THE HIT LIST - April 6, 2015

My weekend was huge, and the week before it was pretty busy. Still, hell bent on maintaining new content as with every week, I've returned once more with the Hit List with all the usual bits of action gems you can enjoy.

Let's kick things off with a new fight reel from The Challenge Letter co-star, aussie actress Maria Tran followed by reels from Travis Wong, Duy Panouvic of Arcade Killers, Ryan Hunter, Maria Sova, Jerome Teague, Nnamdi Nwosa, Andrea Ross and the latest fight reel from Cinematic Fight Studio, with some more stuntin' from freerunners Vlad Height and Lennon Shannon!

Now let's get fighting, and for this, we can thank creator and actor Noah Fleder upon the launch of his new channel, Force Storm Entertainment and the debut of its first project, Vlad Rimburg's new Star Wars fan short, The Betrayal!

Kicking this next portion is the latest test choreography video led by stuntman and screenfighter Kai Fung Rieck. Beneath that is a 70's style action comedy from the folks over at Lunar Stunts, Tough Street - a story of love, betrayal, greed, cool action and shameless overacting, and a lot of fun to catch. Take a look at it below as well as two other test fight shorts: Kevin Barile's latest Bourne-style action gem with bladed weaponry and deadly hand-to-hand choreography in The Bourne Elimination with Bryan Sloyer, and Sloyer's latest cerebral action-packed regal throwdown, Queen led by Amy Sturdivant opposite Jay Kwon, Michael Lehr and others.

More on Lehr below as we cap off this Hit List with some shortfilm trailers: VerseS kicks things off with its own teaser as its well on the way, followed by a trailer for UK filmmaker Andrew Kueh's student short, Prime Contact, and the latest trailer for Henry Kim's long-awaited short, All Men Are Thieves which is currently debuting later this month in San Francisco at the Roxie theater on April 23 and 24 - Tickets are available at Sparxo.

This next one comes from German stunt fighter, actor Andy Long Nguyen and his latest experimental homage to 80's Hong Kong action cinema, currently still underway as of 2013 and made with all the tropes and attributes of a dated Hong Kong action flick. Notably, these aren't the only folks to take this approach to shortfilm content lately, which says a lot about how much appreciation there still is for the golden era of Hong Kong cinema. And clearly, there's a ton of it here.

new Hong Kong 80s tribute video "teaser"

This is a little teaser for another HK 80s tribute project that I’ve started in 2013 in Hong Kong. Unfortunately I couldn’t continue shooting since than and it still might take a while, because there’s no other way to finish it than returning to hong kong^^ but in the final version you will hopefully enjoy special appearances like Vi-Dan Tran, Mike Leeder and Maria Tran (who also did her own HK 80s style video recently) and many other surprising special guests ;) Check out my other HK80tribute video with Can Aydin Abida and Khoi Chau if you haven’t seen it yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqY4KbV7plw special thanks John Youk Markus Rec Armin Schnürle Alex Bross Konstantin Korovilas Rodney Wong Fatih Ugurlu Corn Kit Pui Man Ho Robert Reiskorn Craig Miller Natalie McKnight Yamil Ray Mania Pictures Mag-Fighters TeamBay rec Sefa Demirbas Zheng Tai Việt Nam Huỳnh

Posted by Andy Long Nguyen on Thursday, April 2, 2015

And last but not least, a testimony courtesy of actor and stuntman Adam Lytle with an important, dramatic message about how ideas are rooted, and the struggles of growing them. The title says it all.

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J.J. Approved! Watch The New Trailer For Force Storm Entertainment's Debut Short, THE BETRAYAL!

If you were around about a year ago or so, you may recall previous reports on the announcement of actor, martial artist, writer, producer and stuntman Noah Fleder's inspired production base, Force Storm Entertainment. Built on the brewing reinvigoration of impending Star Wars fandom, with thanks in large part to the facilitators at Crestec Studios in Torrance, California, Fleder and the folks behind the scenes have been working toward developing a substantive platform for the shared vision at Force Storm Entertainment to accomodate fans with a variety of shortfilms and skits ranging from mockumentary-style comedy and laughs to impeccable drama, action and stuntwork.

Having previously worked with independent martial arts action cinema favorite, Unlucky Stars co-star and action director, filmmaker Vlad Rimburg on several online action shorts in the past including The Flow channel webseries, The Hunt, Force Storm Entertainment will debut its channel with the long-awaited action shortfilm release, The Betrayal on April 5, featuring Fleder and Rimburg with principle performances by Mickey Facchinello, Brendon Huor, Gui DaSilva, Jimmy Chhiu, Tony Chu, and Power Rangers: Dino Charge star Yoshua Sudarso. The Betrayal will mark the first of a slate of videos kicking off an eight week production cycle following the channel's launch on Sunday, March 29, 2015 with an announcement video by Fleder that now includes a fresh new teaser trailer for The Betrayal following the first teaser which aired on March 8.

The launch of the channel comes with great timing just as the surge among fans is rising with passioned awareness of director J.J. Abrams's forthcoming December release, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and other films that will follow suit. The next major star-studded Star Wars event is set to take place for the tenth Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim for four days on the weekend of April 16, and in lieu of this, Force Storm Entertainment has already caught the attention of quite a few important people within the leading ranks of the Star Wars community, and in no way do I imply this as an understatement. To say the least, 2015 is a damn good year to be a Star Wars fan, and the momentum and potential is surely resonant for Force Storm Entertainment with the approval they're getting and are continuing to acquire, particularly from a certain director of certain film coming this year.

"Really fun short film. Fighting is very well done. Now I really need to up my game!!!"

~JJ Abrams

As a noteworthy mention, Force Storm Entertainment is one of two channels Fleder is hosting this month with his upcoming martial arts tutorial channel, Martial Way, which will launch on the same day. That makes two reasons to pay close attention to what Fleder is doing this year while he maintains his place on the radar for fans and netizens alike who love martial arts, science fiction and all things comic-con.

If you fell asleep on this since my last report, now is as good a time as any to wake up and subscribe to Force Storm Entertainment. Watch Fleder's announcement video below and follow the Storm on Facebook and Twitter!