Through this partnership, ’Trending Topic’ will hit cinemas in Singapore and Malaysia on December 7, immediately after opening in mainland China.
China’s streaming platform iQiyi is collaborating with Malaysia’s Gsc Movies and Singapore’s Clover Films to expand the distribution networks for its Chinese-language films and expedite their theatrical release.
Through this partnership, Trending Topic, directed by Xin Yukun and starring Zhou Dongyu, Yuan Hong and Song Yang, will hit cinemas in Singapore and Malaysia on December 7, immediately after its opening on December 1 in mainland China.
Further iQiyi titles set for release in both Singapore and Malaysia are Chen Zhuo’s The Invisible Guest,...
China’s streaming platform iQiyi is collaborating with Malaysia’s Gsc Movies and Singapore’s Clover Films to expand the distribution networks for its Chinese-language films and expedite their theatrical release.
Through this partnership, Trending Topic, directed by Xin Yukun and starring Zhou Dongyu, Yuan Hong and Song Yang, will hit cinemas in Singapore and Malaysia on December 7, immediately after its opening on December 1 in mainland China.
Further iQiyi titles set for release in both Singapore and Malaysia are Chen Zhuo’s The Invisible Guest,...
- 11/27/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Lame humor and incoherent plotting are among the shortcomings of “The Rookies,” an initially engaging but increasingly tedious Chinese action-comedy-thriller that not even kick-ass movie queen Milla Jovovich can breathe much life into. Undemanding genre fans might go for this Budapest-set hodge-podge about rookie secret agents tackling a deranged billionaire, but there’s not much here for anyone else. After flopping in Chinese cinemas way back in July 2019 it seems very strange for “The Rookies” to be receiving limited U.S. theatrical release on April 16, 2021.
Working six years after his impressive action spectacular “Firestorm,” writer-director Alan Yuen hasn’t lost his knack for well-staged mayhem and destruction. But along with co-writers Lei Xu and Kong Yun-cheung, Yuen falls short of the mark when injecting comedy into the mix. that extinguishes suspense and makes it hard for audiences to care about such silly, one-dimensional characters.
Things at least kick off on an exciting note,...
Working six years after his impressive action spectacular “Firestorm,” writer-director Alan Yuen hasn’t lost his knack for well-staged mayhem and destruction. But along with co-writers Lei Xu and Kong Yun-cheung, Yuen falls short of the mark when injecting comedy into the mix. that extinguishes suspense and makes it hard for audiences to care about such silly, one-dimensional characters.
Things at least kick off on an exciting note,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
I should have known better considering I’ve seen two Alan Yuen films before: a directorial effort in Firestorm that forgets its unwavering severity in the third act to deliver farcical chaos and a screenwriting effort in Monster Hunt wherein the lead is a pregnant man with the salvation of monster-kind cooking in his belly. I should have known the American trailer for his latest work The Rookies was manipulated beyond its desire to pretend Milla Jovovich was its star. While that was obviously not the case (a common ruse studios use to shield audiences from realizing they are walking into a foreign language film—although this one being fully dubbed was a surprise), the Chinese James Bond aesthetic did at least seem real.
If I had gone back to remember those previous films, however, I would have at least been prepared for how wrong that assumption proves. Because while...
If I had gone back to remember those previous films, however, I would have at least been prepared for how wrong that assumption proves. Because while...
- 4/13/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
I have to admit, I am not very fond of film’s adaptations and particularly iconic ones as John Woo’s “A Better Tomorrow.” Furthermore, the quality of the recent Chinese blockbusters left me somewhat disappointed. Thus, I was truly satisfied to see that Ding Sheng’s take on the Hk classic was a more than worthy effort.
A Better Tomorrow 2018 is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Two brothers are on opposite sides of the law. Zhou Kai is in charge of a smuggling operation between Qingdao and Tokyo for Boss Ha, while his younger brother, Zhou Chao, is an up-and-coming star in the police department’s narcotics division. Chao, who has been taking care of their dementia-afflicted father, has been looking up to his brother his whole life, not knowing his actual line of work. Apart from Chao, Kai is very close to one of his associates, Ma Ke,...
A Better Tomorrow 2018 is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Two brothers are on opposite sides of the law. Zhou Kai is in charge of a smuggling operation between Qingdao and Tokyo for Boss Ha, while his younger brother, Zhou Chao, is an up-and-coming star in the police department’s narcotics division. Chao, who has been taking care of their dementia-afflicted father, has been looking up to his brother his whole life, not knowing his actual line of work. Apart from Chao, Kai is very close to one of his associates, Ma Ke,...
- 3/13/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a column devoted to exploring contemporary Chinese-language cinema primarily as it is revealed to us at North American multiplexes.Ding Sheng’s remake of John Woo’s classic A Better Tomorrow (1986) encapsulates much that’s wrong with contemporary mainstream cinema, both in China and abroad. Ding, most known for directing moderately successful latter-day Jackie Chan vehicles like Railroad Tigers, Little Big Solider, and Policy Story 2013, is a competent director of action who seems to feel deeply bored by anything that doesn’t have an explosion of some type, and so he cuts aimlessly and pointlessly through expository dialogue and ostensibly character-building scenes, a remedial Michael Bay without any of the panache. The remake hews closely to the plot of the original film: a pair of gangster “brothers,” Triad counterfeiters in the first film, now Mainland smugglers, are betrayed on a mission in a foreign territory (first Taiwan,...
- 2/12/2018
- MUBI
Railroad Tigers Arrives on Blu-ray and DVD June 20th From Well Go USA Entertainment
Hong Kong’s cheeky, lovable and best-known film star Jackie Chan (Rush Hour franchise) reunites with Director Ding Sheng (Little Big Soldier) for a third time withRAILROAD Tigers, debuting on digital May 9 and on Blu-ray™/DVD Combo Pack and DVD June 20from Well Go USA Entertainment. With his patented blend of martial arts action and comedy, Chan plays a railroad worker in 1941 China who leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor. The action-packed Railroad Tigers also stars Huang Zitao (Edge of Innocence), Jackie Chan’s son Jaycee Chan (1911), Wang Kai (The Golden Era), Hiroyuki Ikeuchi (Ip Man), Ping Sang (Saving Mr. Wu), Alan Ng (Young Bruce Lee) and Darren Wang (Our Times). Railroad Tigers comes loaded with bonus materials, including five behind-the-scenes featurettes that highlight “The Characters,...
Hong Kong’s cheeky, lovable and best-known film star Jackie Chan (Rush Hour franchise) reunites with Director Ding Sheng (Little Big Soldier) for a third time withRAILROAD Tigers, debuting on digital May 9 and on Blu-ray™/DVD Combo Pack and DVD June 20from Well Go USA Entertainment. With his patented blend of martial arts action and comedy, Chan plays a railroad worker in 1941 China who leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor. The action-packed Railroad Tigers also stars Huang Zitao (Edge of Innocence), Jackie Chan’s son Jaycee Chan (1911), Wang Kai (The Golden Era), Hiroyuki Ikeuchi (Ip Man), Ping Sang (Saving Mr. Wu), Alan Ng (Young Bruce Lee) and Darren Wang (Our Times). Railroad Tigers comes loaded with bonus materials, including five behind-the-scenes featurettes that highlight “The Characters,...
- 6/2/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Jackie Chan’s “Railroad Tigers” bowed into theaters this weekend, grossing $127,600 from just 42 theaters. Well Go USA’s film averaged around $3,038 from each location. “Railroad Tigers” is set in 1941, with Chan starring as railroad worker Ma Yuan, who leads a team of fearless fighters to stop the Japanese war effort. The film stars Huang Zitao (“Edge of Innocence”), Wang Kai (“Nirvana in Fire”) and Darren Wang (“Our Times”). Also Read: Jackie Chan Film 'Railroad Tigers' Picked Up by Well Go USA This weekend also marked the second run for A24’s “20th Century Women,” which took in $142,824 from 10 screens,...
- 1/8/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
If you could use a good hearty laugh that comes from the gut, watch Well Go USA’s Railroad Tigers starring Jackie Chan. In Railroad Tiger’s Jackie teams up with his son, Jaycee Chan, to form a band of train thieves bent on causing trouble for the Japanese. The duo are joined by the Wang Kai, Darren Wang and Huang Zitao.
They are basically a group of misfits from a small town overrun by Japanese soldiers. Each, passionate for their own reasons, have joined together to give the Japanese as much trouble as possible. When a chance encounter offers them a shot at making a real difference in the fight, they leap at it. The once rebels, now heroes clumsily set out on their mission while racing through a boisterous and authentic set true to its time.
Since the movie is meant to focus on historical events, the stunt...
They are basically a group of misfits from a small town overrun by Japanese soldiers. Each, passionate for their own reasons, have joined together to give the Japanese as much trouble as possible. When a chance encounter offers them a shot at making a real difference in the fight, they leap at it. The once rebels, now heroes clumsily set out on their mission while racing through a boisterous and authentic set true to its time.
Since the movie is meant to focus on historical events, the stunt...
- 1/7/2017
- by CoolHappyMe P
- AsianMoviePulse
"I started this mission. I will finish this mission." Well Go USA has revealed a new official Us trailer for the action comedy from China titled Railroad Tigers, about a "ragtag" group of freedom fighters who ambush a military train. Jackie Chan stars, playing a railroad worker who leads a team of skilled fighters trying to take out the Japanese in order to get food for the poor. Also starring Huang Zitao, Wang Kai, Darren Wang, Alan Ng and Sang Ping. The first teaser trailer for this was goofy, and this trailer isn't that much better, but at least the VFX aren't as bad. I really, really wished this looked better than it does, because it would be nice to have another fun Jackie Chan movie, but I'm not sure this is one. In theaters starting today. Here's the new full-length trailer (+ poster) for Ding Sheng's Railroad Tigers, direct...
- 1/6/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Railroad Tigers is a special breed of cinematic import so rooted in cultural normalities, it’s as if a wall stands between overseas viewers and total immersion. At heart, Jackie Chan’s latest adventure is a dangerous hicks-vs-military underdog mission – but comedic buffoonery distracts and disengages. Clarinets and oboes (or related instruments?) provide a bubbly soundtrack for a damning suicide mission, never to embrace the seriousness of sacrificial heft. Gunshots ring out as characters joke, while Chan’s cutesy martial artistry evokes a less-enthusiastic Drunken Master who fumbles clashing tonalities. I mean, it’s an immediate red flag when you endure more character-card introductions than Suicide Squad – that’s one runaway train you don’t want to imitate.
Chan stars as Ma Yuan, a humble railroad worker who also moonlights as a member of the Flying Tigers gang. Together, with his clan of misfits, Ma Yuan rebels against Japanese invaders.
Chan stars as Ma Yuan, a humble railroad worker who also moonlights as a member of the Flying Tigers gang. Together, with his clan of misfits, Ma Yuan rebels against Japanese invaders.
- 1/6/2017
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Jackie Chan is back on the silver screen in “Railroad Tigers,” a new action-comedy which honors Jackie’s roots in classic Hong Kong films. “Railroad Tigers” is about a railroad worker, played by Chan, who finds himself in a sticky situation with his group of freedom fighters. Chan and gang plan to ambush and attack a military train because they are seeking provisions only this train has.
They find themselves outnumbered by the heavily armed militants aboard the train and need to find a way out through fighting back against this army with only the few tools they have. This flick is full of action and laughs and is debuting in select theaters on today ; be sure to check it out! Below is more detailed information on screen locations and release information:
Wellgousa Presents: Railroad Tigers
Directed By Ding Sheng
Starring Jackie Chan, Huang Zitao, Wang Kai, Darren Wang
In...
They find themselves outnumbered by the heavily armed militants aboard the train and need to find a way out through fighting back against this army with only the few tools they have. This flick is full of action and laughs and is debuting in select theaters on today ; be sure to check it out! Below is more detailed information on screen locations and release information:
Wellgousa Presents: Railroad Tigers
Directed By Ding Sheng
Starring Jackie Chan, Huang Zitao, Wang Kai, Darren Wang
In...
- 1/6/2017
- by Lydia Spanier
- AsianMoviePulse
Railroad Tigers
Jackie Chan plans to start 2017 off right by handing out big laughs in Railroad Tigers. The mega star is joined by Wang Kai, Darren Wang and new world star, Huang Zitao. Directed by Ding Shen, the Well Go USA release will hit theaters in the U.S. and the Canada in early January.
Opening In Theaters January 6th 2017
In this action-comedy caper hearkening back to Jackie Chan’s classic Hong Kong films, a railroad worker (Chan) and his ragtag group of freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when they decide to ambush a heavily armed military train filled with desperately needed provisions. Unarmed and outnumbered, they must fight back against an entire army using only their wits, in a series of a dazzling set pieces and action scenes rivaling anything seen on the big screen.
Bloomington
AMC Bloomington 11
1351 S College Mall Rd,
Bloomington,...
Jackie Chan plans to start 2017 off right by handing out big laughs in Railroad Tigers. The mega star is joined by Wang Kai, Darren Wang and new world star, Huang Zitao. Directed by Ding Shen, the Well Go USA release will hit theaters in the U.S. and the Canada in early January.
Opening In Theaters January 6th 2017
In this action-comedy caper hearkening back to Jackie Chan’s classic Hong Kong films, a railroad worker (Chan) and his ragtag group of freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when they decide to ambush a heavily armed military train filled with desperately needed provisions. Unarmed and outnumbered, they must fight back against an entire army using only their wits, in a series of a dazzling set pieces and action scenes rivaling anything seen on the big screen.
Bloomington
AMC Bloomington 11
1351 S College Mall Rd,
Bloomington,...
- 12/11/2016
- by CoolHappyMe P
- AsianMoviePulse
Who said average Joes can’t achiever great things? Certainly not the team behind the upcoming film Railroad Tigers! The producers recently released a teaser trailer for the action comedy caper. It features a ragtag team composed of a head porter, an amateur tailor, a noodle shop owner, a wounded soldier, a thug, and a railway intern all coming together to fight an entire army using only their wits.
Railroad Tigers boasts a whopping $50 million budget and a star-studded cast led by no less than newly-minted Academy Award winner Jackie Chan. Chan plays Ma Yuan, a railroad porter who leads the ragtag group of freedom fighters to defeat the Japanese. Unarmed and outnumbered, Yuan and his team vow to outsmart, outplay and outclass the enemy…all in the noble goal of providing for the poor.
This film is Jackie Chan and director Ding Shang’s third collaboration. They have previously...
Railroad Tigers boasts a whopping $50 million budget and a star-studded cast led by no less than newly-minted Academy Award winner Jackie Chan. Chan plays Ma Yuan, a railroad porter who leads the ragtag group of freedom fighters to defeat the Japanese. Unarmed and outnumbered, Yuan and his team vow to outsmart, outplay and outclass the enemy…all in the noble goal of providing for the poor.
This film is Jackie Chan and director Ding Shang’s third collaboration. They have previously...
- 11/18/2016
- by Ella Palileo
- AsianMoviePulse
"This looks like... amateur hour!" Well Go USA has debuted a new Us teaser trailer for an action film from China titled Railroad Tigers, about a "ragtag" group of freedom fighters who ambush a military train. Jackie Chan stars, playing a railroad worker who leads a team of skilled fighters trying to take out the Japanese in order to get food for the poor. The rest of the cast includes Huang Zitao, Wang Kai, Darren Wang, Alan Ng and Sang Ping. This looks way too goofy to be really taken seriously, unfortunately. It seems like the kind of film you'd find somewhere in a back corner of your local VHS rental shop, complete with cheap, cheesy VFX. I wished this looked any better, but it seems like it's going to end up being so bad. Here's the first Us teaser trailer (+ poster) for Ding Sheng's Railroad Tigers, direct from...
- 11/17/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The second trailer for Jackie Chan’s upcoming action period comedy “Railroad Tigers” has been released. Set in 1941, Jackie Chan takes on the role of a Chinese railroad worker who works together with freedom fighters to sabotage a Japanese train in order to steal food to feed starving citizens in China.
The trailer for the Ding Sheng directed film features exhilarating explosions and gun-fighting action with Jackie Chan at the helm together with co-stars Xu Fan, Huang Zitao, Wang Kai and Darren Wang.
“Railroad Tigers” is scheduled to set cinema screens ablaze when it is released in China on 30th December 2016.
Source: ActionElite...
The trailer for the Ding Sheng directed film features exhilarating explosions and gun-fighting action with Jackie Chan at the helm together with co-stars Xu Fan, Huang Zitao, Wang Kai and Darren Wang.
“Railroad Tigers” is scheduled to set cinema screens ablaze when it is released in China on 30th December 2016.
Source: ActionElite...
- 10/26/2016
- by Pamela Koh
- AsianMoviePulse
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to acclaimed filmmakers Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s charming and romantic fourth feature film, “Lost in Paris.” The film will have its premiere this fall and have a theatrical release in 2017.
Filmed in their signature whimsical style, the feature “stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond. When Fiona’s (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 93-year-old Aunt Martha (delightfully portrayed by Academy Award nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable,...
– Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to acclaimed filmmakers Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s charming and romantic fourth feature film, “Lost in Paris.” The film will have its premiere this fall and have a theatrical release in 2017.
Filmed in their signature whimsical style, the feature “stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond. When Fiona’s (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 93-year-old Aunt Martha (delightfully portrayed by Academy Award nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable,...
- 9/2/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Well Go USA Entertainment have acquired the distribution rights to Jackie Chan’s latest martial arts action comedy “Railroad Tigers”.
The tentative release will be on December with further details to be announced at a later date. This will coincide with the the film’s opening in Chinese theaters. RailRoad Tigers is directed by Ding Sheng, who also directed Jackie in Police Story: Lockdown and Little Big Soldier.
Alongside Jackie Chan, the film also stars Darren Wang (Our Times), Wang Kai (Nirvana In Fire) and Huang Zitao (Edge of Innocence)
Railroad Tigers
Set in the 1941, “Railroad Tigers” is about the Chinese heroes of World War II. Chan stars as Ma Yuan, a railroad worker and unlikely hero. He uses what he knows of the train network to steal supplies for the hungry Chinese. He leads a team of fighters in ambushing enemy soldiers and stopping the Japanese.
The latest martial...
The tentative release will be on December with further details to be announced at a later date. This will coincide with the the film’s opening in Chinese theaters. RailRoad Tigers is directed by Ding Sheng, who also directed Jackie in Police Story: Lockdown and Little Big Soldier.
Alongside Jackie Chan, the film also stars Darren Wang (Our Times), Wang Kai (Nirvana In Fire) and Huang Zitao (Edge of Innocence)
Railroad Tigers
Set in the 1941, “Railroad Tigers” is about the Chinese heroes of World War II. Chan stars as Ma Yuan, a railroad worker and unlikely hero. He uses what he knows of the train network to steal supplies for the hungry Chinese. He leads a team of fighters in ambushing enemy soldiers and stopping the Japanese.
The latest martial...
- 9/2/2016
- by JRBandillo
- AsianMoviePulse
The distributor has acquired English-language territories on the Jackie Chan action-comedy including North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Well Go USA Entertainment has tentatively set a December launch for Railroad Tigers day-and-date with China.
Ding Sheng directed the 1941-set story of a railroad worker who leads a team of fighters to derail the Japanese war effort.
Using their knowledge of the transport network, the men ambushes Japanese soldiers and steal supplies to feed the starving Chinese.
The Chinese and Taiwanese cast includes Huang Zitao, Wang Kai and Darren Wang.
“Jackie Chan continues to be a mainstay with audiences, and Railroad Tigers delivers what his fans love,” said Well Go USA Entertainment president Doris Pfardrescher. “The film is an action-packed martial arts comedy that brings Chan back to his Drunken Master days.”
Pfardrescher negotiated the deal with Clarence Tang at Golden Network Asia Limited on behalf of the film.
Well Go USA Entertainment has tentatively set a December launch for Railroad Tigers day-and-date with China.
Ding Sheng directed the 1941-set story of a railroad worker who leads a team of fighters to derail the Japanese war effort.
Using their knowledge of the transport network, the men ambushes Japanese soldiers and steal supplies to feed the starving Chinese.
The Chinese and Taiwanese cast includes Huang Zitao, Wang Kai and Darren Wang.
“Jackie Chan continues to be a mainstay with audiences, and Railroad Tigers delivers what his fans love,” said Well Go USA Entertainment president Doris Pfardrescher. “The film is an action-packed martial arts comedy that brings Chan back to his Drunken Master days.”
Pfardrescher negotiated the deal with Clarence Tang at Golden Network Asia Limited on behalf of the film.
- 9/1/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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