Holy Sh*t Play have killed off HKL's website! ;-)

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 07 Sep 2006, 22:37

bradavon wrote:It's good to see Contender haven't completely killed the Premier Asia and HKL brands off.

I doubt it. This was likely completed and then shelved before Brian White and Bey Logan flew the coup.

I doubt I'll bother though as this genre of film has so run it's course and frankly "Takashi Shimizu" REALLY needs to do something new, with SIX films being directed by him all about the same thing.

Make that SEVEN, he's supposed to be working on Ju-On The Grudge 3 at the moment.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Sep 2006, 08:07

Well to be fair Eva Brad did say exactly that "The Bey Logan commentary clearly shows they've had this ready to go for ages"

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 08 Sep 2006, 22:43

review of hkl a better tomorrow 2 up here

http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/

Keung · Post by **Keung** » 08 Sep 2006, 23:13

Doubt I'll be picking up ABT 2

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 13 Sep 2006, 07:39

Specs for Contender's TYG (Warrior King) release.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=62762

Looks to be uncut and have the original score, so can always pick this up if the Dragon Dynasty "The Protector" DVD only has The RZA's rescore.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 13 Sep 2006, 16:51

Keung94 wrote:Doubt I'll be picking up ABT 2

Street Trash: Two Disc! is also on the site!!! never knew that was out yet!

will finally see the film now.

No comentary on Tom Yooooooon Goooon!

bummer, will wait for Weinsteines version I think. Cover sucks bad as well mind you.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 13 Sep 2006, 17:16

Street Trash

What's that?

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 13 Sep 2006, 17:27

hey,

some gore cult classic I believe. By the genre standards, is it....romero?

Roy Frumkes was involved in that too.

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 13 Sep 2006, 19:25

Knetan wrote:hey,

some gore cult classic I believe. By the genre standards, is it....romero? Roy Frumkes was involved in that too.

Yes it is, Another rerelease from Sypanses, There is also a rerelease of Brain Damage but this time it has minus the extras found on the special edition. Lucky I haven't sold that yet

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 13 Sep 2006, 21:44

street trash is fantastic. i have the single disc,may well upgrade after reading the dvdtalk review

Keung · Post by **Keung** » 14 Sep 2006, 15:25

News on Weinsteins version of Tom Yum Goong:

Beyond innate flaws, one of the knocks the film has received has been TWC’s truncated version that reduces its original 109-minute running time down to 80 minutes. San Francisco Chronicle writer G. Allen Johnson points out in his Sept. 8th review that a motive for one character’s killing of another would be impossible to discern without having seen the original version, which he describes in contrast as being a “better film with logical plot development.”

www.kungfucinema.com

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 14 Sep 2006, 15:31

Is this some kind of cosmic joke ?
I thought the Weinsteins had improved...

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 14 Sep 2006, 16:34

80 minutes

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 14 Sep 2006, 18:24

Harvey Wankerstein strikes again.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 20 Sep 2006, 20:23

saltysam wrote:review of hkl a better tomorrow 2 up here

http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/

But how does it compare to the IVL? Sure it loses Mono but what about the PQ? I'm surprised there aren't any more reviews.

This says it all, as the IVL is much better than the AB:

"The image is good in the night-time sequences. The improvement on the image from the previous Anchor bay disc is marginal I would say."

EvaUnit02 wrote:so can always pick this up if the Dragon Dynasty "The Protector" DVD only has The RZA's rescore.

Does this have a release date? Agreed I'll pick up WK otherwise.

Keung94 wrote:News on Weinsteins version of Tom Yum Goong:

Beyond innate flaws, one of the knocks the film has received has been TWC’s truncated version that reduces its original 109-minute running time down to 80 minutes. San Francisco Chronicle writer G. Allen Johnson points out in his Sept. 8th review that a motive for one character’s killing of another would be impossible to discern without having seen the original version, which he describes in contrast as being a “better film with logical plot development.”

www.kungfucinema.com

Hmmm that doesn't look very conclusive. Fingers crossed it's false!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 21 Sep 2006, 08:37

Brad did you see in HKL's newsletter theyre selling a lot of DVDs for £7 as HKL the company is 7 years old apparently (blimey didnt realise it was that old

)

BUT it doesn't include any newer releases or PE's, so not a bargain really

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 21 Sep 2006, 17:57

Yeah but no actual link to the sale prices, that's clever. Not that I care when Play are selling them for £5.99

p.s - Do you have the link then?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 21 Sep 2006, 18:11

http://www.hongkonglegends.co.uk/

Click on "Catalogue" and "Show all"

For some reason the Front Page has a banner/link but it doesn't work

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 21 Sep 2006, 19:00

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 21 Sep 2006, 19:31

The BBFC have posted info about New Police Story:

NEW POLICE STORY

Feature
Film
Classified 21 September, 2006 .
Run Time 122m 46s

Expected to open on 13/10/2006
Subtitled,
Advice for consumers
Concise Contains strong violence and language

The main spoken language in this work is Cantonese.
The BBFC has placed this work in the ACTION, CRIME, DRAMA, MARTIAL ARTS genre(s).

When submitted to the BBFC the work had a running time of 122m 46s.
The running time of this film was calculated from the measured length of 11049+0 ( feet + frames ).
This work was passed with no cuts made.

At the time of classification Contender Ltd was the distributor of this film.

Directed by Benny Chan Producer(s) Willie Chan; Solon So; Barbie Tung; Benny Chan

The cast for this work includes: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Charlene Choi, Daniel Wu, Dave Wong.

A film or video, together with associated trailers may exist in several versions and all versions known to the BBFC are listed below.

Category Type Date Company Run Time Cut Title
FilmTrailer FilmTrailer 01/09/2006 Contender Entertainment Group 1m 37s No NEW POLICE STORY
Film Film 21/09/2006 Contender Ltd 122m 46s No NEW POLICE STORY

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 21 Sep 2006, 19:35

123 minutes ?
That's NTSC, not PAL...

Or are they releasing some kind of extended cut ?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 21 Sep 2006, 19:39

The BBFC also list the FILM (i.e - Cinema) version, it's that they're referring to:

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classifie ... enDocument

You will note the top right hand corner says FILM version, they say VIDEO for VHS and DVD submissions.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 21 Sep 2006, 19:47

Thats right. Film Runtime = NTSC Runtime.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 21 Sep 2006, 19:48

A DVD can't be far away

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 21 Sep 2006, 21:51

Ah, OK.
Phew ! For a minute, I thought HKL had gone Tartan !