The Grandmaster Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Limited Edition Vinyl – Featuring Ennio Morricone, Shigeru Umebayashi & Nathaniel Mechaly
Chungking Express director takes on Bruce Lee’s instructor with The Grandmaster
Wong Kar-wai and Woo Ping take on Bruce Lee’s teacher in The Grandmasters
New Bruce Lee biopic to begin lensing next month
A new biopic on iconic martial artist and actor Bruce Lee, titled Bruce Lee, My Brother, goes into production in a few days, starring Aarif Lee (Echoes of the Rainbow) as Bruce Lee and screen newcomer Jennifer Tse as Lee’s girlfriend, according to FilmBusinessAsia. The new film is being directed by Raymond Yip, who co-directed ….
Parking comes to home video this June
Parking, a Taiwanese dramatic comedy, will be released on the Evokative Collection of DVDs on June 8, 2010. Parking is the first fiction feature by Chung Mong-Hong. The film stars Chang Chen – who has appeared in the films Eros, Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 and Happy Together, as well as Red Cliff I and II by ….
New Directors New Films program introducing new crop of innovative directors
VIZ Pictures to release action film K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces in U.S. and sponsors festival screenings
VIZ Media distribution arm VIZ Pictures has licensed the new action film, K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces, and announced two screenings at the New York Asian Film Festival 2009, which starts today and runs through July 2nd, at the IFC Center in New York City. The New York premiere of K-20: The Fiend with ….
Jim Jarmusch brings order to the crime thriller with The Limits of Control
Director Jim Jarmusch (Night on Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Broken Flowers) returns to the screen with a dreamy-looking crime thriller called The Limits of Control. The Jarmusch vision brings an artistic and rich sensibility, even to the trailer for the movie. The Limits of Control tells the story of a mysterious ….
Hi-def versions of Wong Kar Wai film Ashes of Time Redux
Romance noir genius Wong Kar Wai goes back to his roots with Ashes of Time Redux, which follows a broken-hearted hit man who moves to the desert and finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings. The auteur is re-editing and re-shaping his only martial arts film into the form he says was his ….
The Weinsteins Get Blueberry Nights
The Weinstein Company is proud to announce that it has acquired all U.S., Australian and New Zealand rights to the romantic comedy My Blueberry Nights from award-winning director Wong Kar Wai, (In the Mood for Love, Happy Together and Chungking Express) who was this years jury president of the Cannes Film Festival. This film marks Wong’s English-language feature film ….