Long gone are the days where King Vidor, Joseph L. Mankiewicz or Cecil B. DeMille boasted of movies with “a cast of thousands.” Leave it to China to step in where Hollywood fears (and can no longer ...

As the first film to re-create the 208 A.D. Battle of Chibi, the most famous military feat in Chinese history, John Woo's "Red Cliff" is a Pan-Asian project with the word "monumental" written all over ...

BEIJING — Historians reckon that 1 million soldiers took part in the battle of Red Cliff, the bloody confrontation that gave birth to China’s Three Kingdoms. Never one to shy away from a challenge, ...

Back in china after nearly two decades making Hollywood movies, John Woo tries in the military epic Red Cliff to bring off the kind of artsy martial arts (martial-artsy?) period picture that Zhang ...

One of the most ballyhooed Asian productions in recent history, and the most expensive Chinese-lingo picture ever, John Woo's costume actioner "Red Cliff" scales the heights. Film is pitched more at ...