NINJAVERSE: Ernie Reyes Jr. To Direct Fantasy Independent Martial Arts Thriller In Co-Prod Deal With Glowcraft
After more than 25 years, actor and martial artist Ernie Reyes Jr. will return to the director’s chair for fantasy actioner, NINJAVERSE!
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THE HIT LIST – June 15, 2015
This week is going to be just a little light on content as I’ve managed to successfully cover a lot in previous weeks. Honestly though, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more quality stuff out there I may have missed, and mainly because, well…I don’t have immediate access to everything out there. But I am working on it. As such, this week’s Hit List is here and with another wave of cool new stunt reels and shorts. The new stunt reel playlist below features respective stunt and coordination work from Justin Yu and Donald Brooks Jr., along with a temp reel from Daniel Graham, actress and stuntwoman Kristina Baskett, freerunner Antoine Giri, and stuntmen Dan Pelchat, Peter Jang, Mykola Galagan, Lee-Moultan Davies, Eddie Perez and Brady Romberg. The playlist caps off with a showreel highlighting the career of actor and martial artist Ernie Reyes Jr. in lieu of current […]
Friends Launch GoFundMe Page To Help Ernie Reyes Jr. To Receive A Kidney Transplant
Actor and martial artist Ernie Reyes Jr. has long been a staple in the martial arts community for 30 years now, most prominently on the big and small screen. Roles in classic action films like The Last Dragon, Red Sonja, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret Of The Ooze, The Rundown and his recent appearance in Ninja Apocalypse are all notable mentions among others for anyone who follow his career or the genre, in general. Unfortunately, it’s moments like this that tend to leave you daunted with the reality that even some beloved entertainment figures go through their share of suffering, which is exactly the case being highlit in a recent GoFundMe campaign launched in favor of helping Reyes Jr. acquire much needed transplant after suffering kidney failure. The page is asking for a goal of $1000 which has already been surpassed in the first day but remains on-going, […]
Fantasy Martial Arts Action Pits Ninjas Against Zombies In The New Trailer For NINJA APOCALYPSE
Digital and VFX film professional Lloyd Lee Barnett carries quite an extensive and impressive list of credits on TV shows and several notable blockbusters, including The Mummy Returns, Underworld: Evolution, Speed Racer and Avatar; It stretches longer of course, but now it appears Barnett is also applying his skillset to the business end of the director’s chair for his second directorial effort, Ninja Apocalypse. Not much is known about the film’s plot just yet, although based on the new trailer you can check out at the bottom of the page, it appears to have taken a few notes from 1979 classic,The Warriors, with a touch of heavy-hitting martial arts action and fantasy, and zombies! Because well …why not? The trailer looks exciting and pleasing enough for any martial arts cinema fan looking for something fun to watch, so hopefully we will learn more as 2014 rolls on with an official release […]
Syndicate Shoutout: ERNIE REYES JR., The New Host Of MOVIES SO GOOD On Myx TV
Any fan of action cinema who has seen films like Red Sonja, The Last Dragon, Surf Ninjas, The Ultimate Fight and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret Of The Ooze, you may be familiar with well known actor, martial artist, action director and filmmaker, Ernie Reyes Jr., who recently made a few headlines in the last several weeks regarding becoming the newest host for the third season of Myx TV’s weekend kung fu film series, Movie So Good as of June 30, 2013. Myx TV is based in Redwood, California, and was founded in 2007 by diversified Asian media conglomerate, ABS-CBN. To this day, the network is known for its award-winning programming, and currently broadcasts up to well over ten million households in North America and counting. Reyes Jr., who currently holds a 3-0 record in Strikeforce, also shares a history as the youngest martial artist to compete in professional forms […]
Fox And Bay Reunite For The NINJA TURTLES Reboot
Deadline reported on Thursday that actress Megan Fox will join the cast of the the Michael Bay-produced and Jonathan Liebesman-directed reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The news comes long after it became public that the work-relationship between Bay and Fox melted down, leading to a write-out of Fox’s characte from the third Transformers movie. The film is a reboot of the entire franchise, with albeit direct support from the original creators of the TMNT franchise. Liebesman had this to say of his partner and co-creator, Kevin Eastman, who is also working on the vision for the film: “Whatever mythology we’re building on or expanding is from that guy, Kevin Eastman’s head, who created the Turtles in the first place. And so everything will tie in with the mythology; fans will be extremely excited with what we’re coming up with. A lot of it is stuff he’s wanted to do for […]