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THE KICKBOXER: CITY OF BLOOD Adds Actress 'Raid 2' Actress Julie Estelle

Cult director favorite Albert Pyun is gearing up to direct his latest return to the familar days of the Kickboxer franchise in a fresh new approach in The Kickboxer: City Of Blood with franchise star, actor and martial artist Sasha Mitchell back in the fray. It’s taken a couple of years with updates ever evolving, but fortunately movement is now being made and not only does the film have a start date, it also has a killer new actress on board. Pyun took to social media on Wednesday night via his Facebook page to express his thanks to co-producers Jenny Luk and Mike Leeder for their best efforts in helping the film move forward as things got busy this month for the director, while more importantly, Pyun officially confirmed the addition of actress Julie Estelle, best known for her iconic role in last year’s cult blockbuster crime thriller, The Raid […]

Pyun's 'The Kickboxer' Brandishes A New Title, Cast, Story Details And More!

Lee B. Golden III

2015 is going to be a year full of kickboxing cinemafare between two entirely seperate projects, including filmmaker Albert Pyun who has been pretty busy plotting his own return to the Kickboxer fray having previously directed two of the films from the franchise dating back to 1989. The nature of Pyun‘s return has remained in constant development for a while in making whatever changes were required for the project. Now, the director is taking to Facebook to shed some more light on the progress he’s making with the story, the characters and the cast and crew he plans on bringing aboard. Newly titled, The Kickboxer: City Of Blood, lead actor and martial artist Sasha Mitchell will star in a newly revamped story to portray troubled UN peacekeeper, David Anderson, forced underground through near century-old World War II tunnels to evading Myanmar’s secret police while protecting a young witness to a […]

THE KICKBOXER Reunites Pyun And Mitchell, Gets New Format, New Synopsis And Start Date!

Lee B. Golden III

Artwork by Glenn Cochrane It’s been well over a year and a half since filmmaker Albert Pyun announced a handful of details for an online serial return to the set with martial artist and actor Sasha Mitchell spinning off the Kickboxer saga. That was three months before stating his retirement from film after a 32-year long career upon being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the time, although thankfully, the award-winning director has since remained upbeat with good consultation on his health from doctors and the support of wife and business partner, Cynthia Curran. That said, previous activity on Pyun‘s Facebook page in the past year indicates he had still been brewing a few ideas with the intent on returning to the Kickboxer franchise in some capacity, long after directing two of the four films succeeding the first film with Jean-Claude Van Damme in 1989 from Mark DiSalle and David Worth. […]

Albert Pyun To Revive An Old, Familiar Brand In THE KICKBOXER Webseries

Lee B. Golden III

Sasha Mitchell and Albert Pyun Well, this is sone pretty huge news! Actor Sasha Mitchell has not been in the limelight much as an action star since performing in the sequels that followed the Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner, Kickboxer in 1989, directed by Mark DiSalle and David Worth. A fifth film was made in the same line of movies starring Mark Dacascos in 1995 directed by Kristine Peterson. This week now, it seems a new report forwarded from City On Fire is breaking the story that Mitchell and veteran B-movie action filmmaker Albert Pyun, known for hit films like Cyborg, Nemesis, and Mitchell’s second and fourth Kickboxer movies, are collaborating to go the way of Kevin Tancharoen and David Sloan to develop a new webseries based on the hit film franchise titled The Kickboxer. Pyun explained on Thursday in a Facebook post stating the following: Sasha Mitchell and I are discussing […]