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Sony pictures releases trailer for “BIG GEORGE FOREMAN”, The upcoming biopic of legendary boxer that hits theaters in April 28th

It would be really unfair to only remember George Foreman for his defeat against Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle. His legacy in boxing history goes beyond that historical date, since the man, not only learned from that defeat how to return stronger, but he defied the laws of logic, returning to the ring at an age that would be unthinkable for most human beings to step into an elite boxing ring, but also, he became the oldest boxer in winning the HW title at the age of 45 defeating 26-year -old Michael Moorer on the 10th round of their title match that took place in Las Vegas, on November 5, 1994.  A glorious deed that went right into boxing history books. In recent years, Hollywood has been massively producing biopics of all kinds of historical figures, it was just a matter of time that someone with a […]

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ELVIS Review: Once the King, Always the King

Elvis Presley probably was, without any doubt, one of the biggest icons of the past, and still yearned, 20th century. He was an artist able to shock the 50´s American conservative society with the movement of his hips, at rythm of an underground style of music created by the segregated black community, bringing it to the masses, changing the popular culture forever, transcending from being just a popular artist to an immortal icon, symbol of an era beloved by millions of people from different generations around the globe. Baz Luhrmann has portrayed all this on this incredible biopic that gives an unique vision of the icon above the man through the eyes of the man who helped to build the myth, Elvis manager, the colonel Tom Parker, played by a terrific Tom Hanks, in another unforgettable performance of his long, yet memorable career. Neverheless, the real shining star of the […]

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RIKIDOZAN Review: An Underrated Biopic Of A Pro-Wrestling Legend

Biopic of Rikidozan, the pioneer of pro wrestling in Japan and one of the most important wrestlers in the history of the sport. The film is a sport drama that give us an insight look of the struggles that Rikidozan had to experience to become a legend. He was born in Korea in 1924, and his real name was Kim Sin-rak. In the 40´s, he changed his name for Mitsuhiro Momota, and moved to Japan, pursuing his dream to become Sumo Wrestler, however, when his dream couldn´t come true, he didn´t give up and found a new dream, and that dream was the one that turned him into Rikidozan, that dream was Pro Wrestling. This Korean movie from 2004, directed by Song Hae-Sun, deserves more recognition. Somehow it resembles to another similar Korean production, the Mas Oyama biopic, “Fighter in the Wind“, but with a most realistic and dramatic tone. […]

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UNDEFEATED: THE ROCKY MARCIANO STORY Casts Jeremy Renner To Lead

It’s an era of boxing movie fandom nowadays, with momentum driven by the successes of films like the recent releases of Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw and Ryan Coogler’s Creed earlier this year. As we speak, there are other titles slowly coming to fruition and the list continues now with word that actor Jeremy Renner is ready to take his fight to the ring. According to THR, Renner is tapped to play Rocky Marciano in the new film, Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story. Morris S. Levy, who owns the rights to Marciano’s life, is producing the film from a script by Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore which will focus on Marciano’s life as a Massachusetts native from childhood through his prominent career as an undefeated heavyweight champion for four years prior to his untimely plane crash death in 1969. The film is currently seeking a director.

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Liev Schreiber Gets His Wish In Chuck Wepner Bio, THE BLEEDER

Liev Schreiber has been killing it with his hit SHOtime TV series, Ray Donovan, now up for a fourth season. In the meantime, his career in film is moving forward as well as he’s also set to appear early next year in YA sci-fi epic, The 5th Wave. Before then, the actor will begin filming in New York City with wife and actress Naomi Watts for the new boxing drama, The Bleeder, from Mandalay Sports Media and Campbell Grobman Films with Oscar-nominated director Philippe Falardeau (The Good Lie, Monsieur Lazhar) at the helm. Schreiber will produce and star from a script by Jeff Feuerzeig, Jerry Stahl and Michael Cristofer, based on the life of New Jersey Liquor Salesman-turned-underdog heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner whos upset defeat by Muhammad Ali in 1975 – ultimately encircled much of his career height and dissolve, and incidentally became the root of inspiration for the multi-award winning […]

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A Champion Strikes Back In Muay Thai Biopic, MARD PAYAK. Watch The Trailer!

Muay Thai is always a great centerpiece for integral drama depending on the director’s intentions. Here, director Norachai Kajchapanont‘s latest film, Mard Payak, looks to bring some extra perspective with an insightful biopictoral offering on Samart Payakarun, who himself is considered to be one of the greatest boxing and Muay Thai fighting champions of all time. Even sporting a career in music and film to boot with appearances in films like The Legend Of Suriyothai, Dynamite Warrior and Muay Thai Chaiya, it’s easy to see what the big fuss is about. So, clearly he’s got a fanbase, as well as a hell of a story that is about ready to be seen, and following its opening premiere at the Bangkok Asean Film Festival last month, its now prepped to release this weekend in local Thai cinemas. Check out a trailer below! ‘Mard Payak: The Great Muay Thai Fighter’ Trailer | […]

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Ronda Rousey Biography, MY FIGHT/YOUR FIGHT Gets The Big Screen Treatment!

Courtesy of Regan Arts Ronda Rousey is having a most epic year so far. Well into a fruitful career as a mixed-martial arts champion now 12-0 after defeating challenger Bethe Correia over the weekend at UFC 190 in just 34 seconds, the currently-reigning bantamweight champion is also managing a lucrative career as a film actress with three titles to her name, including her 2014 debut in The Expendables 3, and this year’s releases of the movie adaptation of HBO’s Entourage and the blockbuster success of James Wan’s Furious Seven. Her success is so far chronicled in My Fight/Your Fight, her new book published back in May as it discusses her time competing in Olympic judo up to her status now as a top-tier professional fighter. Such a resume has often spoken of prospects leading to my own questions on social media among others about who could possibly star in a […]

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Shannon Lee & Co. To Produce The 'Definitive' Bruce Lee Biopic

It will be forty three years this July since the untimely death of martial arts legend and superstar Bruce Lee, the man whose short-lived career in film and television spawned a legacy that cultivated generations of martial arts sports and entertainment fans alike. Lee’s life and legacy has always been an intriguing subject embraced through television and film via documentaries and fictional action packed dramas, and all these are subject to debate regarding whether or not how we all should feel about them. That said, several more films have been in development for some time now, including actor and Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen’s upcoming return to the fray as Lee’s Wing Chun Grandmaster in Ip Man 3D, and in a new movie titled Birth Of The Dragon with George Nolfi tapped to direct. Updates on either of these projects are still pending so its best not to hold […]

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Charlie Hunnam In Training For Thai Prison Fight Drama, A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN

Sons Of Anarchy star, actor Charlie Hunnam is preparing to show off his Muay Thai chops according to a new report from ScreenDaily with news on the pending production of A Prayer Before Dawn. The news comes as one in a batch of recent casting headlines in the last several months which also include a potential lead role in Guy Ritchie’s forthcoming King Arthur film saga and the recently-announced Pacific Rim 2. Seniorita Films and Hurricane Films are producing the new thriller for Hunnam, now training in Muay Thai to portray the role of Billy Moore who originally unveiled his story in a Maverick House publication back in March. The book synopsis itself reads as follows: A Prayer Before Dawn: A Nightmare in Thailand is the true story of one man’s fight for survival inside Klong Prem Prison, the notorious “Bangkok Hilton”. Billy Moore travelled to Thailand to escape a […]

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RISE OF THE LEGEND Gets New Poster Art And A Kick-Ass Teaser!

RISE OF THE LEGEND Gets New Poster Art And A Kick-Ass Teaser!

Following Universal Pictures’s participation as co-producers and international rights holders with Edko Films Ltd. for director Roy Chow‘s Rise Of The Legend, the film is now poised for a November premiere in China and has an exquisite new teaser and promo art this week. Written by Christina To, the new film is a origin-based re-observation of the classic kung fu hero, Wong Fei-Hung, in a story that focuses on Wong’s younger years as a gangster before becoming iconic martial arts master and healer he became known for. The film also marks the latest of challenges for actor Eddie Peng, after starring in last year’s MMA feature drama, Unbeatable. Peng‘s lack of genuine training was an issue among the longstanding Wong Fei-Hung faithfuls mostly familiar with previous stars like Jet Li, late actor Kwan Tak-Hing, and others in previous movies. Suffice it to say, Peng took the challenge head on with […]

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Could The Late LAU KAR-LEUNG Get His Own Movie?

The past year saw a grave loss of a few notable, memorable and iconic film figures of the martial arts and film industry as a whole, including the passing of action cinema arbiter and late kung fu cinema legend Lau Kar-Leung. Before passing away on June 25 last year at the age of 78, the late master Lau earned his acclaim in part through the shared legacy of his kung fu lineage through his father’s training under Wong Fei-Hung disciple Lam Sai-wing. In the following years, this would ultimately take his own training from the age of seven into a lucrative career as a teacher, a stuntman and rising film figure through Shaw Brothers studios in the 1960’s and 70’s, and evidently it didn’t stop there. These articles of Lau‘s stellar history in the world of kung fu cinema could be part of what is now being formulated for a […]

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The New Trailer For THE BRONX BULL Arrives Online

For what it’s worth, those who have seen director Martin Scorsese’s 1980 Oscar-winning classic, Raging Bull, are about to get an unofficial follow-up from director Martin Guigui titled The Bronx Bull, based on the events of co-author and former boxer Jake LaMotta. The film took a while to come through as producers were forced to dissociate the new film from the first movie with said title upon settling all legal differences in court with MGM, who own the rights to first refusal for a sequel, after the studio filed a detailed lawsuit nearly two years ago to stop the film from happening under its previous title, Raging Bull 2. There’s no release date planned as of yet, but we do get to see a trailer for the time being. And for stunt aficionados, fans can look forward to what the film offers in its boxing sequences, courtesy of stunt coordinators […]

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George Nolfi Will Direct The Next Bruce Lee Biopic, BIRTH OF THE DRAGON

George Nolfi Will Direct The Next Bruce Lee Biopic, BIRTH OF THE DRAGON

It was back in February of last yearthat QED International and Groundswell Productions announced their backing of a new Bruce Lee biopic titled Birth Of The Dragon. The film’s announcement couldn’t have come at a better time last year as a new Bruce Lee statue was unveiled in California, in addition to a star-studded screening of Enter The Dragon at the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, and a special exhibition launched at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum attributed to the Jeet Kune Do master and martial artist 40 years after his passing. On Friday, it was officially announced that The Adjustment Bureau helmer George Nolfi will be directing the film, which will center on a story inspired by the historic closed-doors fight between Lee and kung fu master Wong Jack Man at a time when the Hong Kong Triads were prominent in San Francisco. Nolfi‘s writing credits also […]

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Genghis Khan Is Out For Blood In The New Trailer For KINGDOM OF CONQUERORS

Anyone up for some epic ancient 13th century swordplay action and thrills? Then Lionsgate has that covered this year, rebranding director Wang Ping‘s An End To Killing, to accomadate its upcoming North American release as Kingdom Of Conquerors. An epic production aided by the collaborative efforts of studios in China, Japan and Korea, Kingdom Of Conquerors made its domestic release overseas last year as the latest cinematic biopictoral telling of Mongolian warlord and ruler Genghis Khan, and now has a release date for the U.S. via press release, with plenty of details you can check out below. And of course, there’s a new trailer as well which you can check out at the bottom of the page. From a producer of Rain Fall and Battle of a Warrior, comes a new epic film about the rise of Mongol Emperor, Genghis Khan, as he builds an empire that spans most of Asia in Kingdom of […]

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MMFF 2013: Rono Set To Debut Biopic Crime Drama BOY GOLDEN: SHOOT-TO-KILL

After initially being censored from premiering at this year’s 39th Annual Metro Manila Film Festival due to “excessive violence”, it appears the circumstamces have changed, and now writer and director Chito S. Roňo is now getting the chance to debut his new biopictoral action crime drama, Boy Golden: Shoot-To-Kill. After previously starring in the 2011 award-winning thriller, Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story, actor ER Ejercito returns center stage as the lead in his second role as another historical crime figure, now centered around the life and times of 1960’s notorious Filipino gangster, Arturo Porcuna, a.k.a. Boy Golden, who eventually met his demise at the hands of a group of assassins nearly fifty years ago this week. The film is also the latest of two notable titles centered on Porcuna’s life-the other being Daniel Zialcita’s Hindi sa Iyo ang Mundo, Baby Porcuna, which won a FAMAS award in 1978 for […]

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The New U.S. Trailer For THE GRANDMASTERS Is Online

With the biographical storytelling of the late legendary Wing Chun master, Ip Man, now having gone mainstream with several films and television installations, it would likely make sense that the biggest selling point in the new U.S. trailer for The Grandmasters would be showcasing martial artist and actor Cung Le. So, this is pretty much the case here. Other than that, the entire thing is pretty much a re-broadcast of the teaser that many viewers of the teaser from several yeara ago have already seen: Tony Leung Ka-Fai in character, battling a dozen or so baddies in the rain in the dark of night amidst a whirlwind of total Wing Chun smacketh down. Yeah, if you’re like me and the many, MANY others who have seen that footage before, you probably just want to see the movie already. And I don’t blame you. And that day will come courtesy of […]

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Hong Kong Gets A Home Release For THE GRANDMASTERS

In light of The Weinstein Company’s recent U.S. acquisition and announced release of the long-awaited Wong Kar-Wai film, The Grandmasters, new reports are in, stating Hong Kong distributor Mei Ah is slated to relase the film domestically on April 23, 2013. The report comes courtesy of Asian Action Cinema, who linked the pre-order listing over at YesAsia.com, with availablity on DVD, Blu-Ray and Steelbook. The film finally premiered in China on January 8, 2013, five years after the first teaser was released. SYNOPSIS : “Martial arts. Two words: Horizontal and vertical. There’s no right and wrong; the last man standing wins. “Over a decade in the making, Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster is finally here! Initially planned as a biography of Wing Chun Grandmaster Ip Man (Best known as Bruce Lee’s master), The Grandmaster has since become a grand martial arts epic about three martial art masters who walk three very different paths in […]

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The New IP MAN: THE FINAL FIGHT Trailer Brings All Smiles

Beyond Hollywood recently forwarded a new trailer to promote the premiere of Ip Man: The Final Fight at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival. The trailer features a more different tone than can be seen in previous trailers, illustrating the latest directorial take on Ip Man’s life and legacy from filmmaker Herman Yau with a little more subtlety and charisma than a grim and dramatic actioner. Sure, the film will definitely have its share of action, no doubt about it. The trailer, though, evokes a sense of openess in its push for an audience. And I have read in previous articles that this upcoming film will be a lot more inclusive with dialogue and acting rather than lots of action. To be conclusive, I would not worry at all. Besides, I do not know about the rest of you, but I like the 1950’s quirkiness of this one. At […]

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New BTS Footage From IP MAN: THE FINAL FIGHT

Twitch has shared a new behind the scenes featurette for Herman Yau’s latest directorial involvment with the Ip Man films, IP MAN: THE FINAL FIGHT. The footage is only a few minutes and is only in Chinese, but worth the watch if you’re a fan. The film is currently slated to kick off the Hong Kong International Film Festival this Sunday, March 17, 2013, with a theatrical release in Hong Kong and Singapore on March 28. (CLICK HERE TO WIN PASSES BEFORE MARCH 20, 2013) SYNOPSIS: Starring Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang and Gillian Chung, the film takes place in postwar Hong Kong, where legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called into action once more, when what begin as simple challenges from rival kung fu styles soon draw him into the dark and dangerous underworld of the Triads. Now, to defend life and honor, he has no choice but […]

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Bruce Lee Heads Back To The Big Screen In BIRTH OF THE DRAGON

Several reports came out on Tuesday today that a new Bruce Lee biopic is now in the works, backed by QED Internationaland Groundswell Productions, with a script to be penned by Nixon and Ali writers Christopher Wilkinson and Steven Rivele. The film will be titled Birth Of The Dragon and will take place in 1965 San Francisco, with a plot that sets up a larger focus where Bruce Lee, a purveyor of Wing Chun at the time, and Wong Tak Man unite to take on the Triads, with the story to tie into their brutal one on one private match which later defined Lee’s career as a martial artist. Deadline reports QED producer Bill Block had this to say about the upcoming production: We’re excited to retell the fantastic origin story of the world’s most famous martial arts icon, which in the hands of Christopher and Stephen, lends itself to […]

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