Sony Pictures Classics is on board to produce Zhang Yimou’s Chinese remake of the Coen Brothers’ “Blood Simple,” reports THR. The 1985 original, the Coen brothers’ debut feature, was a neo-noir crime-thriller that focused on a rich but jealous man who hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. SPC [...]
“Red Cliff,” John Woo’s first Chinese film since “Hard Boiled” in 1992, is a hugely successful historical epic that has grossed more than $100 million in Japan alone, but has failed to land distribution in the US. Until now. Variety reported Friday, “Magnolia genre label Magnet Releasing has picked up U.S. distribution rights to [...]
The “Nanking Massacre,” the 1937 Japanese ravaging of the eastern Chinese city known as Nanjing has been a point of dispute between the Japanese and Chinese governments for decades. It is generally believed that the Japanese army brutally killed around 150,000 civilians and raped thousands of women there. The Chinese are still looking for an [...]
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