Well, at least then we'd probably get the Chinese-speaking roles played by actors who can actually speak Chinese.

Its total international box office just broke $400 million and it won't add much more at this point. That's not even breakeven when your movie cost $200m before marketing and distribution. China saved this from being the new John Carter or Lone Ranger but it was hardly enough to make it crazy-successful.

The director said he was going for a Kirby feel, though not necessarily the Fourth World specifically. He also said he wanted to hire Kirby to do the conceptual work, but Cannon nixed it.

um excuse me, are we forgetting the original Mario Bros. from 1983?

oh boy, now I'll finally get to see real film degrained, slathered with CGI and post-converted to digital 3D

Lipitor!

EAT MY SHORTS

but the great thing is it's not entirely off-hand, you can totally imagine Homer thinking Charles Kuralt dug up his garden for one of his segments

by contrast, the high point of The Rookie is Eastwood's diatribe about Charlie Sheen's taste in donuts:

Didn't like either of the Singer films, sorry.

I'm seeing a lot of speculation that Warner will finance whatever little directorial pet projects he might decide to take on as long as he's attached to the Batman role. Which sounds plausible to me and would more than justify the 180 in my opinion. Of course it's just a rumor for now.

The director's cut is a huge improvement. Still not one of the better superhero films, but I'd put it above just about anything else Fox has done in the genre (I guess I liked First Class all right).

Check out Ip Man: The Final Fight. Bruce Lee is only in it for a couple of minutes near the end, but the way they handle him is hilariously irreverent.

@waxlion:disqus  One of the frustrating things about this is that there was literally zero coverage of it in the English-language media. But he openly spoke about it to the Chinese media, like in this article. I won't translate the whole thing, but basically he says he had a 110-minute cut (which other reports say was…

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I didn't argue otherwise, but he had nothing to do with them on the creative side. He wasn't even involved with the re-editing AFAIK (and the fact he put his name on a version of Hero that Zhang Yimou was vocally upset about knocked him down a few notches in my estimation).

As much as Quentin Tarantino had to do with Hero and Iron Monkey, i.e. nothing.

I'm a bit surprised to see the historical details being singled out for criticism, since for me that's what elevated the movie to masterpiece status. On my first viewing I mistook it as a sort of kung-fu-ized 2046, revisiting the old Wong themes (inescapable memories, lost loves, missed connections, you know the…

To be fair, it's really the third, and there was only one other (Donnie Yen's first Ip Man) when Wong started shooting it. (He would've started earlier, except Tony Leung injured himself during training. There was even a bit of controversy because Ip Man was originally titled The Grand Master Ip Man.) Plus it doesn't…

I have an issue of Deadly Hands of Kung Fu that's hardly softcore but still, uh, interesting. Something like half the issue is just a scene-by-scene description of Enter the Dragon with occasional interpolated comments about what a badass Bruce Lee was. It's like these guys anticipated 90% of all movie "reviews" on…