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November 30, 2006 |
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Related stories: Another A BATTLE OF WITS Trailer (Sina.com.cn) November 16, 2006 A BATTLE OF WITS Trailers (Sina.com.cn) November 15, 2006 War Tactics from A BATTLE OF WITS (Liu Bangbang's Blog) November 7, 2006 A BATTLE OF WITS Trailer - New (Sina.com.cn) October 24, 2006 A BATTLE OF WITS Stills (G-Film.com) October 22, 2006 Another A BATTLE OF WITS Poster (movieXclusive.com) October 11, 2006
A BATTLE OF WITS Mid-Term Posters
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October 8, 2006
Official Images from BATTLE OF WITS
(Sina.com) BATTLE OF WITS Production Wrapped Up (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) January 14, 2006 BATTLE OF WITS Set Video (Sina.com) November 29, 2005 More Photos from the BATTLE OF WITS Set (Sina.com) November 27, 2005 BATTLE OF WITS Character Photos (Sina.com) November 26, 2005 More Set Photos of BATTLE OF WITS (Sina.com) November 19, 2005 Set Photos of BATTLE OF WITS (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) November 11, 2005 STRATGE Press Conference in Beijing (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) October 22, 2005Camera Stars Rolling for Andy Lau's STRATAGE (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) September 28, 2005Andy Lau to Star in Two Period Films - STRATAGE and ZHAO ZILONG (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) July 2, 2005 |
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More Pictures from THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI (Sina.com.cn / TungStar) |
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November 29, 2006 |
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According to a few Chinese newspapers, the production team will begin shooting a scene of Chow Yun-Fat's character blowing up a train. At a small train station in northwestern Chinese province of Gansu, a report spotted a refurbished train with a steam locomotive and two cars and two antique soviet trucks with prop explosives.
Related stories: A Few Singapore Kids for THE BITTER SEA (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 1, 2005 Brendan Fraser to Rescue CHILDREN OF GUANGXI in the War-Torn China (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) June 19, 2005 Brendan Fraser Reveals More Details of CHILDREN OF GUANGXI (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) June 21, 2005 |
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More Pictures of Stephen Chow's LONG RIVER 7 (Sina.com.cn / CFP) |
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November 29, 2006 |
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Sina.com got a few more pictures about Stephen Chow shooting the birthday party scene for Long River 7 (literal title). Stephen Chow plays a single dad lives at a half-demolished apartment building with his son. His is poor, homeless and can’t even afford buying a toy for his son. One day he finds a strange toy-like device in the trash and gives it to his son. They soon discover it is an alien device with amazing power and the owners want it back badly.
Related stories:
Stephen Chow's LONG RIVER 7 Wrapped
Up
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) November 17, 2006
The Alien Ship Stephen Chow Built
for LONG RIVER 7
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
November 8, 2006 The Alien Ship Stephen Chow Built for LONG RIVER 7 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) November 8, 2006 Stephen Chow Gets High for LONG RIVER 7 / A HOPE (Sina.com.cn) October 12, 2006
First Photos of Stephen Chow on
the Set of LONG RIVER 7
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) September 29,
2006
Stephen Chow's LONG RIVER 7 Now in
Production
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) Stephen Chow Announces LONG RIVER 7, Officially (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 24, 2006Stephen Chow to Launch LONG RIVER 7 This Month (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 20, 2006Stephen Chow Postpones KUNG FU HUSTLE 2 for a Space Adventure (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) April 16, 2006Stephen Chow to Start Making THE ALIENS Next Month? (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) June 27, 2006 |
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WWII Story THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI in Production (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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November 28, 2006 |
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Tow production stills
taken on the location of The Children of Huang Shi have been
distributed to the Chinese press by the film’s Chinese producer
Cheerland Entertainment Organization. According to Variety, Set in
war-ravaged China during the late 1930s, “Huang Shi” is based on
true events. It’s the story of a young Englishman, George Hogg, who
led 60 orphaned boys on a journey across the Liu Pan Shan mountains
(Liupan Mountains) to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert.
The real-life George Hogg died from tetanus in 1945, a year after he
escorted the children to safety. Irish-born actor
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
(Mission: Impossible III,
Match Point,
Ride with the Devil)
plays George Hogg and Australian actress
Radha Mitchell (Silent
Hill,
Melinda and Melinda,
Finding Neverland)
plays a nurse helping Hogg. Chow Yun-Fat plays a resistance fighter
who returns to his homeland after the Japanese invasion and Michelle
Yeoh plays village woman.
Roger Spottiswoode (The
6th Day,
Tomorrow Never Dies,
Hiroshima)
is directing the project with the script penned by
Jane Hawksley. The project's
producers include Arthur Cohn (Les
Choristes,
One Day in September,
Central Station),
Martin Hagemann (Old Love,
The Flying Scotsman,
Creep),
Peter Loehr (Air,
Sunflower,
Shower),
Wieland Schulz-Keil (Sister
Smile,
The Cat's Meow,
Twister)
and Jonathan Shteinman (Like
Minds,
The Night We Called It a Day,
Rabbit-Proof Fence). In June last year, Brendan Fraser announced he would play the lead character in the project, once titled The Bitter Sea, which would go into production in November 2005. Fraser later quit the project for some reason unknown and the filming did not begin until the 13th this month. The production is currently taking place at China's northwestern Gansu Province, where the story occurs. More filming will be done at Hengdian World Studios of eastern China, Shanghai and Melbourne Australia. This Chinese-Australian-German production is aiming at a worldwide release in 2008.
(Thanks to "Mighty Ganesha"s contribution to this story.)
Related stories: A Few Singapore Kids for THE BITTER SEA (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) Brendan Fraser to Rescue CHILDREN OF GUANGXI in the War-Torn China (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) June 19, 2005 Brendan Fraser Reveals More Details of CHILDREN OF GUANGXI (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) June 21, 2005 |
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November 28, 2006 |
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This video shows a scene of a communist-led Liberation Army troop mobilizing on a muddy road. The quality is very bad and I suspect it was actually shot with a cell phone. Story of The Assembly (Chinese literal title: The Assembly Call) is set in 1947, right in the middle of the bloody Chinese civil war. A company from the communist-led army was assigned with a suicide mission – stopping the enemy advance by all costs. They were told they would be able to withdraw once they heard the assembly call. But the call never came and everyone, except the company leader, died. Years later, the sole survivor begins to search for the truth and collect evident to prove that his men all died as real heroes.
Related stories: A Few Singapore Kids for THE BITTER SEA (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 1, 2005 Brendan Fraser to Rescue CHILDREN OF GUANGXI in the War-Torn China (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) June 19, 2005 Brendan Fraser Reveals More Details of CHILDREN OF GUANGXI (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) June 21, 2005 |
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PTU Sequel Filming in Hong Kong Streets (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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November 27, 2006 |
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Johnnie To has begun shooting the sequel to his stylish thriller PTU since October. The original PTU tells a complicated one-night story involving cops from various departments, crooks from various streets and a cop's missing gun. Simon Yam and Maggie Siu resume their roles as Ho, head of PTU (Police Tactical Unit) , and Officer Kat. Rumor says this may not be the only sequel. |
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Props Burnt Before Feng Xiaogang Launches His War for THE ASSEMBLY (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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November 27, 2006 |
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A large number of props made for Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's US$10 million war drama, The Assembly, just burnt in South Korea, according to someone from the production studio Beijing H. Brothers. They several hundreds of dummy corpses and an unknown number of prop fire arms and artilleries. A Korean company, which was also involved in the production of Korea War epic Taegukgi Hwinalrimyeo (aka. Tae Gi: The Brotherhood of War) was contracted to make these props and these props accidentally caught on fire. The Korean company has promised to start remaking these props and make the delivery in about a month. The burnt props actually took it nearly three months to make. Feng originally planed to shoot snowy war scene by the end of this month and without these props, the shooting would probably have to be rescheduled.Story of The Assembly (Chinese literal title: The Assembly Call) is set in 1947, right in the middle of the bloody Chinese civil war. A company from the communist-led army was assigned with a suicide mission – stopping the enemy advance by all costs and they were told they would be able to withdraw once they heard the assembly call. But the call never came and everyone, except the company leader, died. Years later, the sole survivor begins to search for the truth and collect evident to prove that his men all died as real heroes.
Related stories:
Pictures from a Muddy Location of
Feng Xiaogang's THE ASSEMBLY
(Sina.com.cn) November 20,
2006
Spy Photos from the Set of Feng
Xiaogang's THE ASSEMBLY
(...) October
31, 2006
More Detail on Feng Xiaogang's THE
ASSEMBLY CALL
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
Feng Xiaogang to Blow an ASSEMBLY
CALL for a WWII Epic
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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November 26, 2006 |
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A millennium old little town called Xinchang, just outside of Shanghai City, has been used to double for the 1930s/40s Shanghai.
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