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KUNG FU LEAGUE: Heroes Headline The First Trailer For Jeff Lau’s Raucous Kung Fu Flick

Notable Kung Fu Hustle producer Jeff Lau has since entered the fray with his next directorial feat, Kung Fu League. The project has been teases a headlining crowd of folkloric film heroes and now we have a first trailer this week. I gotta say, it’s wackier than I predicted and looks equally ridiculous, save for any hopes of this film being more film than fan service.

I suppose it’s mainly because there isn’t a full synopsis available which is why this trailer is so daunting apart from what we already know. Alas, Vincent Zhao stakes his claim as the venerable Wong Fei Hung next to Andy On who takes the mantle as Huo Yuanjia, Danny Chan lending more to the typecast as Bruce Lee persona Chen Zhen, and Dennis To reprising as Ip Man from Herman Yau’s 2010 iteration of the Wing Chun grandmaster…

As for this trailer, well… it’s basically signaling fan service and some of which is quite laughable. Be it in a good or bad way is totally in the eye of the beholder but with a trailer like this, at least tentatively, it’s hard to imagine this will be anything more than a kung fu brain relaxant for the popcorn MA crowd. Hopefully it will be fun too.

Lau has more going for himself later in the year with Assassins And The Missing Gold and fantasy adventure, Nehza. As for Kung Fu League, well… check the trailer below and judge accordingly.

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Scott Adkins Actioner TWILIGHT ZODIAC Rolls Cameras As Production Goes Underway

Actor Scott Adkins is staying on his feet well into the new year in lieu of the upcoming release of his latest with director Jesse Johnson, Accident Man. The multifaceted martial arts star is currently in China making headway with a raft of actors for Twilight Zodiac as confirmed by Adkins’s Facebook fanpage with the martial arts star reuniting with helmer Ernie Barbarash following the 2011 Jean-Claude Van Damme headliner, Assassination Games.

Plot details are thin while several photos can be seen via social media featuring the likes of Adkins who rejoins with action director Tim Man for their fifth project together, and with actor and martial arts star Andy On who rematches once more with his fellow Black Mask 2: City Of Masks co-star. Also starring is lead actress Anna Troung best known for shepherding recent Vietnamese actioners with director Cuong Ngo on Huong Ga (2014) and Truy Sat in which Leeder co-stars, and actress Lily Jie of Pacific Rim 2 and Skiptrace fame.

Longstanding film veteran Roger Corman is producing along with Iqiyi, and with Phil Pamet (Rob Zombie’s Halloween) lensing. Mike Leeder also produces with fellow Pound Of Flesh cohort Henry Luk.

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Peep Some Fresh New Sales Art For Philip Ng’s UNDERCOVER VS. UNDERCOVER

Once in a methamphetamine trade, the undercover police Wu swears with a group tipster Hou Hu. However, the trade is messed up by the former Special Forces members Mai Lin and Eva. The Purchaser of methamphetamine is the smuggling king Xia Qiankun, whose base camp is the cargo vessels on the high seas. Xia captures Wu and forces him to hand over the meth owner as compensation. 

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TEN-TON ASSASSIN: Max Zhang And Ada Choi, Others To Star In Jeff Lau’s New Kidnapping Thriller

Be on the look out for former Wushu athlete-turned rising action star Max Zhang in the year ahead. He’s made a killing in Soi Cheang’s S.P.L. 2: A Time For Consequences and Wilson Yip’s Ip Man 3, the latter for which its franchise is now aiming at a spin-off for the role he played opposite leading man Donnie Yen, and will soon be seen in Fruit Chan’s Made In Kowloon, and Jonathan Li’s The Brink.

That’s probably more than enough for you at this point while, suffice it to say, it doesn’t end there, and with news on a new $17 million dollar action thriller on the horizon from director Jeffrey Lau (Metallic Attraction: Kung Fu Cyborg, A Chinese Odyssey trilogy) for Ten-Ton Assassin. Cameras reportedly begin rolling in March with Zhang and real-life wife, actress Ada Choi starring as a divorced couple who reunite to look for their kidnapped son.

The two apparently won’t be alone in presenting the film’s fitting action millieu with the presence of the recent League Of Gods and One Night Only co-star, actor Andy On, and Zhang’s fellow Ip Man 3 co-star Danny Chan. That’s all the information available at present while we await more on Zhang’s currently listed prospects, so check back soon and stay excited!

H/T: Asian Film Strike

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Cheng Cheng Films To Release ONE NIGHT ONLY In The U.S. On July 22

The story follows Gao Ye (Aaron Kwok), a gambling addict who has lost all his inherited fortune and loved ones, as he tricks a beautiful prostitute Momo (Yang Zishan) into throwing her savings on all kinds of gambling games in Bangkok’s streets, hoping the money they win will make himself rich again. But things immediately spin wildly out of control as they find themselves fallen into a bigger scheme set up by the city’s underground. It is also revealed that Momo actually has always been behind something unknown to Gao Ye. The two wait anxiously as the night falls not knowing if they will survive to see another sunrise.

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China’s OUTCAST Re-Launch Gets Re-Cancelled While eOne Unveils Its New U.S. Trailer

In ancient China, Princess Lian and her younger brother, Zhao, flee for their lives when their father, the Emperor, is murdered by his ambitious eldest son Shing. Pursued by Shing’s soldiers, the royal runaways hire battle weary Briton, Arken, who’s wandered east to escape memories of the Crusades, and an unlikely romance blooms between the refined Han princess and the rough English man of war.

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New Trailer, Stills And BTS Pics For ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHANGHAI

Chinese website Oriental Daily forwarded a new small slate of stills and behind-the-scenes pics from director Wong Ching-Po‘s forthcoming release of Once Upon A Time In Shanghai. Revamping a classic story from the Shaw Brothers library, the new film centers around the emergence of an immigrant from Shangtung whose search for a better life lands him in Shanghai where his talents as a skilled fighter may be the deciding factor of his survival or his comeuppance.

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New Footage From ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHANGHAI

Martial arts action cinema fans have watched and waited for anything and everything resembling a sign of life for Once Upon A Time In Shanghai, a production that only saw a year-and-a-half old promo teaser with lead action star, actor Philip Ng until recently. The film has since shown itself out with new sales art and a synopsis revealed back in early November as the film made the film festival rounds this year.

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Check Out The Full Sales Artwork For ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHANGHAI

Director Wong Ching-Po‘s latest return to Shaw territory in the form of the ten-million dollar-budgeted Once Upon A Time In Shanghai has been a long-awaited theatrical spectacle since the film’s announcement in 2011. The unveiling of the concept trailer a year later with lead actor Philip Ng ultimately gave the film tons of press and expectations from fans eager to see Ng in a larger-scale role after films such as Star Runner, Dragon Squad, New Police Story, Invisible Target and Undercover Hidden Dragon to name a few.

This year, with a big lead role to his name in addition to a documentary, Ng is set to kick off 2014 with explosive martial arts action from master choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping, and a powerhouse cast that also includes legendary actor Sammo Hung, actress Jiang Luxia, and Special ID co-star Andy On who teased the latest poster art for the film on Saturday.

What you see below is the full sales poster art, in addition to a brand new synopsis.

In the 1900’s, MA YONG ZHEN joined many hopeful laborers to seek work in Shanghai. Remaining honest and refusing to join a gang, he became friends with gangster LONG QI. Japanese spy HASHIMOTO, furious that Long turned down his proposal, tries to kill both of them. Ma luckily survives, and is now determined to help his people by decimating the bad elements in Shanghai.

Mega Vision Pictures Ltd. has slated Once Upon A Time In Shanghai for a January 8, 2014 domestic release. Stay tuned for trailer news!

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I Dare You To Not Watch This Clip From SPECIAL ID

If you’ve been following updates for Donnie Yen‘s upcoming martial arts action thriller, Special ID, then get ready. You’re about to be tested!

Yes, it’s a fight clip from the movie. More to the point it’s a clip of the pivotal final fight between Donnie Yen and Andy On. And yes, you knew at some point this was going to happen.

I dare you to resist!

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