CELLULOID BURNING

This is barely news as everyone knew it was happening, but a sequel for The Karate Kid remake is being fast tracked. Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff, writers of Kung Fu Panda, have been tapped to pen the sequel. I very much doubt this would be a remake of the original second Karate Kid… lets see how this one develops

Via The Hollywood Reporter

The latest teaser trailer for the upcoming Donnie Yen ass kicking vehicle, Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is making it’s rounds about the nets. check it out

The ridiculously awesomeScott Pilgrim vs the World is not doing so well at the box office. I hope that it turns out to be a slow and steady burner at theaters, but it may not be too likely. If you haven’t seen it yet and enjoy watching fun, well-acted, and well-written movies, see it now, see it twice, see it thrice.

A good friend of mine forwarded this link to me. It may be a promo for E3 or it may be something else…
Warning: VIOLENCE!

Michelle Yeoh starts in this John Woo co-directed martial arts film… which happens to carry heavy whiffs of Crouch Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The other half of the directing (and writing) is done by Su Chao-Pin. It’s difficult to know where Woo ends and Su begins but the trailer below is intriguing. The film looks a lot less homoerotic than Woo’s usual body of work which leads one to believe that Woo has inserting himself as co-director in name alone to give the film the best chance of success.

A newer Ong Bak 3 trailer has been released into the wild, this time highlighting more of the story (if there really is one). From what I have gleamed on other sites, in this installment Tony Jaa’s character has been captured and tortured. Every single bone in his body has been broken and he is some how healed and made into an even better figher (I think they filled him with adamantium or some shit like that).

Take a look

Up today is the first full trailer of the latest Donnie Yen/Wilson Yip/Sammo Hung future classic Ip Man 2. The trailer has no english subtitles and I can’t quite tell what the heck the story is… but does that really matter? The fighting looks awesome!

Ok the first official trailer for Tony Jaa’s upcoming snorfest, Ong Bak 3 has just hit the innerwebs and… well… judge for yourself. Excuse me while I play it again and fall asleep on my keyboard.

The Warrior is The Chinese Connection meets Chinese Super Ninjas, but…Indonesian?

Does the thought of brightly colored, flagrantly acrobatic, old-school martial arts action send blood hurtling towards the swollen and tingly areas of your bikini zone? If so, step up to the bar, open wide, and swallow what I give you. 5 Drink Minimum is open for business, and our special of the day is the Indonesian martial arts fantasy film The Warrior.
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Tekken, for those of you unfamiliar with it, is one of the biggest fighting game franchises around, and is made by the Japanese company Namco. I’m a decent fan of the fighting game franchise (and fairly handy with character Brian Fury in Tekken 3, 5, and Tag), but it looks like we’ve got another video-game to film adaption.

*Sigh*

Film adaptions of video games have an extremely spotty record where quality is concerned. Odds are that this’ll suck like a man who has a gun leveled to his head, but I hope (against all common sense) that might be fun enough to be worth sneaking a flask into later.