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[06.12.2004]
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Espionage for Dummies
- forthcoming action comedy.
Honorable doctor degree for Woo
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John Woo became Doctor.
[02.12.2004]
News
Blackjack DVD (R2 Finland)
- November 19. 2004.
Princess Chang Ping DVD (R0)
- subtitled DVD in Hong Kong .
Once a Thief DVD (R0 HK)
- IVL / January 2005
[30.10.2004]
News
Once a Thief DVD releases (R2)
- HKL release of Once a Thief December 27. 2004
[17.09.2004]
News
Few Italian John Woo DVD releases (R2)
- Hand of Death DVD in Germany September 27. 2004
Hand of Death - Germany DVD (R2)
- Hand of Death DVD in Germany September 27. 2004
Paycheck - Hong Kong DVD (R3)
- Info about Hong Kong DVD release of Paycheck
[07.07.2004]
News
Hard Boiled - Japan DVD (R2)
- New Japanese remastered DVD in September
Peace Hotel - Japan DVD (R2)
- New Japanese DVD
[17.06.2004]
News
Once a Thief - The serie availability on DVD
Japanese re-releases - DVD
- Hard Target (07.07.2004)
- Bullet in the head (09.07.2004)
- Broken Arrow (02.08.2004)
- Paycheck (28.08.2004)
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[25 .06.2000] News
-Mission: Impossible 2 World Wide box office results
-Fox Lorber: The Killer DVD release date
-New John Woo DVDs in Hong Kong and Japan
[18 .06.2000] News
-New war film set to break Hawaii spending record
-New John Woo interview
-Extras needed for next John Woo movie. Time to go to
Hawaii
[11 .06.2000] News
- Cristian Slater casted in Windtalkers
- Peace Hotel DVD re-released
- M:I-2 the original idea for film finale (never filmed)
- Mission Impossible parody site
- John Woo in Premiere (June/2000)
- M:I-2 Tokyo premiere
- Old John Woo / Jackie Chan pictures
- Tom Cruise wants Chow Yun-fat in M:I-3
- Tsui Hark is planning Better Tomorrow remake with female cast
[04 .06.2000] News
- John Woo and Chow Yun-fat doing a video game for PlayStation 2
- Windtalkers script reviewed
- Yahoo Clubs: Unofficial John Woo club
- Ain't Is Cool News poll about the best Woo film to date
John Woo and Chow Yun-fat doing a video game for
PlayStation 2
- The buzz is true...sort of. John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat are teaming up again,
for a video game. Sony announced that they are developing a role-playing game
based on Chow Yun-Fat's movie characters and famous gun-battle scenes from the
classics which are made by John Woo. Woo agreed to attach his name to the
project once he heard the idea. The game is set to released in 2002 for
Playstation 2 with the fact that both stars agree to do the promotion together.
From Ain't It
Cool News
Few articles in IgnMovies
May 26, 2000 Psychobabble
with John Woo
May 25, 2000 Eastern
Connection #5: Droppin' The Goo On John Woo
Mission:
Impossible 2 review
Quote from interview:
IGN Movies: What's happening with your next film, Windtalkers?
Woo: We're gonna start filming in August.
IGN Movies: Is this one going to be a departure, because it sounds to be less
of an action film?
Woo: There's a lot of action. It's a war movie. It's got a lot of drama. It's
a movie about two marines. One is a Native American, Navajo. The other is a
white man. They don't get along in the beginning, they learn from each other,
then they have to work together to become friends.
IGN Movies: So who's playing opposite Nic Cage in the lead?
Woo: A Canadian Native. Adam Beach (Mystery, Alaska). It's a very touching
story. Totally different from Mission.
IGN Movies: What are you doing after Windtalkers?
Woo: After Windtalkers I'll be doing Kings Ransom.
Windtalkers script reviewed
Moriarty column at Aint-it-cool-news.com. So this should become next John
Woo movie. It has been said Windtalkers would be filmed at Hawaii. Film is set
in the Pacific theater of
World War 2.
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"I got an e-mail from someone associated with MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE 2 this
past week asking me for a quote about the movie and my reaction to it. If I
hadn't read WINDTALKERS this week, I'd be too depressed to answer. Let me
explain. WINDTALKERS is John Woo's next film. It's an MGM picture, written by
John Rice and Joe Batteer. The latest draft is dated January 28, 2000, but
this is a project that's been kicking around for a while. Right now, Nicolas
Cage and Adam Beach are set to star in the film, casting that delights me to
no end. Beach, for those of you who didn't see SM OKE SIGNALS, is a wonderful
young Native American actor. For those who did see the film, he's the guy who
wasn't Thomas. He has an intense screen presence that is perfect for the part
of Carl Wahzee. Nic Cage, who had such wonderful chemistry with Woo on the
deliriously deranged FACE/OFF, has a role of real depth and warmth in the form
of Joe Enders. The canvass that Woo is painting on with this story is WWII,
and if there's any earlier Woo film that this script reminds me of, it's the
masterful BULLET IN THE HEAD.
As I sat in the theater on opening night and watched the empty ballet of M:I2,
my thoughts kept drifting to the script I knew I had waiting at home. I'm of
mixed opinion on Woo's work here in America. I've had a chance to meet and
speak with Woo on many occasions and have always found him to be charming,
intelligent, sharp, surprisingly shy in some ways. For someone who is so
canonized by the American film press, though, Woo really hasn't delivered on
his promise. HARD TARGET is hard to hold against him, since it was recut
without his input. BROKEN ARROW does nothing for me. FACE/OFF is glorious,
magnificent trash as a script, and thanks to Woo, it's trash played out as
opera, brilliantly staged and balletic in its absurdity. I thought that in
many ways, it deflated several of the Woo "trademarks," and I
thought it might signify the place where Woo finally connected, where he got
started making great American films. With M:I2, he is crippled by a terrible
screenplay, and his hands are tied by the film's restrictive PG-13 rating.
This is not a John Woo film. It is something that approximates the experience.
It is the BEATLEMANIA of John Woo films. It's a bloodless copy of a brilliant
original, and that is its greatest disappointment. I come not to harp on Woo,
though, but to praise him. He's found a winner with WINDTALKERS. To be honest,
I think he could kick SAVING PRIVATE RYAN's ass and make one of the great war
adventure films if he's not careful. It's that cool a script. The action in it
is that intense and motivated and brutal and powerful. There's things that are
written here that would push the envelope for onscreen intensity, but that's
okay. This film earns the right to show us these images. This is a story that
deals with racial tension in a smart and realistic light. This is a film that
pays due respect to the sacrifices of all those who served in WWII. This is a
script that wants to be a visceral ride, an experience that we've never had in
a theater before, but it also wants to tell a small and realistic human story
in front of this particular massive backdrop. I hope Woo is given the full
support of MGM here. This is the single best project I've seen them greenlight
at that studio in the entire time I've been working with AICN. Take that, MGM.
You're making something potentially great. Congratulations. Now don't fuck it
up."
From: Ain't
It Cool News
John Woo Yahoo!Club, find Woo fans to
talk with
Yahoo! Clubs: Unoffcial
John god Woo Club
John Woo poll, the best Woo film so
far
Ain't it Cool News has a poll
asking which one of Director John Woo's 29 directed Features is the BEST example
of his work to date? Currently Hard-Boiled, The Killer and Face/Off were on top
with over 20% each, Hard-Boiled leading with 28,9 %. Mission: Impossible 2 is
rising with 7 %. Surprisingly King's Ransom - film without a final script, or
the actual film made so far - is included on this poll. More surprising is that
KR already has 5 votes now (May 31.). And Bullet in the Head was fifth!
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