CORRECTION!!!!

The Chow Yun Fat / Wong Kar-Wai project is a joke by Chow Yun Fat.... at the party where this was said, a reporter asked him if he wanted to do a film with Wong Kar-Wai, and he apparently jokingly made this title up.... BUT THIS IS NOT A REAL PROJECT, as much as we would like to believe it.... JUST A NOTE for all you!

CORRECTION ABOVE!!!

Hey folks, Harry here with more cool film news from the East. A new Oliver Stone project, Chow Yun Fat project and a departure for 20th Century Fox. All of which are good news for us cinephiles. Stone's film sounds up to snuff for his style... but the one of the three I'm most excited about is Chow Yun Fat's teaming up with Wong Kar-Wai for a film called ILLUSORY GUNFIGHT... heheheh, sounds cool.... Here's Ye...

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Looks like Hollywood studios have started to rush into the subject of China after seeing Columbia's successful investment of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Oliver Stone will produce a new film called Sai Jinhua. MGM will invest $20 millions US and it will be directed by Huang Jianzhong. The flick is about the life of Sai Jinhua, the most influential woman among the Chinese government officials and foreign diplomats in Beijing in and around 1900. Having the background of a former prostitute, she was the first Chinese woman to fully embrace Western culture and lifestyle. Oliver Stone has said he would cast the best actors in Hollywood for the film. After reviewing the script, MGM has conclude that it would have better performance than The Last Emperor.

Yesterday, during a party in Hong Kong, Chow Yun-Fat had reveal the name of his next project, Illusory Gunfight, with Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai. Earlier, he told the media he would take a year-long break.

Fox has planned its first pure Chinese movie. This time, its not another Hollywood‚s interpretation of Asia, like Anna and the King. It's called Half Sea Water, Half Flame. Based on the same name novel by Chinese writer Wang Shuo, the flick will be directed by Hong Kong director Fok Yiu-Leung. 22-year-old Wu Chen-Jun from Taiwan will play two different roles, one is an innocent student who sold her soul for love and the another is an evil woman. Wu is till a little bit hesitate about the film because there will be at least one full nude scene, in which one of her character will die.

Wang Shuo is China's most well know as well as most controversial writer in the 80's and 90's. Being labeled as "hooligan literature", his works often describe the bizarre nature of ordinary people's life. Three of his books, Please Don't Call Me Human, Playing for Trills and Playing for Thrill: A Mystery, has been introduced to North America.

Ye Meng