{"id":30027,"date":"2013-08-12T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=30027"},"modified":"2013-08-11T23:16:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T03:16:36","slug":"stephen-chow-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/12\/stephen-chow-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Comedy Star Stephen Chow Working On Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/StephenChow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/StephenChow.jpg\" alt=\"StephenChow\" width=\"550\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30028\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About ten years ago, Hong Kong star Stephen Chow burst into the consciousness of many American film fans with his sports comedy <strong>Shaolin Soccer<\/strong>, which was quickly followed by the <strong>Kung Fu Hustle<\/strong>. But after 2008&#8217;s science-fiction fable <strong>CJ7<\/strong>, Chow seemed to have gone radio silent with no further work starring the actor forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>But following the success of his directorial effort <strong>Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons<\/strong> earlier this year, it is being announced that Chow will be returning to in front of the cameras for an untitled thriller.<\/p>\n<p>The project is still in the early stages of development, but it is set to be co-produced by the Thai studio GHT with a budget that will fall somewhere between $2.5 million to $6.5 million. And while it will sport an all Chinese cast, it will be directed by Thai director Banjong Pisanthanakun, who broke Thailand\u2019s all-time domestic box office record last year with his horror-comedy <strong>Pee Mak Phra Khanong<\/strong>. For GHT, the co-producing deal allows the studio to get a film into Chinese theaters by passing the country&#8217;s strict limitations on the number of foreign films allowed to be imported per year. Just 34 non-Chinese productions can enter the country and many of those slots are taken by Hollywood product.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I am anxious to see the results of this collaboration. Chow approached Banjong about working together stating that he was a big fan of the work the director was doing. And while I love what Chow did as a director on his films like <strong>Shaolin Soccer<\/strong> and <strong>Kung Fu Hustle<\/strong>, it will be interesting to see him tackle something that is outside of the usual sphere his work resides.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/stephen-chow-developing-film-thai-603442\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Hong Kong SHAOLIN SOCCER actor\/director is looking to collaborate with Thai studio GHT.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/12\/stephen-chow-thriller\/\" title=\"Hong Kong Comedy Star Stephen Chow Working On Thriller\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[642],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-stephen-chow"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30027"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=30027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}