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Shout! Factory will be releasing Yueh-Hsun Tsai's action flick Black & White: The Dawn of Assault on Blu-ray and DVD on August 4th. We have a clip of one of the outrageous action scenes to share with you, hopefully whet your appetite for more. It is quite fun and if it featured any other brand of beer other than Budweiser I may have been upset about how this clip ends. Otherwise, wheeeeee!They're the last hope to save Harbour City... if they don't kill each other first. When a maverick cop and a gangster headed for retirement team up, sparks will fly and heads will roll in Black & White: The Dawn of Assault!  Suspended detective Wu finds himself back in the thick of things when he crosses paths...

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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? [Rec]³ Génesis Trailer This is the kind of trailer that gets me all jolly. Director/writer Paco Plaza has found a niche that works, and has worked for a few films.

If you thought the last two trailers for Yueh-Hsun Tsai's Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault (痞子英雄首部曲：全面開戰) were highly explosive, wait till you watch the main trailer where the stakes has just been raised. In this action-packed film, Taiwan is under a nuclear crisis unless a hero cop played by Mark Chao (Monga) and a small-time gangster played by Huang Bo can prevent the terrorist threat. Among the climatic danger they face is a hijacked airplane hurling towards a skyrise building! Gezz, talk about shit hitting the fan. The fight choreographer is Cyril Raffaelli (District 13, Die Hard 4) and Nicky Chung-Chi Li (Shaolin, New Police Story).A mad cop, who believes in justice and is willing to do everything in his own...

Get ready for an explosive Chinese New Year when Yueh-Hsun Tsai's Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault (痞子英雄首部曲：全面開戰) hits the big screen in high-octane fashion. Based on a popular Taiwanese TV series, its basically recycling the action film cliche of a lone renegade cop busting doors down in the name of justice to take down an entire lethal terrorist group with plenty of shoot'em up and property damage. The cast include Mark Chao (Monga) as the main cop, Janine Chang and Ivy Chen.A mad cop, who believes in justice and is willing to do everything in his own power to sustain his faith, meets a chicken gangster, who wants to make a final big gamble regardless how dangerous and risky it might...

The acclaimed Taiwanese Police Drama TV series, Black & White is making the jump from the small to the big screen in Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault (痞子英雄首部曲：全面開戰) which promise to have more bang for your buck on the production scale. The $12 million budgeted film is helmed by writer/director Yueh-Hsun Tsai with the stunt team from Luc Besson's Taken and the special effects supervisor from Kill Bill onboard. Returning lead roles from the original include Mark Chao (Monga), Janine Chang and Ivy Chen while the supporting cast include Terri Kwan, Huang Bo, Angela Baby, Simon Yam, Hsiu Chieh-Kai, Alex To, Ken Lin and Na Dou. It supposedly tie-in to the TV series as a prequel while a film sequel of...