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CORRECTION: Ye Meng reports on Chow Yun Fat/Wong Kar Wai film, Oliver Stone and Fox's fully Chinese film project!!!

Published at:  Nov 11, 2000 2:59:17 PM CST

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...




Hi, Harry!

Ye is here!

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



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  • Nov 11, 2000 3:17:54 PM CST

    FIRST!!!!!!!!

    by nafraf

    now where's my booby prize? hehe....booby

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  • Nov 11, 2000 3:31:49 PM CST

    If it's half as good as Chungking Express....

    by jarek

    It'll be really good. Plus, it's difficult to go wrong with Chow Yun-Fat. Even THE OCCUPANT, which sucked, kicked ass because of his performance.

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  • Nov 11, 2000 3:53:40 PM CST

    Hey, so what now with 2046?

    by grimfarrow

    Has that Takuya Kimura managed to shelve the film because he's "extremely busy"? I find Takuya's excuse to be plain idiotic. Oh, so he's the only one who's busy, and Tony Leung and Faye Wong aren't?!?!?!?! Takuya has a responsibility to finish the film. If I were Wong Kar-Wai, I'd kick his ass.

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  • Nov 11, 2000 9:56:14 PM CST

    no subject

    by grimfarrow

    Ummmmmmmmm........RIGHT........
    Yeah, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love and Ashes of Time are rehashes of Chungking Express. ROFL! If you're talking about Fallen Angels, of COURSE it's like Chungking Express - it's supposed to be the third story in Chungking Express!

    So you accusing WKW of being a hack rings very empty indeed.

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  • Nov 12, 2000 12:17:13 AM CST

    Wong Kar Wai a genuine talent...

    by frank black

    ...but not for everyone's taste. This is especially true if you are an opinionated jackass who thinks they know more about movies than they actually do.

    I really get a kick out of all of the posters who rant about the lack of quality and injustices of Hollywood when chances are they have no idea how hard it is to make a movie.

    American Beauty deserved every award it received, not that it has to do with the subject people should be talking about here, and I love Ang Lee, but why do people find it neccesary to negate one artist in order to build another up.

    Whenever I read this kind of negative shit I realize it reeks of petty jealousy. Don't you have another customer to ring up?

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  • Nov 12, 2000 12:29:52 AM CST

    Wong Kar-Wai's work is amazing.

    by morpheussleeps

    This should royally kick ass. Wong Kar-Wai's work is astounding ("Fallen Angels" is one of my fav flicks) and I love Chow Yun-Fat, so there's no way to really fuck this one up.

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  • Nov 12, 2000 12:48:19 AM CST

    My Favorite Hong Kong Director Will Always Be Fork Lift Ful.

    by buzz maverik

    Fork Lift Ful, known to cinephiles and action lovers worldwide, for such films as RAIN OF BULLETS, CROOKED COP, SUBLIME DRAGON/VENERABLE GHOST, FIRE FIGHT and GUNNED DOWN ON TRIAD STREET. Jean Claude Van Damme hoped to get Fork to direct him as twin vigilantes in DUPLICATE JUSTICE but reported Fork replied that he only works with actors. The outspoken Fork was also overheard telling Oliver Stone, "I don't care if you developed an attraction for Asian girls while you were in Vietnam, I'm not getting you women. I'm a director, not a pimp." Fork is also critical of his fellow Hong Kong helmers. "What the fuck is wrong with Woo? BROKEN ARROW? Okay, Slater would have had combat and survival training as an airforce pilot but a Delta Force unit would have been sent to recover those nukes. FACE OFF? You can't change someone's entire body. Travolta's daughter was hot though." Fork will make his American debut with EVERYTHING THE HARD WAY, a script by Todd Van Dorn, starring Bruce Willis and Maculey Culkin as cops on the edge battling an Anarchy Cult.

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  • Nov 13, 2000 1:36:53 AM CST

    Mad props Buzz... keep em comin

    by starunlit

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