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-- City Under Siege --
Director Benny Chan says that he has just made a 126 minutes cut of City Under Siege, "Every actor has done a very good job, their performances are terrific. And Aaron Kwok's acting is very moving. It's already a big headache edit the film down to 126 minutes, I can't bear to cut it any further, every shot is very thrilling."

Benny Chan says that this is his most challenging work in the recent years, as it involves superhuman characters and the use of copious CGIs.

City Under Siege, costing around 100m yuan to produce, will combine Chinese kungfu with Hollywood special effects. The mutants in the film - Aaaron Kwok, Collin Chou, Tie Nan, Zhang Wen Bao - will all be executing Chinese Kungfu. So do the mutant-busters Wu Jing and Zhang Jing Chu.  Netease

 

At the pre-production press conference (video) at the famed Shaolin Temple on Mt Song on October 22, it was announced that apart from Emperor Motion Pictures and Shaolin Cultural Communication, China Film Group, Huayi Brothers and Henan TV are also co-producing the kungfu epic, Shaolin, budgeted at close to 200 million yuan. Continue reading "Benny Chan Narrates A New Story of Shaolin"

-- City Under Siege --

On his August 6, 2009 blog entry, Wu Jing says that City Under Siege, directed by Benny Chan, with Ma Yuk Sing as the action choreographer, is near completion. A few days ago, he had a scene involving being smashed against the table. Without any hesitation, he put on the waist guard and did the stunt himself. After the scene was done, someone asked, "This shot doesn't show much of the face, why did you have to do it personally? Didn't you injure your waist sometime back?"

This question boggled Wu Jing. He never thinks of anything else when he is doing an action scene, he just feels it's his job to do it. This is quite a paradox, to an actor, they have to do their scenes personally, it's their duty. But looking from another angle, if a person doesn't know how to take care of themselves when doing their work, how could they talk of finishing it?

This put Wu Jing at a loss, to quote Little Shenyang, "Why is this so?"

Incidentally, a 0:37 video of a scene with a truck being driven to run over the mutant Ngai Sing only to be stopped and lifted by the latter may be viewed on Netease.

Oriental Daily reports that Aaron Kwok says it's great working with Ngai Sing, "Actually, he had a few script choices, but on hearing that he'd be collaborating with me, he flew from US to shoot this film."

Aaron Kwok who was sent to the hospital on the first day he had to wear mutant makeup due to sensitive skin, feels sorry for Ngai Sing who has to be in mutant form all day long, "I introduced the doctor to him, and he teaches me kungfu, we became good friends."

Wu Jing hurt his back a while back while doing a dangerous fall in City Under Siege, but he only brought this up after having recovered, as he didn't want alarm anyone, according to his June 26, 2009 blog entry.

He took the break to call his family as he was recuperating in hospital, but he kept his injury from them to prevent them from worrying. And to him hearing your parents/family's voices as well as letting them hear your voice when you couldn't be with them all the time due to work, is a kind of consolation to each other.

Continue reading "Wu Jing Recovers From Back Injury"

Filming inauguration (video) for City Under Siege was held on a soundstage in Yuen Long, Hong Kong on June 24.

Director Benny Chan says that he had long wanted to do a Chinese type of superhero movie, one that combines that unique characteristics of Chinese Kungfu with special visual effects.

Continue reading "Who Could've Put An Entire City Under Siege and Who Could Liberate It?"

Abstracted from Wu Jing's blog entry, dated June 19, 2009:

Been busy shooting in Hong Kong for quite a while, so didn't have time to come here. But I'm aware that many are concerned about me, thank you, everyone.

Continue reading "Wu Jing Gets Paired Up with Zhang Jing Chu in City Under Siege"

On June 11 afternoon, Beijing Enlight Pictures held a press conference to announce its 8 upcoming/ongoing/future projects/co-productions between 2009 to 2010. Liu Yi Wei and Liu Yan hosted the event that was attended by Enlight's chairman Wang Zhang Tian and president Zhang Zhao, and their collaborators producer Raymond Wong, directors Gordon Chan, Andrew Lau, etc, as well as comics creator Tony Wong Yuk Long.

Continue reading "Beijing Enlight Pictures Announces Eight Upcoming Projects"

-- City on Alert --

City on Alert, a 100m yuan sci-fi actioner by director's Benny Chan Muk Sing, has been secretly in production for several days. The cast includes Aaron Kwok, Ngai Sing, Wu Jing, Shu Q, Zhang Jing Chu.

In this film on courage, a group of circus performers goes on a rampage after undergoing some kind of mutation, that grants them superhuman abilities, in an accident. However, one of them, an ordinary clown originally, would not condone the others' misdeeds and for the sake of the entire city, stands up against them.

Continue reading "Filming Gets Underway for City on Alert"

 On May 8, Producer Chen Zhao and director Benny Chan talked about 《全城戒备》 Entire City on Red Alert (tentative) on Sina.
 
 This co-production by Beijing Enlight Pictures and Universe Film is budgeted at over 100m. The film is still in pre-production, Benny Chan has been preparing this film for 1 1/2 years. While it's not mentioned when exactly filming would start, Benny Chan is in the process of finalizing the script. It would feature an ensemble cast. So far, only Aaron Kwok and Wu Jing's names have been mentioned. Continue reading "Benny Chan Gears Up for Upcoming Sci-Fi Actioner Entire City on Red Alert"

In late February 2009, Wu Jing was interviewed by LeTV.com as Metallic Attraction: Kungfu Cyborg wrapped up.
 
 Wu Jing: Greetings everyone, I'm Wu Jing, I'm elated to meet you all, and thank you LeTV for investing in this film, for giving us a chance to enter this sci-fi fantasy world. Continue reading "Wu Jing Interview on Metallic Attraction: Kungfu Cyborg"

-- Legendary Assassin --

Following Legendary Assassin's Beijing premiere, Nicky Li, Wu Jing, Celina Jade and Paco Wong proceeded to its premiere screenings in other Chinese cities including Nanchang, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc. In Hong Kong, they were joined in by Ken Lo, various Gold Label artistes Ronald Cheng, Alex Fong, Stephy Tang, etc. while Celina Jade sang the theme song on the stage.

Continue reading "Legendary Assassin Premieres in Other Areas; Wu Jing Has Few Works on Hand"