The Flowers of War
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Screenplay by Heng Liu
China, 2011
A select few of China’s most revered filmmakers have, at given moments in their careers, chosen to make headway in the English-language cinema landscape, their sights aimed more specifically at the United States and Hollywood. John Woo’s stint was less than memorable, with Face/Off being his most successful attempt (and few would argue that it is any better than what he made in Hong Kong either before or after his American career). Wong Kar Wai, after making a name for himself with nearly 20 years of great films, headed West as well to make My Blueberry Nights with mixed results to say the least. Zhang Yimou, known mostly for his wuxia-style epics Hero and House of Flying Daggers, does not go to quite the same lengths, preferring to keep his latest film set in China,...
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Screenplay by Heng Liu
China, 2011
A select few of China’s most revered filmmakers have, at given moments in their careers, chosen to make headway in the English-language cinema landscape, their sights aimed more specifically at the United States and Hollywood. John Woo’s stint was less than memorable, with Face/Off being his most successful attempt (and few would argue that it is any better than what he made in Hong Kong either before or after his American career). Wong Kar Wai, after making a name for himself with nearly 20 years of great films, headed West as well to make My Blueberry Nights with mixed results to say the least. Zhang Yimou, known mostly for his wuxia-style epics Hero and House of Flying Daggers, does not go to quite the same lengths, preferring to keep his latest film set in China,...
- 2/21/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – In our latest foreign-language edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 35 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the Golden Globe-nominated foreign-language film “The Flowers of War” starring Christian Bale from the director of “Hero”!
“The Flowers of War” from director Yimou Zhang also stars Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi, Atsurô Watabe, Dawei Tong, Tianyuan Huang, Bai Xue, Takashi Yamanaka, Shawn Dou, Kefan Cao and Hai-Bo Huang from writer Heng Liu based on the novel by Geling Yan. The film opens in Chicago on Jan. 20, 2012.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The Flowers of War” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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“The Flowers of War” from director Yimou Zhang also stars Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi, Atsurô Watabe, Dawei Tong, Tianyuan Huang, Bai Xue, Takashi Yamanaka, Shawn Dou, Kefan Cao and Hai-Bo Huang from writer Heng Liu based on the novel by Geling Yan. The film opens in Chicago on Jan. 20, 2012.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The Flowers of War” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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- 1/14/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Not too long ago the small outfit Wreckin Hill Entertainment picked up Us rights [1] to Zhang Yimou's new film The Flowers of War. That's the film in which Christian Bale plays a roguish American who ends up taking responsibility for a group of girls and women who take refuge in a church during Japan's siege of Nanking during World War II. The film is China's entry for this year's Best Foreign Language film (it is also the most expensive film produced in China) and has an Oscar-qualifying run set to begin December 21 in New York, with openings on Dec 23 in La and San Francisco. To promote that Oscar run there is now a Us trailer for the film, and it is far more coherent and story-oriented than the sales trailer [2] we saw some time ago. It still shows off the film's wartime scope, but it also foregrounds the narrative so...
- 12/12/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Here is the new poster for Zhang Yimou's film The Flowers of War, which is set during the Japanese occupation of Naking in 1937. Thanks for Chris Ball, the film will have an awards-qualifying U.S. release in La, NY and San Francisco in late December. In early 2012, Flowers of War will be expanded throughout the U.S.
Shigeo Kobayashi stars alongside Bale in the film, which is 60 percent in Mandarin and 40 percent in English. The film is based on Heng Liu's screenplay adapted from Geling Yan's book The 13 Women of Nanjing. Zhang Yimou's film tells the story of "an American who finds himself trapped in China's capital city when it is overrun by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1937. Pretending to be a priest, he hides out at a church compound that is a girls school. Soon, a group of prostitutes also find refuge there as the Japanese overtake...
Shigeo Kobayashi stars alongside Bale in the film, which is 60 percent in Mandarin and 40 percent in English. The film is based on Heng Liu's screenplay adapted from Geling Yan's book The 13 Women of Nanjing. Zhang Yimou's film tells the story of "an American who finds himself trapped in China's capital city when it is overrun by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1937. Pretending to be a priest, he hides out at a church compound that is a girls school. Soon, a group of prostitutes also find refuge there as the Japanese overtake...
- 11/11/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Zhang Yimou’s The Flowers of War, starring Christian Bale, was going to be released in China long before it would hit state side, that was a given. The film is scheduled for a December 16th release. But there was no American distributor willing to pick it up.
But Wrekin Hill Entertainment in conjuction with Row 1 Productions have stepped up to the plate and will give The Flowers of War a limited release late December just in time for a Academy qualifying run. Eventually The Flowers of War will get an extended release in January.
In The Flowers of War, Christian Bale plays a priest in Nanking who must defend his church and it’s students from the Japanese forces who threaten them. You can check out the trailer here.
Here is the official press release
Los Angeles, CA (November 7, 2011) — Chris Ball, President and CEO of La-based film production and distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment,...
But Wrekin Hill Entertainment in conjuction with Row 1 Productions have stepped up to the plate and will give The Flowers of War a limited release late December just in time for a Academy qualifying run. Eventually The Flowers of War will get an extended release in January.
In The Flowers of War, Christian Bale plays a priest in Nanking who must defend his church and it’s students from the Japanese forces who threaten them. You can check out the trailer here.
Here is the official press release
Los Angeles, CA (November 7, 2011) — Chris Ball, President and CEO of La-based film production and distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment,...
- 11/8/2011
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
American audiences will be able to see Christian Bale in another movie thanks to Chris Ball's new independent distribution company Wrekin Hilll Entertainment, and Row 1 Entertainment. THR reports that they have acquired North American distribution rights to Zhang Yimou's epic film The Flowers of War, set during the Japanese occupation of Naking in 1937. The film will be shown in La, NY and San Francisco in late December as part of it's awards-qualifying run. Wrekin Hill will then expand the film through the early part of 2012.
Flowers was planned as an awards contender by Zhang Weiping, who financed the $90 million-budgeted film under his New Pictures Film Banner. The film is China's official Oscar entry for best foreign language picture, but once it gets a U.S. release, it can be submitted in other categories, including acting and directing. Zhang's past films include House of Flying Daggers and Hero. Flowers of War will premiere in Beijing,...
Flowers was planned as an awards contender by Zhang Weiping, who financed the $90 million-budgeted film under his New Pictures Film Banner. The film is China's official Oscar entry for best foreign language picture, but once it gets a U.S. release, it can be submitted in other categories, including acting and directing. Zhang's past films include House of Flying Daggers and Hero. Flowers of War will premiere in Beijing,...
- 11/8/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
The Chinese release of Zhang Yimou's WWII film The Flowers of War is imminent in China, where the film will open on December 16. But its fate has been undecided in the States. Now Wrekin Hill Entertainment, in association with Row 1 Productions, will release the movie in a limited late December Academy qualifying run, and give the movie a wider release in early 2012. In The Flowers of War, which is set in 1937, Christian Bale plays "a salty mortician who apparently has come to town to bury the priest of a cathedral in Nanking," and ends up taking over for the priest when invading Japanese forces threaten the students of a girls' school that is also housed in the cathedral. We saw a Chinese sales trailer [1] not long ago, but with distribution set for the movie we can probably expect a trailer for Us audiences in short order. The press release is below.
- 11/8/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Zhang Yimou.S The Flowers Of War - China.S Oscar Entry – Goes To Wrekin Hill In Association With Row 1 Productions
Epic Starring Christian Bale Will Open In Late December 2011
Following Its Wide Release on Dec. 16 in China
Chris Ball, President and CEO of La-based film production and distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment, announced today that his company, in association with Row 1 Productions, have acquired the North American distribution rights to award-winning Chinese director Zhang Yimou.s (Raise the Red Lantern, Hero) and producer Zhang Weiping.s The Flowers Of War starring Academy Award® winning actor Christian Bale (The Fighter, The Dark Knight). The film has been selected as this year.s official foreign language entry for China at the Academy Awards. Wrekin Hill, in association with Row 1, will open the film in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in late December 2011 and the film will then expand through...
Epic Starring Christian Bale Will Open In Late December 2011
Following Its Wide Release on Dec. 16 in China
Chris Ball, President and CEO of La-based film production and distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment, announced today that his company, in association with Row 1 Productions, have acquired the North American distribution rights to award-winning Chinese director Zhang Yimou.s (Raise the Red Lantern, Hero) and producer Zhang Weiping.s The Flowers Of War starring Academy Award® winning actor Christian Bale (The Fighter, The Dark Knight). The film has been selected as this year.s official foreign language entry for China at the Academy Awards. Wrekin Hill, in association with Row 1, will open the film in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in late December 2011 and the film will then expand through...
- 11/8/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After months of speculation that went hand-in-hand with talk of Oscars, the U.S. distribution contest for Zhang Yimou‘s The Flowers of War has ended a tad anticlimacticly. A press release announces that Wrekin Hill — the company recently behind Hesher, The People vs. George Lucas, and The Way Back — have picked up the Christian Bale starrer for an opening later this year. With Row 1, they’ll release it in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco “in late December 2011,” rolling it out to other markets at the start of next year.
Awards hope isn’t completely dissipated by this news — but it could very well be hurt. Wrekin Hill is a very small distributor who couldn’t find the proper method to support Peter Weir‘s The Way Back, a film that could have easily earned a nomination for something more technical — cinematography, perhaps — so long as it had the proper backing.
Awards hope isn’t completely dissipated by this news — but it could very well be hurt. Wrekin Hill is a very small distributor who couldn’t find the proper method to support Peter Weir‘s The Way Back, a film that could have easily earned a nomination for something more technical — cinematography, perhaps — so long as it had the proper backing.
- 11/8/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Los Angeles, CA (November 7, 2011) — Chris Ball, President and CEO of La-based film production and distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment, announced today that his company, in association with Row 1 Productions, have acquired theNorth American distribution rights to award-winning Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s (Raise the Red Lantern, Hero) and producer Zhang Weiping’s The Flowers Of War starring Academy Award® winning actor Christian Bale (The Fighter, The Dark Knight). The film has been selected as this year’s official foreign language entry for China at the Academy Awards. Wrekin Hill, in association with Row 1, will open the film in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in late December 2011 and the film will then expand through early 2012. The Flowers Of War will have a wide release in China on December 16th following three premiere events in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Based on a screenplay by Heng Liu (The Story of Qiu Ju...
- 11/8/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The backers of Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War, a tough period drama set during the horrific 1937 Nanking Massacre, are heaving sighs of relief. China has chosen the film as its official Oscar entry. It is due for December 16 release in Asia and was for sale at the recent Toronto Film Festival, where I saw a stunning 20 minutes of footage. This means that a buyer is now more likely to step up to qualify the film at year's end for a Christian Bale Oscar campaign, knowing that The Flowers of War may wind up a foreign Oscar nominee. (There's just enough Chinese in the English/Mandarin dialogue to qualify.) Based on a screenplay by Heng Liu (Assembly, The Story of Qiu Ju), The ...
- 9/23/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
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