FROM CHUCKY TO JASON TO JET : Tracking Ronny Yu.
I had lunch today with Ronny Yu, director of Fearless. If there’s any film I wish we had on Dragon Dynasty that we don’t, it’s this epic bio-pic of kung fu icon Ho Yuan-chia (Fok Yun-kap), played,...MORE ›
WILL THE REAL INSPECTOR LOGAN PLEASE STAND UP? : Shooting Infernal Affairs 2.
I met today with Alan Mak and Felix Chong, co-writers of the Infernal Affairs trilogy, which Alan co-directed. He and former partner Andrew Lau have had a very public parting of the ways, and Alan and...MORE ›
ME AND SUZIE WONG: A close encounter with Nancy Kwan.
As a youngster growing up in Peterborough, England, everything I knew about Hong Kong, I knew from the movies. From Enter The Dragon, I knew that it was a place that could spawn kung fu masters like Bruce...MORE ›
‘HARD-BOILED’ MEMORIES: Visiting the set of a John Woo classic.
We’re currently preparing our double-disc edition of the John Woo masterpiece Hard- Boiled. The crew just got back from Beijing, where they shot an exhaustive fresh interview with the director. I was...MORE ›
WONG IS RIGHT: How reports of Melvin’s death have been exaggerated.
How often do you get to look into the eyes of a dead man? A couple of years back, there was buzz on the internet (where else?) saying that Hong Kong character actor Melvin Wong had passed away. And yet...MORE ›
LANDING WITH JET: On location for The Warlords.
I’m just flying back from the Shanghai studios where director Peter Chan is shooting his period war epic The Warlords. The film stars Jet Li, in what will undoubtedly be his most demanding acting role...MORE ›
FROM KRYPTON TO KOWLOON: THE SUPERHEROES ARE COMING.
Recently, Hong Kong has felt like a blend between Metropolis, Gotham City and the stylized New York seen in the classic Marvel comics. A crew flew here to shoot plate shots for the new Fantastic Four film,...MORE ›
TRACKING JACKIE CHAN’S POLICE STORY ON THE STREETS OF HONG KONG.
When we were preparing the Dragon Dynasty releases of the classic Jackie Chan Police Story films, label chief Brian White asked me to work on some location report featurettes. I’d done these before,...MORE ›
