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OPINION: Why Everyone Needs To Watch BOYKA: UNDISPUTED On Netflix. NOW.

The Champ Is Here! This past week was cause for celebration amongst action fans. After an eight-year long wait, everyone’s favorite Russian prison fighter has returned to the ring in Boyka: Undisputed. The reason for the long wait has been well documented (rampant piracy) and if fans don’t support this film, we may never see Boyka again. To all the fans who supported this film by buying it on disc, you are awesome people and we appreciate you for fighting the good fight. But our work as fans doesn’t end there, the war must be fought on a new front; we need to make this a hit on Netflix! A Genre Against the Ropes? It’s no secret that the career of Scott Adkins (and by extension, the entire DTV Action genre) has been undercut by internet piracy. It’s lead to lower budgets, tighter schedules and has prevented the hard working […]

A Case For Better Action Movies…Or Why We Don’t Deserve Another Sequel After BOYKA: UNDISPUTED 4

Lee B. Golden III

Director Todor Chapkanov’s latest feature-length affair, Boyka: Undisputed 4, isn’t exactly the kind that would get the big screen treatment in North America. Elsewhere? Perhaps. Not so much here though, and it’s a shame as it was still a hope of mine that I shared as a theatergoer, albeit understandable with a limited number of screens at the least considering how rare it is to see martial arts movies these days, and of the caliber they bare in talent and content. I take this fact to mind in observing the career progression of martial arts star, actor Scott Adkins, once a stuntman and someone who has essentially woven himself into ample popularity as an action-capable actor, and with his biggest audience keen on major martial arts fanfare. It’s a succession that has not been easy – one plagued by the ever-continued proliferation of piracy that causes films like Adkins’s latest […]

UNDISPUTED BUSHIDO: An Interview With Actor And Martial Artist Emilien De Falco

Lee B. Golden III

It was back around late 2012 or early 2013 – likely the latter – that I began following actor and martial artist, up-and-comer Emilien De Falco. By then to my knowledge I had spotted him in at least one action short with a group of stunties out West while in actuality, he had already accrued some notable TV and film credits. I’m pretty sure as others may have felt that there was more waiting in store with De Falco and I have to say, I’m glad I kept up to some degree. It’s not easy working the field he works and a lot of rare and rich opportunities involve a lot of waiting, and staying productive in the course of that period, and surely enough, De Falco has. He’s become something of an internet sensation for martial arts aficionados alike who get a kick out of seeing great people do […]

BOYKA: UNDISPUTED 4 Comes Home On August 1

Lee B. Golden III

Todor Chapkanov is the last person I think anyone would have expected to be attached to any of the Undisputed films following up from director Isaac Florentine’s work in recent memory. That being said, the trailers that have been circling online and early reviews of the new movie, Boyka: Undisputed 4, have been nothing short of approving following its out-of-phase release in Sweden and subsequent release in France this year. Well, North America is next on the rollout front and we have a brief new trailer from Universal Pictures to mark the occassion. The high-octane action series Undisputed is back with BOYKA: UNDISPUTED 4. Scott Adkins is Boyka, the most complete fighter in the world, a man looking for his shot to fight for a championship belt. After he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring, Boyka reaches out to the fallen opponent’s wife. But when the wife gets kidnapped […]

Boyka Is Back (Almost) In The New Trailer Tease For BOYKA: UNDISPUTED

Lee B. Golden III

The clock starts now with director Isaac Florentine set to take audieces ringside with Boyka: Undisputed. It’s the fourth installation of the Undisputed franchise featuring martial arts fanboy favorite, Uri Boyka played by none other than Scott Adkins whose career has seen quite an uptick this year with a few Hollywood releases now in tow. That said, it took five years for this latest mixed-martial arts quadrilogical installment to even happen what with piracy dominating the grim prospects of independent film as it struggles to thrive. With Boyka: Undisputed now in full existence and with a cast and crew that dares to impress with fight choreography by none other than Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear action stylist and co-star Tim Man, and towering Bodybuilder Martyn Ford making his acting debut, expect some of the best talent you’ll see when the film releases in 2016. And by all means, support this film. […]

BOYKA: UNDISPUTED IV Wraps, Star Thanks His Fans, Cast And Crew, Talks Future Movies

Lee B. Golden III

Martial arts action cinema has seen a ton of glory in the field of film for many years with a multitude of memorable and iconic characters to lend credit to. One such role as of late has been actor Scott Adkins‘s delivery of born-again Russian mixed-martial arts champion, Uri Boyka, following two principle roles in the direct-to-video end of the Undisputed franchise, with the sequel and threequel in 2006 and 2010 respectively, from director Isaac Florentine. Clock into 2015 well long after the third film as fans remained sizzling with hope for another installment and fans evidently got their wish in late 2013 prior to principle photography earlier this summer, and no less with a meaty handful of top notch action actors from select parts of the world all congregating in Sofia, Bulgaria for the production of Boyka: Undisputed IV. Adkins and Florentine are reunited once more with co-star and […]

Sooo….This Happened!

Lee B. Golden III

I received a heartfelt message from BOYKA himself! @TheScottAdkins. Thanks Buddy! pic.twitter.com/KbdLFAu4gK — Michael Jai White (@MichaelJaiWhite) July 18, 2015 Did you hear that last statement? Now, I won’t speculate too much, but considering the events in Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing, I wouldn’t put it past the production of Boyka: Undisputed IV to at least include a cameo or a last minute-casting role for Michael Jai White – either this, or a reunion for a fifth installment of the Universal Soldier franchise in which S.E.T.H. is somehow reincarnated and forced to fight John, Luc Deveraux, GR13 and the NGU in an epic fivesome UniSol smackethdown of some kind. Imagine that. At at any rate, the prospects of White and actor Scott Adkins getting back together can only produce good things, so we’ll see what happens. In the meantime, White is on the way with Never Back Down 3 and […]

New Stills And A Synopsis Surface For BOYKA: UNDISPUTED IV

Lee B. Golden III

Many a debate have been had in the last five years over the fate of a fourth installment of Undisputed, a series of films that has since spawned from a Hollywood prison boxing drama to a franchise of films that have entrenched explicit fandom within the niche for actor and action star Scott Adkins in the role of devout modern day mixed martial arts warrior, Uri Boyka. Suffice it to say, the Undisputed franchise has taken a life of its own in the martial arts genre, and while piracy nearly threatened the hopes of a fourth film, it was finally made official in late 2013 with cameras rolling nearly a year and a half later in Bulgaria for Boyka: Undisputed IV. Yes, results are coming, and I wouldn’t hold my breath for this one until at least a 2016 release as with the nature of independent cimema. Director Isaac Florentine […]