John Woo eyes sports film project

Action auteur John Woo may be shifting gears for his next project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the director told attendees of a charity dinner recently in Beijing, that he hopes to make a sports movie with champion Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang and gold medalist diver Guo Jingjing. Woo has a full plate right now, ….

Hancock director to take on live-action Hercules epic

According to a story on Variety, Hancock director Peter Berg is looking to produce and direct Hercules: The Thracian Wars for Universal Pictures. Ryan Condal will write a script based on a five-issue comicbook series by Steve Moore that debuted in May from Radical Publishing. “What resonated for them was that this was character driven, ….

French thriller Max et les Ferrailleurs (Max and the Junkmen) getting remake treatment

France’s StudioCanal and John Woo’s Lion Rock Productions are joining forces to push forward a remake of the 1970 French thriller Max et les Ferrailleurs, to be directed by Kim Jee-woon, whose film The Good the Bad the Weird just wrapped this year’s Cannes Film Fest. This is according to a story from Variety. Ferrailleurs ….

John Woo’s new projects: Ninja Gold and Hard Boiled 2 – the video games and films

According to Yahoo News, John Woo has is working on a video game and eventual film for a property called Ninja Gold. Fox Atomic, will release the eventual film (and probably a comic, I would guess), and Warren Spector, the video game creator, will executive produce the game version. According to the story, Ninja Gold ….

Clooney to Star in Pet Sematary Remake

Bloody Disgusting reports that George Clooney will have a role in Paramount Pictures’ remake of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. They don’t know how big of a role he has, but he will apparently be in the film, which was written by Dave Kajganich, Mike Werb and Michael Colleary. Pet Cemetary tells story of a family that move to a house in the countryside of ….

Weinstein’s to Build Huge Library of Asian Cinema

Bob and Harvey Weinstein recently announced the unveiling of Dragon Dynasty, a new label under which all The Weinstein Company’s Asian titles will be released, including “Ong Bak 2,” “The Protector” (aka “Tom Yum Goong”), “Born to Fight”, “SPL”, “Seven Swords” and “Dragon Squad”, as well as a package of high profile titles, which was licensed from Fortune Star Entertainment: the distribution division of News Corporation’s ….

Updates on City of Golden Armor and Battle of Red Cliff

Zhang Yimou’s next epic film, The City of Golden Armor, which recently sold to more than 13 European countries, will soon complete filming in China. I have posted links to some set shots and video clips, in the Film Library. View the pics and footage in the Film Library RIGHT HERE John Woo gets back to basics with The Battle of Red Cliff ….