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The 70s and early 80s were the glory years of Hong Kong kung-fu action movies, and as the genre was winding down, one late effort topped them all. The completely bananas Furious, starring martial arts legends Simon and Phillip Rhee, is about to be made widely available again after years of scarcity, thanks to the efforts of distributor Visual Vengeance. Simon, a fierce Kung Fu master, ventures into the city’s gritty underbelly for answers to his sister’s death. There, a cunning spiritual master deceives him, plotting to snatch his piece of an ancient amulet he shared with her. Unraveling the scheme, Simon plunges fists and feet first into a bone-crushing battle for the fate of the world… One thing you’re going to have to accept is that a high-def version of Furious was simply not available — the masters were done on videotape and Vv had to make do with them.

While Stallone and Schwarzenegger took the 80s by storm with their famous brand of one-man-army spectacles, the latter part of the decade would also see a new breed of tough guys branch out into a different trend of action. It wasn’t only about the ripped muscles and the gunplay and explosions. After martial arts had gone mainstream, stars such as Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal would carve out their own little place at the box office as they brought their expertise of hand-to-hand combat to the masses.

Naturally, other studios would want to get in on the action and the best thing about jumping on this trend is the fact that there is still an aspect of originality since each star would be spotlighting a specific sect of martial arts. For example, Michael Dudikoff would showcase Ninjitsu, Seagal showcased Aikido, Phillip Rhee showcased Tae Kwan Do,...

In 1989, the movie Best of the Best had a somewhat abbreviated run in theaters. Only grossing a mere $1.7 million, the movie was a major hit on home video and cable. That’s why, three years later, a sequel, Best of the Best 2, hit theaters… for a while. While the first film has maintained a certain cult status, the sequel, and the two more that followed, have been largely forgotten – until now on this edition of The Best Movie You Never Saw.

Best of the Best 2 came from the same creative team behind the original, including director Robert Radler and producer/ star Phillip Rhee. Intriguingly, it was co-written by a TV actor of the time named John Allen Nelson, who starred on Baywatch for a few seasons, played Paul The Wine Guy on Friends, and has shown up as a guest actor on most of the biggest shows on TV.

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[This story contains spoilers for Stranger Things 4, Volume 2.]

Brett Gelman can laugh about it now, but he did feel bad for posting an innocuous message to Matt and Ross Duffer on social media prior to the premiere of Stranger Things 4 that inadvertently read as though Murray Bauman was a goner, leading fans to lose their minds.

Of course, with the arrival of Volume 2 last weekend of the immensely popular Netflix series, fans now know that Murray not only survived, but he was also something of a hero in saving Jim Hopper (David Harbour) and Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) while trapped in Russia, thanks to his smarts, some karate and a huge flamethrower.

The actor revels in Murray’s arc, which began with a shut-in conspiracy theorist in season two. Creating a well-detailed backstory for his character, Gelman understands exactly what makes him tick — and finds Murray quite relatable.

In a recent conversation with The Hollywood Reporter,...

Project will be structured as a UK-China co-production.

Goldfinch Neon, the Hong Kong outpost of the UK’s Goldfinch Studios, has unveiled its debut production slate, including martial arts fantasy The Three Swords Of Master Chan, to be directed by Sergei Bodrov.

Currently in development, the project will be set in 17th Century China and East Asia. The producers plan to bring on board an international cast and structure the project as a UK-China co-production. Russian filmmaker Bodrov’s credits include Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan and Seventh Son.

Crako, which is currently raising finance, combines a heist premise with zombies and parkour,...

Stars: Simon Rhee, Arlene Montano, Phillip Rhee, Howard Jackson, Loren Avedon, Jon Dane, Mika Elkan, Peter Malota, John Potter, Joyce Tilley | Written and Directed by Tim Everitt, Tom Sartori

‘Famously incomprehensible’ are among the first words which come up when one Googles 1984′s martial arts picture Furious. ‘Famously incomprehensible’ is about right too, from the awful picture quality to the bizarre story, which is best described as martial artists vs aliens (after a fashion) battling for control of the universe. I had to Google that bit too, so incomprehensible is the story that I couldn’t quite tell what was going on most of the time.

Lovers of purposefully bad movies like The Room and Plan 9 From Outer Space should find much to celebrate in Furious, in which a pensive young fighter named Simon (Simon Rhee) attempts to fend off the forces of evil by repeatedly kicking them in the face.

Wesley Snipes has signed to star in and produce the martial arts comedy "Master Daddy" for Maandi Media Entertainment and Tayrona Entertainment Group reports Variety.

In what could be seen as almost an 'Expendables of the martial arts circuit', dozens of martial arts and fighting arts stars will populate the cast including Chuck Norris, Sonny Chiba, Royce Gracie, Sammo Hung, Dan Inosanto, Phillip Rhee, Tony Jaa, Lee Mosely, Bob Wall, Rampage, Anderson Silva and Ron Van Cleff. Musicians Rock Steady, Jabbawakkies and Quest Crew will also appear.

Filming kicks off this Fall for release next year. Dan Meachum and James Ordonez are also producing but no word on who'll pen the script or direct.

Recently I found myself in a familiar dilemma: which prized piece of Fox Movie Channel cinema should I review next? When there are so many seriously good and seriously bad movies deserving the Unvaulted touch, how can I decide? But then I turned on our channel just in time to see Wayne Newton, in a shiny shiny jacket, emceeing some sort of mortal combat cage fight in which some dude (some dude I later learned is Chris Penn!) gets kicked in the face. And instantly my problem was solved.

A lot of people get kicked in the face in Best of the Best 2. So many. And people get shot at, and Eric Roberts punches a lot of dudes, and Phillip Rhee throws at least seven guys over his shoulder (I tried to count) and breaks a lot of dudes' bones. Sometimes he even throws a bad dude over his...

Korean-based Stereo Pictures, will convert Canadian director Brad Peyton's, Vancouver-lensed Disney sci-fi fantasy, "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore" to 3D, in time for a July release.

Stereo's Us branch, opened in 2007, is managed by former Warner's staffers James R. Miller and Dan Romanelli, with former Cfc Entertainment president Phillip Rhee.

Last month, Stereo Pictures signed an agreement with the Korea Film Council (Kofic) 'to cultivate' S3D professionals and develop S3D technology, planning to train 750 3D artists, engineers through the program, before recruiting them into the company.

"Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore", a Warners, Village Roadshow production, is a sequel to the 2001 "Cats & Dogs". The new movie filmed throughout Vancouver, September to December 2008, including sequences shot @ the Pne amusement park.

Starring Chris O'Donnell and Jack McBrayer. Andrew Lazar produced "Kitty Galore" for Mad Chance with former Warner Independent head Polly Cohen.

Screenplay is by Ron Friedman and Steve Bencich,...

No Way! Hollywood is going to make and convert more movies to 3D?? That's unheard of! What a bold step taken by the studios! Not only will Transformers 3 possibly be in 3D, but Cats and Dogs 2 is going to be converted to 3D as well! Cats And Dogs 2. More from the trades:While the 3D conversion work on "Clash of the Titans" went to an established Hollywood company, Prime Focus, with access to a worldwide network of facilities, a company few in Hollywood are even aware of is already at work on another Warner title. Stereo Pictures, a Korean company with an American branch led by former Warner execs, is converting "Cats and Dogs 2" to 3D for July release. Stereo Pictures Korea president Sung Young-seok told Daily Variety that his company is in talks for three additional pictures at Warner and is bidding on a number of 3D films for individual directors,...

No Way! Hollywood is going to make and convert more movies to 3D?? That's unheard of! What a bold step taken by the studios! Not only will Transformers 3 possibly be in 3D, but Cats and Dogs 2 is going to be converted to to 3D as well! Cats And Dogs 2. More from the trades:While the 3D conversion work on "Clash of the Titans" went to an established Hollywood company, Prime Focus, with access to a worldwide network of facilities, a company few in Hollywood are even aware of is already at work on another Warner title. Stereo Pictures, a Korean company with an American branch led by former Warner execs, is converting "Cats and Dogs 2" to 3D for July release. Stereo Pictures Korea president Sung Young-seok told Daily Variety that his company is in talks for three additional pictures at Warner and is bidding on a number of 3D films for individual directors,...

Stereo Pictures is expanding its business as it begins to launch its process of converting movies to stereoscopic 3-D.

According to Stereo co-president Phillip Rhee, the goal is to help studios convert libraries of titles to provide the content needed to move the 3-D business to theaters, homes and mobile devices. It also has its sights on new titles and the games market.

The company is beginning technology deployment and recently brought in new partners: former Warner Bros. execs James R. Miller and Dan Romanelli.

Stereo proprietary technology, developed at its R&D site in Korea and designed to convert any digital format to a 3-D format, will be deployed in service bureaus in Los Angeles and Korea. Once set up, the company estimates that it could convert a title in as little as a month and a half.

Filmmakers would participate in the conversion. "The marriage of technology and art is critical,...