True Legend

Interview Round-Up: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATLHY HALLOWS, THE THING, LET ME IN, SECRETARIAT, NOWHERE BOY, and More

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 7th, 2010 at 12:09 pm

We’re always running tons of interviews here at Collider, but this past week has been especially crazy.  When you pair all the interviews Steve did during his visit to the sets of The Thing and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, coupled with the number of interviews we run on a daily basis, there’s probably some stuff you may have missed.  With this in mind, we’ve created a handy catch-all recap article that contains links to every interview we’ve posted over the last week.  Here’s some of them, but hit the jump for the rest:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows On Set Interviews

• Director David Yates
• Daniel Radcliffe
• Rupert Grint
• Warwick Davis

The Thing On Set Interviews

• Director Matthijs van Heijningen
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead
• Joel Edgerton
• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Exclusive Interview with TRUE LEGEND Director Yuen Woo-Ping

by Bill Graham    Posted: October 6th, 2010 at 10:50 am

Even if you don’t recognize the name, if you are a fan of kung fu films, you have probably seen a number of Yuen Woo-Ping’s influential fight choreography. His resume includes recent hits like The Matrix trilogy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, both Kill Bill films, and a string of other praised martial arts films. Yuen has worked with nearly every major kung fu star, including Jet Li (Fearless and The Forbidden Kingdom), Jackie Chan (Drunken Master), Donnie Yen (Iron Monkey), and a number of others. When Fantastic Fest announced that Yuen would be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award in addition to premiering Yuen’s upcoming True Legend (my review here), I jumped at the opportunity to interview the legend. Hit the jump to see my chat with Yuen as we discuss who he wants to work with in the future, his influences in directing, how he creates the fight choreography, and why the Drunken Fist fighting style keeps coming back.

Fantastic Fest 2010: TRUE LEGEND Review

by Bill Graham    Posted: October 5th, 2010 at 6:30 pm

Yuen Woo-Ping knows how to choreograph a fight, but the challenges of directing a compelling movie aren’t quite as easy to overcome. While he has a long history of telling the Drunken Fist story, this is the first dramatic telling of the narrative and the results are sadly mixed. True Legend is a wild romp through the long and winding road of Beggar So that feels oddly pieced together despite the rousing final act. The film has its ups and downs, but the end result is a bit of a mess that leaves one feeling that it could have been so much more. Hit the jump for the full review.

Impressions from Fantastic Fest – Part 1

by Bill Graham    Posted: September 28th, 2010 at 6:46 am

While Germain and I have viewed quite a few films together, we aren’t always covering the same ones. So, as I furiously work to turn in interviews and full-length reviews, I will use this space to rapid fire impressions of the films I have screened at the amazing Fantastic Fest. So, join me after the jump for my views on Mother’s Day, Let Me In, Never Let Me Go, True Legend, Stone, and the first secret screening of the festival: I Saw The Devil.

First Images and Synopses from 2010′s Biggest Films Including THE AMERICAN, SOMEWHERE, GREENBERG, and EAGLE OF THE NINTH

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 10th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

Steve went to the American Film Market (AFM) today.  AFM is where film buyers go to pick up some of the biggest movies that are in development or already completed.  The film sellers use promo art and synopses to entice buyers.  It also enticed Steve to land some the first images and full synopsis for some of the biggest upcoming films of 2010.  We’ve got the goods for The American starring George Clooney, Eagle of the Ninth starring Channing Tatum, Greenberg starring Ben Stiller, and Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning, and much more.

Looking at the images and reading the synopsis should really get you excited for these films so hit the jump and check it all out.

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