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Incredible Hulk's Zak Penn limbers upIt cost $40m to make and took north of $300m at the box office. A sequel to The Karate Kid was clearly a no-brainer, and, following a previous draft by the Kung-Fu Panda team of Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff, the job of writing Karate Kid 2 has now fallen to Zak Penn.Absolutely no details about the direction of the follow-up are yet being revealed, although there's been speculation that, in a reversal of the...  

Columbia has begun assembling the sequel to 2010’s Jaden Smith-starring The Karate Kid, because that is what they made a Karate Kid remake and a Jaden Smith for, and in either case it would be a waste of precious resources to do otherwise. Screenplay duties have been passed to Alphas creator Zak Penn, whose work on Elektra, The Incredible Hulk, and X-Men: The Last Stand demonstrates that he’s comfortable with franchise properties. Ergo, he and...  

(YouTube Link) Back in the 1980s, the martial art Karate was all the rage among young and old, second only to the unattainable desire to be a Ninja. I took Karate classes, and so did almost every kid I knew, and even if there’d been actual Ninja training classes available I’m sure Karate would have [...]  

Lauren Snyders11 February 2012The defence on the case of the Fourways Karate teacher, who was arrested for molesting his students, told courts yesterday that they will re-launch a new bail application. They did not reveal on what grounds. The teacher appeared briefly in the Randburg Magistrates court but was ordered to return back in two weeks time. He is accused of sexually assaulting eleven of his students but he has denied the charges. The...  

A sequel to 2010's remake of The Karate Kid is officially underway, Variety reports, as Columbia Pictures has drafted Zak Penn to provide the screenplay. A followup to the surprise hit was first announced back in 2010 . When asked back then about the idea of another film, director Harald Zwart told ComingSoon.net: "Well, that's always a tempting idea, and I think we all would love to go back and have an experience again. Certainly, I...  

Zak Penn, the screenwriter behind The Incredible Hulk (Edward Norton edition), X-Men: The Last Stand and creator of SyFy's Alphas, has been tapped to write a sequel to the Karate Kid reboot. Plot details are scarce, but Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan should be back, and it's a safe bet they'll be doing karate things like fighting and potentially waxing on/off. Read more posts by Zach Dionne Filed Under...  

The Junior Leadership students, under the direction of Robert Long, fourth degree Black Belt Owner/Instructor and Brielle Campos, fourth degree Black Belt, Certified Head Instructor, distributed pill bottles donated by our local Giant Eagle ...  

Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) moves with his mother (Randee Heller) from Newark, New Jersey, to Reseda, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Their apartment's handyman is an eccentric but kindly and humble Okinawan ...  

Well... it's been no secret that a sequel to the Smith Family 2010 reboot/reimagining/re-whatever-you-want-to-call-it of the 1980s hit franchise The Karate Kid was coming - especially after that first film grossed over $350 million worldwide! That's money. It's just been announced that Columbia Pictures has hired Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand, The Incredible Hulk) to rewrite the script for the yet-to-be-titled sequel which is...  

Will Smith's son Jaden is set to high-kick his way back on to the big screen in a sequel to his The Karate Kid reboot. The teen teamed up with Jackie Chan for the 2010 action movie, which was an...  

Friends, family and former students, dressed in karate uniforms, gathered to say a final goodbye to a 7th degree Black Belt Grand Master. 63 year-old Jeffrey Moore died Thursday. A native of Zanesville, Moore founded the Coszacks School of Self ...  

Wado-Kai Karatedo Saipan is offering free trial lessons for interested students tonight at 7pm at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. Japan's Fumiyasu Ishiguro and Yurie Mori will instruct the lessons along with sensei Eiichi Ishiguro. Eiichi Ishigoru ...  

Do you need to learn karate, exercise and master the subtleties of 1980s rap music? Look no further. WOT!? You need more vintage 80s “Rap” music videos about Karate? Ok, Enjoy “Franek kimono — karate mistrz“… Ok, ok, here’s the-rest-of-the-story…  

Guam - Guam Kyokushin Karate will host the 5th Freshman Karate Tournament Saturday, February 18th at the Guam Sports Complex in Dededo. A freshman tournament gives up and coming Kyokushin karate practitioners experience in the full contact ...  

Kids at Brian Mayes Karate in Harrisonburg are learning how to combat bullying through a special program created by Mayes. He called it the "Bully Busting" program, and he said now, more than ever, getting bullied is why kids sign up for karate. "About 15 ...