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Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh, Jason Scott Lee all returns for great action in the Netflix produced new installment of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The movie was released late February and available to view on Netflix. It is great to see some of the old timers back again in this new movie.

Legendary film director John Woo began working on the remake of the famed 1976 Japanese thriller 'Manhunt' which was the first foreign film released in China following the end of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. The original Manhunt featuring Takakura as a tough cop accused of corruption, had a great influence on filmmakers.

Woo grew up in Hong Kong and whose Hollywood output includes Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II, will be shifting the action to South Korea for Manhunt and working with a Korean and Chinese cast. Media Asia is producing and will be doing pre-sales on the movie at Cannes Film Festival.

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The Monkey King 2 just opened last weekend in the theaters, released for the Chinese New Year the box office did not immediately recover the initial investments.

The movie overall visually good, although it's still a little glaring when figures are chroma-keyed into vast outdoor backgrounds, the overall visual effects, 3D quality and creature design are all impressive, considering the massive scale on which they're deployed. Daniel Fu's tastefully ornate production design revels in embossed gold surfaces inside the palace chambers; the building exteriors, with their piercing spires and minarets, feel more Middle-earth than Middle Kingdom.

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Jet Li's has been working on a new movie originally titled 'Fengshen Bang' (also know as 'The Investiture of the Gods'); it is in production by China Star Entertainment Group. The movie now has a new English and international working title as 'League of Gods' and according to the studio this will be the final international title for the movie when it is going to be released in October 2016.

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Despite the hype of its "Avatar"-fueled launch and accompanying predictions about a proliferation of made-in-3D movies, sports, and TV shows, 3D is still uncommon today. There's not much actual 3D you can watch on a 3D TV. With a couple hundred total Blu-ray titles available now, that format is by far the best 3D source, but selection is still slim compared with the thousands of 2D Blu-ray titles. Beyond that, most games are 2D-only, on-demand 3D sources available via streaming or your cable/satellite provider are scarce, and the few true 3D TV channels are fading fast. Do they worth the extra cost now or rather stay with ordinary traditional pictures?

Considered one of the greatest martial arts classics of all time the Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa was released in 1954 and remains a favorite not just among martial arts film fans but movie fans alike even to this day. If you are a martial artist or a fan of martial arts movies you need to this film at least once.

Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The story takes place in 1586 during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. It follows the story of a village of desperate farmers who seek to hire rōnin (masterless samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.

At the time, the film was the most expensive film made in Japan. It took a year to shoot and faced many difficulties. It was the second-highest-grossing domestic film in Japan in 1954. Many reviews compared the film to westerns.

Since its release, Seven Samurai has consistently ranked highly in critics' lists of the greatest films in cinema history, such as the BFI's Sight & Sound and Rotten Tomatoes polls. It was also voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 international critics' poll.Its influence on the film industry has been unprecedented, and it is often regarded today as one of the most "remade, reworked, and referenced" films in cinema.

THE STORY:
In 1586, a bandit gang discusses raiding a mountain village, but their chief decides to wait until after the harvest. The villagers overhear this and turn to Gisaku, the village elder and miller, who declares that they should hire samurai to protect them. Since they have no money and can only offer food as payment, Gisaku advises them to find hungry samurai.

Several villagers go into town and eventually find Kambei, an aging but experienced rōnin, whom they see rescuing a young boy held hostage by a cornered thief. A young samurai named Katsushirō asks to become Kambei's disciple. The villagers ask for Kambei's help, and though initially reluctant, he agrees. He then recruits his old comrade-in-arms Shichirōji, along with Gorobei, Heihachi, and Kyūzō, a taciturn master swordsman whom Katsushirō regards with awe. Kikuchiyo, a wild and eccentric samurai-poser, is eventually accepted as well after attempts to drive him away fail.

Arriving at the village, the samurai and farmers slowly begin to trust each other. Katsushirō meets Shino, a farmer's daughter disguised as a boy by her father, and sleeps with her despite knowing the difference in their social classes prohibits it. Later, the samurai are angered when Kikuchiyo brings them armor and weapons, which the villagers acquired by killing other samurai injured or fleeing from battle. Kikuchiyo angrily retorts that samurai are responsible for much of the suffering farmers endure, revealing he is an orphaned farmer's son. The samurai's anger turns to shame.

Kambei arms the villagers with bamboo spears and organizes them into squads to prepare defenses and train. Three bandit scouts are spotted; two are killed, while the survivor reveals the location of their encampment before being slain by the villagers. The samurai burn down the camp in a pre-emptive strike. Rikichi, a troubled villager aiding the samurai, breaks down when he sees his wife, who was kidnapped and made a concubine during a previous raid. Upon seeing Rikichi, she runs back into a burning hut to her death. Heihachi is killed by a gunshot while stopping Rikichi from pursuing her. At Heihachi's funeral, the saddened villagers are inspired by Kikuchiyo, who raises a banner Heihachi made to represent the six samurai, Kikuchiyo, and the village.

When the bandits finally arrive, they are confounded by the new fortifications, which include a moat and high wooden fences. They burn the village's outlying houses, including Gisaku's mill. Gisaku's family tries to save him when he refuses to abandon it, but all perish except a baby rescued by Kikuchiyo. The bandits then besiege the village, but many are killed as the defenders thwart every attack.

The bandits possess three matchlock muskets. Kyūzō ventures out alone and captures one; an envious Kikuchiyo abandons his squad to bring back another. However, his absence allows a handful of bandits to infiltrate his post and kill several farmers, and Gorobei is slain defending his position. That night, Kambei predicts that the bandits will make one final assault due to their dwindling numbers.

Meanwhile, Katsushirō and Shino's relationship is discovered by her father, who is enraged that her virginity has been taken and beats her. Kambei and the villagers intervene; Shichirōji reasons that such behavior is normal before battle and that they should be forgiven.

The next morning, the defenders allow the remaining bandits to enter the village and then ambush them. As the battle nears its end, the bandit chief hides in the women's hut and shoots Kyūzō dead with his musket. An enraged Kikuchiyo charges in and is shot as well, but kills the chief before dying. The remaining outlaws are slain.

Afterward, Kambei, Katsushirō and Shichirōji stand in front of the funeral mounds of their comrades, watching the joyful villagers sing while planting their crops. Katsushirō and Shino meet one last time, but their relationship has ended. Kambei says to Shichirōji that it is another pyrrhic victory for the samurai: "The victory belongs to those peasants. Not to us."

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The only movie script Bruce Lee has written (co-written with Stirling Silliphant) is now being revisited and planned to be made into a movie for the second time. The first version was released in 1978 when David Carradine came across the original script that was put on a shelf and convinced investors to make it into a movie. The title of 'Circle of Iron' (original intended title 'Silent Flute') was given and the movie went into production. After its release at the time it only gained limited success at the box office, however this script is again pulled out and producers are now working on remaking it into a new movie with new cast and new crew. It is at an early stage yet therefore no release date has been set yet.

We will update this as we learn more about it.

Images below showing Bruce Lee in India searching and testing filming locations for the original movie.

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