All articles by Liz Shackleton – Page 176
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Kidman eyes Wong Kar Wai's Lady From Shanghai
Hong Kong's hippestdirector has revealed that he's planning to work with Nicole Kidman on aproject with the working title The LadyFrom Shanghai.A spokesperson forWong Kar Wai's production company, Jet Tone Productions, confirmed that he hopes toshoot the film from early next year. His long-time collaborator, productiondesigner and editor William Chang ...
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...as re-edited 2046 opens across China
There-edited version of Wong Kar Wai's 2046 opened thisweek in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan following a whistle-stop promotional touraround the region's major cities.Although the filmwas praised by critics when it screened in competition at this year's CannesFilm Festival, many felt it needed polishing. Wong has since worked on thetechnical ...
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Taiwan selects 20:30:40 as foreign-language Oscar entry
Taiwan has selected Sylvia Chang's 20:30:40 as its entry for the foreign-language category of nextyear's Academy Awards.The romantic drama, which follows three women aged 20, 30and 40 as they grapple with modern-day relationships, screened in competitionat this year's Berlin International Film Festival. It opened in Taiwan inFebruary and was a ...
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Celestial to launch movie channel into China
Hong Kong-based film studio Celestial Pictures has beengiven the go-ahead to launch its 24-hour Asian movie channel, Celestial Movies,into upscale hotels and residential compounds throughout the People's Republicof China.The channel, which features contentfrom the Shaw Brothers library, Golden Harvest, Korea's Cinema Service andother Asian film studios, has already been launched ...
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Media Asia plans Tokyo Raiders sequel
Hong Kong's Media Asia is planning a Korea-set sequel toJingle Ma's 2000 box office smash Tokyo Raiders that is set to star TonyLeung Chiu-wai, Richie Jen and Shu Qi.The$5.1m (HK$40m) action comedy - which has the working title Korea Raiders- is scheduled to start shooting in October for release during ...
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Shanghai Story dominates at top Chinese awards
Peng Xiaolian's Shanghai Story won four awardsincluding best picture and best director at China's leading film awards, theGolden Roosters, on Sunday night despite it not having had a wide,commercial release.The film, about a family separated by the CulturalRevolution, also picked up best supporting actor for Feng Yuanzheng while thebest actress ...
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HONG KONG 13 September
M. NightShyamalan's The Village, distributedby Buena Vista's local partner Intercontinental Film Distributors, narrowlybeat local production Six Strong Guysto the top of the chart with US$506,626 from 27 screens.Filmko's Six Strong Guys grossed US$488,264 from30 screens. Directed by Barbara Wong Chun-chun, the film is a comedy about theproblems that confront modern, ...
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UIP scoops up remaining Fahrenheit territories
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is set for a furthertheatrical lease of life as United International Pictures (UIP) has acquiredall remaining territories to the film, including six in Asia.Territories covered by the deal, signed last week, includeMalaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, India and SouthAfrica.UIP is aiming to give the ...
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Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum to be revived
The organisers ofthe Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) have called for submissions fornext year's edition which marks the long-awaited return of the Hong Kong-basedprojects market following a four-year hiatus.Around 20 projectswill be presented to potential investors, distributors and sales agents duringthe three-day event (March 22-24, 2005). Projects of ...
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HONG KONG 6 September
Columbia TriStar's Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchidtopped the box office in a lacklustre week with US$444,729 from 22 screens.Nick Cassavetes' The Notebook, distributed in Hong Kongby Intercontinental Film Distributors, took US$100,949 from five screens whichgave it the second highest screen average of the week. The other new openers ...
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Hong Kong-Chinese JV to build post-production facility
Hong Kong'sMandarin Entertainment is setting up a joint venture with China's HengdianGroup to build a film processing and post-production facility at Hengdian FilmCity in Zhejiang province near Shanghai.The US$14.5m(RMB120m) facility will provide a full range of post-production servicesincluding film processing and duplication, editing, sound mixing, subtitlingand special effects. Spread over ...
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HONG KONG 30 August
Mei AhEntertainment's Hidden Heroes toppedthe Hong Kong box office in a competitive week in which five new films werereleased.The Joe Ma comedygrossed US$664,868 from 36 screens narrowly beating Fox's Garfield The Movie to the top spot. The film stars Ronald Cheng asa policeman who becomes entangled with a robot from ...
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Martial arts stars align for Yip action drama
Three generations of martial artists have joined forces forWilson Yip's upcoming action drama SPL (working title), which is nearingthe end of a four-month shoot in Hong Kong.Produced by Carl Chang with backing from Abba Chan's AbbaMovies, the US$3.8m (HK$30m) film stars martial arts veteran Sammo Hung alongwith Donnie Yen and ...
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Media Asia IPO application investigated
Media Asia Group's proposed listing on theSingapore stock exchange has reportedly been put on hold as the MonetaryAuthority of Singapore (MAS) has requested further information about somemembers of the company's management team.One of Hong Kong's leading production anddistribution companies, Media Asia is planning to raise around US$10m from theIPO which ...
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Hong Kong pins hopes on history, horror
The summer boxoffice period has been disappointing for Hong Kong productions. Although localfilms were starting to claw back market share earlier in the year, they've lostout whenever they've squared off against Hollywood's tentpole summer releases.But Hong Kong producers remain bullish in the long-term and several big-budgetprojects - aimed at the ...
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HONG KONG 20 August
Emperor MotionPicture Group's The Twins Effect IIhas scored the highest opening of the year so far for a local film, grossingUS$1.4m from 65 screens.The film has notoutpaced the original, which grossed US$2m in its opening week last July, butis nonetheless a welcome boost for the local industry which has struggledagainst ...
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Tsui Hark readies $12m martial arts epic
Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark is gearing up tostart shooting his next feature as director - the US$12m wuxia epic Seven Swords which is scheduled to startproduction next month.Hong Kong stars Leon Lai and Charlie Young are headliningthe cast of the film which is also expected to feature talent ...
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Hong Kong selects foreign-language Oscar entry
Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai's Running On Karma has been selected as Hong Kong's official entryfor the best foreign-language film category of next year's Academy AwardsThe decision was announced by Crucindo Hung, chairman of theFederation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong, who praised the film forcombining elements of mainstream ...
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HONG KONG 16 August
Hong Kong revealedits weakness for cute animals this week as Japanese tear-jerker Quill topped the box office withUS$795,799 from 29 screens.Produced byShochiku and directed by Yoichi Sai, the film is about a Labrador pup who istrained to be a "seeing-eye" dog for a man who is initially reluctant to accepthelp ...
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Earth And Ashes, Missing feted at Cinefan
Afghan-French co-production Earth And Ashes (pictured),directed by Atiq Rahimi, and The Missingfrom Taiwan's Lee Kang-sheng were jointly awarded best film at the sixthedition of Cinefan (July 16-25) which wrapped in Delhi on Sunday night.Earth And Ashes, amoving portrayal of the devastating impact of war on an old man and hisgrandson, ...