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...another chance at the U.S. market. Chan, better known for romantic dramas like the superb Comrades: Almost a Love Story, could have a shot with this remake of Chang Cheh's 1973 kung-fu bromance Blood Brothers. He's certainly got star quality: Jet Li, Kaneshiro and Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau (who had the Matt Damon role in the film that was remade as The Departed). It's a little long and a lot of fun, even if it doesn't quite live up to the NYAFF blurb: "As big, meaty and satisfying as a flame-roasted...
...Written By (Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong...
...written many movies for Hong Kong's last standing top director, Johnnie To, including Vengeance, the Johnny Hallyday gangland saga that played at Cannes this year. On his own, Wai offers Written By, a conceptually complex yarn beginning with a car crash that kills a man and blinds his young daughter. Years later, the daughter (Kelly Lin) writes a novel in which she dies and the father (Lau Ching-wan) survives but is blinded. Then, within that fantasy, the father writes a novel reviving his child. It's a little more appealing as a Charlie Kaufman-like structure than...
...British Airways flight; a flight attendant held on to his legs as the co-pilot landed the plane (the pilot survived). In 1994, an Aeroflot pilot allowed his 12-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son to play with the plane's controls during a Moscow-to-Hong Kong flight. "Can I turn [the wheel]?" the black box recorded the boy saying. "Turn it." The pilot replied. "Watch the ground as you turn. Let's go left." Moments later, the plane crashed into the Siberian wilderness, and all 75 people onboard died. (Read "How to Survive a Plane Crash...
...Chinese enterprises went to market in the U.S. last year, down sharply from 29 in 2007. Now there's a rush to list. Accounting firm Ernst & Young says it is working on 108 IPOs; most of the offerings are by Chinese companies planning to list in China, Hong Kong or both. Meanwhile, Chinese technology firms are expected to head to the U.S., which has long been the market of choice for cutting-edge companies...