A gallery of Kung-Fu Cyborg concept art went up at Sina.com (more at the link) including some battle scenes and some awe-inspiring hardware:

Kung-Fu Cyborg had its premiere over the weekend, and CCTV.com provides this plot synopsis:

The story takes place in a futuristic world, where robots are at war with each other. Hu Jun plays a police officer who becomes a cyborg. Sun Li plays the adopted sister of Hu Jun, who falls in love with a cyborg. Wu Jing plays a robot who has become evil but eventually turns over a new leaf.

The visual effects, from the same team who created Kung-Fu Hustle, are supposed to be amazing. And actor Eric Tsang promises: "Many cinema goers burst into laughter at the beginning of Jeffrey Lau's film, but leave the cinema in tears. When they are back home recalling the scenarios, they laugh again."

Symbol
The writer and director of Big Man Japan will be showing his latest work Symbol at the Toronto Film Festival, and Hitoshi Matsumoto's latest work really has me scratching my head with wonder. The latest teaser shows... well, I'm not really sure what, but some poor fella is obviously getting attack by tiny naked CG cherubs. I'm still not sure what to make of the dog reference. Creeeepy.

Here's the full synopsis... sounds like a trip:

In the central tale, a Japanese man (Matsumoto) wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life-sized Mouse Trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape.

Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green-masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match. His family gathers around him, worried about his seeming impassivity before battle. As the nameless prisoner appears closer to escape and Escargot Man steps into the ring, Matsumoto amplifies the baffling yet suspenseful atmosphere to a crescendo of ridiculous excess.

Bio-Slime

Aaaah, a new evil, gooey bio-killer. Here's the trailer for small budget slick Bio-Slime, which is your basic alien species monster flick. A bunch of strangers are trapped in an isolated area and one by one they get picked off until one clever member devises a plan to get back at the beast... Check it out.

Kung Fu Cyborg:
The latest Kung Fu Cyborg trailer is out, offering more Kung Fu Robots, but also showing off the movie's love story a little bit more. I mean, it's not called "metallic attraction" for nothing. We need more robots in love that don't look like Wall-E and an ipod. Jeffrey Lau's latest work should be out within the month, we'll see how long it takes to reach little old me.

Cold Souls
The funny little flick about soul extraction, starring Paul Giamatti as himself, is getting a limited release in New York and LA on August 7th. So to celebrate, check out this new clip. The film follows the saddened actor who looks to release a little stress by removing his soul from his body. But when his soul is mistaken for Al Pacino's soul and swiped by the Russian mob, the actor is sent on a journey to reclaim what is rightfully his.

New Cold Souls Clip:

Cold Souls Trailer:

In fact, according to Twitchfilm:

It appears the design on this robot is based off the Jiang Shi, the long-robed, hopping Chinese vampires popularized in the 80's classic Mr. Vampire series.

That's even more obvious when you look at the concept art pictured at right. (For more concept art, check this out.) The movie hits theaters in China in August, and has been picked up for North American distribution. No word on when we'll see it in the West.

via Twitchfilm, thanks to Avery Guerra!

Apparently director Jeffrey Lau got 14 million bucks, and he spent it all on these Samurai Transformers, plus one robot's wig. This movie is crazy-pants, judging from this early trailer, created for Hong Kong's Film Mart. I think it's about love, and one guy imitating Jude Law's character from AI. Oh, and Transformers.

Says Lau:

When I saw SPIDER-MAN, SUPERMAN and BATMAN, I wondered why we don't have similar superheroes in China. I burst out laughing when watching TRANSFORMERS. The effects were amazing but the robots didn't know how to fight. So I decided our Chinese superheroes should be kung fu experts.

Lau was the producer of Kung Fu Hustle, which had quite a few funny moments - so this picture will most likely be in the same vein, but with more superheroes and robots that want to take over the world.

[via Kung Fu Cinema]