Hong Kong Box Office Down Slightly in First Half of 2011

HONG KONG -- Overall film gross for the first six months of 2011 in Hong Kong has shrunk but local films have held their own, according to the Hong Kong Motion Picture Industry Association.

Box office grosses totaled HK$633 million ($81 million) from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2011, a 4.4% drop from HK$662 million within the same period in 2010, while the total number of films released rose from 137 last year to 143 this year.

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Hong Kong Box Office Down Slightly in First Half of 2011
Hong Kong Box Office Down Slightly in First Half of 2011

Things are likely to change very soon entering July, when current and potential blockbusters such as Transformers, which has already raked in over HK$40 million in five days, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and Kung Fu Panda 2, all in 3D,



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“The Martial World is ruled by a mysterious emperor whose five armies are each headed by a cruel and highly skilled kung fu master. Lei Kung, a soldier in one of these armies, grows tired of his master’s evil ways and seeks enlightenment elsewhere. However, he soon finds that he’s been chosen as the one who will put an end to the emperor’s tyrannical rule, personally! Allegiances are blurred as techniques are perfected, and Lei Kung becomes less certain who’s friend and who’s foe in each chapter.

Fists fly, limbs are lost and blood vessels burst in this tale of furious rivals, supernatural masters, walking corpses, and above all, raging kung fu!”

since 2000 and it was previously distributed internationally by Diamond Distributors. This new release is the first time the complete work has been collected into a single volume and includes 200 new pages.

The story might sound all-too-familiar to those versed in Kung Fu cinema, whether from the Shaw Brothers’ era or the Kung Fu movies of the 70′s Blaxpoitation era. But by taking inspiration from these sources, and more, Mcleod has created something greater than the sum of its parts.

Mcleod’s illustrations are, expectedly, gorgeous. The watercolour technique he has used is reminiscent of East Asian ink and wash paintings, with each frame and page composed with an eye for dynamism and cinematography that many film-makers would kill to have.

Did I mention yet that the story contains enough zombies and gore to satisfy even the most hardcore horror movie fan?

The story centres around the conceit that the cycle of rebirth has been disturbed due to the dwindling of life on Earth. The newly deceased who have not attained significant power during life have taken to occupying the bodies of corpses in an effort to fight their way back into human bodies. The Eight Immortals are trying to find the mortal students that they can train to fight this growing evil while they take care of the spirit plane, but every student they train turns to the forbidden poison Kung Fu and becomes corrupted. Meanwhile, a young soldier is recruited by an old hermit inhabiting the body of a corpse as it was the nearest body he could find after the soldier accidentally tore his soul away in the last moments of a long meditation. This soldier is tasked with finding the Immortals and learning from them what is required to right the balance of the world.

, and ends with a history of Kung Fu and Kung Fu cinema, and clearly demonstrates that Mcleod has approached this work with the kind of obsessive compulsive attention to detail that we have come to expect from the greats like Moore and Miller.


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