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Zhang Yimou’s Three Guns a Big Box Office Winner

14 December 2009 4:40 PM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

Since Zhang Yimou’s 2006 martial arts, royal palace epic “The Curse of the Golden Flower,” the internationally renowned Chinese director returns with the highly anticipated comedy, crime thriller “Amazing Tales: Three Guns,” remake of Coen Brothers’ 1984 “Blood Simple.” Zhang has not made a motion picture in the past three years mostly due to his directorial role in the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony. In his new film, Zhang is said to have gone against his usual style and exaggerated every element of the film. In addition to the original film’s suspenseful plot, the comedic parts are especially over-the-top, not necessarily in a bad way. The murderous/revenge story takes place at a rural noodle shop. The film is also known as “A Simple Noodle Story” in mainland China. The scale of the film set is relatively small in comparison with Zhang’s past films, but the budget is not necessarily smaller. »

- Rita

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A Simple Noodle Story Review

10 December 2009 10:12 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

In a spectacular departure from his previous work, the acclaimed, praised and more recently criticized director Zhang Yimou brings to the screen a period remake of the Coen Brothers' 1984 debut, Blood Simple. Transplanting the action from a Texas bar to an isolated noodle restaurant in the deserts of northern China, A Simple Noodle Story is otherwise surprisingly faithful to the source material. 

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Jeff Bridges Interview, Crazy Heart

6 December 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film Crazy Heart from writer-director Scott Cooper.

Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (two-time Golden Globe nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart.

Fueled by country rock, Crazy Heart also stars Robert Duvall and features original songs from Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated composer and producer T Bone Burnett along with the late Texas songwriter Stephen Bruton.

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Jeff Bridges talks Tron Legacy and Confirms He’s Making True Grit With the Coen Brothers

2 December 2009 5:09 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Today was the Los Angeles press day for Fox Searchlight’s Crazy Heart.  While we’re going to have a lot of interviews with the entire cast next week, we also participated in a roundtable interview with Jeff Bridges, and were able to get some questions in on Tron Legacy and the Coen Brothers’ True Grit.

The first bit of news is Bridges confirmed he’s making True Grit with the Coens.  While we were not able to ask any follow ups as it was the very end of the interview, this is a pretty good sign that True Grit is their next project.

Of course we also talked Tron Legacy, and for what he had to say on one of next year’s biggest movies, hit the jump:

Remember to check back next week for full interviews with the entire cast.

Question: What was it like to play Kevin Flynn again for Tron Legacy, »

- Sara Wayland

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Strange Trailer for Zhang's 'Blood Simple' Remake

19 November 2009 4:17 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

There was a lot of outrage when it was announced that there would be a remake of Blood Simple, the breakthrough film from the Coen Brothers, even though the new version was being directed by Zhang Yimou, who is at least on the same level as the Coens, if not a better director.

I cautioned the naysayers - as I always do with movies that are transported to different cultures - that you really have no idea what that kind of remake will be like. Take Kurosawa's Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood or the master's Ran, an appropriation of King Lear (he's now in the Shakespeare Hall of Fame, incidentally). A good story is a good story, and if you're careful enough or inventive enough in the re-telling, there's no issue with trying to breathe new life into it.

As you will see from the first trailer for Zhang's film, »

- Colin Boyd

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Wacky Trailer for The First Gun, Director Zhang Yimou’s “Remake” of the Coen Bros. Blood Simple.

18 November 2009 1:12 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

If I didn’t know that Zhang Yimou’s (Hero) upcoming film The First Gun (formerly Amazing Tales: Three Guns) was a remake of/re-imaging of/in-anyway-connected-to the Coen Brothers classic, debut film Blood Simple., then I never would have guessed it from the Chinese trailer that just went online.  Now I don’t speak Chinese (or Mandarin or whatever dialect or language they’re speaking in the trailer) but none of the images clue me in to the plot of a cuckold who hires a hitman to murder his adulterous wife and her lover.  It’s not the setting.  I just can’t see the plot.  I guess maybe the guy in black with the bow and arrow and a cannon is the hitman?  Clearly, Yimou has made some radical changes, but when you see this trailer, I doubt you’ll think, “Huh.  This kind of reminds me of »

- Matt Goldberg

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Zhang Yimou’s Blood Simple Remake Trailer

18 November 2009 10:34 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Ever since it was announced earlier this year [1], a lot of people have been wondering what the heck is up with Zhang Yimou's remake of The Coen Brothers' very first film Blood Simple. It was believed that he would be turning it into a comedy, and with the odd title Amazing Tales: Three Guns, it seems clear that we should probably expect something completely different. And wow... that's exactly what we're getting. The Playlist [2] found the first trailer for the film on YouTube, and if you're familiar with Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower, you won't be too shocked to see plenty of artistic slow-mo, thematic colours, extravagant costumes, and melodramatic acting. It looks like a Zhang Yimou film, except... what the heck does any of this have to do with Blood Simple?? Granted, the trailer is not in English (save for the voiceover) so »

- Sean

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Indie Trailer Sunday: Zhang Yimou's Amazing Tales: Three Guns

1 November 2009 8:45 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

This trailer is only for hardcore fans of Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) and those who don't need any English subtitles! Twitch has dug up the first trailer for Zhang Yimou's Amazing Tales: Three Guns, his remake of the Coen Brothers' first film Blood Simple. It may not have subtitles yet, but it looks quite fun anyway. And its got everything you'd expect from a Coen Brothers remake - double-crossings, cheating, lying, death, and plenty of good humor. I'm actually looking forward to this, even if it looks a bit wacky, primarily because it's Zhang Yimou and he always delivers very visually stunning films. Check it out! Watch the first trailer for Zhang Yimou's Amazing Tales: Three Guns (in Mandarin): [flv:http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/amazingtales-threeguns-chinese.flv http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/amazingtales-threeguns-chinese.jpg 560 420] Set at a noodle shop in the middle of the desert in Gansu Province, Ni Dahong plays a stingy tavern owner who hires Sun Honglei's character »

- Alex Billington

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Amazing Tales: Three Guns: First Trailer for Chinese Blood Simple. Remake

30 October 2009 3:27 AM, PDT | Affenheimtheater | See recent Affenheimtheater news »

Twitch’s X has spotted the first trailer for Zhang Yimou’s reinterpretation of the Coen Brother’s Blood Simple., Amazing Tales: Three Guns over at Sina. The film is set in a desert town in China where a neglected owner of a noodle shop (Dahong Ni) hires a corrupt patrol officer (Honglei Sun) to kill his wife (Ni Yan) and her secret lover (Xiao Shen-Yang).

While the trailer looks quite nice (at least from the visual standpoint), I can’t quite get my head around a comedy from the director of “serious” works like Hero and Curse of the Golden Flower.

[See post to watch Flash video] »

- Ulrik

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Confirmed: Yimou is Remaking Coen's Blood Simple

23 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- While the economy cancelled larger, more ambitious projects, if you ask me the project Zhang Yimou's next might be ambitiously on par with the likes of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. It was reported back in March (see article) that a director who has taken on almost all genres except comedy was looking to add just that to his filmography, and then MonkeyPeaches.com reported that Yimou had secured the remake rights to the Coen's Bros. classic Blood Simple. Today, we get confirmation that the production that was in pre-production is indeed the 1984 American indie. I'm not sure about you kids, but I'm psyched for this remake and would be curious to know how the pick up of the rights occurred? Hopefully, someone during the A Serious Man junkets can ask just that question. For the time being: I wonder whether martial arts chops will replace cold steel? »

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2009 | 2008

10 articles from 2009

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