Hong Kong’s One Cool Film group has announced five new movies, revealed through exclusive teasers and posters on the opening day of FilMart.
Upcoming films include “Love Lies,” starring Sandra Ng and M.C. Cheung Tinfu; “The Trier of Fact,” directed by Calvin Tong and featuring Louis Koo and Eddie Peng; “The Way We Talk,” produced, written and directed by Adam Wong, with Neo Yau, Chung Suet Ying and Ng Tsz Ho Marco in leading roles; “Good Game,” helmed by Dickson Leung, written by Lily He Xin and Sheng Ling Xiu Zhong, and starring Andrew Lam, Will Or and Yanny Chan; and “Behind the Shadows,” produced by Soi Cheang, directed by Jonathan Li and Chou Man Yu, and starring Koo, Chrissie Chou and Liu Kuan Ting.
“Love Lies,” which will premiere at the 48th Hong Kong Intl. Film Festival, tells the tale of an internet romance scam. Ng recommended Cheung,...
Upcoming films include “Love Lies,” starring Sandra Ng and M.C. Cheung Tinfu; “The Trier of Fact,” directed by Calvin Tong and featuring Louis Koo and Eddie Peng; “The Way We Talk,” produced, written and directed by Adam Wong, with Neo Yau, Chung Suet Ying and Ng Tsz Ho Marco in leading roles; “Good Game,” helmed by Dickson Leung, written by Lily He Xin and Sheng Ling Xiu Zhong, and starring Andrew Lam, Will Or and Yanny Chan; and “Behind the Shadows,” produced by Soi Cheang, directed by Jonathan Li and Chou Man Yu, and starring Koo, Chrissie Chou and Liu Kuan Ting.
“Love Lies,” which will premiere at the 48th Hong Kong Intl. Film Festival, tells the tale of an internet romance scam. Ng recommended Cheung,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Faye Bradley
- Variety Film + TV
A big online drug auction, the first of that scale in Asia, is about to take place on the Dark Web Market and the Hong Kong Cyber Investigation Unit and its Senior Superintendant Eddie Fong Hing (Eddie Peng) are ready to fight against a man known as “boss” whose identity no one is completely certain about. It is believed that the drug baron is Chan Chin Sang (Philip Keung) who is on his way to Hong Kong, and Fong Hing wants to take the opportunity to seize both him and a large drug cargo that is supposed to arrive the same night. Five day before the announced big event, the department is in problem due to Chan's army of hackers and corrupted public servants working as his informants. The attempt to find the drugs fails due to heavy technical problems caused by them. “We have to nip it in the...
- 1/12/2024
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Fish out of water comedy film “Jonny Keep Walking” climbed to the top of the mainland China box office in its second weekend on release. Previous winner, “Shining for One Thing” dimmed quickly and tumbled to fifth place.
The first weekend of the new year and following a welter of Christmas-New Year releases, the latest weekend represented a reordering of holdover titles, rather than a session with an injection of significant fresh movies.
“Jonny,” in which a man from the countryside struggles to hold down a corporate job in a big city, earned $22.4 million (RMB159 million) from Friday to Sunday, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. That was a modest fall from the film’s $26.1 million opening frame and elevated its cumulative total to $77.5 million since debuting on Dec. 29.
The film is directed by Peng Da, aka Dong Pengcheng, the prolific actor-writer-director who released two other films in 2023:...
The first weekend of the new year and following a welter of Christmas-New Year releases, the latest weekend represented a reordering of holdover titles, rather than a session with an injection of significant fresh movies.
“Jonny,” in which a man from the countryside struggles to hold down a corporate job in a big city, earned $22.4 million (RMB159 million) from Friday to Sunday, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. That was a modest fall from the film’s $26.1 million opening frame and elevated its cumulative total to $77.5 million since debuting on Dec. 29.
The film is directed by Peng Da, aka Dong Pengcheng, the prolific actor-writer-director who released two other films in 2023:...
- 1/8/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
"The cops may be able to trace us." "So what." Well Go USA has debuted another new official trailer for a Hong Kong action thriller film called I Did It May Way. That title seems to be an obvious reference to Frank Sinatra's classic song "My Way", though it isn't heard in the trailer or mentioned anywhere else, but it seems to connect with the bad guy's plot anyway. The film revolves around an undercover officer who goes up against the high-tech drug underworld of Hong Kong. Ho Sau, an undercover agent, has been working with Yau, a drug lord, for years, but his job and family are in trouble. The intense action thriller stars Andy Lau, Gordon Lam, Cya Liu, Eddie Peng, Kent Cheng, Philip Keung, with a special guest appearance by Simon Yam. This is an extraordinary violent trailer for what looks like an insanely violent Hk film - my goodness.
- 12/29/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
One dark night, AC repairman Wang Xueming (Eddie Peng) hits a pedestrian with his van, panics, and flees the scene. Tormented by the accident and desperate to escape his feelings of guilt, he approaches the widow, Mrs. Liang (Sylvia Chang) and strikes up a relationship. Meanwhile, her husband’s body is discovered—riddled with bullets. Though he’s determined to piece together the complete events of that fateful night, Wang is also being stalked by a shadowy killer (Lu Xin) who spotted his van at the site of the hit-and-run. To complicate matters further, the detective in charge of the investigation, Chen, becomes obsessed with the case. Years later, the trio remain trapped in a tangled web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Are You Lonesome Tonight? is available on DVD and Digital on July 18.
Enter for your chance to win a...
Are You Lonesome Tonight? is available on DVD and Digital on July 18.
Enter for your chance to win a...
- 7/16/2023
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
Unhappy Together: Shipei Concocts Romantic Neo-noir
Director Wen Shipei strikes an oddly satisfying balance between broody Neo-noir and simmering romance with his debut Are You Lonesome Tonight?, thus named for the Elvis Presley ballad, which makes several diegetic entrances. However, Suspicious Minds could have served the material if Shipei had wanted a more frenetic pace. Instead, Shipei falls into an anxious swoon with this two-hander which recalls early works by Wong Kar-Wai. Aided by Taiwan’s Eddie Peng at his most bedraggled and the ever-striking Sylvia Chang, theirs is a diametrically opposed attraction built on simple but highly effective motifs.…...
Director Wen Shipei strikes an oddly satisfying balance between broody Neo-noir and simmering romance with his debut Are You Lonesome Tonight?, thus named for the Elvis Presley ballad, which makes several diegetic entrances. However, Suspicious Minds could have served the material if Shipei had wanted a more frenetic pace. Instead, Shipei falls into an anxious swoon with this two-hander which recalls early works by Wong Kar-Wai. Aided by Taiwan’s Eddie Peng at his most bedraggled and the ever-striking Sylvia Chang, theirs is a diametrically opposed attraction built on simple but highly effective motifs.…...
- 3/13/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The award-winning writing/directing duo Longman Leung and Sunny Luk strike again with a star-studded cast in this sequel to the 2012 megahit, Cold War. Chow Yun Fat joins Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka Fai and Eddie Peng as they reprise their roles in the tumultuous aftermath of Operation Cold War.
A suspected criminal mastermind escapes from police custody, throwing the city into turmoil. With the police department now divided, rival police chiefs are forced to take their fight to the streets of Hong Kong – with deadly consequences.
(Source: Well Go USA)...
A suspected criminal mastermind escapes from police custody, throwing the city into turmoil. With the police department now divided, rival police chiefs are forced to take their fight to the streets of Hong Kong – with deadly consequences.
(Source: Well Go USA)...
- 12/1/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Author-director Giddens Ko (“You Are the Apple of My Eye”) returned to Golden Horse Award-winning form in 2021 with “Till We Meet Again”, a movie adaptation of his best-selling novel “God of Love”. Ko cleverly refreshes the run-of-the-mill romance genre with an infusion of local mythology about life and death. Ko reimagines his underworld as a chaotic dystopian realm, more frightening for its bureaucratic red tape and glitchy It when dealing with an overpopulation of human souls awaiting either reincarnation or eternal damnation. Traditional deities like Yama the King of Hell, his ghostbuster sidekicks Ox-Head and Horse-Face as well as the usual host of demons (including cameos by Sadako and Toshio) are not who they seem.
Kai Ko turns in an endearing performance as the happy-go-lucky Ah Lun. He suffers an untimely death, has amnesia and faces a choice to either reincarnate as a snail or join the underworld’s matchmaking...
Kai Ko turns in an endearing performance as the happy-go-lucky Ah Lun. He suffers an untimely death, has amnesia and faces a choice to either reincarnate as a snail or join the underworld’s matchmaking...
- 11/27/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
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Jennifer Lawrence is making time for Longines.
The Oscar winner has linked up with Swiss watchmaker Longines to serve as its newest Ambassador of Elegance. The move comes as Lawrence has returned to the big screen courtesy of the dramatic feature Causeway from Apple TV+ and her production company Excellent Cadaver.
Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, Lawrence said she’s “thrilled” to join the Longines family while looking forward to their partnership “in the years ahead.”
“Longines is rooted in a legacy of innovation and quality trusted by some of history’s greatest trailblazers,” said the 32-year-old. “Longines has long been synonymous with timeless elegance, which to me, can be defined as a quiet powerfulness met with grace and confidence. And as a native Kentuckian, I’ve always associated Longines with the Derby and the embodiment of tradition.”
Adds Longines...
Jennifer Lawrence is making time for Longines.
The Oscar winner has linked up with Swiss watchmaker Longines to serve as its newest Ambassador of Elegance. The move comes as Lawrence has returned to the big screen courtesy of the dramatic feature Causeway from Apple TV+ and her production company Excellent Cadaver.
Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, Lawrence said she’s “thrilled” to join the Longines family while looking forward to their partnership “in the years ahead.”
“Longines is rooted in a legacy of innovation and quality trusted by some of history’s greatest trailblazers,” said the 32-year-old. “Longines has long been synonymous with timeless elegance, which to me, can be defined as a quiet powerfulness met with grace and confidence. And as a native Kentuckian, I’ve always associated Longines with the Derby and the embodiment of tradition.”
Adds Longines...
- 11/2/2022
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last...
- 9/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film Movement acquires TIFF sales title, Camera d'Or nominee ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ (exclusive)
2021 Cannes Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year and...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year and...
- 9/9/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
This past March, the cinematographer Christopher Doyle was under Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai, waiting to return to Hong Kong. “They take us floor by floor, apartment by apartment, name by name to the school around the corner for testing… then they march us back,” he wrote in an email. While waiting to return to Hong Kong, he was finalizing a book of poetry and collages. He had recently finished a feature in the south of China; before that he shot “Love After Love” for director Ann Hui.
Based on an Eileen Cheng short story, “Love After Love” (currently streaming on Mubi) charts the decline of wealthy playboy George Chiao (Eddie Peng), coupled with the corruption of Ge Weilong (Sandra Ma), who will ultimately become his wife. Set in Shanghai largely before World War II, it is a hypnotic, feverish look at a privileged world disappearing faster than anyone realizes.
With over 120 films to his credit,...
Based on an Eileen Cheng short story, “Love After Love” (currently streaming on Mubi) charts the decline of wealthy playboy George Chiao (Eddie Peng), coupled with the corruption of Ge Weilong (Sandra Ma), who will ultimately become his wife. Set in Shanghai largely before World War II, it is a hypnotic, feverish look at a privileged world disappearing faster than anyone realizes.
With over 120 films to his credit,...
- 6/3/2022
- by Daniel Eagan
- Indiewire
TV series adaptations of “Fearless” and “Cold War,” two of the highest-profile Hong Kong action movies of the 21st century, are now in development.
The shift into TV represents a major expansion and diversification for Edko Films, the studio headed by legendary producer-financier-executive Bill Kong.
The original 2006 “Fearless” was an iconic portrait of martial arts ace Huo Yianjia that was directed by Ronny Tong and starred Jet Li. It received studio-level distribution in many territories through Buena Vista, Uip and Sony Pictures Releasing.
“Cold War” is a 2012 crime action film involving a mole inside the Hong Kong police. It was written and co-directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk and had Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Charlie Young in lead roles. It spawned a sequel movie in 2016 with an even higher profile cast that included Chow Yun-fat and Eddie Peng.
“We have often received inquiries from abroad about buying...
The shift into TV represents a major expansion and diversification for Edko Films, the studio headed by legendary producer-financier-executive Bill Kong.
The original 2006 “Fearless” was an iconic portrait of martial arts ace Huo Yianjia that was directed by Ronny Tong and starred Jet Li. It received studio-level distribution in many territories through Buena Vista, Uip and Sony Pictures Releasing.
“Cold War” is a 2012 crime action film involving a mole inside the Hong Kong police. It was written and co-directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk and had Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Charlie Young in lead roles. It spawned a sequel movie in 2016 with an even higher profile cast that included Chow Yun-fat and Eddie Peng.
“We have often received inquiries from abroad about buying...
- 5/19/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Marking the third time Ann Hui adapts a novel by Eileen Chang (after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs”), “Love After Love” is based on the short story “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier”, a work that the director herself admitted was quite hard to bring to the big screen, particularly due to its dialogue-heavy nature. Nevertheless, Hui managed to gather an all-star team, including actors like Ma Sichun, Eddie Peng and Feye Yu, Dp Christopher Doyle and Ryuichi Sakamoto who handled the score. Let us see how the movie fares however.
“Love After Love” is screening at Asian Pop-up Cinema
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family...
“Love After Love” is screening at Asian Pop-up Cinema
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family...
- 4/2/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Heading for release in Asia on January 20, a new trailer for Are You Lonesome Tonight? (original title: Re dai wang shi) paints a properly bleak and moody atmosphere for a Chinese film described as a crime thriller. Directed by Shipei Wen, making his feature debut, the film stars Eddie Peng, Shipei Wen and Sylvia Chang. The official synopsis lays out the story: "On a dark night, Xueming hits a pedestrian with his car and flees the scene. Desperate to escape his feelings of guilt, he decides to approach the dead man's wife, Mrs Liang. "Meanwhile, the body is discovered - riddled with bullets. Chen, the detective in charge of the investigation, becomes obsessed with the case. Years later, all three remain caught in a...
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- 1/4/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Marking the third time Ann Hui adapts a novel by Eileen Chang (after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs”), “Love After Love” is based on the short story “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier”, a work that the director herself admitted was quite hard to bring to the big screen, particularly due to its dialogue-heavy nature. Nevertheless, Hui managed to gather an all-star team, including actors like Ma Sichun, Eddie Peng and Feye Yu, Dp Christopher Doyle and Ryuichi Sakamoto who handled the score. Let us see how the movie fares however.
“Love after Love” is available from Fortissimo Films
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family when...
“Love after Love” is available from Fortissimo Films
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family when...
- 12/7/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“Dune” didn’t quite manage to spice up its China open after a middling $6 million first day in the country on Friday. The film grossed just $21.6 million in its debut three-day weekend, according to studio estimates.
The result is more or less in the ballpark of its $41 million weekend tally in North America, where it released day-and-date simultaneously on HBO Max. It is nevertheless a disappointing one considering the enormity of the world’s largest film market, which has delivered much more spectacular openings in recent weeks.
As a dense, cerebral sci-fi epic, however, “Dune” is a hard sell for viewers in China’s lower-tier cities, who have recently proven their spending power by coming out in droves for National Day propaganda movies earlier this month.
The film is currently projected to earn just $35.2 million in China according to estimates from the Maoyan database, which would mean it has already...
The result is more or less in the ballpark of its $41 million weekend tally in North America, where it released day-and-date simultaneously on HBO Max. It is nevertheless a disappointing one considering the enormity of the world’s largest film market, which has delivered much more spectacular openings in recent weeks.
As a dense, cerebral sci-fi epic, however, “Dune” is a hard sell for viewers in China’s lower-tier cities, who have recently proven their spending power by coming out in droves for National Day propaganda movies earlier this month.
The film is currently projected to earn just $35.2 million in China according to estimates from the Maoyan database, which would mean it has already...
- 10/24/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Yaro Abe’s celebrated manga series “Shin’ya Shokudo” had already been adapted into a Japanese television drama, two live-action films, a Korean and a Chinese TV series, before it also became a Chinese movie in 2019. Marking the directorial debut of Tony Leung Ka Fai, this time, the setting is placed in Shanghai, in another small, counter-only diner, which operates from midnight to 7 am.
The owner is a mysterious individual with a scar on his face, who runs his establishment without a set menu, but is always able to make any dish both regulars and passing customers desire. At the same time, Uncle, as everyone is calling the chef, is also eager to hear their stories and help them with their issues, occasionally even when his customers do not demand him to do so.
In that fashion, the movie presents the “adventures” of a number of individuals, and...
The owner is a mysterious individual with a scar on his face, who runs his establishment without a set menu, but is always able to make any dish both regulars and passing customers desire. At the same time, Uncle, as everyone is calling the chef, is also eager to hear their stories and help them with their issues, occasionally even when his customers do not demand him to do so.
In that fashion, the movie presents the “adventures” of a number of individuals, and...
- 8/1/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Distracted by a cow he tries to drive past one late evening while on the way to meet his girlfriend, Wang Xueming (Eddie Peng) briefly takes his eyes off the road and runs over a man whose corpse he then – deeply distressed – disposes off in a spontaneous attempt to ‘unsee’ the crime. Or does he? The recap of tragic event gets re-told so many times by Xueming himself that it becomes unclear what had happened to the man whose body police fished out of the river α few days after the incident. The forensic report also contradicts the first in a row of Xueming’s memories – the victim was allegedly not run over by a car, but murdered with two bullets to the head.
“Are You Lonesome Tonight?” screened at Cannes Film Festival
The feature debut by Weng Shipei “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” had its special screening in the official selection of Cannes Film Festival,...
“Are You Lonesome Tonight?” screened at Cannes Film Festival
The feature debut by Weng Shipei “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” had its special screening in the official selection of Cannes Film Festival,...
- 7/20/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Xue Ming (Eddie Peng) is in jail when we meet him. He’s talking about the boredom of living the same day repeatedly while thinking about how he got there. Deciding it’s better to show than tell, first-time director Shipei Wen sends us back to 1997 to find Xue on the telephone with an angry girlfriend just about fed up with waiting. It’s difficult to tell whether he’s on his way to the cinema late or simply going home when he finally leaves, but the path to his destination is fatefully blocked by a cow. He subsequently turns his air-conditioning repair van down a side street before his beeper takes his attention away from the road and a loud thud smashes his nose against the steering wheel.
It’s a moment we’ll see many more times as Are You Lonesome Tonight? reveals Xue’s choice to leave behind the man he hit.
It’s a moment we’ll see many more times as Are You Lonesome Tonight? reveals Xue’s choice to leave behind the man he hit.
- 7/12/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Columbia Pictures’ “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway” hopped up to second in China this weekend, but was unable to scurry past local sports drama “Never Stop” despite an extra day’s lead.
“Peter Rabbit 2” grossed a relatively unremarkable $969,000 (RMB6.2 million) on opening day Friday but managed to pull in $7.8 million from 10,500 screens over the three-day holiday weekend, according to data from ticketing agency Maoyan. Monday marks the national Chinese holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, and will likely bringing further sales for the family-friendly film. Based on early estimates, Sony projects that it will gross $11.1 million by the end of the extended four-day weekend — putting it 15% ahead of recent comp “Raya and the Last Dragon.”
Its total performance may not, however, be enough for the sequel to best the first film’s $26.3 million China cumulative back in 2018. Maoyan currently predicts “Peter Rabbit 2” will gross a total of $18.9 million in the territory.
“Peter Rabbit 2” grossed a relatively unremarkable $969,000 (RMB6.2 million) on opening day Friday but managed to pull in $7.8 million from 10,500 screens over the three-day holiday weekend, according to data from ticketing agency Maoyan. Monday marks the national Chinese holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, and will likely bringing further sales for the family-friendly film. Based on early estimates, Sony projects that it will gross $11.1 million by the end of the extended four-day weekend — putting it 15% ahead of recent comp “Raya and the Last Dragon.”
Its total performance may not, however, be enough for the sequel to best the first film’s $26.3 million China cumulative back in 2018. Maoyan currently predicts “Peter Rabbit 2” will gross a total of $18.9 million in the territory.
- 6/13/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Following up his love-it-or-hate-it Climax, director Gaspar Noé secretly shot a new film this past spring and it’s among the additions to the Cannes Film Festival lineup, which also includes new work by Ari Folman, a Bill Murray concert film, Noémie Merlant’s directorial debut, and more.
As for the Enter the Void director’s latest, he shot Vortex over twenty days between mid-March and April 2021, with a cast including Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, and Alex Lutz, as well as a budget of 3.3 million euros, more than his last two features. Check out a roughly-translated synopsis below via his Le Temps de Trout Tout:
Gaspar Noé, son of the Argentinian painter Luis Felipe Noé, finished his film at the last minute because he shot it quickly and late. A quasi-documentary film about the last days of a loving old couple suffering from senility, played by Françoise Lebrun and Dario Argento.
As for the Enter the Void director’s latest, he shot Vortex over twenty days between mid-March and April 2021, with a cast including Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, and Alex Lutz, as well as a budget of 3.3 million euros, more than his last two features. Check out a roughly-translated synopsis below via his Le Temps de Trout Tout:
Gaspar Noé, son of the Argentinian painter Luis Felipe Noé, finished his film at the last minute because he shot it quickly and late. A quasi-documentary film about the last days of a loving old couple suffering from senility, played by Françoise Lebrun and Dario Argento.
- 6/10/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Film is a contemporary remake of 1970s French comedy The Toy by Francis Veber.
Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has boarded sales on director James Huth’s comedy The New Toy, co-starring Daniel Auteuil and Jamel Debbouze.
A remake of Francis Veber’s 1976 comedy The Toy, it revolves around a journalist who becomes the plaything of the son of his newspaper baron boss but uses the situation to open the young boy’s eyes to the fact that money can’t buy everything.
A 1982 US remake directed by Richard Donner and starring Richard Pryor as the journalist was a hit at the box office,...
Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has boarded sales on director James Huth’s comedy The New Toy, co-starring Daniel Auteuil and Jamel Debbouze.
A remake of Francis Veber’s 1976 comedy The Toy, it revolves around a journalist who becomes the plaything of the son of his newspaper baron boss but uses the situation to open the young boy’s eyes to the fact that money can’t buy everything.
A 1982 US remake directed by Richard Donner and starring Richard Pryor as the journalist was a hit at the box office,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Felix Chong is directing the crime thriller, which reunites talents from the Infernal Affairs series.
Hong Kong studio Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) has started production on crime thriller Once Upon A Time In Hong Kong, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau and written and directed by Felix Chong.
The two stars previously worked together in the Infernal Affairs series, which Chong co-wrote with Alan Mak. Chong has since directed hit crime thrillers such as the Overheard series and Project Gutenberg.
Produced by Ronald Wong, producer of the Overheard series, Once Upon A Time In Hong Kong is set in...
Hong Kong studio Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) has started production on crime thriller Once Upon A Time In Hong Kong, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau and written and directed by Felix Chong.
The two stars previously worked together in the Infernal Affairs series, which Chong co-wrote with Alan Mak. Chong has since directed hit crime thrillers such as the Overheard series and Project Gutenberg.
Produced by Ronald Wong, producer of the Overheard series, Once Upon A Time In Hong Kong is set in...
- 2/22/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The Rescue opened with $36.3m over soft weekend, while Wonder Woman 1984 took $18.8m.
Dante Lam’s The Rescue topped the China box office over its opening weekend (December 18-20), according to figures from Artisan Gateway, pulling in almost twice the gross of Hollywood tentpole Wonder Woman 1984, which opened on the same date.
The Rescue, a $90m action film revolving around an emergency rescue team working for the Chinese Coast Guard, grossed $36.3m in its first three days, compared to $18.8m for Warner Bros’ superhero sequel, starring Gal Gadot. However, both openings were considered soft as December is usually a...
Dante Lam’s The Rescue topped the China box office over its opening weekend (December 18-20), according to figures from Artisan Gateway, pulling in almost twice the gross of Hollywood tentpole Wonder Woman 1984, which opened on the same date.
The Rescue, a $90m action film revolving around an emergency rescue team working for the Chinese Coast Guard, grossed $36.3m in its first three days, compared to $18.8m for Warner Bros’ superhero sequel, starring Gal Gadot. However, both openings were considered soft as December is usually a...
- 12/21/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong’s highest grossing director, Dante Lam, will soon be releasing his next action-packed film, “The Rescue“. Arriving in theaters just in time for the holiday season, the film chronicles a Chinese rescue team’s death-defying mission to save survivors of a fiery offshore catastrophe. Comprised of men of women from various backgrounds and led by a maverick captain (played by heartthrob and action star Eddie Peng), the unit must set aside their differences to face escalating challenges across air, land and sea. In addition to Peng, the film’s ensemble cast includes Xin Zhilei (Crosscurrent) and Wang Yanlin (Operation Red Sea).
The Rescue is, to date, the largest Chinese film production set at sea. Many water scenes were filmed at Mexico’s Baja Studios facilities, which was first built in 1996 for James Cameron when he filmed his epic “Titanic.” The Rescue used the studios’ largest tank, which has...
The Rescue is, to date, the largest Chinese film production set at sea. Many water scenes were filmed at Mexico’s Baja Studios facilities, which was first built in 1996 for James Cameron when he filmed his epic “Titanic.” The Rescue used the studios’ largest tank, which has...
- 12/15/2020
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
The Rescue is the first film to showcase the China Rescue & Salvage (Crs), a lesser-known division of the Chinese Coast Guard. Founded in 1951, the unit is charged with responding to all maritime emergencies on Chinese waters, which range from shipwreck salvage missions to marine firefighting.
The film will hit theaters across the US December 18.
Boasting one of the biggest budgets ever for a Chinese film at $100 million, the stunt- and pyrotechnic-filled spectacle features an A-list Hollywood production team that includes Academy Award-winning cinematographer Peter Pau, production designer Martin Laing and special effects supervisor John Frazier. The film also stars major Chinese and Taiwanese talent, including Eddie Peng (“The Great Wall”), Wang Yanlin, Xin Zhilei, and Lan Yingying (“Pacific Rim Uprising”).
Check out the official trailer here:...
The film will hit theaters across the US December 18.
Boasting one of the biggest budgets ever for a Chinese film at $100 million, the stunt- and pyrotechnic-filled spectacle features an A-list Hollywood production team that includes Academy Award-winning cinematographer Peter Pau, production designer Martin Laing and special effects supervisor John Frazier. The film also stars major Chinese and Taiwanese talent, including Eddie Peng (“The Great Wall”), Wang Yanlin, Xin Zhilei, and Lan Yingying (“Pacific Rim Uprising”).
Check out the official trailer here:...
- 12/5/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Mubi's series Ann Hui: Women Make the World is showing November 29 - December 31, 2020 in the United States.Ann Hui’s fascination with the late Eileen Chang is a story spanning four decades. Books by the revered Chinese writer had already served as inspiration for Hui’s 1984 Love in a Fallen City and her 1997 Eighteen Springs. In Love After Love, she summons Chang’s novella, “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier”, to concoct a visually stunning, sprawling love story set in 1940s Hong Kong. At its center is Weilong (Ma Sichun), a Shanghainese student who’s left her family in hopes of continuing her education in Hong Kong. But money’s running out: as we first meet her, Weilong is tiptoeing inside the palatial villa owned by her estranged aunt Madame Liang (Faye Yu) to ask for help. Excommunicated from the family after she refused an arranged marriage, Madame Liang has...
- 12/2/2020
- MUBI
Veteran director of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui is back this year with “Our Time Will Come,” a movie that retains all the trademark comfort elements that made her a legend. Produced and distributed by Chinese Bona Film Group this WWII drama movie arrived just in time for the 20th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to China even if Ann Hui’s work is far from celebratory, and it was presented as a world premiere at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
“Our Time Will Come” is screening on Mubi
“Our Time Will Come” is set in Hong Kong in 1942, during the Japanese occupation and it immediately introduces a spy thriller atmosphere, opening in a secret meeting where a group of activists is planning a mass evacuation of Chinese intellectuals from Hong Kong to help them to cross the border with China. In the meantime, Mrs. Fong...
“Our Time Will Come” is screening on Mubi
“Our Time Will Come” is set in Hong Kong in 1942, during the Japanese occupation and it immediately introduces a spy thriller atmosphere, opening in a secret meeting where a group of activists is planning a mass evacuation of Chinese intellectuals from Hong Kong to help them to cross the border with China. In the meantime, Mrs. Fong...
- 11/28/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Chinese action film “The Rescue” has pulled forward its local and international release plans. It will now go out in a plum pre-Christmas slot on Dec. 18 in mainland China, North America and major English-language territories.
The $80 million tentpole is directed by Hong Kong’s Dante Lam, who previously delivered a slew of other muscular and highly successful patriotic Chinese movies, including “Operation Mekong” and “Operation Red Sea.”
“The Rescue” takes a less military tone and instead focuses on China’s lavishly-equipped civilian Coast Guard. The story takes in multiple air, sea and mountain rescues, with Lam ambitiously aiming to deliver five action movies for the price of one ticket.
Production locations include the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen, while the major rescue scenes at sea lensed in the large filming tanks at the Baja Studios in Mexico, where “Titanic” was shot.
In the lead role as the captain of an...
The $80 million tentpole is directed by Hong Kong’s Dante Lam, who previously delivered a slew of other muscular and highly successful patriotic Chinese movies, including “Operation Mekong” and “Operation Red Sea.”
“The Rescue” takes a less military tone and instead focuses on China’s lavishly-equipped civilian Coast Guard. The story takes in multiple air, sea and mountain rescues, with Lam ambitiously aiming to deliver five action movies for the price of one ticket.
Production locations include the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen, while the major rescue scenes at sea lensed in the large filming tanks at the Baja Studios in Mexico, where “Titanic” was shot.
In the lead role as the captain of an...
- 11/27/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Tencent Pictures, the film production arm of mainland Chinese tech giant Tencent, last week unveiled a slate of 43 new pictures.
A large chunk of the new titles is “main melody” or unabashedly patriotic works. But another category of Tencent’s projects fall under the heading “Eastern Stories.”
Among the more notable works are 2021 actioner “Raging Fire” starring Donnie Yen, the last film from Hong Kong director Benny Chan, who died of cancer in August; “The Eleventh Chapter,” a family comedy starring and directed by Chen Jianbin (“A Cool Fish”) set to release later this year; and “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” a romance starring “The Wandering Earth” lead Qu Chuxiao from first-time director Sha Mo.
There’s also “God Does Not Play Dice With the Universe,” an intriguing first feature from newcomer Wen Shipei billed by Tencent as “a Chinese version of ‘No Country for Old Men,’” starring two Taiwanese leads,...
A large chunk of the new titles is “main melody” or unabashedly patriotic works. But another category of Tencent’s projects fall under the heading “Eastern Stories.”
Among the more notable works are 2021 actioner “Raging Fire” starring Donnie Yen, the last film from Hong Kong director Benny Chan, who died of cancer in August; “The Eleventh Chapter,” a family comedy starring and directed by Chen Jianbin (“A Cool Fish”) set to release later this year; and “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” a romance starring “The Wandering Earth” lead Qu Chuxiao from first-time director Sha Mo.
There’s also “God Does Not Play Dice With the Universe,” an intriguing first feature from newcomer Wen Shipei billed by Tencent as “a Chinese version of ‘No Country for Old Men,’” starring two Taiwanese leads,...
- 10/27/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
2020 has been quite a year for Hong Kong auteur Ann Hui. At the Venice Film Festival, she became the very first female recipient to receive their Lifetime Achievement Award. Her new film “Love After Love” starring Eddie Peng and Ma Sichun also premiered at the Biennale and is gearing for a wide release later. Now, “Keep Rolling”, a documentary on the veteran director is also gearing for a release.
Check out the trailer here:...
Check out the trailer here:...
- 10/1/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Once more with rather less feeling: after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs,” acclaimed Hong Kong director Ann Hui returns to the work of celebrated 20th century author Eileen Chang with “Love After Love,” a not-at-all-short adaptation of a Chang short story laboring under the English title “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier.” Hui has assembled something of an all-star lineup, with the young leads played by rising actors Sandra Ma and Eddie Peng, the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto on scoring duties and Dp Christopher Doyle returning to the scene, if not quite the time period, of his greatest Wong Kar-wai collaboration, “In the Mood For Love.” Despite all this promise,
Tracking the very gentle wising-up of a naive, wide-eyed ingenue over the course of a few eventful pre-war years, the film begins as Weilong (Ma), a Shanghainese student come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her stifling father’s influence,...
Tracking the very gentle wising-up of a naive, wide-eyed ingenue over the course of a few eventful pre-war years, the film begins as Weilong (Ma), a Shanghainese student come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her stifling father’s influence,...
- 9/9/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
"A pleasure in never feeling pleased." A festival promo trailer has debuted for the Hong Kong romantic drama Love After Love, which is screening out of competition at this year's Venice Film Festival. The latest film from Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, this looks sultry and sumptuous. It is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang short story, set in Hong Kong shortly before the start of World War II. Sandra Ma stars as a young girl who falls into her aunt's game of luring rich men. But then surprise, she finds herself genuinely attracted to playboy George Qiao, whose aim is to marry a wealthy girl to maintain his own high-end class lifestyle. Co-starring Eddie Peng as George, along with Faye Yu, Ning Chang, Wei Fan, and Isabella Leong. Featuring some gorgeous cinematography by Dp Christopher Doyle. At first glance, this has the feeling of Wong Kar Wai's beloved In the Mood for Love.
- 9/7/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
An adaptation of an Eileen Chang short story, Love After Love will play out of competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Ann Hui’s new film Love After Love, which will play out of competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
It is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang short story, set in Hong Kong shortly before the Second World War. Sandra Ma (Soulmate) plays a young girl who falls into her aunt’s game of luring rich men, with Eddie Peng (Our Time Will Come) co-starring.
Hui last...
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Ann Hui’s new film Love After Love, which will play out of competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
It is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang short story, set in Hong Kong shortly before the Second World War. Sandra Ma (Soulmate) plays a young girl who falls into her aunt’s game of luring rich men, with Eddie Peng (Our Time Will Come) co-starring.
Hui last...
- 9/6/2020
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Amsterdam and Beijing-based sales company is also stepping into Asian TV series sales with Horizon Tower.
Fortissimo Films is launching sales at the Efm on two Chinese titles – fantasy action film The Yin-Yang Master: Dream Of Eternity and arthouse drama Hot Soup, directed by Zhang Ming, whose 2018 The Pluto Moment premiered in Cannes Directors Fortnight.
The Amsterdam and Beijing-based sales company is also stepping into Asian TV series sales with Horizon Tower, produced by Tencent Penguin Pictures. All three titles are currently in post-production and scheduled for delivery later in 2020.
Directed by Guo Jingming (Tiny Times franchise), The Yin-Yang Master:...
Fortissimo Films is launching sales at the Efm on two Chinese titles – fantasy action film The Yin-Yang Master: Dream Of Eternity and arthouse drama Hot Soup, directed by Zhang Ming, whose 2018 The Pluto Moment premiered in Cannes Directors Fortnight.
The Amsterdam and Beijing-based sales company is also stepping into Asian TV series sales with Horizon Tower, produced by Tencent Penguin Pictures. All three titles are currently in post-production and scheduled for delivery later in 2020.
Directed by Guo Jingming (Tiny Times franchise), The Yin-Yang Master:...
- 2/18/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Despite some dazzling, nail-biting chopper stunts, there’s an excess of pointless rushing around in this hymn to China’s emergency services
This goofy event movie is vying for the attentions of the Chinese lunar new year audience: a frenetic, exhausting mix of soap and spectacle. It’s overseen by Dante Lam, a sometime cult director confirming the transition into commercial respectability he made with the state-sanctioned seat-filler Operation Red Sea (2018). The pitch was presumably Top Gun with air-rescue workers.
Heroic winchman Gao (Eddie Peng) is introduced swinging through a collapsing oil rig and winds up in fraught navigation of a stricken ship. Yet, once back on dry land, Lam proves just as preoccupied with Gao’s curly-haired moppet Congcong (Zhang Jingyi) and his progress through toilet training.
This goofy event movie is vying for the attentions of the Chinese lunar new year audience: a frenetic, exhausting mix of soap and spectacle. It’s overseen by Dante Lam, a sometime cult director confirming the transition into commercial respectability he made with the state-sanctioned seat-filler Operation Red Sea (2018). The pitch was presumably Top Gun with air-rescue workers.
Heroic winchman Gao (Eddie Peng) is introduced swinging through a collapsing oil rig and winds up in fraught navigation of a stricken ship. Yet, once back on dry land, Lam proves just as preoccupied with Gao’s curly-haired moppet Congcong (Zhang Jingyi) and his progress through toilet training.
- 1/23/2020
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Hong Kong’s highest-grossing film director, Dante Lam, returns this 2020 Lunar New Year with Eddie Peng-starring action-thriller, “The Rescue.” With over 700 million Rmb (100million Usd) and film locations in both Xiamen and Mexico, “The Rescue” claims to be the biggest Chinese production set at sea. Despite the impressive titles however, what should be a two-hour-long, tightly-choreographed dance with death slips up at the seams.
“The Rescue” follows the story of the captain of an Emergency Response Unit of the Chinese Coast Guard, Gao Qian (Eddie Peng). After years of peacefully leading his all-male troop, his team suddenly gets shaken up when individual members leave, one by one — allowing beautiful, but outspoken female pilot, Fang Yuling (Xin Zhilei), to substitute them instead. While Gao must balance this new voice on his team, the single father must also care for his shy, musically-gifted son CongCong (Zhang Jingyi). Though poop jokes, bubbling romantic tension,...
“The Rescue” follows the story of the captain of an Emergency Response Unit of the Chinese Coast Guard, Gao Qian (Eddie Peng). After years of peacefully leading his all-male troop, his team suddenly gets shaken up when individual members leave, one by one — allowing beautiful, but outspoken female pilot, Fang Yuling (Xin Zhilei), to substitute them instead. While Gao must balance this new voice on his team, the single father must also care for his shy, musically-gifted son CongCong (Zhang Jingyi). Though poop jokes, bubbling romantic tension,...
- 1/22/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
The Rescue is the latest action thriller from the legendary Dante Lam, director of Operation Mekong and Operation Red Sea, and is set to be one of the biggest hits of Chinese New Year, with a budget of over 700 million Rmb and underwater scenes shot at the world-famous Baja Studios in Mexico, where James Cameron produced Titanic. The first Chinese film to focus on China’s Coast Guard rescue organisation, The Rescue has an all-star cast of top Chinese talent including Eddie Peng (Operation Mekong), Wang Yanlin (Operation Red Sea), Xin Zhilei (Brotherhood of Blades) and Lan Yingying (Pacific Rim Uprising). Five years in the making, the film had a high caliber Chinese and Hollywood crew headed up by Dante Lam’s long-time production partner Candy...
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- 1/21/2020
- Screen Anarchy
The Rescue is one of the most anticipated Chinese release of the year, and the latest action thriller from legendary director Dante Lam, whose films Operation Mekong and Operation Red Sea were stellar box office hits in China and internationally. Released in time for Chinese New Year through Cmc, distributor of global phenomenon The Wandering Earth, the film hits cinemas across the UK day and date with China on 25 January.
The first Chinese film to focus on China’s Coast Guard rescue organisation, The Rescue has an all-star cast of top Chinese talent including Eddie Peng (Operation Mekong), Wang Yanlin (Operation Red Sea), Xin Zhilei (Brotherhood of Blades) and Lan Yingying (Pacific Rim Uprising).
The film is one of the biggest Chinese productions of recent years, with a budget of over 700 million Rmb, shot on location in China and with underwater scenes shot at the world-famous Baja Studios in Mexico,...
The first Chinese film to focus on China’s Coast Guard rescue organisation, The Rescue has an all-star cast of top Chinese talent including Eddie Peng (Operation Mekong), Wang Yanlin (Operation Red Sea), Xin Zhilei (Brotherhood of Blades) and Lan Yingying (Pacific Rim Uprising).
The film is one of the biggest Chinese productions of recent years, with a budget of over 700 million Rmb, shot on location in China and with underwater scenes shot at the world-famous Baja Studios in Mexico,...
- 1/16/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The most anticipated action film “The Rescue”, directed by Dante Lam, produced by Candy Leung, will be released in North America, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom on January 25, 2020, Chinese Lunar New Year. Starring Eddie Peng, Wang Yanlin, Xin Zhilei as the lead roles, the film is anticipated to hit local theaters on Chinese New Year in early 2020.
This is the second time that Dante Lam’s film releases in Chinese New Year, one of the biggest holiday seasons in China’s film market. “The Rescue” has scheduled a day-and-date opening with China in North America, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom on the first day of Chinese New Year. Cmc Pictures acquires the distribution rights of United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The company has distributed several top Chinese films oversea during the past several years, including the hit sci-fi blockbuster “The Wandering Earth” in 2019, which...
This is the second time that Dante Lam’s film releases in Chinese New Year, one of the biggest holiday seasons in China’s film market. “The Rescue” has scheduled a day-and-date opening with China in North America, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom on the first day of Chinese New Year. Cmc Pictures acquires the distribution rights of United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The company has distributed several top Chinese films oversea during the past several years, including the hit sci-fi blockbuster “The Wandering Earth” in 2019, which...
- 1/15/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Includes new films from Ann Hui, Mohamed Diab and Kaouther Ben Hania.Asia
Love After Love (China)
Dir. Ann Hui
Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui revisits the work of Eileen Chang with this adaptation of 1943 novella Aloeswood Incense about a young woman from Shanghai who heads to Hong Kong to continue her studies, but ends up working for her aunt, seducing rich and powerful men. The cast features Eddie Peng, Ma Sichun and Faye Yu. Hui is regularly feted on the Asian festival circuit but has not been selected for an A-list European event since 2011 when A Simple Life played in competition in Venice.
Love After Love (China)
Dir. Ann Hui
Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui revisits the work of Eileen Chang with this adaptation of 1943 novella Aloeswood Incense about a young woman from Shanghai who heads to Hong Kong to continue her studies, but ends up working for her aunt, seducing rich and powerful men. The cast features Eddie Peng, Ma Sichun and Faye Yu. Hui is regularly feted on the Asian festival circuit but has not been selected for an A-list European event since 2011 when A Simple Life played in competition in Venice.
- 1/14/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦¬134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
Love After Love
Hong Kong’s Ann Hui will be ready with her latest feature in 2020, the preliminarily titled Love After Love (which was the title of the 1992 Diane Kurys film as well as the 2017 indie film from Russell Harbaugh). Hui employs a stellar crew on her latest project, lensed by Wong Kar-Wai alum Christopher Doyle, costume designer Emi Wada (of Kurosawa’s Ran and Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers) and art director Zhao Hai (who also worked on Hui’s 2014 title The Golden Era). Eddie Peng (who worked on Yimou’s The Great Wall) and Ma Sichun (recently seen in Lou Ye’s The Shadow Play) headline.…...
Hong Kong’s Ann Hui will be ready with her latest feature in 2020, the preliminarily titled Love After Love (which was the title of the 1992 Diane Kurys film as well as the 2017 indie film from Russell Harbaugh). Hui employs a stellar crew on her latest project, lensed by Wong Kar-Wai alum Christopher Doyle, costume designer Emi Wada (of Kurosawa’s Ran and Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers) and art director Zhao Hai (who also worked on Hui’s 2014 title The Golden Era). Eddie Peng (who worked on Yimou’s The Great Wall) and Ma Sichun (recently seen in Lou Ye’s The Shadow Play) headline.…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Environmental crime drama had its world premiere at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival.
Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights to Argentinian environmental thriller Furtive, following its world premiere at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival.
Directed by Francisco D’Eufemia, the film follows a forest ranger on the trail of a group of poachers in a national park, whose motives soon become open to question.
D’Eufemia previously worked on documentaries and co-directed narrative feature Escape From Patagonia with Javier Zevallos in 2016. Furtive, his first feature as a solo director, also played at this year’s Tallin Black Nights Film Festival,...
Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights to Argentinian environmental thriller Furtive, following its world premiere at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival.
Directed by Francisco D’Eufemia, the film follows a forest ranger on the trail of a group of poachers in a national park, whose motives soon become open to question.
D’Eufemia previously worked on documentaries and co-directed narrative feature Escape From Patagonia with Javier Zevallos in 2016. Furtive, his first feature as a solo director, also played at this year’s Tallin Black Nights Film Festival,...
- 12/10/2019
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Director Dante Lam is back once again with his latest big-budget action film “The Rescue”. The impressive trailer for the film promises a high-stakes action film filled with big set-pieces that warrant to be seen on the big screen.
Synopsis
A rescue unit within the Chinese Coast Guard are forced to overcome their personal differences to resolve a crisis.
In addition to China’s most in-demand actor Eddie Peng in the lead role, the film also stars Xin Zhilei (“Crosscurrent“), Wang Yanlin (“Operation Red Sea“), Lan Yingying (“Pacific Rim Uprising”), Xu Yang, Li Mincheng (“A Better Tomorrow 2018“) and Wang Yutian. It releases in China on January 25th, 2020. Whether it is able to replicate the success of Lam’s last film “Operation Red Sea”, which went on to become the 2nd highest grossing film of all time in China last year before falling to 5th spot this year with the...
Synopsis
A rescue unit within the Chinese Coast Guard are forced to overcome their personal differences to resolve a crisis.
In addition to China’s most in-demand actor Eddie Peng in the lead role, the film also stars Xin Zhilei (“Crosscurrent“), Wang Yanlin (“Operation Red Sea“), Lan Yingying (“Pacific Rim Uprising”), Xu Yang, Li Mincheng (“A Better Tomorrow 2018“) and Wang Yutian. It releases in China on January 25th, 2020. Whether it is able to replicate the success of Lam’s last film “Operation Red Sea”, which went on to become the 2nd highest grossing film of all time in China last year before falling to 5th spot this year with the...
- 12/7/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Cmc Pictures has acquired rights in North America to “The Rescue,” the Chinese big-budget action film that is expected to dominate Chinese New Year.
The distributor will release the film in theaters on Jan. 25, 2020 in the U.S. and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.
The film is directed by Dante Lam and reunites the Hong Kong director with his regular star and “Mekong” partner Eddie Peng.
The timing puts the film in a day and date pattern synchronized with its outing in mainland China. That capitalizes on Chinese social media reactions, and minimizes cross-border online piracy.
The story focuses on five characters who form the nucleus of a Coastguard Rescue team. They face diverse emergencies in the air and at sea that force them into joint problem-solving and reveal their different personalities. Alongside Peng, the cast includes Xin Zhilei (“Crosscurrent”) as a female helicopter pilot, Wang Yanlin (“Operation Red Sea”), Lan Yingying,...
The distributor will release the film in theaters on Jan. 25, 2020 in the U.S. and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.
The film is directed by Dante Lam and reunites the Hong Kong director with his regular star and “Mekong” partner Eddie Peng.
The timing puts the film in a day and date pattern synchronized with its outing in mainland China. That capitalizes on Chinese social media reactions, and minimizes cross-border online piracy.
The story focuses on five characters who form the nucleus of a Coastguard Rescue team. They face diverse emergencies in the air and at sea that force them into joint problem-solving and reveal their different personalities. Alongside Peng, the cast includes Xin Zhilei (“Crosscurrent”) as a female helicopter pilot, Wang Yanlin (“Operation Red Sea”), Lan Yingying,...
- 12/5/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Featuring Sammo Hung as the action director, Benny Chan as the director, Ching Wan Lau, Wu Jing and Louis Koo as the protagonists and with a budget of $32 million, “Call of Heroes” was bound to be an action blockbuster. To my surprise, however, it managed to be even more.
The film starts with a kindergarten teacher escorting a bunch of ragtag children in a restaurant, where she orders a single bowl of food for all of them to share. A few moments later, some thugs try to rob the establishment, only to experience a humiliating beating in the hands of a peculiar individual named Ma Feng.
After that scene, the film changes setting and places the story in Pucheng, a small town that has sent its army to the front and is virtually unguarded, with the only ones that can fight being the local sheriff, Yeung Hak-nan and his team.
The film starts with a kindergarten teacher escorting a bunch of ragtag children in a restaurant, where she orders a single bowl of food for all of them to share. A few moments later, some thugs try to rob the establishment, only to experience a humiliating beating in the hands of a peculiar individual named Ma Feng.
After that scene, the film changes setting and places the story in Pucheng, a small town that has sent its army to the front and is virtually unguarded, with the only ones that can fight being the local sheriff, Yeung Hak-nan and his team.
- 9/4/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
China’s internet is thrilled by news that Marvel appears to be insisting on casting an ethnic Chinese actor as Shang-Chi in the master of kung fu’s own spinoff film and has begun scouting out candidates for the role.
Variety reporter Justin Kroll tweeted Sunday that Marvel is apparently “putting out test offers for a group of men in their 20s” for its “Shang-Chi” movie. He added that the studio has “been adamant to reps offering up their clients for the role” that candidates “have to be of Chinese ancestry,” with no other Asian ancestry accepted.
Twitter is blocked on China’s highly censored internet, but that hasn’t stopped the tweet from going viral in the mainland. Users have screen-grabbed it and spread it on China’s parallel Weibo platform, where the hashtag “Shang-Chi casting” has since been viewed 100 million times, and the hashtag “Marvel’s first Chinese...
Variety reporter Justin Kroll tweeted Sunday that Marvel is apparently “putting out test offers for a group of men in their 20s” for its “Shang-Chi” movie. He added that the studio has “been adamant to reps offering up their clients for the role” that candidates “have to be of Chinese ancestry,” with no other Asian ancestry accepted.
Twitter is blocked on China’s highly censored internet, but that hasn’t stopped the tweet from going viral in the mainland. Users have screen-grabbed it and spread it on China’s parallel Weibo platform, where the hashtag “Shang-Chi casting” has since been viewed 100 million times, and the hashtag “Marvel’s first Chinese...
- 7/16/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Going on a date with your significant other is a fantastic way to keep the romance alive, but that doesn’t mean you have to spend a boat load of cash. The key to making the most of Asian dating and keeping the romance alive is spending quality time together! One of the easiest ways to do that is by planning a romantic evening right there at home.
If you need a little inspiration or want to create a romantic vibe, check out our top 5 Asian movies that’ll amp up the romance factor.
5. My Sassy Girl (2001)
For those who loves a good rom-com with a dramatic twist, you’re going to appreciate this flick. Gyeon-woo (played by Cha Tae-Hyun) is a college student who doesn’t have much with love, despite his efforts. The young man’s mother and aunt tries to help him out and they urge Gyeon-woo...
If you need a little inspiration or want to create a romantic vibe, check out our top 5 Asian movies that’ll amp up the romance factor.
5. My Sassy Girl (2001)
For those who loves a good rom-com with a dramatic twist, you’re going to appreciate this flick. Gyeon-woo (played by Cha Tae-Hyun) is a college student who doesn’t have much with love, despite his efforts. The young man’s mother and aunt tries to help him out and they urge Gyeon-woo...
- 7/10/2019
- by AMP Training
- AsianMoviePulse
The publicity-shy chief of Beijing Culture, which has backed such Chinese mega-hits as “Wolf Warrior II” and “The Wandering Earth,” openly urged film directors Monday to stick to material pleasing to the Chinese state, for the sake of their investors.
“If you’re shooting an art house or smaller budget films, it’s no problem — say what you want to say and shoot what you want to shoot,” Beijing Culture chairman Song Ge said at his company’s first-ever press conference, held at the Shanghai Intl. Film Festival. “But once you’re shooting with investors’ money, given the societal circumstances we have today, you should shoot films that reflect mainstream values.”
He defined those values as “things that the state allows you to shoot – things that the average people are used to seeing, that stabilize society.” Echoing the Communist Party line, he declared that “this is the place of commercial films.
“If you’re shooting an art house or smaller budget films, it’s no problem — say what you want to say and shoot what you want to shoot,” Beijing Culture chairman Song Ge said at his company’s first-ever press conference, held at the Shanghai Intl. Film Festival. “But once you’re shooting with investors’ money, given the societal circumstances we have today, you should shoot films that reflect mainstream values.”
He defined those values as “things that the state allows you to shoot – things that the average people are used to seeing, that stabilize society.” Echoing the Communist Party line, he declared that “this is the place of commercial films.
- 6/17/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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