Martial Arts

The Raid 2 filmmakers to reunite for martial arts crime thriller Night Comes for Us

Radius TWC has announced that it has acquired North American rights to the upcoming action thriller The Night Comes for Us, which will reunite Timo Tjahjanto (Killers, The ABCs of Death) and Gareth Evans (The Raid: Redemption) for their second collaboration behind the camera. Timo will direct while Gareth will produce and handle action direction. ….

Death Proof and Kill Bill film screening series will lead up to Raze preview and Zoë Bell Q&A interview at MOMI

International action star Zoë Bell, who was discovered by Quentin Tarantino, will appear at the Museum of the Moving Image for a preview screening of her new action film Raze, on Tuesday, January 7, 2014. In this relentlessly hyperviolent action film directed by Josh Waller, she stars as a woman forced to do battle with ….

Wong Fei-hung character to return in martial arts film Rise of the Legend

Bill Kong’s Edko Films is set to reboot the iconic Wong Fei-hung film franchise with a movie titled Rise of the Legend, Film Business Asia reports. Christine To, who co-wrote martial arts films Fearless and True Legend, is writing the script. The short official synopsis implies that the story centers on a younger incarnation of ….

Weinstein Co. teams with Celestial to remake Shaw Bros. classic martial arts films

The Weinstein Co. has signed a two-picture deal with Celestial Pictures to remake a pair of classic martial arts action films from the Golden Era of Hong Kong cinema. The companies will produce English-language versions of Come Drink With Me and Avenging Eagle. John Fusco, who wrote the Marco Polo TV series and co-wrote the ….

Bloodsport remake coming with new story and Ninja Assassin director

Variety reports that Relativity Media is prepping a re-boot of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 1988 cult hit Bloodsport, with V for Vendetta director James McTeigue at the helm. According to the report, Relativity will produce the new Bloodsport with Edward R. Pressman, Chris Brown, Alberto Lensi, Australia-based Pictures in Paradise and Trans-American Films International. The new ….

Keanu Reeves’ Man of Tai Chi to be released in Chinese IMAX theaters

IMAX, in partnership with China Film Group, Wanda Group and Village Roadshow Pictures, have announced that Man of Tai Chi, Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut and the first Mandarin-language film to be directed by a Western actor, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX format and released in IMAX theatres across China starting July 5th, ….