Thanks for the news to Violette13 Takeshi Kaneshiro and Peter Chan had visited the RUC (according to the m-arts.info) where they showed the combat scenes from the "Wu Xia” movie.
Pictures source: asiafilm.tv
It was hard for Kaneshiro to shoot the shown episode for he had to fight his opponent Jiang Wu standing in the water and using his umbrella as weapon. Action director Yen Chi Tan was on hand to direct helped Takeshi Kaneshiro to make the shooting easier.
Director Peter Chan and movie star Takeshi Kaneshiro also were telling about the difficulties of making other scenes in the movie.
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Peter Chan's new martial arts movie called Wu Xia (武俠) is to be shown in theatres from the 4th of July this year.
Source: ent.sina.com
Since France's TF1 had bought the rights to distribute the film and up to the Cannes festival there was quite a long time. Non the less, now we have producer/distributor We Pictures/We Distribution to close a deal with The Weinstein Company to show the picture worldwide.
So far WU XIA - Asian Distribution Dates are: China - 4 July - Stellar Megamedia Indonesia - 7 July - P.T. Teguh Bakti Mandiri Australia & New Zealand - 7 July - China Lion Singapore - 21 July - Golden Village (on behalf of Luxuries Resources) Malaysia - 21 July - Golden Screen (on behalf of Luxuries Resources) Taiwan - 22 July - Applause Taiwan Thailand - 28 July - Sahamongkolfilm Hong Kong - 28 July - UA Films
According to ent.sina.com.cn, Takeshi Kaneshiro was having a row of nightmares after taking part in the "Wu Xia" autopsy scenes.
Picture source: ent.sina.com.cn
Seemingly, it was because the scenes with the autopsy should have been shot within one day. Those bodies were of the synthetic material but never the less, when the shootings were started on the next day, Takeshi Kaneshiro looked a little dazzled in trance. The reason which was uncovered later was in the fact that Takeshi Kaneshiro had nightmare after the autopsy shootings.
The cast of Peter Chan's new movie "Wuxia" (武侠 which now has the title "Dragon" in English) including Takeshi Kaneshiro (others were Donnie Yen, Tang Wei, and the director himself) appeared on the 64th Cannes Film Festival red carpet.
Wuxia (武俠) cast
Source: koalasplayground.com
All of the crew came out to the place to promote the film.
In accordance to the entertainment.xin.msn.com, Takeshi Kaneshiro has commented in public that the rumors about his marriage are false....
Watch the interview with Takeshi Kaneshiro (READ MORE...)
Peter Chan's "Wu Xia" (Chinese: 武俠), was shown in Cannes for several times (more, in the midnight shows) and the attention to the film was attracted - The Weinstein Company (TWC) has bought rights for the releases of the film worldwide excluding France where the distribution in handled by TF1 and Asia. It may be possible that there would be a theatrical release of the film in North America.
As was said earlier, Peter Chan's "Wu Xia" is to be shown in Cannes since 11 up to 22 of May, 2011 but for five days only, as the Chinese sources say.
Source: news.night-ghost.com
Peter Chan intends to tell the world about the movie at Cannes, holding a press conference on the film and a premiere there. READ MORE on the events diring the festival...
The 64th Cannes International Film Festival had held the press conference on the 14th April, 2011, to select the lists of the films for the festival shows. The Festival itself is to be held on the 11-22 of May, 2011 and Hong Kong director Peter Chan's new action film "Wu Xia" will debut there in the Midnight Screenings Out of Competition shows (it will be shown daily at 2 am).
TF1 (Télévision Française 1) a national French TV channel has taken French rights to the new action film Wu Xia (Swordsmen (武俠)) which is now being in production and is to be relesed this Summer. Besides Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tang Wei Wu Xia also features a cameo by One-Armed Swordsman star Jimmy Wang Yu (王羽)
Peter Chan's 武俠 (Wu Xia - English title "Swordsmen") is concidered one of the most anticipated Chinese films for the year 2011. The release of the film in the theatres is planned for July 2011.
For those who are not aware of the film - that is a big budget remake of Chang Cheh's "The One Armed Swordsman".
Plus aditional information on the other film being shot these days: the Hou Hsiao-Hsien's "Assasin" which is also to be rated as one on the most anticipated movies of 2011, (READ MORE...)
K-20 – A Fiend with 20 faces has been released by VIZ Studio on the 20th of April, 2010 on DVD and celebrating this even with the one day show in the VIZ Cinema (watch the site news for 09.04.2010).
You can watch the K-20 film review on our site (author mikomi) and blogcritics.org.
The film is available at Amazon now and the price is $22.49.
Running time: 137 minutes
Brand: Warner Brothers
Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Original language: Japanese
Subtitled in: English
And we also have some of the Warlords reviews available in the network: Read more...
