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WELL GO USA – Sword Masters Collection Adds Four New Shaw Titles This Year!

Film distributor Well Go USA recently sent out a small press release regarding its upcoming newest slate of remastered Shaw Brothers kung fu classics, aimed at paying homage to the late great philanthropist and studio founder, Sir Run Run Shaw who passed away on January 7 at the age of 106. I have only ever seen a few Shaw films in my lifetime but there are a few titles I am looking forward to seeing circulate in this collection. And I certainly hope that with the extensive success, history that Shaw Brothers studios left behind for its followers over the years, that these films can continue for future generations of martial arts cinema fans and filmmakers around the world. Having mostly come across Golden Harvest films all my life by chance, I know I won’t be bored with kung fu movies anytime soon. And with Sir Run Run Shaw’s departure, […]

THIRD MASTER'S SWORD Starts Production Next Year

Lee B. Golden III

Following Bona Film Group’s RMB $1B film fund launch reported in August, Kevin Ma over at FilmBiz.Asia shared some updates on a two-part list of scripts newly approved by China’s state censorship board, SAPPRFT, including Lo-Chi Leung’s The Killer Vanishes, and Derek Yee‘s long-awaited production of Third Master’s Sword; The latter film is based on the writings of late Hong Kong author Gu Long whose work inspired Yee’s lead actor credit in director Chor Yuen’s 1977 Shaw Brothers film Death Duel which starred then-actor Yee in a story centered around a swordsman whose past catches up to him after faking his own death to escape the underworld. The film has taken a while to get things rolling since its initial announcement back in 2000 with Tsui Hark set to direct with a cast that namely included actress Zhang Ziyi and actor Leslie Cheung before his death three years later, in […]