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Z Teams Films has just released the martial arts thriller Die Fighting. This film, which is part horror and part action yarn, is available through video-on-demand as of November 4th, 2014 (iTunes, Amazon Prime). This title stars Didier Buson, Fabien Garcia, Laurent Buson, Jess Allen, Dave Vescio, Adelyne Dandan Liu and many more. Fans of thrillers can preview the film here. The story involves four martial arts experts. They are tasked with several dangerous challenges, at the bequest of a mysterious director (Vescio). If they do not perform these duties, then their loved ones will perish. Now, much of Los Angeles is besieged by this foursome. Die Fighting is available on several VOD platforms. Currently, the film is available on Vudu, the Playstation Network, XBox's video streaming service and many more. Fans of film can view more on Die Fighting below. Release Date: November 4th, 2014 (VOD). Director/writer: Fabien Garcia. Cast: Fabien Garcia,...

Die Fighting, the latest from martial arts maestros Z Team, also marks the full-length directorial debut of Wushu specialist and choreographer Fabien Garcia, after making the short films Duel, Fantasy Story, and Brothers Forever. It's a nice bit of undemanding fun.Garcia brings along the rest of the high-kicking squad: brothers Didier and Laurent Buson (whom you may remember got his ass whooped by Iko Uwais in Merantau), and Jess Allen. The story allows them to essentially play themselves, essentially, a struggling team of stuntmen looking for their big break in Los Angeles who get roped into filming a real-time fight flick lorded over by a mysterious Filmmaker giving instructions via cellphone. What follows is a riff on The Running Man mixed with the current found-footage...

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Z Team Films Presents The Release Of

“Die Fighting” Nation-wide On Demand November 4

On November 4, Gravitas Ventures will unleash Z Team Films’ martial arts action film Die Fighting on Video on Demand throughout North America, reaching over 100 million homes. Die Fighting stars Fabien Garcia, Laurent “Lohan” Buson, Didier Buson, Jess Allen, Dave Vescio and Xin Wuku. The movie is directed by Fabien Garcia and is produced by Laurent Buson.

The trailer looks action packed showcasing some great fight scenes and choreography. Hard hitting, bone crushing and maybe some skull breaking moments, the camera angles during the fights are well done and it seems the actors involved can all thrown down some great moves. I will certainly be checking this low budget movie out on the release on November 4th 2014.

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You may not know Laurent Buson by name but if you are a fan of martial arts films there is a solid chance you have seen the screen fighter plying his trade on screen, most likely through a featured role in Michelle Yeoh star vehicle Silver Hawk or as one of the principal villains in Gareth Huw Evans' Merantau. But outside of those larger features Buson is also part of an action film collective called Z Team, and after a string of short films they have put together their first feature, The Price Of Success. The plot is fairly standard stuff, a story of four friends - all of whom are skilled martial artists - forced to fight at the whim of a villain who...

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Though prolific in its own right, the Indonesian film industry have had a tough time penetrating markets beyond their own borders. The ones that receive international distribution—especially the United States—are often arthouse films with the limited target audience of festivalheads. The broader Indonesian films, for better or worse, tend to incite little interest. It's bittersweet that Merantau, which not only nabbed an Audience Award at the 2009 Fantastic Fest but also got picked up by Magnet Releasing for Us distribution, is written and directed by a foreigner.

Martial arts films used to be all the rage in Indonesian cinema, but for the past two decades, as the film industry itself waned, martial arts films disappeared, as well. Merantau is the first serious treatment given to one since the so-called new wave of Indonesian films in the 21st century.

As per Minangkabau tradition, young tomato farmer Yuda (Iko Uwais) goes on a "merantau,...

[Our thanks to Mark Popham for the following review.]

Hey, did someone order an "Ong Bak"? I mean, I think that's what they delivered- looks like a young man leaves his country home, goes to the big city, steps in to stop injustice using an elbow-heavy martial arts? I don't know, though, this isn't Tony Jaa, it's some other guy, and he doesn't have the same acrobatic skill as Jaa. On the other hand, some of these shots look pretty good...and the score works really well...man, these shots, and that editing...holy Shit, is that the bad guy?

This was pretty much my reaction throughout the first twenty or so minutes of "Merantau", an Indonesian film that I wasn't actually that thrilled to receive in my Nyaff packet. I had sort of pegged it as an "Ong Bak" clone, and the first five minutes- the protagonist, Yuda (Iko Uwais), doing alone-style martial arts in front of a...