HIDDEN STRIKE Trailer Reveals Long-Awaited Actioner With Jackie Chan And John Cena
Would you believe it’s been FIVE (5) years since Jackie Chan and John Cena were announced for their own action adventure two-hander?…
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A LEGEND Sales Art Takes The Floor At The Cannes Market For Jackie Chan Sequel
Distribution Workshop is on hand at the Marche du Film repping world sales on A Legend, the latest $50M sequel fervor reuniting director Stanley Tong with actor Jackie Chan. Bits of news from around the web have all but confirmed its existence with set photos currently circulating, while news out of Cannes sorts of officiates things, in addition to key sales art which you can view at the bottom.
Streaming Sleepers: Sammo Hung’s HEART OF DRAGON Delivers Endearing Drama With Hearty Classic Action
The mid-80s delivered peak Hong Kong action. It marked an era of post-Bruce Lee film fandom that helped pave the way for stars to rise and become some of the biggest influences and staples of their industry. This inevitably included Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, whose careers would explode from the 70s and onward with the two joining up once more for 1985 action drama, Heart Of Dragon.
RIDE ON Review: Jackie Chan Trots Out Fun Family Drama And Excitement With A Love Letter To His Roots
Ride On is now available in U.S. theaters from Well Go USA
RIDE ON Trailer: Well Go USA Saddles Up Jackie Chan’s April 7 Release
Well Go USA is putting the North American Jackie Chan fandom on notice with Ride On, the new flick from director Larry Yang. An April 7 release has been slated to coincide the film’s mainland China release on the same day, and the distro outlet now has its own poster and trailer to help ramp up the domestic marketing following their acquisition of the pic in Berlin last month.
Jackie Chan To Star And Produce NEW POLICE STORY 2, Nicholas Tse To Co-Star And Make Directorial Debut
A sequel to 2004’s New Police Story is on the horizon, according to Screen International’s digital magazine and Screen HK over at HKFilMart on Tuesday. Action star Jackie Chan will rejoin his co-stars, Nicholas Tse and Charlene Choi from the first film, with Chan producing and Tse making his directorial debut.
Trailer: Jackie Chan Giddies Up For The Story Of A Man And His Horse In RIDE ON
I’ve all but given up on caring if or when actor and screen legend Jackie Chan “retires” as he’s so claimed time and again that he would in the past decade. He’s lived a colorful and extravagant daredevil life that’s earned him his fame and fandom, and so while the hype nowadays may not be as big and bolstering as it was in the 80s, 90s and the 000s, the love is still there, as is his audience, all who now wait for his latest screen galavanting in writer/director Larry Yang’s Ride On.
Red Sea Film Fest 2022: Jackie Chan Once Again Talks Up RUSH HOUR 4
Jackie Chan was on hand as one of over a dozen notable names on hand hosting in-person panel events at the second-annual Red Sea Film Festival where he confirmed he would focus more on romance and drama for future projects. It wasn’t long before, however, that he would also reveal he is in discussions with an unnamed director for the long-gestating Rush Hour 4, as confirmed by multiple trade news sources on Thursday.
Coming To Hi-YAH! In December: Kowloon Walled City, Epics Featuring Jet Li And Donnie Yen, And More!
December is chock-filled with some Asian action delights over at Well Go USA’s niche streaming channel, Hi-YAH!, and the company has a brand new promo which you can view below, firstly introducing footage from Channel Choi’s Kowloon Walled City (2021), starring Shi Yan Neng (a.k.a. Xing Yu) as a migrant from Dongbei who finds himself up against evil forces to protect friends within the notorious city.
Happy Birthday, Jackie Chan!
It’s worth noting that director Sheng Ding’s 2012 production of Police Story: Lockdown – which I first caught at Screen Anarchy when readers first knew of it as Twitchfilm – that inspired me to get a leg in the blogging business with the launch of Film Combat Syndicate, roughly eight years after I first experimented with the hobby on a free hosting site that existed at the time.
Fight Scene Faves: A Short List Of Memorable Fight Scene Moments In Film
Years ago, I became obsessed with listing my “top-tens” or “fives” in final fight scenes. There was a UK website that produced such lists and for their final fight scene list, it bothered me for the longest time that it never had the one featured in Drive between Mark Dacascos and Masaya Kato, so you can imagine how fulfilled I felt when the page loaded and I finally saw it listed.
IRON MASK: Jackie Chan And Arnold Schwarzenegger Cross Swords In The Official Trailer For Oleg Stepchenko’s Period Fantasy Epic
Nearly fourteen years in the making and through arduous production periods that finally gave director Oleg Stepchenko the first installment of his then-planned Viy trilogy in 2014, the second and long-awaited chapter has finally arrived stateside with Iron Mask (f.k.a. Viy 2 and Journey To China: Mystery Of The Iron Mask, among others).
THE KNIGHT OF SHADOWS Unguards On Blu-Ray Combo, DVD And Digital In January
There is a whole row of Jackie Chan titles fans are looking forward to hearing more about going into the new year. Director Jia Yan (a.k.a. Vash) is certainly on the roster as fans in the U.S. await his newest fantasy adventure, The Knight Of Shadows, now poised to release via Digital, Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on January 21 from Well Go USA.
DRAGONS FOREVER: 88 Films Shares Key Art For Upcoming Uncut 4K Re-Release
If nothing else, 88 Films understands the need for posterity on physical media when it comes to classic Hong Kong cinema. For this, say what you will about previous incarnations of Corey Yuen and Sammo Hung’s hit action comedy, Dragons Forever, but the UK-based firm is finally rolling out a portion of the goods with the official key art for its re-release as announced earlier this year, as illustrated by Robert “Kung Fu Bob” O’Brien.
Rossatron Talks DRUNKEN MASTER 2: The Best Fight Scene Ever?
For nearly fifty years, revered action cinema luminary Jackie Chan has dazzled the big screen with the kind of captivating, innovative and death-defying stuntwork that has made his career what it is today.
FESTIVAL NITS DE CINEMA ORIENTAL DE VIC XVI: Thai Retrospectives, Samurai Thrills And Jackie Chan Among 20 Titles To Look For
The Festival Nits De Cinema Oriental De Vic in Catalunya, Spain, is about to enter its sixteenth year in BIG fashion with some cool new premieres and retrospectives. The festival’s 32-title line-up will be giving deep into a variety of genres from horror and animation to comedy and drama, and for its Asian film coverage, you can especially predict there’ll be some terrific action titles making their European and otherwise international.
VANGUARD: Jackie Chan Shows He Can Still Keep Up In The First Teaser
I love that some people can handle a good headbutt a little more than others in Stanley Tong’s latest, Vanguard. It’s a nifty little point of humor amid what looks to be an explosive action thriller that amps up the stunt caliber just enough to make Jackie Chan and the cast look good without anyone getting seriously injured.
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