Famous Bottoms Up Club, Pink Lady Bar, World of Suzie Wong on Hankow Road in Hong Kong (1980s) Photo [210907-0027]
John Woo’s The Crossing and Jackie Chan’s Dragon Blade heading to 3D IMAX theaters in China
IMAX announced today that the 3D action-adventure film Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, John Cusack and Adrien Brody, will be digitally re-mastered in the immersive IMAX 3D format and released by Shanghai Film Group Corporation in IMAX theatres in China on February 19, 2015. Additionally, writer-director John Woo’s epic two-part 3D film The Crossing will ….
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 ….
U.S. release trailer for Jet Li and Andy Lau’s The Warlords now online
U.S. release trailer for Red Cliff hits the web
Legendary action director John Woo and international superstar Tony Leung reunite for the first time since the 1992 cult classic Hard Boiled for the epic historical drama Red Cliff (Chi bi), based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. Red Cliff opens with power hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao ….
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 ….
VIZ Pictures to release action film K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces in U.S. and sponsors festival screenings
VIZ Media distribution arm VIZ Pictures has licensed the new action film, K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces, and announced two screenings at the New York Asian Film Festival 2009, which starts today and runs through July 2nd, at the IFC Center in New York City. The New York premiere of K-20: The Fiend with ….
Jet Li and Andy Lau’s action epic Warlords picks up U.S. distribution
Mark Cuban’s Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired North American distribution rights to Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s historical action epic, Warlords, featuring Jet Li (The Forbidden Kingdom), Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs) and Takeshi Kaneshiro (Returner). Warlords was a huge critical and commercial hit in China, winning eight Hong ….
A pair of new trailers for John Woo’s Red Cliff
Their are two new trailers online for John Woo’s epic tale Red Cliff. Red Cliff tells the story of Chinese leaders Liu Bei, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, who led 100,000 peasants to safety from the invading army of Cao Cao, and them hatched a plan to destroy the invading general’s ships, before he can ….