Mind

Netflix Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m beat! Friday saw the release of Marvel’s Iron Fist on Netflix and after about a week’s worth of brouhaha from critics, I caught the pilot and decided that anyone basically with a full-on negative review of this show needed to… as one of the show’s main character implies, CALM THE F DOWN! And after watching the remaining twelve episodes, STILL, I say exactly that. From the get-go and like most shows, it’s not perfect. However, it doesn’t mean that you’re not in some way shape or form intrigued or compelled by the story and it’s characters. Even a comic book noob like myself can grasp that concept and thankfully I notice on the interwebs that I’m not completely alone on this. I won’t go into too many specifics but as far as analysis goes, I will lend some counterpoint to the positives, […]

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WHERE DISTINCTION MEETS PURPOSE: An Interview With Actress, Producer And Filmmaker Yadi Nieves

It took me quite a bit to get the nerve up to strike a conversation with actress, dancer, filmmaker and producer Yadi Nieves. She’s beautiful, relatable, and so happens to be one of the most fiercest talents I’ve seen on screen, especially when it comes to screenfighting. I chalk much of this up to her dance background in accordance with her growing ability to pick up on choreography as well, something she so demonstrates in many of the shortfilms under production banner, Distinctive Light Entertainment. Take a gander at this particular video and you’ll see what I mean. Or even the one above where she goes berzerk on a bar room full of bikers and hoodlums to the tune of a Limp Bizkit track and a trippy premise capped off by a nice little open-ended surprise finish. Either one of these shortfilms among others, filmed, produced and coordinated in part with […]

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IRON FIST (2017): Episode One Reaction, And Why I Will Continue To Watch

It’s been undoubtedly a rough year for Marvel fans who’ve waited to see what would stick and what wouldn’t from showrunner and executive producer Scott Buck’s treatment of comic book property, Iron Fist. I’ve waited as a matter of maybe fifteen years since actor and martial artist Ray Park was slated to star in his own movie inspired by the character and for what it’s worth, I’m glad I lived this long to see something come of it, even if a number of fans out in the world can’t afford or simply don’t have Netflix, which sucks. I understand wholly. The show premiered early Friday with Game Of Thrones series co-star Finn Jones starring in the title role, and as we speak, much to the chagrin of critcs from media and entertainment sites who’ve had a chance to look at a previous a handful of episodes or the first season […]

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Marvel Franchise Vehicle, VENOM, Strikes A Release Date From Sony

It’s been ten years since Marvel villain, Venom, went toe-to-toe with Spider-Man in a movie. Spin-off efforts then underwent a series of gymnastic developments while in limbo and needless to say I won’t get too much into the convoluted history that occurs thereafter. That said, about a year after The Amazing Spider-Man 2, it was finally announced that Marvel would help Sony get itself together with this particular IP in lieu of everything happening with the MCU leading up to Avengers: Infinity War. Does this mean Venom will appear in the MCU eventually as well? I couldn’t tell you, but with Edge Of Tomorrow scribe Dante Harper providing the script as of nearly a year ago with stewards Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach producing, the word now is that an official release date is being slotted for October 5, 2018, the former release date of James Wan’s upcoming DC adaptation, […]

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