Eastern Grace Film, a new production company that teased its debut production “The Sand Murmurs” earlier this month, has gone one step further. It used the Shanghai International Film Festival to unveil a slate of nine new film productions.
The company is an indirect subsidiary of Baination Pictures, a Beijing-based film and TV group that is listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange. Eastern Grace is headed by president Wilson Jiang, a veteran film distributor in China.
Jiang pitched the company as a diversified operation that spans film investment, production and promotion operating at the top end of the Chinese industry. In addition to the conventional systems of production and exploitation, Eastern Grace aims to generate short films and stage plays that are derived from its portfolio movies. New media revenue will also be pursued in the VR, metaverse and virtual image categories. Some of these initiatives will be achieved in partnership with other companies.
The company is an indirect subsidiary of Baination Pictures, a Beijing-based film and TV group that is listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange. Eastern Grace is headed by president Wilson Jiang, a veteran film distributor in China.
Jiang pitched the company as a diversified operation that spans film investment, production and promotion operating at the top end of the Chinese industry. In addition to the conventional systems of production and exploitation, Eastern Grace aims to generate short films and stage plays that are derived from its portfolio movies. New media revenue will also be pursued in the VR, metaverse and virtual image categories. Some of these initiatives will be achieved in partnership with other companies.
- 6/17/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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.
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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.
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- 12/1/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Asian Cinerama — Hong Kong Focus runs for 4 days — Thursday 15 – Sunday 18 September at Plaza Indonesia Xxi, Jakarta and presents six (6) current productions by promising and established Hong Kong filmmakers in a variety of genres. Asian Cinerama is the first collaborative event on the Road to Balinale 2023.
Asian Film Awards Academy (Afaa) together with Bali International Film Festival (Balinale) and supported by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) and Film Development Fund (Fdf), will open with a premiere screening of Shadows directed by Glenn Chan. The film has been hailed as ‘one of the best films of the year’. The film’s producer and scriptwriter, Mani Man, will hold a post-screening Q&a and conduct a Filmmaking Seminar hosted by Binus University, Jakarta. The live event will also be broadcast virtually.
“We are pleased to have Mani Man, producer and scriptwriter to open the Asian Cinerama program with her film Shadows and conduct a...
Asian Film Awards Academy (Afaa) together with Bali International Film Festival (Balinale) and supported by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) and Film Development Fund (Fdf), will open with a premiere screening of Shadows directed by Glenn Chan. The film has been hailed as ‘one of the best films of the year’. The film’s producer and scriptwriter, Mani Man, will hold a post-screening Q&a and conduct a Filmmaking Seminar hosted by Binus University, Jakarta. The live event will also be broadcast virtually.
“We are pleased to have Mani Man, producer and scriptwriter to open the Asian Cinerama program with her film Shadows and conduct a...
- 9/15/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Other big winners were biopic ’Anita’ and noir thriller ’Limbo’.
Action thriller Raging Fire has won best film and best director for the late Benny Chan at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards (Hkfa). Other big winners were biopic Anita and noir thriller Limbo.
The event took place last night (July 17) as the Hkfa’s first in-person ceremony since 2019 and was well attended by stars and leading film industry figures.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Raging Fire, in which Donnie Yen plays a cop who clashes with a former protege, marked the final film of veteran director Chan,...
Action thriller Raging Fire has won best film and best director for the late Benny Chan at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards (Hkfa). Other big winners were biopic Anita and noir thriller Limbo.
The event took place last night (July 17) as the Hkfa’s first in-person ceremony since 2019 and was well attended by stars and leading film industry figures.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Raging Fire, in which Donnie Yen plays a cop who clashes with a former protege, marked the final film of veteran director Chan,...
- 7/18/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Move aside, Billie Eilish; it’s time for Anita to take back the stage. Lok Man Leung’s “Anita” delivers a loving tribute to Anita Mui — legendary Cantopop singer, actress, and activist. Much like Eilish, Mui too had a seamless start to her career. After years of performing on the streets, Mui underwent a fateful vocal cord surgery that lowered her pitch by an octave. Mui’s new voice charmed audiences though – and she skyrocketed to fame by winning the New Talent Singing Awards at the tender age of 19. She then polished her baritone pitch and outfits with Cantopop factory Capital Artists and fashion heavyweight Eddie Lau. She collaborated with movie icons too – like Stanley Kwan, Leslie Cheung, and Maggie Cheung, to name a few – in her first forays into the film industry. By the age of twenty-six, she already reaped the coveted markers of success in both music and...
- 4/29/2022
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Move aside, Billie Eilish; it’s time for Anita to take back the stage. Lok Man Leung’s “Anita” delivers a loving tribute to Anita Mui — legendary Cantopop singer, actress, and activist. Much like Eilish, Mui too had a seamless start to her career. After years of performing on the streets, Mui underwent a fateful vocal cord surgery that lowered her pitch by an octave. Mui’s new voice charmed audiences though – and she skyrocketed to fame by winning the New Talent Singing Awards at the tender age of 19. She then polished her baritone pitch and outfits with Cantopop factory Capital Artists and fashion heavyweight Eddie Lau. She collaborated with movie icons too – like Stanley Kwan, Leslie Cheung, and Maggie Cheung, to name a few – in her first forays into the film industry. By the age of twenty-six, she already reaped the coveted markers of success in both music and...
- 11/22/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
"Ten years of hard work to perfect three minutes on stage, right?" Cmc Pictures has unveiled an official trailer for a biopic drama titled Anita, from Hong Kong filmmaker Lok Man Leung. This recently premiered as the Closing Night film at the Busan Film Festival in Korea, and is opening in theaters worldwide later this week (on November 12th). The film traces the life of Anita Mui, Hong Kong's "disappeared" Cantopop star. The film opens with her final concert and looks back on her life and legacy. The very definition of a cultural icon during Hong Kong's golden age, Anita dedicated almost her whole life to music. Behind stardom, her personal life, passion at work and the love for friends made her an irreplaceable role model as the "Queen of Cantopop". Starring Louise Wong as Anita. This looks like everything you'd expect from a popstar biopic. Here's the main international...
- 11/8/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Cinema Libre Studio has acquired Chinese drama “Enter the Forbidden City” and will release it in the U.S. in early 2020.
Directed by female filmmaker Hu Mei and written by Zou Jingzhi, the historical epic won the Chinese American Film Festival’s top prizes for best director and best feature film Tuesday night at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Hu is one of China’s so-called Fifth Generation directors.
It will have its U.S. premiere at the festival later this month, with screenings on Nov. 17, 20 and 21. Set in the Qing dynasty 230 years ago, the film brings to life the historical origins of Peking opera through the tale of two young opera singers who risk their lives to perform for the emperor at a special celebration for his 80th birthday.
Made with a budget of about $14.3 million (RMB100 million), it was distributed in China by state-owned Huaxia but made...
Directed by female filmmaker Hu Mei and written by Zou Jingzhi, the historical epic won the Chinese American Film Festival’s top prizes for best director and best feature film Tuesday night at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Hu is one of China’s so-called Fifth Generation directors.
It will have its U.S. premiere at the festival later this month, with screenings on Nov. 17, 20 and 21. Set in the Qing dynasty 230 years ago, the film brings to life the historical origins of Peking opera through the tale of two young opera singers who risk their lives to perform for the emperor at a special celebration for his 80th birthday.
Made with a budget of about $14.3 million (RMB100 million), it was distributed in China by state-owned Huaxia but made...
- 11/7/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Leaff is back this year on the 24th of October until the 3rd of November, with a rich and articulated programme, including more than 60 titles from 11 countries East and Southeast Asia! Check out the titles now.
Opening Gala
Exit
Exit | Lee Sang Geun | Korea | 2019 | 103 mins
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Leaff Official Selection
Nina Wu
A Girl Missing | Koji Fukada | Japan | 2019 | 111 mins
The Wild Goose Lake | Diao Yinan | China | 2019 | 113 mins
Europe Raiders | Jingle Ma | Hong Kong | 2018 | 100 mins
To the Ends of the Earth | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan | 2019 | 120 mins
Balloon | Pema Tseden | China | 2019 | 102 mins
Rainbow’s Sunset | Joel Lamangan | Philippines | 2019 | 105 mins
Cities of Last Things | Ho Wi-ding | Taiwan | 2019 | 107 mins
Nina Wu | Midi Z | Taiwan | 2019 | 103 mins
The Pool | Ping Lumphapleng | Thailand | 2018 | 91 mins
Long Live the King | Kang Yun-sung | Korea | 2019 | 118 mins
The Science of Fictions | Yosep Anggi Noen | Indonesia, Malaysia | 2019 | 106 mins
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Competition
Summer of Changsha
All About Ing | Huang Zi | China | 2019 | 110 mins
Another Child | Kim Yoon-seok | Korea | 2019 | 118 min
Deep...
Opening Gala
Exit
Exit | Lee Sang Geun | Korea | 2019 | 103 mins
_______________________
Leaff Official Selection
Nina Wu
A Girl Missing | Koji Fukada | Japan | 2019 | 111 mins
The Wild Goose Lake | Diao Yinan | China | 2019 | 113 mins
Europe Raiders | Jingle Ma | Hong Kong | 2018 | 100 mins
To the Ends of the Earth | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan | 2019 | 120 mins
Balloon | Pema Tseden | China | 2019 | 102 mins
Rainbow’s Sunset | Joel Lamangan | Philippines | 2019 | 105 mins
Cities of Last Things | Ho Wi-ding | Taiwan | 2019 | 107 mins
Nina Wu | Midi Z | Taiwan | 2019 | 103 mins
The Pool | Ping Lumphapleng | Thailand | 2018 | 91 mins
Long Live the King | Kang Yun-sung | Korea | 2019 | 118 mins
The Science of Fictions | Yosep Anggi Noen | Indonesia, Malaysia | 2019 | 106 mins
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Competition
Summer of Changsha
All About Ing | Huang Zi | China | 2019 | 110 mins
Another Child | Kim Yoon-seok | Korea | 2019 | 118 min
Deep...
- 9/19/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Shanghai International Film Festival unveils 2016 line-up.Scroll down for full list of awards
Longman Leung and Sunny Luk’s Cold War 2 [pictured], the sequel to Edko Films’ hit 2012 action thriller, will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (June 11-19).
Meanwhile, Werner Herzog’s Salt And Fire, Bruce Beresford’s Mr Church and Cao Baoping’s Coke And Bull are among the films selected for the Golden Goblet Awards (see full list below).
As previously announced the competition jury is headed by Emir Kusturica and also includes Atom Egoyan, Daniele Luchetti, African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu), Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden (Tharlo), Hong Kong actress Karena Lam and Chinese writer Yan Geling.
Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara will oversee a separate jury for documentaries, while Swiss animation director George Schwizgebel heads the jury for animated films.
Siff also unveiled nominations in six categories for the Asian New Talent Awards, which has a jury headed by Hong Kong filmmaker...
Longman Leung and Sunny Luk’s Cold War 2 [pictured], the sequel to Edko Films’ hit 2012 action thriller, will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (June 11-19).
Meanwhile, Werner Herzog’s Salt And Fire, Bruce Beresford’s Mr Church and Cao Baoping’s Coke And Bull are among the films selected for the Golden Goblet Awards (see full list below).
As previously announced the competition jury is headed by Emir Kusturica and also includes Atom Egoyan, Daniele Luchetti, African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu), Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden (Tharlo), Hong Kong actress Karena Lam and Chinese writer Yan Geling.
Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara will oversee a separate jury for documentaries, while Swiss animation director George Schwizgebel heads the jury for animated films.
Siff also unveiled nominations in six categories for the Asian New Talent Awards, which has a jury headed by Hong Kong filmmaker...
- 6/3/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Werner Herzog’s thriller Salt And Fire will have its world premiere at the festival.
Longman Leung and Sunny Luk’s Cold War 2 [pictured], the sequel to Edko Films’ hit 2012 action thriller, will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (June 11-19).
Meanwhile, Werner Herzog’s Salt And Fire, Bruce Beresford’s Mr Church and Cao Baoping’s Coke And Bull are among the films selected for the Golden Goblet Awards (see full list below).
As previously announced the competition jury is headed by Emir Kusturica and also includes Atom Egoyan, Daniele Luchetti, African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu), Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden (Tharlo), Hong Kong actress Karena Lam and Chinese writer Yan Geling.
Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara will oversee a separate jury for documentaries, while Swiss animation director George Schwizgebel heads the jury for animated films.
Siff also unveiled nominations in six categories for the Asian New Talent Awards, which has a jury...
Longman Leung and Sunny Luk’s Cold War 2 [pictured], the sequel to Edko Films’ hit 2012 action thriller, will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (June 11-19).
Meanwhile, Werner Herzog’s Salt And Fire, Bruce Beresford’s Mr Church and Cao Baoping’s Coke And Bull are among the films selected for the Golden Goblet Awards (see full list below).
As previously announced the competition jury is headed by Emir Kusturica and also includes Atom Egoyan, Daniele Luchetti, African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu), Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden (Tharlo), Hong Kong actress Karena Lam and Chinese writer Yan Geling.
Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara will oversee a separate jury for documentaries, while Swiss animation director George Schwizgebel heads the jury for animated films.
Siff also unveiled nominations in six categories for the Asian New Talent Awards, which has a jury...
- 6/3/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Chow Yun Fat joins the original cast of Hong Kong thriller Cold War - the highest grossing Hk film of 2012 - for the upcoming Cold War 2. And this is one sequel that appears to be holding to the 'same but more' theory of sequels with the entire creative team back in place along with the original cast. And while this first trailer exists mostly to whet the appetite there's still plenty here to promise plenty of slick. glossy action within. Tony Leung Ka-fai, Aaron Kwok, Charlie Young, Eddie Peng and Aarif Rahman make up the rest of the core cast of the cop thriller with directors Longman Leung and Sunny Luk retunring. Check out the trailer - with English subtitles included - below....
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- 3/14/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Chow Yun Fat has joined the cast of Edko Films’ Cold War 2, directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk, which is currently in production.
All major cast members from the first film are set to return, including Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Charlie Young, Eddie Peng Yuyan and Aarif Rahman.
Cold War was the highest-grossing Hong Kong film in 2012, earning $5.8m (Hk$44.9m) in Hong Kong and $40m (RMB253m) in China.
It also won nine prizes at the Hong Kong Film Awards, including best film, best director, best screenplay and best actor for Tony Leung Ka Fai.
The sequel is being lined up for release in July 2016.
All major cast members from the first film are set to return, including Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Charlie Young, Eddie Peng Yuyan and Aarif Rahman.
Cold War was the highest-grossing Hong Kong film in 2012, earning $5.8m (Hk$44.9m) in Hong Kong and $40m (RMB253m) in China.
It also won nine prizes at the Hong Kong Film Awards, including best film, best director, best screenplay and best actor for Tony Leung Ka Fai.
The sequel is being lined up for release in July 2016.
- 10/12/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Chow Yun Fat has joined the cast of Edko Films’ Cold War 2, directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk, which is currently in production.
All major cast members from the first film are set to return, including Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Charlie Young, Eddie Peng Yuyan and Aarif Rahman.
Cold War was the highest-grossing Hong Kong film in 2012, earning $5.8m (Hk$44.9m) in Hong Kong and $40m (RMB253m) in China. It also won nine prizes at the Hong Kong Film Awards, including best film, best director, best screenplay and best actor for Tony Leung Ka Fai.
The sequel is being lined up for release in July 2016.
All major cast members from the first film are set to return, including Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Charlie Young, Eddie Peng Yuyan and Aarif Rahman.
Cold War was the highest-grossing Hong Kong film in 2012, earning $5.8m (Hk$44.9m) in Hong Kong and $40m (RMB253m) in China. It also won nine prizes at the Hong Kong Film Awards, including best film, best director, best screenplay and best actor for Tony Leung Ka Fai.
The sequel is being lined up for release in July 2016.
- 10/12/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Following Cold War, an interesting and surprisingly bureaucratic action film, Sunny Luk and Longman Leung strive for bigger and louder with Helios, an overambitious and convoluted thriller that had its international premiere at the 17th Udine Far East Film Festival. The film starts off in South Korea with Helios (Chang Chen) and his sidekick Messenger (Janice Man) stealing one of the DC8s, the smallest nuclear devices ever created. Looking to retrieve their nuke, a team of South Korean special agents consisting of Choi Min-ho (Ji Jin-hee) and Park Woo-cheol (Choi Si-won) go to Hong Kong where the weapon is about to be traded. There, they're joined by Shim Mi-kyung (Yoon Ji-ni) and together join forces with the local police force - task leader Lee Yin-ming...
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- 5/2/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Helios is the new film from Sunny Luk and Longmond Leung, the directing duo behind Cold War (Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka Fai), which was the top grossing local film at the Hong Kong box office in 2012. It is a high-octane thriller that stars Jacky Cheung and Nick Cheung, and has a support cast that includes actors from Hong Kong, China and Korea. Thanks to its distributor Magnum Films, we have Five double passes to give away to our readers. For a chance to win, all you have to do is to follow these two steps: 1) Like the Magnum Film Facebook page, and 2) Email your name and postal address to me at: hugo[at]twitchfilm.net Helios will open in Australian cinemas on April 30,...
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- 4/23/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Mixing deafening explosions, bone-crunching fisticuffs and a setting dripping with near-apocalyptic fatalism, Helios boasts all the ingredients necessary to qualify as the ultimate Hong Kong action thriller. Beyond this sensory overload, co-helmers Longman Leung and Sunny Luk have also reproduced, if not amplified, the flaws typical of recent entries in the genre: just like in their 2012 policier Cold War, implausible twists and ill-informed views of real-world power dynamics undermine what should have been an audacious attempt to fuse pyrotechnics and politics. The much heftier $26-million budget, nearly double that of their directorial debut
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- 4/22/2015
- by Clarence Tsui
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Media Asia launched its new slate at Filmart yesterday, which includes Johnnie To’s heist movie Three and Adam Wong’s He Remembers, She Forgets, starring Miriam Yeung and Jan Lamb.
To’s heist drama Three stars Louis Koo, Vicki Zhao Wei and Wallace Chung in the story of doctor who finds herself in a crossfire between the police and gangsters.
To has also teamed with Yau Nai-hoi to produce Trivisa, directed by three up-and-coming filmmakers, about three notorious mainland gangsters who come together for their latest heist.
Wong’s new Media Asia project is nostalgic romantic drama He Remembers, She Forgets, produced by Teddy Robin and Svaille Chan.
Wong won best new director at last year’s Hong Kong Film Awards for his independently-produced street dance movie, The Way We Dance.
Media Asia’s 2015 slate also includes two romantic comedies: All You Need Is Love, starring Richie Jen and Shu Qi; and An Office And A Panderer...
To’s heist drama Three stars Louis Koo, Vicki Zhao Wei and Wallace Chung in the story of doctor who finds herself in a crossfire between the police and gangsters.
To has also teamed with Yau Nai-hoi to produce Trivisa, directed by three up-and-coming filmmakers, about three notorious mainland gangsters who come together for their latest heist.
Wong’s new Media Asia project is nostalgic romantic drama He Remembers, She Forgets, produced by Teddy Robin and Svaille Chan.
Wong won best new director at last year’s Hong Kong Film Awards for his independently-produced street dance movie, The Way We Dance.
Media Asia’s 2015 slate also includes two romantic comedies: All You Need Is Love, starring Richie Jen and Shu Qi; and An Office And A Panderer...
- 3/24/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
First of all, we would like to say Happy New Year to all our readers at Asian Movie Pulse. many thanks for the years of continuous support and we hope 2015 is a great year for you all.
This is part 1 for upcoming movies in 2015 to watch out for, if you feel a movie deserves to make part 2, please comment at bottom of the page.
Dragon Blade
Cast: Jackie Chan, Adrien Brody, John Cusack, Choi Siwon, Lin Peng
Director: Daniel Lee
The Bodyguard
Cast: Sammo Hung, Andy Lau, Deng Chao, Wang Xuebing, Tian Liang
Director: Sammo Hung
Sha Po Lang 2
Cast: Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Simon Yam, Zhang Jin, Louis Koo
Director: Cheang Pou-soi
The Challenge Letter
Cast: Robert Chen, Nobuaki Shimamoto, Ingrid Yin Hu
Director: Robert Chen, Nathan Colquhoun
Skintrade
Cast: Tony Jaa, Dolph Lundgren, Michael Jai White, Ron Perlman
Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham
Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island
Cast: Kim Myung Min,...
This is part 1 for upcoming movies in 2015 to watch out for, if you feel a movie deserves to make part 2, please comment at bottom of the page.
Dragon Blade
Cast: Jackie Chan, Adrien Brody, John Cusack, Choi Siwon, Lin Peng
Director: Daniel Lee
The Bodyguard
Cast: Sammo Hung, Andy Lau, Deng Chao, Wang Xuebing, Tian Liang
Director: Sammo Hung
Sha Po Lang 2
Cast: Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Simon Yam, Zhang Jin, Louis Koo
Director: Cheang Pou-soi
The Challenge Letter
Cast: Robert Chen, Nobuaki Shimamoto, Ingrid Yin Hu
Director: Robert Chen, Nathan Colquhoun
Skintrade
Cast: Tony Jaa, Dolph Lundgren, Michael Jai White, Ron Perlman
Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham
Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island
Cast: Kim Myung Min,...
- 1/2/2015
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
Magnum Pictures has pre-bought two titles from Media Asia – Helios and Triumph In The Sky – for Australia/Nz. The distributor has also set a Canada release date for Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 following the positive reaction to its Tiff screening.
The romantic comedy sequel, directed by Johnnie To, will be released in Canada on November 14, just a few days after its release in China and Hong Kong on November 11.
The deal for the two new acquisitions was also sealed during Tiff. Currently in post-production, Helios is an action thriller directed by Sunny Lok and Longman Leung and featuring a pan-Asian cast.
An adaptation of the top-rating Tvb television series, Triumph In The Sky is co-directed by Wilson Yip and Matt Chow and stars Francis Ng and Louis Koo.
Magnum picked up North American rights to Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 at this year’s Cannes film festival and market.
The romantic comedy sequel, directed by Johnnie To, will be released in Canada on November 14, just a few days after its release in China and Hong Kong on November 11.
The deal for the two new acquisitions was also sealed during Tiff. Currently in post-production, Helios is an action thriller directed by Sunny Lok and Longman Leung and featuring a pan-Asian cast.
An adaptation of the top-rating Tvb television series, Triumph In The Sky is co-directed by Wilson Yip and Matt Chow and stars Francis Ng and Louis Koo.
Magnum picked up North American rights to Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 at this year’s Cannes film festival and market.
- 9/10/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Media Asia Films has signed a deal with South Korea’s Jong Film to remake Johnnie To’s Drug War into a Korean-language feature.
The Hong Kong-based studio has also sold Korean rights to action thriller Helios to Pan Cinema, following a bidding war among Korean buyers.
Released in Hong Kong and China in 2012, Drug War tells the story of a drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid and coerced into betraying his former accomplices in an undercover operation. Louis Koo and Sun Honglei head the cast.
Media Asia is also in talks to sell the English-language remake rights to Drug War, and expects to close a deal soon.
Co-directed by Sunny Luk and Longman Leung (Cold War), Helios revolves around a criminal who uses uranium stolen from Korea to make a nuclear bomb, which is scheduled to change hands in Hong Kong. The cast includes Hong Kong’s Jacky Cheung and Nick Cheung and Korea...
The Hong Kong-based studio has also sold Korean rights to action thriller Helios to Pan Cinema, following a bidding war among Korean buyers.
Released in Hong Kong and China in 2012, Drug War tells the story of a drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid and coerced into betraying his former accomplices in an undercover operation. Louis Koo and Sun Honglei head the cast.
Media Asia is also in talks to sell the English-language remake rights to Drug War, and expects to close a deal soon.
Co-directed by Sunny Luk and Longman Leung (Cold War), Helios revolves around a criminal who uses uranium stolen from Korea to make a nuclear bomb, which is scheduled to change hands in Hong Kong. The cast includes Hong Kong’s Jacky Cheung and Nick Cheung and Korea...
- 5/18/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Media Asia Films has signed a deal with South Korea’s Jong Film to remake Johnnie To’s Drug War into a Korean-language feature.
The Hong Kong-based studio has also sold Korean rights to action thriller Helios to Pan Cinema, following a bidding war among Korean buyers.
Released in Hong Kong and China in 2012, Drug War tells the story of a drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid and coerced into betraying his former accomplices in an undercover operation. Louis Koo and Sun Honglei head the cast.
Media Asia is also in talks to sell the English-language remake rights to Drug War, and expects to close a deal soon.
Co-directed by Sunny Luk and Longman Leung (Cold War), Helios revolves around a criminal who uses uranium stolen from Korea to make a nuclear bomb, which is scheduled to change hands in Hong Kong. The cast includes Hong Kong’s Jacky Cheung and Nick Cheung and Korea...
The Hong Kong-based studio has also sold Korean rights to action thriller Helios to Pan Cinema, following a bidding war among Korean buyers.
Released in Hong Kong and China in 2012, Drug War tells the story of a drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid and coerced into betraying his former accomplices in an undercover operation. Louis Koo and Sun Honglei head the cast.
Media Asia is also in talks to sell the English-language remake rights to Drug War, and expects to close a deal soon.
Co-directed by Sunny Luk and Longman Leung (Cold War), Helios revolves around a criminal who uses uranium stolen from Korea to make a nuclear bomb, which is scheduled to change hands in Hong Kong. The cast includes Hong Kong’s Jacky Cheung and Nick Cheung and Korea...
- 5/18/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong’s Media Asia has sold Johnnie To’s romantic comedy Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 to Magnum Films for North America.
Starring Louis Koo, Miriam Yeung and Gao Yuanyuan, the film is a sequel to To’s 2011 hit Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. Magnum also picked up two other Media Asia titles as part of a package – To’s Romancing In Thin Air and Gary Mak’s Sdu: Sex Duties Unit.
Media Asia has also sold animated feature Monkey King Reloaded to Turkey’s Saran Media and Myanmar’s Golden Yellow Tree, which also acquired action thriller Helios.
Directed by Sunny Lok and Longman Leung, Helios stars a pan-Asian cast including Jacky Cheung, Nick Cheng and Korea’s Ji Jin-hee and Choi Si-won. Media Asia has already received several offers from Korea for the film and expects to close a deal during Cannes.
Starring Louis Koo, Miriam Yeung and Gao Yuanyuan, the film is a sequel to To’s 2011 hit Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. Magnum also picked up two other Media Asia titles as part of a package – To’s Romancing In Thin Air and Gary Mak’s Sdu: Sex Duties Unit.
Media Asia has also sold animated feature Monkey King Reloaded to Turkey’s Saran Media and Myanmar’s Golden Yellow Tree, which also acquired action thriller Helios.
Directed by Sunny Lok and Longman Leung, Helios stars a pan-Asian cast including Jacky Cheung, Nick Cheng and Korea’s Ji Jin-hee and Choi Si-won. Media Asia has already received several offers from Korea for the film and expects to close a deal during Cannes.
- 5/15/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong’s Media Asia has unveiled a slate of new productions at Filmart, including Lawrence Cheng’s romantic comedy Break Up 100 and a big screen adaptation of hit TV series Triumph In The Sky.
Co-directed by Wilson Yip and Matt Chow, Triumph In The Sky is produced by Tommy Leung and will star Julian Cheung, Francis Ng and Louis Koo.
Starring Ekin Cheng and Chrissie Chau, Break Up 100 tells the story of couple who try to run a business together after breaking up and reuniting 99 times.
The slate also includes Johnnie To’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2, starring Koo, Miriam Yeung and Vic Chou, along with romantic drama She Remembers, He Forgets, directed by Adam Wong (The Way We Dance) and produced by Teddy Robin and Saville Chan.
In addition, Leon Lai is making his directorial debut for Media Asia with action drama Wine War, in which he also stars. Lai is also...
Co-directed by Wilson Yip and Matt Chow, Triumph In The Sky is produced by Tommy Leung and will star Julian Cheung, Francis Ng and Louis Koo.
Starring Ekin Cheng and Chrissie Chau, Break Up 100 tells the story of couple who try to run a business together after breaking up and reuniting 99 times.
The slate also includes Johnnie To’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2, starring Koo, Miriam Yeung and Vic Chou, along with romantic drama She Remembers, He Forgets, directed by Adam Wong (The Way We Dance) and produced by Teddy Robin and Saville Chan.
In addition, Leon Lai is making his directorial debut for Media Asia with action drama Wine War, in which he also stars. Lai is also...
- 3/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Ziyi Zhang: Best Actress at the 2013 Golden Horse Awards (photo: Ziyi Zhang in ‘The Grandmaster’) (See previous post: “Golden Horse Awards: Singaporean Movie ‘Ilo Ilo’ Is Surprising Best Picture Choice.”) Although Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo took home the top award at the 50th Golden Horse Awards, Wong Kar Wai’s Berlin Film Festival opening gala film The Grandmaster was this year’s big winner: six awards, including the Best Actress trophy for Ziyi Zhang. That marked Zhang’s first victory, after three previous nominations: Best Actress for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000 and for 2046 in 2004; Best Supporting Actress for Forever Enthralled in 2009. "It was a very long and suffering journey making The Grandmaster, but now I’m very happy," Zhang said in her acceptance speech. In Wong’s Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts drama she plays the daughter of fighting master, who, so as to restore her family’s honor,...
- 11/29/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Cold War Contest Giveaway Sweepstakes. This Cold War DVD contest, giveaway, sweepstakes illustrates Cold War‘s release on DVD on October 1, 2013. Lok Man Leung, Kim-ching Luk‘s Cold War‘s stars Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Charlie Yeung, Andy On, Terence Yin, Aarif Rahman, Andy Lau, Byron Mann, and [...]
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- 10/12/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The 2013 New York Asian Film Festival runs June 28 – July 15. If you’re lucky enough to be in the area and interested in tickets check out the official Nyaff page here, but if not feel free to follow along with us as we take a look at several of the movies playing the fest this year. As the name implies the festival presents new and select films from several countries including Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Our fifth and final look at the films of Nyaff 2013 explores the wars being fought on the front lines of three very different battlefields. Cold War (Hong Kong) An explosion at a Hong Kong movie theater puts the entire city on edge, but it also creates a clash of wills at the highest levels of the police department. With the commissioner out of the country on official business his two deputies step up with differing plans...
- 7/16/2013
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Cold War, one of Hong Kong's best crime thrillers in recent years, has dominated this year's Hong Kong Film Awards, winning a total of 9 awards: Best Film, Best Director (Longman Leung, Sunny Luk Kim Ching), Best Screenplay (Longman Leung, Sunny Luk Kim Ching), Best Actor (Tony Leung Ka Fai), Best New Performer (Alex Tsui), Best Film Editing (Kong Chi Leung & Wong Hoi), Best Original Film Score (Peter Kam Pui Tat), Best Sound Design (Kinson Tsang) and Best Visual Effects (Cecil Cheng). It is worth a special mention that Tony Leung Ka Fai's win this year is his fourth Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. He previously won for his performances in Reign Behind the Curtain (in 1984), 92 Legendary La Rose...
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- 4/13/2013
- Screen Anarchy
The biggest, most hyped and eagerly awaited Hong Kong thriller of the year arrives in the form of “Cold War”, written and directed by first-timers Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. Backed by a massive marketing campaign clearly trying to position it as the new “Infernal Affairs”, the police corruption film is certainly an ambitious affair, with an amazing cast of top stars headlined by Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka Fai, supported by the likes of Eddie Peng (“Tai Chi”), Aarif Lee (“Bruce Lee, My Brother”), Gordon Lam (“Motorway”) and Charlie Young (“Floating City”), with Michael Wong and the immortal Andy Lau on hand for cameo appearances. The effort seems to have paid off, with the film emerging as the biggest Hong Kong money maker of 2012, in addition to having been nominated for a long list of gongs at the Hong Kong Film Awards. The film kicks off with the...
- 2/13/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
The nominations for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards were announced earlier today, and predictably, star-studded cop drama Cold War scored 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director nods for its first-time helmers Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. More suprising was that Law Chi Leung's The Bullet Vanishes scored the exact same number of nominations, and goes head-to-head with Cold War in nine of those categories. In third place, with 8 nominations, is Felix Chong and Alan Mak's The Silent War, although it failed to secure a Best Picture nod. That category is filled out by Dante Lam's The Viral Factor, Soi Cheang's Motorway and Pang Ho Cheung's Vulgaria. The Best Director nominees follow suit, with the notable exception of Pang, who receives a nomination...
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- 2/6/2013
- Screen Anarchy
After its world premiere in Korea at last month's Busan International Film Festival, Longman Leung and Sunny Luk's much-touted directorial debut Cold War finally opens on home turf. Originally slated for a summer release, before being pushed back to mid-October and then again to 8 November, the film was eventually unveiled to a home crowd last night, as opening film of the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival. After reading Pierce Conran's review from Biff, my expectations were pretty low, and perhaps it is because of this that Cold War actually proved to be an overall engaging and entertaining cop drama. Pierce's main concern with the film was its over-reliance on grand spectacle and hollow bombast, rather than substantive, character-based drama: "Over-produced and austere, it features strong and...
- 11/3/2012
- Screen Anarchy
As the 17th edition of Biff comes to a close, a handful of entries from around the globe managed to stand out amid the 300-plus films at the fest this year. The festival started strong, if not Korean, with the Opening presentation, Cold War (Hong Kong), a slick procedural that doubles as a subversive exercise in unorthodoxy. The cops-n-robbers actioner was a polished slice of the kind of cinema Hong Kong has traditionally excelled at, and directors Longman Leung and Sunny Luk would appear to have bright futures. Moving into Biff’s signature programs — the competitive New
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- 10/10/2012
- by Elizabeth Kerr
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With its all star cast (including; Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung, Eddie Peng, Aarif Rahman and Charlie Yeung) Longman Leung and Sunny Luk’s upcoming Police thriller Cold War pretty much already had us sold, but the fantastic new poster for the film sure isn’t doing it any disservice either. Cold War opens in Hong Kong Oct 18, 2012. Synopsis: In Asia’s safest city, the police have long been untouchable. Approaching midnight in Hong Kong, police headquarters receives an anonymous call: a fully-loaded police van carrying the forces, most advance equipment and five highly trained officers has disappeared off the grid. The hijackers possess direct knowledge of police procedures. They’re already steps ahead. The police must meet a list of demands to ensure the hostage’s release, including the delivery of a huge ransom. Any delay will cost lives.....The clock is ticking… Cold War poster Cold War...
- 9/26/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
With an all star cast - Andy Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Aaron Kwok just scratch the surface - and its high octane story of corruption, Longman Leung and Sunny Luk's Cold War will almost certainly be the biggest film of the year to come out of Hong Kong. And to help make it so distributors Edko Films have just released one final trailer to spread the word.In Asia's safest city, the police have long been untouchable. Approaching midnight in Hong Kong, police headquarters receives an anonymous call: a fully-loaded police van carrying the force's most advanced equipment and five highly-trained officers has disappeared off the grid. The hijackers possess direct knowledge of police procedures. They're already steps ahead. The police must meet a list...
- 9/13/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The biggest thing on the cinematic horizon in Hong Kong right now is Cold War, written and directed by first-timers Longman Leung and Sunny Luk, and starring pretty much every red-blooded male currently working in the city. When a police van loaded with weapons and explosives gets hijacked, and the terrorists begin an extreme reign of terror across Hong Kong, cops Tony Leung Ka Fai and Aaron Kwok find themselves at war with each other over how to deal with it. Cold War also stars Charlie Young, Gordon Lam, Chin Ka Lok, Andy On, Terence Yin, Eddie Peng, Aariff Rahman, Byron Mann, Grace Huang and a cameo from Andy Lau and hits cinema screens in Hong Kong on 18 October. Today, Edko has released another...
- 8/23/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The first clip for directing duo Longman Leung and Sunny Luk’s upcoming actin/thriller “Cold War” is interesting in that it only contains interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. Although it’s kind of cool to hear what the cast and crew have to say about the project, I’m more interested in seeing footage of stars Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka Fai being total badasses. I don’t think that’s too much to ask, right? The bald head makes Leung look severely dangerous, and I’m pretty curious to see his character in action. As always, a handy synopsis to light your way: In Asia’s safest city, the police have long been untouchable. Approaching midnight in Hong Kong, police headquarters receives an anonymous call: a fully-loaded police van carrying the forces, most advance equipment and five highly trained officers has disappeared off the grid. The hijackers possess direct knowledge of police procedures.
- 5/6/2012
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
One of the most promising Hong Kong prospects for Summer 2012 is Cold War, an action-packed cop thriller from first-time writer/director team Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. The all-star cast includes Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka Fai, as well as Charlie Young, Andy On, Aarif Rahman (Lee), Gordon Lam, Byron Mann and Grace Huang, while the plot centres around a violent hostage situation that quickly spirals out of control. The first teaser trailer has now been released, which boasts a combination of footage, soundbites from the cast and crew (including action director Chin Kar Lok) and behind the scenes footage. For the record, Tony Leung looks like a badass. Check it out below!...
- 5/3/2012
- Screen Anarchy
It has been announced that Byron Mann has joined the cast of Hong Kong cop thriller Cold War, alongside the likes of such Asian heavyweights as Andy Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Aaron Kwok, Gordon Lam, Andy On and Charlie Young. The film is produced by Ivy Ho, Matthew Tang and veteran Bill Kong, whose long list of credits includes Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The House Of Flying Daggers, Lust Caution and Zhang Yimou's forthcoming The Flowers Of War, starring Christian Bale. Cold War is a violent, high-octane cop thriller that begins with a nerve-jangling hostage situation and rapidly spirals out of control. The film is being directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk, with filming expected to wrap at the end of the year.Mann is...
- 11/15/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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