character is savage, and Russell and I looked at Ol’ Dirty Bastard for Jack Knife’s character study. If you ABOUT THE listen closely, the jaw harp makes a sound similar to the CAST ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’ piano rhythm.” Additional character cues include synths for the Academy Award® winner RUSSELL CROWE villainous Silver Lion, a heroic theme for Zen Yi, (Jack Knife) is considered and Isaac Hayes music to represent the Blacksmith. one of the finest actors of Concludes our writer/director: “Isaac Hayes was one of his generation. Originally the masters of scores with films like Shaft. I pay homage from New Zealand, he to him by using some of his music and his influences started making waves in for my character.” the Australian film industry with his performance in the **** controversial film Romper Universal Pictures and Quentin Tarantino present Stomper—for which he a Strike Entertainment/Arcade Pictures production of became critically acclaimed a film by RZA: The Man With the Iron Fists, starring around the world. He has received three consecutive Russell Crowe, Cung Le, Lucy Liu, Byron Mann, RZA, Academy Award® Best Actor nominations for his Rick Yune, David Bautista, Jamie Chung. U.S. casting performances in The Insider (1999), Gladiator (2000) is by Denise Chamian, CSA. Music for the film is by and A Beautiful Mind (2001)—taking home the Oscar® RZA and Howard Drossin. Its music supervisors are for his performance in Gladiator. G. Marq Roswell, Carter Little. Special makeup effects In addition to winning the Best Actor Oscar® for are by Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger. The action- his performance as Maximus, the Roman general- adventure’s editor is Joe D’Augustine; its production turned-gladiator, in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, Crowe designer is Drew Boughton. The Man With the Iron earned Best Actor honors from several critics’ Fists’ director of photography is Chan Chi Ying. The organizations, including the Broadcast Film Critics film’s executive producers are Tom Karnowski, Thomas Association, and he received Best Actor nominations A. Bliss, Kristel Laiblin, Doris Tse. The film is produced from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the by Marc Abraham, Eric Newman, Eli Roth. The story Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA. is by RZA, and the screenplay is by The RZA and Eli In Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind, Crowe’s Roth. The Man With the Iron Fists is directed by RZA. masterful portrayal of Nobel Prize-winning John © 2012 Universal Studios. www.ironfists.com Forbes Nash, Jr., earned him his third Academy Award® nomination and garnered him Best Actor awards from the Golden Globes, Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and other critics groups. Crowe received his first Academy Award® nomination for his work in Michael Mann’s nonfiction drama The Insider, as tobacco company whistle- blower Jeffrey Wigand. He also earned Best Actor awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, – 22 – Broadcast Film Critics Association, National Society Crowe will soon be seen in Allen Hughes’ Broken of Film Critics and the National Board of Review, and City and Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel as Jor-El, and is nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA and currently in production on Darren Aronofsky’s Noah. a Screen Actors Guild Award. Crowe appeared in Universal Pictures’ Robin CUNG LE (Bronze Lion) was recently seen in a Hood, with Cate Blanchett; in Paul Haggis’ The Next starring role in After Dark Three Days, with Elizabeth Banks; in Universal’s Films’ Dragon Eyes, with State of Play, along with Rachel McAdams and Ben Jean-Claude Van Damme. The Affleck; in Ridley Scott’s drama Body of Lies, for film was produced by Joel Warner Bros., which also starred Leonardo DiCaprio; Silver and Moshe Diamant. in Lionsgate’s 3:10 to Yuma, opposite Christian Bale; He also choreographed and in Universal’s American Gangster, with Denzel all of the fight scenes and Washington, reteaming with director Ridley Scott. assembled his own fight Before his award-winning acclaim, Crowe made his team. The film was released mark on Hollywood in Curtis Hanson’s crime drama thea trically in May and had L.A. Confidential, as vice cop Bud White. His other its world premiere at ActionFest, where Le won two film credits include Ron Howard’sCinderella Man, awards, including Rising Action Star. in which he starred as Jim Braddock; A Good Year, Le can also be seen in Rogue Pictures’ Fighting, directed by Ridley Scott and based on the book by Peter opposite Channing Tatum, Overture Film’s Pandorum, Mayle; Jay Roach’s Mystery, Alaska; Taylor Hackford’s opposite Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Proof of Life; and Virtuosity, with Denzel Washington. On November 10, 2012, Le will headline Ultimate He made his American film debut in the Western The Fighting Championship’s first-ever fight in Macao, Quick and the Dead, with Gene Hackman and Sharon China. In 2011, Le spent a lot of time in China, where Stone. His additional film credits include Heaven’s he traveled between Shanghai and Hong Kong to co-star Burning, Breaking Up, Rough Magic, The Sum of Us, in The Man With the Iron Fists and The Grandmasters, For the Moment, Love in Limbo, The Silver Brumby, which was directed by the legendary filmmaker Wong based on the classic Australian children’s novel, The Kar-Wai. In The Grandmasters, Le stars opposite Zhang Efficiency Expert and Prisoners of the Sun. Ziyi and an all-star Asian cast, with fight choreography Born in New Zealand, Crowe was raised in by Yuen Woo-Ping (The Matrix, Kill Bill, Crouching Australia where he has also been honored for his work Tiger, Hidden Dragon). The film is expected to be on the screen. He was recognized for three consecutive released later this year and received a lot of buzz at the years by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), beginning Cannes Film Festival. in 1990, when he was nominated for Best Actor for Le is also a four-time sanshou world champion, was The Crossing. The following year, he won the Best Black Belt magazine’s kung fu Artist of the Year, and is Supporting Actor award for Proof. In 1992, he received currently the No.1 kung fu fighter in the world. He is a Best Actor awards from the AFI and the Australian living martial arts legend who is widely referred to as Film Critics for his performance in Romper Stomper. being the modern-day Bruce Lee. In 1993, the Seattle International Film Festival named him Best Actor for his work in both Romper Stomper and Hammers Over the Anvil. – 23 – LUCY LIU (Madam Blossom) has achieved great the critically acclaimed filmFreedom’s Fury, which critical and commercial premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006. success in film, on television Some of Liu’s previous film credits include Charlie’s and on Broadway. This fall, Angels, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Kill Bill: Vol.1, Liu co-stars in the new CBS Chicago, Code Name: The Cleaner, Rise: Blood television drama Elementary Hunter, Watching the Detectives, Domino, Lucky as Dr. Joan Watson, alongside Number Slevin, 3 Needles, Shanghai Noon, Payback, Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Play It to the Bone, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and The Holmes. The series premiered Year of Getting to Know Us. in September 2012. On television, Liu was nominated for an NAACP In early 2012, Liu joined Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television the cast of the critically acclaimed series Southland, Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special for her starring produced by John Wells and starring Michael Cudlitz, role in the December 2010 Lifetime Network romantic Shawn Hatosy, Regina King and Ben McKenzie, for comedy Marry Me. Liu appeared as the unforgettable its fourth season. Her portrayal of Officer Jessica Tang Ling Woo in the hit FOX series Ally McBeal, a role earned her a 2012 Critics’ Choice Television Award for for which she earned Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series. Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress Liu recently reprised her role as Viper in Para- in a Comedy Series. She has also appeared in starring mount’s animated smash hit Kung Fu Panda 2, roles on the hit series Cashmere Mafia and Dirty Sexy which has earned $665 million to date worldwide. Money and has lent her voice to such animated hits as Liu appears with a stellar cast in Tribeca Film’s The Simpsons, Futurama and King of the Hill. Detachment, directed by Tony Kaye and co-starring Liu has also collaborated with musician and singer Adrien Brody, James Caan and Marcia Gay Harden, Jeymes Samuel, of the U.K. band The Bullitts, on his which premiered in 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival. LP “They Die by Dawn & Other Short Stories.” Liu’s Also premiering in 2011, at the Newport Beach Film spoken word surrounding the main character in the Festival, was The Trouble With Bliss, a comedy co- album, Amelia Sparks, rounds out Samuel’s Sinister starring Michael C. Hall and Peter Fonda. She also Six, which include Jay Electronica, Mos Def, Tori starred in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Amos and Idris Elba. Roberto Faenza’s adaptation of a novel by Peter When not appearing on stage or screen, Liu can Cameron, which premiered at the International Rome often be found in her art studio in New York City. Liu Film Festival in October 2011. is a successful visual artist who has exhibited works in In March 2010, Liu made her Broadway debut, New York City, Los Angeles, Nova Scotia, Munich and starring as Annette in the Tony Award-winning London.