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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #6. Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmasters

To give you an idea of how long we’ve been waiting, we’ve had this on our Most Anticipated lists for 2010 and 2011. The trailer was enough to maintain its position among the Most Anticipated elite and we’re confident this won’t go the 2046 (five years in editing) route.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 10, 2012

#06. The Grandmasters

Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Writer(s): Xu Haofeng and Kar-Wai
Producers: Jacky Pang Yee Wah and Kar-Wai

Distributor: Annapurna Pictures

The Gist: This will be a kung-fu movie about the life of Bruce Lee. The film will be set in the 1950’s and will focus on the relationship between Bruce Lee and his master Ip Man (Tony Leung). …(more)

Cast: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang and Chen Chang

List Worthy Reasons…: To give you an idea of how long we’ve been waiting, we’ve had this on our Most Anticipated lists for 2010 and 2011. The trailer was enough to maintain its position among the Most Anticipated elite and we’re confident this won’t go the 2046 (five years in editing) route.

Release Date/Status?: Now that all plans for a 2011 release are a thing of the past, the logicial next bet is Cannes 2012. Prod company Annapurna Pictures picked up distribution rights for the U.S. – if they do release the pic it will be their first ever theatrical release and they’ll want to hit theaters at the same time this is shown in mainland China.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).