Tag: xunzhou
Ann Hui's THE GOLDEN ERA Triumphs At Hong Kong Film Awards
The 34th Hong Kong Film Awards have named Ann Hui's epic drama The Golden Era Best Film of the year, with Hui taking the Best Director prize. The film, which stars Tang Wei as famed Chinese writer Xiao Hong, won five...
OVERHEARD 3 Tops Hong Kong Film Award Nominations
The third installment of Alan Mak and Felix Chong's surveillance thriller series, Overheard 3, scored nominations in 11 categories, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, when the nominations for the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards were announced this...
Review: WOMEN WHO FLIRT Sees Pang Score North Of The Border
After dipping his toe into China with his 2012 sequel Love In The Buff, Hong Kong auteur Pang Ho Cheung embraces the inevitable and presents his first full-blown mainland production, Women Who Flirt. Zhou Xun and Huang Xiaoming play the...
The Many Faces Of Zhou Xun
This week, Pang Ho Cheung's Chinese film Women Who Flirt will be released in the US. James saw the film and liked it a lot, as you can read in his review (this is a link). It is a modern...
Trailer: Pang Ho Cheung's WOMEN WHO FLIRT Sees Chinese & Taiwanese Beauties Fight Over Huang Xiao Ming
Hong Kong director Pang Ho Cheung heads back to the mainland for his latest romantic comedy, Women Who Flirt, which showcases the A-list talents of Zhou Xun and Huang Xiao Ming, as well as Taiwanese beauties Siu Teng and Xie...
China Lion To Release Pang's WOMEN WHO FLIRT Overseas Ahead Of Mainland
China Lion Film Distribution has announced it will be handling the North American, as well as Australia and New Zealand release of mainland Chinese rom-com Women Who Flirt, opening the film in these territories ahead of the film's domestic release.Directed...
Hey Australia! Win Tickets To See OVERHEARD 3 In Cinemas!
Overheard 3 is the latest thriller from Alan Mak and Felix Chong, the directing duo that brought us the first two Overheard films and (together with Andrew Lau) the Infernal Affairs trilogy. Like the previous two films in the franchise, Overheard...
First Teaser For Alan Mak and Felix Chong's OVERHEARD 3
Directors Alan Mak and Felix Ching are headed back to Hong Kong screens with the third installment of their Overheard thriller series. True to form with the shift from the first film to the second - in which the cast...
Lots Of New Character Posters For OVERHEARD 3
Felix Chong and Alan Mak are getting ready to unleash the third in their Overheard series of audio surveillance thrillers, and have just released these images of their rogues gallery. The previous films did not follow the same characters, and...
OVERHEARD 3 Promises to Be Biggest of Series
At a press conference in Hong Kong yesterday, Bona Film Group officially unveiled Overheard 3 - or Overh3ard - the latest installment in its successful series of thrillers, which have to-date blended elements of audio surveillance with the financial world....
CONTEST WINNERS: True Legend DVDs.
It's always hard picking through these things. But one thing that helps is when you guys read directions. The contest stated you needed to send me stories of bizarre glory NOT real life heroes or people that you admired because...
A legendary contest for TRUE LEGEND DVDs
I've got two DVDs of the amazingly fun True Legend. It comes with five featurettes, storyboard to scene, music video, international trailer and a packaging QR code that can be scanned for extra bonus features and music .Wanna win one?Tell...
Indomina Unleashes Ninjas In Hollywood To Promote TRUE LEGEND
I'm going to head the inevitable comment off at the pass here. Yes, I'm aware that ninjas are Japanese and True Legend is Chinese. And I'm quite sure that the people at Indomina know it, too. It's just that, you...
Indomina Releases Poster & US Trailer For TRUE LEGEND
Indomina Releasing are slowly but surely earning my trust. Last week, they introduced the first one-sheet for Yuen Woo Ping's martial arts fantasy, True Legend, the first of their many acquisitions to see theatrical release. Just today, they released the...
Indomina Releasing Sign Deal With Vivendi Entertainment
Following up on my post from a couple of weeks ago, I've got news that the elusive Indomina Releasing has signed a distribution deal with Vivendi Entertainment for home video. Vivendi has a pretty good distribution network and they handle...
Indomina Releasing Speaks!
Do you all remember Indomina Releasing? We began seeing news about this distribution company back in September when they were acquiring big name Hong Kong titles left and right at Fantastic Fest 2010. In case you've forgotten, let me remind...
Fantastic Fest 2010: A conversation with Yuen Woo-ping
Absolutely thrilled beyond words to have the rare opportunity to sit down with a martial arts legend like Yuen Woo-ping during Fantastic Fest and have a conversation with him about his film True Legend and martial arts film in general. My...
Fantastic Fest 2010: True Legend
On Wednesday evening Yuen Woo-ping accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award during screenings of his first martial arts film, Snake in Eagle's Shadow, and his latest film, True Legend. It had been ten years since Yuen was behind the camera and...
Fruity Chan in HOLLYWOOD HONG KONG
When hitting a Fruit Chan film I'm usually in doubt. The man is obviously talented but he doesn't always seem very aware of his own talents. Hollywood Hong Kong did look very promising though and so it didn't take me...
TRUE LEGEND: Review
If you still don't believe Hong Kong has revived its glorious early 90s cinema, Woo-ping Yuen is here to deal the final blow to any remaining doubts. Lee's 14 Blades and Ng's Tracing Shadows only served as preludes to Yuen's...
