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-- Ip Man 2 --

Lots of Ip Man 2 images of Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Fan Siu Wong, Kent Cheng, Darren Shahlavi, To Yu Hang, Jiang Dai Yan, etc. have recently been published on Flickr by its Australian film distributor Dream Movie.

 

Continue reading "Ip Man 2 Stills and Teaser"

-- Just Another Pandora's Box --

Trailer to Just Another Pandora's Box has recently been made available on Youtube

 

Just Another Pandora's Box is director Jeffrey Lau's spoof on Red Cliff, with many characters from numerous other films being brought through time using the Pandora's Box to the Three Kingdoms period and turning everything topsy-turvy. Apart from the main cast Ronald Cheng and Sun Li, it features cameos by over 50 stars, including Yuen Biao, Athena Chu, Ada Choi, Yuen Cheung Yan, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Xing Yu, Wu Jing, Alex Fong, Fan Siu Wong, Gillian Chung, Huang Yi, Lam Tse Chung, and more..

 

Just Another Pandora's Box opens in theatres on March 18, 2010.

Continue reading "Just Another Pandora's Box Trailer"

-- The Legend is Born - Ip Man --

The Legend is Born: Ip Man trailer, with really awesome intricate, blazingly-quick Wing Chun exchanges between Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, To Yu Hang, Fan Siu Wong and Ip Chun, courtesy of action director Leung Siu Hung, has just been posted to Youtube. And it appears that martial arts philosophy plays quite a big part in the film, based on the conversations in the film.

 

The production recently celebrated the completion of the film, attended by the main cast To Yu Hang, Yuen Biao, Huang Yi, Bernice Liu, Rose Chan, Xu Jiao, Lam Suet and Ma Sai, as well as Gold Typhoon's Paco Wong.

Continue reading "A Trailer Showing How The Legend is Born: Ip Man"

 -- Flirting Scholar --
Fan Siu Wong is playing the villainous role of a powerful martial arts exponent in Flirting Scholar 2, which is wrapping up soon. His character is a fake monk Reverend Wuliang who makes use of his guise to drug, kidnap and traffic humans to Japan.

 

Zhang Jing Chu, who is looking for her missing sister, believed to be linked to Fan Siu Wong, discovers his secret cellar and a fight breaks out...  QQ

 

Behind-the-scenes videos:

Fan Siu Wong vs Zhang Jing Chu

The Four Scholars

Wolverine Brush Claws

Season's greetings from the crew and cast

It had long been the wish of Sin Kwok Lam, a longtime martial arts practitioner and shrewd businessman and capitalist who is a major player in Hong Kong financial sector and has even published a controversial book on big corporations swallowing up small firms last year, to bring the account of his grandmaster Yip Man to screen, but he couldn't find any filmmakers willing enough to take the risk as Yip Man was little known. Continue reading "And thus, Ip Man, The Legend, is Born"

-- Flirting Scholar 2 --

Filming has just begun on 《唐伯虎点秋香2》 Flirting Scholar 2, produced by Jimmy Heung and Xiao Kai, with Lee Lik Chi returning to direct, and Dion Lam serving as the action director. The action comedy stars Huang Xiao Ming and Zhang Jing Chu as scholar Tang Bo Hu and maid Qiu Xiang respectively. Chan Pak Cheung, Richie Ren, Zhou Li Bo are playing the other three of The Four Great Scholars of Jiangnan, while Cheng Pei Pei, Yuen King Tan, Chu Mi Mi are back in the original roles. Complementing the line-up are Fan Siu Wong, Zhang Ling Zhi Gong Xin Liang, Gao Ya Lin, etc.

Flirting Scholar 2 is a prequel to the original, with Qiu Xiang being known as Qian Qian in the former part of her life, before losing her memory and being adopted by Madam Hua and given a new name. Tang Bo Hu is one who has always been standing up for justice since young, and is good friends with scholars Zhu Zhi Shan, Wen Zheng Ming and Zhou Wen Bing.

Tang Bo Hu's mother sends him to study at Qingfeng Monastery, but he can't bear the austere and monotonous life at the monastery. So, his three good friends secretly take Tang Bo Hu out for an excursion, where they run into Qian Qian. Tang Bo Hu immediately falls for her, but later, she gets accused as being a spider spirit and is about to be burned to death by a priest...  China Yule

《叶问前传》 Ip Man the Prequel (tentative) has begun production in Hong Kong on November 7. Herman Yau is directing this film, produced by Sin Kwok Lam. Ip Chun serves as the film's advisor and will cameo as Yip Man's second mentor Leung Bik. Under invitation from Foshan government, 2/3 of the scenes from Ip Man the Prequel will be shot on location in Foshan, including the original village Ip Man lived in.

Continue reading "Ip Man the Prequel Begins Filming"

Whether it is fuelled by the success Wilson Yip's Ip Man or not, Wing Chun is fast becoming a popular kungfu onscreen, with many Wing Chun-themed movies being produced.

Continue reading "Wing Chun Extends Its Wings Across Chinese Cinema"

Outtakes trailer: MTime

 

In Once Upon A Chinese Classic (Light-transcending Pandora's Box), Ronald Cheng steals Light-transcending Pandora's Box from Sun Li and travels back and forth through time, bringing with him Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Yuen Cheung Yan from Kungfu Hustle, Athena Chu, Ada Choi from A Chinese Odyssey, and other film characters to Red Cliff, messing up the war between the Three Kingdoms.

 

 

Images: Nanfang Daily, Sina

-- New Shaolin Temple --  
Rumours have been floating around for some time regarding who is set to star in Hong Kong veteran director Benny Chan’s upcoming - all star cast laden - martial arts epic Shaolin. Well now it seems most of the talent has signed on the dotted line and it’s quite the who's who of A-list Action stars. Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse and Wu Jing!! are confirmed, with that added plus of a cameo appearance by none other than Jackie Chan. Soooold!
 
 This movie is not be a remake or sequel to Jet Li’s 80s classic Shaolin Temple. Rather, it is an entirely new story, written by Alan Yuen, that is set in early 1900s Republican period. Shot in a real Shaolin Temple it will also feature real life Shaolin monks in the supporting cast using exotic Shaolin kung-fu. Filming is due to start this December, and is expected to be completed by April 2010.
 
 Synopsis: China is plunged into strife as feuding warlords try to expand their power by warring over neighboring lands. Fuelled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolin's masters when he beats one of them in a duel. But the pride comes before a fall. When his own family is wiped out by a rival warlord, Hao Jie is forced to take refuge with the monks. As the civil unrest spreads and the people suffer, Hao Jie and the Shaolin masters are forced to take a fiery stand against the evil warlords. They launch a daring plan or rescue and escape. 24FramesPerSecond, via Maz

-- Young Ip Man --

Following his appearance as Liu Bei in Light-transcending Pandora's Box, Jeffrey Lau's parody on Red Cliff, Yuen Biao is joining Young Ip Man, produced by Sin Kwok Lam, directed by Herman Yau, this November, while the prolific Jeffrey Lau would start filming another work around the same time.

Yuen Biao would be playing Ip Man's senior Ng Chung Suk, responsible for further training Ip Man after their master Chan Wah Shun passed away.

 

Young Ip Man, which traces Yip Man's life between age of 11 to 28, also stars To Yu Hang, possibly as Yip Man, Fan Siu Wong, who has recently been training Wing Chun daily under Sin Kwok Lam, and Huang Yi as Yip Man's girlfriend.

As such, owing to schedule conflicts, Yuen Biao could only make a cameo in the ongoing production Legend of Shaolin Kungfu 3. The role he'd be playing is still undergoing negotiation.

 

Meanwhile, Tony Leung, who is back to Wing Chun training, still feels some pain when exerting him arm as it takes 3 months before his fractured arm would fully recover. Producer Ng See Yuen says The Great Master by Wong Kar Wai and apparently with Yuen Wo Ping as the martial arts choreographer, which, coincidentally, is about Yip Man's life after his migration to Hong Kong and his relations with other sects, has to begin filming in November - come what may. But who knows it'd be pushed back yet again. Ng See Yuen is forbidding Wong Kar Wai, who's facing tremendous pressure, from altering the script on the set, "The script must be finalised first, can't let him keep changing the script as he shoots the film."  Sina, Chongqing News

Kungfu Cyborg: Metallic Attraction (Oct 2, 2009)

In this romantic action comedy directed and written by Jeffrey Lau, Alex Fong, the newly invented android with emotions and reasoning ability being, gets planted in a remote town, under the charge of sheriff Hu Jun, to test its functionalities. Being a "perfect human", Alex Fong soon becomes the town's idol, with Sun Li falling for him. But he's forbidden by his programme codes to fall in love. Soon, Hun Jun and Alex Fong are sent to track down Wu Jing, an android seeking independence and questioning the orders of his creator. With box-office takings of 50m yuan, the film was better received in China than Hong Kong.

 

Order

YesAsia: Blu-ray, DVD | Related products: Soundtrack CD, Making-of Documentary Book

HKFlix: Blu-ray, DVD

Continue reading "Coming on DVD in September/October 2009: Kungfu Cyborg, On His Majesty's Secret Service, etc"