REBEL ALLIANCE : Just in time for Dustin Nguyen.
Our release of the Vietnamese actioner The Rebel should finally put paid to the description of actor Dustin Nguyen as “that guy from 21 Jump Street”. Not that Dustin is ashamed of his association with...MORE ›
GETTING CHRISTY LOVE : Beijing fun with the divine Ms. Chung.
It was a great loss to Hong Kong’s babe factor when Christy Chung decamped for Beijing. The Vietnamese beauty had been a luminous staple of the local industry for several years before relocating with...MORE ›
RED CLIFF NOTES : On location for John Woo’s magnum opus.
The term ‘epic’ is used too liberally to describe historical war films, but is definitely appropriate in terms of the size and scale of John Woo’s Red Cliff. Based on the classic novel Romance Of...MORE ›
DISPATCHES FROM THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM : Tracking Jackie and Jet to a filmic frontier.
Hong Kong producers have pursued the pairing of Jackie Chan and Jet Li for years. They were once meant to team for a reworking of the DeNiro vehicle Midnight Run, and at one time were discussing a period...MORE ›
THE CAINE SCRUTINY : My dinner with David Carradine.
The hotel at the Hengdian Film Studios could provide a perfect location if a Chinese producer ever decides to remake Kubrick’s The Shining. It’s vast and desolate. It has everything (gym, pool, game...MORE ›
RECORDING EDISON: In the studio for a Dog Bite Dog commentary.
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus, wrote Gershwin, when he said the world was round; they all laughed when Edison recorded sound… Thankfully, such was not the case when I met the amiable Edison...MORE ›
ONE NIGHT WITH Q : How Maggie and me survived some Dragon Heat on the mean streets of Mongkok.
Our upcoming DD release Dragon Heat brings back a mixed bag of memories. It was the last film I worked on as an independent producer before joining TWC. It was also the last Hong Kong movie Maggie Q appeared...MORE ›
GETTING CARTER : Catching up with the Hapkido hero.
I first met Carter Wong at his New York kung fu school, around about (according to my reckoning) twenty years ago. At that time, his earlier films were only available in the UK on blurry pirate videos,...MORE ›
OUR MAN VAN (DAMME) : Checking in with Hong Kong’s Belgian connection.
When we met this evening in the coffee shop of the Peninsula Hotel, I tried to figure out how many years I’ve known Jean-Claude Van Damme. I remember distinctly the first time I set eyes on him. Cannon...MORE ›
