The Forbidden Kingdom Special Edition Two Disc DVD

Jackie Chan and Jet Li have fulfilled their long-awaited on screen collaboration and “The Forbidden Kingdom” is pretty satisfying both of their fans, which could be seen from the result of the U.S domestic box office alone that has banked $52 million. With the rating that set on PG-13, their film also proved as a very family friendly movie compared to its lot of action-intense martial arts scenes. As everyone known, with only Jet Li and Jackie Chan have been paired for the first ever on one screen had made this film as a must see for everyone, but the director Rob Minkoff not just simply throw both of them together in this full martial arts film. He and the screenwriter John Fusco, also the fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping from Crouching Tiger/Matrix trilogy, had crafted a magical moments in this film by using both of these Kung Fu Kings legendary reputations to telling a very entertaining, crowd-pleasing, action-fantasy fairy tale. Now, the film that a remade-up version to Chinese most legendaries folklore “Journey to the West” is accessible for your home cinema collection. “The Forbidden Kingdom” will release in two-disc special edition + digital copy DVD on September 9, 2008.

In the film, an immortal known as the Monkey King (Jet Li), is turned to stone by the malicious Jade Warlord (Collin Chou). Without his magic staff by itself, the Monkey King is destined to remain forever as the prisoner. A prophecy states that every 500 years someone is sent on a quest to return the prized pole and the story taking us back to our time where we were introduce to Jason (Michael Angarano), a friendless high school boy who really admired kung fu movies. He finds comfort hanging out in a Chinatown store browsing for forgotten martial arts films and chatting with its elderly, the shop owner (Jackie Chan). At the back of the old store, Jason finds an antique bowstaff which, when trouble starts, magically propels him back through time to an ancient, forgotten China where characters of myth and legend walk the Earth. Lost and out of his element, Jason meets two ancient fighting masters, a drunken Kung Fu master named Lu Yan (Jackie again) and a pious monk named Lan Cai He (Li again). Both of them, also with the help of the taciturn Golden Sparrow (Liu Yifei) who has a personal vendetta of her own, will take the white boy under their wing and guide him down a path which will not only returning the magic staff to its true owner and defeats the evil warlord, but also send him home. Needless to say, the Jade Warlord doesn't want Jason to deliver the staff, so he sends out his soldiers and three highly skilled fighters led by the wicked witch Ni Chang (Li Bingbing) to intercept it and make life miserable for everyone in the vicinity.

Product Configurations:
•Format: 2-Disc Keep Case, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, Special Edition, Widescreen Anamorphic, NTSC, Audio Track 2: Commentary by Rob Minkoff and John Fusco
•Language: English
•Subtitles: English, Spanish
•Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
•Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
•Number of discs: 1
•Rating: PG-13
•Studio: Lions Gate
•DVD Release Date: September 9, 2008 (Save your Copy!)
•Run Time: 104 minutes

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Hansel and Gretel First Press Limited DVD

Being a fantasy-horror that (very) loosely based or also could be tagged as a reversal version of the Brother Grimm’s famous fairy tale with the same title, “Hansel and Gretel” is a very daring and imaginative creation of Yim Pil-seong, a director that raise his name with the 2005 debut film “Antarctic Journal”. With this film, he just twisted the fairy tale to modern day Korea and used the idea of strange forest and house to explore deep into the dark side of human psyche and imagination. Basely on its creeps aura and some grisly graphic sequences, so don’t be tricked with the sweet title or the cute faces of young actors on this film, because this movie absolutely not a children suited film but was made for a mature audiences. Director Yim has stated that the original idea for “Hansel & Gretel” came from the simple premise of “What if Hansel & Gretel couldn’t find their way out of the woods?” and this is also what he had explained about the children theme in this movie, “Children these days are prone to many dangers. Although the (violence) concerning the children may have been extreme, I wanted to portray (their) pain and circumstances.'' With the help of art director Ryoo Seong-hee who also in charge for the art of “Old Boy” and “The Host”, Seong had created every scene of “Hansel and Gretel” look like they just came out of a children’s book with mystery and illusion, but if you observes it more deeper then you can find an uncomfortable and horrifying ambiance that lied beneath its brightness and colorful appearance. This atmospheric and at times surreal fantasy horror is finally will available on DVD on September 3rd.The fairy tale began when a young man named Eun-soo (Chun Jeong-myoung – “Les Formidables”) get lost in the middle of nowhere after he has a car accident while arguing over the phone with his girlfriend. A mysterious girl found him and then led Eun-soo to her home, deep in the heart of a forest. She lives in a very beautiful house with her parents and two siblings, their rooms are filled with a myriad of colorful toys and lot of delicious cookies, somewhat of a children’s paradise, the house was seems like a very cozy place to live. But that’s one thing to imagine and another to actually live through, a strange crying sound that appears to come from the attic, the phone that doesn’t work and whenever Eun-soo tries to leave, the forest always brings him back to the “Happy Children’s Home.” He soon realizes there’s something wasn’t right with the cozy sanctuary and to make matters worse, the parents disappear one day and the kids give an unbelievable answer on their whereabouts. With all the strange facts, Eun-soo notice a mysterious secret exists with these children, the eldest, Man-seok (Eun Won-jae – “Happy Time”) who has a perilous temper out of shape for a child, his younger sister Yeong-hi (Sim Eun-kyung - “Hwang Jin Yi”) who has a bad habit of sleepwalk and the little one Jeong-sun (Jin Ji-hee) who repeatedly tortures her dolls. The Eun-soo’s fears increase as a few days later, an odd couple arrives at the children’s home and he becomes torn, having to guard the children from these unreliable strangers while watching out for his own life. When Eun-soo finally discovers a way to escape from his trapped which is written on a fairy tale book, but the book tells a story of none other than himself.

DVD Info:
Product Title: Hansel and Gretel (First Press Limited Edition DVD)
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan)
Language: Korean
Subtitles: Korean, English
Publisher: CJ Entertainment
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 2008-09-03 (Save your copy)

This edition comes with the following special features:
• Making Of Hansel and Gretel
• Making Of Art and Setting
• Deleted Scenes with Commentaries
• Interview with Musical Director Lee Byung Woo
• Computer Graphics
• Short Film Mobile starring Park Hye Il
• Sneak Preview and Theatrical Trailer(Source: YesAsia)

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