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Jackie Chan is one of the premier icons of martial arts cinema, helping to define the genre since the 1970s and pushing genuine real-life techniques in his films. Chan has developed the unique ability to blend complex fighting seamlessly moves with slapstick humor, becoming a trademark of his most iconic films. He has garnered a legendary reputation for his insistence on performing his own dangerous stunts and, combined with his unique comedic style and timing, have made him an international superstar.

The majority of Chan's most hilarious and exhilarating fight scenes are a mix of creativity, athleticism, and surprise that keep the audience in suspense at never knowing what could happen next. His ability to use everyday objects and his surroundings is unmatched, from fighting with wooden clogs in Who Am I? to avoiding industrial saw machines in Mr. Nice Guy. Chan is an expert at balancing the humor and intensity of the action,...

Before Tom Cruise, there was Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan is a living legend when it comes to the risky world of stunts. Whether it is fighting off goons with nothing but a mop or sliding off the side of a skyscraper, the man has done it all, all while making it look incredibly effortless. Despite his fair share of bumps and bruises along the way, Jackie Chan jumps right back up every time, hell-bent on doing his own stunts.

A still from Who Am I? (1998) | Credits: Golden Harvest

Jackie Chan might have just turned seventy but he is making sure that his age does not hold him back. He still wants to give his audience his hundred percent, even if it means putting his own well-being at risk sometimes. A video has surfaced on social media showing Jackie Chan fainting on set while performing a stunt, prompting fans to be extremely worried about the legend.

Jackie Chan's stunt work and humor set him apart as an actor, showcasing his bravery in dangerous and thrilling stunts. Movies like "Winners and Sinners" and "Project A" highlight Chan's ability to perform impressive stunts independently. From "Police Story 2" to "Who Am I?," Chan's dedication to his craft and physical comedy shine through in his memorable and risky stunts.

Jackie Chan is one of the best-known stunt actors, if not the best, and has appeared in dozens of movie projects that demonstrate his talent. His use of stunt work and physical humor has set him apart as an actor and has turned him into one of the most recognizable names in the world. He is best known for using comedy throughout his movies, all while showing off his footwork or outwitting bad guys through physical means. But besides his comedies, he is also known to perform dangerous and thrilling stunts.

Heading to digital on July 9th, we have an exclusive clip from Ben Bigelow's Thine Ears Shall Bleed that you can watch right now!

"In the 1860's American West, a minister and his family are traveling in a covered wagon when they hear a mysterious sound from the woods. Believing the sound to be God, they worship it, until they realize the sound is something much darker. "

Directed By: Ben Bigelow Written By: Ben Bigelow, William Bigelow Produced By: Lynn Kouf, Jim Kouf, Dennis Aig Starring: Andrew Hovelson, Hannah Cabell, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Lea Zawada, Duke Huston Original Score By: Jacques Brautbar Cinematographer: Chris Cavanaugh Distributor: Miracle Media & Trinity Creative Partnership Production Company: Unnecessary Mountain Productions Runtime: 102 Minutes

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Snoop Dogg is, for lack of a better term, a pretty bizarre figure in pop culture, one whose longevity and chameleon-like skills are something of an anomaly in hip-hop. Rappers turned actors like LL Cool J and Ice-t have been able to effectively sand down the more bellicose elements of their personas for mass consumption, but the former never made as hard of a family-friendly pivot as Snoop, and you’re unlikely to find Ice-t chillin’ with Justin Bieber.

Born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., Snoop Dogg—formerly Snoop Doggy Dogg, and, for a brief moment when he was exploring Rastafarianism, Snoop Lion—is a man for every season, or, more accurately, an entertainer for any occasion. Between all of his acting credits, Twitch livestreams, and cooking-show antics with Bff Martha Stewart, one could easily forget that he’s a music artist who’s dabbled in just about every genre, from gangsta rap to gospel.

Andy On's portrayal of Tin-Tin Law in New Police Story showcased his martial arts skills and added a formidable presence as one of Jackie Chan's toughest villains. Ron Smoorenburg's role as a henchman in Who Am I? demonstrated his kicking prowess and enduring presence as a tough antagonist, culminating in a humorous yet intense battle with Jackie Chan. Hwang In-shik's portrayal of The Big Boss in Dragon Lord showcased his physical prowess and martial arts skills, solidifying him as one of the toughest villains in Jackie Chan's films.

Jackie Chan's movie career has been marked by not only his extraordinary martial arts skills but also by the memorable villains he has faced. From action to comedy, Jackie Chan's filmography includes dozens of classics. Jackie Chan’s name is synonymous with entertainment across the globe, transcending geographical boundaries due to his fascinating action sequences, acrobatic stunts, and unmatched charisma.

Jackie Chan has performed countless amazing stunts throughout his career in action movies. After his childhood of arduous physical training in the Peking Opera Academy, Jackie Chan began his career as a stunt man in the early '70s, with his early career including a brief but unforgettable appearance opposite Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon. Chan would later go on to become a star throughout Asia with his unique brand of action-comedy, and eventually achieved success in Hollywood as well.

Throughout most of his career, Jackie Chan has been known not just for his incredible martial arts fights blended with comedy, but also for performing his own stunts. Moreover, stunts in a Jackie Chan movie come with a high degree of risk, and the injuries he has endured have frequently been captured in real time in the outtakes shown at the end of many Jackie Chan movies. Some of...

Freida Pinto is lending her voice to a new animated film project in honor of International Women’s Day.

She Creates Change is a new nonprofit-led animation and live action film project from global education organization Room to Read produced by Nexus Studios. The multi-media initiative, which spans a six-episode film series as well as books and audio stories, aims to promote gender equality through telling the stories of young women across the planet. It will initially be available in English, Hindi and Spanish with plans to translate it into dozens more languages and will be distributed across the world via Room to Read and educational partnerships. The project will also be released to general audiences in October.

The film series will be comprised of six animated shorts accompanied by live action mini documentaries. They will feature young women from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Vietnam who are...

Warning: This article contains spoilers from the CW/Warner Bros. TV two-part season one finale of Naomi, ep. 12 “Ready or Not” and ep. 13 “Who Am I?”

Imagine finding out that your adopted parents took the lives of your biological parents.

Something that just was never in the DNA of Jonathan and Martha Kent, Superman’s down-to-Earth guardians.

But life can’t always imitate that of your mentor, the Man of Steel; a harsh truth that alien Naomi (Kaci Walfall) learned tonight on the two-hour season finale of the Ava DuVernay-Jill Blankenship co-created series.

But before we get there, in part one of the season finale, “Ready or Not,” our protagonist is given a locket by fellow alien Akira (Stephanie March), who was her mother’s friend. She’s re-building a ship to get Naomi back to her home planet, a mission her Earth parents Greg and Jennifer McDuffie (Barry Watson...

Hari Nef (And Just Like That…) is the latest addition to the cast of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Deadline has confirmed. She joins an ensemble led by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, which also includes America Ferrara, Kate McKinnon, Simu Liu and Will Ferrell, as previously announced.

Details with regard to the Warner Bros. film’s plot have thus far been kept under wraps. While Robbie is playing the iconic doll, with Gosling as her counterpart Ken, specifics as to the character Nef is playing have not been disclosed.

Gerwig and Noah Baumbach scripted the project, which Robbie and Tom Ackerley are producing under their LuckyChap Entertainment production banner, alongside Mattel’s Robbie Brenner and Heyday Films’ David Heyman. LuckyChap’s Josey McNamara and Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz are serving as executive producers.

Nef will next appear in Kyle Newman’s comedy 1Up, the Johanna Block drama Who Am I?...

Chicago, Il- Asian Pop-Up Cinema’s Season 13 (September 15 – October 12) will kick off with Hong Kong’s summer blockbuster Raging Fire, the same week as its nationwide distribution by Well Go USA. Festival Executive Director Sophia Wong Boccio will announce the lineup of the festival before the special screening at 7 Pm on Wednesday, August 18 at AMC River East (322 E. Illinois).

Raging Fire tells the story of a highly respected cop whose past comes back to haunt him when a former protégé seeks revenge against all those who have wronged him. It is the final project from late director Benny Chan, a Hong Kong filmmaker best known for helming Jackie Chan’s New Police Story, Rob-b-Hood, Who Am I? and Shaolin. Chan was unable to complete post-production due to his unexpected death at age 58 in August 2020. Raging Fire grossed $37.2 million on its July opening weekend in China and will be released nationally in the U.

Exclusive: 13 Reasons Why stars Alisha Boe and Brandon Flynn have joined Odessa A’zion, Gideon Adlon, Hari Nef, Otmara Marrero, Cliff Powell, Ava McCoy and Isabella Salimpour in the experimental indie Who Am I? The movie marks the feature debut of New York filmmaker Johanna Block. Plot details are being kept under wraps.

The movie is the first from upstart studio Faze, led by producer Adam Faze. It is executive produced by Ace Salvador, Izzy Traub and Jordan Despanie of Outer Heaven Films and co-produced by Emma Buerklin.

The film continues the collaboration between Faze and writer-director Block, who worked together twice last year on the scripted podcast series Day by Day, which he co-created and featured sound design by Becket Cerny. Block’s episode “At the Peak of It All” starred Josephine Langford as a young girl experiencing a panic attack in the midst of quarantine and was the series’ most viral hit,...

A twisty true-crime story loses much of its appeal in Ursula Macfarlane’s The Lost Sons, a “who am I?” doc whose subject is more fascinated with that question than most viewers will be. Paul Fronczak was ten years old when he learned he had been the victim of a foiled newborn abduction; only decades later did he realize his story was even more convoluted. Though well shot, the CNN-coproduced film always feels TV-grade at best; its level of drama (not to mention its failure to find anything universal in the specifics of Fronczak’s tale) is out-of-place on a ...

A twisty true-crime story loses much of its appeal in Ursula Macfarlane’s The Lost Sons, a “who am I?” doc whose subject is more fascinated with that question than most viewers will be. Paul Fronczak was ten years old when he learned he had been the victim of a foiled newborn abduction; only decades later did he realize his story was even more convoluted. Though well shot, the CNN-coproduced film always feels TV-grade at best; its level of drama (not to mention its failure to find anything universal in the specifics of Fronczak’s tale) is out-of-place on a ...

Veteran Hong Kong action movie director Benny Chan has sadly passed away at the age of 58.

After a beginning of career working for Rtv and Tvb, director Chan served as assistant to Johnnie To. His directorial debut was “A moment of Romance”, produced by Johnnie To, starring Andy Lau and Jacklyn Wu.

During a long lasting collaboration with Jackie Chan he directed “Who Am I?”, “New Police Story”, “Rob-b-Hood”, “Shaolin”. More action classics directed by Chan include “The White Storm”, “Call of Heroes”, “City Under Siege” and “Connected”.

Benny Chan was filming his latest work, “Raging Fire” with Donnie Yen and Nicholas Tse when he felt ill and was hospitalised. The filming had been completed but Chan wasn’t able to supervise the post production.

Gone too soon, Chan was one of the last genuine directors of action movies in Hong Kong.

With civic arts support low on American capitalism’s to-do list, orchestras and composers are canoodling more frequently with rock and pop acts — who of course have their own struggles, wringing pennies from streaming platforms et al. When the outcome isn’t just simpleminded hits-with-strings reheats or half-cooked vanity concertos, it’s a way for living artists to stretch “high culture” into useful new shapes.

The Order of Nature, recorded live in 2018, is a fairly lit collaboration between My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and hotshot conductor/composer Teddy Abrams,...

City of Hope, a world-renowned independent research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases, announced today that entertainment icon Snoop Dogg will receive the Sony Atv Music Publishing “Social Leadership” Award at its Music, Film and Entertainment Industry Group’s 15th Annual Songs of Hope.

The award will be presented by Sony Atv chairman and CEO, and 2018 Spirit of Life honoree, Jon Platt. As previously announced, producer Boi-1da and songwriter Diane Warren will receive the Clive Davis “Legend in Songwriting” Award presented by Clive Davis, composer and lyricist Marc Shaiman will receive the EA Music “Composer of the Year” Award, and songwriter and recording artist Tierra Whack will receive the Universal Music Publishing Group “She Is The Music” Award presented by Universal Music Publishing’s chairman and CEO Jody Gerson. Facebook will present the “Facebook Songwriter Impact” Award to Hayley Kiyoko, The Dream will receive the Warner Chappell Music...

Director Singing Chen graduated from the Advertising division of Department of Mass Communications of Fu Jen Catholic University. During her college years, she practiced film-making in Huang Ming-chuan’s studio specializing in documentaries. Extended training in the field of independent film-making has consolidated her experience in shooting and production.

Her films often revolve around humanity, art and culture. Based on extended production periods spanning five to ten years, they show delicate and profound visions of life derived from long-term shooting and observation. “The Walkers” (2014), a feature-length documentary about renowned Taiwanese choreographer Lin Lee-chen and her Legend Lin Dance Theatre, was selected into Taipei Film Festival. Her first narrative feature, “Bundled” was about hobos on the margins of the city. She then wrote, edited and directed “God Man Dog” (2007) that was selected into “Forum” at Berlinale and won Best Film Award of Der Tagesspiegel in Germany. In 2013, she collaborated with Jero Yun...