Wednesday, March 07, 2007

News du Jour

Sadly, Liz has discovered that the writers of The Departed have purchased the rights to remake another Andrew Lau film. The "lucky" winner of that prize goes to Confessions of Pain, a fairly new flick starring Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro that is currently winning awards all over the place. Apparently, Hollywood has pumped the remake wells dry here in the US, so the only option is to go abroad seeking idea-rich lands to conquer. No, Liz and Valerie are not bitter, they are merely mildly unhappy with the status quo. Move along, nothing to see here.

Hearing-impaired Japanese preview audiences are complaining that, somewhat ironically, the Japanese portion of Babel, which features a hearing-impaired character, isn't subtitled like the rest of the film. Consequently, they are having trouble understanding what's going on. The distribution company claims it will try to fix this problem prior to the film's release in Japan.

Lame: King of Kung Fu, the title of the new Jackie Chan/Jet Li movie based on Journey to the West, which is a much better title. Cool: Yuen Wo-Ping is on as action choreographer.

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