Check out the most anticipated movies and shows premiering during the summer season, from [i]Ballerina[/i] to [i]Thunderbolts*[/i].

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Celebrate some of the most iconic Asian actors from film and television, from [link=/name/nm1231899/]Priyanka Chopra Jonas[/link] to [link=/name/nm0702841]Ke Huy Quan[/link], plus many more.

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Celebrate some of the most iconic Asian actors from film and television, from <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/name/nm1231899/?ref_=nmtrv_eds_right-7_lk">Priyanka Chopra Jonas</a> to <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/name/nm0702841?ref_=nmtrv_eds_right-7_lk">Ke Huy Quan</a>, plus many more.

As an Academy Award-winning cinematographer who made the successful segue to directing features, Chris Menges has carved out a successful, but understated career. Menges got his start as an assistant editor and camera operator and even worked as a sound recordist several times, before working his way up to director of photography. Menges had his first real break as a documentary camera person and editor in the 1960s and 1970s, traveling wherever there was war and insurrection - Burma, Angola, Vietnam and Tibet - while working with filmmaker Adrian Cowell. Once he made the permanent jump to feature films in the 1980s, Menges developed a style as a cinematographer that never overwhelmed audiences with gaudy colors or outlandish camera moves In fact, Menges understood the oft-accepted theory that color could be less realistic than black and white, because it focused the audience away from emotion to an object. Menges' work was defined by a low-key naturalism, plain composition, and a mix of lenses to tug at the audience at the appropriate moments, which helped him craft memorable images in several award-winning films, including "The Killing Fields" (1984), "Michael Collins" (1996) and "The Reader" (2008).

Cousin of TV producer and EastEnders co-creator <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0808850/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Julia Smith</a>.

His father was composer and conductor <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1691289/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Herbert Menges</a>.

Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC).

Father with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0622538/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Alita Naughton</a> of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0579584/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Luke Menges</a> and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0579585/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Oona Menges</a>. He&#39;s grand-father of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm7805721/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Quinn Porter</a> (Oona&#39;s son).

Former father-in-law of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0692064/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Christopher Porter</a>.

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