Yep, that’s right! In honour of Monday’s release of 1911:Revolution, one lucky person will get all 21 of Cine-Asia’s Jackie Chan catalogue, including the latest movie! (more…)
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Win 21 Jackie Chan DVDs, including one signed by the man himself!
Wednesday, 14 March, 2012
The end of HKFlix.com
Tuesday, 10 May, 2011It’s with great sadness I discovered that online retailer HKFlix.com is no more. Though we had somewhat distanced ourselves from them in recent years, mainly due to concentrating on UK based releases, they were our first retailer affiliate connection and in some ways much of the reason there is an easternKicks at all!
Back when I started easternKicks.com, they were the first retailer we approached, dreaming the impossible dream of ‘monetizing’ the site. (Lesson to those planning to do the same: do it for the passion, not the money!) At the time they had the best range of products, and were often a regular stop for my own purchases.
One of the first online retailers to to truly breakdown global borders and offer Asian and martial art releases to the world, but ultimately they couldn’t compete with the might of Amazon or Netfilx, nor the product range of Yes Asia. They folded in March this year.
The original co-founder wrote quite an impassioned letter on CityOnFire.com, explaining how he set up the company, how he eventually parted with it in October 2009 and how disappointed he became with how the company was run afterwards.
A sad day indeed…
