Hong Kong heartthrob Andy Lau
The director, Daniel Lee, said he has already scouted locations in China and filming will begin next June.
The new movie tracks an elder's recollections of ancient Chinese battles.
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``I've worked on this story for more than 10 years,'' Lee said on the sidelines of a promotional event for his new release, Dragon Squad.
Lau is currently working on Mozi's War Strategy, another movie set in ancient China.
Ge is known for films such as To Live, Big Shot's Funeral and A World Without Thieves.
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American director Terry Gilliam said in Prague that he expects to resume work on Don Quixote, which was set to be the biggest European film ever made but was shelved five days into filming.
"There is a possibility now, for the first time, that we might get the script of Don Quixote back," Gilliam said during a news conference to mark the Czech premiere of his film The Brothers Grimm.
"If we can get the film out of the hands of the lawyers, then that will be my next project," said the former Monty Python member, adding that he felt "hopeful."
Although rights to the script have been frozen for several years because of a conflict between the French producer and a German insurance company, a decision could come "before the end of the year," Gilliam said following the news conference.
Although Jean Rochefort will not be able to play Don Quixote, "the presence of Johnny Depp is secured," Gilliam added.
Like Orson Welles, GW Pabst and Grigori Kozintsev, the director of Brazil has long dreamed of adapting the Cervantes masterpiece under the title The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
In early 2000, Gilliam gathered US$32 million in financing. But the film starring French singer Vanessa Paradis and Spanish actor Rosy de Palma, Pedro Almodovar's muse, collapsed after only five days of filming in Spain.
Aged 70 at the time, Jean Rochefort suffered from a double hernia which preventing him from mounting a horse, prompting the insurance company to cancel the project.
Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas has signed on to star in a new comedy being produced by the acclaimed director of Sideways and About Schmidt, Alexander Payne, industry has press said.
Douglas, 61, will star in The King of California, the story of a young girl whose adolescence is complicated by an eccentric father who becomes obsessed with a belief about buried treasure, Daily Variety said.
The film, which is set to begin shooting in February, will mark the feature directing debut of Michael Cahill, best known for his Faulkner Prize-winning novel A Nixon Man.
And Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and diminutive US star Danny DeVito have joined Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow in a new romantic comedy being directed by her brother, industry reports said.
Vanilla Sky star Cruz and Romancing the Stone star DeVito have been cast in Jake Paltrow's first movie, The Good Night, which is set to begin filming in London in less than two weeks, Daily Variety said.
Shakespeare in Love actress Paltrow, 33, and British actors Martin Freeman and Simon Pegg will also take roles in the US$15 million film.
Superstar Tom Cruise has dropped his sister as his movie publicist and hired a top Hollywood agent after coming under intense media fire for publicly mixing his religious views with his movie-making.
Cruise, 43, announced that his sister Lee Anne DeVette would hand over publicity for him and his production company to veteran spokesman to the stars Paul Bloch, following a tough summer in which his image took a beating.
DeVette will now exclusively oversee Cruise's soon-to-expand involvement in charitable causes, notably those linked to the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a devout member.
"Lee Anne has done a wonderful job on behalf of myself and Cruise-Wagner Prods over the last few years," Cruise said in a statement.
Four Norwegians entered a movie theater early last Friday and emerged on Monday, 38 movies, 70 hours and 33 minutes later, with a new world record in "movie-guzzling," Norwegian public radio NRK reported.
The four pale and exhausted movie enthusiasts, three men and a woman, beat the previous known film-watching record of 70 hours and nine minutes.
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist
Peter Brighton was amazed when he found the giant jackfruit. He had been watching it grow on his farm in far north Queensland, and when it came time to pick it from the tree, it was so heavy it needed two people to do the job. “I was surprised when we cut it off and felt how heavy it was,” he says. “I grabbed it and my wife cut it — couldn’t do it by myself, it took two of us.” Weighing in at 45 kilograms, it is the heaviest jackfruit that Brighton has ever grown on his tropical fruit farm, located