INITIAL D: INFERNAL AFFAIRS FOLLOW UP SETS RECORDS

Andrew Lau and Alan Mak the team behind the INFERNAL AFFAIRS series, has unleashed their car-racing flick, INITIAL D, on Asian audiences and the movie is, predictably, setting records. In Mainland China it's opened as the number one film of the year so far, and in Hong Kong it was number one over the weekend.

Based on a popular Japanese anime about street racing, INITIAL D, is being heralded as crunchy summertime fun, although hardcore fans of the anime are apparently ripping the film a new one for unfaithfulness to its source material.

(Thanks to Mobius Home Video Forum and Hong Kong Entertainment News in Review)