Amazing (film)
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Director Sherwood Hu Music director Frank Fitzpatrick Country China | 4.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Romance, Sport Duration Language Mandarin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 30, 2013 (2013-09-30) Writer Sherwood Hu, Sisi Huang, Hai-shu Li, Zhen Qin, Kan-Cheung Tsang Screenplay Sherwood Hu, Kan-Cheung Tsang, Hai-shu Li, Sisi Huang, Zhen Qin Cast Huang Xiaoming , Amber Kuo , Kim Ah-joong , Stephen Fung , Carmelo Anthony Similar movies Blackie Chen appears in Amazing and Future X-Cops | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amazing (Chinese: 神奇) is a Chinese sci-fi basketball film directed by Sherwood Hu released in 2013. The film is a sci-fi drama set in modern-day Shanghai about an unexpected series of events that unfold when China's top programmer (Huang Xiao Ming) designs the world's first thought-controlled virtual reality basketball game. It premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June 2013 and released in China on September 30, 2013.
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Trailer for the movie amazing in corporation with the nba 2013
Cast
Production
Shanghai Film Group approached the NBA with the idea for a film centered on basketball and video games. The production company sent director Sherwood Hu to New York to make the sales pitch. NBA officials were enthused about the idea and arranged for Anthony, Howard and Pippen to participate. Filming began in fall of 2010 in Shanghai with the scenes with the NBA players, who were available only for a few days each because of training schedules. production was halted for half a year while Hu polished the script and waited for some of his other actors to finish other films. Shooting resumed the following spring and wrapped in October 2011. Language was a key issue during the production because of the cast that included actors from the United States, China, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Music
Amazing features musical performances by the China National Symphony Orchestra and lead soprano Ying Huang. The original score was composed by Frank Fitzpatrick.
References
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