SUBMITTED BY LClem

March 13, 2003 — Even though BULLETPROOF MONK will not be seen on the big screen until April, even though the film is still in post-production and even though shooting of a few additional scenes has just been scheduled, pirated DVDs of this Chow Yun-Fat comic adaptation have hit the market in Asia. Believed to be recorded during a test screening in the US, the video is in inferior quality with the beginning and ending missing. Malay Mail reports a copy of the DVD is being sold as low as US$1.3 in the street of Malaysia. According to The Hollywood Reporter, MGM has hosted "a couple of press screening without the ending to the film." A spokesperson of Motion Picture Association said they had started to investigate. Meanwhile, Golden Screen Cinema, the movie's distributor in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore, is currently talking with MGM over the possibility of an earlier released.