Martial arts fans! Indomina Releasing’s “True Legend” will be out in stores on DVD and Blu-ray September 13. The film directed and choreographed by Yuen Woo Ping, the lead choreographer behind “The Matrix” trilogy, “Kill Bill Volumes I and II” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” will be priced at $29.95 (Blu-ray) and $19.97 (DVD). Special features include five original featurettes, two storyboard to scene sequences, a music video and the international trailer. The synopsis of the film, according to the press release, is: Su Can’s (Vincent Zhao) respectable life is obliterated when his vengeful brother, Yuan (Andy On), returns from war armed with the deadly Five Venom Fists. Weakened but…

David Carradine is much on my mind recently, having just finished up his rather excellent “Kill Bill Diary” — a thorough, intellectually rangy and assuredly entertaining read of his time spent on Quentin Tarantino’s two-part revenge epic. A workaholic without necessarily the most discerning taste, Carradine’s sudden death at the age of 72 (in June, 2009, he was found nude in the closet of a Thai hotel room, the result of accidental autoerotic asphyxiation) nonetheless put the brakes on what just might have been one of the more interesting sunset career reinventions of modern Hollywood. After all, here was a worldly, well-read guy with a reawakened fire in his belly…

Title: True Legend Director: Yuen Woo-Ping Starring: Vincent Zhao, Zhou Xun, Andy On, Jay Chou, Michelle Yeoh, Guo Xiaodong, David Carradine An unusual sort of prequel to the influential 1978 Hong Kong martial arts comedy “Drunken Master”, starring Jackie Chan and Simon Yuen, Chinese import “True Legend”, from respected fight choreographer and filmmaker Yuen Woo-Ping, arrives Stateside following a fairly disappointing theatrical run in Eastern territories, and it’s fairly easy to understand why. A bloated period piece epic that features a generally nice blend of CGI-assisted blood-letting and fantastical, “Matrix”-y punches in which people fly through wooden support beams and stone fixtures (more on this later), the movie never gets…

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed by David Carradine’s widow Anne on June 3 against the French company MS2 S.A., who was handling the production of the actor’s last movie, ‘Stretch,’ the Associated Press (AP) is reporting. The lawsuit claims the company didn’t provide the proper services to protect him. In the lawsuit, Anne also claims MS2 S.A. didn’t provide her husband with the best possible amenities and an assistant to help him navigate Bangkok, where ‘Stretch’ was filming, and where he died, a year ago. Anne s also claiming that he company left her husband behind when everyone else went to dinner the night before his body was found,…

On Italian channel Rai Tre, director Quentin Tarantino was asked about the possibility of making “Kill Bill 3″ in the near future. The hit film starred Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu and the late David Carradine. Watch the interview below. Synopsis: Beatrix Kiddo a.k.a The Bride is a female assassin, a trained killer who has been betrayed by The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad led by her former boss Bill who gunned her down at her wedding leaving her for dead. The Bride awakes four years later and she sets out to begin her quest for vengeance. With help of one of Bill’s former tutors, retired sword maker Hattori Hanzo, The Bride…

Multiple sources are reporting that David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV show “Kung Fu” as well as an acclaimed film star, was found dead in his hotel room in the Thai capital Bangkok. In the city shooting a film, he reportedly did now show up for a cast and crew dinner on Wednesday night and was discovered the next morning. Michael Turner, a spokesman from the US Embassy, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor, who was part of a family of a venerated Hollywood family, including his father John Carradine and brothers Bruce, Robert, and Keith. Turner said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died…

Check out the latest movie trailer from the upcoming comedy “Big Stan” by actor/director Rob Schneider and starring Tsuyoshi Abe, T.J. Amato, Chris Astoyan and David Carradine. Synopsis: Stan, a two-bit con man, is being sent to prison for fraud and the prospect terrifies him. Seeking help from a mysterious martial arts guru known only as The Master, Stan transforms himself into a kung fu expert — ultimately bringing the warring prison gangs together and establishing peace within its walls.

Check out the original movie trailer for the classic 1975 film “Death Race 2000″ by director Paul Bartel and starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone (John Rambo). This one is a true classic! Synopsis: In the near future the ultimate sporting event is the deathrace. Contestants get score points for running people down as they speed across the country. The sport has crazed fans who sacrifice themselves to the drivers. An overt agency is trying to bring an end to the immoral deathrace and has infiltrated one of their followers in to the race as a navigator. In the end of the race the lives of the competitors,…