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The Meileen Choo-created, Arvin Chen-directed 'Coolie' will be represented by Indra and Erlina Suharjono's I.E. Entertainment and launched at the ATF.

Arvin Chen is to direct ‘Coolie,’ a Cuba-Set series for Asian industry veteran Meileen Choo’s new Cathay Film venture.

As Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino's rip-roaring rampage of revenge turns 20, Empire celebrates the greatest moments from the ultra-violent action-thriller.

Although Hong Kong cinema has often used shocks to attract audiences, proper Cantonese-language ghost films didn't start being produced until the 1980s, when the genre was combined with kung fu and comedy in hit films like Sammo Hung Kam-bo's Encounter of the Spooky Kind. As for horror, cheap copies of American movies were produced in the early 1970s to ride...

Who are the best female action stars? In this feature, we list some of our favourites, including a few you might have never heard of.

Alonso Duralde spotlights the month's best new physical-media releases -- because streaming only covers so much

Although it’s almost lost to film history, Hong Kong’s Golden Harvest studios was very active in international film production during the 1970s. Spurred by the worldwide success of their Bruce Lee films, Golden Harvest moved into English language-productions such as Amsterdam Kill , which featured Robert Mitchum, and Night Games , a sex fantasy by French erotica specialist Roger Vadim....

As a colossal box set arrives on Blu-ray, we fight our way through the vast back catalogue of Hong Kong’s legendary action producers, the Shaw Brothers.

Facebook/9independentswords Hong Kong martial arts films owe much of their success to martial arts choreographers. But their history is mainly undocumented. A brief 1999 essay by the Hong Kong Film Archive’s Yu Mo Wan, called Martial Arts Directors in Hong Kong Cinema, set out the historical framework of the craft and provided some of the material for this story. The first wuxia films were made in Shanghai, then known as “the Hollywood of the East”, in the 1920s. According to Stephen Teo...

Fortune Star Media Limited What makes a good martial arts film – realistic kung fu or special effects and wirework? Should the performers be trained martial artists, and does the story matter as much as the action? The legends of the genre give their opinions. Sammo Hung Kam-bo, who was generally absent from the effects-driven martial arts films of the early 1990s, talking to Cinema AZN in 2005: “When I first saw special effects in martial arts films, I was very excited. But now everyone us...