Donnie Yen

Donnie Yen’s Ip Man coming to The Samsung Experience this Thursday

In order to continue doing screening events at the Samsung Experience, ScenePR – which sponsors networking events for indie filmmakers around New York – needs to get a blowout crowd there this Thursday, November 11th, when they will be screening Wilson Yip’s Ip Man. And If you sign up today (Nov. 8th) by midnight, it’s ….

Donnie Yen action figures from Ip Man & Legend of the Fist and character posters from Chen Zhen

As I researched the article I prepped surrounding Donnie Yen’s Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen getting U.S. distribution by Well Go (HERE), I found some really cool figures being created in the image of popular Asian martial artists, by a company called Enterbay. The company has created limited edition collectible busts ….

Win screening tickets to Storm Riders sequel The Storm Warriors and Bodyguards & Assassins

The New York Asian Film Festival is screening two films on Sunday, June 27th – The Storm Warriors (12pm) and Bodyguards and Assassins (2:15pm). The star of the films, Simon Yam, will attend both screenings, and the folks over at New York Anime Festival want you to see the films so badly that they’re giving ….

Iron Monkey Blu-ray review

Iron Monkey is the story of an adolescent Wong Fei Hung (the Chinese folk hero, here played by Tsang Sze Man) who is held captive after his father, Wong Kei Ying (Donnie Yen), is arrested and accused of being an elusive Robinhood-style masked freedom fighter nicknamed Iron Monkey. Like ‘Monkey’, Ying practices a very unique ….

First trailer for Yuen Woo-ping epic True Legend starring Vincent Chiu, David Carradine and Michelle Yeoh

Kung Fu Cinema posted this first look at legendary Yuen Woo-ping’s upcoming action film, True Legend, which marks his first feature directing project since his 1996 movie Iron Monkey 2 (Gaai tau saat sau) with Donnie Yen. The teaser trailer blends film footage with behind-the-scenes clips of the director at work. True Legend also marks ….

Trailer for supernatural martial arts flick Painted Skin (Wa pei)

Gordon Chan’s (Fist of Legend) upcoming martial arts film Painted Skin, which stars Donnie Yen, finally has a trailer to go along with all that mystique. The film will be in Asian theaters on September 25th, and follows a vampire-like woman who eats the skins and hearts of her lovers. Painted Skin also stars Wei ….

Weinsteins, Andy Lau and 300 producer Krantz form new martial arts movie label

The Weinstein Company, internationally acclaimed director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) and prolific producer Tony Krantz (24, Mulholland Drive) have formed the new martial arts label Qi (pronounced ‘Chee’) to produce the next generation of sophisticated, high-quality, English language martial arts films that will feature leading international martial arts superstars. The company has begun working on ….

Weinstein’s to Build Huge Library of Asian Cinema

Bob and Harvey Weinstein recently announced the unveiling of Dragon Dynasty, a new label under which all The Weinstein Company’s Asian titles will be released, including “Ong Bak 2,” “The Protector” (aka “Tom Yum Goong”), “Born to Fight”, “SPL”, “Seven Swords” and “Dragon Squad”, as well as a package of high profile titles, which was licensed from Fortune Star Entertainment: the distribution division of News Corporation’s ….