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Myanmar blacklists Michelle Yeoh

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Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi in The LadyMalaysian actress Michelle Yeoh, who’s starring as Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming Hollywood film, was deported from Myanmar on June 22 and is barred from entering the country indefinitely.

Officials in Myanmar didn’t explain why the actress is blacklisted, but it’s hard not to relate it with movie The Lady, which tells the story of Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Price laureate who was under house arrest by Myanmar’s military junta for almost 15 of the 21 years before her release in November 2010.

Despite being released, it seems that Suu Kyi’s freedom is still restricted in many ways. The Myanmar’s current military-backed government probably won’t want Michelle Yeoh to act as a spokesperson for Suu Kyi in the country.

Reign of Assassin (2010) movie trailer

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Trailer for Chinese Wuxia (ancient martial arts) film Reign of Assassin (剑雨), starring Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh and Korean actor Jung Woo-sung…

The movie is about an assassin (Yeoh) who possessed a Buddhist monk’s remains which holds a big secret which could unleash enormous power. She thus gone into hiding and got married with a martial artist (Jung), but her former assassin organisation and some other parties were in hot pursuit.

The film is produced by John Woo, his first wuxia film. Other co-stars include Wang Xueqi, Barbie Hsu, Shawn Yue, Kelly Lin, Leon Dai, Guo Xiaodong, Pace Wu, Li Zhonghan, Paw Hee-Ching and Jiang Yiyan. Thanks to Tina for the tip.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor movie trailer

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Official movie trailer for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, starring Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Luke Ford, Michelle Yeoh, Isabella Leong and Russell Wong etc. The film will hit the cinema in North America on August 1…

The trailer seems promising; probably a bit bitter to swallow for Chinese as their culture are being westernised completely (e.g. Chinese dragons aren’t supposed to look like that etc.), but from entertainment point of view, it should be a decent movie.

Starlet Isabella Leong is making her Hollywood debut with the movie, but her role seems almost negligible in the trailer. Hopefully she can still charm the audiences with her limited appearance. Michelle Yeoh seems cool though.

Babylon A.D. movie trailer

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Trailer for Babylon A.D., an English language science fiction action movie based on the novel Babylon Babies by French-born Canadian writer Maurice Georges Dantec. Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, the film is a joint production between France, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The cast includes Vin Diesel, Melanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Jerome Le Banner, Charlotte Rampling and Gerard Depardieu. In cinemas in the US next month.

Official intro by 20th Century Fox… “Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The “package” is a mysterious young woman with a secret.”

The woman isn’t that secretive anymore after you watch the video; trailers reveal too much these days. It doesn’t impress me regardless; the actions and techs seem a bit ordinary for a scifi production and the actors look boring. Frankly, a movie is usually poor if the teaser is bad to begin with.

Michelle Yeoh fights again

The only reason I’m considering watching this is because of my fellow countrywoman Michelle Yeoh. She’s starring as a nun who’s also the guardian of Aurora, aka the mysterious woman. Not sure if it’s a good or bad thing but most of her roles are martial art related these days.

Michelle is also starring in another Hollywood film, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which is hitting the theatres in the same month. And yes, looks like she’s a kungfu fighter yet again. On second though, it has to be a good thing to get these exposures in Hollywood regardless of the roles.

As part of a successful franchise, The Mummy – also starring Brendan Fraser, Jet Li and Maria Bello etc. – will probably fare better than Babylon in the box office. Good luck to both films.