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Blending drama, fantasy and action can make for an entertaining story if done correctly. It can also highlight the personal journey of a character, which his precisely what “The Tai Chi Master” (not to be confused with the Jet Li-movie) is about. Set in a period of great turmoil the movie is perhaps the ideal entertainment vehicle, following the well-known structure of these stories. Directors Siyu Cheng and Zhenzhao Lin certainly have experience in the genre, with the latter having helmed some of the most popular genre features such as “Detective Dee’s Hell Road” and “Restart the Earth”.

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The story is set in the tumultuous last years Southern Song Dynasty with many factions quarreling and fighting over the power within the nation. However, Zhang Sanfeng (Yue Wu) does not bother with the politics of his time, having dedicated his life...

Well Go USA has snatched up North American distribution rights to the Chinese action movie Striking Rescue, starring Thai martial arts hero Tony Jaa. The film is produced by Chinese streamer Youku, which is releasing the film to its subscribers in China on Friday. It will be the first film from Youku to get a U.S. theatrical release. The project is a first step in Youku’s planned expansion into theatrical film production for international markets.

Directed by Cheng Siyi, the action revenge movie follows An Bai (Jaa), a veteran Muay Thai expert who goes on a take-no-prisoners mission of revenge after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered by mysterious forces. The film co-stars Chinese actors Hong Junjia and Shi Yanneng.

Striking Rescue is being shopped to international buyers at this week’s American Film Market by Beijing-based sales outfit Blossoms Entertainment. In addition to the North American agreement with Well Go,...

Ever since Chinese production companies have discovered the principles of the blockbusters, it seems like every year we are bombarded with a new feature about heroes facing a catastrophe or other odds. While the genre itself varies, many of these features feel as if they are throwbacks to US-American productions such as “Earthquake” or “The Towering Inferno”, as their focus lies on a group of people, their dynamics and the heroics with which they eventually overcome whatever is in their way. “Restart the Earth” by filmmaker Zhenzhao Lin, who also directed the trashy “Snakes”-franchise, goes in a similar direction, with a few nods to production such as “The Last of Us” thrown in for good measure, and there is also the ideological aspect in the mix.

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After a world-wide catastrophe which saw plants growing disproportionately large after an experiment gone horribly wrong,...

ITN Distribution has debuted a trailer for the epic Chinese disaster flick Restart the Earth where sentient plants take over life as we know it!

Synopsis:

To fight desertification, human beings develop special drugs to promote the reproduction of plant cells. In the process they accidentally awaken the plants' intelligence, soon creating a global green tide which threatens to end human life on Earth.

The Chinese disaster film stars Mickey He, Mi Luo, Michelle Ye, Li Ning, Li Ruoxi, Ye Xinyu and Huang Kai-Lun and is directd by Zhenzhao Lin.

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