In Thailand, CHOCOLATE, the outrageous-looking new action film about an autistic girl beating the tar out of everyone she can get her feet on, has moved its release date up a day to February 6 in order to go head-to-head with the Thai release of Stephen Chow's sci-fi flick, CJ7. 

Are these leaked photos actually from the shoot of the live action DRAGON BALL movie? Because if so, boy it looks cheap.

The Pang Brothers' STORM RIDERS sequel starts shooting next month and the confirmed cast includes Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng reprising their original roles as well as Charlene Choi from the TWINS and Nic Tse.

The Hong Kong press is reporting that Jet Li has been secretly living in Singapore for the past year for his daughter's education, rather than in Shanghai where he tells people he lives.

Emir Kusturica, the Serbian director, buried a print of Bruce Willis vehicle, DIE HARD 4: DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE at the opening of his Kustendorf Film Festival in order to protest Hollywood's influence on film students.

Tony Leung gives a really long interview and talks about why his next project with Wong Kar-wai, about Bruce Lee's master, was put on hold for so long and why he's returned to it now:

"We planned to do it five years ago, but I felt quite bored with him...We'd been working together for over 10 years, so we needed a break. Maybe it's not a kung-fu movie at all...Maybe it's another movie about walking on the streets and smoking cigarettes. No more kung fu."

Actually, it probably is that movie now. Seriously, that's not even funny.

The gob-smackingly complicated conspiracy manga, 20th CENTURY BOYS, from Japan is being made into a live action movie and judging by the TV spot on the official website I like what they're doing so far.

hongkongfilms.mysinablog.com reports that Donnie Yen is starring in a Hong Kong remake of MIAMI VICE called HONG KONG VICE. Oh, dear.

Speaking of remakes, here's some more stills from Louis Koo and Benny Chan's remake of CELLULAR. This time, Louis gets in a nasty car accident.

Johnnie To's LINGER opened last weekend in Hong Kong with some depressingly low numbers: HK$640,000 for the weekend, being beaten like a redheaded step-child by the skin-crawling MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM and low budget horror flick THE DEATHS OF IAN STONE.

Xinhua also had a brief interview with Johnnie To recently and a sharp-eyed reader translated it for us. In it, To says that: a) he just finished shooting SPARROW a few days ago and that he wouldn't have finished it this soon if not for it being accepted into the Berlin Film Festival which starts on February 7; b) he isn't definitely signed to direct the second part of the WATER MARGIN trilogy with Andrew Lau yet, but he has been offered the gig; c) his Orlando Bloom project is on indefinite hold due to the WGA strike.

Darn writers. Don't they know how good they have it? At least they're not screenwriters in China. Chinese screenwriters may as well kill themselves.