Lalo Schifrin, the Grammy-winning music composer of the Mission: Impossible TV theme and film scores including Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, Enter the Dragon, The Big Brawl and Rush Hour, has died of complications

Shout! Studios and Hong Kong Cinema Classics are thrilled to bring some of the best of these movies to audiences through the Hong Kong Cinema Classics Retrospective Film series at Los Angeles’s American Cinematheque and New York City’s IFC Center this August. This highly anticipated retrospective will continue to tour select markets throughout this fall. Featuring classics from the Golden Princess library by renowned

Now shipping is 88 Films’ Blu-ray for John Woo’s Sunset Warriors (aka Heroes Shed No Tears), a 1983 Hong Kong action film that stars Eddie Ko Hung (The Miracle Fighters) and Lam Ching Ying (Mr. Vampire). An overlooked classic from an action master! Made by John Woo just before the game-changing A Better Tomorrow, Sunset Warriors was hacked about by the studio

Tong Gai, a martial artist, filmmaker, choreographer and actor is known for directing 1983’s Shaolin Prince, 1983’s Shaolin Intruders and 1984’s Opium and the Kung-Fu Master. Some of his most memorable roles include 1967’s One Armed Swordsman and 1969’s Return of the One-Armed Swordsman. Media outlets are reporting

The China Film Foundation is partnering with various Chinese film studios to reimagine Kung Fu classics using AI technology. Some of the titles on the to-do list include Fist of Fury, The Big Boss, Once Upon a Time in China, and Drunken Master. According to Deadline, the “AI reimagining” includes the goal of remastering 100 seminal kung fu films, using AI to enhance the overall production quality

Martial arts star Scott Adkins (John Wick 4, Ip Man 4, One More Shot) is re-teaming with director Adrian Bol for WestEnd Films’ Breaking Cover. The pair worked together in 2020’s Legacy of Lies. The upcoming actioner follows an seemingly ordinary back-office worker (Adkins) whose father-daughter hunting trip turns into a relentless fight for survival, when

Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Peter Ho-sun Chan (Wu Xia) is back with She’s Got No Name (aka Murder of the Husband), an upcoming thriller starring Zhang Ziyi (The Grandmaster, Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Inspired by a true story, She’s Got No Name is based on one of China’s most famous unsolved cases involving a housewife who is accused of the gruesome murder of her husband. She’s Got No Name … Continue reading →

On June 23, 2025, 88 Films is releasing a 4K Ultra HD for Crime Story, a 1993 Hong Kong thriller from director Kirk Wong (Taking Manhattan, The Big Hit). Troubled Hong Kong CID inspector Eddie Chan (Jackie Chan) is assigned to oversee the safety of controversial businessman Wong Yat-Fei (Law Kar-Ying), who is then kidnapped. A major investigation is launched and leads to Taipei and back to Hong