Chinese New Year’s ‘Blades Of The Guardians’ Draws Crossover Audience; Kingly Opening For ‘Elvis Presley’ — Specialty Box Office

Chinese New Year’s ‘Blades Of The Guardians’ Draws Crossover Audience; Kingly Opening For ‘Elvis Presley’ — Specialty Box Office

Well Go USA is super pleased with the debut of its Chinese New Year’s title Blades of the Guardians. Starring Jet Li and Wu Jing, it’s directed by Yuen Woo-ping — the iconic, now 80-year-old, martial arts choreographer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Matrix and Kill Bill — and looking at an estimated $760k […]

Trivia of the Guardians: An Interview with Yuen Woo-Ping on Blades of the Guardians

As part of the marketing campaign for Blades of the Guardians, which hit theatres on 17th February (check out our review!), we were given an opportunity to sit down with director Yuen Woo-Ping to talk about the production. As most will be able to guess, we’re big fans of Yuen Woo-Ping here at cityonfire, so ideally would have liked to have been locked in a room together for 24 hours to go through a considerable list of questions covering his 60+…

BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS Interview: Director Yuen Woo-ping on Passing the Baton and Still Learning After Over 50 Years

There are few filmmaking visionaries whose work has touched more than Yuen Woo-ping. A triple-threat stuntman, choreographer and director, his illustrious career began hand-in-hand with Jackie Chan's, helming the seminal Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master in 1978 and supercharging the Hong Kong film industry with a new brand astonishing martial artistry and bawdy comedy. His eye for high-impact and idiosyncratic fighting styles took …