Beginning its life in 1984, the Karate Kid franchise emerged as a true underdog story that captivated audiences. The first film, released in the summer of 1984, became a sleeper hit because the ...

Two of the biggest movies from the Karate Kid franchise will be coming back to theaters before Karate Kid: Legends premieres on the big screen. The Karate Kid (1984) and The Karate Kid (2010) will ...

Karate Kid: Legends has crossed a major box office milestone, with hopes of overtaking the original 1984 classic. The martial arts franchise returns with its first movie in 15 years, colliding the ...

For this edition of Version Control, we will eliminate the Macchio sequels (which are self-evidently not as good as the original 1984 film) as well as the TV series, which is pretty clearly a ...

The latest installment in the Karate Kid universe, Karate Kid: Legends, hit theaters on May 30 It has been decades since Macchio first played Daniel in 1984's The Karate Kid. Although his character ...

Macchio says many of his memories revolve around the late Pat Morita, who played Mr. Miyagi Dave Hogan/Getty;Cindy Ord/Getty Ralph Macchio has fond memories of his 1984 hit film The Karate Kid.

It turns out that there is a Karate Kid inhabiting the same universe as Batman and Green Lantern – but it’s not Daniel-san. So why, then, is DC mentioned in the credits of the martial arts movie ...

Is the Karate Kid gaining on his spiritual predecessor? The 1984 movie The Karate Kid was essentially a junior-level version of the underdog sports drama Rocky, even sharing director John G. Avildsen ...

More than 40 years later, Ralph Macchio is still crane-kicking it as Daniel LaRusso, his character from The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai. In Karate Kid: Legends, Macchio's latest martial-arts movie, the ...