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POUND OF FLESH : Jean-Claude Van Damme reunites with SIX
BULLETS and ASSASSINATION GAMES director Ernie Barbarash
on this action thriller where he plays a man who is uncons-
cious and wakes up in a blood soaked bathtub with one of his
kidneys missing. This sends him into rage mode and begins
to look for the men responsible for his impromptu “surgery”.
Darren Shahlavi, John Ralston, Aki Aleong, Jason Tobin, Mike
Leeder (who also co-produced the film), and Brahim Achab-
bakhe co-star. Donnie Yen’s longtime friend and stunt team
member John Salvitti serves as the film’s action director.
THE MARTIAL ARTS KID: Martial arts legend Don “The Dragon”
Wilson and Cynthia Rothrock star in this family-friendly film
as they play a husband and wife who take in their troubled
nephew, played by Jansen Panettiere (above). When he is
bullied, the duo decide to teach him martial arts to not only
confront the bullies, but to help him become a better person
himself. The film boasts one of the biggest casts of martial ar-
tists. Matthew Ziff, T.J. Storm, Kathryn Newton, and Chuck Zito
co-star. Production was completed after shooting in Cocoa
Beach, Florida and Los Angeles and is set to unleash in 2015.
THE CHEMIST, Art Camacho directed and choreographed
this upcoming action film starring French action star Olivier
Gruner as an aging hitman who finds himself double-crossed
when he refuses to kill his latest target. Now, he must face the
wrath of his fellow hitmen and protect the target at all costs.
Martin Kove, Patrick Kilpatrick, Nina Bergman, Stephanie Ge-
rard, Steven Dell, and Sasha Mitchell co-star in the action film.
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