FREE Tickets to UNLEASHED sneak preview!

[GeneChing]

Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine and Tiger Claw is pleased to be holding 5 sneak preview screenings of UNLEASHED next week. The first will be May 11th at 7:30 in San Francisco, CA. The other four will be May 12th at 7:30 in Union City CA, Tampa FL, Hanover MD, and Knoxville TN. Unleashed opens on Friday, May 13th. It's all part of a benefit we are doing through our non-profit branch, The Tiger Claw Foundation, for Jet Li's new ONE Foundation, an international relief organization inspired by Jet's near death tsunami experience in Maldives. If you go to TigerClawFoundation.org, you can also enter to win an Unleashed poster autographed by Jet Li.
If you are near any of our showings, I have a limited amount of tickets reserved for forum members here. Email me at gene@kungfumagazine.com - include your name and mailing address and make the subject of the email "UNLEASHED". Ticket winners will be selected at random and notified via email. See you at Unleashed!

[GeneChing]

Your odds are pretty good to get into the show at this point. We're doing first come, first serve for the first few seats. Email me with your address!

[norther practitioner]

Hey man, way to hit the big markets...

[Shaolinlueb]

****, too bad i wont be in cali or else id go.

[GeneChing]

You know, it's funny, we actually had one master cuss us out for not holding a screening in his area - ah, masters...

Our locations were based on our own logistics. SF and Union City are for our west coast office. Knoxville is our east coast. Tampa and Hanover were chosen by our TN office for several reasons - mostly they are markets that we have a lot of support in and we had the most people there that we wanted to thank. I wasn't involved in that decision and have no clue about the east coast markets. I am running the SF and Union City shows, and we have plenty of friends here to take care of. We actually got bumped out of the SF Metreon on Thursday because Lucas bought it out for the premiere benefit for Star Wars. Actually, that works out better for us, because we don't have to split our staff to cover the show.

Please keep in mind, this is all a Tiger Claw Foundation benefit for Jet Li's ONE Foundation. We're putting this on, not only to promote Unleashed, but to do some ever needed charity work. If you don't do charity work, you are unworthy to call yourself a martial artist. So, even if you can't make it to one of our screenings, you can support this effort by spreading the word and donating to our raffle at http://www.tigerclawfoundation.org

[GeneChing]

Since only a few of you are in reach of these theaters, there's a good chance you'll get in if you enter - buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut - you must follow the directions. Email me at gene@kungfumagazine.com. Give your name and address and title the email "UNLEASHED". No PMs and no emails without said information will be honored. Thanks and hope to see you at the show!!

[SimonM]

Gah! Offer free tickets in London, Ontario, Canada or Lishi, Shanxi, China!

[GeneChing]

I wish we could, man, I wish we could. It's actually quite a task to offer what we have offered. We aren't in the theater business and some of my fellow employees are going into conniptions about this. But it'll be a lot of fun, I'm sure. Also, don't forget, the raffle for the Jet Li autographed UNLEASHED posters is international - everyone can participate - see www.tigerclawfoundation.org and donate now!

[norther practitioner]

geez, I'm just jokin' around....


Have fun with it...

[GeneChing]

I knew Simon was too. That Master wasn't tho. He was totally serious. Why didn't we cater just to him? He also demanded that he would only participate if his school could do a big demo first. Some people... But for the sake of the forum, and somewhat in response to your questions, yes, there is a reason why we are doing the preview where we are doing them.

Some day, there will be Kung Fu Tai Chi stores in every strip mall of the nation, all serviced by nacho ninjettes, and I will be emperor. But until then, we gotta do the shows close to home.

[norther practitioner]

It's all good..

But seriously.. if you want to do a Denva thing, let me know...

[GeneChing]

Well, we just launched our fundraising auction - see UNLEASHED poster autographed by Jet Li on eBay. Starting bid, $25.

[SimonM]

No, I'm serious, sneak preview that big-name movie in a smallish city in north-western China not at some posh big city do!

Actually on anoter note Gene, have you ever been anywhere near the western edge of Shanxi province? What's it like apart from the coal dust, sand dust, cold winters, flooding rivers, noodles, dirty cities and thousands of years of nearly perfectly preserved history?

[GeneChing]

...it's not really high on my list of places to go in China next.

This is the week of the premieres. We're pretty excited. I hope some more of you can make it out to the shows.

[Starchaser107]

those tickets would really fly off the shelves if it were open to the midwest and the east coast and


ahem

jamaica.