Reel East's kung fu poster exhibition provides a Thursday night hit!

Our second live Reel East event (the first was our 'Once Upon A Time In China' celebration at Joyce is Not Here) was Savage Grace, an exhibition of Hong Kong kung fu movies held at Michael Leung's a gallery on Mee Lun Street.

Michael's place normally features only high end work from Chinese and Japanese artists, so he was very kind to agree to slum it for the chop socky crowd.

The event was only possible because we have such a great team at B&E / Reel East. My thanks to 'Peerless' Paul Verron, 'Super' Simon Lam and 'Delightful' Debbie Chan.

As ever, I was certain no-one would come, and was vaguely surprised when we had a full house.

Paul and I were proud to have our kung fu master, the great Mak Sifu, in the house.

I gave a short talk on the relative merits of the different posters, and it seemed to be well received.

It was great to see how many people are interested in Hong Kong film culture, and supportive of Reel East. If you want to buy anything you saw on the day, or are interested in Asian action movie memorabilia, please check out www.reeleast.com.

My mission over, I hung out with my sin Ryan and some fiends after the show.

Reel East brings action from the archive!

Our new Reel East Youtube site is now up and running.

We just uploaded some great 'China O'Brien' fight dailies that we found in the vault, and there's a lot more to come! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bouUo9DN1I

I remember 'China O'Brien' coming out in the UK in 1990, and we were all blown away to see Hong Kong fight choreography in an American film.

Its star, Cynthia Rothrock, was the first and (so far!) only white woman to become a bona fide star in Chinese films, given that she had a unique background in traditional kung fu. Richard Norton was a student of my stepfather, Tino Ceberano, and he's still in amazing shape today. He just started work choreographing the new Mad Max movie, 'Fury Road'.

The third lead was Keith Cooke, who I thought would be the biggest star of the three, but who somehow vanished from the scene! I remember hanging out with him when he was shooting 'King of the Kickboxers' in Thailand; Corey Yuen shot this amazing introductory fight for his character.

We'll be uploading some more pasts from the blast, so link to our Reel East Youtube Channel and check it out!

Savage Grace for the Year of the Dragon!

Its been way too long since I posted a blog, but I have many fine excuses! We've been in the process of moving our B&E offices from Sheung Wan to a new 3000 square foot facility in Cheung Sha Wan.

This houses our production offices, our Reel East movie memorabilia operation and a kung fu training area that also doubles as a photo studio/rehearsal area/you name it.

Space is at a premium in Hong Kong, so I feel we're blessed to have so much of it!

After we inherited the movie marketing materials from the classic Golden Harvest, Golden Princess, D and B and Movie Impact libraries, we set up www.reeleast.com to share these cinematic treasures with the world.

Its been great to see how our fellow fans around the globe have been keen to get original posters and lobby cards from their favourite films. I take a special joy in spreading the word, given that, when I was a fan, the studios, and especially Golden Harvest, guarded this stuff so jealously! Please take a look at the site, which is constantly being updated with new items, and also our affiliated magazine site (http://reeleastmag.com/).

We will also be holding special events to promote this rich legacy of Hong Kong cinema. The first of these was a seminar on Tsui Hark's 'Once Upon A Time In China', which featured a surprise guest, cinematographer supreme Chris Doyle.

Our next will be Savage Grace (see flyer text at the top of the page), which will be held at A Gallery on Mee Lun Street this Thursday (the 9th) at 8pm.

We'll be exhibiting some classic artwork posters from the golden age of kung fu cinema, I'll be giving a brief talk (zzzz), we'll be screening some classic trailers and there'll be a couple of noteworthy guests.

If you can't make it on the 9th, fret not, the exhibition will be on display at our 'Fu Factory' in Block E, 1st Floor, Cheong Fat Factory Building, 346, Fuk Wing Street, Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. You are  welcome to come and check out the world's largest collection of commercially available Hong Kong movie memorabilia at any time.

 If you have any queries, please contact Paul Verron at paul@bxe-productions.com.

Elsewhere in the building, our friendly helpful staff are ready to serve you...

As ever, a lot is happening on our 'day job' of film production, and I'll write more on that separately.