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[UPDATED] STREET FIGHTER: ASSASSINS FIST Co-Creator JOEY ANSAH Talks To SHOGUN GAMER

There are only 16 days left for the Kickstarter campaign to help get the funding needed for the series production of STREET FIGHTER: ASSASSIN’S FIST. 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 […]

WARRIORESS Set To Grace The ACTION ON FILM Fest This August!

Lee B. Golden III

SYNOPSIS: Two powerful female warriors must journey across a post-apocalyptic land to fight a ritual duel, and fulfill an ancient prophecy.In the tradition of “Xena, Warrior Princess”, and influenced by seminal fantasy films such as “Excalibur” and “Flesh & Blood”, Warrioress combines a unique, mystically-infused atmosphere with blistering action scenes. The story features a wide array of vibrantly attractive and powerful female characters pitted against each other in mortal combat. In this world of mysticism and philosophy, ruled by dominant highly trained female warriors, the world is held in the grasp of the dark and malevolent Falonex Empire, and two distinctly different villages hold a deeply-held sworn belief in a powerful prophecy that will bring them salvation.Once in every generation one chosen fighter from each village must travel on a quest across treacherous terrain to a sacred circle formed of ancient stones, to fight a ritual sword duel, each armed […]

The STREET FIGHTER: ASSASSIN'S FIST Crowdfunding Campaign Goes Live!

Lee B. Golden III

2013 may possibly be the year we will remember the names of producer Jacqueline Quella, and martial arts actor, stuntman and action filmmaker Joey Ansah for helping bring to life what could possibly be the best live-action adaptation of Campom’s long-running video fighting game franchise, Street Fighter, that any fan may ever see. In 1993, Hong Kong cinemas were first given a taste of Street Fighter characters in such films as Future Cops the live action manga Hong Kong action comedy, City Hunter. Film goers would also get a few more heavily-invested features with the distribution of the 1994 feature, Street Fighter, with then-rising international action star Jean-Claude Van Damme in the lead. The film became a big commercial success, with nothing following up thereafter except several animated features from Japan, until 2009 when 20th Century Fox attempted to revamp the film franchise with director Andrzej Bartkowiak, for the origin-story […]