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BEIJING – Nasdaq-listed Chinese film studio the Bona Film Group on Wednesday said it would move forward to a Dec. 22 release Hong Kong director Derek Yee’s $15 million 1920s narrative feature The Great Magician, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai.
The date change will pit Leung, one of the most award-winning Hong Kong actors of all time, against Hollywood starChristian Bale on Chinese screens during the peak Christmas film season.
“Positive confrontation will be inevitable” Bona said in a statement, noting that audiences may like to compare Leung’s portrayal of a magician with Bale’s from his 2006 role in The Prestige.
Bale, who won the Best Supporting Oscar in March for his role in The Fighter, will star next in the Dec. 16 release of Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s historical drama 13 Flowers of Nanjing.
Leung, who was named Best Actor at the Golden Horse Awards and the Asian Film Awards in 2007 for his role in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, will play the powerful prestidigitator Zhang Xian, whose ex-lover (played by Chinese actress Zhou Xun, star of The Message and Painted Skin), gets mixed up with an evil warlord played by Hong Kong actor Sean Lau Ching-wan.
“It’s a love triangle,” a Bona official told The Hollywood Reporter.
Bona, whose financial stability has wavered since it listed its shares in New York in December, earlier had planned to release The Great Magician during the Lunar New Year period in early 2012.
Emperor Motion Pictures of Hong Kong is a co-investor in the project now shooting outside Beijing at the China Film Group’s Huairou film base with Japanese cinematographer Nobuyasu Kita, who worked with Yee on his acclaimed drama The Shinjuku Incident.
Shooting is expected to finish by the end of June, a Bona official told THR, after which, EMP will take on overseas distribution duties on the film that also will star Chinese actress Yan Ni, star of Zhang Yimou’s A Simple Noodle Story.
With co-writers Chun Tin-nam and Lau Ho-leung, Yee adapted the screenplay for The Great Magician from the Chinese best-selling novel of the same name by author Zhang Haifan-- but Yee plans to make a lot of changes.
"This movie is not just the legendary story of magic, but also a fusion of fantasy, love and action and other elements,” Yee said in the statement from Beijing-based Bona. “I want to make a movie that will excite and refresh the audience."
The project is Yee’s first work in 24 years with Leung. The two last worked together in 1987 onPeople’s Hero, for which Leung was named Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
The Great Magician also represents a reunion between Leung and co-star Lau, who haven’t worked together in 13 years, since they both played in The Longest Nite by director Johnnie To.
Bona, China’s largest non-state film distributor, posted a loss in net revenues in the quarter ended December 31, and despite higher full-year revenues, a loss for that period too, blaming the financial stumble on the disappointing performance of a few key films.
『翻译』《大魔术师》PK《金陵十三钗》圣诞档正面交锋
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本周三，于纳斯达克上市的中国博纳影业公司正式宣布，将投资1500万美金，由香港导演尔冬升执导的《大魔术师》提前到12月22日上映，本片讲述了19世纪20年代由梁朝伟扮演的大魔术师的传奇故事。
放映日期的提前也意味着，获奖无数的香港演员梁朝伟正式与好莱坞影星克里斯蒂安 贝尔在中国电影黄金贺岁档正式交锋。
“正面交锋不可避免”博纳在声明中指出，观众也乐于对两位影帝对魔术师的演绎进行对比（贝尔于2006主演《致命魔术》）
而由中国导演张艺谋执导，奥斯卡最佳男配角得主克里斯蒂安贝尔（《斗士》的精彩演绎而摘取）主演的史诗巨制《金陵十三钗》也确定于12月16号上映。
在《大魔术师》中，梁朝伟（凭借2007李安电影《色戒》摘得金马奖和亚洲电影大奖最佳男主角）将演绎一位强大的魔术师，与周迅（中国女演员，主演《风声》《画皮》）扮演的旧情人和刘青云饰演的邪恶军阀间展开爱恨纠葛的较量。
“这是一段三角恋的故事”官方发言人告诉记者。
于去年12月在纽交所上市的博纳影业最终为了本年财报的稳定决定将原定的2012年春节档上映的《大魔术师》提前到2011年贺岁档。
香港英皇公司联合拍摄。本片目前在北京城外的怀柔影视基地拍摄中，由与尔冬升合作过《新宿事丵件》的日本摄影师北信康担任摄影。
博纳发言人告诉记者，拍摄预计于6月末结束，之后由香港英皇公司负责海外发行。本片还包括中国女演员闫妮（张艺谋电影《三枪拍案惊奇》）
电影由张海帆的同名畅销小说，秦天南，尔冬升和刘浩良三人做了大幅度的改编而成。
“这部电影不仅讲述了魔术的传奇故事，也融合了奇幻，爱情和动作和其他元素”尔冬升在博纳的声明中指出“我希望带给观众一部兴奋，耳目一新的电影。”
此部电影也是24年后尔冬升与梁朝伟的再次携手。1987年，因合作《人民英雄》梁朝伟第一次摘取香港电影金像奖最佳男配角。
大魔术师也是预示着梁朝伟和刘青云13年后再次聚首，两人当年曾合作过《暗花》。
博纳作为中国最大的民营电影发行公司，12月末的季度财报显示为亏损，尽管全年收益高于预期，但由于几部主要影片的盈利不理想，导致阶段性亏损。