Taiwan’s major awards body Golden Horse will have a consolidated presence at Cannes’ Marché du Film for the first time, under the umbrella ‘Golden Horse Goes to Cannes’.
With support from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture under the ‘1plus4’ Taiwanese content plan, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee and the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development have collaborated to organize “Golden Horse Goes to Cannes” at the premier festival’s film market.
On May 16, the collaboration will present five upcoming projects, helmed by directors Chen Yu-hsun, Yang Ya-che, Huang Xi, Giddens Ko and John Hsu.
Paranormal comedy Dead Talents Society by John Hsu has already secured major investment from Sony Pictures International Productions alongside Taiwan’s Activator, with the former also acquiring worldwide distribution rights and global remake rights.
Hsu’s debut feature Detention topped the domestic box office with over $8 million and also won the Best...
With support from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture under the ‘1plus4’ Taiwanese content plan, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee and the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development have collaborated to organize “Golden Horse Goes to Cannes” at the premier festival’s film market.
On May 16, the collaboration will present five upcoming projects, helmed by directors Chen Yu-hsun, Yang Ya-che, Huang Xi, Giddens Ko and John Hsu.
Paranormal comedy Dead Talents Society by John Hsu has already secured major investment from Sony Pictures International Productions alongside Taiwan’s Activator, with the former also acquiring worldwide distribution rights and global remake rights.
Hsu’s debut feature Detention topped the domestic box office with over $8 million and also won the Best...
- 4/10/2024
- by Sara Merican
- Deadline Film + TV
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival is to showcase five upcoming Taiwanese projects at Cannes including features from Chen Yu-hsun, Yang Ya-che, Huang Xi, Giddens Ko and John Hsu with stars such as Wu Kang-ren, Gingle Wang, Kai Ko, Caitlin Fang and Karena Lam.
The new programme, titled Golden Horse Goes To Cannes, comprises works-in-progress projects and will be presented to industry professionals on May 16 at Palais K during the Cannes Film Festival. It marks Golden Horse’s first collaboration with the Marche du Film.
See below for full project list
The collaboration was initiated by Taipei Golden Horse Film...
The new programme, titled Golden Horse Goes To Cannes, comprises works-in-progress projects and will be presented to industry professionals on May 16 at Palais K during the Cannes Film Festival. It marks Golden Horse’s first collaboration with the Marche du Film.
See below for full project list
The collaboration was initiated by Taipei Golden Horse Film...
- 4/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
Patriot Games
The Hong Kong government has licensed the broadcast rights to the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. It intends to relicense the rights to four TV broadcasters in the city – Tvb, ViuTV, Hoy TV and government-owned Rthk. While in most territories, broadcasters negotiate directly with the International Olympic Committee or its agents, the Hong Kong government previously intervened in bidding for rights to the Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021. It also organized large public screenings in shopping malls.
“By procuring the broadcasting rights for these two games in Hong Kong, members of the public will be able to enjoy the Paris Og and PG [Paralympic Games] on television free of charge, and to cheer for Mainland and Hong Kong athletes,” said Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Kevin Yeung.
While the cost of the rights was not disclosed, Yeung said that the fee was lower than the rights for Tokyo. If correct,...
The Hong Kong government has licensed the broadcast rights to the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. It intends to relicense the rights to four TV broadcasters in the city – Tvb, ViuTV, Hoy TV and government-owned Rthk. While in most territories, broadcasters negotiate directly with the International Olympic Committee or its agents, the Hong Kong government previously intervened in bidding for rights to the Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021. It also organized large public screenings in shopping malls.
“By procuring the broadcasting rights for these two games in Hong Kong, members of the public will be able to enjoy the Paris Og and PG [Paralympic Games] on television free of charge, and to cheer for Mainland and Hong Kong athletes,” said Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Kevin Yeung.
While the cost of the rights was not disclosed, Yeung said that the fee was lower than the rights for Tokyo. If correct,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
John Hsu’s long-awaited Dead Talents Society is set for a summer release, with an official opening date scheduled for August 7 in Taiwan.
Starring Chen Bo-lin, Sandrine Pinna and Gingle Wang, the supernatural comedy is backed by Sony Pictures International, which also handles worldwide distribution, and Taiwan’s Activator. Taiwan is the first territory to be dated and will be released through Sony Pictures Releasing Taiwan.
The story follows how veteran ghosts need to train a newcomer to become the next superstar among the dead. “Every ghost is trying to be the best of the best in an over-populated and competitive society,...
Starring Chen Bo-lin, Sandrine Pinna and Gingle Wang, the supernatural comedy is backed by Sony Pictures International, which also handles worldwide distribution, and Taiwan’s Activator. Taiwan is the first territory to be dated and will be released through Sony Pictures Releasing Taiwan.
The story follows how veteran ghosts need to train a newcomer to become the next superstar among the dead. “Every ghost is trying to be the best of the best in an over-populated and competitive society,...
- 4/2/2024
- ScreenDaily
‘Tales Of Taipei’ set as closing film.
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Tghff) is set to open with a double bill of Chong Keat Aun’s Snow In Midsummer and acclaimed art director Hwarng Wern-ying’s directorial debut Be With Me, with Bowie Tsang-produced omnibus Tales Of Taipei as the closing film.
Both opening films took part in Golden Horse Film Project Promotion project market in 2020 and will have their Asian premieres at Tghff. The world premiere for Snow In Midsummer will be at the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, which begins today.
Malaysian director...
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Tghff) is set to open with a double bill of Chong Keat Aun’s Snow In Midsummer and acclaimed art director Hwarng Wern-ying’s directorial debut Be With Me, with Bowie Tsang-produced omnibus Tales Of Taipei as the closing film.
Both opening films took part in Golden Horse Film Project Promotion project market in 2020 and will have their Asian premieres at Tghff. The world premiere for Snow In Midsummer will be at the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, which begins today.
Malaysian director...
- 8/30/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival has announced dual opening night titles, both inspired by faith and local memories, as well as its closing gala presentation.
The festival will open with “Snow in Midsummer,” directed by Chong Keat-aun, a former winner of the Golden Horse Film Awards’ best new director prize with “The Story of Southern Islet,” and “Be With Me,” by Hwarng Wern-ying, who previously won Golden Horse prizes for art direction, costume and makeup.
The festival, which runs Nov. 9-26, will close with the world premiere of “Tales of Taipei,” produced by Bowie Tsang and comprising ten stories by directors from East Asia.
The two opening films were both part of the 2020 Golden Horse Project Promotion, a project matching event. They both have their Asian premiere at the festival.
“Snow in Midsummer” is a story spanning nearly half a century about two generations of females, a troupe master and the Nyonya offspring,...
The festival will open with “Snow in Midsummer,” directed by Chong Keat-aun, a former winner of the Golden Horse Film Awards’ best new director prize with “The Story of Southern Islet,” and “Be With Me,” by Hwarng Wern-ying, who previously won Golden Horse prizes for art direction, costume and makeup.
The festival, which runs Nov. 9-26, will close with the world premiere of “Tales of Taipei,” produced by Bowie Tsang and comprising ten stories by directors from East Asia.
The two opening films were both part of the 2020 Golden Horse Project Promotion, a project matching event. They both have their Asian premiere at the festival.
“Snow in Midsummer” is a story spanning nearly half a century about two generations of females, a troupe master and the Nyonya offspring,...
- 8/30/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Luz
Stuck in what feels like a Terrence Malick post-production purgatory abyss, Hong Kong filmmaker Flora Lau‘s Luz has been a yearly no-show since 2019 and we still have zero clue as to the status of this project. Having preemed her debut film Bends in 2013 in the Un Certain Regard section, we are now at the decade between projects point here. A France-Chinese co-production, the highly anticipated sophomore project has Isabelle Huppert toplining with Sandrine Pinna and Xiaodong Guo as supporting players. Benjamín Echazarreta was the cinematographer on the project here – he has since worked on Memory House and Blanquita.…...
Stuck in what feels like a Terrence Malick post-production purgatory abyss, Hong Kong filmmaker Flora Lau‘s Luz has been a yearly no-show since 2019 and we still have zero clue as to the status of this project. Having preemed her debut film Bends in 2013 in the Un Certain Regard section, we are now at the decade between projects point here. A France-Chinese co-production, the highly anticipated sophomore project has Isabelle Huppert toplining with Sandrine Pinna and Xiaodong Guo as supporting players. Benjamín Echazarreta was the cinematographer on the project here – he has since worked on Memory House and Blanquita.…...
- 1/5/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: In yet another of a recent string of intriguing local-language projects, Sony Pictures International Productions is teaming with Taiwan’s Activator to co-produce paranormal comedy Dead Talents Society. Spip has also acquired worldwide distribution rights in addition to closing a deal for global remake rights.
Directed by John Hsu (Detention), the feature is based on his short film which he also wrote (check it out below). The premise centers around ghosts who strive to be the most successful and famous stars in the underworld through their scare tactics and performances amongst the living. The end goal is to become the spookiest of urban legends.
The film is set to start production in 2022 and slated for a theatrical release in Taiwan via Sony Pictures Releasing Taiwan in 2023.
Bolin Chen (In Time With You) and Sandrine Pinna (Yang Yang) are set to star. Award-winning Taiwanese filmmakers Lieh Lee, Aileen Li and...
Directed by John Hsu (Detention), the feature is based on his short film which he also wrote (check it out below). The premise centers around ghosts who strive to be the most successful and famous stars in the underworld through their scare tactics and performances amongst the living. The end goal is to become the spookiest of urban legends.
The film is set to start production in 2022 and slated for a theatrical release in Taiwan via Sony Pictures Releasing Taiwan in 2023.
Bolin Chen (In Time With You) and Sandrine Pinna (Yang Yang) are set to star. Award-winning Taiwanese filmmakers Lieh Lee, Aileen Li and...
- 1/18/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Much has been made in recent years regarding groundbreaking studies on disassociative identity disorder, or what was more commonly known in the past as multiple personality syndrome. Basically, it’s where people are thought to have developed multiple personalities within themselves as a result of a need for survival or just as a result as their own mental capacities. The concept has been transported to films, most notably with M. Night Shyamalan’s “Split”, and is now given a technological bent from director Aozaru’s Shizo’s “Plurality”, which arrives on digital platforms July 19th from Signature Entertainment.
After a bizarre bus accident, Ming Ze (Tony Yo-ming Yang) awakens from a coma to find himself under the care of Detective Wang (Frederick Lee) and Dr. Shen (Sandrine Pinna), workers at a government facility intending to ask him questions about the incident. During the questioning, he discovers that his mind now...
After a bizarre bus accident, Ming Ze (Tony Yo-ming Yang) awakens from a coma to find himself under the care of Detective Wang (Frederick Lee) and Dr. Shen (Sandrine Pinna), workers at a government facility intending to ask him questions about the incident. During the questioning, he discovers that his mind now...
- 7/20/2021
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
It seems to be the season for confusing film narratives, though in the case of Plurality there is at least a half-good reason for that. The set-up is interesting. A bad guy – we don’t know who, that is all part of the mystery – is kidnapping children and murdering/mutilating them. For reasons not entirely clear, the murderer boards a bus containing approximately four other passengers. Though hang on to your hats because even that “hard” fact may be just a trick of your perception.
Only then the bus is involved in an accident and all die in the ensuing conflagration. Their bodies are incinerated. Now they’ll never find the latest victim. Short film! But wait. Mum-cum-scientist, Dr Shen (Sandrine Pinna), whose son has been kidnapped also runs a facility researching consciousness and related metaphysics. She has the technology to rebuild them. Or rather, before they snuff out from existence one.
Only then the bus is involved in an accident and all die in the ensuing conflagration. Their bodies are incinerated. Now they’ll never find the latest victim. Short film! But wait. Mum-cum-scientist, Dr Shen (Sandrine Pinna), whose son has been kidnapped also runs a facility researching consciousness and related metaphysics. She has the technology to rebuild them. Or rather, before they snuff out from existence one.
- 7/18/2021
- by Jane Fae
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"Your body contains multiple minds." Signature Ent. in the UK has released the official UK trailer for a sci-fi action thriller from Taiwan called Plurality, made by the Taiwanese filmmaker Aozaru Shiao. The film already opened in Taiwan and Hong Kong earlier this year (but didn't get great reviews) and is arriving on VOD in the UK this summer. Though there's no US release set yet. A man who wakes up from a coma to find himself uploaded with the minds of four dead serial-murder suspects. These "minds" hold the only clues for the police to track down the last surviving victim. "The truth lies in his head." Starring Tony Yang Yo-ning as Ming Ze, with Sandrine Pinna, Frederick Lee, and Duncan Lai. It looks like a mess of a film that is trying to be smarter than it is. And if it was actually any good, I think we'd have heard more by now.
- 6/4/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
WarnerMedia has set up two Chinese-language series that will debut later this year. Period drama series “Legacy” hails from mainland China, while crime drama “Trinity of Shadows” is a three-way venture involving partners from Taiwan and Hong Kong.
“Legacy” is a 1920s-set drama that chronicles the lives of the wealthy Yi family and three sisters who vie to inherit their father’s shopping mall business. In a time of upheaval and uncertainty, the three sisters set aside their differences to keep the business afloat and save their family.
Zheng Yu, director of the smash hit series “Yanxi Place,” is credited as creator of the show which is produced by Huan Yu Entertainment.
Together, they have re-assembled several key cast from “Yanxi Palace” including Qin Lan, Wu Jinyan and Yuan Nie. The series also stars Han Geng (“Ex-Files”), Liu Jun (“All is Well”), Miao Pu (“The Rise of the Tang Empire...
“Legacy” is a 1920s-set drama that chronicles the lives of the wealthy Yi family and three sisters who vie to inherit their father’s shopping mall business. In a time of upheaval and uncertainty, the three sisters set aside their differences to keep the business afloat and save their family.
Zheng Yu, director of the smash hit series “Yanxi Place,” is credited as creator of the show which is produced by Huan Yu Entertainment.
Together, they have re-assembled several key cast from “Yanxi Palace” including Qin Lan, Wu Jinyan and Yuan Nie. The series also stars Han Geng (“Ex-Files”), Liu Jun (“All is Well”), Miao Pu (“The Rise of the Tang Empire...
- 4/20/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Legacy involves talent from Story Of Yanxi Palace, while Trinity Of Shadows is co-produced with Taiwan’s Catchplay and Hong Kong’s Viu.
WarnerMedia has unveiled two new HBO Asia original series, both Chinese-language productions – Legacy and Trinity Of Shadows – at the ongoing virtual Apos conference.
Legacy involves several talents from popular Chinese drama, Story Of Yanxi Palace, while Trinity Of Shadows is a co-production with Taiwan’s Catchplay and Hong Kong’s Viu TV.
Set in the 1920s, Legacy revolves around a wealthy family and its three sisters who vie to inherit their father’s shopping mall business.
The...
WarnerMedia has unveiled two new HBO Asia original series, both Chinese-language productions – Legacy and Trinity Of Shadows – at the ongoing virtual Apos conference.
Legacy involves several talents from popular Chinese drama, Story Of Yanxi Palace, while Trinity Of Shadows is a co-production with Taiwan’s Catchplay and Hong Kong’s Viu TV.
Set in the 1920s, Legacy revolves around a wealthy family and its three sisters who vie to inherit their father’s shopping mall business.
The...
- 4/20/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Lame humor and incoherent plotting are among the shortcomings of “The Rookies,” an initially engaging but increasingly tedious Chinese action-comedy-thriller that not even kick-ass movie queen Milla Jovovich can breathe much life into. Undemanding genre fans might go for this Budapest-set hodge-podge about rookie secret agents tackling a deranged billionaire, but there’s not much here for anyone else. After flopping in Chinese cinemas way back in July 2019 it seems very strange for “The Rookies” to be receiving limited U.S. theatrical release on April 16, 2021.
Working six years after his impressive action spectacular “Firestorm,” writer-director Alan Yuen hasn’t lost his knack for well-staged mayhem and destruction. But along with co-writers Lei Xu and Kong Yun-cheung, Yuen falls short of the mark when injecting comedy into the mix. that extinguishes suspense and makes it hard for audiences to care about such silly, one-dimensional characters.
Things at least kick off on an exciting note,...
Working six years after his impressive action spectacular “Firestorm,” writer-director Alan Yuen hasn’t lost his knack for well-staged mayhem and destruction. But along with co-writers Lei Xu and Kong Yun-cheung, Yuen falls short of the mark when injecting comedy into the mix. that extinguishes suspense and makes it hard for audiences to care about such silly, one-dimensional characters.
Things at least kick off on an exciting note,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
I should have known better considering I’ve seen two Alan Yuen films before: a directorial effort in Firestorm that forgets its unwavering severity in the third act to deliver farcical chaos and a screenwriting effort in Monster Hunt wherein the lead is a pregnant man with the salvation of monster-kind cooking in his belly. I should have known the American trailer for his latest work The Rookies was manipulated beyond its desire to pretend Milla Jovovich was its star. While that was obviously not the case (a common ruse studios use to shield audiences from realizing they are walking into a foreign language film—although this one being fully dubbed was a surprise), the Chinese James Bond aesthetic did at least seem real.
If I had gone back to remember those previous films, however, I would have at least been prepared for how wrong that assumption proves. Because while...
If I had gone back to remember those previous films, however, I would have at least been prepared for how wrong that assumption proves. Because while...
- 4/13/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Beijing-based sales agency is also handling war epic Sacrifice and Vincent Zhao’s Counter Attack.
Beijing-based sales agency Blossoms Entertainment is launches sales on three new productions from leading Chinese studio Huayi Brothers at Filmart Online, headed by historical war epic Railway Heroes.
Starring Zhang Hanyu (Operation Red Sea) and Fan Wei (One Second), the film follows a group of Chinese railway workers during the Sino-Japanese War, who attempt to sabotage the enemy’s vital transport links whilst evading arrest. The film, directed by Yang Feng, is currently in production for release over China’s National Day Holidays in October.
Beijing-based sales agency Blossoms Entertainment is launches sales on three new productions from leading Chinese studio Huayi Brothers at Filmart Online, headed by historical war epic Railway Heroes.
Starring Zhang Hanyu (Operation Red Sea) and Fan Wei (One Second), the film follows a group of Chinese railway workers during the Sino-Japanese War, who attempt to sabotage the enemy’s vital transport links whilst evading arrest. The film, directed by Yang Feng, is currently in production for release over China’s National Day Holidays in October.
- 3/15/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
"Whoever's the boss makes the rules." Shout Factory has debuted a new US trailer for the upcoming release of the Chinese action movie The Rookies, which originally opened in China way back in 2019. Set partially in Hungary, the action thriller also co-stars Milla Jovovich in addition to a mostly Chinese cast. Extreme sport lover Zhou Feng got himself wrapped up in international illegal trade by accident. So he had to follow an international special agent Bruce to Budapest. Together with a crappy police officer, a non-professional scientist, and an unemployed doctor, these four rookies start a fight with the terrorists. The cast features Wang Talu, Sandrine Pinna, Xu Weizhou, Liu Meitong, Alan Wan, Björn Freiberg, plus Jovovich and David Lee McInnis as Iron Fist. This looks fun, but it also looks like an utterly ridiculous Kingsman ripoff, and someone needs to turn down the color saturation, my goodness. Not so sure it's worth the wait.
- 3/2/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Luz
Produced by Sinn Gi Joseph Chan, Stephen Lam, Flora Lau
Directed by Flora Lau
Written by Flora Lau
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Pinna, Xiaodong Guo
Cinematographer: Benjamín Echazarreta
Release Date/Prediction: Luz has been delayed for so long that it could play just about anywhere. We think this might be a Berlinale comp title or Locarno if it’s a Cannes no-show.
…...
Produced by Sinn Gi Joseph Chan, Stephen Lam, Flora Lau
Directed by Flora Lau
Written by Flora Lau
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Pinna, Xiaodong Guo
Cinematographer: Benjamín Echazarreta
Release Date/Prediction: Luz has been delayed for so long that it could play just about anywhere. We think this might be a Berlinale comp title or Locarno if it’s a Cannes no-show.
…...
- 1/6/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Luz
Hong Kong filmmaker Flora Lau finds her sophomore film Luz headlined by none other than Isabelle Huppert. Produced through Ama Productions, the Chinese-French co-pro also features the work of Chilean Dp Benjamin Echazaretta (who lensed Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria and A Fantastic Woman) with production design from Mila Preli. Few details have been released but Sandrine Pinna and Kung Fu star David Chiang are also in the cast. Lau’s 2013 debut Bends premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.…...
Hong Kong filmmaker Flora Lau finds her sophomore film Luz headlined by none other than Isabelle Huppert. Produced through Ama Productions, the Chinese-French co-pro also features the work of Chilean Dp Benjamin Echazaretta (who lensed Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria and A Fantastic Woman) with production design from Mila Preli. Few details have been released but Sandrine Pinna and Kung Fu star David Chiang are also in the cast. Lau’s 2013 debut Bends premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.…...
- 1/3/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Luz
Hong Kong filmmaker Flora Lau finds her sophomore film Luz headlined by none other than Isabelle Huppert. Produced through Ama Productions, the Chinese-French co-pro also features the work of Chilean Dp Benjamin Echazaretta (who lensed Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria and A Fantastic Woman) with production design from Mila Preli. Few details have been released outside of casting calls through September 2018 (Sandrine Pinna also stars), where the film completed the French leg of its shoot in Trouville. Lau’s 2013 debut Bends premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.…...
Hong Kong filmmaker Flora Lau finds her sophomore film Luz headlined by none other than Isabelle Huppert. Produced through Ama Productions, the Chinese-French co-pro also features the work of Chilean Dp Benjamin Echazaretta (who lensed Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria and A Fantastic Woman) with production design from Mila Preli. Few details have been released outside of casting calls through September 2018 (Sandrine Pinna also stars), where the film completed the French leg of its shoot in Trouville. Lau’s 2013 debut Bends premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.…...
- 1/5/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Taiwanese director Doze Niu has been accused of sexually assaulting a female crewmember working on his latest film Pao Ma. Production of the film, starring Richie Jen and Sandrine Pinna, has been suspended after a police report was filed.
According to a detailed report in Taiwan's United Daily News, a female crewmember working on Niu's new film was sexually assaulted by the director in late November at his home. The United Daily News reports that Niu canceled a scheduled production meeting on that day and messaged the woman's supervisor to bring along the woman to his home to talk....
According to a detailed report in Taiwan's United Daily News, a female crewmember working on Niu's new film was sexually assaulted by the director in late November at his home. The United Daily News reports that Niu canceled a scheduled production meeting on that day and messaged the woman's supervisor to bring along the woman to his home to talk....
- 12/6/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Taiwanese director Doze Niu has been accused of sexually assaulting a female crewmember working on his latest film Pao Ma. Production of the film, starring Richie Jen and Sandrine Pinna, has been suspended after a police report was filed.
According to a detailed report in Taiwan's United Daily News, a female crewmember working on Niu's new film was sexually assaulted by the director in late November at his home. The United Daily News reports that Niu canceled a scheduled production meeting on that day and messaged the woman's supervisor to bring along the woman to his home to talk....
According to a detailed report in Taiwan's United Daily News, a female crewmember working on Niu's new film was sexually assaulted by the director in late November at his home. The United Daily News reports that Niu canceled a scheduled production meeting on that day and messaged the woman's supervisor to bring along the woman to his home to talk....
- 12/6/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
China’s online entertainment service company iQIYI is giving a sales push to its inhouse productions at Busan’s Asian Film Market. It is the company’s third year at the Busan film market as a sales agent.
Titles include romantic comedy “Atm,” Vincent Zhao’s latest martial arts actioner “Warriors of the Nation” and animated feature “Spycies,” for which it launched sales at Cannes in May.
Directed by Zha Mu-chun, “Atm” is a Chinese-language adaptation of the 2012 Thai blockbuster “Atm: Er Rak Error.” Starring Zhu Ya-wen (“The Witness”) and Taiwanese actress Sandrine Pinna (“Touch of the Light”), “Atm” is set to be released in the first quarter of 2019.
“Warriors” is a story about Wong Fei-hung, a martial artist and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity. Martial artist Vincent Zhao, who is best-known for his role as Wong in “Once Upon a Time in America,” plays Wong again in “Warriors.” The...
Titles include romantic comedy “Atm,” Vincent Zhao’s latest martial arts actioner “Warriors of the Nation” and animated feature “Spycies,” for which it launched sales at Cannes in May.
Directed by Zha Mu-chun, “Atm” is a Chinese-language adaptation of the 2012 Thai blockbuster “Atm: Er Rak Error.” Starring Zhu Ya-wen (“The Witness”) and Taiwanese actress Sandrine Pinna (“Touch of the Light”), “Atm” is set to be released in the first quarter of 2019.
“Warriors” is a story about Wong Fei-hung, a martial artist and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity. Martial artist Vincent Zhao, who is best-known for his role as Wong in “Once Upon a Time in America,” plays Wong again in “Warriors.” The...
- 10/6/2018
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Asian Film Market (Oct 3-6) worked hard to address developments transforming the pan-Asian film industry but compared to previous years, business appeared to be slow.
Although the market claimed an increase in exhibitors – 208 compared to 198 last year – foot traffic in the Bexco exhibition hall was quiet and many sellers were packing up by lunchtime on the last day.
An oft-cited reason was the fact that the market is clashing with Mipcom and preceded by holidays in both China and Korea.
The number of Hong Kong-Chinese sellers was down on previous years, although companies such as Toei, Nikkatsu and Gaga made the trip from Japan.
As in previous years, the busiest booths were the Korean sales companies and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s umbrella stand, which was packed with meetings for the first three days. Some of the region’s more prominent sellers also had back-to-back meetings and reported some sales.
“The best way...
Although the market claimed an increase in exhibitors – 208 compared to 198 last year – foot traffic in the Bexco exhibition hall was quiet and many sellers were packing up by lunchtime on the last day.
An oft-cited reason was the fact that the market is clashing with Mipcom and preceded by holidays in both China and Korea.
The number of Hong Kong-Chinese sellers was down on previous years, although companies such as Toei, Nikkatsu and Gaga made the trip from Japan.
As in previous years, the busiest booths were the Korean sales companies and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s umbrella stand, which was packed with meetings for the first three days. Some of the region’s more prominent sellers also had back-to-back meetings and reported some sales.
“The best way...
- 10/7/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
This year’s Asian Film Market (October 3-6) worked hard to address developments transforming the pan-Asian film industry but compared to previous years, business appeared to be slow.
Although the market claimed an increase in exhibitors – 208 compared to 198 last year – foot traffic in the Bexco exhibition hall was quiet and many sellers were packing up by lunchtime on the last day. An oft-cited reason was the fact that the market is clashing with Mipcom and preceded by holidays in both China and Korea. The number of Hong Kong-Chinese sellers was down on previous years, although companies such as Toei, Nikkatsu and Gaga made the trip from Japan.
As in previous years, the busiest booths were the Korean sales companies and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s umbrella stand, which was packed with meetings for the first three days. Some of the region’s more prominent sellers also had back-to-back meetings and reported some sales.
“The best way...
Although the market claimed an increase in exhibitors – 208 compared to 198 last year – foot traffic in the Bexco exhibition hall was quiet and many sellers were packing up by lunchtime on the last day. An oft-cited reason was the fact that the market is clashing with Mipcom and preceded by holidays in both China and Korea. The number of Hong Kong-Chinese sellers was down on previous years, although companies such as Toei, Nikkatsu and Gaga made the trip from Japan.
As in previous years, the busiest booths were the Korean sales companies and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s umbrella stand, which was packed with meetings for the first three days. Some of the region’s more prominent sellers also had back-to-back meetings and reported some sales.
“The best way...
- 10/7/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
“Touch of the Light” sees Taiwanese director Chang Jung Chi adapting his 2008 award winning short “The End of the Tunnel” into a full length feature, produced by Wong Kar Wai’s Jet Tone Films. Based on a true story, the film follows the real life experiences of piano prodigy Huang Yu Siang, here played by himself, with award winning French-Taiwanese actress Sandrine Pinna, also known as Chang Yung Yung (“Miao Miao”) in the female lead role, both of whom featured in the original short. The film was a big hit with the critics, winning Best New Director for Chang at the Golden Horse Awards, as well as being selected for Taiwan’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 85th Academy Awards. The film begins with Huang Yu Hsiang preparing to leave the small town where he lives with his parents to study music at a university in the big city,...
- 7/17/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Though limited by notoriously tough censorship, the horror genre is slowly but surely finding its feet in Chinese cinema, with directors coming up with new and occasionally creative ways to work around the restrictions. “The Chrysalis”, marking the directorial debut of ad director Qiu Chu Ji, is a great example of this, a film which though clearly of the horror genre, also works in enough grounded psycho drama to keep things from straying too far into taboo supernatural territory. While this approach in itself is common in Chinese chillers, Qiu here seems to have been making more of an effort to combine the film’s horror and dramatic elements rather than simply using one to justify the other. Taiwanese-French actress Sandrine Pinna (“Miao Miao”) stars as Wenxin, the film opening with her having been kidnapped by love rival Annie (Christa Yan) on valentine’s day. The film flashes forward three months,...
- 5/15/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Chinese horror flick 'The Chrysalis' ('Nu Yong') has scored a new disturbing trailer full of typical Valentines day shocks and explosions. The Qiu Chuji helmed flick arrives in theatres across China from 1 February and will no doubt draw in plenty of soppy loved up couples looking for a special evening out during the romance filled period. Ren Quan, Sandrine Pinna, Lee Wei, Gao Beibei, Cui Jie and Yan Qianqian all star. Head below to check out the new trailer...
- 1/17/2013
- Horror Asylum
The upcoming Chinese horror movie “The Chrysalis” certainly fulfills the traditional Valentine’s Day requirement of the color red. Judging from the trailer you see embedded down below, the upcoming feature doesn’t shy away from all sorts of bloody romance. For good measure, the filmmakers have thrown in some supernatural shenanigans at no extra charge. After all, they understand how expensive Valentine’s Day can be. I don’t have much in the way of a plot synopsis at the moment, but you can get a pretty good idea of what’s going on by taking a look at the clip below. Director Qiu Chuji’s “The Chrysalis” is currently slated to hit Chinese theaters on February 1. The film stars Ren Quan, Sandrine Pinna, Lee Wei, Gao Beibei, Cui Jie, and Yan Qianqian. If you happen across a plot summary, be sure to let me know...
- 1/16/2013
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to "Touch of the Light," Taiwan’s official entry for the 2013 foreign-language film Oscar. The company plans a spring release for the film, which recently opened the Marrakesh film festival and presented by Wong Kar Wai. "Light" is the feature-length film debut of filmmaker Chang Jung-Chi. Based on true events, "Light" stars Huang Yu-Hsiang, Sandrine Pinna and Lee Leih in the story of a young, blind Taiwanese piano prodigy. Jacky Pang Yee-Wah and Cheung Hong-Tat produced; Chan Ye-Cheng and Song Dai are executive producers. The film is a Block 2 and Sil Metropole Limited presentation of a Jet Tone Films and Sil-Metropole Organization Limited Production. "We are thrilled that Doris and her team at Well Go have so strongly embraced this powerful, award-winning, emotional film," said Fortissimo exec Winnie Lau. "This continues our relationship with...
- 12/19/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Subtitled fare always seems to consume me in September and early October as the Foreign Language Submission List for Oscar takes shape (it's not quite official yet but the submission deadline has passed). This is also the time of year when The Golden Horse, the preeminent Chinese/Taiwanese film awards, announce their nominations. Rather than a huge Academy vote, the Golden Horse is determined by a jury. Andy Lau who starred in Hong Kong’s Oscar submission A Simple Life last year and is best known internationally for two hits from the Aughts (The House of Flying Daggers and Infernal Affairs which was later remade into The Departed) is the president of this year’s jury.
Caught in the Web, China's Oscar submission, was apparently not eligible.
Best Picture Nominees
Beijing Blues -a police procedural Mystery - is the leader with 8 nominations. It's a thriller from Lou Ye, who is...
Caught in the Web, China's Oscar submission, was apparently not eligible.
Best Picture Nominees
Beijing Blues -a police procedural Mystery - is the leader with 8 nominations. It's a thriller from Lou Ye, who is...
- 10/3/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
While Wong Kar-Wai is no stranger to directing commericals, having helmed spots for brands as diverse as Motorola, BMW, Orange France, Lancome Paris and Dior, we have to say even this is a bit of a surprise. Granted, this has been in the works for a while but it's the first we've heard of it; Wong Kar-Wai has teamed with comestics company Shu Uemura on a Christmas collection of products, featuring heavily on the colors blue and red. To help get the word out, he's directed an ad for the commercial entitled "The Mask," which boasts Charles Bukowski's "Burning In Water, Drowning In Flames" as an inspiration point. "This poem by Charles Bukowski is a paradox. My film explores this contradiction of passion. I thought that the contrast of red and blue, which reflects the opposition between the hot and cold, was ideal," he explained about the ties between...
- 12/14/2011
- The Playlist
Directors must ask themselves, on occasion; is it really worth being part of an omnibus film? Little if anything links the trio of short films featured in the anthology E.S.F. beyond the fact each director is an up-and-coming Taiwanese. Nothing wrong with that per se, but the three are so wildly disparate in tone, length and arguably quality, getting them as a package deal is surely set to sour the effect for some potential viewers.
The opening film comes from director Chang Rong-Ji, who previously helmed the 2006 documentary My Football Summer, about a junior high sports team and their performance in Taiwan's National High School Games. At thirty-seven minutes At the End of the Tunnel is the longest of the three shorts, the story of a blind music student (musician Huang Yu-Hsiang) and a dancer (Taiwanese star Sandrine Pinna, Yang Yang, Miao Miao, Do Over) who inadvertently meet in high school,...
The opening film comes from director Chang Rong-Ji, who previously helmed the 2006 documentary My Football Summer, about a junior high sports team and their performance in Taiwan's National High School Games. At thirty-seven minutes At the End of the Tunnel is the longest of the three shorts, the story of a blind music student (musician Huang Yu-Hsiang) and a dancer (Taiwanese star Sandrine Pinna, Yang Yang, Miao Miao, Do Over) who inadvertently meet in high school,...
- 5/25/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Korea’s Mother won the top honor at the 4th Asian Film Awards, picking up Best Picture, while Chinese and Hong Kong films sweeped the other major award categories. After the grand opening of Hkiff on Sunday night, the ceremony has been held on the following day, adding an extra kick to the film festival. Bong Joon-ho’s murder mystery predictably won in a category that has previously been dominated by Korean films. - Korea’s Mother won the top honor at the 4th Asian Film Awards, picking up Best Picture, while Chinese and Hong Kong films sweeped the other major award categories. After the grand opening of Hkiff on Sunday night, the ceremony has been held on the following day, adding an extra kick to the film festival. Bong Joon-ho’s murder mystery predictably won in a category that has previously been dominated by Korean films. Not surprisingly,...
- 3/23/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
'Stick to what you know' is theoretically sound advice that's launched many a promising career, but it's just as often led to aspiring writer/directors crowbarring the familiar in where it doesn't belong. Cheng Yu-Chieh's 2005 debut Do Over expended far too much effort working a mish-mash of garbled sub-plots and disparate visual styles around the central story of a director shooting a film he didn't believe in, and while the production values were fantastic the result was a pretentious mess that failed to make any lasting impact.
For his second feature, Yang Yang, Cheng brings back his most promising cast member - French-Taiwanese actress Sandrine Pinna, impressive in last year's winningly sweet little drama Miao Miao. The plot centres around Yang Yang, a Eurasian girl (like Pinna, half-French) struggling to balance her responsibilities to her new step-family with her inner conflict over her mixed parentage.
The tighter focus and...
For his second feature, Yang Yang, Cheng brings back his most promising cast member - French-Taiwanese actress Sandrine Pinna, impressive in last year's winningly sweet little drama Miao Miao. The plot centres around Yang Yang, a Eurasian girl (like Pinna, half-French) struggling to balance her responsibilities to her new step-family with her inner conflict over her mixed parentage.
The tighter focus and...
- 12/19/2009
- Screen Anarchy
Now a look back a few years to a little flick featuring the breakout performance from current Taiwanese box-office it girl Sandrine Pinna (Miao Miao, Yang Yang). Cheng Yu-Chieh’s debut feature film is the story of one seemingly innocuous event and how it leads several different people to think about how their lives have ended up. Are you going to want to give it another chance or will Do Over have you wishing you’d never watched it? Review after the break.
- 8/16/2009
- by Eight Rooks
- Screen Anarchy
And here's the rest fo them which includes loads of world premiers, plenty of Asian flare, and lot's of film makers I've never heard of before..
Check the list after the break.
Panorama Main Programme
Dongbei, Dongbei (A North Chinese Girl) by Zou Peng, People’s Republic of China (Wp)
With Tian Yi-Wen, Wu Rui-Peng, Liu Xing-Ping
Rabioso sol, rabioso cielo (Raging Sun, Raging Sky) by Julián Hernández, Mexico (Wp)
With Jorge Becerra, Javier Oliván, Guillermo Villegas, Giovanna Zacarias
Rossiya 88 (Russia 88) by Pavel Bardin, Russian Federation (Wp)
With Petr Fyodorov, Vera Strokova, Kazbek Kibizov
Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen (Sleeping Songs) by Andreas Struck, Germany (Wp)
With Stefan Rudolf, Chulpan Khamatova, Traute Hoess, Paula Kalenberg, Barnaby Metschurat
Strella by Panos H. Koutras, Greece (Wp)
With Mina Orfanou, Yiannis Kokkiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Betty Vakalidou
Vingança (Retribution) by Paulo Pons, Brazil
With Bárbara Borges, Erom Cordeiro, Branca Messina, Guta Stresser, Marcio...
Check the list after the break.
Panorama Main Programme
Dongbei, Dongbei (A North Chinese Girl) by Zou Peng, People’s Republic of China (Wp)
With Tian Yi-Wen, Wu Rui-Peng, Liu Xing-Ping
Rabioso sol, rabioso cielo (Raging Sun, Raging Sky) by Julián Hernández, Mexico (Wp)
With Jorge Becerra, Javier Oliván, Guillermo Villegas, Giovanna Zacarias
Rossiya 88 (Russia 88) by Pavel Bardin, Russian Federation (Wp)
With Petr Fyodorov, Vera Strokova, Kazbek Kibizov
Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen (Sleeping Songs) by Andreas Struck, Germany (Wp)
With Stefan Rudolf, Chulpan Khamatova, Traute Hoess, Paula Kalenberg, Barnaby Metschurat
Strella by Panos H. Koutras, Greece (Wp)
With Mina Orfanou, Yiannis Kokkiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Betty Vakalidou
Vingança (Retribution) by Paulo Pons, Brazil
With Bárbara Borges, Erom Cordeiro, Branca Messina, Guta Stresser, Marcio...
- 1/21/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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