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.

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.

Top actors, established writers, and original music all comprise phenomenal ingredients for a top movie.  That is the hope for The Karate Kid, due out on June 11, 2010.  To anyone who knows anything about movie making, it is a given that poor, or inappropriate music can be totally detrimental.  But those waiting to see The Karate Kid need not worry about that. James Horner created the music for this movie and he is a natural.  The guy began learning how to play the piano, when he was a mere five years old. Some years later, still with a love and dedication for music, Horner studied at London’s well-esteemed Royal College of Music.  He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Music from USC and then his masters at UCLA where he later educated students on music theory.  But that wasn’t enough for Horner.  He had the music studying bug and did a Ph.D in Music Composition and Theory.
So there can be no disputing that Horner knows what is what when it comes to music.  But how does one adapt that to a movie like The Karate Kid?  Not content with just being a music genius, he got into film as well in the late 1970s.  This started with being a film scorer for the American Film Institute, which thereafter led to him being assigned this task for real films.  Horner’s first well known project was music composition for Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan in 1982 and from there on the work just flooded in.  If anyone knows what music would work just perfectly for The Karate Kid, it would be James Horner.