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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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‘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 last taking on Tony Jaa in Wilson Yip’s SPL spin-off, Paradox, which is now available in the U.S. courtesy of Well Go USA, as well as the current theatrical release of Nick Cheung’s crime thriller, The Trough.

Ok, so I can finally announce that I am working on Ip Man 4. I am so excited to be working with such a legend as Donnie Yen. I have Always been a huge fan and to finally be able to learn from him in his iconic role is a dream come true for me. An amazing martial artist with a scientific approach to cinematic action and of course a family man. #ipman #ipman4 #donnieyen #hongkong #hk #hkig #martialarts #kungfu #wingchun #wingtsun #hkwta #actionmovie #movies #superstar #legend #china #sifuchriscollinsA post shared by chris collins (@sifuchriscollins) on May 8, 2018 at 1:14am PDT

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IP MAN 4 Casts Scott Adkins

The film hails from sales and distro banner Pegasus Motion Pictures Distribution LTD. which also houses Master Z: Ip Man Legacy which spins-off the third film with appearances by Michelle Yeoh, Tony Jaa and title star Max Zhang. That film is directed by Ip Man 3 action director Yuen Woo-Ping (Gong Shu Dao) who also reprises Ip Man 4 which reunites him with Adkins since Black Mask 2: City of Masks and the Louis Leterrier-directed Unleashed – a.k.a. Danny The Dog (2005).

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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 Chan, prolific for iconically portraying the late Jeet Kune Do founder both on television and in the preceding hit threequel of the Ip Man franchise, will reprise the role.

The Ip Man film series launched in 2008 with Donnie Yen hailing the title role and setting a trend that would see the iconic real-life Wing Chun legend played continually in other incarnations by other actors on film and TV. The Yip-directed trilogy has earned well over $210 million dollars on top of achieving rafts of wins and nominations with Bests in actor, director and action choreography.

A spin-off also remains pending from Yuen Woo-Ping titled Ip Man Legacy: Master Z, which stars Ip Man 3 antagonist Zhang Jin opposite Dave Bautista and the legendary Michelle Yeoh, and with an appearance by fellow international star Tony Jaa.

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Donnie Yen Confirms IP MAN 4, Wilson Yip To Direct

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 grandmaster.

The news comes following this year’s stellar release of Ip Man 3, also starring Lynn Hung, Mike Tyson and Max Zhang with Danny Chan portraying the role of the grandmaster’s pupil and once and future film star, Bruce Lee. Ticket sales in Asia became a small point of controversy but it didn’t stop the film grossing more than $158 million dollars worldwide and incurring a raft of nominations and wins at several film events, including sweeping three awards at this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival.

You can read two reviews of Ip Man 3 either here or here to reflect on the film and where you think the story will go next. For now, fans of Yen will have plenty of reasons to keep their eyes open for more Yen with the aforementioned Chasing The Dragon, in addition to The Wesley for Pegasus, as well as Anchor Bay Entertainment’s U.S. DVD and Blu-Ray release of The Lost Bladesman.

Yip, who now adds a seventh title to his credit with Yen in a starring role since S.P.L. (2005), is expected to begin filming the new thriller, tentatively titled Fate which has Sammo Hung directing the action sequences this month for international action star Tony Jaa in a yet undisclosed role. Yen is slated to appear in Gareth Edwards’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, slated for this December 16, 2016, followed by xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage on January 20, 2017.

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