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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Lust, Caution

Also Known As: Se, Jie
Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline: An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, centering around Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure and Wang Jiazhi, the young woman who gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with him.
Genres: Thriller and Adaptation
Running Time: 2 hrs. 36 min.
Release Date: September 28th, 2007 (limited)
MPAA Rating: NC-17 for some explicit sexuality.
Distributors: Focus Features
Production Co.: River Road Entertainment, Haishang Films
Studios: Focus Features
Filming Locations: China
Produced in: United States

Lust, Caution Facts :

Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a cafe, places a call, and then sits and waits. She remembers how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi. With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min. Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe's new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences--and Kuang. He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee. Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yee's trust by befriending his wife and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted--until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee. Shanghai, 1941. With no end in sight for the occupation, Wong--having emigrated from Hong Kong--goes through the motions of her existence. Much to her surprise, Kuang re-enters her life. Now part of the organized resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs. Mak in a revival of the plot to kill Yee, who as head of the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part of the puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn ever closer to her dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit...

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Monday, September 10, 2007

The Golden Compass

Also Known As: His Dark Materials 1: The Golden Compass, Northern Lights
Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline: Centers on two children who live in parallel worlds surrounded by a huge cast of shape-shifting creatures.
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation
Release Date: December 7th, 2007 (wide)
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Distributors: New Line Cinema
Production Co.: Depth of Field, Scholastic Media
Studios: New Line Cinema
Filming Locations: United Kingdom
Produced in: United States

The Golden Compass Facts

Lyra Belacqua is an orphan who lives happily in Jordan College, Oxford, playing with local boys and terrorizing the professors. However, when Lyra overhears scholars discussing a plot against her uncle, Lord Asriel, centering around a mysterious substance called Dust, her curiosity is roused. Soon Lyra is in over her head as she uncovers a frightening plot and a whole new world of possibilities.

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