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Hong Kong director Derek Yee has wasted no time moving on from his recent hit The Great Magician, the One Night In Mongkok director already in post on his upcoming period suspense thriller Ghost Bullets.In an arsenal during the warlord era in China, a girl, accused of stealing bullets, is shot to death by the Boss.Six months later, a series of murders occur. Policemen Bao and Guo investigate the case. But all the clues point to the dead girl! They then discover that "stealing bullets" is a cover-up for a conspiracy between the Boss and the Police Chief. The latter tries to have Bao and Guo killed, but that increases their determination to solve the mystery. Finally, they find the real murderer...Lau Ching-Wan and...

The first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated new film The Great Magician is out and it looks great! The new film by Derek Yee, director of Triple Tap, One Night In Mongkok and Shinjuku Incident steps away from his usual gangster thrillers for a mystery/drama starring the great Tony Leung alongside Zhou Xun and Lau Ching Wan and cinematography by Nobuyyasa Kita, who has done a number of films with Takashi Miike, including his most recent titles 13 Assassins, Hara-Kiri and Ninja Kids.

Okay, Jackie Chan fans, now is the time to get excited. Perhaps recognizing that his career is sputtering badly both at home and abroad, Chan has decided that now is the time to break from his comfort zone and do something a little different. And that thing is Derek Yee’s Shinjuku Incident, in which Chan tackles the most purely dramatic lead role of his career in an effort to prove that he’s more than just a human stunt machine. And if you’re going to try and break new ground, Yee - the acclaimed director of One Night In Mongkok and certainly the highest caliber director Chan has ever worked with - is a good one to do it with.

We brought a YouTube’d version of the trailer to this one - replete with crappy video quality and constant narration from a television broadcast - a few...

Featuring the first purely dramatic - i.e. non-martial arts - role of Jackie Chan’s lengthy career, Derek Yee’s Shinjuku Incident has been one of the most anticipated films out of Asia from the day it was announced. And not just for the Chan factor, either, the rest of the cast is dead solid - Daniel Wu and Naoto Takenaka also star - and director Derek Yee has quietly become one of the region’s very best directors, highly adept at building tension and tightly wrought characters while drawing career best performances out of his stars. One Night In Mongkok, anyone? And early word on Shinjuku - a film that revolves around an illegal immigrant drawn into Tokyo’s underworld - has been very good. Too bad people may bot be able to see it.

See, the thing is Shinjuku Incident has been announced as the opening film...

HONG KONG -- Columbia Pictures' Kung Fu Hustle garnered best film honors at the Hong Kong Film Critics Assn.'s 10th annual Golden Bauhinia Awards on Sunday. Kung Fu Hustle also scored a supporting actor nod for actor Yuen Wah for his role as a Tai Chi master. The film was also named one of the year's top 10 Chinese-language movies. Kung Fu Hustle, about a wannabe gangster who finally turns his martial arts talents to saving others, is the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in Hong Kong. Hustle helmer Stephen Chow was bested in the director category by Derek Yee, who won for his dark crime drama One Nite in Mongkok, while 2046 star Tony Leung took home the best actor award. The nod for best actress went to Rene Liu for her performance in Feng Xiaogang's World Without Thieves.