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6/3/2004 14:51
Le plein de news d'Hong-Kong
Un peu de retard dans les nouvelles de l'ex-colonie alors on va faire vite...
Tandis que The Eye 2 avec Shu Qi sort bientôt sur les écrans HK(le 18 mars), les deux frères repartent dans des production solo après cette séquelle. Danny part faire une comédie (Leave Me Alone) avec Ekin Cheng et Charlene Choi(réunis pour la 4ème fois à l'écran) tandis qu'Oxyde prépare un thriller(abnormal beauty) avec l'autre Twins, Gillian Chung.
L'autre actu importante est celle d'Eric Tsang depuis qu'il est revenu à la production. Son polar Underworld déjà évoqué arrive en fin de tournage mais déjà, la violence du film pourrait le classer en Category 3 (interdit aux moins de 18 ans).A noter aussi que spécialment pour ce film, Wu Chien-Lien a accepté de revenir devant les caméras HK pour un rôle secondaire certes mais ça devrait contenter ses fans. Après, Eric produira deux nouvelles comédies. La première est My Wife Is A man pour laquelle il a embauché Ha Ri-Soo, la star transexuelle coréenne (qui avait déjà joué dans Yellow Hair 2) qui jouera ici en compagnie de Jordan Chan et Chapman To. Après coup, viendra Love Me Not, comédie romantique entre Shu Qi et Daniel Wu.
Il y'a quelque mois, Josie Ho avait été classée dans le top 3 des stars plébiscitées par la communauté lesbienne de Chine. Ce n'est pas tombé dans l'oreille d'un sourd et dès lors, elle tourne actuellement Butterfly, film d'auteur de Mak Yuen Yun (primé antérieurement au festival de Venise en tant que meilleur réal débutant) sur le sujet où elle se frottera de très près la chanteuse chinoise Tian Yuan.
Malgré le flop d'Heroic Duo, Universe va produire un nouveau polar(Divergence) réalisé par Benny Chan avec entre autres Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng et Nicholas Tse.
Alors que Johnnie To est en train de tourner Breaking News, son prochain film est déjà annoncé et aura pour sujet une bande de losers qui se mettent au judo. Casting de stars comme d'hab': Tony Leung KF, Jordan Chan, Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying.
Après le foireux Death Curse Cheang Pou-Soi revient auprès de Joe Ma pour tourner Love For Fears histoire de retrouver son inspiration d'antan. Niki Chow aura à nouveau le premier rôle et elle sera secondée par Eason Chan.
Avant de partir sur The Promise de Chen Kaige, Cecilia Cheung fera un petit détour par le plateau du nouveau Wilson Yip, une comédie en costumes où elle aura pour partenaire Francis Ng.
On entendait plus beaucoup parler de Gordon Chan mais voilà qu'il revient avec le futur tournage de First Lesson, un thriller avec Angelica Lee, Anthony Wong et Tony Leung KF.
Alain
9/1/2004 9:29
A survey to improve Cinemasie
We have published a small survey in order to gather your opinion, remarks and ideas about Cinemasie. This survey is totally anonymous, and will help us to know more what you like and dislike, what you know and don't know, what you want and don't want. Thanks in advance if you could take a few minutes to fill it. We have already made some changes according to the answers of the french survey. We hope this survey will allow us to improve the english version of Cinemasie.
François
7/1/2004 15:08
New functionnality: choose your own design
As some people don't really like the colors or layout of Cinemasie, and as we don't really have any skill in this domain, we have added a new functionnality. You can now choose between 8 different designs. Those designs are not so different from the default one, but you can already have another possibility if you hate the current one.
Also, if you know how to edit a CSS file, you can send us your own design, and we will upload it in this system. Don't hesitate to send us any comment.
François
29/12/2003 23:42
Anita Mui has passed away.
Hong-Kong is having a hard time this year, with Anita Mui joining Leslie Cheung somewhere up there. She has announced her illness some months ago, and was supposed to join the shooting of the new Zhang Yimou movie next year. She passed away in the early hours of the 30th of December. Rest in peace Anita.
François
25/12/2003 21:24
The short film from Andy Lau
Love Under The Sun is a short film directed by Andy Lau and produced by Johnnie To. Featuring a very impressive cast, this musical short movie presents several famous songs, with rewritten lyrics talking AIDS. You can have a look at the file, and download the whole film directly from our links. This video features english subtitles. Enjoy!
Love under the Sun File
François
3/12/2003 9:24
Ong Bak outside Asia and Tony Ja
About the futur release of Ong Bak outside Asia, EuropaCorp (the studio founded by Luc Besson) has bought the rights for Australia, Europe and the American continent. The movie will be re-edited in France with the help of Prechya Pinkaew. This international cut of the movie will be distributed in any country which will buy the movie to Europa.
About Tony Ja, his next movie will be coproduced by EuropaCorp, or at least distributed internationaly by the company.
Many thanks to Raf for the info
François
26/11/2003 21:05
Lost in Time and Sound of Colors: trailers
Currently showing in Hong-Kong,
Lost In Time, the new movie by Derek Yee (director of
C'est La Vie Mon Chéri) can already be considered as a success (with more than 10 millions HK$ and an excellent word of mouth). This drama features an impressive cast, with Cecilia Cheung already announced as a potential winner for the best actress award this year, Lau Ching-Wan and Louis Koo.
Lost In Time : Trailer
At the end of the month, the new Joe Ma produced by Wong Kar-Waï and adapted from a novel of Jimmy Liao (already adapted twice this year with Turn Left, Turn Right and Floating Landscape) will be released. Sound Of Colors is a love story featuring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Miriam Yeung. After a very disappointing Love Undercover 2 (but still very profitable), the trailer gives us more hope to have another interesting movie after the surprise Diva Ah Hey.
Sound Of Colors: Trailer
Sound Of Colors : Website
Alain
15/11/2003 22:16
Jade Goddess and Star Runner: websites and trailers
Two years after July Rhapsody, director Ann Hui is back with her new movie. Jade Goddess, starring Vicky Zhao and Nicholas Tse), is a very spritual story talking about an impossible love story between a cop (played by Vicky) and a drug dealer (Nic obviously). The movie will be released in Hong-Kong in march 2004. No need to say that this is one of the most awaited movies of the year in Hong-Kong.
Website
Trailer 150K
Trailer 56K
Closer to us is Daniel Lee's Star Runner. This kind of prequel to Fighter's Blues tries to mix several elements (drama, love story, martial arts) with actors from Korea, Taiwan and Hong-Kong. An ambitious project which tries to be both commercial (with the star Vanness Wu from F4) and very artistic (Daniel Lee filming in a very unusual way for what seems to be another martial art stuff).
Site Officiel
Trailer
Alain
30/10/2003 23:07
Back online
Our web-hoster has been very annoying last week, since it has trashed our database without notice (neither before nor after the trashing). So we moved out, and our new web-hoster has been attacked and thus was down during several hours. The site has been down longer than "planned" and we apologize for this.
Not everything is online, in particular the forums are going to be absent for a few days. The site is expected to be slow until the web-hoster finishes its upgrade of database servers.
Thanks in advance for your feedback in case of errors, and please forgive us for those annoyances.
François
2/10/2003 10:25
IA2 and Milkyway rule on the box office
Even if the first 8 months of the year were quite poor in Hong Kong, thanks to the SARS crisis and a still recovering economy, the end of the year seems to be more promising, just like last year. September can be considered as a good month, with the success of the new romantic comedy of Johnnie To,
Turn Left, Turn Right. The movie starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Gigi Leung has reached 13 millions HK$, beating the western movies released at the same date. Just behind it was another HK movie, the newcomedy from the director of
You shoot, I shoot:
Men Suddenly In Black, reaching the 10 millions limit.
But the real heavy weight champions of the box office arrived at the end of the month. The real surprise was
Running On Karma, a drama by Johnnie To (yes, the same one) starring Andy Lau and Cecilia Cheung, which earned more than 7 millions HK$ in 4 days and has reached 15 millions since. Reviews go from poor to great, and at least the movie seems surprising. Within a month, Milkyway Image managed to place 2 movies at the top of the box office.
Even better, the most awaited
Infernal Affairs 2 by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak earned more than 6.5 millions HK$ in just 2 days. Since it stayed at the top of the box office (with 16 millions), but
Running on Karma still has a tiny advantage as it was released a few days sooner (17 millions). It's difficult to predict which one will earn most. The advantage could go to
Running on Karma, thanks to a better word-of-mouth, but that's more a bet than anything else. Both movies should go above 25 millions.
Very obviously, the western movies have nothing left,
SWAT reaching 3 millions, and
2 Fast 2 Furious just half of that...
François
