Who doesn't love a good team-up? From the Avengers and the Justice League to Dominic Torretto's family and the Expendables, action movies tend to feature some seriously badass collections of people that unite to take down the bad guys. We may even see them team up in some pretty major ways from time to time like in "The Suicide Squad" or "Spider-Man: No Way Home." But most recently, we've seen it happen in the latest season of "Cobra Kai."
Long after they were pitted against Daniel Larusso in the first two "Karate Kid" movies, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and Chozen Toguchi (Yuji Okumoto) have joined Daniel-san's fight against Terry Silver's new iteration of Cobra Kai in the fifth chapter of Netflix's sequel series to the beloved 1980s martial arts films. In the episode titled "Ouroboros," Johnny and Chozen march right up to the new and improved Cobra Kai dojo...
Long after they were pitted against Daniel Larusso in the first two "Karate Kid" movies, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and Chozen Toguchi (Yuji Okumoto) have joined Daniel-san's fight against Terry Silver's new iteration of Cobra Kai in the fifth chapter of Netflix's sequel series to the beloved 1980s martial arts films. In the episode titled "Ouroboros," Johnny and Chozen march right up to the new and improved Cobra Kai dojo...
- 9/23/2022
- by Ben F. Silverio
- Slash Film
We're big fans of the YouTube work by Stephen Dypiangco and Patrick Epino (a.k.a National Film Society) so we're very excited to share the news that these guys' feature debut Awesome Asian Bad Guys is getting a VOD release on June 23 from FilmBuff. An irreverent homage to the nameless, expendable, yet imposing villains of '80s & '90s action flicks, Awesome Asian Bad Guys plunges a ragtag group of Asian "bad guy" actors into a deadly mission to take down La's most nefarious mob boss. The cast uniquely combines popular Hollywood actors including Randall Park (The Interview, Fresh Off the Boat), Al Leong (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon), Dante Basco (Hook), Yuji Okumoto (The Karate Kid, Part II), Tamlyn Tomita (Joy Luck Club, The Karate Kid,...
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- 6/4/2015
- Screen Anarchy
On its cable TV channel, Ovation offers a slate of programs centered around creative people and the art they create. Now, Ovation is extending that mission to YouTube. It has launched Ovation Digital Arts, a multi-channel network that will work with a select group of creators.
At the top of its McN, Ovation has turned to Stephen Dypiangco, who will serve as the VP of Ovation Digital Arts. Dypiangco, who is perhaps best known online as one-half of the National Film Society, most recently worked behind-the-scenes at YouTube Nation, which curated the best videos from around YouTube until its final episode in December 2014.
At Ovation Digital Arts, Dypiangco will oversee a network that will feature a small-but-talented group of partners in categories like dance, photography, animation, painting, and music. “We are establishing a groundbreaking artist community by linking extremely talented YouTube creators and America’s only 24/7 television network dedicated to the arts,...
At the top of its McN, Ovation has turned to Stephen Dypiangco, who will serve as the VP of Ovation Digital Arts. Dypiangco, who is perhaps best known online as one-half of the National Film Society, most recently worked behind-the-scenes at YouTube Nation, which curated the best videos from around YouTube until its final episode in December 2014.
At Ovation Digital Arts, Dypiangco will oversee a network that will feature a small-but-talented group of partners in categories like dance, photography, animation, painting, and music. “We are establishing a groundbreaking artist community by linking extremely talented YouTube creators and America’s only 24/7 television network dedicated to the arts,...
- 3/25/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Ifp, publisher of Filmmaker Magazine, announced today 163 projects in development selected for its Independent Film Week Project Forum. Projects include documentaries by such directors as Academy Award Winners Louis Psihoyos and Cynthia Wade; fiction features by documentarians Jennifer Fox and Jeremiah Zagar; fiction features by web creators Mesh Flinders and Thom Woodley; and an original web series, Awesome Asian Bad Guys, by Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco. In addition, a number of projects from Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces have been selected, including new work from Carlen Altman, Sophia Takal, the Zellner Brothers, Alex Jablonski, Pete Ohs & Andrea …...
- 7/25/2013
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
What do you do when you're filming an action movie and you need a villain who can fight the hero in an kickass, choreographed set piece that ends with his death? Why, you use an Awesome Asian Bad Guy, of course! With their knowledge of martial arts and irrelevance to the plot, AABGs make the perfect disposable henchmen. They were all over 80s films like Die Hard and The Karate Kid, appearing for two minutes before being summarily terminated by the leading man. Now, Stephen Dypiangco and Patrick Epino of the National Film Society YouTube channel are hoping to give these ephemeral antagonists their moment in the sun with a new five part web series called Awesome Asian Bad Guys. Awesome Asian Bad Guys will feature appearances from several actors who have a history of playing short-lived Asian villains, including Al Leong (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon) and Yuji Okumoto (Karate...
- 10/4/2012
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
We have added a new set of pictures from the event "Supercapitalist La Premiere".Joyce Yung attending the "Supercapitalist" Los Angeles premiere.Picture copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Karen Jin Beck attending the "Supercapitalist" Los Angeles premiere.Picture copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Paul Sheehan attending the "Supercapitalist" Los Angeles premiere.Picture copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Parry Shen attending the "Supercapitalist" Los Angeles premiere.Picture copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Derek Ting attending the "Supercapitalist" Los Angeles premiere.Picture copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Stephen Dypiangco - "Supercapitalist" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals - Laemmle's Noho 7 Theatre, 5240 Lankershim Boulevard - North Hollywood, CA, USA © Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos Barnett O'Hara -...
- 9/4/2012
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
When filmmakers Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco were looking for a name for their YouTube channel where they'd discuss all things film, they were inspired by an article on Indiewire's Women and Hollywood blog about a "New Faces of Indie Film" panel at the Film Society of Lincoln Center touting the future of indie film. As Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood and Tambay at Shadow and Act pointed out, only one woman and no people of color were on the panel. "We wanted to be not-that. We aren't white." They ended up calling themselves the National Film Society because the name was not taken and as they told Indiewire, "We wanted to take this old sounding name and subvert expectations." After only a few months at the helm of their own filmmaker-centric web series, which seems irreverent but is actually quite interested in exploring the ideas that are at the center of filmmaking today,...
- 6/15/2012
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
Afp/Getty Images President Obama on May 3.
In 2008, I wrote a column suggesting that if as Toni Morrison said, Bill Clinton was “the first black president,” Barack Obama — the first actual black occupant of the White House — might well be seen as the first Asian American president.
I pointed to his birth and childhood in Hawaii, America’s only state with a majority Asian population; his years spent living in Jakarta with his Asian stepfather Lolo Soetero and half-sister Maya...
In 2008, I wrote a column suggesting that if as Toni Morrison said, Bill Clinton was “the first black president,” Barack Obama — the first actual black occupant of the White House — might well be seen as the first Asian American president.
I pointed to his birth and childhood in Hawaii, America’s only state with a majority Asian population; his years spent living in Jakarta with his Asian stepfather Lolo Soetero and half-sister Maya...
- 5/4/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Wow, that was quick. At Filmmaker we’re used to spotting and promoting young filmmaking talent and, within a few years, seeing them graduate to studio blockbusters whose press screenings we aren’t invited to. But when we partnered this Sundance with the nascent National Film Society, we figured we had at least 24 months before they busted out of this joint.
Just five weeks after we ran the National Film Society’s Park City spots, though, the duo of Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco have gone network…. Well, they’ve gone PBS, and that’s a network in our book. From February 27 – March 30 the National Film Society are hosting the PBS Online Film Festival.
From the YouTube page:
Running Feb. 27-March 30, 2012. the PBS Online Film Festival will bring together 20 short films over five weeks produced by a number of public broadcasting organizations including Independent Television Service (Itvs), Pov and the...
Just five weeks after we ran the National Film Society’s Park City spots, though, the duo of Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco have gone network…. Well, they’ve gone PBS, and that’s a network in our book. From February 27 – March 30 the National Film Society are hosting the PBS Online Film Festival.
From the YouTube page:
Running Feb. 27-March 30, 2012. the PBS Online Film Festival will bring together 20 short films over five weeks produced by a number of public broadcasting organizations including Independent Television Service (Itvs), Pov and the...
- 2/28/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco of the National Film Society are back with a video interview with director Brian Knappenberger, whose hacker documentary We Are Legion premieres in competition at Slamdance this week.
During the interview, which will give those of you not in Park City a good idea of the snow situation, Patrick and Stephen speak with Knappenberger about hacker group Anonymous, infusing comedy into documentary, and Sopa.
The full interview:
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During the interview, which will give those of you not in Park City a good idea of the snow situation, Patrick and Stephen speak with Knappenberger about hacker group Anonymous, infusing comedy into documentary, and Sopa.
The full interview:
… Read the rest...
- 1/23/2012
- by Dan Schoenbrun
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Filmmaker has partnered with Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco of the newly-founded and ambitiously-named National Film Society for a series of video interviews at Sundance.
In this first video, Patrick and Stephen catch up with comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim on the red carpet before their Billion Dollar Movie premiere. Tim and Eric are their usual absurdest selves, and for their part, Patrick and Stephen turn in what just might be the most laid-back red carpet interview I’ve ever seen:
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is available on VOD starting January 27th. And for some bonus hilarity, check out this guest appearance that the duo made on Park City TV show In the Can, during which they claim that their movie has been “Rango-ed”
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In this first video, Patrick and Stephen catch up with comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim on the red carpet before their Billion Dollar Movie premiere. Tim and Eric are their usual absurdest selves, and for their part, Patrick and Stephen turn in what just might be the most laid-back red carpet interview I’ve ever seen:
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is available on VOD starting January 27th. And for some bonus hilarity, check out this guest appearance that the duo made on Park City TV show In the Can, during which they claim that their movie has been “Rango-ed”
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- 1/23/2012
- by Dan Schoenbrun
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The auspiciously-titled National Film Society is, according to its YouTube page, “a new media studio co-founded by Los Angeles filmmakers Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco, who’ve decided to take their talents to YouTube. They produce original content, showcase amazing movies, interview talented creators and make fun of each other as much as possible.” The page has short films, interviews about acting and film school (as in, to go or not), and even a (nepotistic) awards show. Below is Academy Award-winning short filmmaker Luke Matheney on getting an agent.
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- 1/10/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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