Donnie Yen Cracks Skulls in US-China Co-production, Halloween Horror Films Showing in Beijing

Kipp Whittaker | Oct 17, 2014 3:00 pm | Add a comment | 5130 reads

Donnie Yen is gearing up to bash in some faces in a new English-language co-production called Noodle Man, set in the mean streets of New York's Chinatown. 

Yen will play his normal tough guy self with all of those bone crushing feats of kung fu. The stage is set with an ex-cop (Donnie Yen) from China, who immigrated to the states after a botched mission to take down a powerful drug lord resulted in the death of his partner. Years later, still pretty bummed about his partner's death and working in a noodle shop in America, the drug lord responsible serendipitously reappears, giving this broken officer of the law a new lease on life. Like they say in many an action film, "Revenge is a dish best served cold."

Daming Chen (director of China's What Women Want) and Michael Shamberg (producer of Django Unchained and Get Shorty) are at the reigns of this US-China co-production.

Here are some upcoming film screenings for fellow fans of the macabre, to get you in the Halloween spirit:

Monstrous Mondays Presents: Halloween on Oct 20 at 69 Cafe – John Carpenter's classic 1978 shocker that made Halloween 5x as scary as it was previously and launched the career of Jamie Lee Curtis. Get in the seasonal spirit early with this unsettling horror film from one of the masterminds of the genre. Free.

A Chinese Ghost Story on Oct 26 at Culture Yard – Marking the emergence of Hong Kong filmmaking and inspiring a host of imitators expect a blend of horror, Chinese folklore, romance, and comedy all delivered in one refined package. RMB 50 (RMB 30 for students).

The Seventh Seal on Oct 27 at Dada – Black Death is ravaging the country as a knight and his squire travel home. Death approaches the knight and says it is his time, but the knight, determined to fight for his life, challenges Death to a game of chess to decide his fate. Free.

Monstrous Mondays Presents: Trick 'r Treat on Oct 27 at 69 Cafe – This bloody anthology of horror stars Dylan Baker, Brian Cox and Anna Paquin, and centers on four well-crafted Halloween-related horror stories that create a genuinely horrific viewing experience. 

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