For those who are interested in such things, John Woo’s martial arts epic “Red Cliff” (formerly “The Battle of Red Cliff”) opened in limited release in the States yesterday. Granted, the perfect timing for this post would have been yesterday, but hey, better late than never,...

Apple has a new clip from John Woo’s mega epic “Red Cliff”, which features, if I recall correctly, a one-hour siege at the end of the movie that features a series of elaborate, bloody battles as the good guys march to the bad guys’ final last stand. It’s an insane amount...

Apple.com has released the first English language trailer for John Woo’s historical epic “Red Cliff”. Released nearly a year ago in Chinese cinema as a 4-hour, two-parter ala the “Kill Bill” films, Woo’s expensive foray into period costume action will be getting a...

It seems like John Woo’s epic “Red Cliff” has been out forever now, but maybe that’s because I’ve been covering it since its inception and it just feels that way. The film has scored big in Asia markets, and now Magnolia, via it’s Magnet genre label, has snapped up...

Within the first 30 minutes of John Woo’s “Red Cliff”, which features a continuous 30-something minutes of battle scenes, you understand why the film ran over schedule and over budget, coming in at a reported “most expensive production ever in Asia” $80 million dollars. Released in Asia in...

John Woo’s “Red Cliff” (formerly “The Battle of Red Cliff”) is sure getting the worst of it. There are reports that the movie is over budget, running behind schedule, and actors have walked off the set, walked on, then walked off the set again. And more recently, bad news...

Earlier in the week there were reports that a stuntman had been killed on the set of John Woo’s Chinese epic “Red Cliff” (which, apparently, is still shooting even as we speak), which is tragic, but I’m surprise it doesn’t happen more often given the chances these guys take...

Plot: In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime...

If you’re not excited to see John Woo’s take on epic Chinese action in “Red Cliff” (I still like the original title, “Battle of Red Cliff” better), then you just don’t appreciate epic Chinese filmmaking. Now someone has put a 9-minute reel of the film that was...

John Woo’s Asian epic, “Red Cliff” is one of my most anticipated films of 2008. Of all the Chinese historical epics currently coming out (and yes, there are a lot of them, more than I’ve ever seen in decades), “Red Cliff” is at the very top of my list for one reason:...

John Woo’s return to his Hong Kong roots with the Chinese martial arts epic “Red Cliff” seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle of a host of other Chinese martial arts epics that will be flooding theaters in 2008 alone. Seriously, what are they drinking over there that they’ve...

Well it’s finally here: an honest to goodness trailer for John Woo’s “The Battle of Red Cliff”, since shortened to simply “Red Cliff”. (I liked the original title better myself.) The big-budget film ($85 million and counting) is being called John Woo’s “last...

John Woo’s “Red Cliff” is one of my more anticipated films of 2008. It’s got everything I can ask for in a movie — an epic scale, massive combat, Tony Leung, and the style of John Woo to choreograph it all. Tell me that doesn’t sound like a great movie to you. (And...

It’s been ages since I heard anything remotely new about John Woo’s upcoming historical epic “The Battle of Red Cliff”, the title of which has since been shortened to just “Red Cliff”, which doesn’t sound nearly as cool as the original title. The guys over at...

Haven’t heard a whole lot from John Woo’s Chinese action epic “The Battle of Red Cliff” (although the title seems to have been shortened to just “Red Cliff”), and besides some stories about the film’s ever-changing rotation of lead actors (Chow Yun Fat was in,...