SEVEN SWORDS IN VENICE OR NOT IN VENICE?

Tsui Hark's comeback epic, SEVEN SWORDS, was reported as having been selected to open the Venice Film Festival. Which is great, except it hasn't accepted the invite yet. According to Nansun Shi, Tsui's wife and producer, since the movie was shot in Mainland China, it needs official approval from the Mainland government before it can do anything. And it hasn't gotten that yet.

On the plus side, Boram Pictures president, Lee Joo-Ick, is a producer on SEVEN SWORDS and he says he's already made back his entire investment thanks to presold territories. On the negative side, there's been no US interest in the movie yet and folks speculate that US distributors are waiting to see how it does at Venice.

This is either going to be the movie of the year, or the disappointment of the decade.

(Thanks to DonnieYen.us)