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Directed by Dennis Law, Bad Blood, starring Simon Tam, Bernice Liu, Andy On, Jiang Lu Xia, Xiong Xin Xin, is about gang members turning against each other following the death of their chief, with Nicky Li bringing you the hard-hitting action.   

 

Bad Blood Blu-ray and DVD are being released on March 4, 2010.

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-- Bad Blood --

Dennis Law's Bad Blood is opening in Hong Kong on January 21, while gala premiere will be held on 18. Playing a mute girl in this film was very challenging to Jiang Lu Xia, who had to convey all her emotions through gestures and facial expressions. She went to a deaf-mute school for training, and while the film was in production, she treated herself almost as if she was a mute, barely uttering a word on the set, and would use hand signs to communicate instead.

Dennis Law says that there are many fresh and exciting martial arts sequences, choreographed by Nicky Li, in the film, especially the finale between Jiang Lu Xia and Bernice Liu. Jiang Lu Xia says she was very happy to be working with Bernice Liu, "I had always thought of Bernice Liu as someone very gentle, but unbeknownst to me, she was very good at fighting too, especially the finale, after calling it a day, I realised I was bruising, I was so worried that I might suffer from internal injury. Haha!"

Days in Shaolin

Many kids have the tendency to swap pointers with their friends after watching martial arts films or TV series.

That 蒋璐霞 Jiang Lu Xia, 23, walks the path of wushu is also on the account of these works.

"When I was very young, my father loved martial arts shows, and I would watch them with him. While I hadn't had the slightest inklings of the mechanics, I was envious of those people on the screen who could fly. Then, I made up my mind, I must train this, so that I could soar to school every day," recounts Jiang Lu Xia in her interview. Continue reading "Interview: Jiang Lu Xia Yearns to Fly Like in the Movies"

-- Fatal Move --

A 10-minute Fatal Move behind-the-scenes footage is up at Youku.

 

As of March 10, Fatal Move has grossed HK$4.27m over 12 days in Hong Kong theatres. It topped the boxoffice on its opening weekend, but dropped to the third spot last weekend, with the opening of 10,000BC (HK$6.8m) and Shamo(HK$1.49m).  Netvigator

-- Interview: Dennis Law on Fatal Move --

Patience is a virtue for the steady moving director of Fatal Move.
Like many others with a passion for the movies, Dennis Law chose to study filmmaking at university. On his return to Hong Kong he decided to bide his time, rather than try to immediately put into practice what he had learnt at film school in Los Angeles. In an interview with bc, the one time chairman and executive director of Milkyway Image talked about having realized that, unlike those – especially actresses in Chinese cinema – who work before the lens, “There is no age limit for a director or anybody who works behind the camera.”

Consequently, Law, who frankly describes himself as “a very cautious person”, felt no rush to make films and was, instead, content to wait for the right chance and right person to come along. “Then,” he continued, “because life had a different [plan] for me, I started working in real estate.” All the while, however, “I never gave up my chance to meet film people, to get to know them and try to seek some opportunity to learn or invest,” even though he spent the next decade making his mark in the property industry. BC Magazine >>More<<

-- Fatal Move --

 

 

The gala premiere of Fatal Move on Feb 26 was attended by director Dennis Law, producer Charles Heung and his son Jacky Heung, most of the cast members including Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Ken Lo, Wu Jing, Maggie Shiu, Tien Niu, Carisa Yan, Lau Kam Ling, etc.

 

Simon Yam appears especially excited. He greets the audiences effusively and also provides autographs prodigiously. He says that at Berlin Film Festival, the film was sold to an India distributor and he was invited to do promotions in India in May.

Sammo Hung appears quieter and more stoic, and he doesn't forget to promote the younger generations. He says that Wu Jing is one with very bright future, but timing is not favourable due to lack of martial arts films being produced. Sammo Hung hopes that, given his skills, Wu Jing would carve out a niche for himself in the film industry.  

 

Video: Sina, Sohu | More photos: Tom, QQ, Mop

-- Fatal Move --

A brief look at filming of the exchange of metal pole and sword between Sammo Hung and Wu Jing, some other scenes and brief notes from the director, Sammo Hung and Wu Jing may be viewed at Youtube, courtesy of WuJing.hk

Continue reading "Dennis Law, Wu Jing, Sammo Hung on Making of Fatal Move"

-- Fatal Move --

In a bid to bringing freshness to the audience and to re-invigorate the market, director Dennis Law makes the HK$20m Fatal Move an action-packed film that is full of extreme violence and gore, to the extent that it receives a Category 3 rating in Hong Kong. And by the same token, it won't be released in Mainland theatres as Dennis Law refuses to compromise by editing a tamer version that conforms to their strict censorship. 

 

Dennis Law instead sets his sights on the Western market, with an assembly of cast familiar to them - Sammo Hung, Ken Lo, Simon Yam, Danny Lee, where Chinese martial arts film DVDs are selling very well. He believes that the martial arts scenes are the strongest asset of Fatal Move, in particular, the major weapon fight scene between Sammo Hung and Wu Jing.

Continue reading "Dennis Law, Ken Lo, etc on Fatal Move"

-- Fatal Contact DVD (Dragon Dynasty 2-disc Ultimate Edition) -

Dragon Dynasty's Fatal Contact Ultimate Edition DVD, which is scheduled for release on January 22, comes packed with the following extras:

• A Dragon Rising: A Featurette with Leading Man Wu Jing
• The Ringmaster: An Interview with Director Dennis Law
• Working Girl: An Interview with Co-Star Theresa Fu
• Young and Dangerous: An Interview with Co-Star Miki Yeung
• Life Is a Contact Sport: Behind the Scenes of Fatal Contact
• Feature commentary with Director Dennis Law and Hong Kong Cinema Expert Bey Logan
• Original Theatrical Trailer

This 2-disc special edition DVD may be pre-ordered from YesAsia or HKFlix.