Trivia

Principal photography for Ip Man (2008) began in March 2008 and ended in August; filming took place in Shanghai, which was used to architecturally recreate Foshan. During filming, conflicts arose between the movie's producers and filmmaker Kar-Wai Wong over the film's working title. Wong, who had been developing his own Ip Man biopic, clashed with the producers after learning that their film would be titled "Grandmaster Ip Man," which was too similar to the title of the other film. The producers agreed to change the film title, despite Wong's film being in development hell. Kar-wai's film, titled The Grandmaster (2013), was released on January 10, 2013. See more