'Cliff Walkers' Review: Zhang Yimou's Handsome Spy Thriller Leaves A Cold Impression
Zhang Yimou makes his first foray into the spy thriller with a historical noir set in the puppet state of Manchukuo. Read our Cliff Walkers review here.
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'Impasse' Trailer: Zhang Yimou's Next Film Is A Wintry Spy Thriller
The Impasse trailer teases Zhang Yimou's next film, a period spy thriller, which recently resumed shooting and is now in post-production.
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'The Great Wall' Trailer: Matt Damon Discovers The Real Reason The Great Wall Was Built
Check out the Great Wall trailer. Matt Damon leads Zhang Yimou's fantasy epic set in ancient China. Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, and Willem Dafoe also star.
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'The Great Wall' Trailer: Matt Damon Takes On Monsters In Ancient China
The first The Great Wall trailer has arrived just in time to be paired with Jason Bourne, showing Matt Damon fighting monsters in ancient China.
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'Coming Home' Trailer: Zhang Yimou Serves Up An Historical Romance
Watch the Coming Home trailer. The new film by Zhang Yimou stars Gong Li and Chen Daoming as a couple separated when the husband is sent to a labor camp.
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Matt Damon And Bryan Cranston May Join Legendary Pictures' 'The Great Wall'
The Great Wall movie is back on track and two leading men are circling. They are Matt Damon and Bryan Cranston. It's an adventure set at the Great Wall.
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'Coming Home' Trailer: Zhang Yimou's Cannes Pic Looks Gorgeous
Watch the first Coming Home trailer. Directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Chen Daoming and Gong Li, the romantic drama will play at Cannes in May 2014.
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Steven Spielberg Envisions Teaming With Zhang Yimou For China-Set Film
Steven Spielberg and Zhang Yimou almost worked together several years ago, when the two were teamed to create the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Olymipcs. Spielberg pulled out of that project, but there's a chance the two could still do something together in the future. While Spielberg is pursuing new projects (having…
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Zhang Yimou In Talks To Direct 'Quasimodo' With Josh Brolin
Briefly: Warner Bros. has been developing Quasimodo for a while, with Josh Brolin attached to star and produce. The idea, as the title implies, is to present a new vision of the title character drawn from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. We don't know who Brolin would play, or what direction the story…
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'The Flowers Of War' US Trailer: Christian Bale, The War Hero
Not too long ago the small outfit Wreckin Hill Entertainment picked up US rights to Zhang Yimou's new film The Flowers of War. That's the film in which Christian Bale plays a roguish American who ends up taking responsibility for a group of girls and women who take refuge in a church during Japan's siege…
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'The Flowers Of War,' With Christian Bale, Gets US Distro, An Oscar-Qualifying Run And Early 2012 Release
The Chinese release of Zhang Yimou's WWII film The Flowers of War is imminent in China, where the film will open on December 16. But its fate has been undecided in the States. Now Wrekin Hill Entertainment, in association with Row 1 Productions, will release the movie in a limited late December Academy qualifying run,…
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'The Flowers Of War' Trailer: Zhang Yimou's Reality-Based WWII Epic With Christian Bale
Before going to work on The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale shot a role in Zhang Yimou's new film The Flowers of War, a WWII-set film based on the horrifying story of the Nanking Massacre, also called the Rape of Nanking. The film is China's most expensive ever produced, and will be the country's submission…
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Zhang Yimou's WWII Film With Christian Bale Retitled 'The Flowers Of War'
Before making The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale went to China to make a film called Heroes of Nanking (or The 13 Women of Nanjing or Nanjing Heroes) with director Zhang Yimou. Or, that was what the film was called until recently. 20 minutes of the movie were shown to buyers today in Toronto, and…
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New Image: Christian Bale In 'The 13 Women Of Nanjing'
Briefly: Christian Bale is at work on The Dark Knight Rises right now, but he's already shot another film that will hit the festival circuit this fall. Zhang Yimou recently wrapped The 13 Women of Nanjing (which is also being referred to as Heroes of Nanking and Nanjing Heroes) in which Christian Bale plays "an…
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First Look: Christian Bale In 'The 13 Women Of Nanjing,' Aka 'Nanjing Heroes'
Christian Bale has a little movie to make with Christopher Nolan this summer, but before he suits up in Pittsburgh for The Dark Knight Rises, he'll finish a stint in China working with Zhang Yimou. The director is making a film called The 13 Women of Nanjing, known previously as Nanjing Heroes, which is the…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 26 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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Christian Bale To Star In Zhang Yimou's 'Nanjing Heroes'
You can see Christian Bale doing some of the best work of his career on screen right now in The Fighter right now, and not too far into 2011 he'll get back into the batsuit for Christopher Nolan. But first, he's going to take a detour to China. Director Zhang Yimou announced today that the…
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Movie Trailer: A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop (Aka Zhang Yimou's Remake Of 'Blood Simple')
News that Zhang Yimou would be remaking the Coen Brothers' wonderful debut feature Blood Simple caused us to scratch our heads in puzzlement. But every new image and bit of footage from A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (formerly Amazing Tales: Three Guns and The First Gun) has suggested that, hey, maybe the…
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Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks And Brad Pitt Competing For The Thirteen Women Of Jinling
This weekend sees A Noodle Story aka Three Guns, Zhang Yimou's daffy-sounding comedy period movie remake of Blood Simple, hit Chinese cinema screens - if you haven't seen the trailer yet please take a moment to go and bask in its great glowing eccentricity. With that one finally over and out, however, what's next for…
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International Trailer: Zhang Yimou's Blood Simple Remake Looks...Kooky
First up, Zhang Yimou's sorta-remake of Blood Simple, the amazing debut feature by Joel and Ethan Coen, has a new title. Once called Amazing Tales: Three Guns, the title now seems to be The First Gun. Except that in some places, as on the upload for the trailer featured below, the title Amazing Tales: Three…
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First Images From Zhang Yimou's Blood Simple Remake, Three Guns
Imagine, if you will, a film by the director of House of Flying Daggers or Red Sorghum that has been remade from a picture by the directors of Raising Arizona or The Big Lebowski. What would such a thing look like? Courtesy of the first three stills from Zhang Yimou's Three Guns, a remake of…
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/Filmcast Ep. 49 - X-Men Origins: Wolverine (GUESTS: Elisabeth Rappe From Cinematical, Neha Tiwari From DL.TV)
In this episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley marvel at the new trailer for District 9, discuss the new batch of remakes that Hollywood is mulling over this week, reflect on the relative hopelessness of Eclipse, and spend 55 minutes conducting a review/therapy session over the fate of X-Men Origins:…
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Zhang Yimou Remaking The Coen Bothers' Blood Simple?
Variety have announced a new project from Zhang Yimou, director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. They call it Amazing Tales - Three Guns and describe it as having two separate parts, one a thriller and the other a comedy. It's hard to not suspect this is the result of a bad translation and…
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