‘LA LA’ Gets Re-re-re-release
Iconic Hollywood musical film “La La Land” is to re-release (again) in South Korean theaters from Wednesday. Distributed by Pancinema, it will play at the country’s Imax cinemas for a one-week limited run with tickets costing upwards of KRW15,000 ($11.25) for adults.
The film was directed by Damien Chazelle and stars Ryan Gosling (newly Oscar-nominated for his role as Ken in “Barbie”) and Emma Stone, and holds the box office record for movie musicals with global box office of $470 million.
It recently re-released in cinemas in China in time for the Christmas peak season. And, according to local sources, the latest outing in Korea will be its third re-release in the country, following a conventional release in December 2017, a re-release in March 2020 and yet another in September 2022.
In its initial run, the film sold 5.13 million tickets and earned KRW31.2 billion or $23.4 million at today’s exchange rates.
Iconic Hollywood musical film “La La Land” is to re-release (again) in South Korean theaters from Wednesday. Distributed by Pancinema, it will play at the country’s Imax cinemas for a one-week limited run with tickets costing upwards of KRW15,000 ($11.25) for adults.
The film was directed by Damien Chazelle and stars Ryan Gosling (newly Oscar-nominated for his role as Ken in “Barbie”) and Emma Stone, and holds the box office record for movie musicals with global box office of $470 million.
It recently re-released in cinemas in China in time for the Christmas peak season. And, according to local sources, the latest outing in Korea will be its third re-release in the country, following a conventional release in December 2017, a re-release in March 2020 and yet another in September 2022.
In its initial run, the film sold 5.13 million tickets and earned KRW31.2 billion or $23.4 million at today’s exchange rates.
- 1/24/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a column devoted to exploring contemporary Chinese-language cinema primarily as it is revealed to us at North American multiplexes.After a quiet spring and early summer, with few Chinese releases of note to play on American screens, things are starting to pick up as we head into the second half of the year. A couple of weeks ago saw the release of another Herman Yau film (The Leakers), his fifth feature in the past 14 months, along with Han Yan’s follow-up to his surprisingly effective cancer rom-com Go Away Mr. Tumor, the bizarre-looking manga adaptation Animal World. Both films quickly disappeared, playing not quite a full week here in Seattle, but this week’s big release should have a longer run. Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings is the third in a series of fantasy-adventure films from Tsui Hark, who has been for 40 years the central...
- 7/27/2018
- MUBI
First of all, who is Detective Dee? For those who don’t know him already, Dee Renjie was a magistrate in the Tang dynasty, a guarantor of the Tang Code, highly revered by Empress Wu Zetian for his logical nature and honesty. Later in history, his life inspired the fictional character of a crime-solving magistrate called Judge Dee in some historical “whodunit” novels, virtually unknown to the West if it wasn’t for Dutch diplomat and writer Robert van Gulik who – at the beginning of 1900 – picked up an old copy of the novels in a second hand shop and decided to rewrite his own version of the Chinese Detective. And here we are, the modern version of the popular Detective Dee is a true product of Orientalism and yet very appealing and intriguing.
Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings will be released in UK cinemas 27 July, by Cine Asia
Director...
Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings will be released in UK cinemas 27 July, by Cine Asia
Director...
- 7/25/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Stars: Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Catrina Lau, Lee Bingbing, Deng Chao | Written by Chen Kuofu & Lin Qianya | Action Director: Sammo Hung | Directed by Tsui Hark
Review by Baron Fortnightly
“When a series of mysterious murders prevents the inauguration of China’s first Empress, Detective Dee, the greatest investigative mind and Kung Fu Master of his generation, is brought back from exile to embark on a manhunt that will forever change the course of history! With a matchless performance from leading-man Andy Lau (Warlords and House of the Flying Daggers) and breathtaking action from the martial arts director of Ip Man and Ip Man 2, Detective Dee is non-stop, heart-racing entertainment in the highest traditions of Asian Action Cinema.”
Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame is a 2010 Chinese martial arts/whodunit movie based on the Chinese folk hero and celebrated Tang Dynasty official Di Renjie, otherwise known as Judge Dee...
Review by Baron Fortnightly
“When a series of mysterious murders prevents the inauguration of China’s first Empress, Detective Dee, the greatest investigative mind and Kung Fu Master of his generation, is brought back from exile to embark on a manhunt that will forever change the course of history! With a matchless performance from leading-man Andy Lau (Warlords and House of the Flying Daggers) and breathtaking action from the martial arts director of Ip Man and Ip Man 2, Detective Dee is non-stop, heart-racing entertainment in the highest traditions of Asian Action Cinema.”
Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame is a 2010 Chinese martial arts/whodunit movie based on the Chinese folk hero and celebrated Tang Dynasty official Di Renjie, otherwise known as Judge Dee...
- 2/26/2017
- by Guest
- Nerdly
Director: Tsui Hark.
Writers: Kuo-fu Chen, Lin Qianyu (original story) and Jialu Zhang (screenplay).
When Chinese producer, director and writer Tsui Hark is heavily involved in a production, he often leaves a huge cinematic stamp on it and the international world pays attention. The last film he directly worked on was Seven Swords (2005), which borrowed on some ideas from Akira Kurosawa's Shichinin no Samurai (Seven Samurai). But these days, his most recent work that’s getting noticed is Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame.
Although Hark is not involved in the writing of this detective mystery thriller, his trademark for phantasmagorical storytelling and gorgeously framed visuals is certainly consistent throughout. The only shame is the larger dependence on CGI in modern Hong Kong Cinema to recreate the sprawling cityscape around Daming Palace, which is the backdrop for most of this film. Also, not all of the...
Writers: Kuo-fu Chen, Lin Qianyu (original story) and Jialu Zhang (screenplay).
When Chinese producer, director and writer Tsui Hark is heavily involved in a production, he often leaves a huge cinematic stamp on it and the international world pays attention. The last film he directly worked on was Seven Swords (2005), which borrowed on some ideas from Akira Kurosawa's Shichinin no Samurai (Seven Samurai). But these days, his most recent work that’s getting noticed is Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame.
Although Hark is not involved in the writing of this detective mystery thriller, his trademark for phantasmagorical storytelling and gorgeously framed visuals is certainly consistent throughout. The only shame is the larger dependence on CGI in modern Hong Kong Cinema to recreate the sprawling cityscape around Daming Palace, which is the backdrop for most of this film. Also, not all of the...
- 10/31/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Review of Detective Dee - Exhaustive, and exhausting, lineup of fight scenes feels silly after a while. This Chinese murder mystery (with a title that sounds like a Scooby Doo episode -- ruh roh) and wannabe epic bursts at the seams with nonstop hand-to-hand combat and is brought further down with the occasional phony-looking stage-set or CGI effects. But unlike its lineup of far superior kung fu predecessors over the past decade-plus -- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hero; House Of Flying Daggers, even May’s True Legend -- Dee’s lack of compelling characters and abstruse storyline had me primarily wondering when it would end. The title character is based on legendary Tang Dynasty official Di Renjie, a real-life judge known in every Chinese household today and made famous in the West by Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee mystery series, written in the mid-twentieth century.
- 9/2/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Review of Detective Dee - Exhaustive, and exhausting, lineup of fight scenes feels silly after a while. This Chinese murder mystery (with a title that sounds like a Scooby Doo episode -- ruh roh) and wannabe epic bursts at the seams with nonstop hand-to-hand combat and is brought further down with the occasional phony-looking stage-set or CGI effects. But unlike its lineup of far superior kung fu predecessors over the past decade-plus -- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hero; House Of Flying Daggers, even May’s True Legend -- Dee’s lack of compelling characters and abstruse storyline had me primarily wondering when it would end. The title character is based on legendary Tang Dynasty official Di Renjie, a real-life judge known in every Chinese household today and made famous in the West by Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee mystery series, written in the mid-twentieth century.
- 9/2/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
As the undisputed king of big-budget wuxia films, Tsui Hark seems to have cherry-picked the cast and crew for his 43rd film, the big budget epic mystery Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Loosely based on Robert van Gulik’s series of books centering on Judge Dee, an especially astute investigator working during the Chinese Tang Dynasty, Tsui Hark’s film takes plays fast and loose with history but keeps the set pieces humming and generally doesn’t overstay its welcome until about 90 minutes in. The final stretch is laborious, with an already convoluted plot taking on new strands, while the final showdown, set inside a skyscraper of a Buddha statue, is conceptually impressive but not particularly interesting to watch.
The years is 690 Ad and Chinese history is about to be written as Empress Wu Zetian (Carina Lau) takes the final steps necessary for her to seize...
The years is 690 Ad and Chinese history is about to be written as Empress Wu Zetian (Carina Lau) takes the final steps necessary for her to seize...
- 7/14/2011
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- Obsessed with Film
There are so many films that get made that we never really hear of do to the fact that they get drowned out by the big boys. Then there are a ton of foreign films that many of us don’t hear about until Hollywood announces that they are remaking it. It really is a shame that we don’t hear about a lot of these non-Hollywood underground films. I try to keep up the best I can on the indie film foreign circuit, I’m only one man and I can only do so much.
This brings us to a movie I recently saw at the Los Angeles Film Festival, a wonderfully epic martial arts film called Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Fact: I love watching martial arts films especially when they have a good solid story to go along with the kick-ass fight sequences.
This brings us to a movie I recently saw at the Los Angeles Film Festival, a wonderfully epic martial arts film called Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Fact: I love watching martial arts films especially when they have a good solid story to go along with the kick-ass fight sequences.
- 6/25/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Detective Dee – Mystery Of The Phantom Flame
Stars: Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Catrina Lau, Lee Bingbing, Deng Chao | Written by Chen Kuofu & Lin Qianya | Action Director: Sammo Hung | Directed by Tsui Hark
“When a series of mysterious murders prevents the inauguration of China’s first Empress, Detective Dee, the greatest investigative mind and Kung Fu Master of his generation, is brought back from exile to embark on a manhunt that will forever change the course of history! With a matchless performance from leading-man Andy Lau (Warlords and House of the Flying Daggers) and breathtaking action from the martial arts director of Ip Man and Ip Man 2, Detective Dee is non-stop, heart-racing entertainment in the highest traditions of Asian Action Cinema.”
Detective Dee – Mystery of the Phantom Flame is a 2010 Chinese martial arts/whodunit movie based on the Chinese folk hero and celebrated Tang Dynasty official Di Renjie, otherwise known as...
Stars: Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Catrina Lau, Lee Bingbing, Deng Chao | Written by Chen Kuofu & Lin Qianya | Action Director: Sammo Hung | Directed by Tsui Hark
“When a series of mysterious murders prevents the inauguration of China’s first Empress, Detective Dee, the greatest investigative mind and Kung Fu Master of his generation, is brought back from exile to embark on a manhunt that will forever change the course of history! With a matchless performance from leading-man Andy Lau (Warlords and House of the Flying Daggers) and breathtaking action from the martial arts director of Ip Man and Ip Man 2, Detective Dee is non-stop, heart-racing entertainment in the highest traditions of Asian Action Cinema.”
Detective Dee – Mystery of the Phantom Flame is a 2010 Chinese martial arts/whodunit movie based on the Chinese folk hero and celebrated Tang Dynasty official Di Renjie, otherwise known as...
- 6/19/2011
- by Baron Fornightly
- Nerdly
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