Jet Li’s Flying Swords of Dragon Gate to make history as first 3D Chinese IMAX release

IMAX and leading Chinese film distributor Bona Film Group, today announced that the 3D martial arts motion picture Flying Swords of Dragon Gate will be released in China, in the IMAX 3D format starting this Thursday, December 15th. The film will be released on 61 digital IMAX screens across China. Throughout its theatrical run, Flying ….

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 ….

A brand new batch of images from Donnie Yen’s Legend of the Fist

Well Go USA and Variance Films have released details of their upcoming release of Donnie Yen’s Legend of the Fist: The Legend of Chen Zhen, which will begin a limited release on April 22, 2011. The film was directed by Wai-keung Lau. Legendary Kung Fu hero Chen Zhen is an iconic cultural mainstay in China ….

Stallone lays waste to his foes in this new pic from The Expendables

Empire has posted this great new photo of Sylvester Stallone, in what looks to be his laying waste to a pile of enemy soldiers on the set of his upcoming action opus The Expendables, which stars the creme of the action ‘Cult Cinema Icons’ crop, including himself, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ….

John Woo, Jet Li, Tony Jaa, Luc Besson, David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli and more to be included in new Six Shooter Film Series

Magnet Releasing announced today that it’s kicking off a second volume of its cult favorite Six Shooter Film Series with Tony Jaa’s Ong Bak 2: The Beginning, which begins airing this Friday On-Demand, ahead of it’s October U.S. theatrical release. Where the first Six Shooter Film Series took a broad look at smart international genre ….

Win one of two copies of the new Special DVD Edition of martial arts classic Hero

On September 15th, Miramax Home Entertainment will release a very special edition of Jet Li’s martial arts epic Hero (Ying xiong) on DVD. To celebrate this release, Film Fetish is giving away 2 copies for readers to enjoy. PLEASE NOTE: To be considered to win this and all other contests, your eNews profile must be ….

Jet Li returning to Chinese-language film with Ocean Paradise

THR reports that Jet Li is set to star in his first Chinese-language film since the 2007 Peter Chan-directed historical epic The Warlords. Li will top-line the directorial debut of Chinese screenwriter Xue Xiao-lu (Together With You), titled Ocean Paradise. After two successful Hollywood/Chinese co-productions, including The Forbidden Kingdom, which he co-starred with Jackie Chan, ….

House of Flying Daggers director to remake the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple?

Back in February, Shockya reported that Spider-Man director Sam Raimi was attached to produce a remake of the martial arts film House of Flying Daggers. Now comes a report from Empire, that Zhang Yimou – director of that seminal kung fu epic as well as Jet Li’s Hero, and choreographer of the amazing display at ….