Billy Oduory on the worst JCVD remakes and direct-to-video sequels… Dubbed “the most remade action star in the world,” Jean-Claude Van Damme is an action movie sensation who transformed the genre with his excellent combination of martial arts and acting. With timeless films like Kickboxer, Hard Target, Universal Soldier, and Timecop to his name, Van […]
Maximum Van Dammage: The Definitive Top 10 Jean-Claude Van Damme Movies!
It’s time for the undisputed, inarguable, and definitive Top 10 Jean-Claude Van Damme movies… The Muscles from Brussels turned 62 this year. He’s had a stellar career filled with majestic, high-kicking action. The most iconic image of Van Damme, aside from his infamous bicep pose, is the glorious sight of him leaping in the air […]
Kickboxer heading to the small screen with TV series Operation: Kickboxer
The Kickboxer franchise is set to expand with a small screen spinoff entitled Operation: Kickboxer, which is described as “a martial arts-driven espionage series”. As reported by Deadline, Gary Scott Thompson (The Fast and the Furious) is set to serve as showrunner on the series, which will focus on Michael Sloane, the youngest brother of […]
Enter The Muscles from Brussels: The Jean-Claude Van Damme Tournament Fight Film
Tom Jolliffe looks at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s history of tournament fight films… If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. For a while in the earlier career of Jean-Claude Van Damme, that seemed to be more or less the case. When Enter the Dragon ended up as a cultural and cinematic phenomenon, a host of imitators […]
Watch a jailhouse fight scene from Kickboxer: Retaliation
With a little over two weeks to go until its home entertainment release, a new clip has arrived online for the action sequel Kickboxer: Retaliation which sees Alain Moussi’s Kurt Sloane getting involved in a jailhouse brawl with a group of inmates; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Kickboxer: Retaliation clip featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZG2Ft-4nNM […]
Exclusive Interview – Dimitri Logothetis, Director of Kickboxer: Retaliation
Tom Jolliffe chats with Dimitri Logothetis, the writer, producer and director of Kickboxer: Retaliation… Writer, director and producer, Dimitri Logothetis has had a long and successful career in TV and film. He’s worked in an array of genres over the years, from action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror, as well as a highly regard documentary called […]
Kickboxer: Retaliation gets a batch of images
The follow-up to last year’s Kickboxer: Vengeance, Kickboxer: Retaliation arrives in the UK this coming January, and we’ve got 18 images from the action sequel for you here; check them below and click on any of the images for hi-res versions… One year after the events of Kickboxer: Vengeance, Kurt Sloan has vowed never […]
Jean-Claude Van Damme returning for Kickboxer: Retaliation
We’re still a couple of months away from the release of Kickboxer: Vengeance, but camereas are already rolling on a sequel to the reboot – intended as the second part of a trilogy – and Jean-Claude Van Damme is now officially on board the film, titled Kickboxer: Retaliation, having posted a video of him signing his contract […]
Mike Tyson joins Jean-Claude Van Damme in Kickboxer: Retaliation
We’re still a few months away from the September release of the Kickboxer reboot Kickboxer: Vengeance later, but with production is already underway on a sequel, we now have word that Mike Tyson (Ip Man 3) has signed on to appear in the follow-up, titled Kickboxer: Retaliation. “This is a monumental moment for us,” states producer Robert Hickman of […]
Kickboxer remake already has a sequel in development
It looks like the producers of the upcoming Kickboxer remake are confident that they have a hit on their hands, with Deadline revealing that a sequel to Kickboxer Vengeance is already in development. Entitled Kickboxer Retaliation, the second film will see stuntman Alain Moussi returning to the role of Kurt Sloane, played by Jean-Claude Van […]
