The era of the new generation is coming. While the Internet, artificial intelligence, and other high technologies are applied in all aspects of life, crime technology, and criminal investigation are also upgrading day-by-day. In such fast-changing times, the three retiring policemen, Cui Tiejun (by Huang Zhizhong), Xu Guozhu (by Jiang Wu), and Pan Jianghai (by Guo Tao), may not be able to keep up with this new era. The three old boys had to use their “outdated” detection experience against new kinds of crime they've never seen, meanwhile, to confront various forces.
- 5/23/2024
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
"Don't back down!" Cmc has released one more official US trailer for the war epic The Eight Hundred, to promote its streaming release this week in the US. It broke box office records in China last summer even in the midst of pandemic lockdowns. The epic war film is set in 1937 and is a jingoistic true story about a group of Chinese soldiers and draft dodgers that put up a four-day defense of a Shanghai warehouse complex, just as Japanese forces are overwhelming China. Another of these intense 300-esque movies about how heroic these patriots are defending their country. The film's cast includes Ou Hao, Jiang Wu, Zhang Yi, Wang Qianyuan, Huang Zhi Zhong, and Zhang Cheng. This still does look like China's Saving Private Ryan, about the tenacity and courage of soldiers fighting for their home. And the action sequences look incredible. Here's the new official US trailer (+ US...
- 2/24/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Epic Chinese war drama The Eight Hundred has been acquired for UK theatrical after mining box office gold in its native China.
The film became the first blockbuster-level hit in the pandemic era when it released in China on August 21, grossing $336M in the territory to date, which places it at no.2 on the global box office chart for this year behind only Bad Boys For Life.
Now, Trinity Cine Asia has moved to acquire UK and Ireland rights and has set a September 16 release in both 2D and IMAX.
Directed by Guan Hu (Mr. Six), the pic is set during the Battle of Shanghai and stars Zhang Yi, Wang Qianyuan, Jiang Wu and Li Chen. It shot entirely with Imax cameras.
Th Eight Hundred previously faced difficulties with the Chinese censors, having been pulled from its slot as the opening night movie Shanghai International Film Festival last year,...
The film became the first blockbuster-level hit in the pandemic era when it released in China on August 21, grossing $336M in the territory to date, which places it at no.2 on the global box office chart for this year behind only Bad Boys For Life.
Now, Trinity Cine Asia has moved to acquire UK and Ireland rights and has set a September 16 release in both 2D and IMAX.
Directed by Guan Hu (Mr. Six), the pic is set during the Battle of Shanghai and stars Zhang Yi, Wang Qianyuan, Jiang Wu and Li Chen. It shot entirely with Imax cameras.
Th Eight Hundred previously faced difficulties with the Chinese censors, having been pulled from its slot as the opening night movie Shanghai International Film Festival last year,...
- 9/7/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Epic stands at $163m through all cinemas since August 21 debut.
Huayi Brothers’ Chinese box office smash The Eight Hundred has delivered IMAX’s biggest single day of the year-to-date in China.
The large screen format reported $2.7m on Tuesday (August 25) from 647 screens – approximately 10% of the day’s overall gross – to bring the IMAX running total to $11m.
By Wednesday The Eight Hundred, Guan Hu’s account of how a band of Chinese soldiers held off Japanese forces at the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai in 1937, stood at $163m since launching in recently reopened cinemas on August 21.
The film shot entirely on...
Huayi Brothers’ Chinese box office smash The Eight Hundred has delivered IMAX’s biggest single day of the year-to-date in China.
The large screen format reported $2.7m on Tuesday (August 25) from 647 screens – approximately 10% of the day’s overall gross – to bring the IMAX running total to $11m.
By Wednesday The Eight Hundred, Guan Hu’s account of how a band of Chinese soldiers held off Japanese forces at the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai in 1937, stood at $163m since launching in recently reopened cinemas on August 21.
The film shot entirely on...
- 8/26/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Epic stands at $163m through all cinemas since August 21 debut.
Huayi Brothers’ Chinese box office smash The Eight Hundred has delivered IMAX’s biggest single day of the year-to-date in China.
The large screen format reported $2.7m on Tuesday (August 25) from 647 screens – approximately 10% of the day’s overall gross – to bring the IMAX running total to $11m.
By Wednesday The Eight Hundred, Guan Hu’s account of how a band of Chinese soldiers held off Japanese forces at the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai in 1937, stood at $163m since launching in recently reopened cinemas on August 21.
The film shot entirely on...
Huayi Brothers’ Chinese box office smash The Eight Hundred has delivered IMAX’s biggest single day of the year-to-date in China.
The large screen format reported $2.7m on Tuesday (August 25) from 647 screens – approximately 10% of the day’s overall gross – to bring the IMAX running total to $11m.
By Wednesday The Eight Hundred, Guan Hu’s account of how a band of Chinese soldiers held off Japanese forces at the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai in 1937, stood at $163m since launching in recently reopened cinemas on August 21.
The film shot entirely on...
- 8/26/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
"Brothers of the 88th Division! Because of you, Shanghai is still standing!" Cmc has released an official US trailer for the Chinese war epic titled The Eight Hundred, which has already opened in China to big numbers at the box office (with a $112 million opening weekend). The film is set in 1937 and is a jingoistic true story about a group of Chinese soldiers and draft dodgers that put up a four-day defense of a Shanghai warehouse complex, just as Japanese forces are overwhelming China. One of these 300-esque movies about how heroic these patriots are defending their country. But this looks suitably epic in a way only Hollywood used to be capable of - but now China is able to make these movies, too. The Eight Hundred stars Ou Hao, Jiang Wu, Zhang Yi, Wang Qianyuan, Huang Zhi Zhong, and Zhang Cheng. This looks incredible! Serious production value bolstering this...
- 8/24/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Figures were achieved despite the fact that Chinese cinemas are still operating at 50% capacity to comply with social distancing regulations.
Huayi Brothers’ The Eight Hundred has become China’s first blockbuster since cinemas reopened, grossing an impressive $79.6m over its opening three days (August 21-23), according to Artisan Gateway, for a cumulative total of $112.3m including previews.
The figures were achieved despite the fact that Chinese cinemas are still operating at 50% capacity to comply with social distancing regulations. Online ticketing platform Maoyan is predicting that the film will go on to gross $336m (RMB2.33bn).
Directed by Guan Hu (Mr...
Huayi Brothers’ The Eight Hundred has become China’s first blockbuster since cinemas reopened, grossing an impressive $79.6m over its opening three days (August 21-23), according to Artisan Gateway, for a cumulative total of $112.3m including previews.
The figures were achieved despite the fact that Chinese cinemas are still operating at 50% capacity to comply with social distancing regulations. Online ticketing platform Maoyan is predicting that the film will go on to gross $336m (RMB2.33bn).
Directed by Guan Hu (Mr...
- 8/24/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
China’s Cmc Pictures will bring a line-up of five titles to the Cannes virtual market this year, including “Assassin in Red,” a major blockbuster set to hit next Chinese New Year.
The firm will be selling global rights outside of China and Southeast Asia to the fantasy drama directed by Lu Yang and executive produced by Ning Hao (“Crazy Alien”).
The film, whose Mandarin title translates to “Assassinate the Novelist,” tells the story of a man who, in order to save his missing daughter, is tasked with killing a writer whose writing creates a parallel world that begins to interact with the real one.
The title reunites “Brotherhood of Blades II” stars Yang Mi (“Tiny Times”) and Lei Jiayin (“The Longest Day in Chang’an”), alongside Golden Horse Award winner Dong Zijiang (of Jia Zhangke’s “Mountains May Depart” and “Ash is Purest White”).
Cmc also brings two of its...
The firm will be selling global rights outside of China and Southeast Asia to the fantasy drama directed by Lu Yang and executive produced by Ning Hao (“Crazy Alien”).
The film, whose Mandarin title translates to “Assassinate the Novelist,” tells the story of a man who, in order to save his missing daughter, is tasked with killing a writer whose writing creates a parallel world that begins to interact with the real one.
The title reunites “Brotherhood of Blades II” stars Yang Mi (“Tiny Times”) and Lei Jiayin (“The Longest Day in Chang’an”), alongside Golden Horse Award winner Dong Zijiang (of Jia Zhangke’s “Mountains May Depart” and “Ash is Purest White”).
Cmc also brings two of its...
- 6/19/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The big-budget action drama has also gone to Taiwan (Long Shong), Indonesia (Prima Cinema Multimedia) and India (E Star Films).
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers has sold Guan Hu’s upcoming war epic The Eight Hundred to The Jokers Films for France.
The big-budget action drama, which is scheduled for Chinese release on July 5, has also gone to Taiwan (Long Shong), Indonesia (Prima Cinema Multimedia) and India (E Star Films).
Huayi Brothers announced a slew of sales to Asian territories earlier in the market, most of which will release the film day-and-date with its Chinese release.
Featuring an ensemble cast including Ou Hao,...
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers has sold Guan Hu’s upcoming war epic The Eight Hundred to The Jokers Films for France.
The big-budget action drama, which is scheduled for Chinese release on July 5, has also gone to Taiwan (Long Shong), Indonesia (Prima Cinema Multimedia) and India (E Star Films).
Huayi Brothers announced a slew of sales to Asian territories earlier in the market, most of which will release the film day-and-date with its Chinese release.
Featuring an ensemble cast including Ou Hao,...
- 5/20/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Ou Hao and Wang Qianyuan are among the ensemble cast.
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers has sold Guan Hu’s upcoming Second World War epic The Eight Hundred to a string of territories, including the UK (Trinity), Germany (Koch) and Us, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (Cmc).
The film has also gone to South Korea (First Run), Singapore and Brunei (Shaw), Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos (Gsc), and worldwide in-flight (Emphasis). Most of the territories will release the film theatrically day-and-date with its Chinese release, which has recently been confirmed as July 5.
Featuring an ensemble cast including Ou Hao, Wang Qianyuan,...
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers has sold Guan Hu’s upcoming Second World War epic The Eight Hundred to a string of territories, including the UK (Trinity), Germany (Koch) and Us, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (Cmc).
The film has also gone to South Korea (First Run), Singapore and Brunei (Shaw), Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos (Gsc), and worldwide in-flight (Emphasis). Most of the territories will release the film theatrically day-and-date with its Chinese release, which has recently been confirmed as July 5.
Featuring an ensemble cast including Ou Hao, Wang Qianyuan,...
- 5/14/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Celina Jade, the breakout actress from “Wolf Warriors II,” is set as the star of Chinese big-budget tomb-raiding action film “Mojin X.” The film is a sequel to 2015 hit “Mojin: The Lost Legend.”
Directed by Li Yifan, “Mojin X” also stars Zhang Hanyu (“Assembly”) and Jiang Wu. Working through Saints Entertainment, the producer is Zhang Wang (also known as Er Yong). His other credits include the recent “Hidden Man” as well as award winners “The Postmodern Life of My Aunt,” “Peacock” and “In the Heat of the Sun.”
Jade, who has been singing and acting for over a decade, has enjoyed a career surge since last year’s “Warriors II,” which earned $850 million to become the highest-grossing film of all time in China.
Jade was last year named as an Asian Talent to Watch by Variety and the International Film Festival Macao. She is currently riding high as the star of “Hello Mrs.
Directed by Li Yifan, “Mojin X” also stars Zhang Hanyu (“Assembly”) and Jiang Wu. Working through Saints Entertainment, the producer is Zhang Wang (also known as Er Yong). His other credits include the recent “Hidden Man” as well as award winners “The Postmodern Life of My Aunt,” “Peacock” and “In the Heat of the Sun.”
Jade, who has been singing and acting for over a decade, has enjoyed a career surge since last year’s “Warriors II,” which earned $850 million to become the highest-grossing film of all time in China.
Jade was last year named as an Asian Talent to Watch by Variety and the International Film Festival Macao. She is currently riding high as the star of “Hello Mrs.
- 10/4/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
From his early days in films like Zhang Yimou’s To Live, to titles like Shower, Let the Bullets Fly, and A Touch of Sin, Jiang Wu has risen to become one of China’s greatest actors. At the New York Asian Film Festival to receive the Star Asia award, Jiang and Director Xin Yukun spoke with Lmd about their thriller, Wrath of Silence. The Lady Miz Diva: Congratulations on the Star Asia award. How does it feel to receive it here in front of your New York Fans? Jiang Wu: I like New York a lot. I’ve been collaborating with American filmmakers pretty often. I’ve received three or four awards already in America; the first one was in Hawaii, and then I went to...
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- 7/23/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a column devoted to exploring contemporary Chinese-language cinema primarily as it is revealed to us at North American multiplexes.Over the last few years it has become increasingly easy to see mainstream Asian films in North America at the same time they are released in their home countries. Thanks to partnerships with small, international distributors, the major multiplex chains (AMC, Cinemark, Regal) have devoted a handful of screens in major markets to showing new releases from India, Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Most of these titles fall under the radar of both critics and audiences outside the diasporic communities to which they are targeted. They play for a week or two and then disappear, outside of a handful of breakout titles. Last year Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid made headlines for its high per-screen averages in North America as it shattered domestic box office records in China.
- 12/4/2017
- MUBI
Xin Yukun’s arthouse drama revolves around two missing children.
Newly rebooted Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights to Chinese filmmaker Xin Yukun’s Wrath Of Silence, which is playing as the closing film of this year’s First International Film Festival (July 21-30).
Set in China’s Northeast, the arthouse drama revolves around two missing children in a region where coal-hungry corporations are eyeing the few remaining plots on a mine-rich mountain.
Starring Jiang Wu (A Touch Of Sin) and Song Yang (The Grandmaster), the film is produced by Bingchi Pictures, Hehe Pictures, Taihe Zeruo Culture Investment and Khorgos Taihe Digital Entertainment Cultural Development Co.
As previously reported, Hehe Pictures is in the process of acquiring Fortissimo although it remains unclear whether the financing on the deal has been completed at a time when Chinese authorities are clamping down on capital leaving the country.
“Fortissimo has always championed young Asian filmmakers and we are very...
Newly rebooted Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights to Chinese filmmaker Xin Yukun’s Wrath Of Silence, which is playing as the closing film of this year’s First International Film Festival (July 21-30).
Set in China’s Northeast, the arthouse drama revolves around two missing children in a region where coal-hungry corporations are eyeing the few remaining plots on a mine-rich mountain.
Starring Jiang Wu (A Touch Of Sin) and Song Yang (The Grandmaster), the film is produced by Bingchi Pictures, Hehe Pictures, Taihe Zeruo Culture Investment and Khorgos Taihe Digital Entertainment Cultural Development Co.
As previously reported, Hehe Pictures is in the process of acquiring Fortissimo although it remains unclear whether the financing on the deal has been completed at a time when Chinese authorities are clamping down on capital leaving the country.
“Fortissimo has always championed young Asian filmmakers and we are very...
- 7/19/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
There is a thrilling selection of Chinese-language titles at Filmart this year. Liz Shackleton picks out some of the most promising.
With very few Hong Kong or mainland Chinese sellers making the journey to this year’s European Film Market in Berlin, Filmart offers a chance for buyers to catch up with the Chinese-language titles that will be rolled out in the region for the rest of the year.
After serving up the biggest film of the Chinese New Year holiday — Kung Fu Yoga, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Stanley Tong — China’s Sparkle Roll Media has launched a Hong Kong-based sales arm that is selling Ding Sheng’s reboot of the A Better Tomorrow series.
Other high-profile action titles new to market include Distribution Workshop’s Extraordinary Mission, from the creative teams behind the Infernal Affairs and Overheard series, and Huayi Brothers’ crime drama Explosion, starring Duan Yihong.
Previously announced...
With very few Hong Kong or mainland Chinese sellers making the journey to this year’s European Film Market in Berlin, Filmart offers a chance for buyers to catch up with the Chinese-language titles that will be rolled out in the region for the rest of the year.
After serving up the biggest film of the Chinese New Year holiday — Kung Fu Yoga, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Stanley Tong — China’s Sparkle Roll Media has launched a Hong Kong-based sales arm that is selling Ding Sheng’s reboot of the A Better Tomorrow series.
Other high-profile action titles new to market include Distribution Workshop’s Extraordinary Mission, from the creative teams behind the Infernal Affairs and Overheard series, and Huayi Brothers’ crime drama Explosion, starring Duan Yihong.
Previously announced...
- 3/13/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
A few days ago, we reported that Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau went into hospital after suffering from multiple pelvic fractures. The estimated recovery time of 6-9 months would make it difficult for the actor to promote his upcoming films, one of which being the big-budget action thriller ‘Shock Wave’.
Shock Wave Poster
‘Shock Wave’ is directed by Herman Yau (‘The Untold Story’, ‘Turning Point’, ‘The Legend Is Born: Ip Man’). Lau is both the star and producer of the film and the supporting cast includes Jiang Wu (‘Monster Hunt’), Philip Keung (‘Unbeatable’), Ron Ng (‘Turning Point’), Louis Cheung (‘Keeper Of Darkness’) and Babyjohn Choi (‘Ip Man 3’).
Synopsis (via Wikipedia): Cheung Choi-san is a senior inspector of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau (Eod). Seven years ago, he went undercover and became the protégé of Hung Kai-pang, a top wanted criminal specializing in bombs. Cheung successfully disintegrated Hung’s criminal gang,...
Shock Wave Poster
‘Shock Wave’ is directed by Herman Yau (‘The Untold Story’, ‘Turning Point’, ‘The Legend Is Born: Ip Man’). Lau is both the star and producer of the film and the supporting cast includes Jiang Wu (‘Monster Hunt’), Philip Keung (‘Unbeatable’), Ron Ng (‘Turning Point’), Louis Cheung (‘Keeper Of Darkness’) and Babyjohn Choi (‘Ip Man 3’).
Synopsis (via Wikipedia): Cheung Choi-san is a senior inspector of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau (Eod). Seven years ago, he went undercover and became the protégé of Hung Kai-pang, a top wanted criminal specializing in bombs. Cheung successfully disintegrated Hung’s criminal gang,...
- 1/27/2017
- by Dragon Lin
- AsianMoviePulse
Jiang Wu (pictured) and Song Yang star in suspense drama about class conflict.
Bingchi Lab, launched by China’s First International Film Festival Xining, has entered the production of Chinese independent features starting with The Villain, directed by Xin Yukun.
Starring Jiang Wu (A Touch Of Sin), Song Yang (The Master) and Yuan Wenkang (The Golden Era), the suspense drama revolves around individual struggles and class conflicts in a northern mining town, where one segment of the population has become rapidly wealthy, but seemingly at the expense of local farmers.
Bingchi Pictures is producing the film with Hehe Pictures, part-owned by Alibaba, actor Chen Kun and director Cao Baoping. Im Global’s Beijing-based consultancy Go Global is handling festival strategy on the film, which wrapped in Inner Mongolia in late December.
The Villain is Xin’s second feature following The Coffin In The Mountain (2014), which premiered in Venice Critics Week, where it won...
Bingchi Lab, launched by China’s First International Film Festival Xining, has entered the production of Chinese independent features starting with The Villain, directed by Xin Yukun.
Starring Jiang Wu (A Touch Of Sin), Song Yang (The Master) and Yuan Wenkang (The Golden Era), the suspense drama revolves around individual struggles and class conflicts in a northern mining town, where one segment of the population has become rapidly wealthy, but seemingly at the expense of local farmers.
Bingchi Pictures is producing the film with Hehe Pictures, part-owned by Alibaba, actor Chen Kun and director Cao Baoping. Im Global’s Beijing-based consultancy Go Global is handling festival strategy on the film, which wrapped in Inner Mongolia in late December.
The Villain is Xin’s second feature following The Coffin In The Mountain (2014), which premiered in Venice Critics Week, where it won...
- 1/6/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Arclight Films’ Asian label Easternlight has picked up international rights to Danny Pang’s upcoming horror film Delusion, starring fast-rising actor-singer Chau Pakho.
Produced by Vshine Brothers and Sun Wei, along with China’s Huace Media Group, the film is being developed as the first title in a franchise.
Huace is handling mainland China distribution, with a theatrical release scheduled for May 2016.
The film comprises three interconnected stories about characters suffering from delusional disorder: a girl who is “seeing things” after an unrequited romance; another girl and her imaginary boyfriend; and an insomniac who is convinced he’s witnessing a girl being tortured by a man living across from his apartment window.
The cast also includes Cheng Yuan Yuan, An Hu, Hong Chen, and a special appearance by Timmy Hung, son of Sammo Hung. Chau Pakho’s credits include Love Is Elsewhere, I Corrupt All Cops and 12 Golden Ducks.
Pang’s previous...
Produced by Vshine Brothers and Sun Wei, along with China’s Huace Media Group, the film is being developed as the first title in a franchise.
Huace is handling mainland China distribution, with a theatrical release scheduled for May 2016.
The film comprises three interconnected stories about characters suffering from delusional disorder: a girl who is “seeing things” after an unrequited romance; another girl and her imaginary boyfriend; and an insomniac who is convinced he’s witnessing a girl being tortured by a man living across from his apartment window.
The cast also includes Cheng Yuan Yuan, An Hu, Hong Chen, and a special appearance by Timmy Hung, son of Sammo Hung. Chau Pakho’s credits include Love Is Elsewhere, I Corrupt All Cops and 12 Golden Ducks.
Pang’s previous...
- 3/14/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Monster Hunt was released today ( Jan 22 ) in North American cinemas .
The film was originally released in China on July 2015 in 3D and went on to be the highest grossing Chinese film of all time (earning in excess of 2.48 billion Yuan )
Voice Acting Cast
Bai Baihe, Jing Boran, Jiang Wu, Elaine Jin, Wallace Chung, Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng
Synopsis
The film takes place in the distant past, where the Human race existed alongside the Monster race. They once shared the world in peace and harmony until the Humans drove the Monsters out from their lands, for they sought total dominion over their lands.
Recently, a civil war took place in the Monster Realm which resulted in the usurpation of the Monster King’s throne from a treacherous minister, who later sought the Monster Queen and her unborn baby, and the Monster Queen fled to the Human Realm.
The story begins with...
The film was originally released in China on July 2015 in 3D and went on to be the highest grossing Chinese film of all time (earning in excess of 2.48 billion Yuan )
Voice Acting Cast
Bai Baihe, Jing Boran, Jiang Wu, Elaine Jin, Wallace Chung, Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng
Synopsis
The film takes place in the distant past, where the Human race existed alongside the Monster race. They once shared the world in peace and harmony until the Humans drove the Monsters out from their lands, for they sought total dominion over their lands.
Recently, a civil war took place in the Monster Realm which resulted in the usurpation of the Monster King’s throne from a treacherous minister, who later sought the Monster Queen and her unborn baby, and the Monster Queen fled to the Human Realm.
The story begins with...
- 1/22/2016
- by The Tiger
- AsianMoviePulse
Arclight Films’ Asian label, Easternlight Films, has picked up international rights to The Queens, directed by and starring Taiwanese singer and actress Annie Yi.
Produced by Beijing-based Desen International Media, the romantic comedy also stars Korean actress Song Hye Kyo and Chinese actress Vivian Wu. Chinese release is scheduled for November 7.
The film follows three cosmopolitan women, an actress, a PR specialist and a gallery manager, all wrestling with the ups and downs of their romantic lives. “We want to present the mystery, desires, sorrows and pain in urban relationships”” said Desen’s Ann An. “The motto for women from the film is ‘Don’t be a slave, and don’t be a queen, just be yourself’. The characters go through the transformation from ‘being a queen’ to purely ‘being themselves’.”
Also known by her Chinese name Yi Nengjing, Annie Yi starred in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Good Men, Good Women (1995), Peter Greenaway’s 8 ½ Women (1999) and more recently...
Produced by Beijing-based Desen International Media, the romantic comedy also stars Korean actress Song Hye Kyo and Chinese actress Vivian Wu. Chinese release is scheduled for November 7.
The film follows three cosmopolitan women, an actress, a PR specialist and a gallery manager, all wrestling with the ups and downs of their romantic lives. “We want to present the mystery, desires, sorrows and pain in urban relationships”” said Desen’s Ann An. “The motto for women from the film is ‘Don’t be a slave, and don’t be a queen, just be yourself’. The characters go through the transformation from ‘being a queen’ to purely ‘being themselves’.”
Also known by her Chinese name Yi Nengjing, Annie Yi starred in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Good Men, Good Women (1995), Peter Greenaway’s 8 ½ Women (1999) and more recently...
- 10/4/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong-based Edko Films has announced 3D fantasy adventure Monster Hunt, to be directed by Raman Hui, who co-directed Shrek The Third.
The $30m Chinese-language film will star Bai Baihe (Personal Tailor), Kai Ko (You Are The Apple Of My Eye) and Jiang Wu (A Touch of Sin).
Based on the supernatural classic Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio, the film will feature Woba, a CGI protagonist who is the last of the monster kings embroiled in a war with humans that has lasted generations. His quest is to bring unity to the two races with the help of characters played by Bai and Ko.
“We give this classic tale a new spin by reducing the horror element and reinventing it with family-friendly fantastical characters and settings in an epic style,” said Hui.
Veteran actor Eric Tsang (Infernal Affairs) and Hong Kong’s ‘Queen of Comedy’ Sandra Ng (The Golden Chicken trilogy) will also feature along with Yan...
The $30m Chinese-language film will star Bai Baihe (Personal Tailor), Kai Ko (You Are The Apple Of My Eye) and Jiang Wu (A Touch of Sin).
Based on the supernatural classic Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio, the film will feature Woba, a CGI protagonist who is the last of the monster kings embroiled in a war with humans that has lasted generations. His quest is to bring unity to the two races with the help of characters played by Bai and Ko.
“We give this classic tale a new spin by reducing the horror element and reinventing it with family-friendly fantastical characters and settings in an epic style,” said Hui.
Veteran actor Eric Tsang (Infernal Affairs) and Hong Kong’s ‘Queen of Comedy’ Sandra Ng (The Golden Chicken trilogy) will also feature along with Yan...
- 6/3/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Bill Kong’s Hong Kong-based Edko Films presented its big-budget 3D fantasy adventure Monster Hunt, which will mark the feature debut of animation director Raman Hui (Shrek the Third), at a news conference Sunday in Beijing. The cast will include big regional stars such as Bai Baihe (Personal Tailor), Kai Ko (You Are the Apple of My Eye), Jiang Wu (A Touch of Sin) and a CGI character called Woba. The movie is Hong Kong-born Hui’s Chinese-language and live-action feature directorial debut. Photos: Hong Kong Filmart: The Best of the Worst One-Sheets The movie is
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- 6/2/2014
- by Clifford Coonan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Upon premiering at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it was eventually awarded Best Screenplay, auteur Jia Zhang-ke’s latest masterpiece, A Touch of Sin was a shockingly violent surprise. In essence a crime film, it’s the first time the spirit of genre has graced the class conscious filmmaker’s oeuvre, and to arresting effect. A quartet of tales ripped from actual news headlines structures the film, each depicting a starkly effective build up resulting in drastic measures of violence, seen as a disturbing byproduct of continual unrest and abuse of the working class in modern China. But even more than that, Zhang-ke strikes a more universal note about human life and something like it—the impetus of despair may put some Western audiences in mind of something like 1993’s Falling Down, among a variety of other titles.
Opening with a bang as a motorcyclist (Wang Baoqiang) travels down a lonely,...
Opening with a bang as a motorcyclist (Wang Baoqiang) travels down a lonely,...
- 4/8/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A Touch of Sin
Written and directed by Jia Zhangke
China, 2013
Jia Zhangke’s opening scene for A Touch of Sin acts as a device for reintroduction. We have previously seen the sixth generation Chinese auteur craft with slow-paced sensibility and political tinge to win over audiences with Unknown Pleasures (2002), The World (2004), and Still Life (2006). The aesthete continues to creep alongside Jia’s work as his camera quietly pursues a man on a motorcycle, donning a Chicago Bulls skullcap and weighty cargo jacket, manufactured black but padded with a layer of dust. His journey is halted by three axe-wielding thugs demanding that he pay them before continuing. In another work by Jia, the man would have obliged in a symbolic gesture referencing the petty thievery involved in China’s newfound capitalistic empire. The symbolic gestures remain, but this man won’t easily oblige. Instead, he instinctively draws his pistol and fires,...
Written and directed by Jia Zhangke
China, 2013
Jia Zhangke’s opening scene for A Touch of Sin acts as a device for reintroduction. We have previously seen the sixth generation Chinese auteur craft with slow-paced sensibility and political tinge to win over audiences with Unknown Pleasures (2002), The World (2004), and Still Life (2006). The aesthete continues to creep alongside Jia’s work as his camera quietly pursues a man on a motorcycle, donning a Chicago Bulls skullcap and weighty cargo jacket, manufactured black but padded with a layer of dust. His journey is halted by three axe-wielding thugs demanding that he pay them before continuing. In another work by Jia, the man would have obliged in a symbolic gesture referencing the petty thievery involved in China’s newfound capitalistic empire. The symbolic gestures remain, but this man won’t easily oblige. Instead, he instinctively draws his pistol and fires,...
- 4/8/2014
- by Zach Lewis
- SoundOnSight
‘Cahiers du Cinéma’ Top Ten Films of 2013: Gay erotic thriller ‘Stranger by the Lake,’ Girls Gone Wild thriller ‘Spring Breakers’ are top picks (image: ‘Stranger by the Lake’ poster) We’ve begun updating our posts featuring end-of-the-year awards season winners and nominees, in addition to various Top Ten lists. So, below you’ll find the top ten films of 2013 according to the iconic French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, which announced its selections in late November. Now, what was Cahiers du Cinéma‘s top movie of 2013? The answer is Alain Guiraudie’s gay erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake / L’inconnu du lac, about a young man (Pierre de Ladonchamps) who falls in lust with a suspected murderer (Christophe Paou). Back in the spring, Stranger by the Lake won the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. ‘Cahiers du Cinéma’ top ten list: Several curious picks The Cahiers du Cinéma...
- 12/13/2013
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
A woman who works at a massage parlor/sauna is beaten with money by a man who demands she service him as a prostitute. A coal miner goes through life stunned that the villagers around him pay honor to a man who has given nothing back to them. A young worker is injured on the job and given nothing in compensation because he happened to be making “small talk” at the time.
An aimless young man alleviates boredom with gunfire. China is changing in Jia Zhangke’s quartet of short stories that comprise “A Touch of Sin,” playing for the next week at Music Box here in Chicago and truly worth an effort to get to Southport to see it.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The Chinese director of “Still Life” and “The World” delivers a captivating piece about the undercurrent of violence facing a China that’s seen an increasing gap between the...
An aimless young man alleviates boredom with gunfire. China is changing in Jia Zhangke’s quartet of short stories that comprise “A Touch of Sin,” playing for the next week at Music Box here in Chicago and truly worth an effort to get to Southport to see it.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The Chinese director of “Still Life” and “The World” delivers a captivating piece about the undercurrent of violence facing a China that’s seen an increasing gap between the...
- 11/23/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A Touch of Sin
Written and directed by Jia Zhangke
Japan, 2013
Jia Zhangke rightfully walked away with a Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival for A Touch of Sin, an intricately plotted exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China. Sin is a grim but poetic crime film, which the writer-director based on four shocking and true headline-making events, while browsing the Internet for stories of violent crimes censored by the government. These stories reveal a growing restlessness between China’s new ruling class and the working class, and paint an artful condemnation of the Chinese state capitalism. All four stories centre around tragedies of a common man or woman, all set in different regions of China, and all ending in bloodshed. The protagonists in each of its subsets are driven to violent ends while living in the world’s fastest-growing economy.
The first story follows Dahai, a...
Written and directed by Jia Zhangke
Japan, 2013
Jia Zhangke rightfully walked away with a Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival for A Touch of Sin, an intricately plotted exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China. Sin is a grim but poetic crime film, which the writer-director based on four shocking and true headline-making events, while browsing the Internet for stories of violent crimes censored by the government. These stories reveal a growing restlessness between China’s new ruling class and the working class, and paint an artful condemnation of the Chinese state capitalism. All four stories centre around tragedies of a common man or woman, all set in different regions of China, and all ending in bloodshed. The protagonists in each of its subsets are driven to violent ends while living in the world’s fastest-growing economy.
The first story follows Dahai, a...
- 10/23/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
A Touch of Sin
Written and directed by Jia Zhangke
China, 2013
Oppressed and censored from its national origins, Jia Zhangke makes his prolific USA debut of A Touch of Sin (Tian Zhu Ding) at the New York Film Festival. Telling four overlapping parallel stories, each inspired by real-life depictions of violence, Zhangke shows no mercy for the four souls tormented by the political and social weight of the film’s portrayal of a corrupt Chinese government and fading belief system. Both marginalized yet timeless in scope, the film captures violence in bombastic outbursts but conveys its message with nodes of passive humanity and silent courage. Sin has the awareness of a news alert, but one filled with emotional outcries, callbacks to moral responsibility, and the right for personal freedom. Zhangke demands to be heard, even if China isn’t listening. To paraphrase the director, “Change will come about starting with...
Written and directed by Jia Zhangke
China, 2013
Oppressed and censored from its national origins, Jia Zhangke makes his prolific USA debut of A Touch of Sin (Tian Zhu Ding) at the New York Film Festival. Telling four overlapping parallel stories, each inspired by real-life depictions of violence, Zhangke shows no mercy for the four souls tormented by the political and social weight of the film’s portrayal of a corrupt Chinese government and fading belief system. Both marginalized yet timeless in scope, the film captures violence in bombastic outbursts but conveys its message with nodes of passive humanity and silent courage. Sin has the awareness of a news alert, but one filled with emotional outcries, callbacks to moral responsibility, and the right for personal freedom. Zhangke demands to be heard, even if China isn’t listening. To paraphrase the director, “Change will come about starting with...
- 10/17/2013
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
★★★☆☆ Director Jia Zhangke returns to Lff this year with A Touch of Sin (2013), a powerful portrait of contemporary China told through the stories of four different provincial characters. Dahai (Jiang Wu) is a disappointed village, exasperated by the corruption around him and specifically the sale of a local mine to private interests. He grouses about it to anyone who will hear him until his exasperation boils over into fury. Zhousan (Wang Baoqiang) is an itinerant worker who returns to his wife and home for a short break. The stern-faced type, he sends his wife money but his only true enjoyment comes from firearms.
Elsewhere, Xiaoyu (Zhao Tao) is a receptionist at a massage parlour having an unhappy affair with a rich business man, and making up the quartet is Xiaohui (Luo Lanshan, in his first film), a careless young man who travels from job to job trying to get ahead in the world,...
Elsewhere, Xiaoyu (Zhao Tao) is a receptionist at a massage parlour having an unhappy affair with a rich business man, and making up the quartet is Xiaohui (Luo Lanshan, in his first film), a careless young man who travels from job to job trying to get ahead in the world,...
- 10/11/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The 51st New York Film Festival, running September 30th – October 13th, is coming up quickly and the full lineup is well under wraps. As Sound on Sight gets pumped up for the New York hospitality, here are our picks for the most anticipated films of the 51st Nyff, along with their official synopsis and trailer.
Captain Phillips
Paul Greengrass, 2013
USA | 134 minutes
“In April 2009, four Somali teenage pirates in a stolen Taiwanese fishing vessel seized the Maersk Alabama, a cargo ship bound for Mombasa. When the crew resisted, the pirates left with the Captain, Richard Phillips, and tried to make it ashore in the ship’s high speed lifeboat. What followed was a tense stand-off that was closely watched by the entire planet. Paul Greengrass, one of the incontestable masters of reality-based fictional filmmaking, and writer Billy Ray have crafted a film (based on Phillips’ account of the incident) that is...
Captain Phillips
Paul Greengrass, 2013
USA | 134 minutes
“In April 2009, four Somali teenage pirates in a stolen Taiwanese fishing vessel seized the Maersk Alabama, a cargo ship bound for Mombasa. When the crew resisted, the pirates left with the Captain, Richard Phillips, and tried to make it ashore in the ship’s high speed lifeboat. What followed was a tense stand-off that was closely watched by the entire planet. Paul Greengrass, one of the incontestable masters of reality-based fictional filmmaking, and writer Billy Ray have crafted a film (based on Phillips’ account of the incident) that is...
- 9/26/2013
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Title: A Touch of Sin (Tian zhu ding) Kino Lorber Director: Jia ZhangkeScreenwriter: Jia Zhangke Cast: Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang, Zhao Tao, Luo Lanshan Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 9/19/13 Opens: October 4, 2013 Take a look at your Lands’ End shirt. Where was it made? China? I thought so. How about your computer: by a company in Silicon Valley? Nope. China again. And your Rockport Pro-Walker shoes: China? Oops, Vietnam. We in America are shedding jobs of our own citizens because it’s so much cheaper to go to the Third World where workers e.g. in China making ten dollars a day (that’s sixty-one yuan) allows American corporations to give [ Read More ]
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- 9/20/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
“1911” is a milestone film in two very important ways, marking the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution and the 100th outing for the legendary Jackie Chan, his first as director since “Who Am I?” back in 1998. Charting one of the major turning points in the development of modern China, the film is another in the recent line of big budget patriotic epics, following in the footsteps of the hits “Founding of the Republic” and “Beginning of the Great Revival”, showing the same kind of celebratory air and attention to historical detail. With Chan headlining in a dramatic role, the film also packs in an impressive cast of popular Chinese stars, including Winston Chao (here playing Sun Yat Sen for the fourth time), Li Bing Bing (“Detective Dee”), Jiang Wu (“Let the Bullets Fly”), Joan Chen (“Lust, Caution”), Hu Ge (“Butterfly Lovers”), and his son Jaycee Chan (“Break Up Club”). In charting the 1911 Xinhai Revolution,...
- 12/15/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
“Sorcerer and the White Snake” has been one of the more hotly anticipated Chinese releases of 2011, and it’s not hard to see why, given the talent in front of and behind the camera. Boasting an impressive Us$25 million budget and premiering at the Venice Film Festival, the fantasy production stars Jet Li in the lead as a Buddhist monk, butting heads with Eva Huang (“Kung Fu Hustle”) and Twins’ Charlene Choi as snake demons, with Raymond Lam (“Jade and the Pearl”) and Wen Zhang (“Ocean Heaven”) as the two young men caught in the middle, plus cameos by from the likes of Vivian Hsu, Miriam Yeung, Chapman To and Jiang Wu. Directed by legendary helmer and action choreographer Ching Siu Tung, responsible for numerous genre classics including “Swordsman”, “A Chinese Ghost Story” and others, the prestigious film was produced by Yang Zi and Chui Po Chu (“Crouching Tiger Hidden...
- 12/7/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Snow Flower & The Secret Fan is released on 04 November 2011 on Blu-ray and DVD. We have 3 copies of the DVD to give away courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Inspired by the bestselling novel Snow Flower And The Secret Fan by Lisa See, the film is a timeless portrait of female friendship. In 19th-century China, seven-year-old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong – or “old sames” – bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan.
In a parallel story in present day Shanghai, the laotong’s descendants, Nina and Sophia, struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives, and a relentlessly evolving Shanghai. Drawing on the lessons of the past, the two modern women must understand the story of their ancestral connection,...
Inspired by the bestselling novel Snow Flower And The Secret Fan by Lisa See, the film is a timeless portrait of female friendship. In 19th-century China, seven-year-old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong – or “old sames” – bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan.
In a parallel story in present day Shanghai, the laotong’s descendants, Nina and Sophia, struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives, and a relentlessly evolving Shanghai. Drawing on the lessons of the past, the two modern women must understand the story of their ancestral connection,...
- 10/19/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Directed by: Wayne Wang
Written by: Angela Workman, Ron Bass and Michael K. Ray
Starring: Gianna Jun, Li Bing Bing, Vivian Wu, Jiang Wu, Russell Wong, Coco Chiang, Jingyun Hu and Archie Kao
Inspired by the best-selling novel by Lisa See, this drama from the director of “The Joy Luck Club” spans centuries. In 19th-century China, 7-year-olds Snow Flower and Lily are matched as “laotong” — lifelong sisters. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by writing in a secret language in the folds of a white silk fan. Decades later in present-day Shanghai, the laotongs’ descendents struggle to maintain their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives and an ever-changing city. To save their relationship, they look to the past and the story of their ancestral connection hidden in the folds of an antique white silk fan. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Photo courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures,...
Written by: Angela Workman, Ron Bass and Michael K. Ray
Starring: Gianna Jun, Li Bing Bing, Vivian Wu, Jiang Wu, Russell Wong, Coco Chiang, Jingyun Hu and Archie Kao
Inspired by the best-selling novel by Lisa See, this drama from the director of “The Joy Luck Club” spans centuries. In 19th-century China, 7-year-olds Snow Flower and Lily are matched as “laotong” — lifelong sisters. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by writing in a secret language in the folds of a white silk fan. Decades later in present-day Shanghai, the laotongs’ descendents struggle to maintain their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives and an ever-changing city. To save their relationship, they look to the past and the story of their ancestral connection hidden in the folds of an antique white silk fan. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Photo courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures,...
- 5/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Directed by: Wayne Wang
Written by: Angela Workman, Ron Bass and Michael K. Ray
Starring: Gianna Jun, Li Bing Bing, Vivian Wu, Jiang Wu, Russell Wong, Coco Chiang, Jingyun Hu and Archie Kao
Inspired by the best-selling novel by Lisa See, this drama from the director of “The Joy Luck Club” spans centuries. In 19th-century China, 7-year-olds Snow Flower and Lily are matched as “laotong” — lifelong sisters. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by writing in a secret language in the folds of a white silk fan. Decades later in present-day Shanghai, the laotongs’ descendents struggle to maintain their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives and an ever-changing city. To save their relationship, they look to the past and the story of their ancestral connection hidden in the folds of an antique white silk fan. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Photo courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures,...
Written by: Angela Workman, Ron Bass and Michael K. Ray
Starring: Gianna Jun, Li Bing Bing, Vivian Wu, Jiang Wu, Russell Wong, Coco Chiang, Jingyun Hu and Archie Kao
Inspired by the best-selling novel by Lisa See, this drama from the director of “The Joy Luck Club” spans centuries. In 19th-century China, 7-year-olds Snow Flower and Lily are matched as “laotong” — lifelong sisters. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by writing in a secret language in the folds of a white silk fan. Decades later in present-day Shanghai, the laotongs’ descendents struggle to maintain their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives and an ever-changing city. To save their relationship, they look to the past and the story of their ancestral connection hidden in the folds of an antique white silk fan. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Photo courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures,...
- 5/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Although predictably (or, better, inevitably) replaced by Mao's legacy as the main melody-themed rush towards the 60th anniversary began in full force, for a good while the favorite piece of Chinese historiography of many a film director and TV producer was the pomp and circumstance of the Tang Dynasty, with leading lights like Li Shimin and Wu Zetian carrying the flag of such exciting and culturally abundant times's glorification. For instance, the honor of essaying Tang Taizong for a second time on CCTV-1's 2007 flagship historical drama, the fascinating 贞观长歌 (The Zhenguan Era), went to Tang Guoqiang, who made a career out of playing legendary figures like Mao Zedong - last in line in the exalted flag-waving douchebaggery of 建国大业 (The Founding of a Republic) - the Three Kingdoms' Zhuge Liang and Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing.
An irresistible mix of John Wayne-like macho posturing, sparks of unyielding youth...
An irresistible mix of John Wayne-like macho posturing, sparks of unyielding youth...
- 12/7/2009
- Screen Anarchy
I’m going to cheat again. The Warlords was made in 2007 and has been available on import DVD for some time now. The reason why it is important that it is playing at Tadff is that this film has rarely played anywhere outside of China and Hong Kong. This is a rare opportunity because this film is currently being held down by, wouldn’t you know it, a squabble within the production. And as I have other plans this afternoon before joining everyone for Zombie Night I offer up this review of the DVD though I understand this cut of the film you’re seeing today to be slightly shorter. Enjoy!
Jet Li plays General Pang Qing-Yun. He is the lone survivor of a battle when he pretended to be dead and hid beneath bodies of his slain men. He walks away from the battlefield and roams the countryside riddled...
Jet Li plays General Pang Qing-Yun. He is the lone survivor of a battle when he pretended to be dead and hid beneath bodies of his slain men. He walks away from the battlefield and roams the countryside riddled...
- 8/16/2009
- by Andrew Mack
- Screen Anarchy
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