There is a thrilling selection of Chinese-language titles at Filmart this year. Liz Shackleton picks out some of the most promising.
With very few Hong Kong or mainland Chinese sellers making the journey to this year’s European Film Market in Berlin, Filmart offers a chance for buyers to catch up with the Chinese-language titles that will be rolled out in the region for the rest of the year.
After serving up the biggest film of the Chinese New Year holiday — Kung Fu Yoga, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Stanley Tong — China’s Sparkle Roll Media has launched a Hong Kong-based sales arm that is selling Ding Sheng’s reboot of the A Better Tomorrow series.
Other high-profile action titles new to market include Distribution Workshop’s Extraordinary Mission, from the creative teams behind the Infernal Affairs and Overheard series, and Huayi Brothers’ crime drama Explosion, starring Duan Yihong.
Previously announced...
With very few Hong Kong or mainland Chinese sellers making the journey to this year’s European Film Market in Berlin, Filmart offers a chance for buyers to catch up with the Chinese-language titles that will be rolled out in the region for the rest of the year.
After serving up the biggest film of the Chinese New Year holiday — Kung Fu Yoga, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Stanley Tong — China’s Sparkle Roll Media has launched a Hong Kong-based sales arm that is selling Ding Sheng’s reboot of the A Better Tomorrow series.
Other high-profile action titles new to market include Distribution Workshop’s Extraordinary Mission, from the creative teams behind the Infernal Affairs and Overheard series, and Huayi Brothers’ crime drama Explosion, starring Duan Yihong.
Previously announced...
- 3/13/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
With the success of Pang Ho Cheung’s foul mouthed and hilarious “Vulgaria” having proved that rude and crude are still popular at the Hong Kong box office, it’s only natural that other film makers would follow suit. And so, up step directors Andy Lo, Henri Wong and Chong Siu Wing with the category III rated “Hardcore Comedy”, which as its title suggests, aims for raucous pop culture laughs and unfettered bawdiness. Split into three linked stories and revolving around sex, drugs, superheroes and more, the film has a cast packed with attractive faces, including Dada Chan (“Vulgaria”), Michelle Wai (“Girl$”), Christine Kuo (“Lan Kwai Fong 2”), Kelvin Kwan (“Tales from the Dark 2”), Oscar Leung (“Young and Dangerous Reloaded”) and William Chan (“Triad”). The film opens with Henri Wong’s “Shocking Wet Dreams”, in which a couple of college losers (Kelvin Kwan and Terence Siufay) are forced by a...
- 11/14/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Viewers are cordially invited to take a trip back to Hong Kong’s heaving, bump and grind nightlife centre in “Lan Kwai Fong 2”, the sequel to one of the surprise hits of summer 2011. Wilson Chin again takes the directorial reins for another tale of attractive young people falling in and out of love and each other’s beds, pulling together a glamorous ensemble cast including a returning Shiga Lin (who actually won a Best New Performer nomination at the Hong Kong Film Awards for her role in the original), plus singer Kelvin Kwan (“Nobody’s Perfect”), Tvb actor Sammy Sum, male model Avis Chan, boy band Bro5 member Dominic Ho, and sultry models Liu Yuqi, Mia Chan and Linah Matsuoka, with Alex Fong (“Summer Love”) and other stars making cameo appearances. As with the first film, the plot follows a variety of different characters whose lives and love lives...
- 12/13/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
The remake of the 1990 action sci-fi film Total Recall has opened well at the top of the box office over the weekend.
The film, directed by Len Wiseman and starring Colin Farrell took $2.337m.
Distributed by Sony Pictures it averaged $6,916 across 338 screens, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
The plot is based on a the Philip K.Dick story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.
Also in its opening weekend, Hope Springs, distributed by Roadshow and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep and directed by David Frankel, took $1.167m.
Opening across 273 screens, the film averaged $4278 per screen.
Australian film The Sapphires, distributed by Hopscotch/eOne added another $1.444m to its total box office over the weekend. Across 279 screens the film averaged $5,178.
The film, in its third week now, has a box office total of $7.841m.
Two Australian documentaries are in theatre release.
Storm Surfers 3D: The Movie,...
The film, directed by Len Wiseman and starring Colin Farrell took $2.337m.
Distributed by Sony Pictures it averaged $6,916 across 338 screens, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
The plot is based on a the Philip K.Dick story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.
Also in its opening weekend, Hope Springs, distributed by Roadshow and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep and directed by David Frankel, took $1.167m.
Opening across 273 screens, the film averaged $4278 per screen.
Australian film The Sapphires, distributed by Hopscotch/eOne added another $1.444m to its total box office over the weekend. Across 279 screens the film averaged $5,178.
The film, in its third week now, has a box office total of $7.841m.
Two Australian documentaries are in theatre release.
Storm Surfers 3D: The Movie,...
- 8/28/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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