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Showdown (1993 Film)
''Showdown'' (also known as ''American Karate Tiger'') is a 1993 action/martial arts film directed by Robert Radler. The film stars Billy Blanks, Kenn Scott, Christine Taylor, Ken McLeod, Patrick Kilpatrick, and Brion James. The movie is reminiscent of 1984's ''The Karate Kid''. Blanks has the Pat Morita role and Scott is in Ralph Macchio's; Taylor and McLeod have the Elisabeth Shue and William Zabka roles, respectively, while Kilpatrick is in Martin Kove's. Plot Billy Grant is a police officer who is called to stop a noise complaint at a local party. Along with his partner, Spinelli, Billy enters the house to find two men causing all sorts of trouble. When Billy attempts to stop things peacefully, one of the thugs attempts to assault Billy, who uses his unarmed combat skills to stop the thug. However, when he puts the thug down, the thug's head smacks hard against the stairs. The other troublemaker looks in horror and yells to Billy, "You killed my brother, pig!". Spinelli sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Schechter (film Producer)
Alan Schechter (1965–2005) was an American action movie producer best known for his trademark style of "Low budget films with big budget effects." Personal life Born in 1965 and raised in Cleveland to Lori and Morris Paul Schechter, Schechter graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1983. Alan's family was already in the media biz as his father Morris Schechter was a local radio personality in Cleveland in the 1950s and was known as the "Voice of Racing" because he broadcast local horse races. Morris Paul Schechter later changed his name to Van Lane in 1950 after the radio station he was working for had a "Name the DJ" contest. Schechter's mother died in a traffic accident when he was only 8 years old. He began training as a survivalist in high school with the Posse Comitatus and kept his apartment full of emergency supplies including MREs, ammunition, tools, and even suture kits. Schechter died at his home in Los Angeles on August 14, 2005 from a self-inflicted gun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Zabka
William Michael Zabka (; born October 20, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Johnny Lawrence (character), Johnny Lawrence in ''The Karate Kid'' (1984), ''The Karate Kid Part II'' (1986) and the TV series ''Cobra Kai'' (2018–present). In 2004, he was nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award for co-writing and producing the short film ''Most (2003 film), Most''. Early life Zabka was born in New York City, the son of Nancy, a business liaison, producer, and production assistant, and Stan Zabka, a director, writer and composer. He has a brother and a sister. His father was born in Des Moines, Iowa of Czechs, Czech descent; he was assistant director of ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' during the first two years of Carson's tenure, and worked as production manager on a number of motion pictures, including the Chuck Norris film ''Forced Vengeance'' (1982). In 1983, Zabka graduated from El Camino Real Charter High School in Los Angeles befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Robert Radler
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground Fighting Films
Underground most commonly refers to: * Subterranea (geography), the regions beneath the surface of the Earth Underground may also refer to: Places * The Underground (Boston), a music club in the Allston neighborhood of Boston * The Underground (Stoke concert venue), a club/music venue based in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent * Underground Atlanta, a shopping and entertainment district in the Five Points neighborhood of downtown Atlanta, Georgia * Buenos Aires Underground, a rapid transit system * London Underground, a rapid transit system Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Underground'' (1928 film), a drama by Anthony Asquith * ''Underground'' (1941 film), a war drama by Vincent Sherman * ''Underground'' (1970 film), a war drama starring Robert Goulet * ''Underground'' (1976 film), a documentary about the radical organization the Weathermen * ''Underground'' (1989 film), a film featuring Melora Walters * ''Underground'' (1995 film), a film by Emir Kusturica * ''The Underground' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martial Arts Tournament Films
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of ''Epigrams'', published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist, and is considered the creator of the modern epigram. Early life Knowledge of his origins and early life are derived almost entirely from his works, which can be more or less dated according to the well-known events to which they refer. In Book X of his ''Epigrams'', composed between 95 and 98, he mentions celebrating his fifty-seventh birthday; hence he was born during March 38, 39, 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Martial Arts Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Films
The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits '' Jurassic Park'', '' The Fugitive'' and '' The Firm''. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.) Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1993 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * January 1 – China Film Import & Export Corporation ends its 40-year monopoly distributing all films in China, with 16 other Chinese film studios now responsible for distributing their own films. * January 29 – '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' opens in the United Kingdom setting an opening weekend record of £2,633,635 million. * March 31 – Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of ''The Crow''. * May 27 – Actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge initially orders her to pay $8.9 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film ''Boxing Helena''. As a result, Basinger loses the town that she purc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lew
James Jene Fae Lew (born September 6, 1952) is an American actor and martial artist. He has made 80 on-screen film and television appearances and 46 more as a stunt coordinator or stunt double. He has done choreography for movies like ''Get Smart'', '' Killers'' and the cult classic ''Big Trouble In Little China'', as well as television shows such as ''National Geographic's Fight Science'', '' The Crow: Stairway to Heaven'', and ''Entourage''. He does Shaolin Kung-Fu, Tae Kwon Do, Jeet Kune Do, Hapkido, and Boxing. He also trained Brad Pitt with sword fighting for the movie ''Troy''. Career An early role for Lew was as a guard in the John Cassavetes 1976 film, ''The Killing of a Chinese Bookie''. Lew had a role in the Frank Harris directed action film ''Killpoint'', which starred Leo Fong, Richard Roundtree, Cameron Mitchell and Stack Pierce. In 2017, he acted in the Mark Steven Grove directed sci-fi film '' Star Raiders: The Adventures of Saber Raine'', which also starred Caspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Genovese
Mike Genovese (born Peter Michael Genovese on April 26, 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actor. Career Genovese was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri to an Italian American family. Genovese earned a master's degree in drama at Eastern Illinois University and taught acting at Webster College from 1969 to 1973 before devoting himself to work as actor in Washington, D.C., where he met his future wife, TV/film actress Ellen Crawford, Chicago, and later Los Angeles. A character actor known for playing heavies, Genovese has appeared in many films such as two Richard Pryor billed vehicles, ''Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling'' (1986) and ''Harlem Nights'', which also co-starred Eddie Murphy, Redd Foxx and Della Reese, and guest roles on TV series such as ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', '' The Paper Chase'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', ''Family Matters'', ''NYPD Blue'', ''Quantum Leap'', '' Arli$$'', '' ER'', '' Chicago Hope'', and '' JAG''. In 1990 he was a cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seidy López
Seidy López is a Mexican-American actress and director. López is best known for her starring debut in the critically acclaimed film ''Mi Vida Loca''. She appeared in ''Solo'', the hit film ''Selena'', an episode of '' ER'' directed by Quentin Tarantino, and in Showtime's ''Resurrection Boulevard''. López co-starred in ''Luminarias'' and ''The Elián González Story'' for the Fox Family Channel, and starred in ''Blink of an Eye''. She also recently directed her first film, ''American Born'', which is in post-production. Early life Seidy López was born in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. At the age of four, she and her family moved to the United States in search of a more rewarding life. Retrieved on August 25, 2009. When she turned ten, her parents found it necessary to return to Yucatán with their three children in order to learn how to properly read, write and speak the Spanish language. The López family returned to the States two years later with their children completely bilin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Kove
Martin Kove () (born ) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as John Kreese, the main antagonist of ''The Karate Kid'' (1984). He reprised the role in ''The Karate Kid Part II'' (1986), ''The Karate Kid Part III'' (1989), and the television series ''Cobra Kai'' (2018–present). Kove also appeared as Nero the Hero in ''Death Race 2000'' (1975), and afterward as Clem in '' White Line Fever'' (1975). He was a regular on the TV series ''Cagney and Lacey'' (1982–1988), portraying Police Detective Victor Isbecki. He appeared in '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985) and Quentin Tarantino's ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' (2019). Early life Kove was born in New York City in 1946 in the borough of Brooklyn to a Jewish American family. Career From 1982-88, Kove appeared in the main cast of ''Cagney & Lacey'' as New York City Detective Victor Isbecki, a supporting role he reprised in subsequent television movies for the series. During the same time, Kove appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Judson Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films ''The Karate Kid'' (1984), ''Adventures in Babysitting'' (1987), '' Cocktail'' (1988), ''Back to the Future Part II'' (1989), '' Back to the Future Part III'' (1990), ''Soapdish'' (1991), ''The Saint'' (1997), ''Hollow Man'' (2000), Heartsoul, Palmetto ''Piranha 3D'' (2010), '' Battle of the Sexes'' (2017), '' Death Wish'' (2018), ''Greyhound'' (2020). and ''Cobra Kai'' (2021). She was nominated for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in the film ''Leaving Las Vegas'' (1995). On television, she has starred as Julie Finlay in the CBS procedural forensics crime drama ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' from 2012 to 2015, Madelyn Stillwell in the Amazon Prime Video series '' The Boys'' and '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'', and reprised her ''The Karate Kid'' role in the third season of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
