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Shout!, GKids Bring A 4K Triple Threat Of John Woo Classics Back Into Theaters In 2026

As if you needed a reason to go back to the movies and see a John Woo classic on the big screen… Tickets are on sale for a spell of limited theatrical 4K re-releases for three of the director’s greatest hits: Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow, and The Killer. Shout! Studios is ramping up the campaign via their Hong Kong Cinema Classics initiative, in association with GKids Films with a listing of up to 800 theater locations across the U.S., as revealed by Collider‘s Jeff Ewing on Wednesday. The films, collectively featuring screen legends Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, and Danny Lee in their respective credits, got limited releases earlier this year as Shout! prepped its home release campaign on digital and physical mediums. Of course, limited runs means a very short window for folks who didn’t get to enjoy these films in a theatrical setting, […]

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Farewell to the Sorcerer: Remembering Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950–2025)

I found out this morning, the same way most of us did: a quiet post on social media, then a flood of broken-heart emojis under that iconic Mortal Kombat poster. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is gone. 75 years old. A stroke. And just like that, the man who could silence a room with a single slow tilt of his head is no longer with us. If you grew up in the ’90s renting VHS tapes until the magnetic ribbon wore thin, you already know the moment. Mortal Kombat, 1995. The banquet hall. Shang Tsung, in that black-and-gold robe, leaning back in his throne like evil itself had decided to take a coffee break and enjoy the show. “Your soul is mine.” Four words, delivered with this velvet menace that made every 12-year-old in the room simultaneously terrified and obsessed. That was Cary. He didn’t just play the villain; he made villainy look […]

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