We thought we'd seen just about every permutation of Hollywood and the game industry's lascivious intersections: The movie based on the game; the game based on the movie; the game based on the movie based on the game, the game based on the movie based on the graphic novel; the movie sequel to the vi...

John Woo’s production company Lion Rock Entertainment is developing a big screen sequel to the classic 1992 Hong Kong action film Hard Boiled . Screenwriters Jeremy Passmore (Special) and Andre Fabrizio (upcoming John Carpenter film The Prince) are penning the adaption of the Woo-produced 2007...

Red Cliff, the latest from Hong Kong action director John Woo (Hard Boiled, The Killer), is coming to DVD in Japan this March. What's that got to do with gaming? Buy either Red Cliff Part I Standard Edition or Red Cliff Part I Collector's Edition and get a bundled Shin Sangoku Musou: Multi-Raid ( Dy...

Welcome to the first weekly edition of Asian Cinema Scene. I've written about Asian films under this moniker irregularly in the past; from now on, you can look forward to a fresh new post every Monday. (Unless something emerges from a river and snatches me in its tentacles.) Some weeks I'll concentr...

A tipster sent in what may be the antecedent to Morrissey's baby-toting artwork for his forthcoming album Years Of Refusal, the cover for various DVD and video editions of the 1992 John Woo flick Hard Boiled . (Notes on the film itself: 230 people die! There is a "cheesy" sax and keyboard-heavy scor...

Yes, I loved John Woo movies, and the movie " 赤å£�" part I has lived up to my expectations. Three years ago before I left Cambridge, in a table of beer with a group of foreigner friends, I talked about the rumor that the famous Hong Kong director John Woo is making the movie " 赤å£...

While the Cannes Film Festival officially ended yesterday, we should see a fair amount of coverage stretch on into the latter parts of this week, as there is still a ton of buzz and hot assets floating around. One film that showed off a promo reel during Cannes last week was John Woo’s $80 mil...

Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, Romance, Casting, Deals, Cinematical Indie A famous Hong Kong action director is in an epic frame of mind. John Woo has not yet finished his two-part historical adventure Red Cliff, due out this year, but he has his next picture all ready to go. According to Var...

Amanda at Think Progress pointed out Monday that The Wall Street Journal’s Op-Ed was hosting a column by John Woo, the apologist for torture who was a Justice Department lawyer from 2001-03 and now parks his butt at the American Enterprise Institute when he isn’t teaching law at Berkeley...

Filed under: Trailers and Clips A trailer for John Woo's new film Red Cliff has surfaced on Yahoo Tawain, and it looks as if the old action master will no longer suffer indignities of Jean-Claude Van Damme or Ben Affleck. His first feature film since Paycheck (2003), it's a swordfighting epic that b...