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April 2005
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April 2005 |
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Production Stills from Zhang Yimou's QIAN LI ZOU DAN JI (BigStar) |
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April 28, 2005 |
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Beijing based tabloid BigStar has posted three official production stills from director Zhang Yimou's Qian Li Zou Dan Ji: Takakura Ken (L) and Jiang Wen
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Jackie Chan Will Do Something in Cambodia Soon (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 27, 2005 |
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Jackie Chan just announced a new untitled project in Cambodia a few days during a charity tour. At least part of the movie will be made in the country. He said, "the movie will contain four elements - a story, some action, some explosion and some educational meaning. I think it won't be just an an action movie but a movie with some impact." He said he had already come out a storyline and his next task would be writing and casting
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Another Round of Spy Photos from the Set of Jet Li's HUO YUANJIA (The Beijing News) |
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April 26, 2005 |
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UNLEASHED / DANNY THE DOG Hong Kong Trailer and Poster (Mov3.com / Golden Scene) |
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April 25, 2005 |
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(Warning: the clip contains strong violence.)
(Thanks to "jetliang" of JetLiang.com)
The film will be released in Hong Kong May 12 under the Chinese title - The Immortal Dog.
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Even More Spy Photos from the Set of Jet Li's HUO YUANJIA (JetLiang.com) |
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April 24, 2005 |
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(Thanks to "jetliang" of JetLiang.com)
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Two More Spy Photos from the Set of Jet Li's HUO YUANJIA (Sina.com / BigStar) |
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April 23, 2005 |
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(Thanks to "jetliang" of JetLiang.com)
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Opening This Week: April 16 - 22, 2005 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 22, 2005 |
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April 21, 2005 |
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A reporter form the Beijing Morning Post snuck into the set at Shanghai Film Studios' production facility in the town of Chedun. He entered the set of Huo family compound and an arena where
the young Huo Yuanjia had a match with someone.
(Thanks to "jetliang" of JetLiang.com)
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WU JI / THE PROMISE Plot Description (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 20, 2005 |
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According to Beijing Youth Daily, a spoiling plot description for director Chen Kaige's fantasy epic Wu Ji (literally title: Infinity, English title: The Promise) was printed on a catalogue distributed by China Film Group:
Spoiler Alert! Highlight to read:
Favored by the Goddess of Fortune a young woman became the most beautiful royal concubine (Cecilia Cheung) in the world. Spoiled by The King, she lived a life of extreme luxury. But fate cursed her never to enjoy true love until the time flows backwards and the dead come back to life. Then a slave (Jang Dong-kun), sincerely in love with her, determined to lift the curse with his own life as the price. He used his extraordinary close to light speed run broke the shackle fate put on her. She returned to the beginning of her life and obtained the right to choose again.
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Second UNLEASHED / DANNY THE DOG US Trailer - "Broken" (Yahoo! Movies) |
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April 20, 2005 |
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(Warning: the clip contains strong violence.)
(Thanks to "jetliang" of JetLiang.com)
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Three Chinese Language Films Picked by Cannes (Cannes Film Festival) |
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April 19, 2005 |
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Chen Kaige Makes His WU JI / THE PROMISE To an Online Game with Ubisoft (Sina.com) |
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April 19, 2005 |
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Director Chen Kaige just announced yesterday that an online game based on his upcoming fantasy epic Wu Ji (literally title: Infinity, English title: The Promise) would be jointly developed with Ubisoft.
Video: press conference for Wu Ji / The Promise's Online Game
More about Wu Ji / The Promise
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April 18, 2005 |
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Six Chinese Language Films Bidding for Cannes (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 17, 2005 |
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SEVEN SWORDS Official Site Browsing Guide (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 16, 2005 |
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The English version of the official site has yet opened and a guide might be helpful for fans do not read Chinese:
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April 15, 2005 |
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Opening This Week: April 9 - 15, 2005 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 15, 2005 |
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A photographer is having hallucinated vision of killing his wife; a young girl is eager to lead an all-woman dragon dance team in her own way but the coach, her fiancé, insists on following the old rules; a comedy about a touring tricycle taxi, his adopted son, and three women he has dated...
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April 14, 2005 |
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A killer wants to know who hired him to kill a witness, a lawyer working for a money launder struggles with his guilt, and a cop discovers the lawyer's wife who looks exactly like his girlfriend who has been missing for ten years. In the darkness, three men are searching for their own answers...
Written by Ivy Ho; directed by Benny Chan; starring Daniel Wu, Ekin Cheng, Aaron Kwok, Lo Ka-Leung, Angelica Lee, Ning Jing.
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April 13, 2005 |
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Director Rob Cohen: Keanu Reeves as Sinbad, Zhang Ziyi as Chinese empress (Wu Zetian), and he has already talked with the likes of Jet Li, Djimon Hounsou and Hayden Christensen.
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Hayao Miyazaki to Adapt Chinese Children's Book I LOST MY LITTLE BOY (EMP) |
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April 12, 2005 |
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According to Chinese media, master animator Hayao Miyazaki will make a film version of children's story I Lost My Little Boy by 21 year old Chinese writer Yi Shu. The story is about a young boy named Mimi, who was born with heart defect. One day he walks into a restaurant called The Orchid, where he meets the the Grandpa who owns the restaurant and a fairy girl. As a fan of Hayao Miyazaki, Yi Shu admitted that his story was somewhat influenced by the master director's works and while writing the story he even fantasized what it would be if it was a Hayao Miyazaki's movie. Yi Shu said he was contacted by Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli last October and the pre-production would take a year to complete. He also denied the rumor suggesting Hayao Miyazaki would retire after this project.
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April 11, 2005 |
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Teaser trailer (Thanks to Gary.Logue)
Left: teaser poster showing "Qin", the name of the kingdom unified China over tow thousand years ago. It was written in an ancient Chinese calligraphic style called "Xiao Zhuan",
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Painter and Director Che Yifei Died at 59 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 10, 2005 |
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Visual Effects Artist Peter Webb Talks about His Involvement in SEVEN SWORDS (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 9, 2005 |
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Peter Webb said this time his job is the most relaxed, according to Chinese newspaper The Beijing News. He said he was only responsible for removing wires, fixing revealing or continuity problems and grading the colors. The weather of locations in Xinjiang often changed very frequently and unexpectedly, therefore digital grading during the post-production was needed to fix the lighting problem. Webb said he could not control the sword movement of Donnie Yen (playing Chu Zhaonan) or Sun Honglei (playing Fire-Wind), but he could make the audiences feel they are on the scene personally.
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Opening This Week: April 2 - 8, 2005 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 8, 2005 |
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A young couple from a small town migrate to Beijing to work at a theme park with scaled models of man-made wonders from around the world; a great deal of money, belongs to a international crime ring, disappears from the a Hong Kong interment bank and the life of the bank's assistant manager is threatened by the angry ring leader; A police captain informs a semi-retired crime boss that someone has put a prize on his head and other bosses are assassinated one by one...
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Spy Photos from Set of Jet Li's Huo Yuanjia Biopic (Shanghai Youth Daily) |
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April 7, 2005 |
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More: Jet Li: A B CJet Li and director Ronny Yu: A B
(Thanks to "jetliang" of JetLiang.com)
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April 6, 2005 |
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(Warning: the clip contains strong violence.)
Jet Li's answers to fan questions, including the one concerning the poster controversy.
(Thanks to "jetliang" of JetLiang.com)
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Dose Every International Talent Has to Début in Hollywood by Playing a Villain? (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 5, 2005 |
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Is
there a norm, for every none US star to break into the
Hollywood, he or she has to take a role as a
baddie in a Hollywood production? Such role usually has lots of
actions, which is what he or she is known for, and very little
lines, which is what he or she is not good at, simply because
his or her accent. In Mission: Impossible, Jean Reno played a
hitman who tried to shred Tom Cruise with helicopter blades
before his helicopter was torched by Tom Cruise. Jet Li had his
first Hollywood film by playing the main villain (for the first
time) in Lethal Weapon 4. He beat the hell out of Mel Gibson and
Danny Glover, and at the end he was shot to death underwater.
Zhang Ziyi had her Hollywood breakthrough in Rush Hour 2. She
kicked Chris Tucker's nose and was later blown into pieces by
her own bomb. Now, two more stars are about to have their
Hollywood ddébut
- Chinese actress
Go Li is confirmed to play "the Chinese-Cuban wife of the leader
of a transnational crime syndicate and Crockett's love interest"
in Miami Vice and Thai warrior Tony Jaa is rumored for being
considered for playing the main villain in Die Hard 4. What kind
of horrific death has been planned for them?
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Principle Shooting of Jet Li's Huo Yuanjia Biopic Has Begun (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 4, 2005 |
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Production of Jet Li's Huo Yuanjia biopic began yesterday at Shanghai Film Studios' production facility in the town of Chedun. Huo Yuanjia (1868-1910) is known for promoting martial-art and patriotic spirit in China when the country was suffering from corruption and foreign invasion. In Fist of Legend, Jet Li played Chen Zhen, a fictional student of Huo Yuanjia. The role of Chen Zhen was originally created for Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury. The new biopic tells the story of how he became a legendary master but I am not sure how much of the film is based on fact. The project is helmed by Ronny Yu (Freddy Vs. Jason, The Bride with White Hair) and choreographed by Yuen Wo-Ping (Kung Fu Hustle, Kill Bill, The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).
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Director Stanley Tong Talks about Jackie Chan's THE MYTH (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 3, 2005 |
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Stanley Tong just had a chat with a reporter from Chinese paper Southern Daily. According to him, the story of The Myth was something like this:
Jackie Chan plays Jack, an archeologist who repeatedly dreams about a white dress lady played by Kim Hee-Seon. Leung Ka-Fai plays William, a scientist who is searching for some mysterious stone.
Spoiler Alert! Highlight to read: William invited Jack to a place called Emperor's Sand, where they discovered an ancient place. Inside the place, there is a coffin floating in midair and a painting showing that white dress lady. William removes a stone from the altar and the coffin falls to the ground immediately. Some tomb guardians appear and try to get the stone back. While fighting these guardians, Jack falls down a waterfall. He is then woke up by a dancer, Princess Samantha, played by Mallika Sherawat. Despite her invitation, Jack decided to leave and continue his search for that white dress lady. Jack and William then go back to the valley of the waterfalls by helicopter and eventually discover a time tunnel, which is connected with a floating palace. At the palace, Jack finally meets the white dress lady. She is actually a Koguryian princess who has been waiting for her lover, a general of The First Emperor of China (also played by Jackie Chan) for over two millenniums. Meanwhile William starts robbing the place and accidentally disabled the magic which keeps the place floating...
Tong said he wrote the story of The Myth after visiting the mausoleum of The First Emperor, which cost over 700 thousands men's 38 years to build. There will also be over 900 shots with CG effects, like the one showing thousands of terra-cotta warriors and sea of mercury fall from the sky. Battle scenes have been shot with about 1000 extras and over 100 horses. Over 100 thousand CG soldiers will be added to the final film. Graham Ware Jr. ,horse trainer for The Lord of the Rings, was on board to train the horses, especially the one Jackie Chan was riding.
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First Three Minutes of UNLEASHED / DANNY THE DOG (JoBlo.com) |
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April 2, 2005 |
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(Warning: the clip contains strong violence.)
(Thanks to "jetliang" of JetLiang.com)
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Opening This Week: March 26 - April 1, 2005 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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April 1, 2005 |
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