Martial Arts

Black belt duo team up to produce teen martial arts films

Former Ninja Turtle star Ernie Reyes Jr. of Smasher Entertainment and international sales executive Art Birzneck of Birch Tree Entertainment, announced at the American Film Market, that they have teamed up to produce a slate of youth-oriented martial arts films targeted at the teen and twenty-something set. Karate Cops, the first film in the slate, ….

New images surface from samurai western The Warrior’s Way

Rogue has released a batch of new posters and images from samurai western The Warrior’s Way, which hits theaters on December 3, 2010. Newcomer Sngmoo Lee penned and is directing the action fantasy, which centers on an Asian warrior assassin finds peace, contentment and perhaps love in a forgotten western town on the edge of ….

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 ….