Director Kevin Tancharoen has been immersed in the world of Mortal Kombat for three years. He directed two full seasons of Mortal Kombat: Legacy for the web and has been prepping a feature film at New Line Cinema as well. That's a whole lot of fatalities. Now it seems the director, who also made a play…
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Usually in Mortal Kombat, the words "Finish Him" mean certain doom. However, for the online series Mortal Kombat: Legacy, things are far from finished. The first season debuted in 2011 to great success and now director Kevin Tancharoen is gearing up to debut Mortal Kombat: Legacy II, the second season of the popular online show. Featuring…
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Breakups don't just wreak havoc on our emotions, but they physically take a major toll as well.
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Every day in Hollywood, filmmakers meet in rooms at production companies and movie studios, giving their take on potential upcoming projects. This process hasn't changed much over the years, except for the advent of carefully crated trailers for nonexistent movies, meant to help executives visualize the final product. Fans often post their own mash-up trailers,…
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In June 2010, the short Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, based on the popular fighting video game series, hit the web. Armed with recognizable faces like Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan and no small amount of violence, the short became a sensation, racking up millions of views on YouTube. The director was revealed to be choreographer…
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Miley Cyrus has one. So do the Jonas Brothers and Justin Bieber. Now those crazy kids from Fox's hit musical TV show Glee are getting their own, live, 3D concert movie. 20th Century Fox will release Glee Live! 3D! in theaters on August 12 for a two-week limited engagement directed by Kevin Tancharoen, the man…
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The first three episodes of Kevin Tancharoen's web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy, have focused on Earthlings Sonja Blade (Jeri Ryan), Stryker (Tahmoh Penikett), Jax (Michael Jai White) and Johnny Cage (Matt Mullins). For the fourth installment, the series leaves our planet behind for the land of Edenia, which has been taken over by the sinister…
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Tuesday marked the nearly one year-in-the-making premiere of a brand new Mortal Kombat online web series called Mortal Kombat: Legacy. The series is co-written and directed by Kevin Tancharoen who directed Fame as well as a 2010 viral video that spawned this series. It follows Sonja Blade (Jeri Ryan), Stryker (Tahmoh Penikett) and Jax (Michael…
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You might think I sound crazy, but I know I'm not the only one who gets chills when they think about the first time they saw the Mortal Kombat movie. The movie itself is largely disappointing, but after playing the games obsessively at local arcades - lining up quarters, practicing fatalities, etc. - finally sitting…
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Last year there was a minor flurry of interest in a new Mortal Kombat film when a spec / proof of concept short appeared online. It was a dark, violent little piece of work that featured some surprising faces like Jeri Ryan and Michael Jai White. Now, while a new feature evidently won't be happening…
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The most attention-getting thing to hit the 'net on a very slow news day is this seven minutes of Mortal Kombat footage featuring Michael Jai White as Jax. There's a lot going on here -- introductions and backstory for antagonists like Reptile and Baraka, a fight scene featuring Johnny Cage, and even Jeri Ryan as…
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Moviehole yesterday scored a nice little scoop from their interview with Kevin Tancharoen, choreographer and director of the new Fame. Afterwards, that story appeared in Variety with absolutely no reference to the Moviehole story but a rather set of info. You're probably not surprised to read this much. If you want to e-mail Dana Harris…
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MGM has released the full trailer for Kevin Tancharoen's remake of the Oscar-winning hit musical Fame. The movie follows a talented group of dancers, singers, actors, and artists over four years at the New York City High School of Performing Arts. I'm not a huge fan of big screen musicals. I tend to like the…
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