On this sunny day at the luxurious Equarius Hotel at Resorts World® Sentosa, three of this region’ssuperstars, Ekin Cheng, Vic Chou and Wu Chun together with Director Ronny Yu arrived for the promotional tour of their latest movie, “Saving General Yang”. It has been seven long years since Yu’s last directorial movie, “Fearless” opened and since ...
Award winning Hong Kong actor Tony Leung sympathises with Korean actress Song Hye Gyo, his co star in the action drama The Grandmaster. Leung, who plays Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in the film, has Song as his on screen wife. “I’ve been cast in Vietnamese and English films before, and I know it doesn’t feel good to be in an environment surrounded by people who speak ...
We always knew that Andrew Lau had a thing for guns; but now, he’s apparently developed a similar affection for bombs. Indeed, though Wong Jing’s name is listed as director of ‘The Last Tycoon’, it is his producer and cinematographer Andrew Lau whom he credits – and whom the latter proudly acknowledges – is responsible for the most expensive sequence in the e ...
Can you believe that it has been 13 years since Chow Yun Fat has acted in a film directed by a filmmaker born and bred in Hong Kong? Indeed, ‘The Last Tycoon’ would be his first since ‘Peace Hotel’ back in 1995, the years since spent middling in mediocre Hollywood flicks like ‘The Replacement Killers’ and ‘Dragonball: Evolution’ before the promise ...
Just when you think the Jackie Chan from of old might have quietly faded into the shadows, the ‘Dragon’ (as his Chinese name alludes) comes roaring back with a blockbuster that he says harks back to the kind of action comedy his fans have come to love about him. “I’ll keep doing what my fans love as long as I can,” he proclaims proudly at a press conferenc ...
The journey that their characters undertake through the course of National Service (NS) might be one from a boy to a man, but that which they personally go through is one from obscurity to celebrity. Indeed, just listening to the fresh new stars of Jack Neo’s latest movie ‘Ah Boys to Men’, it is without a doubt that they know this is the big break they have been waiting for th ...
If you’re going to make a film on a subject as dear to the hearts of Singaporeans as National Service (NS), then you jolly well make sure that you do it right. Over and above the publicity bluster for his new movie ‘Ah Boys to Men’, it’s apparent that director and co-writer Jack Neo was clearly aware of this right from the start. Speaking to the press on the eve of t ...
Even after thirty years in the Hong Kong movie industry, there are still some roles that have eluded Tony Leung Kar-Fai, often regarded as ‘not the Tony Leung who stars in Wong Kar Wai movies’. In ‘Tai Chi Zero’, the veteran actor gets to play a gongfu master – or to be more precise, a ‘tai chi master’ – and Tony says that he is extremely gla ...
When producer Chen Kuo-Fu came to Stephen Fung with a movie about tai-chi, the latter was puzzled. ‘Why me?’ was the first thought in his head, he said. It was only after reading the treatment, that incidentally was also written by Kuo-Fu, that Stephen realised what his producer wanted to accomplish with ‘Tai Chi Zero’, the first of two films shot back-to-back in wh ...
It’s August 25, the opening weekend of sci-fi comedy Iron Sky – and we find Englishman Lee Stringer in the Preview Lounge of Orchard Cineleisure, of which the two most noteworthy features are (appropriately) a towering stand-up poster for the movie and (less appropriately) a troublesome clump of wires dangling between a laptop and a wall-mounted LCD screen. The computer graphics sup ...
