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June 2007

 

     
   
     
     

 

Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION Got a QuickTime Trailer (Focus Features)

 

 

June 30, 2007

 

 

(Image: Focus Features)

 

Click here.

 

(Thanks to "Sean".)

 

More about Lust, Caution.

 

 

 

WAR's New Poster (Comingsoon.net)

 

 

June 30, 2007

 

 

(Image: Lionsgate)

 

Official website.(New)

 

(Thanks to Jet Liang.)

 

Related stories:

WAR Poster with Jet Li and Jason Statham (IGN) May 31, 2007

THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC GOURD's After-Credit Bloopers (Sina.com) June 21, 2007

More Stuffs from THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC GOURD (...) May 26, 2007

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

 

 

 

Opening This Week: June 23 - 29 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

June 29, 2007

 

The Longest Night

 in Shanghai

Hooked on You

Road to Dawn

The Secret of

the Magic Gourd

Warrior
 

 

 

   

(Images: Produced by Avex Entertainment, Movie-Eye Entertainment Inc., Shanghai Film Studios, Yahoo! Japan., Buena Vista International, Centro Digital Pictures Ltd., China Film Group, Walt Disney Studios., Shanghai Animation Film Studio.Milky Way Image Company, Beijing Silver Dream, China Film Media Asia, Media Asia Films Ltd.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many movies have been made available this week. The Longest Night in Shanghai, a China-Japan co-production about a romantic story of a Japanese hairstylist and a Shanghai cab driver, has been released in the mainland China. Hooked on You, about another romantic story of a young woman and a young man, who sell fish in a Hong Kong food market, are now shown in theaters of Hong Kong and the other side of China. Three other films have been released in the Chinese mainland theaters. Road to Down, tells about Dr. Sun Yet-Sen, the founding father of the Chinese Republic, exiled in Malaysia. The Secret of the Magic Gourd, the Disney co-produced kid movie, tells a little boy's adventure after becoming the master of a magic gourd. Warrior, a more old-fashion animation, is about a young Mongolian warrior, who is looking for his father's killer while falls in love with a girl.

 

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More THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC GOURD's After-Credit Videos (Sina.com)

 

 

June 28, 2007

 

 

(Image: China Film Group, Disney Pictures, Centro, Centro Digital Pictures Ltd.)

 

 

Related stories:

THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC GOURD's After-Credit Bloopers (Sina.com) June 21, 2007

More Stuffs from THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC GOURD (...) May 26, 2007

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

 

 

 

THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Spy Photos and Video (Sina.com)

 

 

June 27, 2007

 

 

(Images: Sina.com)      
       

These spy photos and video, taken at a mountain location of Zhejiang Province of China, are exclusively available on Sina.com. The scene is pretty simple - four lead characters galloping through the wilderness on horseback. Three of them, Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Liu Yifei are shown in the photos, but Michael Angarano is missed out. Either the spy took no pictures of him or Sina got no interest of showing them.

 

Click here for more photos.

The main villain, The White Hair Demoness, played by Li Bingbing.

Click here for the video.

 

Related Stories:

FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Press Conference (...) June 14, 2007

FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Spy Photos (Sohu.com) June 13, 2007

Another THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Photo - Liu Yifei (Oriental Morning Post) May 22, 2007

THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Spy Photos (Sohu.com) May 9, 2007

The Jackie Chan / Jet Li Project Is Called THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Now (...) April 11, 2007

Liu Yifei and Li Bingbing have officially onboard of the Jackie Chan / Jet Li Project (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) April 5, 2007

Zhang Ziyi Is Interested in the Jackie Chan / Jet Li Project (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) March 30, 2007

The Kid for  Jackie Chan / Jet Li Project Is Found (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) March 25, 2007

A Little Bit More about the Jackie Chan / Jet Li Project - Part 3 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) March 17, 2007

A Little Bit More about the Jackie Chan / Jet Li Project - Part 2 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) March 13, 2007

The Jackie Chan / Jet Li Project Is Titled KING OF KUNG FU? (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) March 6, 2007

The Jackie Chan / Jet Li Project Will Happen This Month (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) March 2, 2007

 

 

 

INVISIBLE TARGET Poster and Stills (Sina.com)

 

 

June 27, 2007

 

 

(Image: Universe)

 

   

The poster shows three cops on the left - Jaycee Chan, Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue, and the main villain - Wu Jing.

 

Click here for a few new production photos.

 

Related stories:

Nicholas Tse Dose His Own Stunt in INVISIBLE TARGET (Sina.com) June 17, 2007

INVISIBLE TARGET Official Site (...) June 13, 2007

New INVISIBLE TARGET Poster and Poster Shots (163.com) June 8, 2007

INVISIBLE TARGET Trailer (...) May 9, 2007

INVISIBLE TARGET Stills (Sina.com) March 22, 2007

INVISIBLE TARGET Poster (Twitch) April 4, 2007

INVISIBLE TARGET Stills (Sina.com) March 22, 2007

 

 

 

NANKING! NANKING! Teaser Posters (Sina.com)

 

 

June 26, 2007

 

 

(Images: China Film Group Corp., Stellar MegaMedia Group, Media Asia Films, Jiangsu Broadcasting Group.)

 
     

Nanking! Nanking!, by director Lu Chuan (Kekexili: The Mountain Patrol, The Missing Gun), will set the story during the massacre the Japanese carried out after taking Nanking (now translated as: Nanjing), the old capital city of China, in December of 1937. These posters shows two photos, taken probably by Japanese reporters after the fall of the city. The red marking reads "Not Allowed." Many photographs showing war crimes by Japanese soldiers were censored by the Japanese authority and stamped with the same marking. Shooting of this historical film will start in August. The US$10 million budget is shared by China Film Group Corp., Beijing-based Stellar MegaMedia Group, Hong Kong's Media Asia Films and Nanjing-based Jiangsu Broadcasting Group.

 

Another Nanking Massacre project  The Rape of Nanking, based on the same title book by late author Iris Chang, is also in pre-production. Jointly produced by Nanjing-based Jiangsu Cultural Industry Group and US studio Viridian Entertainment, with US$40 million. The script is written by William J. MacDonald (Rome the TV series) and the director is Simon West (Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, When a Stranger Calls).

 

In addition, Hong Kong director Stanley Tong (The Myth, Police Story 4: First Strike, Rumble i the Bronx) is planning to take on the subject with The Diary (literal) and Yim Ho (A West Lake Moment, Pavilion of Women, The King of Chess) is thinking about doing Christmas, 1937, Nanking (literal).

 

Related stories:

There Is another Nanjing/Nanking Massacre Project CHRISTMAS, 1937, NANKING (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) March 13, 2007

Cast Choice for Lu Chuan's NANJING! NANJING! (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) February 15, 2007

Three Nanjing Massacre Projects Running in Parallel (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) December 14, 2006

Stanley Tong Wants to Tell His Nanjing Massacre Story with THE DIARY (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) May 21, 2006

 

 

 

Ning Hao's SILVER MEDAL CYCLIST Will Keep the Spirit of CRAZY STONE in a Much Bigger Scale (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

June 25, 2007

 

 

Ning Hao

(Image: The Beijing News)

 

 
   

Last summer, young Chinese director Ning Hao's low-budget comedy Crazy Stone became the most talked about and highest praised domestic made movie in China last year. Shot with cheap digital camera, the fast-paced and multi-storylined movie tells how different gangs of thieves are trying to steal a piece of precious jade from the hand of a dedicated security chief. Some have concluded that the comedy was a mimic of Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels or Snatch. In fact, Crazy Stone tells a very original story, by Ning Hao, alone with Zhang Cheng and Yue Xiaojun, which features many major social problems of today’s China in a very hilarious and enjoyable way. The movie is so influential that, reportedly, the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, booked a private screening to get to know a little better about the life of the country's low-end working/non-working class people. Budgeted at about US$400,000, much thanks to Andy Lau’s wallet, this movie has collected more than ten times of that.

 

According to several Chinese newspaper, Ning Hao’s second comedy Yin Pai Che Shou (literal title: "The Silver Medal Cycler"), previous under the working title “Crazy Racer,” will go into production next month in Xiamen City of southeastern China. This time, the state-owned China Film Group Corp. and Warner China Film HG Corp. are backing the project with much bigger budget and a much shining cast. Structure of the story will be same as that of Crazy Stone, in much bigger scale. Ning and six others wrote five parallel stories involving six groups of people. The center of the story is a used-to-be professional bicycler, lost the national championship for just 0.01 second at his most glorious moment, dreams about returning to the racing track one day. Huang Bo, who played a straight-minded thief in Crazy Stone, will play the bicycler. Anthony Wong will play his mentor, Andy Lau, possibly, will take a cameo role, Thai martial-art star Tony Jaa will portray an international drag cartel who knows countless ways of disguising himself, Taiwanese actor Lee Lichun will play a businessman who makes his money by conning everyone and another Taiwanese actor Rong Hsiang will be a local drag dealer.

 

 

 

The 10th Shanghai International Film Festival Winners (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

 

 

June 24, 2007

 

 

(Image: SIFF.com)

 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jin Jue

Best Film

ACCORDING TO THE PLAN (Germany) - director: Franziska MELETZKY

Grad Jury Prize

THE NEW MAN (Sweden / Finland) - director: Klaus HARO
Special Festival Award

HAN Sanping, YIN Li and Albert YEUNG -