October 2007
Pure Martial Arts
Official Website: www.obbwc.com
Movie Trailer: OBBWC Trailer
Dear Instructor,
The martial art community needs your help and that of your students.
Martial arts, although widely participated in, have never received the high level of recognition and popularity that other sports have gotten. Considering how long the arts have existed, it has been only recently that they have been accepted into the Olympics.
This lack of recognition needs to change.
The 1st Open Black Belt World Championship (OBBWC) has taken the first big step by bringing pure martial art championships to the big screen. On October 20, 2007, the OBBWC will be featured in select Cineplex theatres throughout Canada. This one-time afternoon showing is an opportunity to view martial arts at its best.
The OBBWC promotes all martial art styles (Chinese, Japanese, & Korean) and encourages the martial art community to work and stand together. No matter what your art, you are a part of the martial art community and your attendance will help to further the recognition and popularity that martial arts deserve, and in turn help you.
Please inform your students of this showing and encourage them to attend. Through a communal effort, we can succeed!
Tickets and Cineplex locations can be found at www.cineplex.com
For every 10 people you bring, one free admission ticket will be awarded. For more information on this special go to www.obbwc.com or email us at kungfu@rogers.com
We look forward to having you attend.
With kind regards,
Werner Leuschner - Founder of the OBBWC
OBBWC Press Release:
For Immediate Release
1st Open Black Belt World Championship Hits the Big
Screen
In
High-Definition Exclusively at Select Cineplex
Entertainment Theatres
Toronto, ON (CGX.UN) September
19, 2007 – Wing Chun & Escrima International Ltd
and Cineplex Entertainment are pleased to announce
for the first time ever, the release of The
1st
OPEN BLACK BELT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (OBBWC)
2007 on the
big screen in High-Definition Saturday October
20th, 2007, exclusively at select
Cineplex Entertainment Theatres throughout Canada.
The
OBBWC features international martial
artists fighting in Chinese, Japanese and Korean
disciplines, demonstrations from action movie stars
and grandmasters, plus dazzling entertainment by
world class group performers.
“We are
pleased to offer our guests this exciting opportunity
to see martial arts championship matches on our giant
screens,” said Pat Marshall, Vice President,
Communications and Investor Relations, Cineplex
Entertainment. “It should be quite a show seeing
these talented athletes dominating our 50-foot
screens.”
Advance
tickets are available beginning September
21st
online at
www.cineplex.com
as well as at
participating theatre box offices. Admission for
children ages 3 – 12 and seniors is $9.95 + tax and
general admission is $12.95 + tax.
Special
guest appearances include…
*
Michael Jai White – multiple black belt
holder/actor “Spawn”, “Full Contact”, “Exit
Wounds”, “Tyson” and
a co-star in the new Batman movie, “The Dark
Knight”
*
Cynthia Rothrock – martial artist/actress (more
than 30 martial art movies)
*
Don “The Dragon” Wilson –holder of 11 world titles in
three different weight classes and world champion 11
years in a row/ actor (“Bloodfist” series), “Batman
Forever”, “Redemption”, “Ring of Fire” and “The Last
Sentinel”)
*
Bill “Superfoot” Wallace – undefeated kickboxing champion
and fastest kick, clocked at
100km/h
*
Dan “the King of Breaking” Netherland’s
attempt to break his
Guinness Book of World Records
*
Chad Netherland – holder of 10 Guinness Strength
Records (including two in the 2008 Guinness Book of
World Records edition)
*
Performances by the Northern Leg/Southern Fist, Grupo
Uniao Na Capoeira, Sifu Toy Chinese Martial Art
School, Yudh Gatka Akhara, Grandmasters Germon
Miller, Philipman Chow, Robert Cutrell and
more.
The
1st
Open Black Belt
World Championship 2007 will be shown at the
following select Cineplex Entertainment theatres
throughout Canada:
BRITISH
COLUMBIA
Colossus Langley Cinemas 20090 91A Avenue Langley,
BC
SilverCity
Riverport Cinemas 14211 Entertainment Way
Richmond, BC
Cineplex
Odeon Park & Tilford Cinemas 200-333 Brooksbank Avenue North
Vancouver, BC
Galaxy
Cinemas Nanaimo 213-4750 Rutherford Road
Nanaimo, BC
Cineplex Odeon Aberdeen Mall Cinemas
700-1320 Trans
Canada Highway Kamloops, BC
ALBERTA
Paramount Chinook Cinemas 6455 MacLeod Trail SW Calgary,
AB
Cineplex
Odeon Sunridge
Spectrum
Cinemas 400-2555 32nd Street Calgary,
AB
Scotiabank
Theatre Edmonton 8882-170 Street Edmonton,
AB
Cineplex
Odeon South Edmonton
Cinemas
1525-99th Street Edmonton,
AB
SASKATCHEWAN
Galaxy
Cinemas Regina 420 McCarthy Boulevard N Regina,
SK
Galaxy
Cinemas Saskatoon 347 2nd Avenue Saskatoon,
SK
MANITOBA
SilverCity
Polo Park Cinemas 817 St. James Street, Winnipeg,
MB
ONTARIO
SilverCity
Yonge-Eglinton Cinemas 2300 Yonge Street Toronto,
ON
Cineplex
Odeon Queensway
Cinemas
1025 The Queensway
Etobicoke, ON
Coliseum
Scarborough Cinemas 300 Borough Drive Scarborough,
ON
SilverCity
Richmond Hill Cinemas 8725 Yonge Street Richmond Hill,
ON
Coliseum Mississauga Cinemas 309 Rathburn Road West
Mississauga, ON
Colossus Vaughan Cinemas 3555 Highway 7 Vaughan,
ON
SilverCity Thunder Bay Cinemas 850 North May Street Thunder
Bay, ON
Galaxy
Cinemas Barrie 72 Commerce Park Drive Barrie,
ON
SilverCity Sudbury Cinemas 355 Barrydown Road Sudbury,
ON
Galaxy
Cinemas Waterloo 550 King Street N Waterloo,
ON
Galaxy
Cinemas Guelph 485 Woodlawn Road West Guelph,
ON
SilverCity London Cinemas 1680 Richmond Street, London,
ON
SilverCity Ancaster Cinemas 771 Golf Link Road Ancaster,
ON
Cineplex
Odeon Niagara Square
Cinemas
7555 Montrose Road
Niagara Falls, ON
SilverCity
Windsor Cinemas 4611 Walker Road Windsor,
ON
Cineplex Odeon South Keys
Cinemas
2214 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON
QUEBEC
Cineplex Odeon Brossard Cinemas 9350, boul. Leduc Brossard,
PQ
Cineplex Odeon Ste. Foy Cinemas 1200 Boul. Duplessis Ste. Foy,
PQ
Scotiabank Theatre Montreal 977 Ste-Catherine West Montreal,
PQ
About OBBWC:
The
OBBWC’s brainchild is Grandmaster Werner Leuschner,
President of Wing Chun &
Escrima
International and executive of seven different
companies, which vary from land development to
import/export. His goal is to unite all martial arts
in friendship and to promote the sport to gain the
same recognition as other world class events like
boxing and the UFC.
About
Cineplex Entertainment LP:
Headquartered
in Toronto, Canada, Cineplex Entertainment LP owns,
leases or has a jointventure interest in 132 theatres
with 1,329 screens serving approximately 60 million
guests annually. Cineplex Entertainment LP is the
largest motion picture exhibitor in Canada operating
the following brands: Cineplex Odeon, Galaxy, Famous
Players (including Coliseum, Colossus, SilverCity),
Cinema City and Scotiabank Theatres. The units of
Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund, which owns approximately
75.7% of Cineplex Entertainment LP, are traded on the
Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol CGX.UN). For more
information, visit us at www.cineplex.com.
For more
information, please contact:
Alex
Leuschner OBBWC Communications Wing Chun &
Escrima International Ltd. Phone: 519-746-9984 Cell:
519-573-1015
kungfu@rogers.com
www.obbwc.com
Georgia
Sourtzis Manager, Communications Cineplex
Entertainment 416-323-6728
georgia.sourtzis@cineplex.com
