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WAR Poster with Jet Li and Jason Statham (IGN)

 

 

May 31, 2007

 

 

 

(Image: Lionsgate, IGN.)

 

   

(Thanks to Jet Liang.)

Related stories:

Jet Li's WAR (Previously Known as "Rogue") Got a Trailer Online (...) May 15, 2007

Set Report about Jet Li's ROGUE (ComingSoon.net) April 21, 2006

ROUGE Set Report (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) April 10, 2006

Jet Li Photos from ROGUE Set (AmouaRose.com) April 6, 2006

Jet Li's ROUGE Is Finally Happening (...) March 3, 2006

Will Jet Li Reunite with Jason Stantham in ROGUE? (Production Weekly) January 19, 2006

 

 

 

MR. CINEMA (aka. Call Me Left) Trailer (Mov3.com)

 

 

May 31, 2007

 

 

(Image: Sil-Metropole)  
   

Mr. Left (Anthony Wong) was a projectionist, who lived at a cinema house with his wife (Teresa Mo) and son (Ronald Cheng), who had a girlfriend (Karen Mok), sort of. Everyday Mr. Left was in charge of showing movies from the mainland and local leftwing studios. The Hong Kong leftwing studios were major players of Hong Kong cinema during the 1950s and 1960s and provided opportunities for many talents, like Jet Li and Johnnie To, to start their career. Having a good faith in Communism, he followed closely on each political movement launched on the mainland side and dreamed about visiting Beijing’s The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tian An Men), the political centre point of his beloved country, but his little wish had never been fulfilled. In the 1960s, along with other minority “leftists”, he participated in a series protests against the corrupted British rule and was subsequently alienized by other Hong Kongers. In the 1970s, while Hong Kong economy started booming, Mr. Left still enjoyed his own quasi-Cultural Revolution-like private life in the Union. In the 1980s, the capitalist-reform began in the mainland and Mr. Left’s family had also started to move. Left junior became an entrepreneur and Mrs. Left threw her life saving into the housing market. In the 1990s, Hong Kong was about to be returned to China and Mr. Left’s cinema house started losing business…

 

This film is produced by Sil-Metropole Organisation Ltd., a company created in 1982, by merging four Hong Kong “leftwing” studios, Great Wall Movie Enterprises, Feng Huang Motion Pictures Co., Sun Luen Film Co. and Chung Yuen Motion Picture Co. Sil-Metropole is a Hong Kong-registered company and is also listed as a mainland Chinese state-owned studio. Some latest projects it is involved in include "Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon," "Confession of Pain," and “Initial D.”

 

Written by director Chiu Leung-Chun (McDull, the Alumni / Golden Chicken 2 / Golden Chicken), Siu Kwun-Hung (When I Fall in Love… with Both) and Sze Yeung-Ping (DragonBlade / Tai Chi Boxer / Born to Defence), Mr. Cinema will be released in Hong Kong and the mainland side on June 14.

 

Click here for the trainer (WMV)

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More CALL ME LEFT Posters (Sina.com) May 12, 2007

Funny Posters of CALL ME LEFT (Sina.com) April 30, 2007

CALL ME LEFT to Recap Hong Kong of the Past 30 Years (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) April 18, 2007

 

 

 

Andy Lau Finances BROTHERS of a Crime Family (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

May 31, 2007

 

 

 

A very earlier shot of "The Five Tigers" (L to R): Felix Wong, Andy Lau, Miu Kiu-wai, Ken Tong and Leung Chiu-Wai. (Image: ?.)

 

   

According to the Chinese press, Xiong Di (literal: "Brothers"), a new Hong Kong gang thriller based on an idea came out by Andy Lau, will go into production with over US$260 million from Lau’s pocket. The story centers around two brothers, sons of a powerful crime boss. The younger brother (Eason Chan) was sent abroad when he was just a little kid and the older brother (Miu Kiu-wai) stayed with their father and an adopted brother (Felix Wong), because a fortuneteller prophesied that the brothers would turn against each other someday. Years later, after the death of their father, the younger brother returns to Hong Kong and finds out the older brother, the chosen successor, wants to retire and hand the power to him. He refuses because he hates what his family has been doing. Meanwhile the leader of another gang (Ken Tong) seized the opportunity and starts setting the brothers up. Andy Lau will play a cop investigating the crime family and young mainland Chinese actress will be the female lead.

 

Back in the 1980s, Andy Lau, Miu Kiu-wai, Felix Wong, Ken Tong and Leung Chiu-Wai were five young rising stars of Hong Kong’s TVB, called “The Five Tigers of TVB”. Later all of them except Leung quit TVB. Cast of the movie got all “Tigers” except Leung. The press has speculated that it was because Leung’s friendship with the other four went cold. Director Chiu Sun-Kee (Love Trilogy, Frugal Game, Time 4 Hope) said they had never considered Leung as a must-have and he was too expensive anyway. Shooting will start soon in Thailand.

 

 

 

Newer, Bigger and QuickTimer Trailer of BLOOD BROTHERS (Twitch)

 

 

May 30, 2007

 

 

 

(Image: H. Bros.)

 

   

Twitch is hosting a new trailer and a few stills (already featured on this site) of Blood Brothers (Chinese title literally means: “Gate to Heaven”). Set in the 1930s Shanghai and mainly shot inside Shanghai Film Studios, the story features three best friends arriving at the city of opportunity. While making fortune with the local gangs, they choose to go different ways, and turn against each other in the end. This movie is the result of a collaborations of multiple studios from the Greater China Region – the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

 

Click here for the trailer in glorious QuickTime.

 

Update: Two new stills.

 

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BLOOD BROTHERS Stills (...) May 24, 2007

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Fortissimo bonds with 'Blood Brothers' (Variety) February 1, 2007

John Woo Produced BLOOD, BROTHERS Meets the Press (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) November 13, 2006

BLOOD BROTHERS Poster (Twitch) November 15, 2006

John Returns Home to Produce GATE TO HEAVEN (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) May 24, 2006

 

 

 

Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen’s FLASHPOINT Got a New Trailer (GSCMovies.com.my)

 

 

May 30, 2007

 

 

 

(Image: Mandarin Films)

 

   

Flashpoint (Chinese literal title: “Fuse”; and in English it was formerly known as “City without Mercy” and “Po Jun”) will satisfy people who can’t have enough of Donnie Yen’s choreography. Set in Macao, right before the little colony is scheduled for a return to China, a senior cop (Yen) and a undercover cop (Louis Koo) are trying to bring down a gang headed by three brothers (Ray Lui, Collin Chou, Xing Yu). The brothers are no ordinary criminals and after a series violent and dramatic events, the undercover cop is forced to abandon his duty and leave the senior cop alone.

Click here for the trailer from the site of Golden Screen Cinemas of Malaysia.


(Thanks to Twitch.)

 

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CITY WITHOUT MERCY Is Now FLASH POINT (...) March 21, 2007

Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen's CITY WITHOUT MERCY Wrapped Up (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) March 10, 2007

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SHA PO LANG II and PO JUN Are Two Different Films (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 31, 2006

Donnie Yen and Louis Koo for SHA PO LANG Sequel - PO JUN (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August 11, 2006

 

 

 

Tsui / Lam / To May Strike again after TRIANGLE (...)

 

 

May 30, 2007

 

 

 

L to R: Tsui Hark, Johnnie To, Ringle Lam. (Image: Sina.com)

 

Looks like making Triangle (Chinese literal title: “The Iron Triangle”) is something fun for Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To. Three best among Hong Kong directors have decided to work again in another project, according to one of the leads of Triangle, Luis Koo, who just had a little conversation with an unidentified reporter working for an unidentified firm, according to Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post. No detail, absolutely nothing about the possible second collaboration of the trio, has been given by Koo. Looks like he is in a hurry.

 

Tsui, Lam and To wrote and directed the story of Triangle in a relay. Premiered in Cannes, Triangle has yet drawn some positive reviews. However, this film is primarily made for Asian, especially the Chinese, and they may think differently after watching it.

 

(Thanks to Twitch.)

 

More about Triangle.

 

 

 

Puppet Live Action + 3D Animation = MONKEY KING VS. ER LANG SHEN (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

May 30, 2007

 

 

 

(Image: Yuan Sheng)

 

Wu Kong Da Zhan Er Lang Shen (roughly means: “Monkey King vs. Er Lang Shen”) is not an ordinary movie. Made by small private-owned Chinese company called “Yuan Cheng”, this made-for-kids movie features puppet live action, about 30% of the movie, with animated 3D backgrounds and characters. Based on a few early chapters of classic fantasy novel “Journey to the West”, the story tells the Monkey King rises against the heaven and has a horrific fight with Er Lang Shen, the nephew of Jade Emperor, who rules the Heaven. Liang Hansen, director and the president of Yuan Cheng, told a Chinese newspaper that they completed the project with about US$1 million and two years.

 

A TV clip with shots from the film.

 

A few posters.

 

 

 

John Woo Will Do NINJA GOLD, and Might Adopt His STRANGLEHOLD (The Hollywood Reporter)

 

 

May 29, 2007

 

 

 

John Woo will be working on Red Cliff for rest of the year. (Image: China Film Group)

 

   

According to The Hollywood Reporter, John Woo will direct Ninja Gold, based on an idea of his. Woo’s partner producer Terrance Chang said it would “center on a ninja warrior, part of a centuries-old legacy and bloodline, forced to confront the reality of covert warfare in the modern world.” The story is something about “the Yakuza and the Russian mob are involved in tons of gold being stolen in South Africa."


Game creator Warren Spector ("Deus Ex," "Thief: Deadly Shadows", "System Shock.") will executive produce the project. Woo and Chang’s Lion Rock Production will be in charge of the production and Fox Atomic, the nascent genre arm of 20th Century Fox, will handle the release. Chang has hoped to push the film, which “will be more reality-based but still will have fantastic elements from the game,” into production next year, but first they have to wait for the completion of the script.


“Stranglehold”, a new game for PS3 and Xbox 360, and with a story told as a sequel to Woo’s
Hard Boiled, will hit the market by August. Chang has said they “would definitely bring 'Stranglehold' to the big screen." Despite the unfortunate incident of Chow Yun-Fat’s sudden departure from Woo’s mega-budget war epic Red Cliff (aka. The Battle of Red Cliff), Woo has said his friendship with Chow was not affected. This would pave the way for Chow reprising his role in both Hard Boiled and the game version of “Stranglehold.”


The original story by The Hollywood Reporter.

 

 

 

WARRIOR Tries to Bring Back the Glory of Shanghai Animation Film Studio (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

May 29, 2007

 

 

(Shanghai Animation Film Studio) 

 

   

Warrior (Yong Shi), directed by Wang Jiashi, is the sixth full-length animated film of the 50 year old Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS), now part of Shanghai Film Group. It took the studio four years and US$2 million (very high by Chinese stand

ard) to make. About 30% of this 90 minute (roughly) film was done in 3D animation and the rest was hand painted. Based on a Mongolian folklore, the story begins with a young warrior Barter coming to Balin Grassland. He rescues a young girl from a herd of running horses and finds out she is the daughter of the wrestling couch working for the grassland lord. Barter starts learning wrestling while working for the grassland lord as a coolie. Barter falls in love with the girl he saved. However, there is a reason for his coming to the grassland – he is looking for the man who killed his father. It is reportedly that Luc Besson has seen the film and express interest of buying the rights for French speaking countries.

 

SAFS was founded as the only state-run studio making animation films. In 1964, after went into production for more than four years, Da Nao Tian Gong (Uproar in Heaven / The Monkey King), the studio’s first full length animated film is completed. The story tells the Monkey King rises against the heaven.

 

In the past 50 years, SAFS made hundreds of films and TV shows, including five full-length animated films (besides Uproar in Heaven and Warrior) – Ne Zha Nao Hai (Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King / 1979), Tian Shu Qi Tan (The Book from Heaven / 1983), Jin Hou Xiang Yao (The Golden Monkey Conquers the Evil / 1985) and Bao Lian Deng (Lotus Lantern / 1999).

 

SAFS is no longer the only organization making animations in China. Competition now comes from hundreds of domestic studios as well as foreign imports. Many talented people have left the studio to do contract jobs for American and Japanese productions. It is unknown weather Warrior, which will be released in Chinese theaters July 12, is able to make an appeal and the sales in foreign countries is still a big question mark.

 

Notes: Credit of Uproar in Heaven largely goes to the Wan brothers (Wan Laiming, Wan Guchan and Wan Chaochen). Along with the fourth brother, Wan Dihuan, they started making animations in Shanghai in 1922. In 1941, after 16 months of labor, they completed Tie Shan Gong Zhu (Princess Iron Fan), with a story about the Monkey King trying to borrow the Iron Fan from the princess to extinguish the flame blocking his journey to the west. This 80 minute black and white animation is actually vaguely calling the Chinese people to rise against Japanese occupation. Ironically, a cut version of the film, about 65 minute long, was allowed to be released in Japan when the Second World War was still on. It greatly influenced the career of Osamu Tezuka, who is praised as the god of Japanese manga and anima.

 

The official website (Chinese only)

Trailer

Stills

A poster

 

 

 

Mainland Studio JA Media Backs Five Chinese Language Films (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

May 28, 2007

 

 

In Cannes: (L to R) Ann Hui, Tsui Hark, Jacky Pang and Stanley Kwan. (JA Media) 

 
   

Mainland Chinese studio JA Media has recently announced investing US$30 million into five movie projects to be directed by five directors from Hong Kong and Taiwan, Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Staley Kwan, Stephen Fung and Cheng Hsiao-Zer. These projects are only the first shots from JA Media. Li Cheng, an executive of JA Media, told Sina.com that US$300 million will be pumped into movies and TV production in the next few year. JA Media is a relatively new but very financially strong studio, fully-owned by Jilin Ji’an Group, a mainland Chinese private enterprise focusing on new energy resources I bio-chemicals.

 

Tsui Hark will make a “hi-frequency comedy”, She Ain’t Mean, about the life and career of three women in the modern day Beijing. Tsui said he would cast three top actresses to play the three leads, who were 30 something, 25 and just over 20. The script is written by South Korean screenwriter and director Kwak Jae-young (My Sassy Girl, Classic, Windstruck). Tsui said this project was actually inspired by his 1986s classic Peking Opera Blues. A Korean movie with the same story will also be written and directed by Kwak.

 

Ann Hui’s (The Postmodern Life of My Aunt, July Rhapsody, Love in a Fallen City) project, Concubine’s Children, a US$12 million adaptation of the same name novel by Denise Chong will tell a Chinese concubine’s bitter life after moving to America with her husband in the 1920/30s. Chow Yun-Fat, who has starred in several movies by Hui, has basically agreed to play a role in the movie. Maggie Cheung is also talking with Hui about joining the cast. The script is developed by Ann Hui and Li Qiang (The Postmodern Life of My Aunt, Peacock).

 

Stanley Kwan (Everlasting Regret, Lan Yu, Rouge) is ambitiously preparing for Bruce, a US$12 million biopic of Bruce Lee, focusing on the relationship between Bruce Lee and his son Brandon. Kwan said he would cast four actors to play Bruce Lee of different ages and the second draft of the script had been completed.

 

Stephen Fung will be the director of Jump, about a naive farm girl in Shanghai, who by day works as a cleaner at a dance school and by night perfects her own unique hip hop martial arts dancing style. As previously reported, Stephen Chow’s The Star Overseas and Columbia (Sony) Pictures are also involved in the project. The idea of the story is from Stephen Chow and the script is penned by Ann Hui and Li Qiang.

 

Taiwanese director Cheng Hsiao-Zer will do Miao Miao, a drama about two schoolgirls in Taipei. This project will be co-produced by Jacky Pang, from Wong Kar-wai’s Jet-Tone.

 

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Shots from Marche du Film in Cannes (Sohu.com)

 

 

May 27, 2007

 

 

Assembly

Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon  

(Sohu.com)

   

Pictures taken at Marche du Film in Cannes: A B

 

 

 

 

More Stuffs from THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC GOURD (...)

 

 

May 26, 2007

 

 

(China Film Group, Disney Pictures, Centro) 

 

A lot from The Secret of the Magic Gourd, the first Disney movie made for Chinese kids have been released, mainly from the official site. Also, a poster can be found here and eight stills / wallpapers can be found here.

 

Related stories:

THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC GOURD Full Trailer (Sina.com) May 17, 2007

THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC GOURD Official Website (MagicGourd.cn) May 9, 2007

Trailer: THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC GOURD (Sina.com) April 28, 2007

 

 

 

Poster and Stills of CALL ME LEFT... Wait! Just Call Me MR. CINEMA (G-Film.com)

 

 

May 26, 2007

 

 

(Sil-Metropole)    
     
     
     

Anthony Wong plays an ordinary goodhearted Hong Kong man, whose family name is Jo, which means "left." A projectionist working at a movie theater, Left has good faith for Communism. His top wish is to visit The Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing, the political center point of his beloved country. Ronald Cheng plays his son, a fan of Bruce Lee, who has rarely care much about his father's dream and has seldom achieved anything noticeable in his life. Teresa Mo plays Mrs. Left, a typical traditional good wife and good mother. Karen Mok plays a girl next door, who spent her teenage years with Left junior. After being separated for two decades, they met again. Made by Hong Kong's Sil-Metropole, Mr. Cinema, formerly known as "Call Me Left", will be released on June 21 in Hong Kong and the mainland side.

 

More stills of the movie.   More can be found here.

 

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More CALL ME LEFT Posters (Sina.com) May 12, 2007

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Stephen Chow Wants to Be a Deserter in a Non-Comedy Anti-War Movie (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

May 25, 2007

 

 

(Sina.com.)

 

As reported a few days ago, Stephen Chow’s The Star Overseas signed a deal with Columbia Pictures (Sony Pictures) about making five movies together and the first project would be Jump, about "a naive farm girl who by day works as a cleaner at a dance school and by night perfects her own unique hip hop martial arts dancing style." Today, Hong Kong's Oriental Daily has reported that, possibly, another project might be a non-comedy anti-war movie set in the 1940s/50s and Stephen Chow would play a deserter in it. Stephen Chow has personally confirmed that he was interested in doing the anti-war but he had not decided whether and when to do it. A third project would be a martial-art comedy with characters from many classic martial-art movies.

Title image: Stephen Chow plays a construction worker and single parent in sci-fi comedy A Hope.

 

 

 

Opening This Week: May 19 - 25 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

May 25, 2007

 

 

Suspicion

(The Forbidden City Film)

 

Limitedly release the past Tuesday in a few Chinese cities, Suspicion tells the story of a midage couple. Their simple and quiet life is greatly disturbed after the husband suddenly gets a very well paid job. The wife begins to suspect her husband is no longer faithful to her...

 

Click here for detail

 
 

 

ASSEMBLY's Teaser Posters (...)

 

 

May 24, 2007

 

 

(H. Brothers Films, Media Asia.)

 
   

On the left, a version of international teaser poster revealed in Cannes, and on the right, a horizontal banner designed to tease theater lines in China.

 

The first war movie by Chinese director Feng Xiaogang, Assembly, formerly known as "The Assembly", tells in 1948, at the high point of the bloody Chinese civil war, a company leader of the communist-led Liberation Army was ordered to commend 47 men to defend a position four at least four hours. They would be able to retreat once they heard the assembly call. The call never came and everyone, except the, company leader died. A Few years later, while fighting another war in Korea, he was still searching for the reason he never heard the assembly call and trying to prove all his men died like real heroes. Beijing-based H. Brothers Films and Hong Kong-based Media Asia is selling it in Cannes right now.

 

More about Assembly.

 

 

 

TRIANGLE Clips (AlloCine.com)

 

 

May 24, 2007

 

 

(Milkyway Image Co.)

 

A B C

 

(Thanks to "Mary" and Twitch.)

 

More about Triangle.

 

 

 

BLOOD BROTHERS Stills (...)

 

 

May 24, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More stills:

A B C E E F G

 

 

(The Beijing H. Bros.) 

 

 

 

   

John Woo produced this crime drama, a remake of his Bullet in the Head. Directed Alexi Tan (Double Blade), it tells three best friends came to the 1930s Shanghai for a new life. They made fortune with the gangs gradually lost their innocent in the city of violence and betrayal.

Fortissimo Films has purchased the international rights (excluding Asia). The cast includes Liu Ye, Daniel Wu, Tony Yang, Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Li Xiaolu and Sun Honglei.

(Thanks to Christina Lee for most of the stills.)

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Another THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Photo - Liu Yifei (Oriental Morning Post)

 

 

May 23, 2007

 

 

(Oriental Morning Post)

 
   

This picture, acquired by Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post, shows Liu Yifei as Golden Sparrow in The Forbidden Kingdom. The scene was shot in the same bamboo forest featured in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In the story, Golden Sparrow, Sha Monk (Jackie Chan), Silent Monk (Jet Li) and New York kid Jason Williams (Michael Angarano) set up a journey to rescue the Monkey King and to find a way to send Jason back to the future.

 

 

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Columbia to Back Stephen Chow's JUMP (..)

 

 

May 23, 2007

 

 

(Sina.com.)

 
   

Both Variety and Screen Daily have reported Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia (CPFPA) has signed a multi-picture production deal with Stephen Chow's The Star Overseas. The first in the deal, is Jump, "a hip-hop dance romantic comedy to be directed by Stephen Fung from an original story by Chow". It will tell "the story of a naive farm girl who by day works as a cleaner at a dance school and by night perfects her own unique hip hop martial arts dancing style." Young mainland Chinese actress Zhang Yuqi will play the lead. She was female lead in Stephen Chow's sci-fi comedy A Hope (aka. "Long River Seven"), of which the international rights (excluding China) has bee acquired by Columbia.

 

Reports by Variety Asia Online and Screen Daily.

 

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Bootlegged Clip of THE ASSEMBLY Promo Reel Shown in Cannes (Sina.com)

 

 

May 22, 2007

 

 

(Huayi Brothers.)

 
   

A 7 minute promotional video of Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's war movie The Assembly has been screened in Cannes. The Movie tells in 1948, at the high point of the bloody Chinese civil war, a company leader of the communist-led Liberation Army was ordered to command 47 men to defend a position four at least four hours. They would be able to retreat once they heard the assembly call. The call never came and everyone except the company leader died. Then he spent many years to search for the reason he never heard the assembly call and to prove all his men died like real heroes. This bootlegged clip acquired by Sina.com is only 37 second long.

 

Click here

 

More about The Assembly.

 

 

 

More CALL ME LEFT Posters of Karen Mok (Sina.com)

 

 

May 22, 2007

 

 

(Sil-Metropole) 

 
   

Sina.com has more Call Me Left poster designs and they are all for Karen Mok. Anthony Wong plays an ordinary goodhearted Hong Kong man, whose family name is Jo, which means "left." A projectionist working at a movie theater, Left has good faith for Communism. His top wish is to visit The Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing, the political center point of his beloved country. Ronald Cheng plays his son, a fan of Bruce Lee, who has rarely care much about his father's dream and has seldom achieved anything noticeable in his life. Teresa Mo plays Mrs. Left, a typical traditional good wife and good mother. Karen Mok plays a girl next door, who spent her teenage years with Left junior. After being separated for two decades, they met again.

 

Click here for five more posters.

 

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More CALL ME LEFT Posters (Sina.com) May 12, 2007

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Cannes Update: Reviews of Li Yang's BLIND MOUNTAIN (...)

 

 

May 21, 2007

 

 

(Studio Canal)

 
   

Review by Lee Marshall, Screen Daily

Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter

Derek Elley, Variety

Chinese director's Blind Mountain screens at Cannes, Pauline Bugler, Deutsche Presse-Agentur

 

(Thanks to GreenCine Daily.)

 

Click here for more stills from the film.

 

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THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON: Teaser International Poster and a Few Stills (Sina.com)

 

 

May 21, 2007

 

 

(Sil-Metropole Organization)

 
   

Sina.com has acquired an international teaser poster and several promotions stills released in Cannes. Led by Andy Lau, Maggie Q and Sammo Hung, this movie is loosely based on parts of  classic historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It tells general Zhao Yun (Andy Lau), of the kingdom of Shu, recalling his life while making a last stand against the invading force from the kingdom of Wei. Maggie Q plays Cao Ying, granddaughter of Cao Cao, whose eldest son was the first ruler of Wei. Sammo Hung plays a friend of Zhao Yun. The armory looks cool but unfortunately not historically accurate.  Also, the musical instrument played by Maggie Q, called "Pi Pa", is in much modern design. Production is now underway in northern China.

 

Click here for several promotional stills.

 

(Thanks to Twitch.)

 

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The 7th Chinese Film Media Awards (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

May 21, 2007

 

 

(Southern Metropolis Daily)

 

Winners of the 7th Chinese Film Media Awards have been announced last Thursday in Hong Kong. Mainland Chinese director Ning Hao's fast-paced comedy Crazy Stone collected four awards. The winners were selected by a jury filled mostly with press editors and film critics from the above three regions. The awards were organized by Southern Metropolis Daily, a relative outspoken Chinese newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party's branch in Guangdong Province, bordering Hong Kong in the north. It  is the only one which opens to all movies made in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, without any restriction and is the only one, in the mainland China, which does not nominate unreleased movies.  This year, the organizer decided to write the name of the awards in a mixture of Chinese and Japanese, even though this is an event only for Chinese language films. Don't know the reason behind the change.

 

 

 

 

Best Film - Crazy Stone (Chinese mainland / Hong Kong)

Best Director - NING Hao (Crazy Stone - Chinese mainland)

Other nominees:

Other nominees:

You and Me (Chinese mainland)

JIA Zhangke (Still Life - Chinese mainland)

Election 2: Harmony Is a Virtue (Hong Kong)

Johnnie TO (lection 2: Harmony Is a Virtue - Hong Kong)

 

 

Best Screenplay - ZHANG Cheng, YUE Xiaojun and

NING Hao (Crazy Stone - Chinese mainland / Hong Kong)

Best New Director - Daniel WU (The Heavenly Kings - Hong Kong)

Other nominees:

Other nominees:

Daniel WU (The Heavenly Kings - Hong Kong)

NING Hao (Crazy Stone - Chinese mainland / Hong Kong)

 YAU Nai-Hoi and YIP Tin-Shing (lection 2: Harmony

Is a Virtue - Hong Kong)

 Wanma Cedai (The Silent Holy Stone - Chinese mainland)

 

 

Best Actor in A Leading Role - FU Dalong

(The Forest Ranger - Chinese mainland)

Best Actress in A Leading Role - JIN Yaqin (You and Me -

Chinese mainland)

Other nominees:

Other nominees:

GUO Tao (Crazy Stone - Chinese mainland / Hong Kong)

GONG Li (Curse of the Golden Flower - Chinese mainland / Hong Kong)

Jet LI (Fearless - Hong Kong / Chinese mainland).

Vivian HSU (The Shoe Fairy - Taiwan).

 

 

Best Actor in A Supporting Role - HUANG Bo

(Crazy Stone - Chinese mainland)

Best Actress in A Supporting Role - LU Yi-Ching (Blue Cha Cha - Taiwan)

Other nominees:

Other nominees:

 LU Yulai (Courthouse on the Horseback - Chinese mainland)

 YANG Yaning (Courthouse on the Horseback - Chinese mainland)

LIAO Fan (Curiosity Kills A Cat - Chinese mainland)

Joan CHEN (Jasmine Women)

 

 

Best New Performer - GONG Zhe (You and Me -

Chinese mainland)

 

Other nominees:

 

CHANG Hsiao-chuan (Eternal Summer - Taiwan)

 

HUO Siyan (My Name Is Fame)

 

 

 

The Tribute from the Press (Outstanding Filmmaker

of the Year) - Andy LAU (Hong Kong)

The Tribute from the Press (Outstanding Film of the Year) - Still Life (Chinese mainland)

 

 

The Grand Jury Award - Johnnie TO

 

 

 

 

 

THE WARLORDS Official English Language Site Launched (...)

 

 

May 20, 2007

 

 

(Media Asia, China Film Group, Morgan & Chan)

 

Click here for a trailer (we have seen), a plot outline, cast and character description, a gallery and crew bios.

 

(Warning: the plot outline might be spoiling!)

 

(Thanks to Jet Liang.)

 

More about The Warlords.

 

 

 

Cannes Update: Reviews of Hou Hsiao-hsien's FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (...)

 

 

May 19, 2007

 

 

(?)

 
   

Review by Justin Chang, Variety

Review by Dan Fainaru, Screen Daily

Review by Boyd van Hoeij, European-Film.net

Report by Geoff Andrew, Time Out

Review by D'Angelo, ScreenGrab

Review by Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter

Review by Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

 

(Thanks to GreenCine Daily.)

 

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New York Asian Film Festival Lineup (...)

 

 

May 18, 2007

 

 

(SubwayCinema.com)

 
   

Titles to be shown during the annual fest include:

 

Patrick Tam's, winner of Taiwanese Golden Horse and Hong Kong Film Awards, After This Our Exile (Hong Kong), about the story of a trashy dada and his infant son;

 

Feng Xiaogang's Hamlet inspired The Banquet (China), starring Zhang Ziyi as a queen in the ancient China;

 

Cheang Pou-Soi's insanely intense hitman flick Dog Bite Dog (Hong Kong), with a killer and a cop trying to cancel each other out in the most gruesome way;

Johnnie To's highly praised Exiled (Hong Kong), starts with two hitmen, assigned to kill a former colleague of theirs, finds out their  job being interrupted by  two other former colleagues;

 

Zhang Yang's true story-inspired black comedy Getting Home (China), tells an aging migrant worker carries the corpse of his friend thousands of miles home, by buses, trucks, a hand-pulled cart, a rubber tire and even his own back; and

 

John Woo's Hard-Boiled (Hong Kong), his last action packed classic before he joined the Hollywood gold rush;

 

Aachi & Ssipk (South Korea); A Big Bang Love, Juvenile (Japan); The Bodyguard 1 & 2 (Thailand); City of Violence (South Korea); Cruel Winter Blues (South Korea); Dasepo Naughty Girls (South Korea); Death Note & Death Note: The Last Name (Japan); Dynamite Warrior (Thailand); Freesia: Bullets over Tears (Japan); Gamera the Brave (Japan); Hell's Ground (Pakistan); Hula Girls (Japan); I筸 a Cyborg, But That's OK (South Korea); Memories of Matsuko (Japan); Never Belongs to Me (South Korea); Nightmare Detective (Japan); Retribution (Japan); The Show Must Go on (South Korea); and Traces of Love (South Korea).

 

Twitch got the complete NYAFF press release.

 

 

 

TRIANGLE Reviews from Cannes (...)

 

 

May 18, 2007

 

 

(Milkyway Image Co.)

 
   

Review by Derek Elley, Variety

Report by Anne Thompson, Variety

Review by Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter

Note by Glenn Kenny, Premier

Review by Todd Brown, Twitch

Note by Mike D'Angelo, ScreenGrab

 

(Thanks to GreenCine Daily.)

 

More about Triangle.

 

 

 

Opening This Week: May 12 - 18 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

May 18, 2007

 

 

Gong Tau

Whispers and Moans  

(China Star, Tesbury production)

 

Two movies, by Hong Kong director Herman Yau, both are rated Category III, have been released this weekend in Hong Kong. Gong Tau tells a young cop have to find a way to left a curse, which has killed his son and threatening the life of his wife. Whispers and Moans shows a series stories of people who work in Hong Kong's sex industry ?two pro girls who look after each other, a gigolo who lives with a ladyboy, a night club lady who falls in love with a gay man, a mainland girl who dreams about returning home with fortune, a college girl who fights for the rights of sex workers.

 

Click here for detail

 
 

 

THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC GOURD Full Trailer (Sina.com)

 

 

May 17, 2007

 

 

(China Film Group, Disney Pictures, Centro) 

 

Click here

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THE WARLORDS International Teaser Poster (MovieXclusive.com)

 

 

May 17, 2007

 

 

(Media Asia, China Film Group, Morgan & Chan)

 

Posted on Singapore-based MovieXclusive.com, this poorly designed poster, appears to be made for international sales. This website also got the official synopsis.

 

(Thanks to Jet Liang.)

 

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Cannes Update: Reviews Are in for Wong Kar-Wai's MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS... (...)

 

 

May 16, 2007

 

 

(Crystal Films)

 
   

Xan Brooks' review, The Guardian

Todd McCarthy's review, Variety

Anne Thompson's review, Blog on Variety

Gregg Kilday's review, Risky Business Blog

Kirk Honeycutt's review, The Hollywood Reporter

Charles Ealy's report, Autin Movie Blog

Dave Calhoun's repot, Time Out

Mike D'Angelo's review, Screen Grab

James Rocchi's review, Cinematical

Richard Corliss and Mary Corliss' report, Time Magazine
Jeffrey Wells' review, Hollywood Elsewhere

Gleen Kenny's report, Premiere

 

(Thanks to GreenCine Daily and Daniel Zelter.)

 

 

 

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS Trailer (...)

 

 

May 15, 2007

 

 

(Crystal Films)

 
   

Thanks to, Twitch, again.  Now we know where to watch the trailer of  Wong Kar-Wai's English language debut.

 

Click here for the trailer.

A few next stills are available here and here.)

 

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TRIANGLE's Cannes Press-Kit in PDF (Le Public System Cinema)

 

 

May 15, 2007

 

 

(Celluloid Dreams)

 

Click here for what's more than we have expected!

 

(Thanks to Twitch ).

 

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Jet Li's WAR (Previously Known as "Rogue") Got a Trailer Online (...)

 

 

May 15, 2007

 

 

(RougeTheFilm.com)

 
   
 

(Thanks to Jet Liang and Robin L鴙li.)

 

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Update on FIVE DEADLY VENOMS Remake (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

May 15, 2007

 

 

Poster of the original Five Deadly Venoms(Celestial Pictures)

 

The original Five Deadly Venoms (Wu Du), made in the 1970s by master marital-art director Chang Cheh , is about a young protege being ordered by his dying master to eliminate the evil ones among five of his previous protege , known as the Five Deadly Venoms. Each of the Five Deadly Venoms has a lethal skill learned from a toxic animal. Story of the remake, by Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures, will be set in the present days in a fictional city. Director Kirk Wong (The Big Hit, Jackie Chan's Crime Story) says the cast will probably include Jay Chou (Curse of the Golden Flower, Initial D) as the  protege and t Edison Chen (The Grudge 2, Dog Bite Dog, Initial D), Maggie Q (Live Free or Die Hard, Mission: Impossible III, Naked Weapon), Huang Xiaoming (The Banquet), Wu Jing (Invisible Target, Sha Po Lang, Drunken Monkey) and Liu Chia-Hui (dozens of Show Bros. classics) as the Five Deadly Venoms.  Andy Lau has dropped out of the cast. Shooting of the US15 million remake will start by September and locations will include Shanghai, Harbin (northeastern China) and the States.

 

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MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS Cannes Poster (Twitch)

 

 

May 14, 2007

 

 

(Crystal Films)

 
   

Got the one-sheet via Twitch.

 

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First Shots of RED CLIFF in Production (qq.com)

 

 

May 14, 2007

 

 

(qq.com, Total Entertainment)

 

These shots shows Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro, left) and Lu Su (Hong Yong) discussing a plan to persuading their masters to set up an alliance against the invading army of warlord Cao Cao. The scene was shot at a set built in the 1980s for a TV adaptation of Romance of Three Kingdoms.

 

More about Red Cliff.

 

 

 

Chow Yun-Fat to Cameo in John Woo's RED CLIFF? (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

May 14, 2007

 

 

(Beijing New Picture Film Co.)

 

According to today's print of Hong Kong's Oriental Daily, Chow Yun-Fat, dropped out of John Woo's Red Cliff last month, has orally agreed to play a small role in the project. Reportedly, he will play General Huang Gai, who suggested to his superior, Zhou Yu (Chow's previous role now played by Leung Chiu-Wai) that he would pretend to surrender to warlord Cao Cao and create an opportunity for a surprise attack on Cao's fleet. On the night of the "surrender", Huang's ships, loaded with firewood, hays and grease, approached Cao's fleet and set everything on fire. In Roman of the Three Kingdom, the classic historical novel this movie is partially based on, Huang openly called for a surrender and  Zhou ordered Huang to be beaten in front of everyone, just to make the phony surrender real. Chow's role will be very small and all his scenes will be done in just three days.

 

More about Red Cliff.

 

 

 

TRIANGLE's Official Cannes Poster (Twitch)

 

 

May 13, 2007

 

 

(Celluloid Dreams)

 

Twitch has got it - the official Cannes poster of Tsui Hark, Ringle Lam and Johnnie To's Triangle. This poster displays the headshots of three leads - Simon Yam (bottom), Louis Koo (top-left) and Sun Honglei (top-right).

 

More about Triangle.

 

 

 

 

More CALL ME LEFT Posters (Sina.com)

 

 

May 12, 2007

 

 

Anthony Wong as Mr. Left

(Sil-Metropole) 

 

 

 

Sina.com has put up four more Call Me Left posters, with heads of actors' photoshopped on posters from the Cultural Revolution era. The Chinese title has also been changed from "Tale of Left" to "Tale of Kong (i.e., "Hong Kong"). Anthony Wong plays an ordinary goodhearted Hong Kong man, whose family name is Jo, which means "left." A projectionist working at a movie theater, Left has good faith for Communism. His top wish is to visit The Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing, the political center point of his beloved country. Ronald Cheng plays his son, a fan of Bruce Lee, who has rarely care much about his father's dream and has seldom achieved anything noticeable in his life. Teresa Mo plays Mrs. Left, a typical traditional good wife and good mother. Karen Mok plays a girl next door, who spent her teenage years with Left junior. After being separated for two decades, they met again.

 

More posters with Ronald Cheng, Karen Mok and Teresa Mo.

 

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Official LUST, CAUTION Clips (Focus Features)

 

 

May 11, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Focus Features)

 

 

A promotional video by Focus Features has featured the first clips from Ang Lee's latest project Lust, Caution. Based on the Eileen Chang's same title short story, which was inspired by a true event, the story of  Lust, Caution is set in the Japanese occupied Shanghai in the early 1940s. It tells a young woman Wang Jiazhi is assigned to approach Mr. Yee, a high-ranking official worked for the puppet government, and tricks him to an assassination trap. Then she realizes their relationship has dangerously grown out of control. The cast includes newcomer Tang Wei as Wang Jiazhi, Leung Chiu-Wai as Mr. Yee, Wang Lee-Hom as Kuang Yu-Min, Wang's comrade and lover, and Joan Chen as Mrs. Yee. Focus Features scheduled a limited release in North America starting September 28 this year. More are available on Focus Features' official site. Other titles shown in the video include Evening, Talk to Me, Eastern Promises, Reservation Road and Atonement,

 

Click here for the clips. (Thanks to "Sean" for the link and the screen captures.)

 

More about Lust, Caution.

 

 

 

CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI Promotional Photos from Sony (Sony Pictures Classics)

 

 

May 11, 2007

 

 

(Sony Pictures Classics)