A remake of Newt Arnold’s 1988 film Bloodsport, the martial arts extravaganza that launched Jean-Claude Van Damme to superstardom, has been in development-hell for well over 14+ years.
Director Phillip Noyce (Salt) and screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen (Taken) were once attached. Then the project came into the hands of James McTeigue (Ninja Assassin) and Craig Rosenberg (The Uninvited), who would re-shape the “Frank Dux” narrative into the lives Continue reading
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Life After Fighting’s rising martial arts star Bren Foster (Force of Execution) joins an ensemble cast in Beast (also known as Beast in Me), an Australian and U.S. co production starring Daniel MacPherson (Strike Back), Russell Crowe (The Man with the Iron Fists), Luke Hemsworth (Gunner), and pop artist Amy Shark.
Directed by Tyler Atkins (Ocean Boy) and co-written by Crowe along with David Frigerio (Crypto), Beast follows a commercial fisherman, as he struggles to provide for his family and avenge his brother’s death by fighting in a mixed martial-arts match against a dangerous opponent, played by Foster, who also serves as the film’s fight choreographer.Â
Beast hits theaters on April 10, 2026 from Lionsgate. Don’t miss the New Trailer Continue reading
Two years ago, director Soi Cheang Pou Soi (SPL II: A Time for Consequences), alongside producers Wilson Yip (Paradox) and John Chong (Paradox), revealed plans for both a prequel and a sequel to 2024âs Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.
Now, those plans are finally moving forward. The follow-up to the hit Hong Kong thriller is set to begin filming in April, with a massive recreation of Kowloon Continue reading
“Wheels on Meals” Japanese Poster
Later this year, Eureka will be releasing a 4K Ultra HD for Wheels on Meals (aka Spartan X), a 1984 Golden Harvest classic directed by and starring Sammo Hung (Eastern Condors).
From a brand new 4K restoration comes Wheels on Meals, starring Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Biao as the most exciting triple act in action-comedy movie history!
Fast food chefs Thomas (Chan) and David (Biao) find themselves cooking up trouble when detective Moby (Hung) involves them in the case of a missing heiress. The three friends need all of their daring and physical dexterity when they find themselves Continue reading
Legendary martial arts icon Jackie Chan (The Shadow’s Edge, The Foreigner) will soon begin work on Pawfect Agents, an upcoming action-comedy that re-teams Jackie with his Bleeding Steel director, Leo Zhang (Chrysanthemum to the Beast). Following the footsteps of 2024’s Panda Plan and its sequel, Pawfect Agents will be a live-action/CG hybrid feature.
The film â from LinKEY Sanxing and Zhangâs Shangjia Film companies, with Cappu Films handling sales â follows a veteran agent (Chan) on the verge of retirement who is pulled back into the field after the Sanxingdui Golden Mask â one of Chinaâs most prized Continue reading
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Thanks to the smartphone, a new format has been on the rise for some time: the vertical format. This short-form, scripted video type â typically between one and two minutes per episode â is shot in an aspect ratio specifically for mobile phone viewing (itâs basically the opposite of widescreen).
The format is mostly known for dramas, hence the name âmicro dramaâ, which is a style that blew up in China through platforms like TikTok. But now martial arts star Sunny Pang (Havoc, The Night Comes for Us, Headshot) is teaming up with writer/director Sam Loh (The Driver) to bring some hard-hitting action to the format with The Executioner.
The fight choreography is handled by Sunny Pang’s own Ronin Continue reading
Today’s Deal on Fire is for the 4K Ultra HD collection for Kino Lorber’s Ninja Trilogy, consisting of Menahem Golan’s Enter the Ninja (1981), Sam Firstenberg’s Revenge of the Ninja (1983), and Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Though not connected in story, these three films popularized the image of the ninja in Western pop culture (known as the 80s “ninja boom” or “ninja craze”) with Continue reading
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Iconic action star Dolph Lundgren (Hellfire, Castle Falls) is back in Straight Shot, a Die Hard-esque thriller from writer/director Gabriel Sabloff (Beckman).
The film is headlined by David A.R. White, an actor, producer and director who is perhaps best known for 2025’s A Line of Fire, 2022’s Nothing is Impossible and 2020’s Beckman.
A bodyguard past his prime (White) fights through a skyscraper full of mercenaries to save his ex-fiancĂŠe trapped in an experimental coffin.
Lundgren is part of an ensemble cast that also includes Rachael Leigh Cook (She’s All That), Tyrese Gibson (2 Fast 2 Furious) and William Continue reading
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Craving some ninja action? Then todayâs your lucky day. Thereâs a lot to unpack, so weâll let the filmâs official press release take it from here…
Nihon Eiga Broadcasting Corp. has unveiled the first visual and teaser trailer for Ninja Wars: Blackfox vs Shogun’s Ninja, a new action period film from internationally renowned director Koichi Sakamoto (Power Rangers, Ultraman, Kamen Rider).
The film stars Chihiro Yamamoto (Alice in Borderland Season 2), Kanon Miyahara (Ninja vs Shark), Nashiko Momotsuki (Mashin Sentai Kiramager Spin-Off: Yodonna), Kane Kosugi (Bang), Miki Mizuno (Guilty of Romance), and legendary martial arts actor Yasuaki Kurata (Eastern Condors), bringing together some of Japanâs leading action performers.
The project unites Continue reading
On May 12, 2026, Visual Vengeance is releasing the Blu-ray for Born a Ninja and Commando the Ninja (aka American Commando Ninja), two martial arts films from 1988 that star Meng Fei (Face Behind the Mask) â secure your copy today from Goodie Emporium!
This shot-on-video martial-arts double feature from Joesph Lai and IFD Films unleashes pure 1980s ninja chaos as two unlikely heroes are dragged into a war over stolen germ-warfare secrets. Featuring disappearing ninja assassins, endless waves of Continue reading
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Director: Luke LaFontaine
Cast: Bren Foster, Tania Raymonde, Plutarco Haza, Kris Van Damme, Louis Mandylor
Running Time: 99 min.Â
By Z Ravas
Mexicali is a movie that knows precisely what its audience wants and decides to give it to them without delay. It’s been two short years since Bren Foster broke out on the international action scene with Life After Fighting, and the filmmakers behind Mexicali understand that fans are likely curious if that movie was a one-off or if Foster will continue to cement his status as a rising star in the martial arts world; therefore, Mexicali opens with Foster in the ring for not one, not two, not three, but four fights in a row. Befitting a movie with a former stuntman in the director’s chair, the fight choreography here is top notch, and Foster very quickly proves that Life After Fighting was no fluke, as the man seems incapable of not going Beast Mode whenever a scene calls for him to throw a punch or kick.
Needless to say, the wait for Bren Foster’s follow-up to Life After Fighting was worth it. Mexicali arrives from Luke LaFontaine, the aforementioned former stuntman and second unit director with past credits on many Direct to Video action efforts like Jesse V. Johnson’s Savage Dog and The Mercenary. It’s likely no coincidence, then, that Jesse V. Johnson wrote the script Continue reading
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Director: Gabriele Mainetti
Cast: Yaxi Liu, Enrico Borello, Marco Giallini, Sabrina Ferilli, Shanshan Chunyu, Elisa Wong
Running Time: 139 min.
By Paul Bramhall
Is there another city in Europe that has more connection to the kung-fu genre than Rome? Iâm going to say no. From providing the classic backdrop to Bruce Leeâs directorial debut Way of the Dragon in 1972, it would go on to inspire several other productions to film in its historical streets. Seasonal Films founder Ng See-Yuen would team up with Bruce Leung for 1974âs double bill of Kidnap in Rome and Little Godfather from Hong Kong. See-Yuen would return again for the Bruce Lee biopic Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth in 1975. The 1982 Bruceploitation production Bruce Strikes Back would film there, swapping out Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris for Bruce Le and Hwang Jang Lee in an epic colosseum showdown. So itâs perhaps fitting that, in 2025, Italy decided to film its very own kung-fu movie there, in the form of The Forbidden City.
Following his superhero themed feature length debut with 2015âs They Call Me Jeeg Robot, and similarly themed sophomore production Freaks Out from 2021, The Forbidden City marks the 3rd outing for director Gabriele Mainetti. Turning his attention to a more grounded style of action, with the casting of Yaxi Liu as the lead it would seem he means business when it comes to having genuine martial arts talent onscreen. Continue reading
Heart of Dragon | Blu-ray (Arrow)
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for Sammo Hung’s 1985 action-drama, Heart of the Dragon (aka First Mission).
Jackie plays a good-hearted cop looking after his learning-disabled brother Danny, played by Sammo, but doesn’t always succeed in keeping him out of trouble. When Danny is taken as a hostage, his brother will risk everything â his career and even his life â to rescue him, throwing it down as only Jackie Chan can.
Made the same year as Police Story, Heart of Dragon was a change of pace for the great action artists, giving them a chance to show of their acting chops as well as their stunt skills – even if they don’t ignore the latter!
The film also stars Continue reading
Kitao Sakura â an up and coming filmmaker who is perhaps best known for 2021’s Bad Trip, as well as a handful of episodes of 2023’s Twisted Metal series â is currently hard-at-work putting finishing touches on Legendary/Paramount Pictures’ live-action film adaptation of Capcom’s classic videogame, Street Fighter, which is set to be released on October 16, 2026.
Stars appearing in Street Fighter include Andrew Koji (Snake Eyes) as Ryu; Noah Centineo (The Recruit) as Ken; Roman Reigns aka Joe Anoa’i (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw) as Akuma; Jason Momoa (Aquaman) as Blanka; and musician Continue reading
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On Digital April 14th from Well Go USA is Rise of the Conqueror, an upcoming period actioner from Jacob Schwarz (co-director of Artifact War).
Filmed on the breathtaking steppes of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, this Uzbekistan-United States-Kazakhstan produced film is a historical thriller with a global cast and epic scale.
Rise of the Conqueror tells the story of Timur Barlas, a battle-scarred ruler who brought order to a fractured land.
The film stars Christian Mortensen (The Candidate), Mahesh Jadu (Marco Polo), Yulduz Rajabova (Scorpion) and Joshua Jo (The Full Monty series).
Stunt and action Continue reading
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