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Highlander creator Gregory Widen to pen script on first real-life black Samurai – Yasuke

Deadline reports that Lionsgate has contracted Highlander creator Gregory Widen to write Black Samurai, an action drama grounded in the historical tale of Yasuke, who’s said to be the first black samurai to serve a warlord in Japan. Mike De Luca and Stephen L’Heureux are producing the film as a co-production between Solipsist Films and ….

AMC Television is currently streaming a batch of iconic martial arts films that inspired their own high-flying action series Into the Badlands. The movies are completely free for a limited time, with no login required to view them. The films include Shaolin, Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zen, Let the Bullets Fly, The Man From Nowhere, Tai Chi Zero and Tai Chi Hero.

Access the full movie streams at amc.com/movies.

New documentary tells the story of the men that made Darth Vader a samurai and Clint Eastwood a fistful of dollars

Strand Releasing has revealed the trailer for the new documentary Mifune: The Last Samurai, a new film by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki. The film explores the early life and accidental movie career of charismatic tough guy Toshiro Mifune, one of the true giants of world cinema and favorite go to actor for legendary filmmaker Akira ….

New poster and trailer for space thriller Operation Avalanche

Lionsgate Premiere is offering a new take at one of man’s greatest achievements in the new trailer for Operation Avalanche. Directed and co-written by Matt Johnson, the suspenseful thriller about two CIA agents undercover at NASA who discover a massive cover-up will land in theaters September 16th, 2016. In 1967, during the height of the ….