Of the two Monkey King movies coming out this year, I think I'm looking forward to Stephen Chow's Journey to the West more than the one starring Donnie Yen. (It might be because of my love of all things Stephen Chow and my o...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Apparently Cloud Atlas was not the easiest film to understand depending on who you talk to. Some people in the general masses thought the same thing when Inception came out, talking about a convoluted plot and whatnot. Good n...
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Roughly five years in the making and oft-delayed, Wong Kar-wai's Yip Man biopic The Grandmasters is almost done. Almost. The Hollywood Reporter says that Wong is doing last-minute post-production right now. How last minute? T...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Donnie Yen's The Monkey King isn't the only adaptation of the novel Journey to the West slated for 2013. Stephen Chow is working on his own film. Alternately titled both Journey to the West and Odyssey, it looks like it...
| Hubert Vigilla |
There's finally word on the US release of Jackie Chan's Chinese Zodiac, his 101st movie and his last balls-to-the-walls action flick. Ramy Choi (director of distribution and acquisition at Chan's Jackie & JJ Internationa...
| Hubert Vigilla |
There's a certain kind of sumptuousness to Chinese period epics, like John Woo's Red Cliff or the films of Chen Kaige. Zhao Yiyang's The Assassins has a pretty good vibe going here in this trailer, and I'm interested to chec...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Jackie Chan's Chinese Zodiac (CZ12) hits Asian theaters this week, and this Hong Kong trailer for the film gives a good sense of the film's scope and story. Again, it looks like a possible return to form for Chan, whose best...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Ching Siu-tung (aka Tony Ching) has directed a number of notable films over the years, including Duel to the Death, A Chinese Ghost Story, and Swordsman II. He's also done some great action direction on Shaolin Soccer, Hero,...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Yesterday we shared the new poster for The Monkey King from director Soi Cheang, a forthcoming Chinese fantasy film based on characters from the book Journey to the West. The film stars Donnie Yen, Chow Yun-fat, Aaron Kwok, ...
| Hubert Vigilla |
In the comments of the 12 best Donnie Yen fights, hbomb and I mentioned that we hadn't heard anything about The Monkey King in a while. It's an IMAX 3D fantasy epic directed by Soi Cheang and based off characters from Wu Chen...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Guess what delayed production just got delayed again. Wong Kar-wai's Yip Man biopic The Grandmasters has been pushed back to January 8th, 2013, though there may be more delays ahead. The rumor is that Wong Kar-wai is shootin...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Mark Wahlberg isn't the only change to the Transformers franchise. As casting and writing continues for Transformers 4: The Dream Master, there's speculation that Michael Bay and Paramount have considered setting the film in ...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmasters, the long-in-the-works movie about Yip Man, is finally coming out in December. Following a visually interesting trailer for the film, a number of posters were released. One is a banner poster w...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Finally, we have the official trailer for Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmasters, a Yip Man biopic starring Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi. This comes after a rain-drenched teaser trailer in February and news in July that the movie was ...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Back in August we shared the first trailer for The Guillotines, the new film from director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) and producer Peter Chan (Dragon aka Wu Xia). The film was originally supposed to be a remake of Master ...
| Hubert Vigilla |
This latest trailer for Chinese Zodiac (aka Armour of God 3) isn't as awesome as the rollerblade suit trailer from late August or the more traditional trailer from May. It's not even as keen as that initial promo from last y...
| Hubert Vigilla |
I caught Dragon (Wu Xia) earlier in the year during the New York Asian Film Festival and enjoyed it a whole lot. This period martial arts film stars the one and only Donnie Yen as a farmer with a dark past, and Takeshi Kanesh...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Dalian Wanda Group finalized its purchase of AMC Entertainment yesterday to the tune of $2.6 billion. Deadline notes that Wanda is China's largest investor in entertainment activities, and that this acquisition makes them the...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Ever since the first promo video for Jackie Chan's Chinese Zodiac (the third Armour of God movie), I've been excited that this would be a return to form like 2004's New Police Story. If this teaser is any indication, Chan pr...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Produced by Peter Chan (Dragon aka Wu Xia) and directed by Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs), The Guillotines originally began its life as a remake of the Jimmy Wang Yu classic Master of the Flying Guillotine. What we got instea...
| Hubert Vigilla |
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