Martial Arts

U.S. poster revealed for The Raid 2, plus director & star to discuss film at advance screening this weekend

Gareth Evans returns to direct a second installment of the runaway martial arts action hit The Raid. U.S. distributor Sony Pictures Classics has just revealed the official U.S. release poster for the film, which brings back rookie cop Rama (Iko Uwais), after fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen. Leading ….

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 ….