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Roy Chow’s DYNASTY WARRIORS Rocks Out Online With A New International Teaser

Rise Of The Legend helmer, producers Roy Chow and screenwriter Christine To are back and stirring the necessary fervor for filmgoers awaiting the verdict on any and all info with the live-action adaptation, Dynasty Warriors. China 3D Digital Distribution Limited is hoisting its feature length take on the longstanding Three Kingdoms period fantasy saga more than 20 years since launching from Omega Force’s KOEI Temco for PlayStation. Two thousand years ago in China, there was a mysterious power called “Musou”. Any warrior with this power could defeat a million of enemy soldiers on his own, those who could control “Musou” were named as The Heroes of “Mosou”. Towards the end of Eastern Han Dynasty, The Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out as the government gradually became extremely corrupted at all levels. Liu Bei (a civilian) led Guan Yu (a horsekeeper) and Zhang Fei (a butcher) to defeat the Yellow Turban Rebellion, […]

DYNASTY WARRIORS Game Adaptation Already In Production, Cast Announced

Lee B. Golden III

Remember the news of that Dynasty Warriors adaptation announced last Spring? Well, that film is now underway as of July with Roy Chow sitting in the director’s chair and a cast that insofar has Louis Koo, Wang Kai, Ray Lui, Han Geng, Tony Yang, actresses Gul Nazar and Carina Lau, and actor Eddie Cheung (pictured). Plot details remain pending for the film which reunites Chow with Rise Of The Legend scribe Christine To. The movie is inspired by Omega Force’s KOEI Temco game franchise, “Dynasty Warriors/Shin Sangokumusou”, which has spawned well over 60 games – all preset by its origins rooted in PC game lore of the 1980’s with the seperate turn-based war strategy game series, “Romance Of The Three Kingdoms” – adapted from Luo Guanzhong’s 14th century novel set near the turbulent end of the Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. The Dynasty Warriors franchise launched its first title as […]

Stephen Fung’s THE ADVENTURERS Gives Chase In The Official Trailer!

Lee B. Golden III

With action auteur John Woo slowly and surely easing back into headline relevance with his own work, it’s only a worthy to weigh in on filmmaker Stephen Fung now forthcoming with his own humble nod as The Adventurers looks to rekindle remake potential this summer. The film is a reimagining of Woo’s Once A Thief (1991), now the center of an adventure that sees actor Andy Lau in the role of an ex-con freshly out of prison and back in the heist game in timely fashion with actor Jean Reno as the supersleuth hot on his tail. Also starring are actresses Shu Qi and Zhang Jingchu, and actors Eric Tsang and Yi Sha and with a release set for August 11, a new official trailer has finally arrived and quite fleshed out as a broadly-scoped international affair. Take a look below!

Cam’s Eye Review: PHANTOM OF THE THEATRE (2016)

“Making a film is like being in a dream. I never want to stop dreaming,” says director Gu WeiBang (Tony Yang), a young man fresh from being in Paris studying filmmaking, coming back to Shanghai in the 1930s to work on his new script, a ghost/love story. He tries to enlist a newly crowned Queen of the Cinema to star in his film and she refuses but then comes across the co-winner of the award, the mysterious Meng SiFan (Ruby Lin) and she is cast in the role. The young man also decides to film in an allegedly haunted old theatre where 13 people from a performance troupe were brutally murdered in a fire and supposedly haunts the building. When a thief accidentally runs inside to escape police, the police balk at going in to pursue. But when he winds up dead, burned from the inside out, that puzzle falls […]

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Jean Reno To Play Cop In Fung's ‘Once A Thief’-Inspired THE ADVENTURERS

Lee B. Golden III

I admit, it took me a few months to get a grip on the fact that The Adventurers and the upcoming reboot of John Woo classic Once A Thief were the same damn movie being directed by Stephen Fung. That said, I can finally sharpen my focus a bit and follow up on the news as it comes, and now with word that filming is currently underway in Prague following the most recent marriage of Fung and the film’s leading lady, actress Shu Qi. The film was announced earlier this year at HKFilmart under joint venture Flagship Entertainment with Fung to direct, and also lists actors Andy Lau and Tony Yang, and actress Zhang Jingchu. Rounding out the cast this week according to reports from Chinese outlet Mingpao, is actor Jean Reno, who stars as an inspector in the relentless cat-and-mouse pursuit of Lau’s role, a master thief joined by […]