A Better Tomorrow remake

Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Song Jengxiant, Li Junji

Remaking A Better Tomorrow has led to a lot of people having their own ideas of who should do the roles that Chow Yun-Fat and Leslie Cheung did in the original Hong Kong movie. In a recent poll Song Jenxiant, and Li Junji turned up as the winners. It's difficult to imagine CYF's character of Mark doing a more magnificent scene as when he gunned down all of the people and also got shot in the leg.

Sony Pictures to be distributor for Curse of the Golden Flower in America

Good news has been reported for Chow Yun-Fat's latest movie Curse of the Golden Flower. Sony Pictures did a wonderful job on the distribution of his movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon which was one of the factors in it being successful in the U.S.

Zhang's "Flower" blooms for Sony Pictures Classics
By Gregg Goldstein Tue Jun 27, 12:13 AM ET
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - International stars Chow Yun-Fat ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") and Gong Li ("Memoirs of a Geisha") soon will be returning to American shores.
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American and Latin American rights to "House of Flying Daggers" director Zhang Yimou's martial-arts romantic drama "Curse of the Golden Flower."
The feature, shooting in China, follows the medieval saga of a dysfunctional royal family led by a king (Chow) and queen (Gong) engaged in power struggles with their three sons and each other.
Zhang's "Daggers" and "Hero" action choreographer, Tony Ching Siu-Tung, returns for similar duties on this film, which also reunites the director with Gong ("Raise the Red Lantern," "Shanghai Triad"). This is the director's ninth project with Sony Pictures Classics, which hasn't yet set a release date for the film.
"We feel 'Curse of the Golden Flower' will be a culmination of Zhang Yimou's great career," SPC co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard said. The execs worked with Kong on "Daggers" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," SPC's biggest hit.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter from Yahoo News Complete press release

New release of Peace Hotel

If your copy of this 1995 Hong Kong movie is as bad as mine you might want to look into getting this new DVD copy.

Source: Optimum Releasing Date: 8th June, 2006 Posted by: Paul Heath
Second bit of DVD info for the day, and we're staying with Chow Yun-Fat and John Woo for the film that is being billed as Chow's last before he packed his bags for Hollywood.
Chow (Hard Boiled, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) plays a legendary killer who slaughters his entire gang after the death of his wife. As penance, he opens the Peace Hotel, a sanctuary for criminals, seedy characters and anyone seeking safety. As long as patrons can make their way to the hotel, they are allowed to stay indefinitely and The Killer guarantees their protection.
After several peaceful years, an arrogant female thief (Cecilia Yip) telling outlandish lies barges into the hotel - with an angry posse hot on her heels. The posse accuses the woman of murdering their chief and vows to attack the hotel unless the woman gives herself up. Torn between his golden rule of never asking anyone to leave and his vow to protect the patrons of his haven, The Killer prepares for a blazing showdown.
The DVD is in stores from June 26th.

STAVA fashion apparel

It's always nice to come across a new picture of Chow Yun-Fat in a STAVA poster. This one appeared on Netease Forum.

Chow Yun-Fat possibly to be in Lau Kar-Leung film Heroes of Shaolin

UPDATED 06/17/06 Monkey Peaches: 70 year old Liu Chia-Liang (Lau Kar-Leung) and 51 year old Liu Chia-Hui (Gordon Liu) have begun preparing for their next martial-art project, Heroes of Shaolin, according to a press article released in New York. Liu Chia-Liang and Liu Chia-Hui, brothers bounded not by blood but by decades long friendship, were two of the most shining stars in movies by Shaw Bros.' back in the 1970s and 1980s. Liu Chia-Hui has starred in at least 20 martial-art films directed by Liu Chia-Liang. In Heroes of Shaolin, currently being pushed by New York-based Burning Shaolin Productions, monk Luk Ah-Choi escapes from the destruction of his home, the Shaolin Temple, and takes refuge in a local village where he falls in love with the beautiful, jaded and lethal Yim Wing Chun. Together they struggle to organize a rebellion against the oppressing Qing Dynasty. Distracted from his true mission by his vendetta against the murderous traitor Bok Mei (the character with white hair and white eyebrow Liu Chia-Hui set to reprise), Luk Ah-Choi jeopardizes all in this 19th Century epic of love, life and vengeance. Apparently other cast choices have yet to be finalized but according to the press release, the production company would talk to Zhang Ziyi, Chow Yun-Fat, Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa. Shooting is scheduled to begin in the mainland China by mid 2007.

06/16/06 PRWeb: Legendary Martial Arts Director Lau Kar-Leung has begun working on what he has referred to as his greatest work. Targeted for production early to mid 2007 Heroes of Shaolin may prove to be the greatest martial arts film of all time.Legendary martial arts action director, Lau Kar-Leung (a.k.a. Liu Chia-Liang) is preparing for his latest martial arts masterpiece. Heroes of Shaolin will be the culmination of over 50 years of experience and over 300 movies for the 69 year old director. The film is currently in pre-production and is being produced by Burning Shaolin Production, out of New York. It is targeted for production early mid 2007 in Mainland China.
Asian superstar Gordon Liu has appeared in both of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Volumes and countless Hong Kong film productions. He is most famous for his recurringing role as the monk San Te (the Master Killer). Other cast considerations and talks include Zhang Ziyi, (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, Memoirs of a Geisha) Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Bullet Proof Monk), Donny Yen (Hero) and Tony Jaa (Ong Baak). Heroes of Shaolin is in pre-production stages and is targeted to begin filming mid 2007. For more of article go to PRWeb

Interesting new photos from "Postmodern Life"

As shown on Netease Forum

The Aunt's Postmodern Life announces release date

In a article from ent.sina.com it was announced that The Aunt's Postmodern Life will open in theaters this New Years. It was also mentioned that the movie Chow Yun-Fat is filming Curse of the Golden Flower plans to open at the same time. CYF will be doing promotions for the new Ann Hui movie before it is released, and there are plans to show it at the Venice Film Festival.*

*Venice Film Festival: Rome, Italy (AHN) - According to the Biennale art foundation which oversees the competition, the chair of the jury for the 2006 Venice Film Festival will be French film star Catherine Deneuve. Denueve, 62, is famous for her starring roles in such films as "Belle de Jour" - which won the Venice film festival's Golden Lion award in 1967, 1983's "The Hunger," co-starring David Bowie, 1992's "Indochine" and Lars von Trier's 2000 movie "Dancer in the Dark." The Venice film festival will run from August 30 to September 9. All Headline News

A Better Tomorrow the Ultimate Edition

DVD Info: A Better Tomorrow (Ultimate Edition)
Source: Optimum Releasing Date: 8th June, 2006 Posted by: Paul Heath
My day has just been made as I've just been told that a special edition of John Woo's masterpiece A BETTER TOMORROW is on its way to DVD. Made 20 years ago, this action movie had a profound influence on the Hong Kong movie-making industry, and later on an international scale. An undeniable action classic, A Better Tomorrow spawned innumerous imitations in its wake and its success brought the stellar talent of John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat to the attention of Hong Kong and international audiences.
One thing about this release is that it contains a featurette entitled 'Crossings', which documents the work of director John Woo. There is also an interview with the man himself and star of the film, Chow Yun-Fat.
The DVD is in region 2 stores from June 26th.*
Bonus Features:
Commentary by Bey Logan
New Documentary "Crossings" on the work of John Woo
Interview With John Woo
Interview With Chow Yun-Fat
Trailers
The Hollywood News

*NOTE: These are the regions:

Region 1 - The U.S., U.S. territories and Canada
Region 2 - Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland
Region 3 - Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong
Region 4 - Mexico, South America, Central America, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Caribbean
Region 5 - Russia (okay, former Russia), Eastern Europe, India, most of Africa, North Korea, Mongolia
Region 6 - China

Chow Yun-Fat settles lawsuit

After 2 years CYF has settled a lawsuit concerning a publication that compromised the question of his physical fitness. Since it is important to his career that there be no question of his physical health, he took legal action. He expressed that the money from the settlement go to charity.

On March 1, 2004 it was reported: "Chow Yun-Fat has filed a defamation suit against a tabloid magazine that published a story saying he was injured, claiming that the article damaged his career as an action movie star."