News Links - 4/3/07
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:20 am
Super Girl - Jane Zhang Liangying
Film Planned on Andy Lau's Crazy Fan
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/03/1261@212063.htm
Thai films get in on the action with Tony Jaa
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 14ba26c21a
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070403/fil ... iland_dc_1
Chinese Should Be Proud of Chinese Actresses in "Geisha": Zhang Ziyi
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/03/1261@211973.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007- ... 927995.htm
Zhang revealed that her next film in May will be another Hollywood production called "Laundry Warrior," in which she stars as an Asian cowgirl in the American West alongside South Korean movie star Jang Dong-kun.
Quentin Tarantino to Remake Classic Chinese Kungfu Movie
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/03/63@211990.htm
HONG KONG: Documentary on Rape of Nanking disturbing for the filmmakers
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-e ... ntid=66843
Review: New Year Baby - US-Cambodia documentary
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/1109/1/
Malaysia: Sniffer dogs find second pirated-DVD haul
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/od_ ... 9p_v7MWM0F
Broken Arrow - Blu-ray review
http://www.avrev.com/blu_ray/revs/0407/ ... rrow.shtml
"Super Girl" Holds First Concert in North America
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/03/1261@211979.htm
Wooing & wowing Hollywood
Top Korean stars are taking the lead of Lost actress Kim Yn Jin in making Tinseltown debuts
SHE may be world famous, but Korean actress Kim Yun Jin (left) has not forgotten her roots.
While her fellow countrymen - like A-listers Jeon Ji Hyun, Jang Dong Gun and Rain - are trying to catch up with her in Hollywood, the star of the popular US serial Lost has come home to work on a Korean project instead.
Later this month, Yun Jin, 34, will return to Seoul to shoot her first horror flick, Seven Days, reported Yonhap News Agency.
She plays a lawyer who is given a week to save her daughter.
It has been two years since her last appearance in the Korean action thriller Diary Of June, which co-starred Eric Mun.
After all, the willowy beauty has been busy filming the third season of Lost in Hawaii while coping with a growing list of media interview requests - a sure sign of her burgeoning popularity in the US.
Besides charming viewers of the ABC talk show The View in February, she was also featured in People website's Celebrity Video Diary section.
More recently, she was picked by MSN as one of 22 'world class beauties', alongside Jessica Alba, Jennifer Lopez and Gong Li.
FOLLOW IN FOOTSTEPS
Given Yun Jin's success, it is no wonder that her Korean counterparts are eager to follow in her foot steps.
Never mind that it means engaging private tutors to coach them to speak fluent English.
My Sassy Girl star Ji Hyun, for one, is now in Argentinian capital Buenos Aires filming her Hollywood debut, the supernatural action flick Blood: The Last Vampire.
Adapted from a Japanese anime, the film is directed by Hong Kong's Ronny Yu, who did
Jet Li's Fearless, and is produced by Bill Kong, who pushed Chinese films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon into Hollywood.
Slated for release next year, it co-stars Italian actress Allison Miller (CSI: New York).
The story reportedly unfolds in a US army camp in Tokyo in the 1940's, where Ji Hyun, 26, plays a vampire named Saya, who hunts demons for the US government.
As if preparing for her Hollywood break,
Ji Hyun's management agency recently announced that she will adopt the English name Gianna Jun.
This is to 'increase her public recognition in English-speaking countries', said The Korea Herald.
Also set for a Hollywood debut is Dong Gun, although the news did not come from the man himself.
The 35-year-old actor, who has been resting since his 2005 film Typhoon, told fans at a gathering in Japan last month that he will return to the silver screen this year, fully recharged.
He has not given details yet, but Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi jumped the gun when she told reporters in China that he is 'probably' her co-star in her next Hollywood project.
It is apparently a US-produced cowboy film, but helmed by a Korean director.
Ziyi added that filming will start in May, and that she looks forward to working with 'this hunk'.
Also preparing for Hollywood are Korean singers BoA and Rain.
BoA, who was once rumoured to be playing Harry Potter's girlfriend, is reportedly trying to decide between a Korean film and one with Hollywood involvement.
If confirmed, this would mark the Japan-based singer's big screen debut.
Rain, who is in the midst of doing his world concert tour, also announced last week he would soon release an album or shoot a movie in the US.
He revealed this while playing host to some 60 Harvard students who were visiting Seoul.
As for charismatic actor Byung Hun, 37, he was last seen not in Hollywood but at the recent Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong.
Variety magazine had earlier raved that he was the 'best placed to break through internationally' as he already speaks fluent English and boasts varied acting experience.
But it has been all talk and no decision yet, as the Joint Security Area star is reportedly still reviewing scripts to find his ideal Hollywood role.
So Byung Hun may just end up being the last among his peers to enter Hollywood.
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story ... 70,00.html