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‘No Retreat, No Surrender’ to return to screens as a Limited Series!

While fans have been lamenting the upcoming 6th and final season of Cobra Kai, good news is on the way with the recent announcement from 365 Flix that another 80’s trilogy is going to receive the limited series treatment in the form of No Retreat, No Surrender. The 1986 original marked Seasonal Films venture into the English language market, and introduced the talents of director and choreographer Corey Yuen to … Continue reading

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Colosseum Films announce Blu-ray for Bruce Lee’s ‘Game of Death: Pagoda Cut’ to celebrate its 45th anniversary

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of its release, later this year Colosseum Films will be releasing Game of Death: Pagoda Cut Limited Edition Blu-ray (All Region), the debut title from a new independent label inspired by the Little Dragon. Promising a whole host of new special features, below is the full press release – Colosseum Films is proud to present a new vision for Bruce Lee’s crowning achievement 45 years … Continue reading

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Steven Seagal to reboot ‘The Patriot’

While we continue to wait on the long gesticulating Under Siege 3, hitting screens first will be what Steven Seagal himself has described as a “reimagining” of his 1998 feature The Patriot. In most territories The Patriot was the first Seagal movie to go direct-to-video, and focuses on a deadly virus that he has to stop before it becomes a pandemic. Of course the subject matter is timely considering current … Continue reading

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Self-Isolation Blu-ray Box Coming from Fourth Window Films

Self-Isolation | Blu-ray (Fourth Window Films)

UK Distributor Fourth Window Films have announced the release of the Limited Edition Self-Isolation Blu-ray Box, containing 3 movies aimed at keeping the Asian cinephile who’s been required to self-isolate both sane and entertained. The full press release is below – At Fourth Window Films we’re all about getting through this together, and to add our small contribution to the greater good, we’ll be releasing the Self-Isolation Blu-ray Box. The … Continue reading

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JCVD’s ‘Full Love’ follows ‘The Eagle Path’ to a 3-Disc Blu-ray

It may have taken a long time to get here, but this year, newly established U.S. distributor JVD Rewind will finally release Jean-Claude Van Damme’s long gesticulating sophomore feature as a director, Full Love, as a 3-disc Blu-ray special edition. Read the official press release sent exclusively to City on Fire from JVD Rewind: After a career reviving turn in 2008’s JCVD, the Muscles from Brussels returned to the director’s … Continue reading

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Rob Cohen confesses: “I based ‘Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story’ on Bruceploitation star Dragon Lee!”

"Dragon Bruce Lee, Part II" Korean Poster

Director Rob Cohen, guilty of such celluloid atrocities as The Fast and the Furious and xXx, added a further misdemeanour to his list of cinematic mishaps during a recent interview, when he confessed that he thought Dragon Lee was Bruce Lee. The topic came up while discussing a proposed sequel to his movie Stealth, a potential Chinese co-production titled Stealth 2: The Chinese Connection. Cohen was explaining how Shanghai was … Continue reading

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Bieber and Rain pair up for McG’s ‘Lethal Weapon Reloaded’

In a Hollywood where increasingly nothing is sacred, it was announced yesterday that the Weinstein’s have started pre-production on a Lethal Weapon reboot, to be titled Lethal Weapon Reloaded. While there’s a certain inevitability about the movies we love eventually being remade, what will no doubt get fans of the original riled up is the casting choices in the remake. Playing the part of Martin Riggs, the role which Mel … Continue reading

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