News: CANNES 2011: TWC acquires Peter Chan's WU XIA and deems the name incomprehensible to wu xia fans!
Jesus ****ing Christ, I hate these *******s!However, TWC has decided that the film's title is in desperate need of a change. Apparently WU XIA - which is basically the Chinese word for the Martial Arts genre in films, literature, you name it - is a term completely alien to wu xia aficionados - and they have opted to call it DRAGON instead.
Here's the teaser for that, by the way.
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foWybbp_vHw&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - Teaser - Wu Xia[/nomedia]
I'm really glad this thread made it through the purge.
24Framespersecond.net - SACRIFICE in the U.S
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajOrb_Enyf0"]YouTube - 趙氏*兒 [HD] (香港版*告) Sacrifice (HK Trailer)[/nomedia]U.S. fans of sweeping Asian epics are in for a treat….Samuel Goldwyn Films have acquired North American distribution rights to Chinese director Chen Kaige's - $30 million US dollar grossing - period action drama, Sacrifice, with a view to open it in the States later this year. Soon as we have a date we’ll let you know. Lengthy synopsis to go through, or head straight down for the trailer, chock full of; love, hate, war and yes you guessed it...revenge.
Haven't read/heard a lot about this yet. Chen Kaige hasn't done anything I've been interested in for a while...
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I'm still in the "believe it when I see it" mode on this, but I'm hopeful.