Xu Haofeng (The Final Master) – a filmmaker known for presenting martial arts in a less stylized and more realistic manner – made a name for himself by penning the screenplay for Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmaster. But it was 2011’s The Sword Identity, his directorial debut, which showed Xu’s true talent. Now Xu is back with The Weary Poet, a upcoming wuxia actioner starring Zhou Xun (The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate) and Chen Kun (Mojin: The Lost Legend). Here’s … Continue reading →

Influential Hong Kong action director Tsui Hark (Time and Tide, Once Upon a Time in China, Zu: Warriors from Magic Mountain) is planning a military action film titled Operation Network. The upcoming film will star Zhang Hanyu (Manhunt, Operation Red Sea), Zhang Jiayi (Wild City, A Touch of Sin) and Siqin Gaowa (Switch, Beijing Love Story). Plot details are currently non-existent, but with the popularity of military-type actioners (i.e. Wolf Warrior 2, Operation Red … Continue reading →

Jailbreak breakout star Jean-Paul Ly will soon be showing more of his amazing martial arts skills in 14 Fists, which starts filming later this year from director Bart Ruspoli (Clash of the Dead). Ly recently took to FB with the following message regarding 14 Fists: “I am finally able to bring international team members for this one. Let’s make an insane action party!” Word on the street (via FCS) is that 14 Fists will … Continue reading →

Later this month, director Han Yan (Dream Breaker) will unleash Animal World, a new film loosely adapted from Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s manga, Ultimate Survivor, which was previously adapted into two successful films in Tokyo. Animal World stars Li Yifeng (The Founding of an Army), Zhou Dongyu (The Thousand Faces of Dunjia) and the one, the only, Michael Douglas (Black Rain, Romancing the Stone). Animal World stars Yifeng as an imaginative teenager who gets lured into a dangerous game of wits … Continue reading →

On November 21, 2018, audiences will be entering the stadium for Creed II, the upcoming sequel to Ryan Coogler’s 2015 Rocky spinoff, Creed. For Round 2, Steven Caple Jr. (The Land) takes over as director. In the first film, Adonis (Michael B. Jordan of Fruitvale Station), the grandson of Apollo Creed (portrayed by Carl Weathers in the Rocky films) is mentored by Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) – now a retired fighter-turned-trainer who takes him under his wing. In Creed II, newly crowned light-heavyweight … Continue reading →

Daniel Pinder has joined the cast of the independent supernatural movie Sarah with shooting starting in Los Angeles in late summer. The film centers on a teen harboring a dark secret as she visits her relatives for the summer. The Sarah cast includes Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen, The Florida Project star Valeria Cotto, D.B. Sweeney, Ava Allan, Spencer List, Youtube star Andy Schrock and Tallulah Evans. Pinder will portray … Continue reading →

Chinese superstar Stephen Chow is developing an animated version of The Monkey King for the Shanghai-based animation company Pearl Studio. It will feature a script penned by Ron Friedman and Steve Bencich, who cowrote Brother Bear and Chicken Little. Monkey King is described by the Studio as “one of China’s most mythical, mystical and mischievous superheroes.” “It’s one of China’s most enduringly popular heroes of all time. Every child in … Continue reading →

Hong Kong star Ekin Chen (The Storm Riders, Full Strike, Tokyo Raiders) is back in CGI territory with Legends of the Three Kingdoms, an upcoming action fantasy from director Lv Kejing. The movie also stars some of Chen’s Young and Dangerous co-stars, such as Michael Tse (Wild City, The Blade), Jerry Lamb (Jian Bing Man, The Hunted Hunter), as well as Jia Qing (White Vengeance) and Yu Rongguang (The Great Wall, Fox Hunter). So what can you … Continue reading →