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Andy Lau	Fan Bingbing	Nicky Wu
(Sina.com)

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Director Feng Xiaogang with choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping.	A masked dancer.	An overview of the set.	Two assassins.
(Nanfang Daily, Sina.com)

The production team of The Banquet held a press conference yesterday at a set built inside a bamboo forest in China's Zhejiang Province. It is designed as a a sort of theater, where the crown prince (Daniel Wu) is informed the death of his father and is chased by a group of assassins sent by his uncle, the new emperor. Composer Tan Dun cameos as a singer, who is killed by the assassins. The same forest has already been featured in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon during the chase scene with Chow Yun-Fat and Zhang Ziyi. The scene was directed by Yuen Wo-Ping who is on board of The Banquet as the choreographer. Yuen has promised he would do something differently and people would not fly in midair this time. According to director Feng Xiaogang, revenue from selling international rights was well enough to cover the whole cost. He said buyers were lining up to for the movie, because Zhang Ziyi and Yuen Wo-Ping were involved in the production.

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