FILM OF THE WEEK (4/22/13): THE PRODIGY (2005)
Meanwhile, you can find the film over at Amazon, Tower, Half, or wherever DVDs are sold.
Meanwhile, you can find the film over at Amazon, Tower, Half, or wherever DVDs are sold.
Fans can still purchase the film, as it is still being newly relased throughout the world depending on where you live. This summer, Japan is slated to release the film domestically on DVD and BluRay on a rental and retail date: May 22 and June 26 I think. (Correct me if I’m wrong).
Fast forward to 2013, and the Power Rangers show is still going strong in one form or another, with some former cast members making oft appearances at Comic-Cons and martial arts seminars in America and everywhere in the world. One of those people happens to be Mike Chat from Power Rangers: Light Speed Rescue. Some may even know him either as the “Wizard” from the pseudo-reality TV show WMAC Masters, actor Paolo Montalban’s stunt double in Mortal Kombat: Conquest, or most namely, the founder and pioneer of XMA, or Xtreme Martial Arts, a brand of training that combines fluid martial arts performance with experimental and dynamic techniques to amalgamate what many people call “tricking”.
I asked Micah earlier this week about what fans can expect from upcoming episodes. “Mario has to face his destiny and become a hero.” he says. “Peach has to discover the responsibility of guiding a Kingdom, even if it is a shattered one.”.
20th Century Fox is fast tracking production of the sixth installment of the Die Hard franchise. Actor Bruce Willis, who has played the lead role in film now five-part film series as the larger-than-life New York Detective John McClaine, announced the film upon the theatrical release of A Good Day To Die Hard, which also stars Jai Courtney.
Today is another epic day in the history of martial arts action cinema as the new teaser for the upcoming film, Man Of Tai Chi is finally online. The film is actor Keanu Reeves‘s directorial debut and it is coming out swinging in total tournament movie fashion!
Since then, developments have been slow to materialize until this week with a new report forwarded by Screenrant which entails a dinner attended by producers and actor Tom Hiddleston, who sent the producers a make up test he did in London. According to the article, he is scheduled for a “proper” make up test in the near future.
The streets of Hong Kong will light up the night later this year with two big international names in music and film.
It may be a while before Only God Forgives gets a wider release on July 19 after its Cannes’ run this May. But we still get to see another full trailer for the film, splendidly showing more action, tension and drama, coupled with fists, kicks and actor Vithaya Pansringarm promising you may never want to be in the same room with him if you are on his bad side, especially with that big ass sword!
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Vietnam will get a first hand look at all the action when ONCE UPON A TIME IN VIETNAM (a.k.a. Lua Phat) gets its explosive theatrical release on August 22, 2013. The film is directed by, as well as starring Dustin Nguyen. The film also sees Dustin back on the screen with Vietnamese femme fatale Thanh Van Ngo, with whom he also starred in opposite Vietnamese action lead Johnny Tri Nguyen in THE REBEL.
Since then, Van Damme began revitalizing his career, despite the failed efforts to reboot the 1988 martial arts classic with “Salt” director Phillip Noyce, with a script by Robert Mark Kamen who chose not to include Van Damme’s character in it, due to the dissociation from the first film; The superstar documented that telephone conversation on his reality TV show a few years ago.
The future continued to look promising for Hiroshi Adachi, then, who left his home in Tokyo to attend San Francisco State University in 2008. It was then that he met and befriended the founder of The Stunt People, Eric Jacobus, setting off a chain of events that would allow Hiroshi to apply his 15 years of martial arts training to the field of independent action films in such projects as Ness, Graduation, Hand Over Fist, and the feature film, Detective Story which is currently available on DVD at the Stunt People Store.
I have to say, this week’s developments have been difficult to keep up with. In addition to the news regarding the involvement of Wesley Snipes and Mel Gibson in The Expendables 3, new reports also indicate Indonesian action star Joe Taslim is also up for a role in the upcoming blockbuster action thriller.
Taslim, hailing all the way from Indonesia with the successful release of director Gareth Evans‘s international martial arts action blockbuster hit, The Raid: Redemption, is looking to make his mark on Hollywood, especially with the release of the upcoming Fast And Furious 6 where he will be joined by some of the newest faces in the frachise, including Gina Carano and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. This May will also see continuing prospects for the action star when the Steven Sheil action horror film, Dead Mine, gets a VoD release on May 2, 2013, followed by a DVD release on May 28, just four days after Fast And Furious 6 theatrically releases.
Joe Taslim is capitalizing very well off his much-deserved success from The Raid: Redemption, which is currently being followed up with a 2014 sequel. And to think this is only just the beginning. Trust and believe, there is every bit of reason to be excited for the next two years and counting, especially now that Jackie Chan is abstaining from big stunts as much as possible nowadays, and Jet Li is ready to take a break himself. Hell, I don’t blame them. They have been bringing the action goods for decades, and they are legends in their own right.
And with that, I look forward to what people like Joe Taslim will bring to the fold.
Stay tuned, keep calm, and follow Joe on Twitter. 😉
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Co-creator and co-star of the Capcom-backed series and 2010 Street Fighter Legacy shortfilm Joey Ansah has been urgently and adamantly pushing for public funding for the project since backing away from other major financiers who were willing to grant the project with strings attached. As it is expected that Ansah and co-creator and stunt performer Christian Howard will reprise their roles from Legacy as Akuma and Ken, respectively, the official Facebook page recently began announcing new actors to be attached to the project, including Kyle Pryor as Ken’s father, XMA stunt performer and actor Mike Moh as Ryu, and Japanese actors Togo Igawa as Gotetsu, Akira Koieyama as Gouken and the latest name from the far east, Japanese actor Shogen as Koieyama-san’s younger counterpart of the same role.
Well, this was a pleasant piece of film to wake up to! I’m not totally endowed in knowledge about videogames, but that doesn’t stop Corridor Digital’s latest collaborative project from looking as ridiculously and unapologetically AWESOME as it does.
Based on the classic DC Comics character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, MAN OF STEEL tells the story of a young boy who grows up and journeys to seek his roots, questioning the purpose of his unearthly abilities as an insidious evil force bent on mankind’s destruction brings him closer to his destiny as a superhero and symbol of hope for humanity.