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Kong movie article in Washington Post [24 .07.1999] Mission Impossible 2: new release date [15 .07.1999] Mission Impossible 2 [15 .07.1999] Big Hit release UK date [15 .07.1999] Twin Dragons release UK date [15 .07.1999] Blackjack video rental in Finland [15 .07.1999] Matrix release [15 .07.1999] Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal Hong Kong movie article in Washington Post Hong Kong movie article in Washington Post. Of course John Woo is mentioned as one of 5 the best directors. And the list of 10 best films include The Killer and Hard Boiled. An many other great authors from Hong Kong are mentioned also.
Mission Impossible 2: new release date
Sequel to 'Mission Impossible' becoming just that (Launch) - It appears that production problems on producer/actor Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible" sequel may be even bigger than first thought. On Wednesday, Launch reported that shooting for the movie has been delayed several times due to script, budgetary and personnel snags, including crew members bailing to work on the Jodie Foster movie "Anna and the King." Now Paramount has announced that the release date for "Mission Impossible 2" has been moved back five months to May 24, 2000, from what Daily Variety suspects was an "overly-ambitious target" of December 17, 1999. The trade explains that the June 30, 2000 release date for the Cruise/Steven Spielberg sci-fi thriller "Minority Report" will likely be pushed back, as well, to avoid conflict with "Mission 2." A new article from E! Online reports that the release date is in May 1999. It says, actually it hints that, the film is "troubled". The article reports that there have been a lot of trouble with the film including location problems and arguments between the crew -- including the cinematographer, Andrew Lesnie, leaving in May because of "stylistic differences" between him and John Woo. News from: More about Mission Impossible 2
Mission Impossible 2 release date Running time: n/a minutes. Cert: n/a Opening date (UK):
December 17, 1999
Running time: 91 minutes. Cert: 18 Opening date (UK):
June 25, 1999 I could not call this film a masterpiece but somehow I found it watchable. Here is what Angie Errigo writes in Empire:
'(Wong's Hollywood debut .. is like Woo's English language debut Hard Target) plays like a poor translation, mixing action, farce and childish smut into a half-baked crime comedy'.
Running time: 89 minutes. Dubbed Cert: 12 Opening date (UK):
May 14, 1999 Films was a fund-raising project for the Director's Guild of Hong Kong, so
there are plenty of movie directors in this movie working as actors and also as
action directors. Every action scene was directed by different man. Also John
Woo was in and he can be seen as a priest in the very and of the film. Good role
for Woo because he wanted to became a priest before he started in film industry.
Blackjack video rental in Finland
Black Jack Finland video rental release date June 16 1999 Menestyksekkään sheriffinuran jälkeen Jack Devlin jatkaa henkivartijana ja
henkilökohtaisena turvakonsulttina. Erään toimeksiannon aikana
fosforigranaatti sokaisee Devlinin hetkellisesti ja hänelle kehittyy voimakas
pelko kaikkea valkoista kohtaan. Devlinin seuraava keikka on suojella
huippumallia, jota vainoaa psykopaattinen murhaaja.
Devlinin onnnustuu torjua sarja väkivaltaisia murhayrityksiä, mutta samalla
hän tulee paljastaneeksi fobiansa. Murhaaja ei epäröi käyttää hyväkseen
Devlinin heikkoa kohtaa ja nyt Devlin aloittaa taistelun kahta vihollista
vastaan, omaa pelkoaan ja tappavan vaarallista psykopaattia vastaan...
Also from Empire, July 1999. Matrix
Opened in UK in June 11. And now it also opened here in Finland during last
weekend. Why I am telling about this? I really don't know. Maybe because some
people say that Matrix uses Woo style action but does it better than Woo himself.
I haven't seen Matrix (yet) but I'm not ready to buy that. Some say that Woo
should put some real shootouts into Mission Impossible 2 to make it bigger than
Matrix. Well, it might be good idea not to take that train. If John Woo makes a
movie, a romantic thriller with less 'heroic bloodshed' then I'm sure people
will see Woo is real movie director, not just a action director. You know action
is not the only thing John Woo can do.
Anyway Matrix has mad it big if we are talking about box office. Australia's
Daily Telegraph reports that Reeves has signed on for not one but two "Matrix"
sequels, and that his salary will be put on a sliding scale, comparative to the
movies' performance. "The Matrix," which is still in theaters both
here and around the world continues to rack in the bucks - nearly $300
million-plus-and-counting worldwide. Warner says nothing about Matrix sequels
yet.
Oh, there is a sequel already in form of comic book. It can be found on
Official Matrix Home Page.
"The Matrix" is expected to be released on DVD and for rental
October 5. Warner releases only rental version and is selling "The Matrix"
at a low price only on DVD, a format embraced mostly by older film aficionados
with more money than the average teen. That way Warner hopes to keep "The
Matrix" out of the hands of kids - and avoid the ire of scapegoat-hunting
conservative groups. Only releasing "The Matrix" for rental can
conceivably limit some youngsters' access to the movie, Daily Variety explains,
as most video rental chains require customers to present ID for "R"
rated movies.
Fantasia The
International Festival of Fantasy and Action Cinema. Great Films Festival in Montreal has once again many great Hong Kong movies,
also one John Woo movie.
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