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FEARLESS' New International Trailer
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May 17, 2006 |
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As the release of Jet Li's Fearless is less than a week from today, Jet
Li is gearing up the promotion for his latest completed film and, what
he has said, his last wushu movie. Directed by Ronny Yu and
choreographed by Yuen Wo-Ping, Fearless tells a largely fictional life
story of Huo Yuanjia, a real life martial-artist, who became a patriotic
symbol in China early last century. Both Wilson Morales of
blackfilm.com and Comingsoon.net got chance to chat with Jet
Li. (Thanks to Wilson Morales.)
blackfilm.com's Jet Li interview.
(Thanks to Wilson Morales.)
Comingsoon.net's report.
(Thanks to "jetliang".)
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FEARLESS' New International Trailer
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May 14, 2006 |
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A new international trailer of Jet Li's Fearless is now available
at Cinemas-Online.co.uk. Has already been available in Asia since
January, Fearless is scheduled to reach UK and North American
theaters on June 23 and August 4.
Click here for the new trailer.
(Thanks to Jet Liang.)
Page by UK distributor United International Pictures. |
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FEARLESS North American Release Plan
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February 19, 2006 |
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(Edko Films) |
Jet Li's
Fearless
is going to get a treatment of wide release in North
America, according to
D. Mac (aka.
"Antibody") and
BoxOfficeMojo.com. Focus Features, which
owns the rights for North American market, has planned to released it on
August 4th (updated) this year through its genre division,
Rouge Pictures.
Fearless
tells a largely fictitious life-story of a real person, Chinese martial-art
master Huo Yuanjia, who became a symbol of nationalism at the turn of
the 20th Century.
Fearless is believed to
be Jet Li's last of wu shu movies, i.e. movies with deep philosophical
meanings, but Jet Li has promised to continue making more kung fu
movies, i.e. movies only shows martial-art on the big screen for
entertainment purpose.
(Thanks to PY Kong.)
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Stills: Jet
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January 25, 2006 |
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(China Film Group) |
Jet Li's last wushu movie,
not his last action movie, is released today in the mainland China, Hong
Kong and Taiwan.
New stills
More stills
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Breaking News:
Jet Li Will Continue Doing Action Movies
Jet Li's
FEARLESS Premièred in Beijing
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January 20, 2006 |
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(Sina.com) |
Breaking News: During an interview with Chinese newspaper Nanfang
Daily, Jet Li said he would no longer making any more wushu movie
because, what he wanted to say about wushu through movies had all been
said. There was nothing more to say about wushu, in another word, he
could no longer show wushu on a higher level. But,
he would continue doing action movies and kung fu movies. His
words were misinterpreted by the media. He said action, kung fu and
wushu were three different concepts. His The Tai-Chi Master was a
movie about a man reaching a new state through wushu. Action movies, as
well as kung fu movies, only took the form of wushu.
A press conference was held in Beijing at 10 am today and Jet Li donated
500,000 yuans (US$62 thousands) from the proceed to "Sunshine in Your
Heart Project" run by Red Cross Society of China. the film was premièred
tonight at Beijing's Oriental Plaza. (Thanks to Jet Liang.)
Title photo: (L to R) Dong Yong, the young actress played Jet Li's
daughter, producer Chui Po-Chu, Sun Li, Collin Chou, action director
Yuen Wo-Ping, director Ronny Yu, Jet Li and Guo Changjiang,
Vice-Chairman of Red Cross Society of China.
From the press conference:
clips
snapshots
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FEARLESS Official Taiwanese Website
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January 18, 2006 |
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(BVI.com.tw) |
The official Taiwanese website of Jet Li's Fearless (click here)
is up and running (Thanks to Jet Liang). The full trailer is now
available on the official website (click
here), according to "Mark", the webmaster
(click
here for detail). (thanks to
Daniel Zelter).
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Jet Li's FEARLESS: Magazine Scans
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January 16, 2006 |
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(Edko Films) |
The latest issue of China Screen magazine contains a multi-page report
of Jet Li's Fearless. Now a scan of the the report is available
here. (Thanks to Jet Liang.)
Spoiler:
Jet Li in exile (NEW)
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FEARLESS Shrinks by 40 Minutes
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January 13, 2006 |
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(Edko Films) |
According to newspaper The Beijing News, director Ronny Yu just reduced
the length of Jet Li's Fearless from 143 minutes to 103 minutes,
to speed up the pacing of the movie.
The subplot with Michelle Yeoh has been deleted. In the original cut, the story of Jet Li's
character, Huo Yuanjia, is told by
Miss Yang, an Olympic official. In the
early part of the movie, Huo Yuanjia is in exile in a Thai village. To
safe a boy from being punished for stealing an ox, he is forced into a
match with a local boxer, played by Somluck Kamsing, former Olympic
featherweight boxing champion (1996) from Thailand. Unfortunately, the
sequence was also deleted. Ronny Yu made the cut after audiences from an
internal screening criticized the film for being too slow and the
Olympic sub-story being too irrelevant to the main plot. Jet Li has
personally apologized to Michelle Yeoh for eliminating her from the
movie and she has said she could understand the reason of director Ronny
Yu's decision.
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FEARLESS Theme Song by Jay Chou
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January 10, 2006 |
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Taiwan born singer Jay Chou spent two days to write this
untitled theme song. The original soundtracks of Fearless,
including this song, will be released on January 21. The movie
will be released in the mainland China and Hong Kong January 25
and in Taiwan two days after.
Click here for the theme song recorded from a Taiwanese radio station.
(Thanks to Jet Liang.)
Left: Jet Li and Jay Chou attended a press conference
last Friday
to promote the theme song.
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FEARLESS Poster and Stills: Jet
Li vs. Shidou Nakamura
(G-film.com / Sina.com / QQ.com) |
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January 2, 2006 |
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Professional Kabuki player Shidou Nakamura portrayed Japanese sword
master Anno Tanaka, who challenges Jet Li's character Hou Yuanjia at the
arena.
Click
here and
here for more stills.
A trailer with clips of Jet Li earlier on-screen
performances
(Thanks to Jet Liang.)
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Monkeypeaches' Most
Anticipated Films of 2006
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January 1, 2006 |
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(HTF,
Sina.com) |
What to know what will come out this year and
what will be made this year?
Click here
(LINK FIXED)
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FEARLESS Stills
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December 26, 2005 |
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(TungStar) |
Sina.com just posted six production stills from a fight scene
with Hu Yuanjia (Jet Li) and Master Qin (actor unkown). According to
TungStar, the full trailer of Fearless released a few days ago was
made by Michael Tronick, the editor of movies like Mr. & Mrs. Smith,
Scent of a Woman and Days of Thunder. Reportedly, the
trailer cost over US$ 1 million, which makes it the most expensive
trailer for a Chinese language film.
Click here
(Thanks to Jet Liang.)
Related Stories:
First FEARLESS Poster
(MovieXclusive.com)
November 16, 2005
Official Site of FEARLESS, Jet
Li’s HUO YUANJIA Biopic Opened with Teaser and Stills
(FearlessTheMovie.com)
November 3, 2005 |
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FEARLESS Full Trailer in English
Plus Three Making-of Featurettes
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December 25, 2005 |
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(BVI) |
Yahoo! Taiwan has the English version of the trailer is the same one I
showed you yesterday plus three short making-of Featurettes.
In the first featurette, Jet Li said Wu meant a way to stop fighting and
Shu meant the way, in other words, Wushu was a way of protecting
yourself while your body being pushed to the extreme condition or the
way to attack your opponent. Kung fu is really a concept of time because
you need time to improve your skill. Wushu has two sides, to protect and
to attack. Then gradually, things like wisdom, ethics and code of
conduct evolved from the art. A good martial artists, like Huo Yuanjia,
do not indent to harm anyone because they have already laid down
everything within them, which is the highest level of Wu.
Through the movie,
Jet Li intents to make his conclusion of Wushu and to show how Wushu
should be in his heart.
In the second featurette, Jet Li said the movie showed, at the time of
the story (the turn of the 20th Century), how martial arts from
all over the world were brought together to learn from each other and to
them all as one sport.
In the third featurette, action director Yuen Wu-Ping said how new the
fight scenes are depended on how new the story was. Different directors
have different styles and some of them are able to give him new
inspirations and new ideas. Jet Li is capable of doing a large number of
fight scenes and the challenge is how to make these scene all look
different, otherwise the audiences would feel bored. Too make each scene
in Fearless looks unique, Yuen considered the number of fighters,
the weapons involved and the set, but his design still needs the actors
to make it right and to make it better. Yuen said Jet Li is his friend.
Li fights beautifully and perfectly, and Li can execute Yuen's design
flawlessly, therefore he is very happy to work with Li. The actors need
to fight for real just like taking a driver's license test.
Click here for the videos in combo
(Thanks to Jet Liang.)
Related Stories:
First FEARLESS Poster
(MovieXclusive.com)
November 16, 2005
Official Site of FEARLESS, Jet
Li’s HUO YUANJIA Biopic Opened with Teaser and Stills
(FearlessTheMovie.com)
November 3, 2005 |
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Official Site of FEARLESS, Jet Li's HUO
YUANJIA Biopic Opened with Teaser and Stills
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November 3, 2005 |
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(FearlessTheMovie.com) |
Jet Li抯 Huo Yuanjia
(English title: Fearless) just had its official site launched. Huo
Yuanjia (1868-1910) is known for promoting martial-art and
patriotic spirit in China when the country was suffering from
corruption and foreign invasion. In Shanghai he openly challenged
a Western boxer and the event greatly raise the national pride. In
Fist of Legend, Jet Li
played Chen Zhen, a fictional student of Huo Yuanjia, the role
also played by Bruce Lee in
Fist of Fury. However,
Fearless
is only loosely based on the real story of Huo Yuanjia.
Click here for the official site.
(Thanks to 揟hang? 揓ay?
and Jet Liang.)
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More News Updates |
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More and More Stills from Jet Li's Huo
Yuanjia Biopic - FEARLESS
(jet-liang.anyp.cn
/ Sohu.com / China News Agency / People's Daily)
October 13,
2005
More Stills from Jet Li's Huo
Yuanjia Biopic - FEARLESS
(Nanfang
Daily / Tom.com) October 12,
2005
Still: Jet Li's Huo
Yuanjia Biopic - FEARLESS
(Nanfang
Daily) October
10 2005
More Production Stills of Jet Li's Huo
Yuanjia Biopic - FEARLESS
(Sina.com) September 21, 2005
Production Stills of Jet Li's Huo
Yuanjia Biopic - FEARLESS
(Sina.com)
September 13, 2005
FEARLESS: The Official English Title for
Jet Li's HUO YUANJIA Biopic
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) August
14, 2005
Production Photos of Jet Li's HUO
YUANJIA Biopic
(jet-liang.anyp.cn)
July 18, 2005
Casting News for Jet Li's HUO YUANJIA
(...)
June 28 2005
Jet Li not Involved in an Accident on the Set oF HUO YUANJIA
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
June 22 2005
Jet Li's HUO YUANJIA Will Go to the Mountains
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
May 31,
2005
Plot Description of Jet Li's HUO YUANJIA
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
May 1,
2005
Jet Li's HUO YUANJIA Got a Major Script Overhaul
by HERO Writer
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
April 30, 2005
Another Round of Spy Photos from the Set of Jet
Li's HUO YUANJIA
(The Beijing News) April 26, 2005
Even More Spy Photos from the Set of Jet Li's HUO
YUANJIA
(JetLiang.com) April 24, 2005
Two More Spy Photos from the Set of Jet Li's HUO
YUANJIA
(Sina.com / BigStar)
April 23, 2005
Spy Photos from the Set of Jet Li's
HUO YUANJIA
(The Beijing Morning Post) April 21, 2005
Spy Photos from Set of Jet Li's Huo
Yuanjia Biopic
(Shanghai Youth Daily)
April 7, 2005
Principle Shooting of Jet Li's Huo
Yuanjia Biopic Has Begun
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
April 4, 2005
Correction On Jet Li's Huo Yuanjia
Biopic
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
January 22, 2005
Update On Jet Li's Huo Yuanjia
Biopic
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
January 17, 2005
Jet Li To Portray
Martial-Art Legend Huo Yuanjia
(JetLi.com)
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Cast |
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Jet LI |
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Huo Yuanjia |
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Nakamura Shidou |
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Anno TANAKA |
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DONG Yong |
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Nong Jinsun |
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SUN Li |
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Yüeci |
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Michelle YEOH |
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Miss Yang |
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Collin CHOU |
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Huo Yuanjia's Father |
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Nathan JONES |
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Hercules O'BRIEN |
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Somluck Kamsing |
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Thai Fighter |
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Anthony De LONGIS |
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Spanish Fighter |
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Masato HARADA |
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Japanese Feferee |
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Brandon RHEA |
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German Fighter |
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John Claude LEUYER |
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Boxer |
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BAO Qijing |
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Jon T. BENN |
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Mike LEEDER |
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PAW Hee-Ching |
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Ian POWERS |
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