Shanghai News

For the three of you that enjoyed Stranglehold , you might be excited at the news that action director John Woo is turning it into a movie.

China is moving to take back one of its own - even if it is legend. Mulan is the Middle Kingdom's gender-bending heroine, its Joan of Arc.

Harry Potter, James Bond and Indiana Jones fans have all had a bit of help from Steve Mitchell.

Justin Bartha and Eva Amurri star in "New York, I Love You," a collaboration of storytelling from some of today's most imaginative filmmakers.

By the early '90s, director John Woo had firmly established himself as one of the top directors in Hong Kong before coming to Hollywood and doing the same with a number of action blockbusters.

The hits from this year's American Film Market * keep on coming. The yearly festival where buyers and sellers do business to bring us all the movies we'll see in the near future offers plenty of photos and full synopses.

When it comes to the first photos and synopsis from upcoming films, Collider has reaped great rewards from this year's American Film Market .

AFM* fun continues with the first images and full synopses for All Good Things starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, Pirhana 3D starring Elisabeth Shue and Richard Dreyfuss, Shanghai starring John Cusack and Ken Watanbe, and The Fighter starring Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, and Amy Adams.

He doesn't have to say anything about world peace. Chicago native John Cusack will take a moment and find the deeper meaning to his new disaster film '2012.' ABOVE: John Cusack plays a writer and divorced father who tries to save the world from collapse in the Roland Emmerich-directed disaster film '2012.' BELOW: 'That movie has a life of its own,' ...

"2012," a highly anticipated foreign film among local movie buffs, will debut next Friday as part of a simultaneous global premiere.

It is not uncommon for a film to be held up in pre-production. Whether it is dealing with drop-outs, production costs, or a simple unwillingness to get a script together, many things can hold up a production for months.

Julie Christie and Shia LaBeouf. New York, I Love You Running time 110 minutes Written by Emmanuel Benbihy and Tristan CarnA© , and various others Directed by Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Randall Balsmeyer Starring Shia LeBeouf, Bradley ...

BORN special effects expert has cast his spell on the big screen in Hollywood. John Cramman, of South Shields, is enjoying a magical career working on major blockbusters thanks to his skills.

The production company and distributor behind Quentin Tarantino's box-office-pleasing Inglourious Basterds will end up with almost half the headcount it started with in 2005 Hit a Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino promoting Inglourious Basterds.

Actress Gong Li graces the October 2009 cover of Chinese Elle magazine. The movie "Shanghai", her second collaboration with actor Chow Yun-fat after 2006's "Curse of the Golden Flower", is expected to be released in 2010.

SIXTY foreigners have been honored in this year's Shanghai Magnolia Silver Awards for making outstanding contributions to the city's social and economic development.

The trailer for Chow Yun Fat's next project, Confucius , recently hit the internet, and it's gathered quite a bit of attention.

"Taking Woodstock," with Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber.

The scene was like something out of a movie - except it wasn't. Workers preparing a Manhattan neighborhood for an upcoming movie shoot saw real bullets flying outside a housing project.

The Weinstein brothers' Asian debut is aiming for a fall release in the region, a year after finishing shooting, but its U.S. release date still hasn't been decided, the Hollywood filmmakers' production company said Thursday.