Tag: jiaoxu
THE GRANDMASTER Sweeps Asian Film Awards
Wong Kar Wai's martial arts bio-pic of Ip Man, The Grandmaster, took home seven awards including Best Film at the 8th Asian Film Awards, hosted in Macau last night. Wong was named Best Director, while Zhang Ziyi collected the Best...
China Box Office: FAST & FURIOUS 6 Speeds Into Pole Position
Justin Lin's Fast & Furious 6 races to the top of the Chinese box office this week, despite giving Roland Emmerich's White House Down a 4-day head start, while M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth plummets to fifth place. Rank Title...
Chinese Trailer For Korean Gorilla Baseball Comedy MR. GO
Huayi Brothers continues to push the promotional campaign in China for the potential summer blockbuster film of Kim Yong-hwa's Mr. Go with the launch of the first trailer. Chinese actress Xu Jiao (Starry Starry Night, CJ7) star as Wei Wei,...
Watch A Gorilla Blast A Home Run In MR. GO Clip
As a joint co-production between Huayi Brothers of China and Showbox of Korea, its only natural that Kim Yong-hwa's Mr. Go will receive a heavy push as a must-see Pan-Asian summer blockbuster event in both countries. A "superstar" conference was...
Second Teaser For Korean Gorilla Baseball Comedy MR. GO
The chances of Korean sports comedy Mr. Go successfully winning over the hearts and minds of the family-friendly crowd rest squarely on the broad shoulders of the Baseball-playing Gorilla, a CG character created through director Kim Yong-hwa's own studio Dexter...
Get Behind the Scenes of Korean Gorilla Baseball Comedy MR. GO
Just yesterday, Showbox unveiled the first teaser for their major summer title Mr. Go via Naver and now, there is a behind-the-scenes video via Daum that features the technical process of creating this CG character and integrating it in a...
Gorilla Hits a Baseball In MR. GO Teaser
Last week brought us our first look at Mr. Go, a Baseball-playing Gorilla headlining Showbox's new Korean comedy, but how does he look in action? Naver has the answer with the first 30-second teaser, featuring this CG character indulging in...
Teaser Poster For Gorilla Baseball Comedy MR. GO
[UPDATE: Added teaser poster and another concept art in our gallery.] Meet Mr. Go, a gorilla who also happens to be a professional Baseball player. And he may very well establish a benchmark in Korean visual effects for a photorealistic...
NYAFF 2012 Review: STARRY STARRY NIGHT, A Beautiful Portrait of Youth
With its New York premiere happening Tuesday, July 3rd as part of the 2012 New York Asian Film Festival, we now revisit Niels Matthijs review from earlier in the year.Tom Lin's latest endeavor may be his definite ticket to international...
North American Trailer For Tom Lin's STARRY STARRY NIGHT
Check out the North American trailer for Tom Lin's Starry Starry Night. The film has been playing this weekend (19th, 20th and 22nd) at the Seattle Film Festival, then at the New York Asian Film Festival and then opening July 6th...
Gorilla To Play Baseball In Korean Sports Comedy MR. GO
You had me at baseball-playing gorilla. Filming has already begun for Mr Go 3D (미스터 고 3D), a sports comedy based on a popular manhwa (Korean comic) by Heo Yeong-man - his other works has also been adapted for Le...
STARRY STARRY NIGHT Review
Tom Lin's latest endeavor may be his definite ticket to international recognition, if Starry Starry Night makes it out of Taiwan (always somewhat of a gamble). It's a film with enough potential to appeal to a wide audience while at...
HKAFF 2011: STARRY STARRY NIGHT Review
Writer-director Tom Lin conjures up a visual feast in his sophomore effort, STARRY STARRY NIGHT, a big screen adaptation of Jimmy Liao's popular children's book. Young Josie Xu (familiar to many from Stephen Chow's CJ7) is maturing incredibly well as...
English-subbed Teaser And Official Trailer For Taiwan's STARRY STARRY NIGHT
STARRY STARRY NIGHT is an adaptation of one of Taiwan's most famous illustrators, Jimmy Liao's beloved illustrated novel of the same name. In 2003, Liao's other popular novels, COLOUR OF SOUND and TURN LEFT, TURN RIGHT, were adapted by...
Behold the beauty of Tom Lin's STARRY STARRY NIGHT
For his second feature, Taiwanese writer-director Tom Lin tells the story of a young girl, Mei, who escapes the misery of her family life by escaping into a fantasy world of her own making. When she meets Lee, a similarly...
HOLEHEAD 2010: FUTURE X-COPS Review
[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for offering his review to the Twitch readership.] Future X-Cops (Mei loi ging chaat, 2010) is a paint-by-numbers, sci-fi action flick that's doing gangbusters in China but is unlikely to make it past the bargain...
Well, Ain't That Andy Lau Fighting.... Cyborgs?
And who could possibly be behind this, if not Wong Jing?After his latest "tour de force" 大內密探靈靈狗 (On His Majesty's Secret Service), Hong Kong's Maestro of Crap has decided to up the ante, this time with an ambitious (?) action...
