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Legendary drive-in movie critic and movie host Joe Bob Briggs (who currently has a show on the Shudder streaming service called The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs) has a Patreon account called The Lost Drive-In, where they share the hosting segments from his days on MonsterVision, a TNT show he hosted from 1996 to 2000, and Joe Bob’s Drive-in Theater, which he hosted on The Movie Channel from 1986 to 1996… and one of the recently shared hosting segments might have unearthed a bit of interesting trivia about the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme classic Kickboxer! Specifically, it seems that the makers of Kickboxer might have, at one point, been planning to include a sister character and to put her in jeopardy.

Joe Bob wasn’t the only host presenting movies on The Movie Channel in the ’80s. One of his fellow hosts was Michele Russell, who also had some acting credits to her name.

Action movie icon Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to one of his best-loved franchises in Kickboxer reboot sequel, Kickboxer: Armageddon, and we now have some idea regarding the release of what's sure to be another martial arts B-movie masterpiece. Kickboxer: Armageddon will find Van Damme joining forces with fellow action heroes Scott Adkins, Alain Moussi, and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum star and martial arts icon Mark Dacascos, it has now been confirmed, with the action outing having now been picked up for distribution by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in the U.S. and Canada.

Disappointingly, Kickboxer: Armageddon does not yet have a release date, but now that distribution has been settled, those details will surely be revealed soon. Filmmaker Dimitri Logothetis, who first began breathing new life into the cult classic action franchise with 2016’s Kickboxer: Vengeance, will once again take the helm for Kickboxer: Armageddon, working from a script he co-wrote with Jim McGrath.

Jean-Claude Van Damme fans are in for happy holidays this year, as Lionsgate has announced that they’ll be giving the Van Damme classic Kickboxer a 3-Disc SteelBook 4K Uhd and Blu-ray release on December 3rd! The folks at City on Fire got an early look at the steelbook art, and you can check that out in the image at the bottom of this article.

Directed by David Worth from a screenplay written by Glenn A. Bruce (who was working from a story crafted by Van Damme and producer Mark di Salle), Kickboxer has the following synopsis: Eric Sloane is an American kickboxing pro, helped by his brother, Kurt, in his quest for glory. But when the two go to Thailand to take on legendary Tong Po, the opponent viciously beats Eric and leaves him paralyzed. Swearing vengeance, Kurt tracks down master Xian Chow and begins learning the sport himself...

Just hours after we reported that Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1988 breakout hit Bloodsport is getting remade by Relativity Media, Radar Pictures is developing a reboot of the action star's 1989 thriller Kickboxer.

Hong Kong filmmaker Stephen Fung (Tai Chi Hero) has signed on to direct, working from a screenplay by Jim McGrath and Dimitri Logothetis. The original Kickboxer centered on Kurt Sloane (Jean-Claude Van Damme), who trains in the art of Muay Thai kickboxing to take on a brutal champion who severely injured his brother.

Dimitri Logothetis is also producing alongside Radar's Ted Field and Nick Celozzi, with Mike Weber and Peter Meyer executive producing. Casting is currently under way, with the filmmakers hoping to get production started either this fall or in early 2014.

Kickboxer spawned four straight-to-video sequels, none of which starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. Sasha Mitchell starred in Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991), Kickboxer 3: The Art of War...

IFC channel subscribers, at 8:35pm Est tomorrow, Tuesday night, you might want to tune in for this: the 1976 blaxploitation classic (although maybe forgotten), Brotherhood Of Death, about 3 black Vietnam veterans who become vigilantes against the Kkk-inspired racism prevalent in their Southern hometown. Shit gets raw, as the trio helps their community rise up and violently face down their white oppressors!

They just don’t make them like they used to, do they? I’d love to see a film like this produced and distributed widely today. If Quentin Tarantino can get away with the WWII revisionist Inglorious Basterds, I don’t see why Spike Lee (for example) couldn’t do something similar, with obvious appropriate changes of course – a lynching retribution pic perhaps.

Coincidentally, Tarantino is said to be a big fan of the film, and his support of it was reportedly one of the reasons it was released...