[25 .06.2000] News
-Mission: Impossible 2 World Wide box office results
-Fox Lorber: The Killer DVD release date
-New John Woo DVDs in Hong Kong and Japan

[18 .06.2000] News
-New war film set to break Hawaii spending record
-New John Woo interview
-Extras needed for next John Woo movie. Time to go to Hawaii

[11 .06.2000] News
- Cristian Slater casted in Windtalkers
- Peace Hotel DVD re-released
- M:I-2 the original idea for film finale (never filmed)
- Mission Impossible parody site
- John Woo in Premiere (June/2000)
- M:I-2 Tokyo premiere
- Old John Woo / Jackie Chan pictures
- Tom Cruise wants Chow Yun-fat in M:I-3
- Tsui Hark is planning Better Tomorrow remake with female cast

[04 .06.2000] News
- John Woo and Chow Yun-fat doing a video game for PlayStation 2
-  Windtalkers script reviewed
-  Yahoo Clubs: Unofficial John Woo club
-  Ain't Is Cool News poll about the best Woo film to date
-  Mission Impossibe 2 succee continues

Cristian Slater casted in Windtalkers (11.06.)

Slater Talked Into Woo Rematch

Christian Slater, whose last film offering was 1998's poorly received Very Bad Things, will reteam with Mission: Impossible 2 helmer John Woo for Windtalkers, Variety reports.

Woo previously worked with Slater in the director's second American film, 1996's Broken Arrow, which starred John Travolta. Woo sure likes to use the same leading men: Windtalkers will star Nicolas Cage, who faced off with Travolta in the Hong Kong auteur's third U.S. film, Face/Off.

In Windtalkers, Slater and Cage will play World War II soldiers assigned to guard the Navajo Indians who've been tapped with code duty - since no foreign power could crack the Navajo language, that was the code of choice during the war.

If capture seems imminent, however, the military men have orders to kill the men they're assigned to protect. Think that threat will be acted on? If not, go back to Screenwriting 101, junior.

Shooting begins in August in Hawaii. The script is thanks to Blown Away writers John Rice and Joe Batteer.

Slater is currently filming the comedy Cletis Tout with Tim Allen and will be seen this December with Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell in their Elvis-themed heist pic, 3000 Miles to Graceland - let's hope it's not as bad as the Santa-suited robbery scene in Reindeer Games. Slater also co-stars in the political drama The Contender with Joan Allen and Jeff Bridges, which will be in theaters this September.

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Peace Hotel DVD re-released, new version (11.06.)

Remixed Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack (Mandarin & Cantonese)
Starring: Chow Yun-fat
Subtitles : Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Vietnamese
USD$21.00 at Hivi.Zone

Mission: Impossible 2 end fight changed (11.06.)

Craig Reid at Fandom.com, in the second of a three-part interview, interviewed John Woo regarding MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2. Regarding the original finale, he replied that "'...there was going to be a big car chase... in downtown Sydney. ...somehow after we had brought all the cars, built a lot of things, getting the explosions together, set up for the car to crash into stores and everything... we couldn't get the permit. ...so we had to change the whole idea and do the whole motorcycle chase outside of Sydney and then go to the cliffs to do the fight.' And regarding Alfred Hitchcock, he replied "'Oh, he was a great filmmaker, and in each one of his films he would have or experiment with new kinds of things, not just technically but also visually. [...] He [also] usually lets the audience know who the killer is at first and that makes the audience feel more scary. The other thing is that he has a good sense of humor and he does that in an elegant way, and he is very romantic in like TO KILL A THIEF or NORTH BY NORTHWEST; even in TOPAZ, the American spy in Cuba with the girl is so romantic.'"
- Thanks: Bullet in the Web

Also from these you can find other interesting information like there really WAS R-rated version before it was cut to meet PG-13 rating requirements.
John Woo interview - Fandom.com
John Woo interview (2) - Fandom.com

Mission Impossible parody site(11.06.)

So what about this site? M:I-2 is so big hit someone really had to do this. And entertaindom.com does film parodies.

John Woo in Premiere, June issue (11.06.)

The June issue of PREMIERE magazine has a kick-ass article on John Woo and it comes with a cool photo of him too. If you are unable to pick up a copy, check out their website for the article.

Incidentally, you can also watch Tom Cruise, John Woo and Thandie Newton talk about making the new action blockbuster "Mission Impossible 2" as MediaTrip.com has exclusive red carpet footage.
( Source: Bullet in the Web)

M:I-2 Tokyo premiere (11.06.)

Tuesday, 6/6/00 - Both the Associated Press and Reuters published photos from today's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 Tokyo premiere. - Source: Koganuts

Chinese John Woo / Jackie Chan page with some old pictures (11.06.)

http://www.easyfinder.com.hk/easyent/text/436/p2.htm

In the last picture, John Woo is the one inside the red circle. That picture is from Hand of Death (aka Countdown in kungfu).

Tom Cruise wants Chow Yun-fat in M:I-3 (11.06.)

Appledaily reported Tom Cruise originally wanted to match with CYF in MI2 but CYF was filming Anna and the King at that time. Now he wants CYF in MI3 and CYF asks to see a script before committing.

Of course he could not get the main role in M:I-3, that is for Tom Cruise. But for sure Chow Yun-fat would be seen by big audience if he had a good role in next sequel. Another question is who is going to direct possible sequel. Would M:I-3 bring Woo and Chow together? Originally Tom Cruise has stated that he wants different director for every mission.

Tsui Hark is planning Better Tomorrow remake with female cast

Tsui Hark has been planning to make female version of John Woo classic A Better Tomorrow (1986). Tsui Hark originally wanted to make ABT a story of three females but Woo wanted to make it with male lead. Actually Tsui Hark made Peking Opera Blues when his ideas with ABT were rejected. Tsui Hark has later admitted that he was too much involved in ABT project, Woo did not get enough room to breath. Woo is very much an independed as director. And there we can see some basic reasons why John Woo and Tsui Hark did go seperate ways in late '80s, after The Killer (1989).

Tsui Hark has been planning some other remakes of his older films: Zu - Warrior from Magic Mountain 2 and Black Mask 2. I also heard he's already begun work on TIME AND TIDE with Nicholas Tse Tin-Fung and Cecilia Cheung.