In our Yuen Woo-Ping interview, the legendary martial arts choreographer talks about turning down Aquaman, staging his new movie, and more.
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The Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon sequel will hit Netflix and IMAX simultaneously on August 28, 2015. It'll be the first day-and-date release on Netflix.
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Keanu Reeves has been in a couple of big martial arts influenced movies (those Matrix films come to mind, and there's the delayed 47 Ronin) and now he's directing his own. The film is called Man of Tai Chi, and features Reeves as the villain, with Tiger Hu Chen (who worked in the Matrix stunt team) as the…
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A dozen years after the release of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Weinstein Co. is getting ready to make a sequel. Though it's been a while since we heard about any potential follow-up to Ang Lee's international hit, it looks like the Weinsteins have quietly been making preparations behind the scenes. Production is on track…
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A new trailer has just been released for True Legend, an upcoming film by influential director and fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping. Yuen made his name as a director back in the '70s with movies like Drunken Master, but has recently focused more on action choreography, for films including The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill…
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It's a good day for great news. First Criterion makes an incredible deal with Hulu Plus. And now Megan Ellison, the heiress who recently came to the rescue of two Paul Thomas Anderson films (The Master and Inherent Vice) is making a deal to buy North American rights to Wong Kar Wai's new film, The…
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With US audiences at least, Yuen Woo Ping is probably the best known and most popular of Chinese martial arts movie choreographers. His work on American pictures like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix helped cement his cult status, though it's probably fair to say much of his best work is found in his…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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