Firestorm (2013 film)

Firestorm
Film poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese風暴
Simplified Chinese风暴
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinFēng Bào
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingFung1 Bou6
Directed byAlan Yuen
Written byAlan Yuen
Produced byAndy Lau
William Kong
StarringAndy Lau
Yao Chen
Gordon Lam
Hu Jun
Ray Lui
CinematographyChan Chi-ying
Edited byKwong Chi-leung
Ron Chan
Music byPeter Kam
Production
companies
Edko Films
Sil-Metropole Organisation
Focus Films
Good Friends Entertainment
China Dream Film Culture Productions
Ample Ideas (Hong Kong) International
He Xin Zhongshan Jin Investment Management
Elegance Media Guangdong Company
Youku Tudou Inc
Distributed byEdko Films
Release dates
  • 12 December 2013 (2013-12-12) (China)
  • 19 December 2013 (2013-12-19) (Hong Kong)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesCantonese
Mandarin
BudgetUS$20 million[1]
Box officeUS$55.8 million[2][3]

Firestorm is a 2013 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Alan Yuen, produced by and starring Andy Lau. Lau plays a hard-boiled police inspector who takes the law to his own hands in order to take down a group of violent criminals who have taken multiple innocent lives while repeatedly evading justice. The film was converted to 3D during post-production, making it the first 3D Hong Kong police action film.[4]

Firestorm was chosen to be the opening film at Screen Singapore held on 4 December 2013 where Lau and co-star Gordon Lam walked the red carpet for the film's premiere.[5] The film also opened the 56th Asia Pacific Film Festival on 13 December 2013 in Macau before it was theatrically released on 19 December 2013 in Hong Kong.[6] In addition, Firestorm also had its North American premier at the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival on 3 May 2014.[7]

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  2. ^ "FIRESTORM (2013)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  3. ^ "台灣週末票房收入:2014年 第 04 週01-24~01-26". Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  4. ^ "影/劉德華博命掀《風暴》 訓斥劇組嘆當偶像難".
  5. ^ Brzeski, Patrick (18 November 2013). "Andy Lau's 'Firestorm' to Open ScreenSingapore". The Hollywood Reporter.
  6. ^ "Andy Lau's Firestorm to open 56th Asia-Pacific Film Fest". Archived from the original on 10 October 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  7. ^ "Firestorm | SFFS". Archived from the original on 18 February 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2014.