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DRAGON BLADE
The Lunar New
Year film stars
Jackie Chan as
Huo An, a Chi-
nese soldier
who joins forces
with the tortu-
red Roman soldier Lucius (John Cusack, right) to take on the
vindictive Tiberius (Adrien Brody, left), who is hellbent on sen-
ding a legion towards the Silk Road. Directed by Daniel Lee
with Chan serving as main action director..

SKIN TRADE: Directed by BEAUTIFUL BOXER helmer Ekachai Ue-
krongtham, the film stars Dolph Lundgren as a NYPD cop who
goes to Bangkok to find the crime lord responsible for the
death of his family. There, he teams up with a Thai detective,
played by Tony Jaa, as they learn the crime boss is opera-
ting a human trafficking ring. Michael Jai White, Ron Perlman,
Celina Jade, and Peter Weller co-star. 2015 could also be
the year for Tony Jaa, who also has three films set for relea-
se in 2015, including FURIOUS 7, the latest installment of the
FAST AND FURIOUS series.

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON II: THE GREEN LEGEND:
The long-gestated sequel to the 2000 Oscar winner for Best
Foreign Film stars Michelle Yeoh as the returning Yu Shu Lien.
However, this time around, Donnie Yen takes the male lead
role as a new character, Silver Wolf. Unlike its predecessor,
the film is shot in English under the director of legendary ac-
tion helmer Yuen Woo-Ping. The supporting cast includes
Jason Scott Lee, Harry Shum Jr., Juju Chan, Eugenia Yuan
(whose mother Cheng Pei-Pei was in the original), Chris Pang,
and Darryl Quon. John Fusco, who wrote THE FORBIDDEN KING-
DOM and created Netflix’s MARCO POLO series, wrote the
screenplay based on characters from Wang Dulu.

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