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PLASTIC CITY to Premiere at
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It has been announced that Hong Kong director Yu Lik-wai's new drama
Plastic City
would be a competitor for the Golden Lion at the upcoming Venice
International Film Festival this fall. Written by
Yu Lik-wai and Fernando Bonassi, the Plastic City is a gang drama
set in Sao Paulo. The
story centers around a young man named Kirin (Joe Odagiri) and his adaptive
father Yuda (Anthony Wong), who runs a black market empire in a district of
mixed Chinese and Japanese residents.
Golden Lion winner Jia Zhangke worked as a producer of the project, listed
as a Brazil-Hong Kong-Japan joint production.
The
project was list as a project seeking financing at Asia Film Financing Forum
back in 2006 and it was shot with US$10 millions, from the mainland China,
Hong Kong, Japan and Brazil. According to Jia Zhangke, the crew members are
from Hong Kong, the mainland China and Brazil. Many names regularly appear
in movies by Wong Kar-Wai, Andrew Lau and Jia Zhangke.
Related story:
Joe Odagiri, Anthony Wong and Huang Yi to
Build a PLASTIC CITY in Sao Paulo
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
April 2, 2008 |
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PAINTED SKIN Character
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July 28, 2008 |
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Donnie Yen |
Chen Kun |
Zhao Wei |
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Zhou Xun |
Sun Li |
Qi Yuwu |
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(Images:
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Shanghai Film Group.) |
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Related story:
PAINTED SKIN Still Photos
(Mtime.com)
June 16, 2008
PAINTED SKIN Promo Materials from Cannes
(Sina.com)
May 15, 2008
Three CG Enhanced Shots from PAINTED SKIN
(Sina.com)
April 6, 2008
PAINTED SKIN Cast Meets the Press Today
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
December 4, 2007
Donnie Yen and Daniel Wu to Slay Fan Bingbing
the ghost in THE PAINTED SKIN?
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
May 10, 2007 |
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Opening This Week: July 19
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July 25, 2008 |
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The Storm Rider - Clash of Evil
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Heart of Ice
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The Coins |
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Images:
Shanghai Media Group, Puzzle Animation Studio, Ltd., The Propaganda
Dept. of Heilongjiang Branch of CCP, Long Jiang Film Studio, Tianjin
Film Studio, Xi'an Mei-Ah Culture Communication Company, Ori Animation
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This week, two animations
and one drama are released in China.
The Storm Rider - Clash of Evil is an animated adaptation
of Hong Kong comic artist Ma Wing-Shing's comic book Wind Cloud. It tells
two young warriors absorbed the evil blood of the Fire Kylin, while a
sword-maker is needing the warriors' blood to make his sword battle-ready.
Heart of
Ice
is, inspired by a true story, tells how a skater trained young boys
and girls, many of them later became world champions.
The Coins, a low-budget
3-D animation, is about a group of ancient coins work together to
rescue unwanted arcade tokens.
Disney's little robot
WALL-E
is visiting Hong Kong and Taiwan this week. Two other foreign titles
opened this week are crime thriller
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
and the latest from
The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Other imported movies
start to be shown in Taiwan include: Hungarian-British comedy
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution and Hollywood actioner Wanted.
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Opening This Week: July 12
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July 18, 2008 |
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The
Way We Are |
Attitude |
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Hong Kong director Ann Hui's new family Drama
The Way We Are
is released this Thursday at one theater in Hong Kong. It tells a
single mother and his son live at a small government-built apartment
in a Hong Kong community called Tin Shui Wai. Working at a
supermarket, she is supporting his son, who is preparing for
the upcoming public exam, and carrying out daily routine, she cannot
forget who she has given up for the sake of her family.
In Taiwan,
Attitude, a locally-produced
documentary is released.
It chronicles how a basketball team, once performed so badly that
disband was inevitable, won the championship.
The Dark Knight, the latest installment of Batman franchise
is released in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but not the mainland China,
which is still under the occupation of John Woo's Red Cliff.
American animation Space Chimps is another new movies
released in Hong Kong this week.
Other foreign titles became available this week in Taiwan include:
UK comedy Run Fatboy Run, French drama Summer Hours,
Hollywood production Journey to the Center of the Earth and
Irish musical Once.
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RED CLIFF Theme Song Video
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July 17, 2008 |
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The song, titled "Heart, War", was written by Japanese composer Tarowu Iwasiro,
with the lyric by Taiwanese writer Francis Lee, and performed by Tibetan singer
aLan.
Click here.
More about
Red Cliff.
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PAINTED SKIN Images
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(Images:
Golden Sun Films,
Mediacorp Raintree Pictures, Ningxia Film Studio, Salon Films,
Shanghai Film Group.) |
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Related story:
PAINTED SKIN Still Photos
(Mtime.com)
June 16, 2008
PAINTED SKIN Promo Materials from Cannes
(Sina.com)
May 15, 2008
Three CG Enhanced Shots from PAINTED SKIN
(Sina.com)
April 6, 2008
PAINTED SKIN Cast Meets the Press Today
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
December 4, 2007
Donnie Yen and Daniel Wu to Slay Fan Bingbing
the ghost in THE PAINTED SKIN?
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
May 10, 2007 |
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RED CLIFF - EPISODE I
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July 14, 2008 |
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Red Cliff, a tiny little place at the
approximately center point of the Long River (Yangtze River) of China, has never
been a city, a town or a village. It is so small that even today, historians are
still debating about the exact location of the cliff. Even though, Red Cliff has
become very famous nowadays, only because there was a battle, in gigantic scale,
occurred at the place exact 1800 years ago. On the river, the alliance of two
southern warlords, Sun Quan and Liu Bei, defeated the much stronger northern
warlord Cao Cao. By the end of the battle, Cao’s might fleet was burned to ashes
and his land-based troops were completely crashed. Soon after, the mighty Han
Empire collapsed and three kingdoms were established by Cao’s oldest son, Liu
Bei and Sun Quan.
Most people know about the battle because of a
well-written and not very historically accurate novel Romance of
Three Kingdoms. The novel has become very popular ever since it was
published in the 14th century and has been the basis for countless
opera plays, movies, TV series, comic books and even video games.
Probably because the size and the complexity of it, Battle of Red
Cliff had never been featured on the big screen until John Woo
decided to do it, if my memory is correct.
Because the story is very long, it has to be cut
into two episodes when released in east part of Asia. Of cause, a
much shorter one-piece version will be released in the rest of the
world. Judging from Episode I, John Woo’s Red Cliff is much
closer to the novel than the history and it also contains plots,
which are neither based on the history nor found in the novel. And
yes, there are pigeons, white pigeons, lots of them, whether you
like it or not.
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Opening This Week: July 5 -
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July 11, 2008 |
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Red Cliff - Episode I |
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This week, the first half of John Woo's historical war epic
Red Cliff
starts invading movie theaters in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Kung Fu Hip-Hop , a mainland
China and Hong Kong co-production, is released this week in Hong
Kong along with Japanese anime Ch?Gekij?ban Keroro guns?3: Keroro
tai Keroro Tenk?daikessen de arimasu!.
In Taiwan, other new titles include UK crime drama
The Bank Job,
Japanese anime Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear, Spanish
drama
Gabriel's Voice, USA-Spain
co-production
Goya's Ghosts, and Japanese
drama
Sands' Chronicle.
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THE STORM RIDER - CLASH OF
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July 8, 2008 |
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The Fire Kylin.
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This is an animated adaptation of Ma Wing-Shing’s comic
book series Feng Yun (Wind, Claud), which was made to, The Storm
Riders, a live-action movie back in 1998. Director Lam Chiu-Yin,
animators of Shenzhen-based Puzzle Animation Studio spent five years to
complete this project, which is written by Xi Jichang and helmed by Hong
Kong director Dante Lam (2000 AD, The Twins, Effect, Sniper).
The story starts with two young boys, Wind and Cloud,
slaughtered the Fire Kylin and absorbed its blood, which can make them super
strong with the side-effect of turning evil. With their newly gained power,
they killed the evil Conquer and then Wind, who can no longer control the
evilness within his body, turned against his friend. Then a young
sword-maker, whose entire family was massacred by the government, comes
looking for Wind and Cloud, because the Fire Kylin’s blood inside their body
will make the sword-maker’s word, a family heirloom, battle-ready.
This animation is expected to be released in Hong Kong and the mainland
China this summer.
The Storm Warriors, a sequel
to
The Storm Riders
is currently being shot in Thailand by the Pang Brothers, Oxide and
Danny.
Official site
Trailer
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Opening This Week: June 28
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July 4, 2008 |
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This week's new movies are all imported!
Including Hollywood superhero
Hancook, who are visiting the
mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan at once.
In Hong Kong, Children's story
Nim's Island
is the only other title opened in the city.
In Taiwan, Tsui Hark's half-horror half-romance
Missing
is released, along with Swiss comedy Late Bloomers.
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