Good news are good!
ADDED # Some chinese projects have been unveiled;
• Jet Li will star & produce Tai Chi (working title), to be directed by Stephen Feng. The “film will contain Jet Li’s opinions, ideologies, knowledge gained over the years on kungfu and Taichi” (via).
• Hey guess what! Jackie Chan is back behind the camera with Chinese Zodiac, which is described as an “Indiana Jones style action adventure”.
• Ready to cry hard? Feng Xiaogang’s next film will be about the chinese famine in 1942. To start shooting this October. Also, a Detective Dee sequel is in the works (no details yet); Monga director will be making Love, a rom-com. Just like Edmond Pang with Spoiled Women Are Happiest (working title).
# Do you remember Tsui Hark’s Catching Monkey? A 3D film secretly shot just before Detective Dee. And we finally have some more details about this project, it’s a “Thriller in which a band of computer hackers harvest information from people’s online bank accounts”. Excited yet?
# More conventional, the results of the 34th Japanese Academy Awards ceremony. Nakashima’s Confessions wins Picture/Director/Screenplay/Editing of the year. Miike’s 13 Assassins receives most of the technical awards. And basically, Akunin has the best actors/actresses of the year. Only Toho-distributed films (viva la diversidad, right?).
# 13 Assassins is coming soon in UK. But as expected, it’s the international version (rated 15). FYI, the uncut & unsubbed japanese DVD/Blu-ray will be released on May 27th (US$ 56) (thx logboy).
# If you like promising jfilms, you might want to go to the Nippon Connection film festival 2011. So, check out this preview of the program (among the first titles announced, Kumakiri’s Sketches of Kaitan City, Keiichi Hara’s Colorful, Takahisa Zeze’s Heaven’s Story…).
# Hayao Miyazaki won’t be directing a Porco Rosso sequel. But, according to Japanese novelist Genichiro Takahashi, Miyazaki’s next film may very well be his “finest masterpiece”. Wait & see now!
# A new teaser for Hitoshi ‘Big Man Japan’ Matsumoto’s Saya Samurai, the story of a retired samurai & his daughter leaving his clan without permission. Is it safe to guess it won’t be your typical jidaigeki story? Coming in Japan in June ’11 (via Jfilm)
# Strangely, one of the most interesting (cinema) speech you will hear this year, hasn’t been translated yet into english. During the Spanish Academy Awards (Goya), director Alex de la Iglesia talked about piracy and the role of the film industry.
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Hi!
you can read an English translations of Alex De la Iglesia’s speech here:
http://nobodyknowsanybody.blogspot.com/2011/02/alex-de-la-iglesias-goya-speech-13th.html
more information:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/english/Alex/Iglesia/The/internet/is/the/savior/of/Spanish/cinema/elpepueng/20110215elpeng_1/Ten
I want to believe that Chinese Zodiac IS Armour of God III. Is that a stupid assumption?