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October 2005
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October 2005 |
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October 30, 2005 |
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Nicholas Tse plays Wuhua, Duke of the North.
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October 29, 2005 |
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The cast and crew of The Banquet (literal title: The Night Banquet) took a short break and attended a press conference today in Beijing
Videos: The press conference (click the number below the screen to watch the rest.)
Title photo (left) - the major cast and crew member: (from L to R) Ma Jingwu, Daniel Wu, director Feng Xiaogang, Huang Xiaoming, Zhou Xun, Zhang Ziyi, screenwriter Sheng Hexuan, Ge You, art director Tim Yip and executive producer Hu Xiaofeng. Title photo (right) - the official logo. |
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October 29, 2005 |
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Sina.com just posted a photo showing Naomi Watts in China's southern region of Guangxi, where The Painted Veil is being filmed.
Related Stories: Clip: Edward Norton Talks about THE PAINTED VEIL (Sina.com) October 9, 2005Stills: THE PAINTED VEIL (Sina.com) October 1, 2005 Wong Chau-Sang Joints THE PAINTED VEIL Remake and Jiang Wen's THE SUN RISES AGAIN (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 13, 2005 THE PAINTED VEIL Remake Will Go into Production this Month in Beijing (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 3, 2005 |
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Opening This Week: October 22 - 28 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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October 28, 2005 |
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A low-end government official does his share of bring people out of poverty, a young mother tries to rescue his so from a monster woman, three love stories in three times, and Aunt Tiger returns to a village to take children as preys.
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October 27, 2005 |
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Hong Kong director Johnnie To's latest crime drama, Election, which shocked Cannes with its ultra violence earlier this year, was released in Hong Kong and the mainland China Last Thursday last week. It is cleaner than the version screened in Cannes. The cleaning process to create the 85 minute mainland Chinese version includes changing the original Chinese title from "The Dark Society" to "Days in the Dragon City ("Dragon City" refers to Kowloon (Nine Dragons)), deleting scenes with extreme violence and gang ceremony, and attaching a "good ending" (i.e., every major gangsters got arrested.)
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Shooting of YE YAN / THE NIGHT BANQUET Continues (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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October 26, 2005 |
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Shooting of the "banquet" has officially begun inside an aircraft hangar north of Beijing city and choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping has worked on a polo scene at another location. Cinematographer Lü Yue (Shanghai Triad, To Live) has join the crew to work cinematographer Zhang Li (Big Shot's Funeral, Red Cherry), who was on board since the principle shooting began. Several days ago, the set suddenly lost power when shooting of the banquet scene was under way. The lighting crew then turned off some lights and by the time the power was restored, lights from the remaining light sources beamed at several silk curtains, which created an unexpected effect. Director Feng Xiaogang immediately called every one back, several hundreds cast and crew members, to re-shoot the whole scene with the newly created effect.
Related Stories: More Shots from the Opening Ceremony of Feng Xiaogang's YE YAN / THE NIGHT BANQUET (Sohu.com) September 25, 2005
Feng Xiaogang's YE YAN / THE NIGHT BANQUET Held Opening Ceremony in
Beijing
(Sina.com)
September 22, 2005
The Creation of YE YAN / THE NIGHT BANQUET
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
September 15, 2005
Feng Xiaogang’s Epic
YE YAN / THE NIGHT BANQUET Ready for Production
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
August 31, 2005
Cast List for Feng Xiaogang's THE NIGHT BANQUET
Announced
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
July 19, 2005 |
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Shots Showing Gong Li in MIAMI VICE Remake (AdmiringGongLi.com) |
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October 25, 2005 |
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Click here for more behind the scene photos.
Related Story: Jamie Foxx Greenlights Gong Li's Share in MIAMI VICE (Daily Mail - UK) March 14, 2005 |
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Zhang Yimou’s RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES Première in Tokyo (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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October 24, 2005 |
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Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s new film Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Qianli Zhou Danji) just premièred yesterday as the opening film of the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival. Starring veteran Japanese actor Takakura Ken, the film tells Takada, a Japanese fisherman, to fulfill the last wish of his dying son, travels thousands of miles to the China’s southeastern province of Yunnan to search for the secret behind a local opera play, called Riding along for Thousands of Miles. Zhang Yimou, who has been Ken Takakura’s admirer for almost thirty years, wrote this film just to fulfill his own wish of working with Ken Takakura.
Snapshots from the première: A B Page by Tokyo International Film Festival
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THE PROMISE / WU JI Stills: Cecilia Cheung as Qing Cheng (...) |
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October 23, 2005 |
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Several promotional stills of Cecilia Cheung as Qing Cheng have been released.
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Ng Man-Tat Said He Would Reunite with Stephen Chow in KUNG FU HUSTLE Sequel (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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October 23, 2005 |
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Ng Man-Tat who played the second leading role in all Stephen Chow’s movies since 1989 and did not show up in Chow’s latest hit Kung Fu Hustle. Reportedly, Chow did not ask Ng to join the project even though Ng made himself fully available. Last week Ng Man-Tat told Taiwanese media that he had put the unhappy incident in behind and had begun talking with Stephen Chow for joining the planned Kung Fu Hustle sequel.
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MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA North American Trailer in QuickTime (Apple.com) | |||
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October 22, 2005 |
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Click here for 105 grabs from the HD version of the trailer. (NEW)
More about Memoirs Of A Geisha.
(Thanks to "Chris" from HelloZiyi.us.) |
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October 22, 2005 |
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Three promotional stills with Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse and Shawn Yue were released today. Their looks were designed by Chang Suk-Ping, who worked as the production and costume designer for many films by Wong Kar-Wai. The new martial-art film is based on the popular same-name Hong Kong comic series by Tony Wong. The story is about a group of youngsters fighting the gangs and protecting the innocent in the streets of Hong Kong. It is directed and choreographed by Donnie Yen, who also plays the big brother. Production is currently underway at Hengdian World Studios of Zhejiang Province.
Related Stories: Production of DRAGON TIGER GATE Begins (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) October 1, 2005
Donnie Yen's
DRAGON AND TIGER GATE Will Go into Production This Fall
(DonnieYen.net) September 26, 2005
Donnie Yen Preps
MEGA DRAGON AND TIGER / GATE OF DRAGON AND TIGER (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
August 2, 2005
Donnie Yen in Negotiation for MEGA
DRAGON AND TIGER
Donnie Yen To Helm Film
Adaptation Of Comic Series MEGA DRAGON AND TIGER
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
June 24, 2003 |
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October 22, 2005 |
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The press conference was held Thursday at Dong Yuan Theater in Beijing, attended by director Chueng Chi-Leung, cast members Andy Lau, Fan Bingbing, Wang Zhiwen, Nicky Wu, Lin Yongjian, Ahn Sung-ki and Choi Si-Won. Budged at US$16 million, this period epic is jointly produced by studios from Beijing, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan. Based on the same name Japanese comic series, Stratége tells how Ge Li, a member of the House of Mo, protects the state of Liang being conquered by the mighty state of Zhao. Shooting has already begun in China’s Inner Mongolia and Zhuozhou of Hebei Province.
Video clip from the press conference. Related Stories:
Camera Stars Rolling for Andy Lau's STRATÉGE
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
September 28, 2005
Andy Lau to Star in Two Period Films
- STRATÉGE and ZHAO ZILONG
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Opening This Week: October 15 - 21 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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October 21, 2005 |
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A man rediscovers the love of his father during the past thirty years, a chief's daughter must protect her people's precious stones from being mined by greedy businessmen, a communist cadre keeps working until the last moment of his life, a young wife is transplanted with the heart from another woman, a Hong Kong gang needs a new leader, and a young restorer tries to uncover the stories behind paintings by a talented artist died over a half century ago.
Click here for detail (LINK FIXED) |
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Thru the Moebius Strip – A Chinese Dream of Pixel (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) | |||
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October 20, 2005 |
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After being in development for five years and burning almost US$20 million with 400 animators, Thru the Moebius Strip, the first Chinese made full-length 3-D animation is finally completed. This ambitious project is created by IDMT, a little known animation house located in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, bordering Hong Kong in the north.
French comic artist Jean "Moebius" Giraud provided the storyline and the artistic concept for the project. In 1999, the rights of the film was acquired by Raymond Neoh, an animation producer from Hong Kong. To finance the picture, Neoh raised money from his older brother and several independent investors, and later successfully listed his Global Digital Creations Holdings Limited (GDC Holdings Ltd.) company at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In August 2000, Neoh established GDC Entertainment as the producing vehicle and Its Shenzhen-based subsidiary Institute of Digital Media Technology (Shenzhen) Limited (IDMT) provided the production facility for the project. 14 artists, mostly from Beijing, plus 150 apprentices started working at IDMT in that year. Several months later, only 10 artists and 120 apprentices remains. They spent about a year just to learn how to master the animating program they brought and did not produce one single shot. By 2001, five experienced CGI artists were hired for training animators but by the time they left, the management of IDMT still had no clue of how to run the operations. At that time, GDC had planned to deliver the film by the end of 2003 and even announced Columbia Tri-Star as the US distributor. IDMT only began producing by the end of 2003 and the production cost started to soar. When the project was near completion in the second half of 2004, GDC had already lost almost US$16 millions. In the summer of 2005, 80% of GDC’s shares were sold to Shouguang Concord Grand (Group) Limited, a mainland Chinese corporation listed at Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which brought in the funding GDC needed very badly. Raymond Neoh, the founder of GDC stays at the board of directors.
During the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, Thru the Moebius Strip was shown to about 120 representatives of distributors from around the world. Fantastic Films International, LLC has already picked up the film’s rights to the US market and a screen test was held in Hollywood on April 4 (Click here for a brief review). GDC is in negotiation with several distributors for the rights in other regions.
IDMT is currently working on a 52 episode TV series titled Panshel's World, co-produced by GDC Entertainment and French company Product and Partner Multimedia. As for the big screen, IDMT is currently looking for a story for its second full-length animated feature, with will be about China.
Trailer (QuickTime / 15 MB) Related Story: China Hurries to Animate Its Film Industry (New York Times) |
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Award Nominees: China's Golden Rooster and Taiwan's Golden Horse (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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October 19, 2005 |
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Nominee lists for China's 25th Golden Rooster Film Awards and Taiwan's 42nd Golden Horse Film Awards have been announced. The Golden Rooster, once the top film awards in the mainland China, is now only representing the voice of the "old guards" of China's film circle. For years, director Feng Xiaogang's films have been ignored by Golden Rooster even though they all succeeded in the box-office. After concluding that people running the awards simply do not like him, Feng boycotted this year's Golden Rooster. He submitted his A World without Thieves to the Golden Horse and got four nominations. However, some reform has been made for this year's Golden Rooster. For the first time, categories are no longer only available for mainland Chinese productions and mainland Chinese citizens. People from Hong Kong and Taiwan related to any co-production (between mainland Chinese company and Hong Kong or Taiwanese company) will be eligible for the Golden Roosters. Jackie Chan and Daniel Wu from Hong Kong and cinematographer Lee Ping-Bin from Taiwan are among the nomination list this year. There is still one sad story - director Dayyan Eng is not nominated mainly because he is an American, even though his Waiting Alone, a Chinese production, is nominated for the best picture. As for Taiwan's Golden Horse, two local titles, Three Times and The Wayward Cloud, are strong contenders. But once again, most nominations go to Hong Kong films, including Johnnie To's Election, which is nominated in 11 categories, even though the Hong Kong film industry is currently in recession. The mainland Chinese film industry is also getting more and more shares of the awards. Last year, mainland Chinese film Kekexili: Mountain Patrol won the best picture at the Golden Horse.
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October 18, 2005 |
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Relate Stories: THE PROMISE, PERHAPS LOVE and THE WAYWARD CLOUD To Make Oscar Bid (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) September 27, 2005 Stills: Peter Chan's Musical PERHAPS LOVE (Sina.com / Tome.com) September 23, 2005 Making-of Featurette : PERHAPS LOVE (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 27, 2005 Posters: PERHAPS LOVE (Sina.com) July 26, 2005 Director Peter Chan Makes Musical PERHAPS LOVE With MILLION DOLLAR BABE Producer (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) March 12, 2005 |
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October 17, 2005 |
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Four poster designs exclusively for the mainland Chinese release have popped up on the net today. Also, the official Hong Kong site has fully launched. It is available in Chinese only, but if you click around, you will find a trailer, an interview with the director, an interview with five cast members, two short clips and a batch of wallpapers.
Related Stories:
DRAGON SQUAD Official Site with A
Trailer
(DragonSquad.hk)
September 29, 2005
DRAGON SQUAD Shooting in Hong Kong
Street
(Sina.com)
April 18, 2005
Additional Info for DRAGON SQUAD (MonkeyPeaches
Exclusive)
March 22, 2005
Producer Bey Logan Talks about DRAGON SQUAD
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March 4, 2005 |
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October 16, 2005 |
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According to Taiwanese newspaper United Daily News, Malaysian born Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh will be in the upcoming Indiana Jones project. She took a short break from the filming of Sunshine and made a visit to this island. According to the paper, Yeoh said Steven Spielberg visited the set of Memoirs of a Geisha and said to her, "Don't forget, we will work together in the Indiana Jones project." Then she replied, "I will be waiting for you." However, this is not the first time she gets related to the project. In 2001, according to another report, producer Kathleen Kennedy said Michelle Yeoh was in talk with Steven Spielberg and they had known each other for seven or eight years. There have been so many casting rumors about ID4 and so far none of them is confirmed officially. We don't even know the story line of the long-awaited sequel. It is not sure what role she would play if the rumor was indeed more than just a rumor.
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October 15, 2005 |
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Stills show Korean star Jang Dong-Kun as Kunlun the slave: A B
More about Wu Ji / The Promise
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October 14, 2005 |
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Two physically challenged people try to have a normal love life, two childhood friends spent their best time at an outdoor cinema, two women fall in love with the same man, and two young people meet in a small island...
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More and More Stills from Jet Li's Huo Yuanjia Biopic - FEARLESS (jet-liang.anyp.cn / Sohu.com / China News Agency / People's Daily) |
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October 13, 2005 |
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THE PROMISE / WU JI: Japanese Trailer, Clip, French Posters and Promotional Stills (WB Japan / TFM Distribution / EXCESSIF.com) |
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October 12, 2005 |
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Japanese trailer:
(By the French distributor - TFM Distribution.)
(Thanks to "Daniel" and Kung Fu Cult Cinema for the trailer.)
(Thanks to Arnaud Calistri of EXCESSIF.com for the posters and stills.)
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October 12, 2005 |
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(Sohu.com / KingNet.com.tw / Ocean Films / AtMovies.com.tw) |
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October 11, 2005 |
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The drama by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Shu Qi and Chang Chen plays three couple of lovers in three stories set in 1911, 1966 and 2005.
From the 1911 story: A B C D E From the 2005 story: A
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October 10, 2005 |
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Korean actor Jang Dong-Kun, who plays Kunlun the Slave, is featured on the poster twice. On the top, it shows Kunlun playing with a white feature and on the bottom, it shows Kunlun running with General Guangming (Hiroyuki Sanada) on his back. This mega budget fantasy drama by Chinese director Chen Kaige has been selected as China's official entry for The Best Foreign Language Film race of the coming Oscar. The Weinstein Company has already acquired the film's rights for all major English speaking countries. The brothers may have changed the English title of the film from The Promise to Master of the Crimson Armor, which refers to General Guangming and his double Kunlun the Slave. The original Chinese title is Wu Ji, which literally means "limitless."
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October 10 2005 |
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The still shows Huo Yuanjia (Jet Li) fighting with "American World Strongman Wrestler (Nathan Jones). The biopic is only loosely based on the life of Huo Yuanjia and the fight feature on the photo is a fictional event. Jet Li has said he intended to conclude his career as a martial-art actor with the film and he would no longer do any more on-screen action unless for projects really good. Directed by Ronny Yu and choreographed by Yuen Wo-Ping, the biopic is currently in post-production.
Related Story: More Production Stills of Jet Li's Huo Yuanjia Biopic - FEARLESS (Sina.com) September 21, 2005 Production Stills of Jet Li's Huo Yuanjia Biopic - FEARLESS (Sina.com) September 13, 2005 |
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Clip: Edward Norton Talks about THE PAINTED VEIL (Sina.com) |
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October 9, 2005 |
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Edward Norton just held a one-man press conference in Shanghai, talking about The Painted Veil being made in China. Shooting in Beijing and Shanghai has wrapped up and the production has restarted in an popular tourist town called Huangyao in the southwestern Guangxi Region. Filming in Beijing was exclusively took place inside the soundstages of Beijing Film Studios. The mockup streets of the old Shanghai built by Shanghai Film Studios were used to double for Shanghai and London in the 1920s. The film will be released worldwide October 2006.
Click here for the clip. (length: 40:40)
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October 8, 2005 |
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In the 1980s, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao starred in such comedy classic as Project A, Wheels on Meals and Dragon Forever. During an interview with South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, Jackie Chan said Yuen Biao would be in Project BB (aka. Project Baby or Baby Plan) he wrote. This would the first movie for the legendary trio in almost two decades. It will tell three crooks steal a baby in order to complete a deal with a gang, but none of them knows how to take care of their little hostage who, after gives them some major headache at their residence, somehow "persuades" them to give up doing bad things. Chan said, “it’s going to be a quite unique comedy film, which nobody has ever seen before.” In an earlier report, Eric Tsang was mentioned as a cast member. It is unknown whether Tsang is still in the project or not.
Click here for the report by The Korea Times.
(Thanks to “Lisa C” and Thierry Lorenzi.)
Related Story: Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang and Sammo Hung to Steal a Baby in PROJECT BB (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 16, 2005 |
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Zhang Yimou to Direct Hollywood Remake of Korean War Horror R-POINT? (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) | ||||
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October 7, 2005 |
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According to, probably, Tartan Films, Chinese director Zhang Yimou is set to helm a Hollywood remake of South Korean Vietnam War horror R-POINT. Story of the Korean original is about a Korean platoon going deep into the jungle to search for some soldiers lost at a place haunted by an ancient curse. The Korean film is distributed in UK and the US by Tartan Films. Neither Zhang Yimou nor anyone from his Beijing New Picture Films has publicly mentioned the project. Zhang Yimou has said, more than once, that he was not interested in working in the West. Zhang is now working on the post-production of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Qianli Zou Danji). He also has two projects set to launch. The first one is a period drama with Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li and the second one is a martial-art film with Jackie Chan, and possibly Jet Li.
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October 7, 2005 |
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Chen Kaige's THE PROMISE / WU JI Hailed at Home (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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October 6, 2005 |
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A seven-day exclusive screening run of Chen Kaige's fantasy drama The Promise just ended yesterday in Chengdu city of southwestern China. Purpose of the screening run was solely for making the film eligible for competing at the Best Foreign Language Film category of next year's Academy Awards. So far, reviews from critics and reporters are all very positive. Some of them even said The Promise exceeded what Zhang Yimou's Hero had achieved. Chen Kaige said it would be released in December worldwide, including in the US, which would make it eligible for other categories of next year's Oscar. Since Weinstein brothers has acquired the rights for North American, British, Australian and South African rights, I have to cross my fingers on this one. According to an report by IndieWire, the US title for the film has probably been changed to Master of the Crimson Armor (click here).
Pictures taken during the screening run.
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October 1, 2005 |
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Sina.com just posted the first batch of production photos of The Painted Veil, taken inside Beijing Film Studios. Directed by John Curran and played by Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Anthony Wong and Xia Yu, the remake tells a woman, whose husband ignores her in favor of his medical research, begins a journey of self-discovery while fighting a cholera epidemic with her husband in China during the 1920s. The film is exclusively shot in China. Even the replicated old Shanghai streets, built inside Shanghai Film Studios' production facility in Chedun, is used to double streets in England.
Related Stories: Wong Chau-Sang Joints THE PAINTED VEIL Remake and Jiang Wen's THE SUN RISES AGAIN (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 13, 2005 THE PAINTED VEIL Remake Will Go into Production this Month in Beijing (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 3, 2005 |
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Production of DRAGON TIGER GATE Begins (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) | |||
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October 1, 2005 |
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A ceremony held d Hengdian World Studios of China's Zhejiang Province yesterday, marking the beginning of the principal shooting of Dragon Tiger Gate. Based on the same name Hong Kong comic series, the film tells a group of youngsters battling the gangs in Hong Kong.
Title photo: (L to R) director Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse and Shawn Yue.
Related Stories: Donnie Yen Preps MEGA DRAGON AND TIGER / GATE OF DRAGON AND TIGER (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 2, 2005
Donnie Yen in Negotiation for MEGA
DRAGON AND TIGER (MonkeyPeaches
Exclusive)
March 27, 2005
Donnie Yen To Helm Film
Adaptation Of Comic Series MEGA DRAGON AND TIGER
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JADESOTURI / JADE WARRIOR, the First Finish Produced Kung Fu Film (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) | |||
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October 1, 2005 |
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Jadesoturi, jointly produced by Finland and China, is currently being made in Finland and Estonia. Inspired by Finish epic poem Kalevala, Jadesoturi is set in China about 7000 years ago and in modern day Finland. The story is about an ancient Chinese warrior named Sintai, who postpones the duty he is assigned by fate just to get a second chance with his beloved woman, Pin Yu. He gets the chance, in modern day Finland. An unnamed devil waits for a sampo, built by Sintai’s father and is capable of bring hell to earth, to be discovered by human. He believes only Sintai hold the power to name him but Sintai only wants to be with Pin Yu and gives the devil the wrong name. Chinese actor Cheng Taisheng (World, Seafood) plays the devil’s Chinese form and Finish actor Markku Peltola (The Man Without a Past) plays the devil’s Finish form. Pin Yu is played by Zhang Jingchu (Seven Swords, Peacock).
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