JAILBREAK Review: The Break Martial Arts Fans Need!
JAILBREAK arrives on VOD and Digital today from Film Movement and Omnibus Entertainment!
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JAILBREAK: Tharoth Sam Tangos With A Deadly Butterfly In Exclusive Clip!
MMA fighter Tharoth Sam takes on Céline Tran in an exclusive clip from JAILBREAK, releasing on Digital and VOD this Friday!
JAILBREAK Trailer: Jimmy Henderson’s Award-Winning Cambodian Martial Arts Hit Returns To The U.S. On Digital And VOD In March!
Nearly two years since disappearing from Netflix, Jimmy Henderson’s Cambodian action comedy hit, JAILBREAK, will be free once more next month on VOD and digital!
JAILBREAK: Autumn Sun Revives Cambodian Action Hit In Time For FilMart
Cambodian action thriller Jailbreak is back in the sales circuit. Hong Kong-based Autumn Sun announced the film among its current slate at this year’s FilMart, marking its first movement since beginning its rollout in 2017. The film’s buzzy circulation continued onward through the festival scene, including at the 21st edition of Fantasia where it scored Best Action Film and a nomination for Most Innovative Feature Film. Jailbreak was a milestone moment in the action and martial arts genre for Cambodian filmgoers, hailing from director Jimmy Henderson and producer Loy Te of Kongchak Pictures. Starring local action talent and Bokator specialist Dara Our (Hanuman), and UK-based actor and martial artist Jean Paul-Ly (Nightshooters), Jailbreak centers on a botched prison escort that unravels into chaos, forcing the team to fight for their lives while protecting a key witness from the menacing inmates, as well as the deadly gang of assasins targeting him. […]
THE PREY: Dark Star Acquires Latest From ‘Jailbreak’ Director
Survival thriller The Prey is making a killing at Fantasia Festival this month before its systemic commercial releases in Cambodia and other territories. The film is especially the latest work of director Jimmy Henderson who left a massive impression in 2017 with Jailbreak, adding it to the pantheon of martial arts action favorites. Bloody Destiny star Gu Shang Wei leads the cast in what would ultimately be his first of two projects with the Hanuman helmer before moving onto their current endeavors with The Guardian which also has Andy On, Charlie Ruedpoknanon and Jailbreak star Jean-Paul Ly. Gu and Henderson have since toured quite a bit with The Prey on the festival circuit and will now pave the way for an October theatrical and VOD release from Dark Star Pictures. Gu stars as an undercover cop swept into a rich man’s hunting game hosted by a maniacal prison warden when […]
BREAKING OUT, AND FURTHER IN: An Interview With Actor Jean-Paul Ly
Nick Gibbons 2013 was definitely a freshman year going into this site, but it became a surprising endeavor to get to meet people almost instantaneously, which is funny because I live in New York City and I was sooner meeting people from other countries. I still am, too… I guess this town is like that. At any rate, the list of people I hope to meet nonetheless continues to grow, and having also added Chinese/Cambodian UK film star Jean-Paul Ly among others. It was five years ago that he messaged me as he had made his way to London at the time without any knowledge of where to plant himself, until he found one at Identity School of Acting. His applied craft to date has provided a mixture of credits in both acting, as well as stunts considering his martial arts background, training in Shotokan Karate from the age of […]
Action Stream: JAILBREAK, MANHUNT, HELLBOY, THE CROW, DEMOLITION MAN And More!
Welcome to the May 2018 edition of ACTION STREAM! After a pretty quiet April, May kicks down the door and bombards us with great action movies on all three platforms. But it’s Netflix who brought the biggest guns to the party as it flies through the air, dual-wielding the Cambodian actioner Jailbreak and John Woo’s Manhunt. Manhunt Netflix may have the slimmest lineup of the three this month, but what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in quality. In addition to the afformentioned heavy hitters, this month sees the launch of Wanted, The Bourne Ultimatum and the perpetually reliable Hellboy II: The Golden Army. May 1 Darc Hellboy II: The Golden Army Reasonable Doubt The Bourne Ultimatum May 2 Jailbreak Jailbreak May 4 Anon End Game Manhunt May 15 Only God Forgives May 16 The Kingdom Wanted May 19 Bridge to Terabithia May 22 Shooter: Season 2 May 25 […]
Martial Arts Action Comedy Hit, JAILBREAK, Breaks Out Onto Netflix Everywhere
Not getting around any in the festival scene is a greater hinderance than preferred. It hasn’t stopped me from trying to cover certain events, especially with the equal excitement and appeal drawn with viewers and film fans alike for Cambodia’s milestone cinematic effort, martial arts action comedy Jailbreak. The past two years have been an amazing ride covering this martial arts action comedy directed by Jimmy Henderson and starring the likes of Jean-Paul Ly, Dara Our, Tharoth Sam and Celine Tran. The acclaimed hit movie is now on Netflix globally, including in the UK where MCM London Comic-Con attendees will get to exclusively meet Ly among the panelists repping his newest martial arts thriller, Nightshooters, from director Marc Price. That event will be on May 26 at the Silver Theater, which still leaves you plenty of time to warm up to Ly’s screen caliber as a rising film talent via […]
A TIME TO ‘PREY’: Jimmy Henderson Talks THE PREY, JAILBREAK, Sequel Prospects And More
At some point in the last several years, Cambodia became next in line for contributing to today’s fandom in martial arts action films. Leave it to Jimmy Henderson to pull the necessary weight in recent memory for the release of albeit obscure 2015 vigilante thriller, Hanuman, signaling the arrival of martial artist and debut actor, Dara Our, and his expertise in the centuries’ old fighting style of Bokator. “I can’t make a film without Dara. We started together with nothing. We didnt even have a proper gym to train choreography while prepping for Hanuman.” says Henderson who is now onto their latest and most ambitious project, The Prey, which is currently in production. “He’s always up for challenges. And even though he plays a supporting role have in this film, the fight sequences he will have to do are insane.” The Prey was announced back in January following the local […]
FIVE-A-DAY ROUND-UP II: Jailbreak, Re:Born, Master Z, The Night Comes For Us, Lazarus
We’re continuing the Five-A-Day column today listing, and in no certain order, various action film titles fans may be keen on going into the new year. Here’s yesterday’s batch for starters and below are today’s: Legendary actress and martial artist Michelle Yeoh is reportedly the In Focus subject for the forthcoming International Film Festival & Awards Macao which takes place between December 8 through 14. It makes an even worthier note of the Star Trek: Discovery series co-star’s forthcoming appearance Yuen Woo Ping’s pending Ip Man spin-off, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy in which actor Max Zhang reprises Cheung Tin-Chi, the role he played opposite action star Donnie Yen in the 2016 kung fu hit, Ip Man 3. Details on all ends are pending for the film which also has Dave Bautista and Tony Jaa in its line-up. Jimmy Henderson’s third directorial offering, Jailbreak was a festival favorite among cinephiles […]
BEYOND FEST 2017: 12 Days Of Classic Hit Niche Delight With Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Argento And More In Attendance
Los Angeles’s biggest genre film festival is readying its slate for 12 days of celebrity and hit cinema with a variety of titles spanning fifty years of film fandom. Such is what will ensue on September 29 at the American Cinematheque for this year’s Beyond Fest with tickets on sale beginning Thursday, and all one could look forward to in films we’ve either grown up with in action and horror, to titles newly being discovered. Such films include Jean-Claude Van Damme classic, Double Impact as well as the first two episodes of upcoming Amazon series, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, Schwarzenegger hit thriller The Running Man, Cambodian action romp, Jailbreak, Ted Geohegan’s new thriller, Mohawk and so much more. Not for nothing either with a raft of slated appearances by the likes of Van Damme and Schwarzenegger themselves, in addition to Vince Vaughn seeing to the premiere of RLJE Films’s most recent […]
NIFFF 2017 Unveils Its Full Line-Up!
This years events at Neuchâtel are just days away, further adding to the summer film festival furor with a number of competing titles and international screenings. Acclaimed filmmaker Miike Takashi will surely be on hand for some of his own work in recent memory including The Mole Song: Hong Kong Cappriccio, Blade Of The Immortal, and the world premiere of JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable (don’t forget some of our earlier reporting on his films during Cannes as good a year it is to be a Miike fan). Other new and/or prominent titles in the line-up include and aren’t limited to Cambodian martial arts hit comedy, Jailbreak, upcoming horror romp Zombiology: Enjoy Yourself Tonight, hit South Korean thriller The Merciless, the Millott/Murnion-directed Bushwick, Chang’s Jackie Chan-produced Reset and S.S. Rajamouli’s epic action sequel, Baahubali: The Conclusion among others… Fourteen days and counting! Read onward below with the trailer playlist included, […]
FANTASIA 2017: Read Up On The First Wave!
This year’s events at Fantasia Film Festival is jam-packed with a sick load of titles that have been ramping up with buzz this year. The announcement was made on Tuesday for the first wave with the full line-up forthcoming on July 5 and the entries this year read something fierce and exciting if you’ve been keeping up, including Jung Byung-Gil’s The Villainess, Fukuda Yuichi’s Gintama, Jimmy Henderson’s Jailbreak (read our review), Miike Takashi’s JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Joe Lynch’s SXSW hit, Mayhem, and many more. Click here for photos or read on below! FANTASIA’S 21st EDITION TO FEATURE NUMEROUS WORLD PREMIERES, CANNES SENSATIONS, AND NORTH AMERICAN DEBUTS! The North American Premiere of Cannes Sensation THE VILLAINESS, World Premiere of new work from Géla Babluani, North American Premiere of Takashi Miike’s JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: DIAMOND IS UNBREAKABLE, a special screening of Luc Besson’s VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A […]
Review: Martial Arts Comedy, JAILBREAK (2017) Is The Break Fans Need
By 2013, French-born Chinese/Cambodian martial artist Jean-Paul Ly was well on his way into a fledgling career in stuntwork after moving to the U.K., although his primary trajectory aimed more toward becoming an actor. It’s a move that couldn’t have been more opportune for Ly whose own growth and progress ultimately found him in good straits with emerging talent out of Cambodia where then-screenwriter Jimmy Henderson and journeying up-and-comer Loy Te were already stirring some fruitful comradery of their own. Thus, with the contribution of the work experience brought on by Henderson’s directorial debut, Hanuman, and the entrance of local actor and martial artist Dara Our, and the proverbial open swing of the door for culminating talent comes action comedy Jailbreak, an abiding and much more commercial opportunity for Cambodian cinema, and incidentally, production company, Kongchak Pictures and Puprom Entertainment. The concept itself arose in earlier teaser posters with a […]
XYZ Films Picks Up Cambodian Martial Arts Comedy, JAILBREAK
It was only a matter of time before we heard more from the happenings over at Kongchak Pictures who have been hitting the festival pavement this year for the new action comedy, Jailbreak. The film, directed by Jimmy Henderson and produced by Loy Te, made waves over at Hong Kong FilMart where it nabbed distribution in Korea following its local Cambodian release in January, and has since screened for attendees at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy in the past week. The film stars martial arts exponents, actors Jean-Paul Ly, Dara Our and actress Tharothoum Sam, actor Savin Philip and debut feature film actress Céline Tran in the story of a tactical police escort unit who find themselves trapped inside a prison and forced to protect a notorious key witness from the deadly onslaught of inmates and the murderous Butterfly Gang who have descended from outside. Featuring action […]
Cambodian Martial Arts Comedy, JAILBREAK, Gets Distribution In Korea
The Cambodia Film Commission took to Hong Kong FilMart last week to promote some of its nation’s moviegoing prospects. One of its most prolific titles, the action comedy Jailbreak, already has some positive reviews and reactions going for itself following its local release in January which makes a pretty useful case to embolden the film elsewhere. Currently, that stake now lies in Korea where Korea Screen has landed the rights to the latest action-packed outing from Hanuman helmer Jimmy Henderson in a deal signed with Kongchak Pictures. Kongchak founder Loy Te produced the feature film which casts Dara Ours (Hanuman), Jean-Paul Ly (Doctor Strange) along with former AV star, actress Celine Tran, top ranked MMA fighter Tharoth Sam and actor Savin Philip for a story centered on a squad of tactical officers fighting to protect a key witness after escorting him to the very prison they now find themselves trapped […]
JAILBREAK: Hip-Hop Duo KmengKhmer Unleashes The Official Music Video For The Film’s OST
The campaign for director Jimmy Henderson’s latest martial arts action comedy inception, Jailbreak, is full speed ahead with just a few weeks left before its release in Cambodian cinemas, and even a mobile game en route! I humbly ask that we all keep the faith in this instance that this one gets the legitimate release overseas that it so deserves like with other Asian titles as of late because this film looks purely delightful and the most recent trailer for it sells the absolute goods! Martial arts exponents, actors Dara Our and Jean-Paul Ly lead the charge with Ly servicing the action design for the film’s premise, telling of a tactical squad forced to fight its way out of a deadly and dangerous prison whilst protecting the very criminal witness they’ve escorted from the gang that wants his head. Phillip Savin and Sirivudh Sisowath also star along with fellow fighting […]
Cambodian Martial Arts Romp, JAILBREAK, Traps You Behind Enemy Lines In The Official Trailer!
The campaign is in full swing for director Jimmy Henderson’s new movie, Jailbreak. The most recent teaser offered a meaty whiff of the exciting action to come while the rewarding factor of this latest affair stems from the coming onslaught of screenfighting talent straight from Cambodia and abroad. Lead actor Dara Our sure proved himself in this regard with Henderson’s Hanuman a few years ago, as has UK actor and martial artist Jean-Paul Ly following a number of action credits such as Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange and hit TV series, Cuckoo. Thus, challenging as it is to snag an opportunity to stand out more prominently in leading film roles past stunt performance, it always helps that there are filmmakers who recognize talent and potential when they see it. Jailbreak isn’t the first example of this and rest assured, it won’t be the last. SYNOPSIS: A group […]
Cambodian Martial Arts Action Comedy JAILBREAK Lands A Riotous New Poster
Looking toward the new year will undoubtedly include the witnessing of some much-deserved hype for the martial arts niche now looking to Cambodia. Thus, with the weeks and days counting their way down to January 31, 2017 pending the release of Jailbreak, we now have our first official poster for the new action comedy from Puprom Entertainment and Kongchak Pictures which you can view in the following album. Starring Dara Our and Jean-Paul Ly, the new film from Hanuman helmer Jimmy Henderson sees an armed tactical escort cornered in a prison facility on Koh Kla Island where they’re forced to fend off an army of gangsters to protect a criminal with sensitive information. Also starring are Savin Phillip, Tharoth Sam, Tara Vy, Law Plancel and Cèline Tran. Check out the poster below! JAILBREAK: Character Posters
Death Is Not An Option In The First Official Teaser For Martial Arts Action Comedy, JAILBREAK
Four years in writing here at my blog have seen quite a bit of upscaling for many people that I’ve covered. English martial artist and stuntman Jean-Paul Ly is certainly someone I haven’t left out of my purview in the time since he welcomed me into his social circle, and especially as rewarding as it continues to be through his progression as a stunt and fight coordinator and actor with several credits including Lucy, Jon M. Chu’s Now You See Me 2, TV drama Cuckoo, and Colin Emerson’s 2015 action short, Dead End. He’s got a few other roles now upcoming aside from that of what now looks to be another major step forward for the Cambodian film industry by way of filmmaker Jimmy Henderson with the new action comedy, Jailbreak from Puprom Entertainment and Kongchak Pictures. Ly joins Henderson’s Hanuman (2015) cast – Bokator exponent Dara Ours and actor […]
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