We continue our Asian Invasion Weekend with massively epic trailer and posters for SHANGHAI FORTRESS science fiction disaster movie in
The film already played in cinemas earlier this month
which the Chinese are saving the planet from the alien invaders who have parked their nasty alien mothership right above China's biggest city! Directed by Hua Tao Teng, this action packed extravaganza has already played in Chinese cinemas earlier this month and it has earned about $20 million (it cost close to $60 million) around the world. Although a very expensive big budgeted affair, the movie crashed at the Chinese box office failing to break any records. Unlike most of the Western directors who would probably attack the audience for the lack of success of their film, Hua Tao Teng actually publicly apologized to the
The movie is a big screen adaptation of Jiang Nan's novel
audience for ruining their hopes in sf films with this one. Qi Shu, pop star Han Lu (I hear he is really bad in the film), Godfrey Gao and Vincent Matile are just some of the names that appear in the cast.
SHANGHAI FORTRESS
is based on the novel of the same name set in the future: the city of
Shanghai China battles to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an
alien force that
The story of the movie is set in year 2042!
has attacked and laid siege to numerous cities around
the globe in it's quest to harvest a hidden energy only found on earth. Check out the trailer with English subtitles below:
Just two new Asian movie trailers for you this monotonous beginning of the week, starting with probably one of the craziest trailers you will ever see because in it a man is giving birth to some kind of ... well, monster I guess. MONSTER HUNT is a $40 million action adventure fantasy movie opening next week in China and starring Eric Tsang, Tang Wei and Wallace Chung.
Directed by Raman Hui who worked at Dreamworks on SHREK movies, MONSTER HUNT
fantasy comedy is set in a fantasy world far, far away, where monsters
ruled the land before humans came and started the war. In its final
days, they outwitted the monsters and succeeded in driving them into the
dark mountains. Ever since, monsters have been forbidden to step into
the land again. For all these years, the two races have lived in their
separate worlds, until the birth of Hu Ba, the young kind hearted king
of the monsters who will try to make peace between the world of humans
and the world of the monster!
'THE ASSASSIN' TRAILER
FROM CANNES WINNING DIRECTOR HOU HSIAO HSIEN
A month or two ago I showed you first photos and a clip from new sprawling movie THE ASSASSIN and now we have the first trailer. It is directed by Hou Hsiao Hsien who was awarded at Cannes Film Festival this year.
The film is set during the mighty Tang Dynasty period in Chinese history. Qi Shu is Nie Yinniang who returns to family after several years in exile. The mission of her order is to eliminate the tyranny of the Governors who avoid the authority of the Emperor. Now she will have to choose between sacrificing the man she loves, or break definitively with the "order of the Assassins".
