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A Better Tomorrow 2 is a 1987 Hong Kong action film directed by John Woo, produced by Tsui Hark, and co-written by both. A follow-up to its popular predecessor, A Better Tomorrow, the film stars returning cast members Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung and Leslie Cheung alongside new cast member Dean Shek. The film was released in Hong Kong on 17 December 1987.
It is regarded as one of the greatest Chinese-language films ever made, ranking #2 on the Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures list in 2005. Its success led to a sequel, A Better Tomorrow II, also directed by Woo, and A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & Death in Saigon, a prequel directed by Hark. It has been remade several times.
Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow [3] (better known as the Colbert Super PAC) was a United States political action committee (PAC) established by Stephen Colbert, who portrayed a character of the same name who was a mock-conservative political pundit on Comedy Central's satirical television series The Colbert Report.
[2] Reviewer Jay Wassmer of brns.com gave the film a rating of 6/10, writing, "Return To A Better Tomorrow suffers from several problems, not the least of which is a very derivative script. Wong Jing is obviously trying to join the ranks of John Woo and Ringo Lam with this gangland opus.
Live from New York, it’s the cast of “Saturday Night.” Director Jason Reitman’s “thriller-comedy,” as he described it to Vanity Fair, takes place on Oct. 11, 1975, the day of the first ...
On the left, the real Groves and Oppenheimer are pictured at the Trinity test site in September 1945. Bettmann/Getty Images; Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures Robert Downey, Jr. as Lewis Strauss
LaBelle, left, as Michaels in the film "Saturday Night" and the real Michaels, right, during an episode of "Saturday Night Live" in 1976. Hopper Stone/Sony Pictures Entertainment; NBCU Photo Bank ...
John Woo's breakthrough film A Better Tomorrow (1986) largely set the template for the heroic bloodshed genre. [5] In turn, A Better Tomorrow was a reimagining of plot elements from two earlier Hong Kong crime films: Lung Kong's The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (1967) and the Shaw Brothers Studio film The Brothers (1979), the latter a remake of the hit Indian crime drama film Deewaar (1975 ...