Before Ralph Macchio was cast in The Karate Kid, the role was apparently offered to Charlie Sheen, who had a moral conundrum ...

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"The Karate Kid" has held on to the hype from the original films for decades. Since the first movies were created in the '80s, there have been a multitude of spinoffs and reboots that have drawn ...

The newest movie in the “Karate Kid” franchise, “Karate Kid: Legends,” initially seemed like it was leaving Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) by the wayside. However, by the end of the movie, Zabka ...

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When a child star is cute and has a few instinctual acting moves, that’s probably enough to get him by. Jaden Smith, who stars in the new remake of The Karate Kid, scores on both counts, but he also ...

Ralph Macchio learned he was crane-kicked out of “The Next Karate Kid” by reading about it in the newspaper. Macchio, then in his early 30s, was clueless about the project until reading in 1994 that ...

“People have said it’s a very white cast..that it didn’t dive into the Asian story,” Macchio said in this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine. The 60-year-old actor said the 1984 classic, where he ...

The real Karate Kid has always been Johnny Lawrence: member and sensei of Cobra Kai, Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang karate dojos. The wildly successful “Cobra Kai” reached its series finale on Netflix on ...

The first three films follow Daniel LaRusso, who learns to use karate for good under the eccentric mentorship of a janitor named Mr. Miyagi. In the fourth and final installment of the original series, ...

A musical adaptation of Karate Kid is to arrive in the UK for the first time for a tour next year. The show, which is written by the screenwriter of the original Jackie Chan film, will open at the New ...