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THE JET: New Martial Arts Champ Doc Now Underway, Keanu Reeves And Highly Flammable Shepherding For 2025 Release

There have been a few updates over the last several years about documentaries and biopics regarding certain martial arts laureates that I’m still curious to see come to fruition if those are still in the works. As of Thursday in a Deadline exclusive, we can now add the name of kickboxing legend Benny “The Jet” Urquidez to the calendar as new documentary, The Jet, is now in production, with Keanu Reeves and Fisher Stevens co-producing. Slated for a 2025 release per Matt Grobar’s report, Jennifer Tiexiera (Emmy-nominated Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo) is directing the documentary which will chronicle Urquidez’s life in the world of martial arts from childhood. As many fans sports and film fans are aware of, the craft ultimately earned successes for the champion in the ring as well as on celluloid as actor and fight coordinator, with select credits including Hong Kong actioners Wheels On Meals […]

WHEELS ON MEALS: Eureka’s 2K-Restored Limited Edition Blu-Ray Relaunch Gets A Trailer

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UK distro banner Eureka Entertainment is the latest to revive its series of Jackie Chan classics as its done in the last few years, now with Sammo Hung’s “three brothers” reunion, Wheels On Meals. Pre-orders are still up and running at UK outlets for Amazon and Zavvi and now with an official trailer making the rounds following its live premiere on Wednesday. Eureka Entertainment to release WHEELS ON MEALS, a spectacular, non-stop action comedy starring Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, presented from a brand new 2K restoration for the first time ever on Blu-ray in the UK as part of the Eureka Classics range on 18 March 2019. Available with a Limited Edition slipcase and booklet [4000 copies ONLY]. From a brand new 2K restoration comes perhaps the greatest martial-arts comedy of all time, Sammo Hung’s Wheels on Meals, starring Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Biao as the […]

LBP Stunts Pays Tribute To Hong Kong Classic, WHEELS ON MEALS

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Ask almost any stunt professional who practices martial arts where their inspiration came from to take up the craft, and nine times out of ten, they will give you the same answer most fans of the genre will give you when you ask them who their favorite star is: Bruce Lee. As clichè as it sounds, it actually makes sense, particularly since the late Jeet Kune Do founder became the very center of the movement behind the growing popularity of the Hong Kong action genre with the 1973 hit, Enter The Dragon; It was ultmately a film that led to great prospects for many actors and stuntmen who have worked under him in some capacity, specifically one of today’s living legends of cinematic action, Sammo Hung. Hung has worked on HUNDREDS of movies in his life, so there is no way you can be a martial arts cinema fan and […]

UNDERDOG KIDS Take A Stance In Three New Posters

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Actor Philip Rhee (pictured left) took to social media this week to unveil three working posters for the upcoming release of his latest labor of love, a martial arts family drama titled Underdog Kids. The film is Rhee‘s return to the set of a martial arts movie nearly fifteen years after leaving his mark with all four movies of the Best Of The Best franchise. The film was also written and produced by Rhee, with a rough summary that centers around the character, Jimmy “The Lightining Bolt” Lee (Rhee), a former MMA fighter who loses everything after getting hit by a semi-truck while rescuing a 5 year old boy. In the wake of hardship, Jimmy finds his calling with martial arts as a vessel to mentor troubled young kids while preparing them for a major championship tournament in Beverly Hills. Most of the updates have been scant since the film was […]