Posted in casey silver, Collin Chou, jackie chan, jet li, John Fusco, Li Bing Bing, Media, Michael Angarano, Rob Minkoff, Uncategorized, Yifei Liu, Yuen Woo Ping, tagged casey silver, Collin Chou, forbidden kingdom, jackie chan, jet li, John Fusco, li bingbing, Michael Angarano, movie, Peter Pau, photos, pics, Rob Minkoff, Yuen Woo Ping on May 1, 2008| 4 Comments »
Having seen the film now a couple times, even we realize it’s time to start winding down Forbidden Kingdom-watch 2008. But to make it a party, we pooled our resources and searched far and wide, in all our favorite message boards and sites, for new pics… And hold onto your hats, we found a ton!
Take a peek under the cut… (WARNING: PHOTO HEAVY POST!)
Posted in Collin Chou, interviews, jackie chan, jet li, Li Bing Bing, Media, Michael Angarano, Movie news, Uncategorized, Yifei Liu, tagged Collin Chou, interviews, jackie chan, jet li, li bingbing, Michael Angarano, press conference, Rob Minkoff, Yifei Liu on April 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »
New junket interviews have found their way to youtube and Jetli.com has more cool Asian press conference mashups!
Take a look under the cut…
Posted in Collin Chou, interviews, jackie chan, jet li, John Fusco, Media, Movie news, Peter Pau, Rob Minkoff, Yifei Liu, Yuen Woo Ping, tagged behind the scenes, footage, forbidden kingdom, interviews, jackie chan, jet li, John Fusco, Michael Angarano, Peter Pau, Rob Minkoff on April 21, 2008| 1 Comment »
Today’s post continues the theme of yesterday, but cranked up to 11! Movieweb has posted a ton of new behind the scenes video, including yesterday’s video but with sound, two more behind the scenes videos, and interviews with director Rob Minkoff, cinematographer Peter Pau, screenwriter John Fusco and Michael Angarano.
See the links after the cut…
Posted in interviews, jackie chan, jet li, Media, Michael Angarano, Movie news, tagged forbidden kingdom, interviews, jackie chan, jet li, Michael Angarano, visual effects on April 19, 2008| 2 Comments »
We’re still amped from last night but we’re going again tonight and will post a review after the second viewing. Even knowing as much as we know about it, as soon as I walked out of the theater I said to my co-blogger that I needed to see it again to soak it in again! But while the movie has opened, the news hasn’t stopped flying across the nets!
In this installment, Michael Angarano in the LA Times, a look behind the scenes at the vis fx, more from Jackie and Jet, and Jackie’s five favorite flicks!! Plus, Kung Fu Cinema weighs in with a review and a Yifei Liu speaks! All after the cut…
Posted in jackie chan, jet li, Li Bing Bing, Media, Rob Minkoff, Yifei Liu, tagged interview, jackie chan, jet li, li bingbing, Michael Angarano, press conference, Rob Minkoff, Yifei Liu, Yuen Woo Ping on April 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
After yesterday’s epic blog of breaking media reports, we will be doing that again today. Click under the cut to see interviews, new pics from the Beijing press conference for the movie and more!
Another interview, info about the effects and Genesis camera, and international TV spots in the update of the day (and check the Reviews section for new additions)!
Posted in Media, Michael Angarano, tagged fighting, gq, Michael Angarano, spurr on April 7, 2008| 9 Comments »
Michael Angarano, Jason Tripitikas, aka the Seeker in The Forbidden Kingdom, is one of the actors featured in a new GQ photo series from January (thanks Larry!) covering the best new designers!
Pic is under the cut…
Posted in interviews, Media, Michael Angarano, Movie news, Peter Pau, Rob Minkoff, Yifei Liu, tagged forbidden kingdom, interview, Michael Angarano, Yifei Liu on April 6, 2008| 36 Comments »
Yifei Liu, Golden Sparrow in The Forbidden Kingdom, is a huge star in Asia from her work in music, TV and movies. The Forbidden Kingdom is the first film that will introduce Yifei (who also goes by Crystal Liu Yifei) to international and western audiences.
She gave an interview to Chinese news service Xinlang Media and talks about her character, working with Jackie Chan and Jet Li, dubbing in Mandarin for the Chinese release and scenes you might only see on the DVD, and we’ve got a translation thanks to AngeLLina from the forum Crystallized!
Details after the cut…
Posted in jackie chan, jet li, Media, Michael Angarano, Movie news, tagged clips, forbidden kingdom, jackie chan, jet li, Michael Angarano on March 21, 2008| 2 Comments »
26 Days and Counting!!!!
Two Three new clips have hit the webs! Two appear to show preludes to action, one with Michael Angarano and a very forbidding Jet Li on horseback, the other with a drunken Jackie Chan!!!! See what’s in the third clip after the cut!
Posted in Collin Chou, jackie chan, jet li, Media, Michael Angarano, Movie news, Yifei Liu, tagged forbidden kingdom, jackie chan, jet li, Michael Angarano, movie photos, Yifei Liu on March 17, 2008| 1 Comment »
The Jetlicn.com message board has proved to be an awesome resource for digging up new images from The Forbidden Kingdom, though not in large format. This weekend, they didn’t disappoint … some different looks at scenes we know about and some totally new bad@ss fight shots!
Click for more… (and go to the bottom of the page for a super bonus gallery!!!)
Posted in Michael Angarano, Movie news, tagged forbidden kingdom, interview, Michael Angarano on March 13, 2008| 1 Comment »
Michael Angarano, who plays Jason Tripitikas aka the Seeker in The Forbidden Kingdom, is doing the interview circuit for a movie he’s starring in called Snow Angels. This is a kid who lived any martial arts fan’s geekgasm of not just working with two of the gods of contemporary martial arts but learning to fight from them. He talked to IESB.net about his character and his experience working on the film. What did he say?
Find out after the cut…
Posted in Collin Chou, jackie chan, jet li, Li Bing Bing, Michael Angarano, Movie news, tagged Collin Chou, forbidden kingdom, jackie chan, jet li, Michael Angarano, new stills, photos on March 7, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Beyond Hollywood has posted some cool new stills, including three captivating shots of the White Haired Bounty Hunter…
Posted in jackie chan, jet li, Michael Angarano, Movie news, Peter Pau, Rob Minkoff, Yifei Liu, tagged forbidden kingdom, jackie chan, jet li, Michael Angarano, movie, official stills, Yifei Liu on February 13, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Looking around the interwebs I stumbled on a trailer report at BeyondHollywood.com that also had a couple of official stills I hadn’t seen before. They show a closer look at the four warriors crossing the desert, and one nice close-up of Golden Sparrow (Yifei Liu) playing her lute-like instrument.
Two more after the cut…
Posted in Movie news, tagged forbidden kingdom, interviews, jackie chan, jet li, Michael Angarano, Peter Pau, Rob Minkoff, video on December 13, 2007| Leave a Comment »
A very cool video popped up online, or at least onto my radar, at the Asian site Star Online. Interviews with Jackie, Jet, the director Rob Minkoff, Michael Angarano and footage from the big press conference they all had. This story gives a lot of insight about Jet and Jackie’s thoughts going into this movie, what it was like to work together, what the story’s about and why they made it. Really an awesome piece on the movie and highly recommended for anyone who, like me, is looking out for it in 2008…
Watch it at Star Online. Found on Counting Down and IMDb.
Posted in jackie chan, jet li, Michael Angarano, Movie news, Yifei Liu, tagged Crystal Liu Yifei, jackie chan, jet li, Lifei Yiu, Michael Angarano, production, The Forbidden Kingdom, yi fei liu, Yifei Liu on December 13, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Some users on the message board for Pro-Networks posted the excellent first cast pic with the following post (with a link farther down to the second). The origin site for these pics (and others) is here.
Here is some exclusive info on the current status of production on The Forbidden Kingdom.
Many movies have about 25-35 shooting days, with 30 being common. Generally the actor would be on location for about a month and a half. This especially applies to small independent films.
Well, this is no little indie. The Forbidden Kingdom is a big movie, and has a production schedule of 100 days. They have completed about 75 days of production right now.
While the majority of production is done, there is still a 31 day fight sequence to produce. That’s longer than the entire shooting schedule on many films.
Most from the U.S. have now been in China for 4 1/2 months and have not been back home since.
Silent Monkeys 