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Opening This Week: February
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This week, Hong Kong-made
Playboy Cops
is released in the mainland China and Hong Kong release. Starring
Shawn Yue and Chen Kun, it tells a mainland cop and a Hong Kong cop,
who are both known for not following the usual rules of conduct in
solving crimes, are working together against a group of armed
robbers. Also released this week in the mainland, Russian thriller
Apocalypse Code.
Fatal Move
is another local title hitting Hong Kong theaters. With Sammo Hung,
Simon Yam and Wu Jing as the leads, this martial-art thriller tells
a series
of unexpected misfortunes challenge the very existence of a gang
leader and his mob and eventually leads to a bloody gang war.
Other releases include Korean drama Best Chef, US made comedy
I Could Never Be Your Woman
and Japanese horror flick
Kaidan.
In
Taiwan, this islands movie screens are occupied by imported titles.
New releases include Thailand drama
Bangkok Love Story, German comedy
Hui Buh, US drama
Martian Child, Japanese movie
Sky of Love
and Hollywood thriller
Vantage Point.
Click here for detail.
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KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON - Full Trailer
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February 28, 2008 |
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Maggie Q |
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Click here.
More photos of Maggie Q.
Related stories:
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON Images
(Sina.com)
December 30, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON
Cannes Teaser
(Sina.com)
June 8, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON:
Teaser International Poster and a Few Stills
(Sina.com)
May 21, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF
THE DRAGON Location Photos
(Sina.com)
May 10, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE
DRAGON Has Gone into Production
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
April 14, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE
DRAGON Pre-Production Photos
(MonkeyPeaches
Exclusive)
April 1, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE
DRAGON: Teaser Post and Character Design Sketches
(Xiao Pang's Blog)
February 7, 2007
Plot Update on Andy Lau's THREE
KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
October 18, 2006
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF
THE DRAGON in Pre-Production
(...)
October 15, 2006
Andy Lau to Star in Two Period
Films - STRATEGE and ZHAO ZILONG
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
July 2, 2005
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Chan vs.
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JetLiCN.com just got some exclusive
photos of the exciting long-awaited fight between Jackie Chan and
Jet Li.
Click her for the full set. (Thanks
to Jet Liang.)
Related Story:
The Forbidden Kingdom Review.
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Director
Daniel Lee Talks about New Projects - MARTIAL MATCH and THE GENERAL
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February 27, 2008 |
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At a press conference in Beijing,
Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
director
Daniel Lee
revealed two projects he would do. The first one is titled
Bi Wu
(literally means "Martial Match"), with a story across half century
and half of the world. It tells an old Chinese man living in the
Chinatown of an American city. He is curing people with injury for
living and raised four children single handedly. Half century ago,
back in China, he made a pledge with another martial artist to have
match and the pledge remains unfulfilled. The movie will also
involves the gap and conflict between the older generation of
Chinese Americans and their children, as well as the culture
difference and exchange between the east and the west. It will focus
on showing harmony and tolerance through the spirit of wushu. Lee
said Sammo Hung, who worked with Lee in
Three Kingdom
and Dragon Squad,
has agreed to play the lead. Lee wants to cast the best on-screen
fighters of today and the pass for this movie. He has also asked
Jackie Chan to invite Whang Ing-Sik and Hwang Jang-Lee to join the
project. Whang played a fighter in Bruce Lee's last project
Game of Death and
Hwang Jang-Lee has also stared in many martial-art movies, include
several titles starring Bruce Lee. Budgeted at HK$30 millions
(US$3.9 millions), the movie will go into product this October.
Another project,
Jiang Jun
(literally means: "The General"), which will be set in the chaotic
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom era of Chinese history (AD 907-960),
the same era featured in
The Banquet
(or "Legend of the Black
Scorpion" by
Dragon Dynasty, jointly-owned by The Weinstein Company and Genius
Products). It tells the emperor, who has become a
puppet of an evil minister, asks a general stations in the
northeastern frontier to free him and orders a general of the
Justice Department to deliver the message. Then the general of the
Justice Dept. disguises as a security guard and escorts some goods
to the northwest with the daughter of the late owner of the escort
service. Casting is underway for the US$10 million project and Lee
implied Andy Lau, just played the lead in
Three Kingdoms, would take the
lead again in this one.
More
Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
photos with Vanness Wu.
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Jackie Chan and Xu Jinglei
in THE SHINJUKU INCIDENT
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More shots of the scene.
Jackie Chan and Xu Jinglei ( The
Warlords)
shooting a scene of The Shinjuku Incident in the outskirt of
Changchun City, capital of Jilin Province of northeastern China. The
scene is about Chan and Xu taking a tractor ride. The film, written
and directed by Yee Tung-Shing, talks about the Chinese living in
Japan in the 1990s, as Shinjuku is a busy district of Tokyo. The
cast also includes Ken Watanabe and Daneil Wu. Shooting in Japan has
completed.
Related stories:
Update on Yee Tung-Shing / Jackie Chan's THE
SHINJUKU INCIDENT
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
July 19, 2007 |
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THREE KINGDOMS:
RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON Images - Andy Lau and Maggie Q
(Sina.com) |
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February 26, 2008 |
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Andy Lau. |
Maggie Q |
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Click here for more photos.
Related stories:
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON Images
(Sina.com)
December 30, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON
Cannes Teaser
(Sina.com)
June 8, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON:
Teaser International Poster and a Few Stills
(Sina.com)
May 21, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF
THE DRAGON Location Photos
(Sina.com)
May 10, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE
DRAGON Has Gone into Production
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
April 14, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE
DRAGON Pre-Production Photos
(MonkeyPeaches
Exclusive)
April 1, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE
DRAGON: Teaser Post and Character Design Sketches
(Xiao Pang's Blog)
February 7, 2007
Plot Update on Andy Lau's THREE
KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
October 18, 2006
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF
THE DRAGON in Pre-Production
(...)
October 15, 2006
Andy Lau to Star in Two Period
Films - STRATEGE and ZHAO ZILONG
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
July 2, 2005
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AN EMPRESS AND THE WARRIORS
- The Armors
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February 24, 2008 |
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Two TV hosts try on Donnie Yenand Kelly Chen's costume armors, which
were made of real leather, iron and bronze.
Click here for the clip.
Click here for a few newly released photos.
Related Stories:
Promo Stills of Ching Siu-Tung's AN EMPRESS AND
THE WARRIORS
(Sina.com)
December 17, 2007
AN EMPRESS AND THE WARRIORS
(Sina.com) November 1, 2007
Ching Siu-Tung's KINGDOME AND THE BEAUTY Is in
Production Now
(MonkeyPeaches
Exclusive)
August 9, 2007
Ching Siu-Tung to director KINGDOM AND THE
BEAUTY with Leon Lai and Kelly Chen
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
April 9, 2007
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Opening
This Week: February 16 - 22
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With the Chinese New Year ended, no homemade titles are released
this week, except imports. In the mainland China, Hong Kong director
Johnnie To's psychological thriller
Mad Detective
is allowed to hit the local theater after shots of graphic violence
was removed. Other releases include
Atonement, with several scenes of war horror and sexual
violence being cut, and the uncut version of
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. The Chinese government
set a quota of on imported foreign movies, which allows up to 20
titles to be theatrically released in China, under the format of
profit-sharing. Most of them have been Hollywood blockbusters, which
are also major contributors of the country's box-office income. To
reduce the influence of Hollywood movies and support locally made
blockbusters, the Chinese government has been, though never openly
admitted, playing tricks to reduce the revenue of imported titles.
Such tricks include putting temporary blackouts on foreign films,
refusing titles with sensitive subjects and importing movies which
will only do moderately well in theaters, such as "artistic" films
like
Atonement
and kids' movies like
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.
In Hong
Kong, no restriction is on imported films. Tittles released this
week include both the "artistic" and the "entertaining":
The Bucket List,
Juno,
The Mist
and
Vantage
Point.
In
Taiwan, there is no restriction either and the local film industry
is also showing little sign of rebounding. Movies hitting theaters
of the island are:
Balls
of Fury,
The Haunted Drum,
Penelope,
Persepolis,
Rambo,
Diving Bell and the
Butterfly
and
Superbad.
Click here for detail.
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THREE KINGDOMS:
RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON Images - Sammo Hung
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February 21, 2008 |
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Click here for more.
Related stories:
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON Images
(Sina.com)
December 30, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON
Cannes Teaser
(Sina.com)
June 8, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON:
Teaser International Poster and a Few Stills
(Sina.com)
May 21, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF
THE DRAGON Location Photos
(Sina.com)
May 10, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE
DRAGON Has Gone into Production
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
April 14, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE
DRAGON Pre-Production Photos
(MonkeyPeaches
Exclusive)
April 1, 2007
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE
DRAGON: Teaser Post and Character Design Sketches
(Xiao Pang's Blog)
February 7, 2007
Plot Update on Andy Lau's THREE
KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
October 18, 2006
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF
THE DRAGON in Pre-Production
(...)
October 15, 2006
Andy Lau to Star in Two Period
Films - STRATEGE and ZHAO ZILONG
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
July 2, 2005
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AN EMPRESS AND THE WARRIORS
- Trailers, Posters, Stills
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February 20, 2008 |
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Trailer 1
Trailer 2
Making-of video
Theme song video
Click
here and
here
for tons of images.
Related Stories:
Promo Stills of Ching Siu-Tung's AN EMPRESS AND
THE WARRIORS
(Sina.com)
December 17, 2007
AN EMPRESS AND THE WARRIORS
(Sina.com) November 1, 2007
Ching Siu-Tung's KINGDOME AND THE BEAUTY Is in
Production Now
(MonkeyPeaches
Exclusive)
August 9, 2007
Ching Siu-Tung to director KINGDOM AND THE
BEAUTY with Leon Lai and Kelly Chen
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
April 9, 2007
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Hong Kong Actress Lydia Shum
Died at 60
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February 19, 2008 |
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Lydia Shum,
one of the most recognizable TV and film icons, has passed away
earlier this morning in Hong Kong. Shum was born in Shanghai in 1947
and moved to Hong Kong in 1958. She started her acting career two
years later with Shaw Bros. as a child star and had starred in over
70 movies and TV series. She was also a successful TV host at Hong
Kong's TVB. Almost all of them are comedies and most her roles are no
more than supporting leads. Her trademark look, with a pair of
wing-tip frame coke bottle glasses and big hair, made her famous
among the Chinese around the world. Because she was visibly
obsessed, she was given the nick name "Fay-Fay", which means "Fatty"
(not an offensive word.) She fell series ill in 2005 and suffered
from multiple illnesses in the past three years. Shum had a daughter
Joyce Yan Yee Cheng with her ex-husband Adam Cheng.
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Opening This Week: February
9 - 15
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February 15, 2008 |
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A Room of Two |
Marriage Trap |
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Two
low-budget movies have been released this week in the mainland
China.
A Room of Two
(literal title) is a drama about a middle-class couple discover the
passion once bounded them together when they were young and poor has
run out.
Marriage Trap
is a comedy tells a wedding host and a matchmaker, who are either in
love for real or not real...
Click here for detail.
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Opening This Week: February
2 - 8
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February 8, 2008 |
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Kung Fu Dunk |
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Kung fu +
basketball =
Kung Fu Dunk, the only new
release this week in Hong Kong and the mainland China. It tells
a young man (played by Taiwan born singer actor Jay Chow), who grew
up at a kung fu school, uses the skill he learned to win basketball
games and the heart of the girl he likes.
Click here for detail.
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Hong Kong
Film Awards Nominees
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February 2, 2008 |
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The nomination list of the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards has been
announced this afternoon at a press conference in Hong Kong.
Director Yee Tung-Shing's anti-drug drama
Protege
received 15 nominations, Peter Chan's period action
The Warlords
gets 13 nominations, Ann Hui
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
has 9 nominations, and Johnnie To's
Mad Detective
and Yau Nai-Hoi's
Eye in the Sky
each gets 8 nominations. These five films are also competing
for the awards of Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Hong Kong Film Awards Official Website.
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Best Director |
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The Warlords |
Peter CHAN Ho Sun (The Warlords) |
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Protege |
Derek YEE Tung Sing (Protege) |
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The Postmodern Life of My
Aunt |
Ann HUI On Wah (The Postmodern Life Of My Aunt) |
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Mad Detective |
Johnnie TO Kei Fung & WAI Ka Fai (Mad Detective) |
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Eye in the Sky |
YAU Nai Hoi (Eye In The Sky) |
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Best Screenplay |
Best Actor |
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Xu Lan, CHUN Tin Nam, Aubery LAM, HUANG Jianxin,
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Detective) |
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Jo Jo HUI, HO Kei Ping, KWOK Chun Lap, James
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Jet LI (The Warlords) |
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YUEN Sai Sang (The Warlords) |
Andy LAU Tak Wah (The Warlords) |
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Derek YEE Tung Sing, CHUN Tin Nam, LOONG Man
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LAU Ching Wan (Mad Detective) |
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Hong, KO Sun (Protege) |
Simon YAM (Eye In The Sky) |
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LI Qiang (The Postmodern
Life Of My Aunt) |
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WAI Ka Fai & AU Kin Yee
(Mad Detective) |
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YAU Nai Hoi & AU Kin Yee
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Best Actress |
Best Supporting Actor |
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Teresa MO Shun Kwan (Mr.
Cinema) |
Nick CHEUNG Ka Fai (Exodus) |
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ZHANG Jingchu (Protege) |
Ronald CHENG (Mr. Cinema) |
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SIQIN Gaowa (The Postmodern Life Of My Aunt) |
Louis KOO (Protege) |
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Rene LIU (Kidnap) |
Andy LAU Tak Wah (Protege) |
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Charlene CHOI (Simply Actors) |
CHOW Yun Fat (The Postmodern Life Of My Aunt) |
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Best Supporting Actress |
Best New Performer |
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Karen MOK (Mr. Cinema) |
Linda CHUNG (Love Is Not All Around) |
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Anita YUEN (Protege) |
TSEI Tsz Tung (Protege) |
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ZHAO Wei (The Postmodern Life Of My Aunt) |
WEN Junhui (The Pye-Dog) |
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Susan SHAW (The Pye-Dog) |
WONG Hau Yan (The Besieged City) |
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Maggie SHIU (Eye In The Sky) |
Kate TSUI (Eye In The Sky) |
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Best Cinematography |
Best Film Editing |
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Charlie LAM (Exodus) |
Oxide PANG & Curran PANG (The Detective) |
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Arthur WONG Ngok Tai (The Warlords) |
Wenders LI (The Warlords) |
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Venus KEUNG Kwok Man (Protege) |
Eric KONG Chi Leung (Protege) |
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KWANn Pun Leung & YU Lik Wai (The Postmodern Life
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Tina BAZ (Mad Detective) |
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Of My Aunt) |
David RICHARDSON (Eye In The Sky) |
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CHENG Siu Keung (Mad Detective) |
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Best Art Direction |
Best Costume Make Up
Design |
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Anuson Pinyopotjanee (The Detective) |
Surasak Warakitcharoen (The Detective) |
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Alfred YAU Wai Ming (Blood Brothers) |
Tim YIP (Blood Brothers) |
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YEE Chung Man, YI Zhengzhou & Pater WONG (The
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YEE Chung Man, Jessie DAI & LEE Pik Kwan (The
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Warlords) |
Warlords) |
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YEE Chung Man & Kenneth MAK (Protege) |
MA Yutao (The Postmodern Life Of My Aunt) |
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Yank WONG Yan Kwai (The
Besieged City) |
Stanley CHEUNG (Mad Detective) |
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Best Action Choreography |
Best Sound Design |
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KONG Tao Hoi (Twins Mission) |
Wachira Wongsaroj (The Detective) |
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Tony CHING Siu Tung (The Warlords) |
Sunit Asvinikul & Nakorn Kositpaisal (The Warlords) |
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LEE Chung Chi (Invisible Target) |
Kinson TSANG (Protege) |
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CHIN Ka Lok (Protege) |
Steve BURGESS & Sam WONG (Flash Point) |
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Donnie YEN (Flash Point) |
TU Duu Chih & KUO Li Chi (The Drummer)
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Best Visual Effects |
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Suchada Somasavachai (The Detective) |
Best Original Film Score |
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NG Yuen Fai (The Warlords) |
Payont Permsith & Jadet Chawang (The Detective) |
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HO Siu Lun, CHOW Kim Hung & ChING Han Wong
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CHAN Kwong Wing, Peter KAM Pui Tat, Chatchai
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(Protege) |
Pongprapaphan & Leon KO (The Warlords) |
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Raymond MAN (Mad Detective) |
Peter KAM Pui Tat (Protege) |
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LEUNG Wai Kit, Don MA, LEUNG Yiu Fung & Frankie
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Joe HISAISHI (The Postmodern Life Of My Aunt) |
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CHUNG (The Magic Gourd) |
Andre MATTHIAS (The Drummer) |
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Best Original Film Song |
Best New Director |
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Brothers (Brothers), composed by Eason CHAN, lyric
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Derek KWOK (The Pye-Dog) |
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by Andy LAU Tak Wah, sung by Andy LAU Tak Wah &
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YAU Nai Hoi (Eye In The Sky) |
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Eason CHAN |
Adam WONG (Magic Boy) |
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Happy Wanderer (Mingling), composed by Anthony
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WONG & Jason CHOI, lyric by LIN Xi, sung by Anthony
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WONG & ZHOU Xun |
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Calvin POON Yuen Leung, sung by George LAM |
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Best Asian Film |
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Secret (Hong Kong / Taiwan) |
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The Sun Also Rises (China) |
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Lust, Caution (USA / China / Taiwan / Hong Kong) |
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Tokyo Tower : Mom & Me, And Sometimes Dad (Japan) |
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Getting Home (China / Hong Kong) |
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Taiwanese Trailer for John
Woo's RED CLIFF
(Yahoo! Taiwan) |
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February 1, 2008 |
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(L to R): Leung Chiu-Wai as Zhou Yu, Hu Jun as
Zhao Yun (Zhao Zilong) and Takeshi Kaneshiro as Zhuge Liang (Image:
China Film Group Corp.) |
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The first trailer of John Woo's US$80 million historical war epic
Red Cliff
has been released in Taiwan today. Local TV station TVBS-N has aired
the trailer tonight and Yahoo! Taiwan is currently hosting it
online. The trailer is tailored specifically for Taiwan
because two Taiwan-born actors, Chang Chen and Lin Chi-Ling are
shown in front of everyone else. Sill in post-production,
Red Cliff
will be released in east part of Asia in two separate movies, while
in the rest of the world, it will be in a single but shorter
version.
The story is set in 208 AD, the mighty Han Empire was falling while
China was controlled by warlords. Powerful northern warlord Cao Cao
led his troops marching to the south in attempt to crash the south.
Two warlords, Sun Quan and Liu Bei, set up an alliance to defend
their territories.
Click here for the trailer.
Trailer transcript:
208 AD (The 13th year of Jianan, Han emperor Xian)
Cao Cao: Since I formed my army, I have vowed to destroy the
warlords.
Chang Chen as Sun Quan.
Cao Cao commend his army and fleet with one million men... and
launches the battle against Jingzhou (province) and Suppresses Sun
Quan.
Lin Chi-Ling as the Younger Qiao.
Hu Jun as Zhao Zilong.
Ba Sen as Guan Yu.
Causing Sun Quan and Liu Bei to form a joint force, commanded by
Zhou Yu. The war has begun...
The most famous battle... the most expensive production in Asia with
the US$80 million... A strong cast a crew... in a scale never seen
before...
Shido Nakamura as Gan Ning.
Red Cliff
Zhao Wei as Sun Shangxiang.
Takeshi Kaneshiro as Zhuge Liang.
Leung Chiu-Wai as Zhou Yu.
Zhang Fengyi as Cao Cao.
Cao Cao: We must win in Red Cliff and take Chaisang (City).
John Wo Film.
Red Cliff
This Summer - This July, shake the world.
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Opening This Week: January
26 - February 1
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February 1, 2008 |
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CJ7 |
Hong Kong Bronx |
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(Images: Star Overseas, China Film Group Corp., Columbia Pictures
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This
week, Stephen Chow's sci-fi comedy
CJ7
is release in Hong Kong, the mainland China, Taiwan in massive
scale.
Written and directed by Chow, he plays
single father, who can't afford buying a toy for his son, finds a
strange device in the trash and gives it to his son. The device
turns out to be nothing like it on earth.
The first day Box-office reports of the sci-fi comedy are very
optimistic. In Hong Kong, the number is over HK$3.02 millions /
US$0.39 (Jan. 31) and in the mainland China, the number is close to
12 million yuans/ US$1.67 (Jan. 30).
Only one movie is dare to stand
CJ7's heat -
Hong Kong Bronx, a
low-budget violent crime drama is released in 5 Hong Kong theaters.
It tells a
young man, recently released from prison, becomes the favorite of a
gang leader, which makes another gangster very mad. Meanwhile, the
school the young man's two sisters are attending is also infiltrated
by gangs. Claimed to be the most realistic movie about gangs
in ten years, this violent movie is rated Category III in Hong Kong.
Click here for detail.
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