ICEMAN: THE TIME TRAVELER Finally Thaws An Official Trailer For The Long-Awaited Sequel
Donnie Yen can’t save the past, but will he save the future with ICEMAN: THE TIME TRAVELER? Asia audiences will find out November 8!
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Review: Kam Ka-Wai’s BIG BROTHER Stands And Delivers, And Throws Down With The Head ‘Yen’ In Charge
Well Go USA is proudly releasing Kam Ka-Wai’s BIG BROTHER in select U.S. theaters this Friday, with Donnie Yen, Yu Kang and actress Joe Chen starring!
Live-Action SLEEPING DOGS Rolls Cameras With Donnie Yen In 2019
Donnie Yen will star in the live-action adaptation of the Square Enix game with Original Film producing!
THE MONKEY KING 4 Moves Forward With Development
THE MONKEY KING 4 is finally on the way after a headlining making trilogy that last saw Aaron Kwok taking to the lens.
Well Go USA Picks Up BIG BROTHER For North American Theatrical Release
And like a phoenix, Well Go USA rises to save your summer’s nearing end with the official U.S. trailer for Donnie Yen‘s new August 31 release, Big Brother. He’s got a few more down the pipeline including his current role in Niki Caro’s Mulan adaptation while we all hope to hear more on his latest attachment to Sleeping Dogs and Enter The Fat Dragon among others. In the meantime, Big Brother seems like a feasible and worthwhile few hours at the movies, especially after finishing its world premiere run at Fantasia Festival, whose Chu King-Wei programmed it as so: The high school is in crisis, the students are underperforming and preoccupied with non- academic activities. Mr. Chen, aka Big Brother, a teacher with rather rusty writing skills but armed with the most knowledgeable fists and heart of steel, comes to enlighten and inspire the students with his unconventional teaching methods. […]
BIG BROTHER: Donnie Yen Faces A New Battlefront In The Official Trailer
Donnie Yen, without question, has had his work cut out for him as of late. Nonetheless committed to not letting his fans down for another few years, his latest, Kam Kar-Wai’s Big Brother stands to gain plentily for the martial arts movie crowd and now with a full trailer that lays in with all the Donnie Yen-style-fuck-you-up-ness that audiences may get a thrill out of. All that stems from a story that tells of a former solider-turned-school teacher who otherwise applies an unorthodox methods of reaching out to his students – and juding by the trailer, often in ways that forces him to punch some faces along the way no matter to the contrary. Yen toplines the action here as well and with a cast that partly includes actress Joe Chan, upcoming Unbreakable Spirit co-star Ray Lui and actor and Yen cohort Yu Kang for an August release. Check out […]
Donnie Yen And Jackie Chan Will Square Off In IP MAN 4
Touchstone Pictures Another headlining rematch is on deck for Wilson Yip’s Ip Man 4 with Jackie Chan apparently set to appear opposite star Donnie Yen. This little detail, by way of a report on Wednesday at Jaynestars cites local news sources, confirms that filming has wrapped for the fourth installment in which Chan will play a respected Chinatown Big Brother amid the story setting that lands our title hero in the U.S. alongside martial arts progeny Bruce Lee. Yen and Chan have shared the screen together a few times in Shanghai Knights (2003) and The Twins Effect 2 (a.k.a. Blade Of Kings) (2004). The two are joined by Paradox co-star Chris Collins and Vanness Wu of Star Runner fame, both who share respective screen history with actor Scott Adkins who also stars. Oddly enough and despite viral posts, the report also suggests Ip Man 3 co-star and Kung Fu League […]
‘Wolf Warrior’, ‘Paradox’ Actor Chris Collins Joins IP MAN 4
Casting further continues for the current production of Ip Man 4 this week as actor Chris Collins has joined the cast. Character details are unknown whilst following suit with fellow Wolf Warrior co-star, actor and martial arts star Scott Adkins who signaled his addition to the film once again starring martial arts action star Donnie Yen. Produced by Raymond Wong from a script by Edmund Wong, the folkloric period martial arts drama sequel inspired by the life and legend of the late Wing Chun Grandmaster now sees him traveling stateside to the U.S. where his Wing Chun protégé, Bruce Lee, has begun challenging the norms of not allowing Westerners to learn martial arts. Kidari Entertainment is distributing the film locally. Collins is a former U.S. Marine, now based in Hong Kong where he trains and instructs with specialities in martial arts and firearms. The Wolf Warrior co-star can be seen […]
IP MAN 4 Casts Scott Adkins
If the recent, explosive trailer for Egyptian actioner, Karmouz Wars, wasn’t enough to get your blood pumping, take heed of actor, action star and celebrated “Boyka” screen persona, Scott Adkins who just blew more minds via Instagram hailing his addition to Ip Man 4 with reprising star/director duo Donnie Yen and Wilson Yip. Details on his role weren’t made available nor any other casting names, although the plot does hint at the return of a young Bruce Lee previously played by Danny Chan in the 2016 third installment. I’m extremely excited to report that I’m currently in China shooting Ip Man 4 with the great @donnieyenofficial who I have been a huge fan of since the 80’s. Donnie personally asked me to play this part and for sure you guys won’t be disappointed, especially with our action director being the legendary Yuen Woo Ping. I consider the Ip Man films […]
MULAN: Donnie Yen To Make A Man Out Of Our Heroine In The Live-Action Adventure
Beyond recent progress on Big Brother and Enter The Fat Dragon and the production start of Ip Man 4, time will tell what lies ahead for actor and action star Donnie Yen. That said, if Mike Fleming Jr.’s exclusive at Deadline is any indication, a starring role in Disney’s own live-action version of Mulan is very likely to soon follow. The report confirms Yen for the role of Commander Tung, mentor and teacher to Mulan, with Yen marking this as his second Disney feature since playing the memorable role of blind warrior Chirrut Imwe in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Whale Rider helmer Niki Caro is set to direct the film which has since nabbed The Forbidden Kingdom, The Four and Once Upon A Time actress Crystal Liu for the starring role – the result of an expansive casting search that implored the studio to push its release of […]
BIG BROTHER: Donnie Yen Leads The Rollcall In The First Official Teaser
I think it’s safe to say that Donnie Yen is gonna crowd a LOT of fanboys this week. He’s got numerous projects simmering and brewing in production or development and director Kam Kar-Wai’s latest, Big Brother, will certainly be one of them upon its release. Hong Kong’s Mega-Vision Project Workshop announced the film at Filmart on Monday with Yen starring as Chan, a high school teacher who must apply his unconventional methods to get through his students, as well as face the unsavory past that haunts him. Yen is joined by Jess Liaudin who plays the menacing taxi driver in Julien Seri’s Night Fare next to Boyka: Undisputed villain Brahim Acchabkhe, as well as Craig Miller of The Brothers Grimsby fame and Tanigaki Kenji serving up the fight action with a release currently pending. Much focus on the narrative will be on the educational aspects and backdrop overall as Yen […]
Benny Chan’s CROSSFIRE Lines Up Donnie Yen Action Thriller For EMP
Emperor Motion Pictures Actor and action star Donnie Yen is maintaining his high profile at Filmart in Hong Kong, including a pair of titles currently being sold under Hong Kong’s Mega-Vision Project Workshop that list Kam Ka-Wai’s Big Brother and Tanigaki Kenji’s Enter The Fat Dragon. Both have made headlines quite a bit in the past year in addition to several others that are also being shopped at Filmart while the latest is just breaking out of Asia by way of Emperor Motion Pictures. For this, we turn to a recent teaser poster circulating ahead of production for Call Of Heroes helmer Benny Chan action thriller, Crossfire. The project is being hailed as a big budget spectacle that will star Yen as a former police inspector who travels to South America to rescue his kidnapped wife. The title stand among a bustling raft of films hosted by EMP with Dante […]
IP MAN 4 Shoots This April
The past several years have been headline making for martial arts star Donnie Yen. Pairing with Wong Jing for an Enter The Fat Dragon revival in addition to confirming a live action for Sleeping Dogs and finishing MMA drama, Big Brother, are all a priority among others for the actor who has since weighed in with word that he’ll be shooting Ip Man 4 next month. The news, forwarded from Chinese media at On.cc by way of Jaynestars this week, came as Yen was reportedly visiting his family in Australia with further details suggesting the new installment, to be directed by Wilson Yip for another turn at the helm, would see the Wing Chun grandmaster searching for his disciple, Bruce Lee, in the 1960s-set United States. Next to the unlikely return of actress Lynn Hung whose role as his wife, Cheung Wing-sing, it is not yet clear if actor Danny […]
ON THAT NIGHT…WHILE WE DREAM Brings Martial Arts Stardom Together In The First Official Shortfilm Trailer
At around this time next week, expect to hear more from the rumblings in China with Alibaba bigwig, Jack Ma, and his latest filmic musings with a kung fu line-up of big-name stars and athletes. We now have the first official trailer announcing On That Night…While We Dream, aptly hailed on poster art with the characters, Gong Shu Dao, a martial arts prose meaning Guard And Defense. A celebration of Chinese culture via martial arts is the reported goal of the new shortfilm project filmed in late Summer – a personal one at that for Ma, a disciple himself of a 19th generation Master descendant of Chens’ Taiji. That goal now reaches closer with a promo that highlights some of the work from our cast with footage from Gordon Chan’s Call Of Heroes, Donnie Yen as Ip Man, Tony Jaa in The Protector 2 and Ma’s Taijizen International founding partner […]
GONG SHU DAO: Asian Film Giants Line-Up For A Celebration Of Kung Fu And Culture In The Latest Banner
It’s not everyday someone can get more than a handful of major Asian film stars and celebrated athletes in the same room to make movie history. Alibaba executive chairman and founder Jack Ma just happens to be the man who can do just that and the power he wields has since been on full display with the latest banner reveal for upcoming ten minute shortfilm, Gong Shou Dao. Action legend Jet Li forwarded the artwork via his official website and social media branches, featuring himself with Ma and a who’s who of film and sports headliners ahead of its promotion on November 11 during Alibaba’s Global Shopping Festival. The title itself (clearly advanced from its previous Master theme) takes its influences from Taiji, Kung Fu, and Martial Arts – the former notably being a paramount focus of Li’s own shared health and lifestyle platform with Ma at TaijiZen.com. “We all have […]
MASTER Brings Its Own Triple Threat Together With Donnie Yen, Wu Jing And Jet Li
The past few weeks have been stirring the fan fervor a bit between Wu Jing’s current Hong Kong run with hit sequel, Wolf Warrior 2, as well as Donnie Yen in lieu of his upcoming crime drama, Chasing The Dragon. Both names circulated the rumormill in hyperbolic fanboy fashion next to that of action star Jet Li (League Of Gods) who himself scaled back substantially on physically demanding roles in recent years due to his own health. Whatever the case may be now, of course there’s a photo flying around on social media with no context to it whatsoever, and doing nothing to ease the curiousity with specifics. For this, we now have some much-needed clarity with news of the new shortfilm, Master, now in production with Yen, Wu and Li involved. Unknown are the respective degrees of involvement while it is also reported that Jack Ma invited the trio […]
Donnie Yen Crime Drama, CHASING THE DRAGON, Catches Its First U.S. Teaser
Ruling out any longer waiting, Well Go USA is officiating its committment to their rollout of the new crime drama, Chasing The Dragon, following their acquisition of the film in February. Jason Kwan and screenwriter/producer Wong Jing helm the pic headling two of Asia’s biggest stars, Donnie Yen and Andy Lau in their first-ever on-screen appearance together. Donnie Yen stars as infamous real-life drug kingpin Crippled Ho, who came to Hong Kong an illegal immigrant in 1963 and ruthlessly carved an empire from the chaotic underworld of drug dealers and corrupt police that ruled the city under notorious detective Lee Rock (Andy Lau). Their teaser is freshly out as of Wednesday. It’s the U.S. variant of the initial teaser so there’s nothing new. At any rate, it’s a tandem release between Asia and North America and the full trailer is still available here to get your fill. September 29 is […]
CHASING THE DRAGON: Donnie Yen And Andy Lau Stir The Action The Explosive New Trailer
Action star Donnie Yen didn’t wait too long before unveiling the full official trailer for the new crime drama, Chasing The Dragon. Sharing the helm are Jason Kwan and producer Wong Jing who shepherd this, the latest pairing in big name stardom for Yen and actor Andy Lau in what looks to be a striking foray for Yen in the prinicipal role of a once-prolific real-life notorious crime lord. The year is 1963, an illegal immigrant named Ho (Donnie Yen) sneaks into British-ruled Hong Kong. Equipped with guts and combat skills, he plunges into the underground world getting into constant conflict with rivals. After many adversaries, the once good-natured man is physically crippled and turns into a monster more atrocious than all the most corrupted cops and ruthless drug dealers. Ho eventually emerges as the most powerful drug lord under the control of Chief Detective Sergeant, Lee Rock (Andy Lau). […]
ENTER THE FAT DRAGON: Donnie Yen Announces Remake Plans With Wong Jing For Later This Year
It’s a bit of a guessing game pertaining to some of the gems actor Donnie Yen has been throwing at fans on social media. Its taken confirmed trade news and other reports to help weave together a more concrete idea on what to expect from the action star as he’s notoriously piled on in the last several years. Thus, some projects are non-existent. Other are still lying in wait and as of Yen’s recent news conference next to celebrated filmmaker and producer Wong Jing while promoting their latest pairing on Chasing The Dragon, word of more remake fare for Hong Kong cinema fans fond of Sammo Hung’s 1978 hit, Enter The Fat Dragon. Hung starred and directed the action comedy centered on a pig farmer who finds himself showcasing his fighting prowess as he’s pitted against swarms of thugs upon arriving in the big city to aid his uncle’s restaurant. […]
CHASING THE DRAGON: Donnie Yen And Andy Lau Debut Together In The First Teaser For The Upcoming Crime Thriller
The wait period between now and the next time we see actor Donnie Yen in a full-fledged fighting role shouldn’t be too long. In the meantime, fans will soon get to watch as the acclaimed action star exhibits other dimensions to his craft here in a mild departure into more dramatic territory in upcoming crime thriller, Chasing The Dragon, which opens on September 28 in Hong Kong from Mega-Vision Pictures Limited. Wong shares the mantle with debut director Jason Kwan for the cinematic revival of Ng Sek-Ho (previously portrayed by actor Ray Lui in Poon Man-Kit’s seperate 1991 iteration, To Be Number One); Ng was an illegal immigrant who saw the rise of his criminal drug empire from the mid-1960’s and onward in British-ruled Hong Kong, ultimately earning the notorious nickname, Crippled Ho, from his skirmishes with other rivals. Celebrated actor Andy Lau reprises the role of corrupt lawman Lee […]
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