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IP MAN 4: THE FINALE Trailer: Donnie Yen Wages One Last Stand

Christmas will undoubtedly come a bit earlier for Donnie Yen fans looking toward advance screenings this month for Wilson Yip’s Ip Man 4: The Finale. Expect some heavy-handed press by then with some of the film’s own stars touring select territories to promote the film, including the ‘Man’ himself in what he now elucidated will be his final kung fu movie according to his statements to South China Morning Post in the past week as of this article. Martial Arts master, Donnie Yen is back for the final installment of the Ip Man Universe franchise in Ip Man 4: The Finale, directed by Wilson Yip. Ip Man’s life remains unchanged after his wife’s death, but he and his son are slowly drifting apart. To seek a better future for his son, Ip Man decides to travel to the U.S. only to find the stable, peaceful life abroad is only skin […]

IP MAN 4: THE FINALE Challenges You One Last Time In The New Trailer

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The new official trailer is now online for the December 20 China roll out of Ip Man 4: The Finale. As irresistible as it is, its already gone viral and serves as a welcome window into the story that continues, and likely finishes what’s been an amply-epic saga of hard-hitting action drama and fan service with a punch featuring action star Donnie Yen. Well Go USA will be serving up the action on December 25 with Scott Adkins, Wu Yue and Danny Chan among the roster. Check out the trailer above and new character posters below!

IP MAN 4: Yen’s Last Stand As The Grandmaster Gets A U.S. Teaser

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Well Go USA is answering the call once more for Donnie Yen fans the world around with a first teaser for the U.S. release of Ip Man 4. More than ten years since the first installment and roughly seven since I wrote an op-ed aspiring for a two-hander between Yen and actor Scott Adkins, it’s fan service to the fullest at this point, in particularly for a franchise spotlighting a style of martial arts that has taken life in various forms through other IP. Ip Man’s life remains unchanged after his wife’s death, but he and his son are slowly drifting apart. To seek a better future for his son, Ip Man decides to travel to the U.S. only to find the stable, peaceful life abroad is only skin deep. Underneath lies a deep rooted racial discrimination that is far worse than he has expected. Ip Man re-examines his position […]

FIVE-A-DAY COUNTDOWN: Enter The Fat Dragon, Ip Man 4, Avengement, Abduction, and Triple Threat

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Last week saw the first 25 titles to start the five-a-day countdown through December, and so here’s five more toward the goal of 100: Enter The Fat Dragon: Considered one of the biggest titles for buzz during the American Film Market as sales art was emblazoned on Screen International’s front page (the same artwork people cropped and called a “new poster” ?), Kenji Tanigaki’s directorial debut may be first on the menu for Donnie Yen fans. A titular homage to a Sammo Hung classic, Donnie Yen plays a Hong Kong top-cop whose personal romantic hang-ups compel him into massive, depression-induced food consumption. From what I’ve gathered, the fat dragon will enter theaters and gobbles up crime for its Hong Kong release beginning February 9, 2019. Ip Man 4: The journey continues into the 1960s when our titular Wing Chun grandmaster sets out to America to set things straight as once […]

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Donnie Yen And Jackie Chan Will Square Off In IP MAN 4

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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

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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

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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 […]

IP MAN 4 Shoots This April

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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 […]

FIVE-A-DAY ROUND-UP XV: Red Sparrow, Swordsman, Dynasty Warriors, Ip Man 4, Viy 2

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Francis Lawrence and actress Jennifer Lawrence reteam for an intriguing new thriller in the form of Red Sparrow. I can attest that the action here assure some promise – this aside from the prospects of seeing another female-led action thriller just makes things exciting with Lawrence starring as a Russian spy who considers being a double agent after falling for an American CIA operative played by Joel Edgerton. 20th Century Fox rolls this one out on March 2. Jang Hyuk stood out terrifically in Volcano High. I know he’s been working although I hadn’t heard much from him until earlier this year that he would be starring with Indonesian actor Joe Taslim of The Raid fame in his Korean debut, Swordsman. Choi Jae-Hoon directs this, a story centered on the lives of three skilled swordsman: a blind man in his thirties with an only daughter in his care, one who […]

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Donnie Yen Confirms IP MAN 4, Wilson Yip To Direct

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Martial arts star Donnie Yen is currently taking a different turn with his latest role in Jason Kwan’s Chasing The Dragon, a remake of Poon Man-Kit’s To Be Number One in which Yen recently confirmed his as a non-action role. This will be a particular career milestone for fans of the action star who know him prolifically for lighting up the screen in many a martial arts film, and here and now alongside Andy Lau in a role said to have inspired one of his own earlier pseudo-biopictoral films. Set photos can be found online as production continues, while it is, indeed, safe to say that Yen isn’t abandoning his time-honored craft any time soon. Thus, taking to social media on Friday, Yen confirmed his attachment with director Wilson Yip for Ip Man 4, the fourth martial arts-geared pseudo-biopictoral saga inspired by the life and times of the Wing Chun […]