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Nitehawk Cinema unleashes Legend of 90’s Kung Fu screening series
Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn is having a retrospective screening series of kung fu movies for their ongoing Midnite cult film series. Go get your eyes peeled back all January as Nitehawk unfolds the Legend of 90’s Kung Fu. All screenings will be presented in 35MM. The series includes screenings of: Once Upon a Time in ….
Tsui Hark’s crime thriller Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon to make IMAX debut
IMAX, in partnership with China Film Co-Production and Huayi Brothers Media, have announced that Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon, filmmaker Tsui Hark’s follow-up to his 2010 action thriller Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame, will be digitally re-mastered into the IMAX format and released into IMAX theatres in China starting on ….
Jet Li’s Flying Swords of Dragon Gate to make history as first 3D Chinese IMAX release
IMAX and leading Chinese film distributor Bona Film Group, today announced that the 3D martial arts motion picture Flying Swords of Dragon Gate will be released in China, in the IMAX 3D format starting this Thursday, December 15th. The film will be released on 61 digital IMAX screens across China. Throughout its theatrical run, Flying ….
New poster for Tsui Hark’s historical action epic Detective Dee
A period epic from genre master and Seven Swords director Tsui Hark, Detective Dee is an action-packed, Sherlock Holmes-style mystery starring Andy Lau, Bingbing Li, Carina Lau and Tony Leung Ka-fai. Nominated for Best Special Effects at the 2011 Asian Film Awards and choreographed by martial arts master Sammo Hung, this intricately plotted whodunit is set in an exquisitely ….
Tsui Hark and Jet Li’s 3D martial arts epic Flying Swords of Dragon Gate to be released in IMAX
IMAX and leading Chinese film distributor Bona Film Group today announced that the 3D martial arts film Flying Swords of Dragon Gate will be digitally re-mastered into the IMAX 3D format and released to IMAX theatres in China day-and-date in December 2011. Flying Swords of Dragon Gate: An IMAX 3D Experience is the first Chinese-language ….
New images from Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Indomina has released new images from Tsui Hark’s new period action thriller Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, which will be screening at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Detective Dee stars Andy Lau, Carina Lau and Bingbing Li, and features action choreography by Hong Kong film icon Sammo Hung. Here’s the public ….
Tsui Hark and Andy Lau team for Phantom Flame
According to THR, Tsui Hark (Seven Swords) will direct Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs) in the period martial arts suspense thriller Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, which starts shooting in Hong Kong and China this May. Hark and production company Huayi Brothers, are looking to bring to life an imaginary case solved ….
Seven Swords Arms The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired all theatrical and video rights in the U.S. to the martial arts epic Seven Swords directed by the master of kung-fu action films, Tsui Hark (Zu Warriors, Once Upon A Time In China). Cheung Chi–Sing and Chun Tin–Nam adapted the screenplay based on the original novel, Seven Swordsmen From Mt Tian, and it was produced by Lee Joo–Ick, ….
Seven Swords update – it’s seven films
Director Tsui Hark recently confirmed an ambitious plan to make Seven Swords a seven-party series during an interview with the Beijing-based web site Sina.com. The first film, titled Seven Swords, which will get an Asian release starting July 29, was only based on the first chapter of the original book, Seven Swordsmen Leave Heaven Mountains, ….