Showing posts with label Saving General Yang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saving General Yang. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Ronny Yu's "Saving General Yang" [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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Ronny Yu: 'I'm Tired of Being Pigeonholed As a Horror Film Director (THR)
Boasting a cast of young heartthrobs from mainland China (Yu Bo), Taiwan (Vic Zhou and Wu Chun) and Hong Kong (Ekin Cheng and Raymond Lam), and the action choreography of Stephen Tung (Seven Swords, Bodyguards and Assassins),the film will make its market premiere at Berlin next month before opening in China and Hong Kong on April 4. Pegasus, which also handles the film’s international sales, is looking to ink French and Korean distribution deals at the European Film Market, and also seek U.S. distributors there.



Ekin Cheng plays General Yang's eldest son



Trailer



Tuesday, March 20, 2012

3.20.2012 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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ScreenDaily: Beautiful 2012 review
Four micro-movies directed by Kim Tae-yong, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gu Changwei, Ann Hui

The film wraps with Ann Hui’s My Way - starring Francis Ng and Jade Leung - about a pre-op transsexual man nervously waiting for his operation. It is a stylishly melancholic film, and defined by the moment when he goes to the hospital for the operation, goes to sleep in the male ward (next to a newspaper reading old man) and wakes as a woman in the female ward…and finally indulging in a smile of relief and happiness.

  ScreenDaily: Youku launches year-long Beautiful programme
The short films, or “micro movies” a new term coined in China for short films made for online viewing, will be released exclusively on Youku’s online platform over the course of the next year.

"I am rather disappointed by Vincent Zhao's words," Yen said. "If I had made a mistake, it would have been my insistence in casting him in the movie. I have no energy to entangle myself in this issue. My lawyer has started on the case."


Poster for Ronny Yu's "Saving General Yang" released at a press conference in Hong Kong on the 20th

Adam Cheng

Ekin Cheng (Sina)

Photos from Media Asia press conference in Hong Kong
Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng - "The Blind Detective"
Lau Ching-Wan

Nicholas Tse

Lau Ching-Wan,  Liu Kai-Chi - "The Bullet Vanishes"
Andy Lau, Zhang Jingchu - "Switched" ("Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains")

Yang Mi

Yang Mi, Feng Shaofeng - "Painted Skin 2"
(Sina), 2, 3, 4


Thursday, August 18, 2011

8.18.2011 - News

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THR: Imax to Super-Size First Chinese Language 3D Movie, (CF)
"Flying Swords of Dragon Gate," a $35 million epic martial arts film from China's Bona Film Group, will be released on Imax screens.

FBA: Hi, Fidelity review
Glossy slice of softcore nonsense is of interest only for its veteran female cast.

CF: The Making of a Kungfu Star
Actor-turned-producer Daniel Wu promises that Chinese cinema's next martial arts hero will come out of his studio..."We have Donnie Yen, but he cannot be in all the kungfu films. We need new blood."

CF: Jet Li Promotes Kung Fu in Washington D.C.

Treasure Hunt review: No real treasure
Little Lucas Tse (played by the real son of Cheung and Nicholas Tse), is cuter than he looks, but the kid needs to stay out of the set. What he should do now is watch and learn if he were ever to follow his parents' footsteps. His special appearance in the movie (as Cheung's screen son) might help boost ticket sales, but there isn't much to expect from the kid.

Treasure Hunt poster and stills with Lucas




Posters of Wuershan's Painted Skin 2 with an unknown blue-eyed mystery queen appears on the left in each poster. Netizens suspect a viral marketing campaign.
Zhou Xun

Chen Kun


Zhao Wei (Sina)

Ring-styled Nightmare features Gillian Chung
Nightmare, directed by Yip Wai-Ying (Troublesome Night 12), has passed review and received release permits. It will be released in late September. (HunanTV), (Sohu)

First poster for Wang Quan'an's White Deer Plain 
Kitty Zhang Yuqi

Guo Tao

Zhang Fengyi
Wu Gang, Liu Wei

Based on an early three and a half hour preview version, a group of writers from a Shaanxi literary federation were left very impressed by the film and Kitty Zhang Yuqi's performance. (Sina), 2

Nick Cheung shows the aftermath of shooting six hours in the sun in Nightfall


Simon Yam, playing in studio

Simon Yam and Tian Zhuangzhuang who has a small role in the film

Poster for The Purple House
The psychological thriller, i.e., horror film, is helmed by first-time director, long-time cinematographer, Poon Hang-Sang, and stars Jiro Wang and Tong Liya. The story has the couple moving into his father's one hundred year-old house. Each night, there are strange events and Tong Liya's character has nightmares. Is it real or not? Opens Sept.23. (Sina)

Raymond Wong, Ronny Yu and the cast of Saving General Yang held a press conference in Beijing to announce the official start of production on Aug. 19.
Raymond Wong

Ronny Yu

Ekin Cheng, Adam Cheng



Newly released teaser for Derek Yee's The Great Magician

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

8.3.2011 - News

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Variety: Ocean Heaven review
Starring Jet Li in an uncharacteristic non-action role, "Ocean Heaven," about a dying man's attempt to assure the future for his autistic son, reps a modest success for Chinese femme scripter Xue Xiaolu in her helming debut.

ScreenDaily: Tony Leung to star in Mei Ah's spy thriller Windseeker
Another film also to start shooting in October is Da Wu Dang (literally translated as Big Wu Tang Clan). The film is set in the 1910s about a major martial arts contest taking place on the Wu Tang Mountain. Hong Kong’s Patrick Leung will direct with Corey Yuen action directing. The film will star Louis Fan, Chiu Man-Cheuk and Yang Mi.
Tsui Hark's Next Film: Popular War Tale in 3D (CRI)

CRI: 'Saving General Yang' Kicks off Filming
CF: "Saving General Yang" Kicks off in Henan
At the news conference Yu said that "this movie will be my next 'Fearless'. I'm very confident about making it the coolest film based on the story of the Yang family". Members of the cast visited Yang's Shrine following the news conference to worship the ancestors of the family.
FBA: Yu's Yang epic cranks up

FBA: 1965 edges towards its Beginning
The $5 million budget picture aims to be the first China-Singapore co-production.


CF: New Poster for "The Woman Knight Of Mirror Lake" Released
Set in the turbulent period of the Republic of China, the film is about the female hero Qiu Jin's legendary life. The film emphasizes her skills as she blazed a path through the world of literature and the military.


Huang Yi

Xiong Xin Xin (Hung Yan Yan)

Dennis To (To Yue-Hong)


Deng Chao and Zheng Shuang in Gordon Chan's Mural
Opens Sept. 29 (Sina-gallery)

Overheard 2 - Huang Yi

Overheard 2- Michelle Ye

 
Louis Koo, Huang Yi

Huang Yi
Felix Chong explained why Zhang Jingchu was not brought back for the second installment of Overhead. First, Zhang Jingchu's schedule was incompatible and, second, to highlight that Overheard 2 is a new story. Coincidentally, Michelle Ye was used to dub Zhang Jingchu's Cantonese in the original film. Overheard 2 will be released Aug. 18. (Sina), 2

Lucas and movie dad Ekin Cheng (Sina-slideshow)

It is believed that Cecilia, who had reportedly refused to sign the divorce papers three times, had finally agreed to the split.
The Hong Kong actress is said to be making a comeback in showbiz

Shao Xiaoshan - spy?

The Banquet

31 year-old Chinese actress Shao Xiaoshan posted on her microblog that she was forced to act as a "honey trap" for military intelligence since she was 17 years old. She seduced Western embassy officials, including the son of the French ambassador to China in 2007, to gather information. Shao claimed that she no longer wanted to do evil things, authorities no longer paid the cost of living and would not let her emigrate. She risked her life and was not exaggerating. The post was immediately removed and her agent said that it was a result of too much drinking.

 Shao acted as Zhang Ziyi's nude body double in Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet. But, afterwards, her American boyfriend abandoned her. (ifeng), (Sina)