{"id":118784,"date":"2013-03-19T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T22:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=118784"},"modified":"2013-03-19T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T22:17:16","slug":"win-a-copy-of-the-great-magician-from-shockya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2013\/03\/19\/win-a-copy-of-the-great-magician-from-shockya\/","title":{"rendered":"Win A Copy Of The Great Magician From ShockYa!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well Go USA Entertainment<\/a> has released “The Great Magician” on DVD, Blu-ray and digital release today, March 19. The film, directed by Derek Yee (“One Nite in Mongkok,” “Shinjuku Incident”) and starring three of China’s biggest superstars, Tony Leung Chiu-wai (“Hero,” “Red Cliff”), Lau Ching-wan (“Mad Detective”) and Zhou Xun (“Cloud Atlas”), can also be yours if you win our Twitter giveaway! We’re giving away one copy of the film to one lucky reader; here’s how to enter for your chance to win.<\/p>\n

Follow us @Shockya. Tweet the phrase, “@Shockya is giving away The Great Magician! Follow and RT to enter!” You can enter every day until April 2 and on that date, we’ll choose a winner at random and notify them through Twitter DM. Good luck!<\/p>\n

“The Great Magician” is adapted from the Zhang Haifan novel and, through vaudeville-style humor, creative magic sequences and political one-upmanship, the film tells the story about a magician out to save a girl from the clutches of evil:<\/p>\n

“In the years after the Revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty in China and established the Republic, the country is broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. A lieutenant is using magic to scare convicts into joining a warlord’s army. His warlord has imprisoned a girl and he wants to be his seventh wife, but he’s too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries want to kill the warlord and bring back the Republic. The lieutenant is secretly a member of the Qing Dynasty Remnant and wants to bring back the Empire. A local Japanese businessman is actually trying to take over with help of the local Blackhawk gang. Into this chaos, a stranger returns from aboard with mastery of magic, and is back to recover the girl he loved (daughter of his master\/teacher). Who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The film will also come with special features such as behind-the-scenes featurette \u201cMaking the Magic.\u201d<\/p>\n