SEVEN SWORDS GETTING TRACTION

Tsui Hark's SEVEN SWORDS opened to a flurry of dampened expectations, but it seems to be clinging to the box office by its fingernails and it might just start making some money. It's holding onto the number two spot at the Hong Kong box office and in China it's beaten INITIAL D at the box office and is looking at 20 days with hardly any other movie-going competition. Distributors who were originally pretty negative about the movie now say they think it might do REVENGE OF THE SITH-sized business in China. It's also got about 500 prints circulating in the PRC and it's no longer raining in Shanghai so things might start looking pretty good for it.