Martial Arts

Ultimate Fighting Championship brings huge DVD set to stores for holiday season

On December 6th, Anchor Bay Entertainment and the Ultimate Fighting Championship are giving fight fan the chance to relive the top UFC matches of the year. Fights like Lesnar vs. Velasquez, Silva vs. Belfort, Shogun vs. Jones, and St. Pierre vs. Shields, can happen over and over again with UFC: Ultimate Fight Collection 2011 Edition, ….

New poster for Tsui Hark’s historical action epic Detective Dee

A period epic from genre master and Seven Swords director Tsui Hark, Detective Dee is an action-packed, Sherlock Holmes-style mystery starring Andy Lau, Bingbing Li, Carina Lau and Tony Leung Ka-fai. Nominated for Best Special Effects at the 2011 Asian Film Awards and choreographed by martial arts master Sammo Hung, this intricately plotted whodunit is set in an exquisitely ….

Tsui Hark and Jet Li’s 3D martial arts epic Flying Swords of Dragon Gate to be released in IMAX

IMAX and leading Chinese film distributor Bona Film Group today announced that the 3D martial arts film Flying Swords of Dragon Gate will be digitally re-mastered into the IMAX 3D format and released to IMAX theatres in China day-and-date in December 2011. Flying Swords of Dragon Gate: An IMAX 3D Experience is the first Chinese-language ….

True Legend distributor and Samuel L. Jackson team up for live-action Afro Samurai

The Indomina Group, the indie distributor that recently released Yuen Woo Ping’s True Legend, is teaming up with Samuel L. Jackson and Gonzo Studios to produce a live action film based on the Afro Samurai animated series. The announcement was made by Indomina’s Vice Chairman and CEO Jasbinder Singh Mann, who will serve as producer ….

Win one of two copies of the live-action Tekken film on Blu-ray

The live-action epic film Tekken is available today in a special Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy Combo as well as a DVD edition. To celebrate the release, Anchor Bay Films has provided FilmFetish with 2 copies of the Blu-ray combo release exclusively for readers to enjoy. In order to be entered into the random drawing for your free ….

First image released from Steven Soderbergh’s MMA action spy thriller Haywire

Relativity Media has released the official first look for Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming action thriller Haywire. Mixed martial arts (MMA) superstar Gina Carano makes her feature film debut, starring in the film and performing her own stunts. Haywire’s cast also includes Channing Tatum (GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra), Ewan McGregor (The Ghost Writer), Michael Fassbender ….

Fox’s Fuel TV to air Late Night Classic Kung Fu movie series

FUEL TV, Fox Sports Media Group’s dynamic entertainment and sports network for young males, announced the Late Night Kung Fu series today, a weekly two-hour film series devoted to iconic, English-dubbed Kung Fu films. Hosted by television personality Kelly Choi, Late Night Kung Fu premieres Saturday, June 18th at 11:00PM with Executioners from Shaolin. Acquired ….

Michael Jai White and director Ben Ramsey to appear at Blood & Bone museum screening

Blood and Bone was the 2009 directorial debut of Ben Ramsey, an African-American screenwriter and martial artist, and stars Michael Jai White, karate champion and movie star. The all-star martial arts ensemble features White as Isaiah Bone, a drifter and skilled fighter who’s just out of prison, and is introduced to the Los Angeles underground ….

Martial arts action fantasy Bunraku to screen at West Coast anime convention

Writer and director Guy Moshe’s Bunraku – which stars Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Gackt, Kevin McKidd, Shun Sugata, Jordi Mollà, Emily Kaiho, Mike Patton, Neil D’Monte, Fernando Chien and Maxim Esterkin – will be screening at AM2 on Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 at 3:00 pm, in Video Room 1. AM2 is ….