Click Here for the Shaw
Brothers Release Schedule from Celestial
31/03/03 - Hong Kong
Legends news: Further discs for 2003 will include Warriors
Two, Full Contact and City on Fire (all very cool)
Saw Jet Li's latest action movie
this weekend: Cradle
2 the Grave 
27/03/03 - Industry News
Highbinders - blighted by delays
and additional footage being required, has now been renamed
'The Medallion'. Should be an October US cinematic release
Jackie has now gone to Thailand
to start working on his new project 80 Days Around The World,
and he will also be joined by Sammo Hung who has been signed
up for an acting role
Bad luck to Hero, as it failed
to win an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category. It
seems that a limited release by Mirimax did not help the film
Among the new releases from Hong
Kong Legends in the next few months, we will have The Swordsman.
The flawed masterpiece is being given the treatment that it
deserves by HKL -
(Megastar DVD review of Swordsman)
25/03/03 - 1983 saw Jackie
Chan's response to an indifferent foray into the Amercian
market - what did Hong Kong Cinema think of the Project
A Platinum disc edition from Hong Kong Legends?
read
on
21/03/03
- Upcoming Movies Bonanza!
Just updated the section
- I cannot believe how many kung
fu movies are coming out this year, and there are plenty more
to come! Upcoming
Added DDDHouse to the Shopping
Guide
I have also made a separate page
for Shaw Brothers releases
Plus check out the Celestial website
- up and running at last! -
http://www.celestialpictures.com.hk/
08/03/03 - Shopping
Guide and Links section smartened
up
Plus ever wanted to know about
DVD Regions and NTSC/PAL signals? - click
here
07/03/03 - New reviews
as promised (plus I have tidied up the Reviews
Archive)
Jackie Chan's last great action
movie? Who Am I?
Animal styles galore, Wilson Tong's
Snake Deadly Act
04/03/03
Celestial Film Festival in the
US:
"Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures
has launched a traveling US film festival of Chinese martial
arts films which kicked off in Los Angeles on Friday and will
travel through universities and cinemas in 20 cities the country."
Read on - www.screendaily.com
26/02/03 - News (inc
Shaw Brothers TV Channel)
Celestial are to launch a 24 hr
Television channel in Malaysia and Brunei on 3rd March 2003.
This will be rolled out to the rest of the world over the
next 6 months - read more....
Kill Bill is now too long, due
to Tarantino making so many scenes whilst on site. Possibly
made into two separate films and to be released within 5 weeks
of each other?
The next Celestial batch (released
27/02/03) is being pushed back a week:
6/03/03 - check out specs at
www.asiandvdguide.com/
The Killer Snakes
The Twelve Golden Medaillons
The Bastard
Starlets For Sale
Family Light Affair
13/02/03 - Just some news -
more film reviews soon
UK based DVD / VCD supplier -
www.hkm-shop.com
Cheapest SHAW DVD (for UK users)?
- CD
WOW - Shaw Brothers
Word has it that Miramax will
have the US distribution rights to the Shaw Brothers catalogue!
Celestial DVD - I now have a few
copies and they are top quality discs. It seems that they
are actually living up to the hype
Takeshi Kitano to play Zatoichi
(Blind Swordsman) - filming this Spring
Gordon Liu has been asked by Tarantino
to do extra scenes for Kill Bill
DVDMOD is dead - no new orders
- New Jet Li Film (opens Feb 28th US)
20/01/03 - Review of 2002 (an
eagerly awaited look at the high's and low's of 2002)
Cinema
