Sony Pictures is previewing its action comedies The Other Guys and The Green Hornet in Hall H, in a separate presentation this year at San Diego Comic-Con 2010. First on the massive Hall H stage will be The Other Guys – NYPD Detectives Christopher Danson and P.K. Highsmith (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson) are …
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IMAX and Sony Pictures announced today that The Green Hornet, the adaptation of the radio and television masked superhero character will be released to IMAX theatres, simultaneously with the film’s wide domestic 2D and 3D release on January 14, 2011. The film will be digitally re-mastered into the The IMAX Experience and presented in IMAX …
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In an interview with the L.A. Times, Edward James Olmos revealed, among other things, the role he’ll be playing in Michel Gondry’s (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) upcoming The Green Hornet feature film. His character’s name is Michael Axford, a reporter for the Daily Sentinel, the newspaper run by Britt Reid’s (Green Hornet’s) father …
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Edward James Olmos most recently featured on Battlestar Galactica, has joined the cast of Michel Gondry’s upcoming The Green Hornet, according to Hollywood Snitch. Olmos joins Nicolas Cage, Cameron Diaz, Seth Rogen as Britt Reid, a.k.a. The Green Hornet, and recently cast Jay Chou as Kato. The Green Hornet is currently eyeing a July, 2010 …
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Sci-Fi Wire reports that Sony Pictures posted a Twitter update indicating that Taiwan-born musician, actor and filmmaker Jay Chou, who is is reportedly a Bruce Lee fan, has been contracted to replace Stephen Chow as Kato in Seth Rogen’s upcoming The Green Hornet, based on the 1960s television show about a masked hero who fights …
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Kung Fu Cinema posted this first look at legendary Yuen Woo-ping’s upcoming action film, True Legend, which marks his first feature directing project since his 1996 movie Iron Monkey 2 (Gaai tau saat sau) with Donnie Yen. The teaser trailer blends film footage with behind-the-scenes clips of the director at work. True Legend also marks …
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Variety reports that last Sunday, Yuen Wo-ping, legendary fight choreographer of The Matrix and Kill Bill films, held a press conference and announced his new project, titled True Legend. The film tells the tale of fictional Chinese folk hero Beggar So, who is famously portrayed in Wo Ping’s own Drunken Master movie. Yuen’s father, Simon …
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The first teaser trailer for Zhang Yimou’s Curse of the Golden Flower is up, and it looks sweet. Judging by Yimou’s previous efforts, which include House of Flying Daggers, Jet Li’s Hero and Raise the Red Lantern, I’d say he’s well qualified to bring a beautifully directed piece of action-art to the screen again. Curse of the Golden Flower focuses on the …
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It’s easy to forget that Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou) was critically acclaimed for his touching dramas, long before the success of action gods House of Flying Daggers and Hero. Before his next action epic arrivesd, he brings us Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles the story of a Japanese father who travels to China’s Yunnan province in the place …
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