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Catching Monkey (Tsui Hark) Charlie Young, Yu Nan; UPCOMING 2011 RELEASE
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Tsui has fun with Catching Monkey
By Patrick Frater

Chinese director Tsui Hark (徐克, pictured) has secretly made a movie in 3-D, which will be pitched for sale at next month's American Film Market in Santa Monica.

Starring actresses Charlie Young (楊采妮) and Yu Nan (余男) alongside Daniel Chan, Catching Monkey (抓猴) is a thriller that is now in post-production. The title is a Taiwanese reference to the discovery of an illicit affair and is also the name of a band of computer hackers who feature in the movie harvesting information from people's online bank accounts.

Tsui, who recently delivered hit Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (狄仁杰之通天帝國), originally planned to shoot some test scenes in 3-D ahead of embarking on mega-budget stereoscopic Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (龍門飛甲), which is now in production in China.

But, after shooting a handful of scenes, Tsui and producer Nansun Shi (施南生) decided to ramp up and shoot a full movie instead. "We found that doing test scenes was not representative of the real conditions of making a film," said Shi. "Catching Monkey is a fully-scripted movie with a real cast and was therefore far more rigorous than any test."

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, which weighs in with a budget of $35 million, stars Jet Li (李連杰), Zhou Xun (周迅), Aloys Chen (陳坤) and Guey Lun-mei (桂綸鎂). It is financed by Bona International Film Group (博納國際影業集團), China Film Group (中國電影集團公司), Shanghai Media Group (SMG, 上海東方傳媒集團), Shineshow (北京華影盛世文化傳播公司) and Liangzi Group (北京良子集團公司).

It was announced yesterday that Taiwanese pop star Mavis Fan (范曉萱) who previously appeared in omnibus About Love (アバウト・ラブ) and the recent Lover's Discourse (戀人絮語), has also joined the Dragon Gate cast.

International sales on both films are by Hong Kong-based Distribution Workshop (發行工作室), which now counts three 3-D films on its AFM line-up.

Workshop is also selling Flying Machine in 3-D, a family entertainment adventure that mixes live action with stop motion animation. Now in post-production it stars Heather Graham and world renowned Chinese pianist Lang Lang.
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Tsui lines up 3D 'Dragon Gate'
Helmer works on 'Catching Monkey'

By CLIFFORD COONAN

BEIJING -- No one can accuse Tsui Hark of being lazy.

Fresh off the success of "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame," the Hong Kong helmer found himself with a two-month training period for the stars of his forthcoming $35 million chopsocky epic 3D "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate," which is now in production in China.

Tsui had "Avatar's" 3D VFX supervisor, Chuck Comisky, on the set, and he started working in a low-key kind of way and came up with a 3D thriller called "Catching Monkey," starring Charlie Young, Yu Nan and Daniel Chan.

"Tsui started doing 3D tests at the end of last year in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, and decided what system he was going to use. He said he would shoot two scenes, but they were not real shooting conditions," producer Nansun Shi told Variety.

"Chuck came and trained the crew, so Tsui said why don't I just shoot a movie? He wasn't so ambitious in the beginning but Chuck demystified the movie for us. And we had a full script and actors. The cost wasn't high, friends rallied around," said Shi, whose Hong Kong-based Distribution Workshop will handle international sales, and is likely to show stills for "Catching Monkey" at American Film Market, and will also be pitching "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate."

In "Flying Swords," Jet Li plays a Ming Dynasty general battling a power-hungry eunuch, played by Chen Kun. Their contest comes to a head at an inn run by Zhou Xun.

Shi says there were no real synergies between "Catching Monkey" and "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate," features Jet Li, Zhou Xun, Aloys Chen, Mavis Fan and Guey Lun-mei.

"Flying Swords" is expected to be released during the Christmas season in 2011. Coin hails from Bona International Film Group, China Film Group, Shanghai Media Group, Shineshow and Liangzi Group.

"One is a contemporary thriller and one a martial arts movie. But there was a lot of time to train," she said.
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