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The Raid. For it’s upcoming release the score is supposed to be done by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. From his YouTube site… The film looks like fun and it’s probably done with the smallest budget. “For a long time, I have been wanting to score a film. In order for it to work, it would have to have a great story, stunning visuals, and the timing would have to work out in a way that didn’t distract from all the things I want to do with Linkin Park. I’m really excited to have finally found the right project. The movie is called The Raid. Its intense martial arts choreography, amazing cinematography, and great story have been inspiring all kinds of new music. I’m excited for all of you to see—and hear—this film.” [youtube]5SjAfIAeGZ4[/youtube]
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Sion Sono is dark and hope hardly exists in any of his films. Himizu looks to be more of the same, as he uses the tsunami as a backdrop. Yet he does mention that he shouldn’t make a film without hope. How rare! He scores the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice Film Festival. Asian filmmakers and actresses score as well. Cai Shangjun Best Director, Deanne Ip Best Actress… (WSJ – Venice)
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Wolverine movie is going to take place in Japan! He’s going to fall in love, fight crime and fight his own demons. Casting will be interesting in this picture. It’s scheduled to shoot in Canada and also Japan. I do wonder how he’s going to get there. Is it the X-Men plane? There is still customs to get through and with his record, there’s no way he’d be let in. (Collider – Wolverine)
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Bruce Willis sees the thousand screens and sees dollar signs. It’s obvious that a billion people want to watch movies and many of the huge middle class will see them in a theater. His film called Looper is a joint production that includes Chinese backing. This is getting to be old news and obvious, yet it’s still developing. Perhaps the idea is to join the brigade of being in theaters before it gets bootlegged! (Bloomberg – Bruce Willis)
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We can easily see a movie being made about Kim Seong-do, who protects some smaller inlet islands between Korea and Japan. He works alone and is a fisherman, not military. At 72, he curses at fisherman trying to land on the deserted islands to score fish. The Japanese government wants the islands, Korea says it’s there, but it’s in the hands of a policing older man. There’s now patrols and such, but it’s still a strange tale. Here’s three elevator pitches. Horror (yes, island ghosts of dead fishermen or soldiers or even pirates come back to claim the island as theirs from the modern man), thriller (a gun battle of one man vs a special forces team of brigands who also want the islands to house munitions for an illegal war), or even a bromance film (the lone man meets another lone fisherman, perhaps the other is Japanese and they can’t understand each other). Now, someone make this. (LA Times – Lone Korean)
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