Screenwriter Xu Xiaolu’s latest directorial effort will be making the rounds next month with The Whistleblower, opening in the UK and ROI cinemas from December 6 alongside its China release. Cine Asia is proudly taking the wheel for the new thriller from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Lust, Caution producer William Kong.
Benny Chan’s The White Storm was a riveting, explosive crime epic in 2013, packed with riveting and high drama led by Louis Koo, Sean Lau and Nick Cheung for its heroic bloodshed narrative. That was six years ago, and with the time its taken for The White Storm 2: Drug Lords to arrive, newly-installed Herman Yau crafts an explosive, spectacular sequel that swells the bodycount.
Just as CMC Pictures is calling the shots for this Friday’s theatrical release of upcoming crime sequel, The White Storm 2, Cine Asia is taking the reigns with its own UK release on the same day. The film arrives at an auspicious time as the new thriller from director Herman Yau is just days away from closing its latest festival outing at NYAFF.
Ask almost anyone in my circles and they’ll tell you how supportive I usually am for remakes and reboots if done right. Obviously not all remakes have worked in cinema history and it’s all but added to the stigma that permeates around current remakes either completed or already in the making.
Cine Asia and London’s PimpShuei are hosting a screening event and party on Tuesday, October 16 at 7:00pm for Dante Lam’s latest hit, Operation Red Sea. The event arrives two weeks prior to Cine Asia’s slated Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Download release on October 29.
In 1930’s China, Wing Chun master Chen She (Fan Liao, Assembly, Chinese Zodiac), arrives in Tianjin, a city famous for martial arts. With plans to open his own kung fu school, he must first train a student to defeat eight of the city’s masters, legitimising himself as a teacher. But when he is caught up in local politics and an underworld power struggle, Chen finds himself at odds with dangerous people and will fight to protect what he holds most dear.
Give or take a few bucks, China’s box office earnings reportedly totaled up to $8.6 billion dollars since 2016. The tail end of that growth saw a rise of $2 billion dollars last year with action star Wu Jing’s Wolf Warrior 2 contributing a gross of $860 million dollars (ten times that of its predecessor).
Needless to say, a threequel is definitely happening an you can certainly expect this site along with others to keep an eye out. In the meantime, both the hit 2015 military actioner which saw Wu play a PLA sniper on a mission of redemption in the face of evil mercenaries invading China, and its sequel which saw our hero tackle a group of terrorists in a fictional South African territory, is heading for a cool new box set from Cine Asia UK.
China’s deadliest Special Forces operative, known as the Wolf Warrior (Wu Jing – Wolf Warrior, Call of Heroes, Kill Zone) is lying low. But when he crosses paths with a ruthless band of mercenaries led by a volatile and sadistic leader (Frank Grillo – Warrior, Captain America: Civil War), he must reaffirm his duty as a soldier and put an end to the gang’s reign of terror.
Fists, bullets, tanks and missiles will fly in this tour de force of action filmmaking, all culminating in a climactic battle between the highly skilled Wolf Warrior and the brutal mercenary leader.
Written and directed by Wu Jing and co-starring Celina Jade (TV’s Arrow, Skin Trade) Wolf Warrior II brings a masterful adrenaline rush with action co-ordination from the veteran Hollywood stunt team behind John Wick, Atomic Blonde and Captain America: Civil War.
Wolf Warrior II is released on Limited Edition Blu-ray, DVD, DVD boxset (with Wolf Warrior co-starring Scott Adkins) and Digital Download from 29th January 2018.
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Starting this Friday will be a limited theatrical rollout in sync with China’s Friday release of star and director Wu Jing’s new movie, Wolf Warrior 2, in two English territories. Well Go USA’s release will be this Friday and will then follow through with a U.K. release a week later on August 4 from Cine Asia and CMC Pictures.
China’s deadliest Special Forces operative, known as the Wolf Warrior (Wu Jing – Call of Heroes, Kill Zone), hopes to settle into a quiet life by the sea. But after he crosses paths with a ruthless band of mercenaries, overseen by a volatile and sadistic leader (Frank Grillo – Warrior, Captain America: Civil War), he must reaffirm his duty as a soldier to put an end to the terrorizing of innocent civilians. Fists, bullets, tanks and missiles will fly in this tour-de-force of bravura action filmmaking, all culminating in a climactic battle between the highly skilled Wolf Warrior, and the brutal mercenary leader.
Cine Asia and CMC have since accompanied their release plans with an official trailer of their own. It’s pretty much the same as the last one but it’s all the more fun as it’s the most clickiest, boom-boomiest, explodiest one there is. Trailer making really is an art. Observe it below!
Folks attending Fantasia Festival this month can expect to catch Derek Kwok’s latest Eddie Pang headliner, Wu Kong, next week. In the meantime, moviegoers looking to catch the film sooner can look toward releases slated for the U.S. and Canada, and select locations in the U.K..
Three powers collide. Long ago, Sun Wukong, was born in Huaguo Mountain with a heart of stone. Ji Hua, a powerful general from the heaven planned to terminate him. However Wukong was rescued by Bodhi and became his pupil. Jian Yang, is a being who was given an opportunity to become a strong god, but for this he needs to kill Zixia, the daughter of the Heaven Emperor’s rival, who he is in love with. Tianpeng, Ji Hua’s bodyguard, was given the secret order to investigate Wukong. All three of them entered the Heaven school together, and their lives are about to change.
Cine Asia has since aired its own trailer for the film’s limited U.K. release on July 14 with tickets now available for select locations at MyVue and Odeon locations through their respective websites here and here.
For North America, CMC Pictures has confirmed its tandem release of the new Hezai Jin novel adaptation of the folkloric Chinese legendary hero in the U.S. and Canada this Friday. Listed beneath are the exact theaters and locations confirmed in the U.S. and Canada courtesy of CMC.
Elite Force: Operation Mekong will take the stage at EIFF on June 29 and July 2 before rolling out on VoD and iTunes the following day and with a DVD release slated for July 17.
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