The New Karate Kid Movie

On June 16th, 2010, Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith and the Smith family arrived at the premiere of The Karate Kid in Beijing, China. Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith showed off many of their karate moves. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, executive producers of The Karate Kid, were present as well, delighting the crowds as they waved. And, of course, Willow was there to accompany her brother as well.

Listen to Jaden Smith discuss his movie, The Karate Kid, which premiered this month. Jaden explains his relationship with Jackie Chan. Enjoy a few great clips from the film as well.

Everyone showed up for the Karate Kid premiere in Los Angeles on June 7th at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California. The stars of the new film, Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, posed for pictures with the original Karate Kid movie actor, Ralph Macchio.

They smiled, as well, for pictures with the whole family. Jaden brought along famous father, Will Smith, and mother Jaden Pickett Smith, and his little sister Willow Smith. Trey Smith, his older brother, was there as well.

ReelzChannel Hollywood Dailies interviewed Jaden Smith right after he received the Breakthrough Male Star of the Year Award at ShowWest in Las Vegas. See his interview here and his discussion of The Karate Kid movie that debuts today!

Enjoy a clip from the Ellen Degeneres showing what a character Jaden Smith is. Enjoy seeing some insight into Jaden’s character. Jaden Smith will soon be starring in the new Karate Kid Movie that will debut this weekend.

Watch Jaden Smith being interviewed about his upcoming release, The Karate Kid Movie. Jaden explains working with Jackie Chan and discusses the overall plot of The Karate Kid Remake.

Listen to a great, humorous interview with Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith. The interview involves amazing clips from the upcoming film, The Karate Kid, which is ready for release on Friday.

Listen to Will Smith discuss the upcoming movie, The Karate Kid.  Certainly, everyone is excited to see more about this movie, which is scheduled for release this weekend!

Professional Background of Karate Kid Movie Director Harald Zwart

Director of Karate Kid movie Harald Zwart, also directed The Pink Panther 2 (in 2009); Agent Cody Banks (2003); Hamilton (1998); Parents (1992), Gabriel’s Surprise (1990) and many more movies. He was the executive producer for: Tomme Tonner this year, Women in White (2009) and the producer for Lange Flate Ballaer II (2008), a movie in which he also acted. He has written three movies and was the editor for Parents.

History and Early Beginnings of Karate Kid Movie Director

Zwart was born in Norway and was the first from his country to gain membership into the Directors Guild of America. But that’s not all his country can be proud of him for. He made a music video for songwriter and singer Jan Eggum which was the first song in Norwegian to be screened on MTV.

Harald Zwart has a fun side to him too. In an attempt to create a type of Planet Hollywood museum, he gave props from some of his movies to the cinema in Fredikstad (where he grew up) and now it is known

If it’s not broken, why fix it?, so the old adage goes.  Well, it certainly worked for the Karate Kid movies back in the 1980s.  And that is probably why The Karate Kid that is due out in June this year, has the same great writer, Robert Mark Kamen.  Not only did he write The Karate Kid 1984, but he was also the screenwriter for other popular movies, including Taken (2008), The Transporter (2002), The Fifth Element (1997), A Walk in the Clouds (1995) and Lethal Weapon 3 (1992).
More than just a screenwriter and movie enthusiast, Robert Kamen is also quite the academic.  He earned himself a Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania in American Studies.
He actually has another good reason though to have been so successful in writing The Karate Kid movies.  He himself practiced martial arts to a very high level.  He was able to be extremely specific when writing the fighting scenes because he had actually been there.   Kamen claims that getting into the screenwriting market is way more difficult than it was when he started as there just always seems to be someone new and popular out there with whom you are competing against.  So he advises potential screenwriters to focus, and not just use the market as an attempt at a way in to other areas of film making like producing or directing.