Just as the curtains on Daniel Craig’s James Bond franchise were drawn, he has carried on the mantle of carrying a new line – Knives Out. The whodunit flicks have garnered the interest of fans, enthralling one and all with its quirky characters, and gripping storyline. Daniel Craig’s performance is just the icing on the top. And for his third rodeo in the Knives Out world, he will have new actors beside him to bear the burden.
The hype for Knives Out 3 is already in place
Fans are all excited for the Daniel Craig starrer
Just two years after the release of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the return of premiere detective Benoit Blanc has been confirmed. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, the third film titled, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, is also set to witness the return of Daniel Craig (no surprises...
The hype for Knives Out 3 is already in place
Fans are all excited for the Daniel Craig starrer
Just two years after the release of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the return of premiere detective Benoit Blanc has been confirmed. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, the third film titled, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, is also set to witness the return of Daniel Craig (no surprises...
- 5/29/2024
- by Smriti Sneh
- FandomWire
The 13 members of Seventeen have been on their Follow Tour since last summer, a tour that ranged from tear-jerking performances to ones that rip pants, and the encore leg (called “Follow Again”) is nearing its end. While the tour is close to wrapping, Seventeen’s activities are not slowing down — the group has just released a new compilation album, 17 Is Right Here. With a run time of just over 96 minutes, the album features all of Seventeen’s Korean language singles, Korean versions of their Japanese-language singles since their debut nine years ago,...
- 4/30/2024
- by Kristine Kwak
- Rollingstone.com
Twinkle Khanna’s Reaction To Dancing At Dawood’s Party; Rajinikanth Nagarjuna’s Union, Badshah-Hania Aamir’s Dubai Meet. (Photo Credit – Instagram)
This week’s entertainment news brings exciting announcements, heartwarming celebrations, and a dash of social media drama. Bollywood fans are buzzing with the possibility of seeing veteran actors Rajinikanth and Nagarjuna share the screen again, while the sequel to Ajay Devgn’s popular rom-com “De De Pyaar De” is confirmed with a surprising new cast member. Meanwhile, proud parents-to-be Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal celebrated their upcoming arrival with a baby shower, and down south, the re-release of the Tamil classic “Ghilli” is proving to be a major hit.
From Priyanka Chopra’s new voice-acting role to Twinkle Khanna’s witty response to old rumours, there’s something for everyone in this entertainment roundup.
1. Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal Celebrate Upcoming Arrival with Intimate Baby Shower
Actor Varun...
This week’s entertainment news brings exciting announcements, heartwarming celebrations, and a dash of social media drama. Bollywood fans are buzzing with the possibility of seeing veteran actors Rajinikanth and Nagarjuna share the screen again, while the sequel to Ajay Devgn’s popular rom-com “De De Pyaar De” is confirmed with a surprising new cast member. Meanwhile, proud parents-to-be Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal celebrated their upcoming arrival with a baby shower, and down south, the re-release of the Tamil classic “Ghilli” is proving to be a major hit.
From Priyanka Chopra’s new voice-acting role to Twinkle Khanna’s witty response to old rumours, there’s something for everyone in this entertainment roundup.
1. Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal Celebrate Upcoming Arrival with Intimate Baby Shower
Actor Varun...
- 4/22/2024
- by Koimoi.com Team
- KoiMoi
The Neighborhood fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 6 Episode 8 episode titled Welcome to the Baby Shower!
Find out everything you need to know about the Welcome to the Baby Shower episode of The Neighborhood, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!
The Neighborhood Welcome to the Baby Shower Season 6 Episode 8 Preview
Get ready for an evening of laughter, love, and a touch of drama with the upcoming episode titled “Welcome to the Baby Shower” of “The Neighborhood,” airing on CBS at 8:00 Pm on April 22, 2024. In this highly anticipated installment, viewers are in for a treat as they join the beloved characters on a journey filled with excitement and unexpected twists.
At the heart of the episode are Courtney and Marty, portrayed by the talented Tichina Arnold and Cedric the Entertainer, respectively. As they gear up...
Find out everything you need to know about the Welcome to the Baby Shower episode of The Neighborhood, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!
The Neighborhood Welcome to the Baby Shower Season 6 Episode 8 Preview
Get ready for an evening of laughter, love, and a touch of drama with the upcoming episode titled “Welcome to the Baby Shower” of “The Neighborhood,” airing on CBS at 8:00 Pm on April 22, 2024. In this highly anticipated installment, viewers are in for a treat as they join the beloved characters on a journey filled with excitement and unexpected twists.
At the heart of the episode are Courtney and Marty, portrayed by the talented Tichina Arnold and Cedric the Entertainer, respectively. As they gear up...
- 4/15/2024
- by News
- TV Regular
On “The Masked Singer’s” “Shower Anthems Night,” it’s time to belt out some squeaky-clean tunes! The Group C contestants start the night with a show-stopping group performance, and then serenade the audience and panelists Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, Ken Jeong and Rita Ora with iconic songs that are best sung at full volume in the shower! Nick Cannon hosts the wild and wacky fun.
The Season 11 contestants boast a combined 22 Grammy nominations, 11 platinum albums, 33 Teen Choice nominations, 108 million records sold, 326 film appearances and have 1.7 billion Spotify streams!
Below, read our minute-by-minute “The Masked Singer” recap of Season 11, Episode 5, to find out what happened Wednesday, April 3 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt on Fox. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about your favorite costumed characters on Fox’s reality TV show and who you think has what it takes to win the entire competition.
See...
The Season 11 contestants boast a combined 22 Grammy nominations, 11 platinum albums, 33 Teen Choice nominations, 108 million records sold, 326 film appearances and have 1.7 billion Spotify streams!
Below, read our minute-by-minute “The Masked Singer” recap of Season 11, Episode 5, to find out what happened Wednesday, April 3 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt on Fox. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about your favorite costumed characters on Fox’s reality TV show and who you think has what it takes to win the entire competition.
See...
- 4/4/2024
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia is scheduled to return on May 4, 2024. Fans are pretty excited about the anime returning after almost a year. The manga has been progressing at a steady pace, with the end nearing. The main protagonists are deep into their battle with the antagonists. My Hero Academia began serialization in 2014, and since then has become one of the most popular shows worldwide.
Initially, the mangaka wrote it as a one-shot manga. Soon, it became popular among the readers. There are several quirks in the anime, which would be pretty handy in daily life. While most of them were carefully selected by mangaka, others randomly popped up in his mind. Gran Torino’s quirk is one such instance where Kohei Horikoshi had to not think at all.
Gran Torino Bears A Connection With Shower Heads Gran Torino (Credit: Crunchyroll)
Kohei Horikoshi is pretty popular, especially for his...
Initially, the mangaka wrote it as a one-shot manga. Soon, it became popular among the readers. There are several quirks in the anime, which would be pretty handy in daily life. While most of them were carefully selected by mangaka, others randomly popped up in his mind. Gran Torino’s quirk is one such instance where Kohei Horikoshi had to not think at all.
Gran Torino Bears A Connection With Shower Heads Gran Torino (Credit: Crunchyroll)
Kohei Horikoshi is pretty popular, especially for his...
- 4/1/2024
- by Priyanko Chakraborty
- FandomWire
It took two minutes of screen time for Plane Jane to become the villain of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16. Right away, the shady Boston queen showed her true colors describing herself as an “authentically Russian hooker” and calling (according to the subtitles) a plus-sized queen a “piglet” in her native language.
The shade continued all episode as she consistently made rude comments about her competitiors (both in confessionals and to their faces) and became the only queen to opt to rate the queens from worst to best instead of best...
The shade continued all episode as she consistently made rude comments about her competitiors (both in confessionals and to their faces) and became the only queen to opt to rate the queens from worst to best instead of best...
- 1/13/2024
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
We’ve compiled the eclectic mix of hip-hop, Latin pop, R&b, Afrobeats, and K-pop music of the artists featured in the fifth installment of our Musicians on Musicians series into a mega playlist on iHeart. From the song that changed Omar Apollo’s life to Latto’s own track that Snoop Dogg requested at his photoshoot with the Atlanta rapper, tune into the hits that made these musicians’ careers.
Snoop Dogg
“Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang” feat. Dr. Dre
“Drop It Like It’s Hot” feat. Pharell
“Sensual Seduction...
Snoop Dogg
“Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang” feat. Dr. Dre
“Drop It Like It’s Hot” feat. Pharell
“Sensual Seduction...
- 11/1/2023
- by Maya Georgi
- Rollingstone.com
You star Lukas Gage has said he wanted to go as “far as possible” when filming the “golden shower” scene.
The hit Netflix show returned for its fourth season on Thursday (9 February).
Joe (Penn Badgley) has moved to London where he assumes a new identity: Professor Jonathan Moore. In London, he infiltrates a group of incredibly wealthy socialites.
Among them are Kate (Charlotte Ritchie), Lady Phoebe Borehall-Blaxworth (Tilly Keeper), and Adam, a rich American expatriate played by 27-year-old Gage.
Spoilers for season four, episode two of You below…
Early on in the fourth season of the hit series, Joe discovers that Adam has a specific fetish, which means that he enjoys when members of his staff urinate on his face.
Unbeknownst to Adam, Joe witnesses him in the act during episode two of the series.
Speaking about the scene with The Hollywood Reporter, Gage said: “I’ll say it was...
The hit Netflix show returned for its fourth season on Thursday (9 February).
Joe (Penn Badgley) has moved to London where he assumes a new identity: Professor Jonathan Moore. In London, he infiltrates a group of incredibly wealthy socialites.
Among them are Kate (Charlotte Ritchie), Lady Phoebe Borehall-Blaxworth (Tilly Keeper), and Adam, a rich American expatriate played by 27-year-old Gage.
Spoilers for season four, episode two of You below…
Early on in the fourth season of the hit series, Joe discovers that Adam has a specific fetish, which means that he enjoys when members of his staff urinate on his face.
Unbeknownst to Adam, Joe witnesses him in the act during episode two of the series.
Speaking about the scene with The Hollywood Reporter, Gage said: “I’ll say it was...
- 2/11/2023
- by Annabel Nugent
- The Independent - TV
From “Baby, you’re a firework” to “You light me up inside like the Fourth of July.” Becky G’s 2014 breakout single “Shower” was meant to be a Katy Perry hit. Speaking to Teen Vogue for their September cover story, Becky G opened up about the bubblegum pop single that launched her career — and how it was almost sung by someone else.
“It wasn’t written for me,” she said, adding that it “absolutely” was made with a white pop star in mind. The star in question was Perry, according to R. City,...
“It wasn’t written for me,” she said, adding that it “absolutely” was made with a white pop star in mind. The star in question was Perry, according to R. City,...
- 9/14/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
As the calendar turns to March, we’re sure you guys and ghouls are looking to get your horror fix.
No matter your preferred flavor, the world’s streamers are supplying a litany of chilling, newly-available options for you this month. Granted, this whole list could just include new titles on Shudder or Screambox, but we figured we’d spread the wealth around a bit to highlight some of the best and/or most intriguing flicks across a variety of services.
All of these films are free to stream stateside, starting this month, with a subscription to the listed streaming platforms. We’ll try to divvy these up to appease all you niche horror maniacs.
Abercrombie & Fitch Slasher Cinema – Urban Legend (1998), HBO Max:
The original Urban Legend stands as just one of several post-modern Scream rip-offs in the late ’90s, wherein every youthful cast member looked like they wore...
No matter your preferred flavor, the world’s streamers are supplying a litany of chilling, newly-available options for you this month. Granted, this whole list could just include new titles on Shudder or Screambox, but we figured we’d spread the wealth around a bit to highlight some of the best and/or most intriguing flicks across a variety of services.
All of these films are free to stream stateside, starting this month, with a subscription to the listed streaming platforms. We’ll try to divvy these up to appease all you niche horror maniacs.
Abercrombie & Fitch Slasher Cinema – Urban Legend (1998), HBO Max:
The original Urban Legend stands as just one of several post-modern Scream rip-offs in the late ’90s, wherein every youthful cast member looked like they wore...
- 3/3/2022
- by Alex Kirschenbaum
- Trailers from Hell
Having won the Golden Bear of the 64th Berlinale with “Black Coal, Thin Ice” in 2014, Chinese film has gained the attention of an international audience once more. “The Wild Goose Lake” continues the social realism that Diao Yinan laid out in his big festival hit. His first features “Uniform” (2003) and “Night Train” (2007) already showed the daily life of China’s citizens, focusing on relevant topics of power and identity in the context of the working class. “Black Coal, Thin Ice” dealt with the conflict between communism and capitalism. A symbolic crime story that touches the conflict between China’s past and present. “The Wild Goose Lake” can be seen clearly in the tradition of its predecessors, as Diao picks up all of the previous topics, but also brings his noted visual presentation to perfection.
“The Wild Goose Lake” is screening in Viennale
A group of undercover cops dancing with Led...
“The Wild Goose Lake” is screening in Viennale
A group of undercover cops dancing with Led...
- 10/30/2019
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
Sales company Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights to three of the movies that will unspool in competition over the next ten days at the Shanghai International Film Festival. All are world premieres.
Top feature director Zhang Yang makes an appearance with “The Sound of Dali,” a documentary that examines the natural beauty surrounding Dali in Yunnan Province.
Noted actress, Qin Hailu makes her directorial debut with “The Return.” The film is a drama about an old soldier living in Taiwan who would like to return to mainland China. But doing so would mean leaving behind his companion from the Red Envelope Club singers. The film stars Chang Feng, Ge Lei, and Lei Kesheng. It is set for a theatrical release in China through distribution Companies Hehe Pictures, White Horse Film, and Pie Film Distribution on Sept. 12, 2019.
“Vortex” is a Chinese crime action film produced by Cao Baoping (director...
Top feature director Zhang Yang makes an appearance with “The Sound of Dali,” a documentary that examines the natural beauty surrounding Dali in Yunnan Province.
Noted actress, Qin Hailu makes her directorial debut with “The Return.” The film is a drama about an old soldier living in Taiwan who would like to return to mainland China. But doing so would mean leaving behind his companion from the Red Envelope Club singers. The film stars Chang Feng, Ge Lei, and Lei Kesheng. It is set for a theatrical release in China through distribution Companies Hehe Pictures, White Horse Film, and Pie Film Distribution on Sept. 12, 2019.
“Vortex” is a Chinese crime action film produced by Cao Baoping (director...
- 6/13/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
hhmmmm… no?
Picking apart “best movie” lists made by anyone, methinks, is as futile as trying to ask someone why he married his wife. We all have our different reasons for loving films (or the opposite), and every human being has multiple holes in his or her body, one of which is called “opinions.” What’s fun about lists, though, is that they speak about the people who made them more than a photo and identikit, a list of the cars they own and how much they pay in taxes would. What happens, then, when a sacred cow (not of film criticism, mind you) like CNN picks the best Asian films of all time? More than any indication of quality, I find it peculiar in a way that goes beyond appreciation for film. It sounds a bit like a sort of Eurovision Song contest of filmmaking, being politically correct and...
Picking apart “best movie” lists made by anyone, methinks, is as futile as trying to ask someone why he married his wife. We all have our different reasons for loving films (or the opposite), and every human being has multiple holes in his or her body, one of which is called “opinions.” What’s fun about lists, though, is that they speak about the people who made them more than a photo and identikit, a list of the cars they own and how much they pay in taxes would. What happens, then, when a sacred cow (not of film criticism, mind you) like CNN picks the best Asian films of all time? More than any indication of quality, I find it peculiar in a way that goes beyond appreciation for film. It sounds a bit like a sort of Eurovision Song contest of filmmaking, being politically correct and...
- 9/18/2008
- by X
- Screen Anarchy
Hawaii International Film Festival
HONOLULU -- Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yang continues in the humanist vein of his features Sunflower and Shower with Getting Home, an amiably satirical road comedy that also turns a comical eye on a variety of social issues facing China today.
Given the film's universally resonant, gentle humor and Zhang's successful track record, Getting Home seems destined for a specialty pickup after an award-winning festival run.
When middle-age construction laborer Liu (Hong Qiwen) unexpectedly dies in Shenzhen from overwork and excessive drinking, his friend and co-worker Zhao Zhao Benshan) vows to fulfill his pledge to transport the corpse thousands of miles back to Liu's hometown of Chongqing for a decent burial. Problem is, Zhao doesn't have much money or many options for transportation. When he can't get a bus or hitch a ride, he trudges along carrying Liu's short, slight body on his back or else finds more inventive means of transportation such as a farmer's cart or rolling Liu along inside a massive tractor tire.
Zhao inevitably meets a steady stream of memorable characters on his semi-absurd road trip. A heartbroken truck driver (Hu Jun) heading north toward the Three Gorges region finds Zhao a sympathetic ear for his story of woe. A run-in with a wealthy, lonely man (Wu Ma) rehearsing his own funeral reminds Zhao of the value of friends and family. His encounter with a woman (Song Dandan) who sells her blood to help put her son through college reawakens the possibility of romance.
Each encounter enriches Zhao's journey, even if Zhang's premise might require a suspension of disbelief concerning the advancing state of Liu's corpse. As he progresses toward fulfilling his commitment to Liu, Zhao serves as the catalyst for an increasingly familiar clash of values between tradition and modernity, selfishness and loyalty, urban and rural that's sweeping through contemporary China.
Although some of the situations barely skirt predictability, popular stage comic Zhao's lead performance anchors the narrative with sympathetic humor, despite the script's occasional tendency toward sentimentality. Zhang's brisk direction leavens Getting Home with plenty of physical comedy, distinctively lensed by cinematographers Yu Lik-wai and Lai Yiu-fai.
GETTING HOME
Filmko Pictures
Credits:
Director: Zhang Yang
Screenwriters: Zhang Yang, Wang Yao
Producers: Stanley Tong, Er Yong, Zhang Yang, Harvey Wong, Liu Qiang
Directors of photography: Yu Lik-wai, Lai Yiu-fai
Production designer: An Bin
Music: Dou Peng
Costume designer: He Chongnan
Editor: Yang Hongyu
Cast:
Zhao: Zhao Benshan
Liu: Hong Qiwen
Lovelorn Trucker: Hu Jun
Lonely Rich Man: Wu Ma
Scavenger Woman: Song Dandan
Running time -- 97 minutes
No MPAA rating...
HONOLULU -- Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yang continues in the humanist vein of his features Sunflower and Shower with Getting Home, an amiably satirical road comedy that also turns a comical eye on a variety of social issues facing China today.
Given the film's universally resonant, gentle humor and Zhang's successful track record, Getting Home seems destined for a specialty pickup after an award-winning festival run.
When middle-age construction laborer Liu (Hong Qiwen) unexpectedly dies in Shenzhen from overwork and excessive drinking, his friend and co-worker Zhao Zhao Benshan) vows to fulfill his pledge to transport the corpse thousands of miles back to Liu's hometown of Chongqing for a decent burial. Problem is, Zhao doesn't have much money or many options for transportation. When he can't get a bus or hitch a ride, he trudges along carrying Liu's short, slight body on his back or else finds more inventive means of transportation such as a farmer's cart or rolling Liu along inside a massive tractor tire.
Zhao inevitably meets a steady stream of memorable characters on his semi-absurd road trip. A heartbroken truck driver (Hu Jun) heading north toward the Three Gorges region finds Zhao a sympathetic ear for his story of woe. A run-in with a wealthy, lonely man (Wu Ma) rehearsing his own funeral reminds Zhao of the value of friends and family. His encounter with a woman (Song Dandan) who sells her blood to help put her son through college reawakens the possibility of romance.
Each encounter enriches Zhao's journey, even if Zhang's premise might require a suspension of disbelief concerning the advancing state of Liu's corpse. As he progresses toward fulfilling his commitment to Liu, Zhao serves as the catalyst for an increasingly familiar clash of values between tradition and modernity, selfishness and loyalty, urban and rural that's sweeping through contemporary China.
Although some of the situations barely skirt predictability, popular stage comic Zhao's lead performance anchors the narrative with sympathetic humor, despite the script's occasional tendency toward sentimentality. Zhang's brisk direction leavens Getting Home with plenty of physical comedy, distinctively lensed by cinematographers Yu Lik-wai and Lai Yiu-fai.
GETTING HOME
Filmko Pictures
Credits:
Director: Zhang Yang
Screenwriters: Zhang Yang, Wang Yao
Producers: Stanley Tong, Er Yong, Zhang Yang, Harvey Wong, Liu Qiang
Directors of photography: Yu Lik-wai, Lai Yiu-fai
Production designer: An Bin
Music: Dou Peng
Costume designer: He Chongnan
Editor: Yang Hongyu
Cast:
Zhao: Zhao Benshan
Liu: Hong Qiwen
Lovelorn Trucker: Hu Jun
Lonely Rich Man: Wu Ma
Scavenger Woman: Song Dandan
Running time -- 97 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 12/13/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New Yorker Films/Seville Pictures
NEW YORK -- Sunflower, the decade-spanning soap opera of Zhang Yang (Quitting, Shower), concerns the troubled relationship between a man and his son, but the film's true interest comes not from the plot but rather the evocative visual portrait of an evolving Beijing.
Skillfully conveying the physical changes in the city from the mid-'70s to the end of the century, Sunflower is best appreciated from a sociological perspective. The film is currently playing an exclusive theatrical engagement at New York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
The central characters are Gengnian (Sun Haiying), an artist who has just been released from a six-year incarceration in a brutal labor camp when the film opens in 1976, and his young son Xiangyang (first played by Fan Zhang). The 9-year-old has led a carefree life up to that point, but his father has big ideas for the boy, wanting him to pursue the artistic life that he himself was unable to follow.
The resulting tensions between them are long-lasting, as we see in the film's proceeding sections, each taking place after roughly a decade. Xiangyang (later played by Gao Ge and then Haidi Wang) indeed becomes an artist, but personal issues continue to keep the father and son at odds, much to the frustration of Gengnian's loving mother (a deglamorized and highly effective Joan Chen).
Meanwhile, the physical landscape that the characters inhabit changes greatly over the years, with the small, alley-strewn neighborhoods making way for massively scaled high-rise housing projects, and the legions of bicycles getting replaced by pollution causing, road-clogging automobiles.
Although filled with a plethora of dramatic events, including earthquakes and floods, the film never achieves real dramatic momentum, due in large part to its needlessly sluggish pacing. While individual moments are quite moving, Sunflower conveys the passage of its history-changing years in what seems like real time.
NEW YORK -- Sunflower, the decade-spanning soap opera of Zhang Yang (Quitting, Shower), concerns the troubled relationship between a man and his son, but the film's true interest comes not from the plot but rather the evocative visual portrait of an evolving Beijing.
Skillfully conveying the physical changes in the city from the mid-'70s to the end of the century, Sunflower is best appreciated from a sociological perspective. The film is currently playing an exclusive theatrical engagement at New York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
The central characters are Gengnian (Sun Haiying), an artist who has just been released from a six-year incarceration in a brutal labor camp when the film opens in 1976, and his young son Xiangyang (first played by Fan Zhang). The 9-year-old has led a carefree life up to that point, but his father has big ideas for the boy, wanting him to pursue the artistic life that he himself was unable to follow.
The resulting tensions between them are long-lasting, as we see in the film's proceeding sections, each taking place after roughly a decade. Xiangyang (later played by Gao Ge and then Haidi Wang) indeed becomes an artist, but personal issues continue to keep the father and son at odds, much to the frustration of Gengnian's loving mother (a deglamorized and highly effective Joan Chen).
Meanwhile, the physical landscape that the characters inhabit changes greatly over the years, with the small, alley-strewn neighborhoods making way for massively scaled high-rise housing projects, and the legions of bicycles getting replaced by pollution causing, road-clogging automobiles.
Although filled with a plethora of dramatic events, including earthquakes and floods, the film never achieves real dramatic momentum, due in large part to its needlessly sluggish pacing. While individual moments are quite moving, Sunflower conveys the passage of its history-changing years in what seems like real time.
- 8/29/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HONG KONG -- Beijing director Yang Zhang's tentatively titled Air became the first project to find full funding at the third Hong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), with Hong Kong-based Filmko Holdings signing on to bankroll the $1.3 million project. Fortissimo Films is also on board for worldwide sales outside of Greater China, Singapore and Malaysia, for which Filmko holds distribution rights. "Negotiations had started much earlier, but there was a breakthrough in the past couple of days that enabled the deal to be sealed at the HAF," said Zhang, who broke onto the scene with 1997's Spicy Love Soup and earned his commercial success with Shower (1999). "We are very excited to be in business with one of China's most proven and exciting young filmmakers," Filmko CEO Alex Wong said. "We are sure that this film will further establish Zhang Yang as one of the strongest of China's young directors."...
- 3/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HONG KONG -- Beijing director Yang Zhang's tentatively titled Air became the first project to find full funding at the third Hong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), with Hong Kong-based Filmko Holdings signing on to bankroll the $1.3 million project. Fortissimo Films is also on board for worldwide sales outside of Greater China, Singapore and Malaysia, for which Filmko holds distribution rights. "Negotiations had started much earlier, but there was a breakthrough in the past couple of days that enabled the deal to be sealed at the HAF," said Zhang, who broke onto the scene with 1997's Spicy Love Soup and earned his commercial success with Shower (1999). "We are very excited to be in business with one of China's most proven and exciting young filmmakers," Filmko CEO Alex Wong said. "We are sure that this film will further establish Zhang Yang as one of the strongest of China's young directors."...
- 3/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HONG KONG -- Beijing director Zhang Yang's tentatively titled Air became the first project to find full funding at the third Hong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), with Hong Kong-based Filmko Holdings signing on to bankroll the $1.3 million project. Fortissimo Films is also on board for worldwide sales outside of Greater China, Singapore and Malaysia, for which Filmko holds distribution rights. "Negotiations had started much earlier, but there was a breakthrough in the past couple of days that enabled the deal to be sealed at the HAF," said Zhang, who broke onto the scene with 1997's Spicy Love Soup and earned his commercial success with Shower (1999). "We are very excited to be in business with one of China's most proven and exciting young filmmakers," Filmko CEO Alex Wong said. "We are sure that this film will further establish Zhang Yang as one of the strongest of China's young directors."...
- 3/22/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BEIJING -- China's Oscar equivalent, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flower Film Festival, has been marred by reports of disorganization and discontent as it reached its third day in Sanya, on the southern island province of Hainan on Friday. Guests of the 14th edition of the festival, which celebrates a century of Chinese cinema this year and will present awards on Saturday night, complained to local media about rude festival staff, a lack of information for journalists, and the high price of items for sale, the Beijing Times reported. "If I had known that the organization would be so poor I would not have come," actor Zhu Xu, who starred as the father figure in director Zhang Yang's 1999 feature Shower, told the daily.
- 11/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BEIJING -- China's top film awards, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flower Film Festival, has been marred by reports of disorganization and discontent as it reached its third day Friday in Sanya, on the southern island province of Hainan. Guests of the 14th edition of the festival, which celebrates a century of Chinese cinema this year and will present awards Saturday night, complained to local media about rude festival staff, a lack of information for journalists, and the high price of items for sale, the Beijing Times reported. "If I had known that the organization would be so poor, I would not have come," actor Zhu Xu, who starred as the father figure in director Yang Zhang's 1999 feature Shower, told the daily.
- 11/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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