The new animated film, Kung Fu Panda, has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival tonight and features the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman and Lucy Liu. Was Lucy Liu included to fill their Asian quota? The movie is set in China and does feature pandas. The studio was probably worried …

Things are not looking good. Based on early tracking, Speed Racer is going to get creamed by Iron Man. Reviews have been ambivalent and polling shows audiences are non-too impressed by the movie. According to Slashfilm,
“Un-Aided Awareness has popped to 11% and the Total Aware is at a solid 83%. Definite Interest, however, is a …

In the past, M. Night Shyamalan created movies with unpredictable twists and turns. Just when you settled into your seat, along came a curveball to shake you up. Now, he brings us his latest movie, The Happening. 20th Century Fox previewed the film in a a thirty second spot on “Lost”.
Shyamalan cleverly uses words from …

The Nanking Massacre of 1937 is revisited in a new dvd release this week. Entitled Nanking, it centers on the period of time leading up to the Japanese conquest of the city of Nanking. The film features interviews with Chinese survivors of that time and also staged readings of writings from those who endured it.
The …

Kim Ok-Bin is currently shooting her newest film, Evil Live. Principal photography started in March. According to Variety, the movie is “all about a priest who becomes a vampire and embraces his physical existence a little too enthusiastically by having an affair with his buddy’s wife”.
I assume Kim plays the married woman. Park Chan-wook, director …

Variety reports that Gambler, one of South Korea’s most famous dance crews, will star in Paramount’s Hype Nation. Gambler recently finished second at the World Free Style Session held in LA. As for the movie, the plot revolves around a dance battle …