Martial Arts

Maggie Q, Shane West and Lyndsy Fonseca bring Nikita and ‘Division’ to NYCC 2010

Maggie Q (Live Free or Die Hard, Mission: Impossible III) plays Nikita, the former spy and assassin determined to destroy the secretive and corrupt government agency that trained her, known only as Division. Join Maggie, Shane West (ER), Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick-Ass) and executive producer Craig Silverstein (Bones), as they answer your questions and show a ….

Cover for Black Dynamite comic revealed and New York Comic-Con Adult Swim screening details

Black Dynamite returns to the Big Apple this weekend during New York Comic-Con. The Black Dynamite Panel and Screening will take place on Saturday, October 9th, beginning at 8:00 PM. The panel attendees include director Scott Sanders, editor Adrian Younge and Andre Torres (Wax Poetics). The screening will include sneak peek clips from the upcoming ….

Magnet grabs U.S. rights to Takashi Miike’s samurai action film 13 Assassins and releases two bloody photos to prove it

Mark Cuban’s Magnet Releasing announced today that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Takashi Miike’s epic samurai masterpiece, 13 Assassins. The historical action epic, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, recently had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, has just been named as the Closing Night film at this ….

New image from mixed martial arts-focused movie Warrior

Warrior centers on two brothers facing the fight of a lifetime and the wreckage of a broken family, while lurking in the backdrop is the brutal, high-stakes world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting in Warrior, which hits theaters sometime next year. An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan (Tom Hardy) returns to ….

Win a Six Shooter Prize Pack including cult cinema icons Ong Bak 2, Red Cliff and Bronson on BLU-RAY!

In honor of Centurion’s recent premiere on Video-On-Demand (VOD), XBOX, Playstation, VUDU and Amazon, FilmFetish is giving away a Six Shooter Blu-Ray Prize Pack including some of this year’s best international action releases including Ong Bak 2, Red Cliff and Bronson, which were all part of Magnet’s Six Shooter Film Series! PLEASE NOTE: To be ….

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 ….

Fantastic Fest schedule includes yakuza crime thrillers, cult horrors and martial arts heroes

The sixth edition of Fantastic Fest, which describes itself as a film festival with the boring parts cut out, is scheduled for September 23-30th, in Austin, Texas. The festival announced part of its programming for this year’s event, including: Bedevilled (2010) Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment ….

Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes and Seth Rogen to preview The Other Guys and 3D scenes from The Green Hornet for fans at SDCC

Sony Pictures is previewing its action comedies The Other Guys and The Green Hornet in Hall H, in a separate presentation this year at San Diego Comic-Con 2010. First on the massive Hall H stage will be The Other Guys – NYPD Detectives Christopher Danson and P.K. Highsmith (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson) are ….

Rooftop Films, IndieWire and SnagFilms to celebrate anniversaries with sneak preview indie film screening and party

This Thursday, July 15th, Rooftop Films, IndieWIRE and SnagFilms will celebrate their birthdays with a special sneak preview screening of Aardvark, the debut feature film from noted cinematographer Kitao Sakurai. Aardvark is perhaps the first narrative film to star a man blind since birth. In a role inspired by his own life, Larry Lewis plays ….