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...replace or cut five minutes from the film, including scenes in which the characters rap the names of Singaporean gangs. Tan is currently appealing the cuts, citing not just artistic integrity but the fact that his producers, the independent company Zhao Wei Films, don't have the funds to reshoot new footage?assuming they could reassemble his delinquent cast, a number of whom have been jailed or gone missing since 15 was shot. "The censors can be a little bit narrow minded," Tan says. "They don't see the whole picture, just bits and pieces...
...large portion of film’s negative was damaged during shipment to New York City—including an irreplaceable scene shot during an actual monsoon. Luckily, insurance claims allowed Nair to reshoot three of the damaged scenes and use digital technology to recreate the rain storm. She says the lost film was a blessing in disguise, forcing her to reexamine areas of the story that needed strengthening...
...year on DVD in the U.S. as Legend of the Red Dragon). He also choreographed Jet Li in seven action films. The director's flair for building memorable kung fu moments has put him in high demand in the U.S., where he has been asked by several studios to reshoot some of his earlier works in English. Sitting in a hotel suite overlooking the Hong Kong skyline, the jovial director insists his movies are not only about violent engagements. "For me," he says, "the drama takes precedence over the action." His favorite scene from So Close, one in which...
...days of the shoot were lost when the negatives went through an airport X-ray machine. How do you cope with something like that? Nair: You breathe deeply and start talking to your insurance company. They digitally restored the one big sequence, a dance number, which I could not reshoot. But the cost equaled the price of the whole film. Then the insurers said we had to return to India to shoot the other four scenes that were lost, because it was cheaper. So I just blasted every scene we had to reshoot with rain, because we could not afford...
...come cheap. Disney balked at the proposed budget of $208 million. No one knew how well a jingoistic American anthem would sound in the important overseas markets, "so we had to figure zero for Japan," says Disney studio chief Peter Schneider. He would later ask Bay to reshoot an inflammatory scene in which a civilian Japanese dentist working in Hawaii was depicted as a spy for his homeland...