Trailer, Poster for John Cusack's 'Shanghai'

For no particular reason, I was wondering the other day whatever happened to Shanghai, a period piece reuniting John Cusack with his 1408 director Mikael Håfström that features a good international cast and cost way too much ($50 million) to just disappear. Now it's back on the radar, with a new poster and trailer.
Click to see the full poster If the project is new to you, it went into production two years ago. At the time, the Weinstein Company didn't really have a release date planned. Then it looked like the end of 2009 sometime, but that never materialized, either. Some of that, I'm sure, had to do with the studio not really having the money to release a bunch of movie around the awards season. And so it waited. Now, however, it looks like Shanghai might actually hit the US later this year, as soon as September, with other international releases planned before that. What follows is the international trailer, and I'm sure a US version will be coming our way soon, particularly if that release date gets cemented. Looks like a handsome production, if nothing else.

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Is Gong Li just about perfect?

Looks great!