PETER CHAN'S PERFECT LOVE

Peter Chan (of COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY fame) started shooting his musical, PERHAPS LOVE, earlier this year. Then he took a few weeks off and picked up the shoot again. Now it looks like Celestial Pictures (the folks with the Shaw Brothers library) are going to be distributing it worldwide. Chan's Applause Pictures will release it in Hong Kong and then Celestial will probably sell it territory by territory.

Why should anyone care? Well, Peter Chan is directing, Takeshi Kaneshiro (HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) and Korea's Jin Ji-Hee, as well as Jacky Cheung (one of Hong Kong's best actor/pop stars who has been absent from the screen lately). Action director Tung Wei and Bollywood's best choreographer, Farah Khan, will do the physical stuff, and Peter Pau (who won the Oscar for "Best Cinematography" for CT,HD) will take the pretty pictures.

This is the kind of international co-production that Chan is famous for (most recently with the horror omnibus films THREE and THREE...EXTREMES) and he seems excited and confident that this will be something unique. Plus, Chan says that Takeshi Kaneshiro will be singing and has a "sexy and low voice."