Veteran filmmaker John Woo is the helmer of such iconic movies as 1989’s The Killer, 1992’s Hard Boiled and later Face/Off (have John Travolta or Nicolas Cage ever been better?), Mission: Impossible 2 and the Red Cliff movies. He’s about to see the second part of his passion project, The Crossing, released in China later this month. Billed in local media as the “Chinese Titanic,” the two-part period epic is set during the Chinese Civil War and revolves around three couples from different backgrounds whose lives are affected by the sinking of the steamer Taiping, which led to the deaths of over 1,500 passengers and crew. Ziyi Zhang stars. Woo oversaw an emotional and packed 2014 Cannes press conference to talk up the film whose first part released during the Christmas holiday corridor last year. Middle Kingdom box office under-performed at about $33M while reviews were mixed for the 3D drama.
- 7/6/2015
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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