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Manny Pacquiao to host premiere party for ground-breaking Filipino mainstream U.S. movie release

The Road is a ground-breaking foreign language horror film by acclaimed director Yam Laranas. As one of the first all-Filipino mainstream releases in the U.S., The Road anticipates a huge response, similar to the popular foreign action feature The Raid. Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao will host the The Road Premiere and After-Party on May 9th, ….

Freestyle to release Mario Van Peebles’ blues drama Redemption Road on streaming and disc

Freestyle Digital Media has nabbed DVD and VOD rights for filmmaker Mario Van Peebles’ drama Redemption Road from Liberty Road Entertainment and Heavy Duty Entertainment. The company also picked up the same rights to writer-director Marcus Dean Fuller’s supernatural drama One Fall from Compass Entertainment, Dean Silvers and Marlen Hecht. Both films will be released ….

Comeback Kings comic weaves a world where Bruce Lee is sensei to Tupac Shakur, Elvis Presley and Andy Kaufman?

I just found out about the comic Comeback Kings, but the first issue was released sometime last year, and issue two hit stores this week. The indie comic signifies the continued influence of martial arts – embodied by Bruce Lee – on popular culture. In this case, Bruce is the leader of a worn out ….

Long time Donnie Yen film nemesis Mike Woods returns to the screen for role in action flick Final Weapon

On Tuesday, April 10th, the martial arts movie Final Weapon, starring Chen Taijiquan, Grand Master Ren Guang Yi, and Hong Kong action star Mike Woods, with a special appearance by Rock and Roll legend Lou Reed, will be one of a group of martial arts action films to screen during the New Flimmakers Festival. Final ….

Win 1 of 2 copies of the Titantic: The Complete Story 2-disc DVD set

In time to commemorate the 100th anniversary of one of the greatest disasters of the 20th century, join A&E and History for a definitive documentary set on the Titanic tragedy. To celebrate the release of Titantic: The Complete Story, FilmFetish is giving away 2 copies of the complete DVD set, to readers. In order to ….

Fox to sell movie downloads through exclusive new virtual stores in shopping centers countrywide

I relished those days when I could walk into a Suncoast Video and browse obscure cult film titles for hours, or look up film classics from the golden era of cinema (that being 1970’s action movies of course), and then plunk down my cash for a great movie that I hadn’t watched for years – ….

Check out first look image of Johnny Depp as Tonto in the upcoming Lone Ranger movie

Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have revealed an early look at The Lone Ranger, which features Johnny Depp in full make-up as Tonto, and Armie Hammer as the namesake masked lawman. From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski (the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise), comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ The Lone Ranger, an ….

Win a 35th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray and Book of Ralph Bakshi’s cult classic animated film Wizards

Twentieth Century Fox’s first-ever animated film, created by renowned director Ralph Bakshi, Wizards, will be released in a 35th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray + Book on March 13th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Celebrating its 35th anniversary, the “epic fantasy of peace and magic” stars the voice talent of Star Wars icon Mark Hamill. The ….

New images released for Eddie Murphy comedy A Thousand Words

This Friday DreamWorks Pictures will release Eddie Murphy’s new comedy A Thousand Words. Just ahead of the release, the Studio has revealed a batch of new images from the Brian Robbins-directed film. If you only had a thousand words to say before you die, how would you use them? That’s what Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy), a ….

Details and new images from the remake of cult horror classic Mother’s Day

There’s nothing more comforting than the love of a Mother for her children. But beware any Mother when her children are threatened. And for a certain diabolical Mother and her vicious progeny, she’ll send anyone who threatens her brood straight to Hell. Anchor Bay Films presents the May 8th release of Mother’s Day on Blu-ray ….

Michael Pena to play labor organizer Cesar E. Chavez in biopic opposite America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson

Actor Michael Pena will see his dream role become a reality, as the Crash star is set to play 1960s and ’70s labor organizer Cesar E. Chavez in the indie biopic Chavez, which Diego Luna will direct, Variety reports. Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera will co-star as his wife, Helen Chavez, while Rosario Dawson (Sin City) ….