ASIAN TUESDAY: GUAN XIAOTONG, DYLAN SPROUSE TO LEAD CHINESE EPIC ADVENTURE 'TURANDOT' BASED ON PUCCINI'S OPERA! STUNNING TRAILER AND POSTERS FOR FAN BINGBING'S 'LEGEND OF RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2' EPIC ADVENTURE

   'TURANDOT' EPIC MOVIE

DYLAN SPROUSE JOINS GUAN XIAOTONG IN THE CAST

Guan Xiaotong will be princess Turandot

While Disney is preparing Nutcracker movie out of the famous ballet, China is turning Giacomo Puccini's TURANDOT opera into a film as well! Guan Xiaotong and Dylan Sprouse have already been cast!

TURANDOT  a fantasy romance, follows Princess Turandot (Guan Xiaotong), who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that were given to her as birthday gifts. The life draining effects of the bracelets cause the princess to become cruel, and gradually she loses her humanity. Foreign princes who

Disney star Dylan Sprouse will take the male lead

come to court her must solve three riddles, one for each bracelet, and only then will she be freed from the power of the bracelets. In the event any of the questions is answered incorrectly, the attempted solver would be put to death. One day, Calaf (Dylan Sprouse), an ordinary citizen, risks his life to answer the riddles to save her and inadvertently uncovers his own extraordinary past. The film, directed by Xiaolong Zheng, is now shooting.

   'THE LEGEND OF RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2' SEQUEL

 POSTERS & TRAILER ARE IN!

Speaking of stunning Asian fantasy movies, check out the breathtaking character posters and trailer for Chinese  computer animated motion capture action fantasy adventure film THE LEGEND OF RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2 written and directed by Guo Jingming, which should be released in China on 6 July!

THE LEGEND OF THE RAVAGING DYNASTIES 2 
has the story set in the Odin Mainland which is separated into four countries, Water, Wind, Earth and Fire, and in each lives a group of soul masters protecting their county with their soul powers. The most powerful seven of them are known as Noble Lords! Asian superstars Fan Bingbing, Kris Wu, Cheney Chen, William Chan, Lin Yun, Amber Kuo, Wang Duo, Roy Wang, Karry Wang, and Jackson Yi lead the cast of the fantasy adventure.

PERIOD SET THURSDAY: 'THE BOMBING' WW2 MOVIE POSTER WITH BRUCE WILLIS, ADRIEN BRODY, FAN BINGBING! FRENCH 18TH CENTURY DRAMA 'ROYAL EXCHANGE' WITH LAMBERT WILSON

 'THE BOMBING' WW2 MOVIE

POSTER WITH BRUCE WILLIS, ADRIEN BRODY, FAN BINGBING

After I remind you to scroll down and check out our Sunday spotlight on freshly ordered comedy pilots to which I added new trailers, we shall move

The movie arrives to cinemas this August!

onto two new international historical movie projects as Hollywood is mostly sleeping today. First, you can check out the first poster for World War II drama THE BOMBING coming from China with Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody joining Asian super stars Fan Bingbing, Ye Liu and Nicholas Tse!

Out this August in Chinese cinemas, the movie is set during World War II following five different Chinese people who fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940. The movie was shot with a rather expensive $65 million budget! And did I tell you Mel Gibson is the artistic producer?

  'THE ROYAL EXCHANGE'

LAMBERT WILSON RULES SPAIN AS KING PHILIPPE

The movie was out in France last winter!

Meanwhile, over from France comes period set movie L'�change des princesses or THE ROYAL EXCHANGE starring Lambert Wilson! In 1721, the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, offers to the Spanish King, a marriage between their respective heirs: Louis XV, age 11, and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4 year old Spanish infanta. The Regent of France also offers to marry his daughter, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, 12, to the Prince of Asturias, the 14 year old heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Madrid responds

The movie is the adaptation of a Chantal Thomas book!

enthusiastically to both proposals, and the ceremonies are promptly organized. The exchange of the princesses is to take place with great pomp on a small island, in the river bordering the two countries. Everything has been done to expect the best of the children, but nothing will proceed as planned.

WEDDING MONDAY: 'ANOTHER KIND OF WEDDING' ENSEMBLE COMEDY WITH KATLHEEN TURNER, KEVIN ZEGERS! 'CRAZY RICH ASIANS' TRAILER WITH MICHELLE YEOH, HENRY GOLDING, CONSTANCE WU

'ANOTHER KIND OF WEDDING'  

 TRAILER WITH KATHLEEN TURNER AND KEVIN ZEGERS

The movie does not have a release date

Wedding theme Monday, today, people! First up, an ensemble comedy movie ANOTHER KIND OF WEDDING or SOMEONE ELSE'S WEDDING which follows a fractured family which is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding. The cast of the movie which has been circling movie festivals this spring is led by 80s superstar Kathleen Turner and also includes Canadian heartthrob Kevin Zegers alongside Frances Fisher, Wallace Shawn, Luke Kirby, Jessica Pare and Jessica Parker Kenedy! Actor Pat Kiely is directing. 

'CRAZY RICH ASIANS' TRAILER  

STARRING MICHELLE YEOH AND HENRY GOLDING

Crazy Rich Asians hit cinemas this August

The first trailer has been released for one of the first US big studio all Asian cast movies made for Northern American audience CRAZY RICH ASIANS, a romantic comedy based on the book trilogy of the same name by Kevin Kwan.

Directed by John M. Chu, CRAZY RICH ASIANS revolve around Rachel Chu (Constance Wu), an American born Chinese economics professor, who travels to her boyfriend Nick's (Henry Golding) hometown of Singapore for his best friend's wedding. Before long, his secret is out: Nick is from a family that is impossibly wealthy, he's perhaps the most

Henry Golding and Constance Wu lead the cast

eligible bachelor in Asia, and every single woman in his ultra-rarefied social class is incredibly jealous of Rachel and wants to bring her down. Michelle Yeoh plays Nick's mother who isn't herself all too thrilled by her son's girlfriend. The movie hits cinemas this August.

STUNNING TRAILER FOR POST APOCALYPTIC THRILLER 'JUST A BREATH AWAY' WITH OLGA KURYLENKO, ROMAN DURIS! 1ST 'EMPEROR OF PARIS' VINCENT CASSEL POSTER! 'GENGHIS KHAN' EPIC MOVIE POSTER AND TRAILER

  'JUST A BREATH AWAY'

STUNNING POST APOCALYPTIC TRAILER WITH OLGA KURYLENKO

Olga Kurylenko and Romain Duris lead the cast

Since most of the Western world is sleeping with their bellies filled with chocolate eggs, the spy will fill up the silence coming from Hollywood the way he usually does - by going international! First up, an extremely exciting trailer for JUST A BREATH AWAY (Dans la Brume) with our favourite Russian girl Olga Kurylenko! Her exciting new science fiction action thriller directed by Daniel Roby (who helmed some of the episodes of our fave epic saga Versailles) is out this month around Europe

Just a Breath Away is out in France and Europe later this month

starring her and Romain Duris in this post apocalyptic spectacle about a family that attempts to survive a massive catastrophe in Paris after all of its streets are covered by a dangerous fog.

  'THE EMPEROR OF PARIS'

FIRST POSTER FOR VINCENT CASSEL PERIOD SET FILM
Speaking of Olga, check out the first poster for another of her movies that are coming out this year. THE EMPEROR OF PARIS (L'Empereur de Paris) also stars Vincent Cassel.  Under the reign of Napoleon, Fran�ois Vidocq,

Emperor of Paris is out this December

the only man to have escaped from the biggest prisons of the country, is a legend of the Parisian underground. Left to die after his last spectacular escape, the ex-convict tries to be forgotten in the guise of a simple trader. His past caught him, however, and, after being accused of a murder he did not commit, he offered a deal to the chief of security: he joined the police to fight the underworld, in exchange for his freedom. Despite exceptional results, it provokes the hostility of his fellow police officers and the fury of the underworld who put his head at a price ...

  'GENGHIS KHAN'

Genghis Khan is out this month

TRAILER AND POSTERS ARE HERE

Meanwhile, over from China, which just had a record breaking Chinese New Year cinematic season, comes a new trailer and also posters for a mix of historical adventure and obviously some fantasy (judging from the hordes of the undead and some Lord of the Rings type Mumakils) GENGHIS KHAN which is set to open up in cinemas April 28th after being postponed in order to undergo more post production!

Tem�jin (William Chan) and B�rte (Lin Yun) are childhood lovers who are deeply in love; but news of Tem�jin's father's death swiftly disrupted their relationship. Tem�jin heads back to his hometown, but

Famous Jean Jacques Annaud produces the epic saga

was faced with a sudden attack from his father's former comrades, causing his whole tribe to be destroyed. The film has been selected to be the closing film at the 8th Beijing International Film Festival.

GORGEOUS POSTERS FOR WIM WENDERS' 'SUBMERGENCE' WITH JAMES MCAVOY, ALICIA VIKANDER, CHINESE EPIC ACTION 'DETECTIVE DEE AND FOUR HEAVENLY KINGDOMS' WITH MARK CHAO, CARINA LAU, WILLIAM FENG

   NEW 'SUBMERGENCE' POSTERS

JAMES MCAVOY, ALICIA VIKANDER

A few new posters to bright up your boring Monday, spylings, starting with two lovely ones for action drama SUBEMERGENCE directed by legendary

Submergence is out in April in USA

Wim Wenders and starring James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander in a movie based on a best selling novel by J. M. Ledgard.

LOVE HAS NO LIMITS  

In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, a Scotsman, James More (James McAvoy), is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders (Alicia Vikander) prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter

The movie is already out in Russia, Spain and parts of Asia.

on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance. First reviews over at IMDB say Alicia again fails to create any chemistry with her on screen partner. But then again she did not even have it with her real life husband Michael Fassbender in Ocean Between Us.

    'DETECTIVE DEE 2' POSTER

The sequel is out this July in China

FOUR HEAVENLY KINGS

First poster has been released for a sequel to Young Detective Dee Rise of the Sea Dragon from 2013 DETECTIVE DEE AND FOUR HEAVENLY KINGS which is out in China this summer! It stars Mark Chao as Detective Dee who is forced to defend himself against the accusations of Empress Wu (Carina Lau) while investigating a crime spree. Asian star William Feng is also in the cast!