Some good news for Chinese Jeffrey Dean Morgan fans. Shanghai, the film Jeffrey Dean Morgan filmed in 2008, has a Chinese release date of June 17.
And we’ve got the poster! Check it out below.
I’ve heard nothing of an release date for North America or Europe. But at the very least this may mean a DVD the rest of us can get our hot little hands on!
Here’s a recent story from Variety on the Chinese release. Hopefully if this is a success it’ll help secure a North American/European release date.
So if you’re going to be in Shanghai for the World Expo you may want to take some time to see Shanghai the movie.
BEIJING — The Weinstein brothers’ first Asian production, “Shanghai,” will screen in China in mid-June, almost two years after lensing wrapped on the controversial project.
“Shanghai,” starring John Cusack, Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li and Ken Watanabe, and helmed by Mikael Hafstrom movie, is about an American spy probing a death in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Pic has been dogged by controversy. The Film Bureau shut down production in Shanghai, even though a reported $1 million had already been spent, for unspecified political reasons, probably related to the pic’s historical element. While China has been keen to encourage co-productions with Western shingles, shutting down “Shanghai” did major damage to China’s reputation as a place to make movies. Pic ended up shooting in London and Bangkok.
Ge Yu, a spokesperson for the local distribs Huayi Brothers, told Variety that the pic had cleared the censors without any edits.
