Exclusive: Former Luke Cage star Theo Rossi is set as a series regular opposite Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes in the Netflix limited series True Story, written and executive produced by Narcos: Mexico executive producer Eric Newman and produced by Hart’s HartBeat Production.
Philadelphia-born comedian Hart will play a version of himself in the fictional True Story, which centers on his character Kid and Kid’s older brother Carlton, played by Snipes. A tour stop in Kid’s hometown of Philadelphia becomes a matter of life and death for one of the world’s most famous comedians when the consequences of a lost evening with his wayward older brother threaten to destroy everything he’s built.
Rossi will play Gene, an excitable, wildly enthusiastic super-fan who follows The Kid (Hart) around on every leg of his comedy tour.
Hart executive produces through his HartBeat Prods., Newman via his Grand Electric.
Philadelphia-born comedian Hart will play a version of himself in the fictional True Story, which centers on his character Kid and Kid’s older brother Carlton, played by Snipes. A tour stop in Kid’s hometown of Philadelphia becomes a matter of life and death for one of the world’s most famous comedians when the consequences of a lost evening with his wayward older brother threaten to destroy everything he’s built.
Rossi will play Gene, an excitable, wildly enthusiastic super-fan who follows The Kid (Hart) around on every leg of his comedy tour.
Hart executive produces through his HartBeat Prods., Newman via his Grand Electric.
- 3/1/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After directing one of Japan’s biggest box-office hits of 2019, Kingdom Shinsuke Sato has found his first major domestic film as Netflix has set him to direct the action-adventure saga Water Margin. Matt Sand, who penned the Mark Wahlberg thriller Deepwater Horizon, is writing the script.
Eric Newman and Bryan Unkeless for Screen Arcade are producing. Scott Morgan for Screen Arcade is exec producing.
The film is a futuristic take on one of the great classical novels of Chinese literature, The Water Margin is an epic action-adventure saga filled with glory, romance, and intrigue. The story explores timely questions about loyalty, leadership, and our duty to take on society’s problems no matter the personal cost.
Sato has been on the radar of studio execs for some time after his critically acclaimed work on Bleach and Kingdom. While this marks Sato’s first major film for Netflix, he already...
Eric Newman and Bryan Unkeless for Screen Arcade are producing. Scott Morgan for Screen Arcade is exec producing.
The film is a futuristic take on one of the great classical novels of Chinese literature, The Water Margin is an epic action-adventure saga filled with glory, romance, and intrigue. The story explores timely questions about loyalty, leadership, and our duty to take on society’s problems no matter the personal cost.
Sato has been on the radar of studio execs for some time after his critically acclaimed work on Bleach and Kingdom. While this marks Sato’s first major film for Netflix, he already...
- 11/12/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Above: Seven Blows of the Dragon aka The Water Margin.Known as “The Godfather of Hong Kong cinema,” Chang Cheh (1923-2002), who directed nearly 100 films between the late 50s and the early 90s, is currently the subject of a week-long, 14-film retrospective at the Quad Cinema in New York, co-presented by the New York Asian Film Festival. You can read about Chang in depth in Sean Gilman’s Notebook article “Chang Cheh: Death and Glory,” but here is the Quad’s introduction:As the storied Shaw Brothers began to transform the Hong Kong film industry in the 1950s, a new golden age was on the horizon. At the vanguard of it was director Chang Cheh. The martial arts action in his movies was awe-inspiring—and so too was his career. “Prolific” barely does justice to a director who averaged a half-dozen movies annually during the 1970s boom. He was first and...
- 5/25/2018
- MUBI
Craig Lines Sep 6, 2017
45 years on, we revisit King Boxer, and find a genuinely great martial arts movie...
Asian martial arts are now deeply embedded in western pop culture, but this wasn’t always the case. In fact, it wasn’t really until the early 1970s that they made the transition into the mainstream, thanks in no small part to the release of a film called King Boxer. Of course, nothing occurs in a vacuum. By the late 1960s, martial arts were already being taught more widely in the west. Bruce Lee was making waves with his role in The Green Hornet (although his martial arts films, while huge in Hong Kong, were yet to break the Us market). James Bond had a ninja encounter in 1967’s You Only Live Twice. Kung Fu, the seminal ABC series starring David Carradine, hit TVs across America in 1972. The west was primed and ready...
45 years on, we revisit King Boxer, and find a genuinely great martial arts movie...
Asian martial arts are now deeply embedded in western pop culture, but this wasn’t always the case. In fact, it wasn’t really until the early 1970s that they made the transition into the mainstream, thanks in no small part to the release of a film called King Boxer. Of course, nothing occurs in a vacuum. By the late 1960s, martial arts were already being taught more widely in the west. Bruce Lee was making waves with his role in The Green Hornet (although his martial arts films, while huge in Hong Kong, were yet to break the Us market). James Bond had a ninja encounter in 1967’s You Only Live Twice. Kung Fu, the seminal ABC series starring David Carradine, hit TVs across America in 1972. The west was primed and ready...
- 9/4/2017
- Den of Geek
There was indeed a movie planned for this week’s Shaw Brothers column, but in light of the recent sad news regarding Sir Run Run Shaw’s passing, a more tasteful move here is to dedicate this space to the man with a few words about what he meant to fans, kung fu, and film.
There is a plethora of sources to read about Run Run Shaw’s life (his Chinese name is actually Shao Renleng), especially in recent days as most cultural media journalists provided the requisite plot points to the man’s life story (and his rarely mentioned contribution to 1982′s Blade Runner) in the wake of his death. Today’s column shall therefore sidestep the obvious route, preferring to consider his legacy, what it means and how he went about building it sky high.
Like the great Hollywood studio producers such as Jack Warner, Run Run Shaw...
There is a plethora of sources to read about Run Run Shaw’s life (his Chinese name is actually Shao Renleng), especially in recent days as most cultural media journalists provided the requisite plot points to the man’s life story (and his rarely mentioned contribution to 1982′s Blade Runner) in the wake of his death. Today’s column shall therefore sidestep the obvious route, preferring to consider his legacy, what it means and how he went about building it sky high.
Like the great Hollywood studio producers such as Jack Warner, Run Run Shaw...
- 1/11/2014
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Hong Kong film tycoon whose studios and TV company enjoyed huge international success
Sir Run Run Shaw, who has died aged 106, was the most famous of the Shaw brothers who became synonymous with Chinese films in south-east Asia. He started with one cinema in pre-second world war Singapore: by the time Japan invaded, he had more than 130 houses. After the war he moved operations to Hong Kong, spotting a market dominated by foreign films and sub-standard local productions. When he saw a picture from his studio that was no good, he would throw it away and start again.
The Shaw brothers came from a family of businessmen in Ningbo on China's eastern coast, where people have been accustomed to migrate for generations, and where Run Run was born. In the mid-1920s, four of the six brothers became involved in films after the eldest, Runje, acquired a theatre as a bad debt.
Sir Run Run Shaw, who has died aged 106, was the most famous of the Shaw brothers who became synonymous with Chinese films in south-east Asia. He started with one cinema in pre-second world war Singapore: by the time Japan invaded, he had more than 130 houses. After the war he moved operations to Hong Kong, spotting a market dominated by foreign films and sub-standard local productions. When he saw a picture from his studio that was no good, he would throw it away and start again.
The Shaw brothers came from a family of businessmen in Ningbo on China's eastern coast, where people have been accustomed to migrate for generations, and where Run Run was born. In the mid-1920s, four of the six brothers became involved in films after the eldest, Runje, acquired a theatre as a bad debt.
- 1/8/2014
- by John Gittings
- The Guardian - Film News
Five Deadly Venoms
Written by Chang Cheh
Directed by Chang Cheh
Hong Kong, 1978
Despite what great films have been reviewed in the column, few have, thus far, been privileged with a gift that may be only measured with time: contemporary cultural relevancy. By contemporary cultural relevancy it is meant that a given film continues to permeate the cultural landscape of the times, regardless of decade, whether it be to the timelessness of the story, its unforgettable nature, and its influence on various media in the following years. Chang Che’s most famous film, often deemed a ‘cult classic’, is Five Deadly Venoms, a picture that has been referenced countless times in other movies, television and music. Anybody remotely familiar with rap’s Wu Tang Clan knows the group has a particular fixation with said film. In fact, it would be a safe bet to say that among any Wu Tang Clan fans,...
Written by Chang Cheh
Directed by Chang Cheh
Hong Kong, 1978
Despite what great films have been reviewed in the column, few have, thus far, been privileged with a gift that may be only measured with time: contemporary cultural relevancy. By contemporary cultural relevancy it is meant that a given film continues to permeate the cultural landscape of the times, regardless of decade, whether it be to the timelessness of the story, its unforgettable nature, and its influence on various media in the following years. Chang Che’s most famous film, often deemed a ‘cult classic’, is Five Deadly Venoms, a picture that has been referenced countless times in other movies, television and music. Anybody remotely familiar with rap’s Wu Tang Clan knows the group has a particular fixation with said film. In fact, it would be a safe bet to say that among any Wu Tang Clan fans,...
- 2/24/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Wu Ma is a legend when it comes to Kung Fu movies, starring in his first movie at the age of 14 in Lady General Hua Mulan and is still active till this day. Wu must be one of the most recognizable faces in the business, starring in movies such as Encounters Of The Spooky Kind, Dead And The Deadly, The Manchu Boxer, Iron Monkey and lots more. Wu Ma is still making movies to this day, this year he appeared in the movie Game Of Assassins, which also featured Leung Kar Yan and Chen Kuan Tai.
Selected Filmography
1977:Iron Monkey
1980:Encounters Of The Spooky Kind
1980:By Hook Or By Crook
1982:Dead And The Deadly
1986:Righting Wrongs
1987:Chinese Ghost Story
1990:Swordsman
1993:Kickboxer
2012:Game Of Assassins
Background
Wu was born Feng Hongyuan in Tianjin. At 16 he moved to Guangzhou and became a machinist before migrating to Hong Kong in 1960. In...
Selected Filmography
1977:Iron Monkey
1980:Encounters Of The Spooky Kind
1980:By Hook Or By Crook
1982:Dead And The Deadly
1986:Righting Wrongs
1987:Chinese Ghost Story
1990:Swordsman
1993:Kickboxer
2012:Game Of Assassins
Background
Wu was born Feng Hongyuan in Tianjin. At 16 he moved to Guangzhou and became a machinist before migrating to Hong Kong in 1960. In...
- 11/4/2012
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
Chang Chen is one of the best directors in Kung Fu cinema, known as the main man behind many Shaw Brothers classics, Chang Chen always brings blood and guts as well as having a great story line and great characters in his movies.
Some of my favorite movies of he’s are, Vengeance, Boxer From Shantung, Five Venom’s, Shaolin Martial Arts plus many more. He always brought great depth within most of his characters unless he just went all out and wanted a very bloody movie filled with fights. John Woo was also a big fan of Chang’s and also learnt a lot from him working on certain movies. He gave us raw power in terms of the leading males in his movies and with Lau Kar Leung choreographing many of the fight scenes, you know your in for a real treat.
Born:February 10, 1923,Shanghai, China
Died:June 22, 2002 (aged 79), Hong...
Some of my favorite movies of he’s are, Vengeance, Boxer From Shantung, Five Venom’s, Shaolin Martial Arts plus many more. He always brought great depth within most of his characters unless he just went all out and wanted a very bloody movie filled with fights. John Woo was also a big fan of Chang’s and also learnt a lot from him working on certain movies. He gave us raw power in terms of the leading males in his movies and with Lau Kar Leung choreographing many of the fight scenes, you know your in for a real treat.
Born:February 10, 1923,Shanghai, China
Died:June 22, 2002 (aged 79), Hong...
- 11/4/2012
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
All the animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal.
The guys at Destroy the Brain.com are doing something a bit different this month with their Late Night Grindhouse midnight series at the Hi-Pointe Theater here in St. Louis. Martin Scorsese.s Taxi Driver (1976) is the first film they.re showing that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture (though Zombie should have been!) and is considered one of the greatest films of the .70s. At the same time it.s a perfect choice, the quintessential Grindhouse movie in the sense that it presents a time capsule of 42nd Street, the cultural center of America.s Grindhouse theaters throughout the .60s and .70s in Manhattan before it was overhauled during Mayor Rudy Giuliani.s crackdown in the mid-.90s. Watch through Travis Bickle’s eyes as he cruises in his cab...
The guys at Destroy the Brain.com are doing something a bit different this month with their Late Night Grindhouse midnight series at the Hi-Pointe Theater here in St. Louis. Martin Scorsese.s Taxi Driver (1976) is the first film they.re showing that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture (though Zombie should have been!) and is considered one of the greatest films of the .70s. At the same time it.s a perfect choice, the quintessential Grindhouse movie in the sense that it presents a time capsule of 42nd Street, the cultural center of America.s Grindhouse theaters throughout the .60s and .70s in Manhattan before it was overhauled during Mayor Rudy Giuliani.s crackdown in the mid-.90s. Watch through Travis Bickle’s eyes as he cruises in his cab...
- 4/3/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Blood Brothers
Directed by Chang Cheh
1973, Hong Kong
In the vast landscape of films that came out of this most famous of Hong Kong studios, far and few between are those which can be remembered for concentrating their efforts as much if not more so on developing a story which could stand on its own apart from all the wild action. A bit of equilibrium every now and then is much welcomed, despite how on the nose the drama might be at times. Chang Cheh’s 1973 romantic epic Blood Brothers is one such film.
Inspired by true events, the story is set in the time of the Ching Dynasty in China. A young man named Chang Wen Hsiang (played by Cheh regular David Chiang) is brought to court in shackles for the murder of a great general. Rebellion uprising? Petty thug who wanted to make it rich somehow? Neither, as...
Directed by Chang Cheh
1973, Hong Kong
In the vast landscape of films that came out of this most famous of Hong Kong studios, far and few between are those which can be remembered for concentrating their efforts as much if not more so on developing a story which could stand on its own apart from all the wild action. A bit of equilibrium every now and then is much welcomed, despite how on the nose the drama might be at times. Chang Cheh’s 1973 romantic epic Blood Brothers is one such film.
Inspired by true events, the story is set in the time of the Ching Dynasty in China. A young man named Chang Wen Hsiang (played by Cheh regular David Chiang) is brought to court in shackles for the murder of a great general. Rebellion uprising? Petty thug who wanted to make it rich somehow? Neither, as...
- 12/31/2011
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Afterschool" (2009)
Directed by Antonio Campos
Released by Mpi Home Video
Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, Campos' polarizing debut stars Ezra Miller as a high schooler whose Av club assignment leads him to capture the drug-induced deaths of two of his popular prep school classmates. [Sam Adams' review of the film is here.]
"All Men Are Brothers" (1975) and "Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms" (1978)
Directed by Chang Cheh and Wu Ma/Chang Cheh
Released by Well Go USA
Well Go USA do long-suffering American kung fu fans a solid and finally release "All Men Are Brothers," the sequel to the Shaw Brothers' epic "Seven Blows of the Dragon" (a.k.a. "Water Margin") featuring David Chiang and Chen Kuan-tai as warriors battling against the tyranny of despots, and "Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms," which pits Shaw brothers favorites' the Venom Mob against the master that crippled them.
"Afterschool" (2009)
Directed by Antonio Campos
Released by Mpi Home Video
Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, Campos' polarizing debut stars Ezra Miller as a high schooler whose Av club assignment leads him to capture the drug-induced deaths of two of his popular prep school classmates. [Sam Adams' review of the film is here.]
"All Men Are Brothers" (1975) and "Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms" (1978)
Directed by Chang Cheh and Wu Ma/Chang Cheh
Released by Well Go USA
Well Go USA do long-suffering American kung fu fans a solid and finally release "All Men Are Brothers," the sequel to the Shaw Brothers' epic "Seven Blows of the Dragon" (a.k.a. "Water Margin") featuring David Chiang and Chen Kuan-tai as warriors battling against the tyranny of despots, and "Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms," which pits Shaw brothers favorites' the Venom Mob against the master that crippled them.
- 9/8/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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