A third trailer for the Bollywood animated film Roadside Rome, a co-production between Yash Raj Films and the Walt Disney Company, has arrive online at the official site. We already met the character Romeo and Laila back in early July. In this trailer, we are introduce to Charlie Anna played by Javed Jaffrey and he doesn’t seem too friendly. You’ll find three trailers below on our Twitch player after the break.
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A few days ago, Imagi’s creative director Felix Ip posted some pictures for the sci-fi animated film Gatchaman at his blog site. As promised to show more, he recently posted three additional pictures which features the Phoenix spaceship and a glimpse of the superhero team. For the record, the pictures is actually CG render screen shots, not concept art painting that I mistakenly mention before. The shots were taken from a work in progress teaser so what you see here are subject to change for the final product. More to come soon at the official Imagi site according to his post.
A behind-the-scenes video for Mathieu Kassovitz’s upcoming sci-fi film Babylon AD with Vin Diesel and Michelle Yeoh has appear online at the official French site. The video features some shots of the director at work from the various location, a little parkour sequence, a trainer demonstrating how to attack with guns and some big explosions. Heres the official synopsis:
In BABYLON A.D., Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The “package” is a mysterious young woman with a secret.
The US release date is on August 29th. You’ll find the video on our Twitch player below after the break.
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Back in early July, Todd posted a Russian trailer for Simon Hunters’ Mutant Chronicles and now we have the exact same trailer from the official site except the only difference is its in English. The official site has also been updated with a new poster at the media section. No word yet on a wide release date. It recently premiere at this year Comic-con so to those who have seen it, feel free to offer your 2-cent at the comments section. You’ll find the trailer below after the break.
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It’s been a little over a year when we last posted the first concept art for Imagi’s CG animated film Gatchaman. Since that time, TMNT director Kevin Monroe has dropped out and the release date has been push back to 2009 according to the press release. Many rabid Gatchaman fans has been asking when the studio will throw them a bone and so Felix Ip, the creative director of Imagi has answer their call and got the go ahead from the higher-up to reveal some new concept art. At his blog site, there is three beautifully render artwork to show the “look” of the animated film and a new logo design with more to come later. Very cool “look”. Hopefully, we will get to see these artwork translated into animated form sometime in the near future. As of now, the film is still in development.
Those guys at Imagi Studios aren’t giving much away on Astro Boy by literally keeping him in the dark. Fair enough. Its still a year away before its theatrical release. Anyone going to Comic-con can visit the Imagi Studios booth and get an “Astro Boy Hair Makeover”.
Our first look at Wilson Yip’s martial arts biopic Ip Man (previously known as Yip Man) with Donnie Yip in the lead role, comes to us from Sohu.com in a form of a news clip. While the video quality ain’t so great, it does contain loads of behind the scene footages from the film, including shots of Donnie using the Wing Chun style in his fight scenes, under the direction by martial arts choreographer Sammo Hung. There is also a glimpse of the underrated Fan Sui Wong of Riki-Oh fame engaging an one-on-one duel with Donnie. Oh man, it looks pretty damn good and I simply can’t wait to see more! Heres the synopsis from gscmovies.com:
Ip Man is adapted from the life story of Ip Man, the grand master of the Wing Chun style of kung fu and sifu (master) of legendary kung fu superstar Bruce Lee. This movie will be the first important record of the master’s life. Ip’s persistent devotion to Wing Chun is a classic example of the love and respect shown to wushu and the freedom and spirit it represents. Ip Man is a concept, a spirit, a way of thinking - and it represent a new peak in Hong Kong’s wushu movies.
The theatrical release date in Hong Kong is on December 18th.
The folks at Kino-govno.com has acquired the latest teaser poster for the long awaited Russian Horror remake Viy (Вий) and it looks hauntingly good. Here’s the official synopsis according to the Rospo film Group site:
“Viy is a monster living in the mire of the swamps. It has magic stare that penetrates into the human soul and opens it for every sort of evil spirits. Nothing can save from Viy’s stare”.
(Slavonic Mythology)
Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world. Even in his worst nightmares our materialistic scientist could not suppose that he was going to meet devil’s faithful servant.
The horror film will premiere in Russia on March 12th, 2009. You’ll find the featurette and two teaser trailer (english subtitles included) below the break.
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We been tracking the development of Gordon Chan’s Painted Skin, a film that Todd once commented as a throwback to the heydays when Hong Kong use to produce many supernatural wuxia films. Several stills has been released via Chinese web portal Sina and Michael Lai, the distribution manager of Eastern Mordor has provided us with some promo images, including a shot of Vicki Zhao Wei in pale white skin. Judging from the looks of the stills, its shaping up to become a beautiful piece of work with its rich colors and gorgeous make-up/costume design in the similar vein of The Bride with White Hair. Click on the link below for the images.
Painted Skin is scheduled for theatrical release in China on September 28th.
By all means, I’m no expert on Bollywood in any stretch of the imagination so I usually leave it to my fellow Twitch writers who are far more qualified in this area to do the reporting but this particular news is just too good to pass up. Walt Disney Studios has partner-up with Yash Raj Films to co-produce a Hindi-language CG animated film Roadside Romeo, featuring romance, song and dance in the typical Bollywood fashion. The main voice cast include Saif Ali Khan as the lead character Romeo and Kareena Kapoor as the love interest Laila. Over at youtube, there is two teaser trailer that shows Romeo and Laila auditioning for the film, each with some sort of wacky personality or characteristic. Here’s the synopsis:
A rich, cool, spoil brat of a dog is abandoned on the wicked streets of Mumbai. He faces situations he has never faced before. He is confronted by dangerous, loony characters, the likes of which he has never met before. From mansions to streets… From five course meals to five courses of scraps…From soft beds to piles of garbage…From champagne to tap water… Hop on to the adventure as Romeo turns into “Roadside Romeo.”
Roadside Romeo is scheduled for release on October 24th in India and US (limited). You’ll find the two teasers below after the break.
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Back in late May, Todd posted a nine minute promo reel for John Woo’s highly anticipated summer blockbuster event Red Cliff (aka The Battle of Red Cliff), taken from Chinese web-portal Sina.com but it was a lousy cam-job, a damn shame for a high profile film of this caliber to be presented this way. Fortunately for us, we uncover a clear video quality of the promo reel (no english subtitles) as well as a second trailer (english subtitles included). Take a look to fully appreciated the grand scale of this breathtaking epic and I DO mean epic in every sense of the word!
The first part of Red Cliff will be theatrically release across Asia on July 10th while the second part will follow at the end of 2008. You’ll find the promo reel and two trailers on our Twitch player below after the break.
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A press junket for the highly anticipated manhua adaptation Storm Warriors (previous known as The Storm Rider II) was open to the media at Bangkok last Wednesday where the Pang Brothers was at hand with the principal cast including Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Nicholas Tse, Charlene Choi, Simon Yam, and Kenny Ho, whom were showing off their nifty costumes. Check our last post on the character concept art here or below after the break for comparison. The resemblance is spot on.
According to Crienglish.com, the Pang Brothers said this martial arts/fantasy film is shooting in a completely digitalized realm and ninety percent of the scenes have used computer-animated effects. The total budget is around 100 million yuan, about 146,000 US dollars.
Filming will be completed within a week and then post production for the heavy CG effects will follow. It will hit the big screen across China and Hong Kong at the end of 2009.
Last night in California, the 34th annual Saturn Awards that honored works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video has announced the winners. I was confident The Mist would take home the award in the best horror film category but to my surprise, the dark musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was the winner. In the best sci-fi film category, the kaiju-inspired/documentary Cloverfield came out on top while the charming Enchanted score an impressive three awards for best fantasy film, best actress (awarded to Amy Adams), and best music. Director Guillermo del Toro who flew from London was present to pick up the George Pal Memorial Award from the organization in recognition of his visionary genius within the genre.
You’ll find the complete list of the winners below after the break. What do you think of the picks?
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The full trailer for Katsuhide Motoki’s Gegege no Kitaro 2: 1000 Year Old Cursed Song (Gegege no Kitaro 2: Sennen no Noroi Uta), a live action adaptation of the supernatural fantasy manga by Mizuki Shigeru, has been added to the official site which we will also host on our Twitch player. It’s darker than the first installment with a subplot of a “forbidden love” between a human and yokai/monsters as an axis of the film.
The theatrical release date in Japan is on July 12th. You’ll find the trailer, along with the two teaser below after the break.
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Another trailer for Storm Rider Clash of the Evils, a chinese animated feature film based on the popular on-going wuxia comic by Ma Wing Shing has made its way on Youtube. A live action from the Pang Brothers is already in the works which has since been retitled as Storm Warriors instead of The Storm Riders II, perhaps to dissociated from Andrew Lau’s adaptation, despite the presence of Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng in both films. The video quality ain’t the best but atleast there is some new footages shown and its looking mighty fine.
Its expected for release sometime in 2008. You’ll find both trailers after the break.
UPDATE: Thanks to the always cool Hitman-Reloaded from the KFC Cinema forum for hooking me up with the official site and a poster banner as shown at the left of this post.
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