Woo hoo for Woo Nov 16, 2009
"Hard Target"(1993), with Jean-Claude Van Damme ... Woo found it was much easier to work in China than in Hollywood, where his blockbusters include "Hard Target" (1993), with Jean-Claude Van Damme; "Face/Off" (1997), featuring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage; and "Mission: Impossible II" (2000), starring Tom Cruise. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Daily television listings Oct 24, 2009
Jean-Claude Van Damme vs. terrorists at a hockey arena. R (1995). (Boston Globe)
10/21-11/7: Retooled 'Vampire Tale' Oct 20, 2009
He's also a member of the nouveau hip-hop band Drunken Immortals and is expanding his career into film scoring with a "Universal Soldier" sequel, with Jean-Claude Van Damme, due out next year. Hill's style, inspired by such avant-garde composers as John Cage, Steve Reich and John Zorn, was perfect to create a creepy ambience. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
* OTHER RELEASES Oct 16, 2009
The co-director of the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Kickboxer offers up another slice of hand-to-hand combat in this feature from 2006, also a DVD promotional release. Eclectic fighting styles are at the fore as a series of real-life wrestlers (Roddy Piper, for example) and other fighters portray badass Los Angeles thugs and war vets looking for or eschewing criminal glory. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Celebrity birthdays for Oct. 18-24 Oct 15, 2009
Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is 49. Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is 48. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Too many choices Oct 11, 2009
They're sitting on the shelf in-between JCVD (a postmodern Jean-Claude Van Damme film) and season two of Entourage. I've never seen those either - partly because I feel guilty about not having watched the Bergman films first. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Universal Solider 2 Oct 10, 2009
Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme re-team, with disappointing results. by , IGN UK. (IGN FilmForce)
'Zombieland' = family Oct 2, 2009
Also asked: Joe Pesci, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Matthew McConaughey, Mark Hamill, Kevin Bacon and Sylvester Stallone. They were asked, but either didn't want the role or were not available, according to Wernick and Reese. (CNN -- US)
Surrogates: The Zen Machismo of Bruce Willis Sep 26, 2009
" Surrogates is busy and brainy but dyspeptic an action movie that aspires to entropy. The only fun the film rouses itself to is casting Willis as both Greer, a grizzled, bearded depressive (his son has recently died in a car accident, the victim of lazy screenwriters), and his nearly unstoppable surrogate, who lives out the career as an FBI agent that Greer used to do himself. It's a hoot to see Willis looking young and blond, his face miraculously unlined. This is how he might actually appear... (Time.com)
Daily guide to television and radio Aug 13, 2009
Jean-Claude Van Damme as the first Westerner to win a deadly martial-arts contest. R (1988). (Boston Globe)
The Warrior: Miguel Torres living his dream as one of the best pound-for-pound MMA fighters in the world Aug 9, 2009
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No Canada For Zito Jul 24, 2009
"They said, 04000 39;Sign here and you are never allowed in Canada ever again.' I guess I'm not moving there," said Zito, who famously beat up Jean-Claude Van Damme for dis sing him at Scores. He's helping orga nize a memorial for Gatti, who was found strangled, next Thursday at 7 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Church in Jersey City. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Newsweek: Meet North Koreas My Three Sons Jul 19, 2009
Kim, also known as the Dear Leader, has boasted to guests that he owns 20,000 movies, and he once instructed his ambassador to the United Nations to obtain a copy of Sudden Death, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, who is said to be the Dear Leader's film hero ... One, written when he was a sixth or seventh grader in the mid-'90s, and provided to NEWSWEEK by someone connected to the school, is called "My Ideal World." It begins: "If I had my ideal world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs... (MSNBC -- International)
'Up' rises to top of best-movie list for '09 Jul 18, 2009
"JCDV": If you think of Jean-Claude Van Damme as a bone-headed action star and there's no reason you shouldn't this will change your mind. Not only is this film, in which Van Damme is in a post office that's robbed and taken hostage, fantastic, so is he; particularly in an extended scene in which he faces the camera and talks about his life and career. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Street Fighter Jun 27, 2009
Listening to these interviews, you'd think no one had ever adapted the game into a movie before; there's no mention of the 1994 version starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. But that film is not as easily forgotten as the producers would hope, and it would be nice to know if it had any influence on this one at all. (IGN FilmForce)
North Korea's heir apparent educated in West Jun 4, 2009
Kim attended the school under the false name of Pak Chol, the weekly said, and school officials and his classmates "thought they were dealing with the son of the driver of the embassy." Friends and staff at the school remembered a shy boy who enjoyed skiing, loved the National Basketball Association and spoke highly of action-movie actor Jean-Claude Van Damme. He reportedly left the school at 15 to return to North Korea, and little about his life there is known by the outside world. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
S. Koreans speculate about Kim's successor Jun 3, 2009
" She says the plans for a father-son succession suggest North Korea has no plans to reform its closed economy or to rethink the hostile face it shows the world. Little is known about Jong Un. The Swiss newsmagazine L'Hebdo reported this year that he attended the International School of Bern, Switzerland, in the 1990s. He enrolled under the pseudonym Pak Chol, socialized with the children of U.S. diplomats and became of fan of basketball superstar Michael Jordan and movie action star Jean-Claude... (USA Today)
Terminator Salvation: Even Bale and Worthington could not salvage it Jun 3, 2009
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The Marine (2006) - DVD Review Jun 2, 2009
Packed with testosterone, pecs and six packs, they often starred Jean-Claude Van Damme or Dolph Lundgren. The plots were predictable, the dialogue dreadful; what they did have to offer were set-piece fight sequences and a string of cheesy one-liners. (Suite101.com)
Dolph vs. IGN May 29, 2009
IGN: You're also reuniting with Jean-Claude Van Damme on. LUNDGREN: With Universal Soldier, it's the same character. (IGN FilmForce)
Area fighter set to compete May 19, 2009
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Look Up, then look way, way down May 14, 2009
Maybe the producers who put up the giant billboard on the Croisette for a Jean-Claude van Damme movie ( His vengeance knows no bounds ) should have taken a peek at Anne Aghion's movie about Rwanda's reconciliation tribunals. And then there's Vengeance: There's no real ambiguity in the title of Johnnie To's latest, in which Johnny Hallyday stars as a dad avenging the murder of his daughter's family. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Review: JCVD starring Jean-Claude V... May 1, 2009
Review: JCVD starring Jean-Claude Van Damme: Action Star Ditches Martial Arts for Dramatic Crime Thriller ... Review: JCVD starring Jean-Claude Van Damme ... Review: JCVD starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. (Suite101.com)
Box Office Report: Zac to the Future! Apr 20, 2009
He's manfully filled the B-movie action slots once occupied by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal. His movies generally pull first-weekend numbers in the teen-millions and end up in the $25-40 million domestic range not bad for productions that don't cost much. (Time.com)
Seagal, JCVD Team-Up Apr 16, 2009
In Weapon, Jack Conway (Steven Seagal) and Derek Chase (Jean-Claude Van Damme) are the two best assassins in the world ; but unknown to each other ... For his part, Jean-Claude Van Damme, "the Muscles from Brussels," has more than three dozen films to his credit, with worldwide grosses in excess of $1 billion. (IGN FilmForce)
The Muscles From Brussels gets emotional Apr 7, 2009
Jean-Claude Van Damme the rare joy of being taken seriously. It is a strange time in cinema history when Jean-Claude Van Damme is getting enthusiastic reviews ... Playing a washed-up, B-grade action hero named Jean-Claude Van Damme. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Old-school action heroes return to screen Mar 28, 2009
He has the everyman qualities of Willis, along with the martial arts prowess of a Jean-Claude Van Damme or a Chuck Norris. "Crank" was one of the most underrated action movies of the decade, and the trailer for the sequel looks great. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Film review: Latest 'Street Fighter' film a time waster Mar 12, 2009
The basic story follows the outline of the Chun-Li character, first seen way back in the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme action film Street Fighter, also based on the video game. That film was far from a box office success. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
There's hope for gamer movies Mar 5, 2009
But The Legend of Chun-Li is a significant improvement over its predecessor the 1994 Street Fighter film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Thats because instead of giving us nothing but one hyper cartoonish character after another it actually tries to give us something of a real human being in our leading lady. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Street Fighter vs. Street Fighter Mar 3, 2009
He has taken a group of Allied Nations workers hostage, so it's up to AN regional commander Col. (Jean-Claude Van Damme) to figure out a way to spring them. Part of his plan involves having cooperating operatives Ryu Hoshi (Byron Mann) and (Damian Chapa) infiltrate Bison's organization. (IGN FilmForce)
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-L Mar 2, 2009
Unfathomably, this is the third movie adaptation of the 22-year-old kick-and-punch arcade game, including an animated film in 1993 and, a year later, the live action Street Fighter with Jean-Claude Van Damme. The current movie is released in conjunction with the Xbox and PlayStation 3game, Street Fighter IV, and judged as a 90-minute commercial it succeeds. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
In 'Street Fighter,' everyone's game for violence Feb 28, 2009
(The first was 1994's "Street Fighter," starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The game, first released in 1987, was based on a then-novel concept: Two players choose characters from an international cast of martial arts experts and attempt to beat their opponent into bloody pulp by banging away at the arcade buttons. (Boston Globe)
Hollywood is banking on the love of the video game Feb 27, 2009
The game, launched in an arcade version in 1987, was previously made into 1994's Jean-Claude Van Damme movie "Street Fighter," which despite middling reviews grossed nearly $100 million worldwide. "It certainly helps with the awareness for the film," says Amritraj, whose 14-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son urged him to make the "Street Fighter" movie, because they enjoy the underlying game so much. (Boston Globe)
Clarke M. Thomas,noted PG editorial writer, columnist Feb 23, 2009
He was amused to note that it was used to film a murder scene in the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie "Sudden Death." It also served as a launching pad for the lives of their children and an arena for hours of story-telling and debate. As recently as a week before his death, he invited an array of guests to his home for the purpose of discussing Abraham Lincoln. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Fighter Looks Feb 8, 2009
Jean-Claude Van Damme turned in a fairly faithful rendition of the videogame Guile. True, they swapped out the American olive drab for United Nations baby blue. (IGN FilmForce)
