Red Corner

Red Corner (1997)

Timing: 2:2 (122 min)

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Release date

1997-10-30

Country

United States

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Avnet/Kerner Productions, MGM

Genre

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Budget

$48 000 000

Revenue

$22 420 000

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Director

Jon Avnet

Actors

Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford, Byron Mann, Peter Donat, Robert Stanton, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Tzi Ma, Ulrich Matschoss
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Scenario

Producer

Charles Mulvehill, Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner, Rosalie Swedlin, Wolfgang Petersen, Gail Katz

Operator

Karl Walter Lindenlaub

Composer

Thomas Newman

Artist

Audition

David Rubin

Editing

Peter E. Berger
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• To make the film more realistic, director John Evnet, co-producer Martin Haberty, and actress Bai Ling spent a week filming in Beijing in a guerrilla style (without the knowledge or permission of local authorities). As a result, this city was captured on 35mm film for the first time in history specifically for a Hollywood production.
• During the filming of the scene where Richard Gere's character is intimidated by the showing of a recorded execution on videotape, actual video footage illegally smuggled out of China was used.
• The film's production designer, Richard Sylbert, traveled to China twice, where he took 1500 photographs, which helped him create the sets.
• Most of the outdoor scenes were filmed near Los Angeles International Airport, where an area of seven acres was used to recreate a district of Beijing. Specifically for this purpose, 300 bicycles, 15 cars, and a thousand various items (from stoves to manhole covers) were brought in from China.