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    trouble finding a male lead

    Imagine that!
    Perhaps its just that the One Dollar people just don´t know where to look?

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    World's first 3D erotic movie to be made in HK, says producer
    Vivienne Chow

    Hong Kong filmmakers hope to attract audiences back to the cinema by producing what is believed to be the world's first three-dimensional erotic film.

    Shooting will begin in April on the HK$30 million movie, titled 3D Sex and Zen, and its producer vows to make the love scenes as realistic as possible.

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    "Just imagine that you'll be watching it as if you were sitting beside the bed," said Stephen Shiu Jnr, chairman of One Dollar Production and the movie's producer.

    Around 25 to 30 per cent of the movie will be love scenes. "There will be many close-ups. It will look as if the actresses are only a few centimetres from the audience," he said.

    The producers expect to use adult video actresses from Japan and Taiwan, but not the more conservative local actresses, he said.

    "But we're having trouble finding a male lead who is willing to undress in front of the camera. It's a lot more difficult to find an actor than an actress for this kind of movie."

    The movie will be an update of one of Hong Kong's most memorable erotic movies, Sex and Zen, which was produced by Shiu's father, media veteran Stephen Shiu Yeuk-yuen. It was based loosely on a classic of Chinese erotic literature, The Carnal Prayer Mat, written by Li Yu in the 17th century. Mr Shiu Jnr said the 3D version would be a tale about how overindulgence in pleasure can lead to tragedy. "This 3D erotica will probably be the world's first," he said.

    The movie's 3D effects will be produced by Menfond Electronic Art and Computer Design, a Hong Kong-based special effects company that has worked on major blockbusters, including The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D. Menfond has already produced some sample clips, he said.

    "Given the fierce level of online piracy, making 3D movies is the only way ahead for Hong Kong cinema," Mr Shiu said. The 3D visual effects can be seen only at cinemas equipped with special projectors and glasses for viewers.

    Hong Kong audiences like 3D movies, said June Wong, general manager of MCL Circuit, which owns nine 3D-equipped screens. Last year the Hollywood blockbuster Journey to the Centre of the Earth made more than HK$10 million in only six days - 55 per cent of that coming from 10 screens that showed the 3D version.

    How much success the erotic film has at the box office would depend on whether cinemas screen it, and that depended on a number of factors, she said. "First, we need to know the schedule and the availability of the screens. We also have to identify the market for a movie and whether it would suit the audience of each particular cinema."

    Mr Shiu said the movie's production would take twice as long as ordinary movies. "We have to come up with a story board and we have to plan how and where to apply the 3D technology," he said. "The shooting will be similar to that of an ordinary movie except that it will be shot with two cameras, which simulates the vision created by two human eyes."

    The film is scheduled to be released in time for Christmas.


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    I can only imagine what they will do to make the most of the 3D.

    Do you think they will ever show it at Mickey's 3D Philharmagic at Disneyland?


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    Great, I can't wait to sit with hundreds of other people, mostly male all with hard ons around me..... NOT!!!!!!!!!!


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    You think?

    My understanding with, for example, Lust, Caution, which had some pretty explicit (everything but the cock) sex scenes, was that it was the Chinese ladies who were going multiple times...