Distributor Trinity CineAsia has acquired Donnie Yen-starring action film “Raging Fire” from Emperor Motion Pictures for the U.K. and Ireland.
The film debuted at the top of the box office last weekend in China, where it grossed $37.2 million in the three-day period, and led sales since, grossing $56.8 million in its opening week.
It’s the last film from the legendary Hong Kong writer, director and producer Benny Chan, who died last summer. He was beloved for his action titles like “The White Storm,” “Call of Heroes,” and Jackie Chan pictures like “New Police Story.”
“Raging Fire” reunites Donnie Yen with his co-star Nicholas Tse (“New Police Story”) after past collaborations on 2006’s “Dragon Tiger Gate” and 2009’s “Bodyguards and Assassins.” It features Yen’s fight choreography.
“It is with tremendous anticipation and profound sadness we are releasing Benny Chan’s final picture, Raging Fire,” said Trinity CineAsia director Cedric Behrel.
The film debuted at the top of the box office last weekend in China, where it grossed $37.2 million in the three-day period, and led sales since, grossing $56.8 million in its opening week.
It’s the last film from the legendary Hong Kong writer, director and producer Benny Chan, who died last summer. He was beloved for his action titles like “The White Storm,” “Call of Heroes,” and Jackie Chan pictures like “New Police Story.”
“Raging Fire” reunites Donnie Yen with his co-star Nicholas Tse (“New Police Story”) after past collaborations on 2006’s “Dragon Tiger Gate” and 2009’s “Bodyguards and Assassins.” It features Yen’s fight choreography.
“It is with tremendous anticipation and profound sadness we are releasing Benny Chan’s final picture, Raging Fire,” said Trinity CineAsia director Cedric Behrel.
- 06/08/2021
- di Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Ip Man: Kung Fu Master is the latest film to portray the legendary grandmaster of Wing Chun Kung Fu, Ip Man, the real life teacher of Bruce Lee who lived from 1983 to 1972. All the films have been heavily fictionalized, and the Ip Man film franchise is far from unified. There have been multiple actors, directors and filmmakers featuring Ip Man, and this new film is independent from all of those, although confusingly enough, it’s very connected.
The most prominent Ip Man franchise stars Donnie Yen. It began in 2008 with Ip Man and retained the same core team for four installments: directed by Wilson Yip, produced by Raymond Wong, and written by Edmond Wong.
Yip and Yen collaborated in some previous critically acclaimed martial arts films like Kill Zone (aka Spl: Sha Po Lang), Dragon Tiger Gate, and Flashpoint – all of which were well regarded for their high octane...
The most prominent Ip Man franchise stars Donnie Yen. It began in 2008 with Ip Man and retained the same core team for four installments: directed by Wilson Yip, produced by Raymond Wong, and written by Edmond Wong.
Yip and Yen collaborated in some previous critically acclaimed martial arts films like Kill Zone (aka Spl: Sha Po Lang), Dragon Tiger Gate, and Flashpoint – all of which were well regarded for their high octane...
- 11/12/2020
- di Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
Craig Lines Jan 24, 2019
We look through the life in film of a legendary martial artist – the man who trained Bruce Lee and inspired a few movies of his own...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
After Bruce Lee's death at the height of his fame in 1973, Hong Kong filmmakers raced to capitalize on his stardom. With the kung fu craze booming, almost every facet of Bruce's life – and plenty of glorious nonsense like a fight against Dracula - got turned into a movie. Lookalikes with new names like Bruce Li, Bruce Le, and Bruce Leung became some of the most prolific kung fu stars of the era, and "Bruceploitation" became a prominent subgenre.
Perhaps because these films were mostly sold to the west, one part of Bruce's life that was rarely explored was his early life in Hong Kong and his Wing Chun training with Ip Man. We...
We look through the life in film of a legendary martial artist – the man who trained Bruce Lee and inspired a few movies of his own...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
After Bruce Lee's death at the height of his fame in 1973, Hong Kong filmmakers raced to capitalize on his stardom. With the kung fu craze booming, almost every facet of Bruce's life – and plenty of glorious nonsense like a fight against Dracula - got turned into a movie. Lookalikes with new names like Bruce Li, Bruce Le, and Bruce Leung became some of the most prolific kung fu stars of the era, and "Bruceploitation" became a prominent subgenre.
Perhaps because these films were mostly sold to the west, one part of Bruce's life that was rarely explored was his early life in Hong Kong and his Wing Chun training with Ip Man. We...
- 24/01/2019
- Den of Geek
Author: Competitions
To celebrate the release of acclaimed martial arts movie The Final Master from Cine Asia, we have an awesome kung fu DVD double bill up for grabs including Ip Man and Young Bruce Lee, to get you in the mood for action.
Don’t miss The Final Master making its long-awaited arrival in the UK! In 1930’s China, Wing Chun master Chen She (Fan Liao, Assembly, Chinese Zodiac), arrives in Tianjin, a city famous for martial arts. With plans to open his own kung fu school, he must first train a student to defeat eight of the city’s masters, legitimising himself as a teacher. But when he is caught up in local politics and an underworld power struggle, Chen finds himself at odds with dangerous people and will fight to protect what he holds most dear.
Written and directed by Xu Haofeng (The Grandmaster) and co-starring Jia Song (Shock Wave Tunnel,...
To celebrate the release of acclaimed martial arts movie The Final Master from Cine Asia, we have an awesome kung fu DVD double bill up for grabs including Ip Man and Young Bruce Lee, to get you in the mood for action.
Don’t miss The Final Master making its long-awaited arrival in the UK! In 1930’s China, Wing Chun master Chen She (Fan Liao, Assembly, Chinese Zodiac), arrives in Tianjin, a city famous for martial arts. With plans to open his own kung fu school, he must first train a student to defeat eight of the city’s masters, legitimising himself as a teacher. But when he is caught up in local politics and an underworld power struggle, Chen finds himself at odds with dangerous people and will fight to protect what he holds most dear.
Written and directed by Xu Haofeng (The Grandmaster) and co-starring Jia Song (Shock Wave Tunnel,...
- 21/02/2018
- di Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Flash Point
HONG KONG -- After last year's gaudy, CGI-crazy Dragon Tiger Gate, veteran Hong Kong director Wilson Yip Wai Shun goes back to basics in Flash Point. Those dazzled by the cut-and-thrust slickness of 2005's S.P.L.: Sha po lang will experience another kind of adrenaline rush in a "sequel" that hawks its realistic interpretation of MMA, or mixed martial arts, a school utilizing a melange of disciplines from Chinese wushu to boxing.
Boxoffice in China yielded about $1.9 million after three days. The film has been selected for the midnight section at the Toronto International Film Festival and easily should find its way to the North American DVD market.
Donnie Yen reinvents the role of Ma Jun, the dynamic but by-the-book policeman in S.P.L., as a violent cop who breaks every rule in the system -- and every rib of his culprits. His adversaries are a trio of drug-smuggling brothers from Vietnam: Archer (Lui Leung-wai), Tony (Collin Chou) and Tiger (Yu Xing). In a move to expand their turf, they try to assassinate a rival, who survives and agrees to testify against them. With the help of Ma's buddy, undercover cop Wilson Louis Koo), police arrest Archer; Tony and Tiger escape, while Wilson is handicapped in the operation.
This sets the stage for a plot of nail-biting tension, one in which a falling battery plays a pivotal role -- a neat variation on the slo-mo falling coin in Bullets Over Summer. Cinematography, editing and even the bass-heavy music are executed with the same briskness as the close-contact style of MMA. One elevator scene is shot like a boxing match with the camera nudging up to within an inch of Ma's face as he delivers a uppercut to his opponent, while a female cop aiming wildly with her gun encircles them like a referee in the ring.
Shooting a duel in an outdoor food stall, the camera is almost as acrobatic as the action stars. Skirting nimbly around tables turned and a girl being flung across the street like a Frisbee, it captures at close range Ma and Tiger wrestling each other with bare hands.
The final showdown is a prolonged 7 1/2 minutes of unarmed combat. As if afraid to detract attention from the real action, the set is just a makeshift hut, knocked up only to be knocked down. Even the camera pulls back to let Ma and Tony let go and let rip. Ma stops only for a second, not to catch his breath, but to take off his jacket so you can admire his biceps.
Now in his third collaboration with action director Yen (after S.P.L. and Dragon Tiger Gate), it's tricky to tell where Yen's influence begins and Yip's direction ends. With the help of Yen and his team of martial artists (including Kenji Tanigaki of Shinobi fame), the action set pieces are spread out sparsely but have stronger impact.
Yet gone are the enthralling human dramas, the quirky personalities and vivid evocations of place -- trademarks of Yip's best-loved works such as Juliet in Love and Bullets Over Summer. The plot development of Flash Point is purely utilitarian, like a shuttle bus that transports stock characters from one action set to another.
FLASH POINT
Mandarin Films Distribution /Chang Ying Group/Polybona Film Distribution/Beijing Enlight Pictures
Credits:
Director: Wilson Yip Wai Shun
Screenwriters: Szeto Kam Yuen, Nicholl Tang
Producers: Nansun Shi, Donnie Yen
Executive producers: Raymond Wong, Yu Dong, Wang Chang Tian
Action director: Donnie Yen
Director of photography: Cheung Man-po
Production designer: Kenneth Mak
Music: Chan Kwong-wing
Costume designer: Lee Pik-kwan
Editor: Cheung Ka-fai
Cast:
Ma Jun: Donnie Yen
Wilson: Louis Koo
Archer (aka Ja Ge): Lui Leung-wai
Tony: Collin Chou
Tiger: Yu Xing
Fan Bingbing: Julie
Inspector Wong: Kent Cheng
Running time -- 87 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Boxoffice in China yielded about $1.9 million after three days. The film has been selected for the midnight section at the Toronto International Film Festival and easily should find its way to the North American DVD market.
Donnie Yen reinvents the role of Ma Jun, the dynamic but by-the-book policeman in S.P.L., as a violent cop who breaks every rule in the system -- and every rib of his culprits. His adversaries are a trio of drug-smuggling brothers from Vietnam: Archer (Lui Leung-wai), Tony (Collin Chou) and Tiger (Yu Xing). In a move to expand their turf, they try to assassinate a rival, who survives and agrees to testify against them. With the help of Ma's buddy, undercover cop Wilson Louis Koo), police arrest Archer; Tony and Tiger escape, while Wilson is handicapped in the operation.
This sets the stage for a plot of nail-biting tension, one in which a falling battery plays a pivotal role -- a neat variation on the slo-mo falling coin in Bullets Over Summer. Cinematography, editing and even the bass-heavy music are executed with the same briskness as the close-contact style of MMA. One elevator scene is shot like a boxing match with the camera nudging up to within an inch of Ma's face as he delivers a uppercut to his opponent, while a female cop aiming wildly with her gun encircles them like a referee in the ring.
Shooting a duel in an outdoor food stall, the camera is almost as acrobatic as the action stars. Skirting nimbly around tables turned and a girl being flung across the street like a Frisbee, it captures at close range Ma and Tiger wrestling each other with bare hands.
The final showdown is a prolonged 7 1/2 minutes of unarmed combat. As if afraid to detract attention from the real action, the set is just a makeshift hut, knocked up only to be knocked down. Even the camera pulls back to let Ma and Tony let go and let rip. Ma stops only for a second, not to catch his breath, but to take off his jacket so you can admire his biceps.
Now in his third collaboration with action director Yen (after S.P.L. and Dragon Tiger Gate), it's tricky to tell where Yen's influence begins and Yip's direction ends. With the help of Yen and his team of martial artists (including Kenji Tanigaki of Shinobi fame), the action set pieces are spread out sparsely but have stronger impact.
Yet gone are the enthralling human dramas, the quirky personalities and vivid evocations of place -- trademarks of Yip's best-loved works such as Juliet in Love and Bullets Over Summer. The plot development of Flash Point is purely utilitarian, like a shuttle bus that transports stock characters from one action set to another.
FLASH POINT
Mandarin Films Distribution /Chang Ying Group/Polybona Film Distribution/Beijing Enlight Pictures
Credits:
Director: Wilson Yip Wai Shun
Screenwriters: Szeto Kam Yuen, Nicholl Tang
Producers: Nansun Shi, Donnie Yen
Executive producers: Raymond Wong, Yu Dong, Wang Chang Tian
Action director: Donnie Yen
Director of photography: Cheung Man-po
Production designer: Kenneth Mak
Music: Chan Kwong-wing
Costume designer: Lee Pik-kwan
Editor: Cheung Ka-fai
Cast:
Ma Jun: Donnie Yen
Wilson: Louis Koo
Archer (aka Ja Ge): Lui Leung-wai
Tony: Collin Chou
Tiger: Yu Xing
Fan Bingbing: Julie
Inspector Wong: Kent Cheng
Running time -- 87 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 28/08/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mandarin has criminal plan with Yip, Yen
Encouraged by the success of Tsui Hark's Seven Swords and the warm reception to its coming kung fu blockbuster Dragon Tiger Gate, Mandarin Films will be concentrating its efforts mainly on actioners in the coming year. First in the pipeline is an unnamed contemporary crime actioner that will reunite Dragon Tiger Gate director Wilson Yip and action director and star Donnie Yen. Budget projections are awaiting cast confirmation but Mandarin Films chairman Raymond Wong estimates that it will be within the $6 million to $7 million range. "The market now seems to be either going for actioners or art house films and actioners are the more bankable. We've seen that with Seven Swords and Dragon Tiger Gate," said Wong, adding that the company plans "one or two" such productions in the coming year.
- 24/05/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mandarin has criminal plan with Yip, Yen
Encouraged by the success of Tsui Hark's Seven Swords and the warm reception to its coming kung fu blockbuster Dragon Tiger Gate, Mandarin Films will be concentrating its efforts mainly on actioners in the coming year. First in the pipeline is an unnamed contemporary crime actioner that will reunite Dragon Tiger Gate director Wilson Yip and action director and star Donnie Yen. Budget projections are awaiting cast confirmation but Mandarin Films chairman Raymond Wong estimates that it will be within the $6 million to $7 million range. "The market now seems to be either going for actioners or art house films and actioners are the more bankable. We've seen that with Seven Swords and Dragon Tiger Gate," said Wong, adding that the company plans "one or two" such productions in the coming year.
- 24/05/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mandarin decries fake 'Dragon'
HONG KONG -- Fake DVDs touted as copies of Mandarin Films' $10 million-dollar comic book adaptation Dragon Tiger Gate have been found circulating in the southern mainland Chinese province of Guangdong. The videos are of a mystery action film called Shanghai Bund -- Dragon, Tiger, Leopard starring an actor named Lam Wai, but the DVD cover features promotional pictures of Dragon Tiger Gate, which stars actor and choreographer Donnie Yen (Hero, Seven Swords) and Shawn Yue (Infernal Affairs 2). "We watched the film and found it a completely different film. Essentially that is fraud because these two stars aren't in the movie at all," Mandarin Films chairman Raymond Wong said. "We don't rule out taking legal action."...
- 21/02/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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