Posted: 19 Jun 2015 12:05 AM PDT

The Last Dragon | Blu-ray (Sony)

Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon celebrates its 30th Anniversary by debuting for the first time on Blu-ray August 25 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The cult classic has been fully remastered in high definition for Blu-ray and features exciting all-new dynamic packaging art by acclaimed Mondo Gallery artist Gary Pullin, as well as the featurette Return of the Dragon, a newly-created retrospective look at the making of the film, featuring new interviews with the cast and crew, including Taimak, Berry Gordy and more! Additional bonus features include commentary by director Michael Schultz and the original theatrical trailer.

The martial arts musical extravaganza follows Leroy Green (A.K.A. “Bruce Leroy”), who dreams of becoming a great martial artist like his idol Bruce Lee, as he searches for the “master” to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as “the glow.” Along the way, he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter. The Last Dragon stars Taimak (Book of Swords) as “Bruce Leroy,” former “Vanity 6″ frontwoman Vanity (Action Jackson) as the singer, Christopher Murney (Barton Fink) and Julius Carry (The New Guy).

Celebrate thirty years of The Last Dragon, now fully remastered in high definition on Blu-ray. Martial arts student Leroy Green (Taimak) is on a quest to obtain the elusive all-powerful force known as “The Glow.” Along the way he must battle the evil, self-proclaimed Shogun of Harlem – a kung fu warrior also known as Sho’nuff (Julius J. Carry III) – and rescue a beautiful singer (Prince protégée, Vanity) from an obsessed record promoter. Combining pulsating music, cutting edge dancing and the best in non-stop action, The Last Dragon is kickin’ good fun featuring an amazing Motown soundtrack, including music by Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Vanity and DeBarge performing their smash hit “Rhythm of the Night.”

Directed by Michael Schultz (Car Wash) from a screenplay by Louis Venosta (Bird on a Wire), The Last Dragon was produced by Rupert Hitzig (Jaws 3D) and executive produced by Berry Gordy (Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany, The Wiz).

Exclusive Blu-ray Bonus Features Include: “Return of the Dragon” Featurette; Original Theatrical Trailer; Other features include Director’s Commentary by Michael Schultz.

Cityonfire.com received the above press release from Sony on June 15, 2015.

‘Hit-Girl’ prequel and ‘Kick-Ass 3′ in the works?

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 12:04 AM PDT

"Kick-Ass 2" Japanese Theatrical Poster

Mark Millar, creator of the comic books, Kick-Ass and The Secret Service – the basis for the upcoming Kingsman: The Secret Service – recently mentioned that a planned Hit-Girl spin-off movie was in the works. Here’s the interesting part: Gareth Evans (The Raid, The Raid 2) was in talks for the project.

Here’s what Millar told IGN during a recent interview: “Before Kick-Ass 2 came out, we'd been talking about a Hit-Girl spin-off movie… we'd even talked to a director – we had a couple of calls with Gareth Evans, who I absolutely love. He's an amazing director. But Gareth's now busy.”

Well, one can only imagine what a Evans-directed Hit-Girl movie would have been like, but hey, at least we have The Raid 3 to look forward to in 2018.

Updates: In a recent interview with Yahoo, this is what Matthew Vaughn (director of the original Kick-Ass) had to say about a Hit-Girl prequel and a Kick-Ass 3: "I'm not happily done with the franchise, for sure. Kick-Ass is a really important film to me and I'm very proud of it, and we would like to dip our toe back into it—when I say 'we' I mean Mark [Millar] and I and the team… We're working on an idea for a prequel of how did Hit Girl and Big Daddy become Hit Girl and Big Daddy. If we make that, hopefully that will be the sorbet for the people that didn't like Kick-Ass 2, and then we can go off and make Kick-Ass 3. But I think we've got to do this prequel just to regain the love that we had with Kick-Ass."

Underdogs Kids | DVD (Anchor Bay)

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 12:00 AM PDT

Underdogs Kids | DVD (Anchor Bay)

RELEASE DATE: July 7, 2015

Anchor Bay presents the DVD for Underdogs Kids, directed by and starring Philip Rhee (Best of the Best series).

It's a few weeks before the big karate tournament, and the struggling Mid-City Community Center has just lost their instructor. But when former MMA champ Jimmy 'The Lightning Bolt' Lee (Rhee) returns to the old neighborhood, he reluctantly agrees to train the misfit kids for their match against the undefeated Beverly Hills team. | Watch the trailer!

Pre-order Underdog Kids from Amazon.com today!

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