Ip Man 3

[GeneChing]

Mike Tyson Kung-Fu Fightin'
... In Brand New Action Flick
10/1/2015 10:01 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF



Mike Tyson's boxing days are over, but he's proving his fists still have fury ... starring in a new Kung-Fu flick alongside some of the biggest names in martial arts movie history.

The trailer just dropped for "Ip Man 3" ... the follow up to Ip Man 1 and 2 ... and it shows Mike calling punks out to see whose hands are the most lighting fast between a boxer and a Kung-Fu master.

Mike's in some GREAT company ... the movie stars Donnie Yen as Ip Man (The guy that trained Bruce Lee!!) and Sammo Hung, who between them have starred in over 239 movies ... most of which are the flying-kick-to-the-face variety.

Check out the trailer ... you get to see a little vintage Mike workin' the speed bag (he's still got it) but if you wanna see him throw down with the big boys on-screen ... you might need to buy a ticket.

We can't wait.

I imagine this is exactly the sort of cross-over IM3 is looking for...

[GeneChing]

It's Donnie and Iron Mike versus Jackie, Johnny and Bingbing this xmas.

[GeneChing]

Once again, courtesy of WellGoUSA

Synopsis

Donnie Yen (upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2) ignites the screen in a return to the role that made him an icon - as Ip Man, the real-life Wing Chun grandmaster who mentored Bruce Lee. In this explosive third installment of the blockbuster martial arts series, when a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer (Mike Tyson) make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand. Fists will fly as some of the most incredible fight scenes ever filmed play out on the big screen in this soon-to-be genre classic.

Director: Wilson Yip
Cast: Donnie Yen
Producer: Bak-Ming Wong
Genre: Action & Adventure, Foreign
Sub Genre: Biography, Martial Arts
Theatrical Date: Jan 22, 2016
Original Language: Cantonese
Subtitle: English

[boxerbilly]

it's donnie and iron mike versus jackie, johnny and bingbing this xmas.

cool..............

[GeneChing]

...including Bruce!

[PalmStriker]

GET READY ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKoPwo9mofA

[GeneChing]

Here's the list from the Well Go USA site. This is a big opening for them.

USA THEATER LOCATION

January 22, 2016
ALASKA

Bear Tooth Theatrepub
1230 W 27th Ave
Anchorage, AK 99503
(907) 276-4200

ATLANTA

AMC Phipps Plaza 14
3500 Peachtree Rd
Atlanta, GA 30326
(404) 231-1492

Regal Cinemas Hollywood 24
3265 Northeast Expy NE
Chamblee, GA 30341
(844) 462-7342

AMC Southlake 24
7065 Mt Zion Cir
Morrow, GA 30260

AUSTIN

Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
1120 S Lamar Blvd
Austin, TX 78704
(512) 861-7040

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Lakeline
14028 US-183
Austin, TX 78717
(512) 861-7070

BALTIMORE

Cinemark Egyptian 24
7000 Arundel Mills Cir
Hanover, MD 21076
(443) 755-8990

BLOOMINGTON

AMC Showplace Bloomington 11
1351 S College Mall Rd
Bloomington, IN 47401

BOSTON

AMC Loews Boston Common 19
175 Tremont St
Boston, MA 02111
(617) 423-5801

BUFFALO

Regal Cinemas Elmwood Center 16
2001 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY 14207
(844) 462-7342

CHARLOTTE

AMC Concord Mills 24
8421 Concord Mills Blvd.,
Concord, NC 28027
(704) 979-0200

Regal Cinemas Ballantyne Village 5
14815 Ballantyne Village Way
Charlotte, NC 28277
(844) 462-7342

CLEVELAND

Cinemark At Valley View And XD
6001 Canal Rd
Valley View, OH 44125
(216) 447-8820

CHICAGO

AMC River East 21
322 East Illinois Street
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 596-0333

COLUMBUS

AMC Lennox Town Center 24
777 Kinnear Rd
Columbus, OH 43212

DALLAS

AMC Grapevine Mills
3150 Grapevine Mills Parkway
Grapevine, TX 76051
(972) 539-5909

AMC Mesquite 30
19919 Lyndon B Johnson Fwy
Mesquite, TX 75149
(972) 329-3992

Angelika Film Center
5321 E Mockingbird Ln
Dallas, TX 75206
(214) 841-4713

Cinemark Legacy
7201 North Central Expressway
Plano, TX 75025

DENVER

Sie FilmCenter
2510 E Colfax Ave
Denver, CO 80206

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Littleton
7301 S Santa Fe Dr
Littleton, CO 80120
(303) 730-2470

DETROIT

Historic Howell Theater
315 E Grand River Ave
Howell, MI 48843
(517) 579-2355

EL PASO

Santikos Silverado IMAX
24720 TX-249
Tomball, TX 77375
(281) 290-0077

HAWAII

Consolidated Theatres Kahala 8
4211 Waialae Avenue #3080
Honolulu, HI 96816
(808) 733-6243

Pearlridge West 16
98-1005 Moanalua Road
Aiea, HI 96701
(808) 483-5339

HOUSTON

AMC Gulf Point 30
11801 South Sam Houston Pkwy E
Houston, TX 77089

AMC Studio 30
2949 Dunvale
Houston, TX 77063
(713) 977-4431

Santikos Palladium AVX Entertainment
7301 West Grand Parkway South
Richmond, TX 77407
(281) 239-4200

IRVINE

Edwards University Town Center 6
4245 Campus Drive, University Center
Irvine, CA 92612
(844) 462-7342

KNOXVILLE

Regal Cinemas Downtown West 8
1640 Downtown W Blvd
Knoxville, TN 37919
(844) 462-7342

LANSING

NCG Eastwood Cinemas
2500 Showtime Dr
Lansing, MI 48906
(517) 316-9100

LAS VEGAS

AMC Town Square 18
6587 Las Vegas Blvd South
Las Vegas, NV 89119
(702) 362-7283

LOS ANGELES

AMC Burbank Town Center 6
770 North 1st Street
Burbank, CA 91501

AMC Puente Hills 20
1560 South Azusa Avenue
City of Industry, CA 91748

AMC Atlantic Time Square
450 N Atlantic Blvd
Monterey Park, CA 91754
(626) 407-0240

AMC Orange 30
20 City Blvd West
Orange, CA 92868

Laemmle Playhouse 7
673 E Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101

Cinemark 18 & XD
6081 Center Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 568-3394

MCALLEN

Cinemark Hollywood 17 + XD
100 W Nolana Ave
McAllen, TX 78504
(956) 682-9438

MIAMI

AMC Aventura 24
19501 Biscayne Blvd #3001
Aventura, FL 33180
(305) 466-9880

NEW ORLEANS

AMC Elmwood Palace 20
1200 Elmwood Park Blvd
Harahan, LA 70123

NEW YORK CITY

AMC Empire 25
234 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036

IFC Center
323 6th Ave
New York, NY 10014
(212) 924-7771

College Point Multiplex Cinemas
2855 Ulmer St
Flushing, NY 11354

NEW JERSEY

AMC Jersey Gardens 20
651 Kapkowski Road
Elizabeth, NJ 07201

PHILADELPHIA

UA Riverview Plaza Stadium 17
1400 S Christopher Columbus Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19147

AMC Neshaminy 24
660 Neshaminy Mall
Bensalem, PA 19020
(215) 396-8050

AMC Cherry Hill 24
2121 NJ-38
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
(856) 486-7420

Cinemark University City 6
230 S 40th St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 386-0869

PHOENIX

Harkins Arizona Mills
5000 S Arizona Mills Cir
Tempe, AZ 85282

Victory Theatre
555 E Entertainment Ave
Safford, AZ 85546
(928) 428-1503

PITTSBURGH

Hollywood Theater Dormont
1449 Potomac Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15216
(412) 563-0368

AMC Waterfront
300 West Waterfront Dr.
West Homestead, PA 15120

PORTLAND

Kiggins Theatre
1011 Main St
Vancouver, WA 98660
(360) 737-3161

Regal Cinemas Fox Tower 10
846 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97205
(844) 462-7342

RALEIGH-DURHAM

AMC Southpoint 17
8030 Renaissance Pkwy
Durham, NC 27713
(919) 313-6627

SAN DIEGO

AMC La Jolla 12
8657 Villa La Jolla Dr #129
La Jolla, CA 92037
(858) 458-1098

AMC Mission Valley 20
1640 Camino Del Rio N
San Diego, CA 92108

SAN FRANCISCO / BAY AREA

Landmark Shattuck Cinemas
2230 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2992

AMC Metreon 16
35 4th St Suite 3000
San Francisco, CA 94103

Camera 3
288 S Second St
San Jose, CA 95113
(408) 294-3334

Century 25 Union Landing & XD
32100 Union Landing Blvd
Union City, CA 94587
(510) 487-9347

Cinemark 20 Great Mall
1010 Great Mall Dr
Milpitas, CA 95035
(408) 942-7441

Four Star
2200 Clement St
San Francisco, CA 94121
(415) 666-3488

Cinemark Century 20 Daly City
1901 Junipero Serra Blvd.
Daly City, CA 94015
(650)994-2488

SEATTLE

AMC Pacific Place 11
600 Pine Street - Ste 400
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 652-8908

Cinemark Century Federal Way
2001 S Commons
Federal Way, WA 98003
(253) 946-0942

SANTA FE

Regal Cinemas DeVargas Mall Cinema 6
562 N Guadalupe St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(844) 462-7342

WASHINGTON, D.C.

AMC Hoffman Center 22
206 Swamp Fox Rd
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 236-1083

AMC Loews Rio Cinemas 18
9811 Washingtonian Ctr
Gaithersburg, MD 20878

Angelika Film Center at Mosaic
2911 District Ave
Fairfax, VA 22031
(571) 512-3301

Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market
550 Penn St NE
Washington, DC 20002
(571) 512-3313

February 4, 2016
SYRACUSE

Cornell Cinema
104 Willard Straight Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3522

January 27, 2016
SOUTH DAKOTA

Sioux Falls - Indievents
214 W 10th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
(605) 274-0700


February 5, 2016
ALBUQUERQUE

Guild Cinema
3405 Central Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
(505) 255-1848

CHICAGO

Normal Theater
209 W North St
Normal, IL 61761
(309) 454-9720

CANADA THEATER LOCATION

January 22, 2016
OTTAWA

Mayfair Theatre
1074 Bank St
Ottawa, ON K1S 3X3, Canada

TORONTO

Cineplex Scotiabank
259 Richmond St W

Cineplex Cinemas Winston Churchill
2081 Winston Park Dr
Oakville, ON L6H 6P5, Canada
+1 905-829-2009

Cineplex Cinemas Scarborough
Scarborough Town Centre, 300 Borough Drive, Scarborough
ON, M1P 4P5 Canada
416-290-5217

Cineplex Cinemas Markham & VIP
79 Enterprise Blvd #169
Markham, ON L6G 0E7, Canada

VANCOUVER

Cineplex Cinemas SilverCity Riverport
14211 Entertainment Way
Richmond, BC V6W 1K4, Canada

Cineplex Cinemas Odeon International Village
3, 88 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 6N9, Canada

ALBERTA

Cinema City Movies 12
5074 130 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T5A 5A9, Canada
+1 780-472-9779

Cineplex Odeon Sunridge Spectrum Cinemas
2555 32 St NE #400
Calgary, AB T1Y 7J6, Canada
+1 403-717-1200

WINNIPEG

Cinema City Northgate
Northgate, 1399 McPhillips St.
Winnipeg, MB R2V 3C4, Canada
+1 204-334-6234

MONTREAL

Cineplex Forum
2313 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest #101
Montréal, QC H3H 1N2, Canada
+1 514-904-1274

[GeneChing]

I was just passed this by a Well Go USA rep. I don't see the offer on the ipman3.com site yet, but if you're in L.A. and want to go, keep your eye on this.

[GeneChing]

Read our exclusive coverage: IP MAN 3: I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson by Greg Lynch Jr.

[GeneChing]

Oh Donnie. That suit!

‘Ip Man 3’ Actor Mike Tyson Believes His Fighting Background Gave Him an Edge


BUCHAN/VARIETY/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

JANUARY 21, 2016 | 01:48PM PT
Margaret Lenker
The third installment of the “Ip Man” series premiered Wednesday in Los Angeles at the Pacific Theaters at the Grove. While the movie bowed in Hong Kong over the holidays, both Donnie Yen (Ip Man) and Mike Tyson (Frank) attended the Los Angeles debut of “Ip Man 3,” with much appreciation from fans.

Before the screening, Well Go SVP Jason Pfardrescher led the audience in a classic “Ip Man” chant, complete with a brief Kung Fu move. Both Yen and Tyson introduced the film, eliciting applause from the audience.

“Ip Man 3” follows the iconic character Ip Man — the real-life Wing Chun Kung Fu master who mentored Bruce Lee — as he defends his son’s school when a band of gangsters led by crook Frank attempt to take over the city.

Although “Ip Man 3” has an abundance of Wing Chun Kung Fu, Yen explains he is an actor first, and a martial arts professional second. “I mean at the end of the day, acting is acting, right? The most important [aspect] is just playing the character,” Yen said. “I think there’s an advantage of being a martial arts actor, because not only do you have to craft your acting skills, but you’ve also got to know enough of martial arts.”

Yen’s mother was his first martial arts instructor, and he’s thankful for what his mother instilled in him. “I think from a martial arts background, my mom gave me a very strong foundation,” Yen said. “Of course, I thank my mom for giving me that kind of family background.”

Tyson retired from fighting in 2005, but has returned to the spotlight through acting. After appearing in pieces such as “The Hangover,” “Entourage” and his one-man show on Broadway, “Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth,” Tyson explained his fighting background has helped his new ventures. “I’m used to being under pressure,” Tyson said. “I’m pretty composed. I believe that gave me an edge.”

Tyson and Yen duke it out in the film, each using his own skill. “If those two have to go head-to-head, that’s going to be a fight,” co-host of “American Ninja Warrior,” Akbar Gbaja-Biamila said. “That’s going to get me out of my seat. That’s too much action for one movie.”

Some of Tyson’s friends attended the premiere to support the new actor. Boxer Danny Musico was 14 years old when he first met Tyson at a training facility in Upstate New York, and he explained his utter excitement for Tyson’s success and appreciation for the martial arts in “Ip Man 3.” “That’s what I actually really love about this movie,” Musico said. “It’s them doing their own fight scenes. A lot of it is they just keep the cameras going when they’re doing it. You wouldn’t know if it’s supposed to be or not supposed to be. It’s just them naturally being fighters.”

[GeneChing]

January 22, 2016
Mike Tyson on Hoverboard Fail: ‘My Pride Was Hurt'

http://extratv.com/videos/0_buwo9od8

On Thursday, “Extra’s” Charissa Thompson sat down with Mike Tyson and Donnie Yen at Universal Studios Hollywood, where they promoted their film, “Ip Man 3.”

Tyson recently made headlines for falling off his hoverboard... with the clip posted on his Instagram. On the incident Mike shared, “Well, my pride was hurt pretty bad.”

“Ip Man 3” hits theaters today!

Talking 'bout IP3 so naturally the headline is 'hoverboard fail'

[GeneChing]

The ezine articles don't really count, but Greg was spot on about Tyson's voice in his review for us. Tyson's English was his usual lithpy self but the Chinese was distractingly deeper. His whole story arc was oddly superfluous in the end, surpringly not even the finale fight, but did provide an excuse for a lot of gratuitous fight scenes, just as oppressive mob bosses do in martial arts flicks.

IP3 had such Chinese melodrama and yet that didn't get too distracting from the action, although only barely so. Perhaps I was forgiving because of its random artsy strokes - the moth on the dummy, the lost red balloon, the focus on the water glass, the relationships with the kids. There was more of a love story than I anticipated, but such is the Chinese palette in movies nowadays. This will probably put out the narrow martial arts flick fans who aren't as tuned into Asian film right now.

The fights were good - very YWP with his wire-fu defiance of physics, but some satisfyingly long complicated single-shot sequences were delivered. Donnie is still strong in the role.

I enjoyed it overall and it tempts me to revisit parts 1 & 2. 3 wasn't as good as 1 (if memory serves) but decent closure from 2.

[Jimbo]

I actually liked part 3 better than part 2.

I had been expecting Mike Tyson to play a much bigger role, meaning, as an arch-villain. But it was fun to see him fighting in a HK/Chinese movie. However, Mike was an anachronism in 1959 Hong Kong. He was like a modern guy who took a time machine back to the late '50s, rather than a person of the time.

They screwed up the Bruce Lee timeline. If I'm not mistaken, BL actually began WC around 1954 or so, and he had already left HK by '59. But then again, it's clear these Ip Man movies are not intended as accurate biographies.

I didn't mind the drama. IMO, this was Donnie's most human portrayal of Ip Man.

Yuen Woo Ping's choreography is better here than it has been in years. I had started to believe he had run out of ideas, based on most of his work in recent years.

If I have a gripe, it's that these Ip Man movies portray all non-Wing Chun CMA as worse than useless. In part 3, the styles most obviously taken shots at are CLF and Mantis. Even though CLf isn't mentioned by name, it's very clear they're showing it as such, by Mike's right-hand thug and his sifu, played by Leung Kar-Yan. Not only are these portrayals unfair, but also completely inaccurate and biased. Why in the hell would any of these other "sifu" have had students at all if all their arts sucked so badly? I'm asking this in relation to the 'reality' that the movie's characters inhabit. In the movie's version of reality, surely everyone would've figured out long ago how badly the other teachers and their styles sucked, right? The Ip Man movies even portray foreign arts as superior to CMA (again, except for WC). Japanese Karate, Western boxing, Muay Thai. So while the first two Ip Man films masqueraded as Chinese pride films, in reality they were only WC pride films.

*Speaking of anachronisms, another one that nobody but a knife aficionado would spot is the automatic knife (switchblade) pulled out by the right-hand thug. I couldn't tell if it was quality or a cheapie, but it is clearly of modern design.

[GeneChing]

[GeneChing]

Just like Monkey King 2, we got in theaters first. It's a wild time for the Chinese and U.S. film market.

China Box Office: “Ip Man 3” Could Be Hurt By Piracy and Impending Blu-ray Release
Posted 3:18 PM March 1st, 2016 by Senh Duong



Originally, Donnie Yen’s “Ip Man 3” was supposed to be released in China on December 24, 2015. But inexplicably, it was pulled weeks before that date, and pushed to March 4, 2016 -- this coming Friday.

Maybe the distributor felt that the period between those dates were too competitive, jam-packed with potential hits. In hindsight, if that was their reason, then they were right. That period produced ten films that grossed over $100M each: “Devil and Angle” ($100M); “Mr. Six” ($137M); “Mojin - The Lost Legend” ($256M); “Detective Chin Tang” ($125M); “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($125M); “Kung Fu Panda 3” ($150M); “The Monkey King 2” ($179M); “From Macau to Vegas 3” ($168M); and of course, the record-breaking “Mermaid” ($488M).

If it’s any consolation to the producers of “Ip Man 3,” Jackie Chan’s action-comedy “Skiptrace” was also suddenly pulled from the same release date. Chan’s film currently does not have a date set for China.

Delaying the release of “Ip Man 3” two months later produces several problems for its producers that could impact the film’s performance at the box office.

First, they would have to redo all of their marketing materials.

Second, I’m not sure if Yen can still promote it as his last martial arts film when he and the film’s producers have repeatedly said that “Ip Man 4” is “very likely” now because of its recording-breaking success in regions nearby China during its initial release.

Third, the film has already been pirated and shared online. On one of the pirate sites, the downloads have already exceeded 400,000.

Finally, neighboring countries will release the “Ip Man 3” blu-ray within weeks of its China theatrical debut. Soon, there’ll be crystal clear versions of the film floating around online. The distributors will try to combat that by showing the film primarily in 3D, which is still a thing in China.

Less of a factor might be the fact that another Donnie Yen movie, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny,” was released only a few weeks ago and is still playing.

So how much does “Ip Man 3” need to make in order to break even? The film cost $36M to produce. The film company generally gets 45% of the box office. It has already grossed around $30M in foreign markets. All it needs from China is $50M if we’re basing this solely on theatrical revenue and excluding marketing cost and video sales.

That’s very doable even with the piracy and blu-ray issues because the China market has expanded so much since the first two installments. Since “Ip Man 2,” China’s film market has grown from $1.5B to $6.8B. “Ip Man” (2008) and “Ip Man 2” (2010) grossed $14M and $30M, respectively. Although those figures seem modest now, they were blockbusters in their respective years.

Even though “Ip Man 3” only needs to “roll punch” $50M in ticket sales from the China audience to break even, I think it still needs to get to $100M in order for it to be considered a hit nowadays. And that figure could be affected by online piracy and the impending blu-ray release. We’ll see in a few days.

(Box office figures from Entgroup.cn)