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What Women Want - Andy Lau, Fan Bingbing, Gong Li; UPCOMING 2-14 2011 RELEASE
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China's 'What Women Want' Remake to Get Day-and-Date U.S. Release
BEIJING -- The Mandarin-language remake of What Women Want, starring Andy Lau and Gong Li, will open at select North American theaters day-and-date with its China premiere on Feb. 3, the first day of the Lunar New Year, distributor China Lion said on Friday

China Lion, which started putting Chinese-language films into AMC cinemas in the U.S. and Canada last year, also will release the picture written and directed by Chen Daming into theaters in Australia and New Zealand on the same day.

The romantic comedy produced by Beijing-based and New York-listed Bona Entertainment Co. is based on the Paramount Pictures film of the same name directed by Nancy Myers a decade ago.

Working from a screenplay by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, director Chen adapted the story that revolves around a chauvinistic executive, originally played by Mel Gibson. Now played by Lau, who gains the ability to hear what women are thinking, a power that leads to a fraught and comedic romantic relationship with his workplace rival, an aggressive advertising executive first played by Helen Hunt and now played by Gong.

Lau, the Hong Kong actor-singer, who holds the Hong Kong Guinness Record for the most music awards, has starred in over 100 films, including Infernal Affairs, House of Flying Daggers and the 2010 Chinese box office hit Detective Dee & The Mystery of the Phantom Flame.

Gong was first noticed in the West for her 1987 appearance in Zhang Yimou’s directorial debut, Red Sorghum, and has gone on to star in Chinese classics such as Raise the Red Lantern and Farewell My Concubine, and crossed over into Hollywood films such as Memoirs of a Geisha and last year's Shanghai.

The Bona film is a co-production with Emperor Motion Pictures of Hong Kong, CJ Entertainment of South Korea and the China Film Group in Beijing, the nation’s state-run film studio.

China Lion will open What Women Want, subtitled in English, at AMC theaters in cities where there are large concentrations of ethnic Chinese moviegoers, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Boston, Seattle and Washington, D.C., and at Cineplex theaters in Vancouver.

China Lion, run by former Village Roadshow CEO Milt Barlow and by Technicolor China veteran Jiang Yanming, plans the overseas release of 10 to 15 Chinese films each year. Its next North America and China day-and-date release will be the March 18 premiere of the Fox International Productions film The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman.
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What Women Want
By Tim Grierson

Dir: Chen Daming. China. 2011. 116mins

A Mandarin-language remake of the 2000 Mel Gibson blockbuster, What Women Want (Wo Zhi Nu Ren Xin) rarely rises above a genial likability, lacking sufficient comic or romantic brio. This Chinese production features palpable chemistry between stars Andy Lau and Gong Li, but director Chen Daming’s film, like the original, is a great commercial hook in search of an equally clever story.

Opening in the US and China on February 3 to coincide with the Chinese New Year, What Women Want will have only modest results domestically in the US, but could prove a hit in its home country, where the two leads are much bigger names.

As in the first film, this new What Women Want concerns a cocky, seductive advertising executive named Sun (Lau), who learns that his promotion has been blocked by the hiring of Li (Li), an aggressive new female boss who can provide a much-needed woman’s perspective at the male-centric company. But one night after a freak electrocution at home, he discovers he now has the ability to hear women’s thoughts, which makes him valuable to his firm but puts him in competition with Li.

Keeping the fundamental plot points from director Nancy Meyers’ romantic comedy, Chen Daming’s movie trumpets its relaxed, playful tone, although it does introduce a more magical quality to the question of exactly how Sun acquires his unique power. But beyond the most obvious implementations of his newfound gift – such as having Sun read the minds of those from whom he wants something – the remake fails to exploit this juicy premise for meaningfully comedic or thematic material.

This, coupled with the movie’s broad humour, creates a nagging sense that this amiable offering could have been much more if only it had tried to break free of the original film’s overall design.

Even if this new What Women Want can’t rise above its disappointing sense of déjà vu, at least it’s endowed with two game stars. Lau downplays his character’s chauvinistic tendencies, which keeps Sun from really feeling like a lovable scoundrel, but his slowly developing attraction to Li has its charms. Playing Sun’s cold-as-ice boss who eventually warms to him, Gong Li is elegant and sexy in equal measure. Neither character benefits from much shading or development, so What Women Want’s leads have to do most of the heavy lifting on their own.
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What Women Want
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By RICHARD KUIPERS
A Beijing Polybona Film Distribution Co. release of a Bona Entertainment Co., Beijing Bona Film and Cultural Communication Co., Focus Films, Emperor Motion Pictures, CJ Entertainment, China Film Group Corp. presentation of a Bona Entertainment Co. production. (International sales: Distribution Workshop, Hong Kong.) Produced by Dede Nickerson, Chen Daming, Jeffrey Chan. Executive producers, Chan, Yu Dong, Andy Lau, Albert Yeung, Katharine Kim, Han Sanping, Chris Liu. Directed, written by Chen Daming, based on the motion picture "What Women Want," directed by Nancy Meyers, screenplay by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa; story, Goldsmith, Yuspa, Diane Drake.
With: Andy Lau, Gong Li, Li Chengru, Yuan Li, Russell Wong, Hu Jing, Wang Deshun, Kelly Hu. (Mandarin, English dialogue)
Asian superstars Gong Li and Andy Lau spark together, but the script rarely produces fireworks in "What Women Want," a straightforward remake of Paramount's 2000 money-spinner. What promises to be a fizzy Chinese battle-of-the-sexes farce is let down by too few zingers and a too-long running time. But the premise of a chauvinist suddenly being able to read women's minds remains irresistible, and female auds are likely to turn this into a substantial mainland hit. Released in most major territories Feb. 3 to coincide with Chinese New Year, pic looks set for more modest returns on just 20 North American screens.
Sticking to the major points of Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa's original script, the story here centers on Sun Zigang (Lau), a divorced advertising exec who's surrounded by fawning office girls and swaggers around Beijing like he's God's gift to women. Expecting to be promoted by CEO Dong (Li Chengru), Sun is thrown for an ego-bruising loop when the job goes instead to Li Yilong (Gong), a star creative recruited to remedy the firm's failing ability to connect with modern female consumers.

Pic plays best immediately following a freak electrical accident that leaves Su with the ability to hear women's thoughts. Horrified at first to know exactly what his underlings and teenage daughter really think of him, Sun cunningly adapts and is soon saying the right thing to every woman who catches his roving eye. Most prominent is Yanni (Yuan Li, delightful), a coffee-shop worker whose appealing relationship with Sun is unconvincingly sacrificed at the midway point to make way for Li.

Without producing huge belly laughs, the midsection motors along pleasantly enough but comes unstuck when Sun starts to fall for Li after stealing her ideas, prompting Dong to wonder if she's an experiment the company doesn't need.

Looking terrific at 49 and 45, respectively, Lau and Gong have the right physical chemistry, but helmer Chen Daming's screenplay doesn't give them much verbal snap and crackle, and Sun's eventual fessing up to Li is emotionally underwhelming. Though the narrative hardly stops dead in its tracks, the final furlongs still have the feel of a novelty that's worn off.

Visuals are as glossy as the ads Sun and Li produce. Exteriors filmed around the striking Soho building in Beijing's central business district, and interiors in chic bars, restaurants and retail outlets themselves rep a promo for the city's modernization program.

Production designer Li Zhuoyi and costume designer Li Yikai have gone to town, packing high-end goods and clothing packed into every frame. Only hint of anything old-fashioned is Christopher O'Young's score, which swings nicely from brassy big-band-style tunes to lush strings and piano in the latter stages.

Other technical work is spot-on. Chinese title translates as "I Know a Woman's Heart."

Camera (color, widescreen), Max Wang; editor, Nelson Quan; music, Christopher O'Young; production designer, Li Zhuoyi; costume designer, Li Yikai; sound (Dolby Digital), An Wei; visual effects supervisor, Gene Shih; visual effects, Xing Xing Digital Corp.; line producers, Jiang Zhong, Shi Dongming; second unit camera, Takuji Murata. Reviewed at Event Cinemas George St., Sydney, Feb. 3, 2011. Running time: 116 MIN.
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