Ann Hui’s eclectic films are united by a consideration of the relationship between public and private worlds, of how the weight of history can be brought to bear on even the most intimate personal developments. The director’s beautiful 2002 drama July Rhapsody, now receiving its first stateside theatrical run courtesy of Cheng Cheng Films, both follows this thread and pulls it in a uniquely tender and thoughtful direction. Unlike much of her previous work, the histories excavated by the film are strictly personal, but they contribute to a far more wide-ranging treatise on the resonance of artistic expression across time and generations.
Another thread through Hui’s work is its kinship with Chinese literature, from the filmmaker’s three adaptations of Eileen Chang novels to last year’s Elegies, a documentary on Hong Kong poetry. That affinity is deeply felt in July Rhapsody, which follows a meek, middle-aged Chinese...
Another thread through Hui’s work is its kinship with Chinese literature, from the filmmaker’s three adaptations of Eileen Chang novels to last year’s Elegies, a documentary on Hong Kong poetry. That affinity is deeply felt in July Rhapsody, which follows a meek, middle-aged Chinese...
- 7/14/2024
- by Brad Hanford
- Slant Magazine
Oprah Winfrey is 70!
The media mogul officially turned 70-years-old on Monday, Jan. 29.
In a new essay published on her Oprah Daily site, Oprah explained why she chose not to celebrate her birthday in a “big” way this year.
Keep reading to find out more…
In her essay, Oprah wrote that she felt “such pressure from all my friends to do something big, something special; to have a dinner, a party or luncheon — or to go somewhere like a spa, a hike, a resort or to meditate in Nepal.”
“I thought about it all, took in all their suggestions, and finally did what one friend, Wintley, recommended. He said, ‘You’re too blessed to stress. Savor the fragrances of your extraordinary life,’” Oprah continued. “It reminded me of the last line of ‘Love After Love,’ one of my favorite poems by Derek Walcott: ‘Sit. Feast on your life.’”
Instead of...
The media mogul officially turned 70-years-old on Monday, Jan. 29.
In a new essay published on her Oprah Daily site, Oprah explained why she chose not to celebrate her birthday in a “big” way this year.
Keep reading to find out more…
In her essay, Oprah wrote that she felt “such pressure from all my friends to do something big, something special; to have a dinner, a party or luncheon — or to go somewhere like a spa, a hike, a resort or to meditate in Nepal.”
“I thought about it all, took in all their suggestions, and finally did what one friend, Wintley, recommended. He said, ‘You’re too blessed to stress. Savor the fragrances of your extraordinary life,’” Oprah continued. “It reminded me of the last line of ‘Love After Love,’ one of my favorite poems by Derek Walcott: ‘Sit. Feast on your life.’”
Instead of...
- 1/30/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Exclusive: Wavelength, the NYC and London-based film production and branded content studio has promoted two and hired one.
The studio’s UK Managing Director, Dan Bowen, will now take on the role of Senior Vice President of Branded Content while former Head of Studios, Mike Prall, now serves as Vice President of Productions. Wavelength is also bringing PR efforts in-house and has tapped film and entertainment publicist Lynsey Gray as Head of PR.
As part of the leadership team, the trio works closely with Wavelength’s Emmy-winning duo, Founder, CEO, and Executive Producer, Jenifer Westphal and President and Executive Producer, Joe Plummer to build on the company’s success and global strategy, which is driven by its mantra: We tell great f**king stories.
“We are thrilled to announce these strategic changes as we continue to evolve and expand our global footprint,” explains Jenifer Westphal. “Dan and Mike have been instrumental in shaping our success,...
The studio’s UK Managing Director, Dan Bowen, will now take on the role of Senior Vice President of Branded Content while former Head of Studios, Mike Prall, now serves as Vice President of Productions. Wavelength is also bringing PR efforts in-house and has tapped film and entertainment publicist Lynsey Gray as Head of PR.
As part of the leadership team, the trio works closely with Wavelength’s Emmy-winning duo, Founder, CEO, and Executive Producer, Jenifer Westphal and President and Executive Producer, Joe Plummer to build on the company’s success and global strategy, which is driven by its mantra: We tell great f**king stories.
“We are thrilled to announce these strategic changes as we continue to evolve and expand our global footprint,” explains Jenifer Westphal. “Dan and Mike have been instrumental in shaping our success,...
- 12/4/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Mike Prall, Emily Katz to work closely with founder and CEO Jenifer Westphal, president Joe Plummer.
New York-based studio Wavelength, whose credits include Cusp, Athlete A, and The Cave Of Adullam, has hired Mike Prall as head of studios, Emily Katz as head of development.
The executives will be based in New York and arrive at a busy time as the company prepares to open its first international office in London following partnerships with international producers on seven of its 2022 films including Aisha, Radical Dreamer, and The Last Year Of Darkness.
Prall and Katz will work closely with Wavelength founder,...
New York-based studio Wavelength, whose credits include Cusp, Athlete A, and The Cave Of Adullam, has hired Mike Prall as head of studios, Emily Katz as head of development.
The executives will be based in New York and arrive at a busy time as the company prepares to open its first international office in London following partnerships with international producers on seven of its 2022 films including Aisha, Radical Dreamer, and The Last Year Of Darkness.
Prall and Katz will work closely with Wavelength founder,...
- 1/30/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Dree Hemingway (The Unicorn) is the latest addition to the cast of Yale Entertainment’s darkly comedic thriller The Kill Room, from writer Jonathan Jacobson and director Nicol Paone. She joins an ensemble that also includes Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Manganiello, Maya Hawke, Debi Mazar and Larry Pine, as previously announced.
The Kill Room centers on hitman, Reggie (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), an art dealer (Thurman) and their money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld. Hemingway will play Anika, the owner of a successful art gallery that rivals Thurman’s.
Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jon Keeyes are producing under their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment, and William Rosenfeld of Such Content. Executive producers include Robert Kapp,...
The Kill Room centers on hitman, Reggie (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), an art dealer (Thurman) and their money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld. Hemingway will play Anika, the owner of a successful art gallery that rivals Thurman’s.
Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jon Keeyes are producing under their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment, and William Rosenfeld of Such Content. Executive producers include Robert Kapp,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Wada Emi, the celebrated Japanese costume designer who won an Oscar for Kurosawa Akira’s “Ran” in 1985, has died.
Wada’s family told Japanese media that she died on Nov. 13, 2021, but did not disclose the cause or the place of her death.
Appreciated for her painstaking attention to detail – she hand-dyed the costumes for “Ran” – and for playing hard to get, Wada won numerous awards in addition to the Oscar and BAFTA. Other prizes included a Prime Time Emmy for her costumes in British TV show “Oedipus Rex” in 1993 and a Hong Kong Film Award for her designs on Zhang Yimou’s spectacular martial arts fantasy “Hero.”
Born Noguchi Emiko in 1937 to a wealthy family, Wada was surrounded from an early age by concert-level pianists, European artistic influence and Japanese literature.
At middle school she discovered that she liked the films of Jean Cocteau, but wanted to be a painter.
Wada’s family told Japanese media that she died on Nov. 13, 2021, but did not disclose the cause or the place of her death.
Appreciated for her painstaking attention to detail – she hand-dyed the costumes for “Ran” – and for playing hard to get, Wada won numerous awards in addition to the Oscar and BAFTA. Other prizes included a Prime Time Emmy for her costumes in British TV show “Oedipus Rex” in 1993 and a Hong Kong Film Award for her designs on Zhang Yimou’s spectacular martial arts fantasy “Hero.”
Born Noguchi Emiko in 1937 to a wealthy family, Wada was surrounded from an early age by concert-level pianists, European artistic influence and Japanese literature.
At middle school she discovered that she liked the films of Jean Cocteau, but wanted to be a painter.
- 11/22/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Unfortunately for “No Time to Die’s” China debut, government authorities have decided that it’s currently no time for citizens to risk dying of Covid-19 at the movies and are taking extra precautions to suspend cinema operations across the country this weekend as new outbreaks occur.
Hollywood is catching a tough break in China this month. After weeks of an unofficial blackout period on foreign imports due to the patriotic National Day holiday, there are finally two major Western blockbusters in theaters in the world’s largest film market: “No Time to Die” and “Dune,” the first and third place finishers this week, respectively.
Nevertheless, their performance has been unimpressive, slammed in part by new Covid-19 outbreaks across the country that have left more than 1,400 cinemas in 14 provinces ordered shut. Closures even reached Beijing on Saturday, when certain districts called for temporary shutdowns. Together, the theaters represent over 13% of the national box office.
Hollywood is catching a tough break in China this month. After weeks of an unofficial blackout period on foreign imports due to the patriotic National Day holiday, there are finally two major Western blockbusters in theaters in the world’s largest film market: “No Time to Die” and “Dune,” the first and third place finishers this week, respectively.
Nevertheless, their performance has been unimpressive, slammed in part by new Covid-19 outbreaks across the country that have left more than 1,400 cinemas in 14 provinces ordered shut. Closures even reached Beijing on Saturday, when certain districts called for temporary shutdowns. Together, the theaters represent over 13% of the national box office.
- 10/31/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
“Dune” didn’t quite manage to spice up its China open after a middling $6 million first day in the country on Friday. The film grossed just $21.6 million in its debut three-day weekend, according to studio estimates.
The result is more or less in the ballpark of its $41 million weekend tally in North America, where it released day-and-date simultaneously on HBO Max. It is nevertheless a disappointing one considering the enormity of the world’s largest film market, which has delivered much more spectacular openings in recent weeks.
As a dense, cerebral sci-fi epic, however, “Dune” is a hard sell for viewers in China’s lower-tier cities, who have recently proven their spending power by coming out in droves for National Day propaganda movies earlier this month.
The film is currently projected to earn just $35.2 million in China according to estimates from the Maoyan database, which would mean it has already...
The result is more or less in the ballpark of its $41 million weekend tally in North America, where it released day-and-date simultaneously on HBO Max. It is nevertheless a disappointing one considering the enormity of the world’s largest film market, which has delivered much more spectacular openings in recent weeks.
As a dense, cerebral sci-fi epic, however, “Dune” is a hard sell for viewers in China’s lower-tier cities, who have recently proven their spending power by coming out in droves for National Day propaganda movies earlier this month.
The film is currently projected to earn just $35.2 million in China according to estimates from the Maoyan database, which would mean it has already...
- 10/24/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
"It makes me happy to help folks out a little." Film Movement has debuted the US trailer for an acclaimed Japanese indie drama titled They Say Nothing Stays the Same, which initially premiered back in 2019. The film is the latest directed by Japanese actor / filmmaker Joe Odagiri, and features cinematography by the award-winning Dp Christopher Doyle. "Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body of water and a bridge does not exist. The village high in the hills has a ferryman, but a bridge is in the works. The poor peasant is about to become even more poor. The people, livestock, and goods won't need his services much longer... He meets a young girl on a day when everything was supposed to go like any other day." The film stars Akira Emoto, Ririka Kawashima, Nijiro Murakami, Tsuyoshi Ihara, ...
- 10/20/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
When Taiwanese actor Janine Chang was writing her masters’ thesis in industrial economics in 2010, she likely never imagined that two Chinese characters in it would become a diplomatic flashpoint and threaten to derail her lucrative acting career more than a decade later.
This week, however, it has done just that. Her thesis at Taiwan’s National Central University entitled “Issues Related to the Country’s Artist Management and Legal Systems” has sparked an enormous wave of Chinese nationalist criticism online over her use of the word “country.”
It was proof, jingoistic social media users in China argued, that she was pro-Taiwanese independence and should be blacklisted — even though Chang ranks among the most outspoken Taiwanese entertainers to vocally take a pro-China stance.
Governments on both sides of the straits quickly jumped in to comment on the seemingly inconsequential celebrity news item, the latest indication of just how politicized China’s...
This week, however, it has done just that. Her thesis at Taiwan’s National Central University entitled “Issues Related to the Country’s Artist Management and Legal Systems” has sparked an enormous wave of Chinese nationalist criticism online over her use of the word “country.”
It was proof, jingoistic social media users in China argued, that she was pro-Taiwanese independence and should be blacklisted — even though Chang ranks among the most outspoken Taiwanese entertainers to vocally take a pro-China stance.
Governments on both sides of the straits quickly jumped in to comment on the seemingly inconsequential celebrity news item, the latest indication of just how politicized China’s...
- 9/13/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Gordon Lam and Ann Hui, recipients of Variety honors at the New York Asian Film Festival, could scarcely be more different. Actor-turned producer Lam, who is receiving Variety Star Asia Award is ebullient and busy. Hui, for all her renown in Asia and Europe as a top director, is quiet and unassuming. She will be presented with the Variety Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.
What they have in common is a lengthy career that has taken them from the bottom of the Hong Kong entertainment industry to the upper echelons. Both have achieved reputations that have been earned by endless hard work, which has served their carefully honed talent.
Born in Manchuria of Japanese and Chinese parents, Hui was convent school-educated in Hong Kong and studied film in London, where she brushed up against industry icon King Hu.
Returning to Hong Kong in 1976, Hui was thrown in at the deep end,...
What they have in common is a lengthy career that has taken them from the bottom of the Hong Kong entertainment industry to the upper echelons. Both have achieved reputations that have been earned by endless hard work, which has served their carefully honed talent.
Born in Manchuria of Japanese and Chinese parents, Hui was convent school-educated in Hong Kong and studied film in London, where she brushed up against industry icon King Hu.
Returning to Hong Kong in 1976, Hui was thrown in at the deep end,...
- 8/6/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Beijing- and Amsterdam-based sales agency Fortissimo Films has added to its Cannes slate feature-length Chinese documentary “Keep Running.” It will be first pitched to distributors during the Cannes Market.
The picture tracks a team of teenagers form underprivileged backgrounds who live in Gen He, the coldest part of China, and run every day despite the harsh circumstances.
It is the first full-length picture directed by Sun Getting, who previously made TV series “Tea: The Story of the Leaf,” “Every Treasure Tells a Story,” and “The Forbidden City 100.”
Executive produced by Zhang Chong (“Super Me”), “Keep Running” had its international premiere earlier this month at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
The festival called it “a heart-warming documentary devoted to the vivid, optimistic, and positive spirit of youth, introducing a group of ordinary characters and guiding us through a stunning natural landscape.” It said, “the sports school has provided [the teenagers] with something they couldn...
The picture tracks a team of teenagers form underprivileged backgrounds who live in Gen He, the coldest part of China, and run every day despite the harsh circumstances.
It is the first full-length picture directed by Sun Getting, who previously made TV series “Tea: The Story of the Leaf,” “Every Treasure Tells a Story,” and “The Forbidden City 100.”
Executive produced by Zhang Chong (“Super Me”), “Keep Running” had its international premiere earlier this month at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
The festival called it “a heart-warming documentary devoted to the vivid, optimistic, and positive spirit of youth, introducing a group of ordinary characters and guiding us through a stunning natural landscape.” It said, “the sports school has provided [the teenagers] with something they couldn...
- 6/25/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Directed by Yoshida Kota, the film is described as a triptych about sex, aphrodisiac foods and secret desires.
Fortissimo Films has sold all rights to Japanese filmmaker Yoshida Kota’s Sexual Drive to Film Movement for the US and Canada, concluding the deal at the recent European Film Market (EFM).
Film Movement plans to release the film at festivals and theatrically later this year, followed by home entertainment and digital platforms.
Described as a triptych about sex, aphrodisiac foods and secret desires, Sexual Drive uses sensual close-ups of the characters eating and relishing their favourite Japanese dishes: natto, mapo and ramen.
Fortissimo Films has sold all rights to Japanese filmmaker Yoshida Kota’s Sexual Drive to Film Movement for the US and Canada, concluding the deal at the recent European Film Market (EFM).
Film Movement plans to release the film at festivals and theatrically later this year, followed by home entertainment and digital platforms.
Described as a triptych about sex, aphrodisiac foods and secret desires, Sexual Drive uses sensual close-ups of the characters eating and relishing their favourite Japanese dishes: natto, mapo and ramen.
- 3/11/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Ann Hui was born to a Japanese mother and a Chinese father in Northeastern China in 1947, and settled in Hong Kong with her family when she was 5. After graduating in English and Comparative Literature from Hong Kong University, she studied for two years at the London Film School before returning to Hong Kong to work for King Hu, as an assistant director. Following this, she joined the broadcaster Tvb where she directed dramas and documentaries before making her feature debut with “The Secret”, a film which established her as one of the leaders of Hong Kong’s New Wave movement. Her career since then has included adaptations of literary works, family dramas, martial arts movies, and supernatural tales with notable award-winners like “Boat People”, “Summer Snow”, “A Simple Life” and “Our Time Will Come”. Hui was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice International Film Festival 2020 where her latest film,...
- 3/6/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Yoshida Kota’s film debuts in Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition.
Amsterdam-based sales agent Fortissimo Films has snapped up worldwide rights to Sexual Drive, a new Japanese feature about sex, aphrodisiac foods and secret desires that has its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam tomorrow.
The film, directed by Yoshida Kota, is screening in the festival’s Big Screen Competition.
Sexual Drive unfolds as a triptych using close-ups of the characters eating and relishing their favourite dishes: Natto, Mapo and Ramen. One character appears in all three parts, disrupting the apparent quiet lives of married men and women. The...
Amsterdam-based sales agent Fortissimo Films has snapped up worldwide rights to Sexual Drive, a new Japanese feature about sex, aphrodisiac foods and secret desires that has its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam tomorrow.
The film, directed by Yoshida Kota, is screening in the festival’s Big Screen Competition.
Sexual Drive unfolds as a triptych using close-ups of the characters eating and relishing their favourite dishes: Natto, Mapo and Ramen. One character appears in all three parts, disrupting the apparent quiet lives of married men and women. The...
- 2/3/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The Rescue opened with $36.3m over soft weekend, while Wonder Woman 1984 took $18.8m.
Dante Lam’s The Rescue topped the China box office over its opening weekend (December 18-20), according to figures from Artisan Gateway, pulling in almost twice the gross of Hollywood tentpole Wonder Woman 1984, which opened on the same date.
The Rescue, a $90m action film revolving around an emergency rescue team working for the Chinese Coast Guard, grossed $36.3m in its first three days, compared to $18.8m for Warner Bros’ superhero sequel, starring Gal Gadot. However, both openings were considered soft as December is usually a...
Dante Lam’s The Rescue topped the China box office over its opening weekend (December 18-20), according to figures from Artisan Gateway, pulling in almost twice the gross of Hollywood tentpole Wonder Woman 1984, which opened on the same date.
The Rescue, a $90m action film revolving around an emergency rescue team working for the Chinese Coast Guard, grossed $36.3m in its first three days, compared to $18.8m for Warner Bros’ superhero sequel, starring Gal Gadot. However, both openings were considered soft as December is usually a...
- 12/21/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Mubi's series Ann Hui: Women Make the World is showing November 29 - December 31, 2020 in the United States.Ann Hui’s fascination with the late Eileen Chang is a story spanning four decades. Books by the revered Chinese writer had already served as inspiration for Hui’s 1984 Love in a Fallen City and her 1997 Eighteen Springs. In Love After Love, she summons Chang’s novella, “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier”, to concoct a visually stunning, sprawling love story set in 1940s Hong Kong. At its center is Weilong (Ma Sichun), a Shanghainese student who’s left her family in hopes of continuing her education in Hong Kong. But money’s running out: as we first meet her, Weilong is tiptoeing inside the palatial villa owned by her estranged aunt Madame Liang (Faye Yu) to ask for help. Excommunicated from the family after she refused an arranged marriage, Madame Liang has...
- 12/2/2020
- MUBI
2020 has been quite a year for Hong Kong auteur Ann Hui. At the Venice Film Festival, she became the very first female recipient to receive their Lifetime Achievement Award. Her new film “Love After Love” starring Eddie Peng and Ma Sichun also premiered at the Biennale and is gearing for a wide release later. Now, “Keep Rolling”, a documentary on the veteran director is also gearing for a release.
Check out the trailer here:...
Check out the trailer here:...
- 10/1/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
“Young filmmakers do not need the old actively helping them,” said Ann Hui during her masterclass at the Venice Film Festival, raising some eyebrows. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipient went on to explain: “[That’s because young filmmakers’] rules, environment, experiences are completely different. By actively advising, we can hinder more than help. Unless the director is also a very good teacher. But being a great teacher is more difficult than being a great filmmaker.”
Hui, one of Asia’s most prolific and versatile directors, has some insight on this because she was a teacher of film herself. “I was very serious about homework and stuff. I don’t think my students liked that,” she joked, adding: “I feel sometimes students are too serious about an intended subject. Sheer joy of making films can take you a long way.”
The director is taking part in the festival not only as an award recipient...
Hui, one of Asia’s most prolific and versatile directors, has some insight on this because she was a teacher of film herself. “I was very serious about homework and stuff. I don’t think my students liked that,” she joked, adding: “I feel sometimes students are too serious about an intended subject. Sheer joy of making films can take you a long way.”
The director is taking part in the festival not only as an award recipient...
- 9/10/2020
- by Anna Tatarska
- Variety Film + TV
Cate Blanchett is turning heads in Italy at the 77th annual Venice Film Festival. The actor, 51, showed up for the premiere of Di Yi Lu Xiang (Love After Love) in a stunning off-white dress paired with a black blazer. The blazer featured a shoulder peplum tulle ruffle to pull together her elegant look. She […]
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- 9/9/2020
- by Yati Sanghvi
- Uinterview
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Al Pacino and Francis Ford Coppola on the set of The Godfather: Part III.A new edit and restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather: Part III will have a limited theatrical release in December. The film, entitled Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, includes a "a new beginning and ending."New inclusion requirements for the Oscars will take full effect in 2024, requiring films to meet standards for on-screen representation (in cast or theme) and creative leadership in order to be eligible for Best Picture. This year's lineup for the London Film Festival includes Ben Sharrock's Limbo (which will be distributed in the U.K. and Ireland by Mubi!). The Fondation Cartier will be presenting the world premiere of Artavazd Peleshian's first film in 27 years, La nature.
- 9/9/2020
- MUBI
Once more with rather less feeling: after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs,” acclaimed Hong Kong director Ann Hui returns to the work of celebrated 20th century author Eileen Chang with “Love After Love,” a not-at-all-short adaptation of a Chang short story laboring under the English title “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier.” Hui has assembled something of an all-star lineup, with the young leads played by rising actors Sandra Ma and Eddie Peng, the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto on scoring duties and Dp Christopher Doyle returning to the scene, if not quite the time period, of his greatest Wong Kar-wai collaboration, “In the Mood For Love.” Despite all this promise,
Tracking the very gentle wising-up of a naive, wide-eyed ingenue over the course of a few eventful pre-war years, the film begins as Weilong (Ma), a Shanghainese student come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her stifling father’s influence,...
Tracking the very gentle wising-up of a naive, wide-eyed ingenue over the course of a few eventful pre-war years, the film begins as Weilong (Ma), a Shanghainese student come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her stifling father’s influence,...
- 9/9/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
"A pleasure in never feeling pleased." A festival promo trailer has debuted for the Hong Kong romantic drama Love After Love, which is screening out of competition at this year's Venice Film Festival. The latest film from Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, this looks sultry and sumptuous. It is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang short story, set in Hong Kong shortly before the start of World War II. Sandra Ma stars as a young girl who falls into her aunt's game of luring rich men. But then surprise, she finds herself genuinely attracted to playboy George Qiao, whose aim is to marry a wealthy girl to maintain his own high-end class lifestyle. Co-starring Eddie Peng as George, along with Faye Yu, Ning Chang, Wei Fan, and Isabella Leong. Featuring some gorgeous cinematography by Dp Christopher Doyle. At first glance, this has the feeling of Wong Kar Wai's beloved In the Mood for Love.
- 9/7/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
An adaptation of an Eileen Chang short story, Love After Love will play out of competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Ann Hui’s new film Love After Love, which will play out of competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
It is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang short story, set in Hong Kong shortly before the Second World War. Sandra Ma (Soulmate) plays a young girl who falls into her aunt’s game of luring rich men, with Eddie Peng (Our Time Will Come) co-starring.
Hui last...
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Ann Hui’s new film Love After Love, which will play out of competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
It is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang short story, set in Hong Kong shortly before the Second World War. Sandra Ma (Soulmate) plays a young girl who falls into her aunt’s game of luring rich men, with Eddie Peng (Our Time Will Come) co-starring.
Hui last...
- 9/6/2020
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Wife of a SpyThe programme for the 2020 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Gia Coppola, Lav Diaz, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, Gianfranco Rosi, Frederick Wiseman, Chloé Zhao, and more.COMPETITIONIn Between Dying (Hilal Baydarov)Le sorelle Macluso (Emma Dante)The World to Come (Mona Fastvold)Nuevo Orden (Michel Franco)Lovers (Nicole Garcia)Laila in Haifa (Amos Gitai)Dear Comrades (Andrei Konchalovsky)Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)Sun Children (Majid Majidi)Pieces of a Woman (Kornél Mundruczó)Miss Marx (Susanna Nicchiarelli)Padrenostro (Claudio Noce)Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)Never Gonna Snow AgainThe Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)And Tomorrow The Entire World (Julia Von Heinz)Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic)Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesThe Ties (Daniele Luchetti)Lasciami Andare (Stefano Mordini)Mandibules (Quentin Dupieux)Love After Love (Ann Hui)Assandria (Salvatore Mereu)The Duke (Roger Michell)Night in Paradise (Park Hoon-jung)Mosquito...
- 8/3/2020
- MUBI
The 77th Venice International Film Festival is one of the first “big” Festivals that will open its physical doors after the Covid-19 pandemic. The Festival is organised by La Biennale di Venezia and directed by Alberto Barbera; it will take place at Venice Lido from 2 – 12 September 2020.
Here are all the Asian Titles on the Programme:
Competition/Venezia 77
“In Between Dying” by Hilal Baydarov
“Laila In Haifa” by Amos Gitai
“Wife of a Spy” by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
“Sun Children” by Majid Majidi (Iran)
“The Disciple” by Chaitanya Tamhane (India)
“Nomadland” by Chloe Zhao (USA)
Out of Competition (Fiction)
“Love After Love” by Ann Hui (China)
“Night in Paradise” by Park Hoon-Jung (South Korea)
Horizons
“Milestone” by Ivan Ayr (India)
“The Wasteland” by Ahmad Bahrami (Iran)
“Genus Pan” by Lav Diaz (Philippines)
“Careless Crime” by Shahram Mokri (Iran)
“Gaza Mon Amour” by Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser (Palestine/Qatar)
“The Best Is Yet to Come...
Here are all the Asian Titles on the Programme:
Competition/Venezia 77
“In Between Dying” by Hilal Baydarov
“Laila In Haifa” by Amos Gitai
“Wife of a Spy” by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
“Sun Children” by Majid Majidi (Iran)
“The Disciple” by Chaitanya Tamhane (India)
“Nomadland” by Chloe Zhao (USA)
Out of Competition (Fiction)
“Love After Love” by Ann Hui (China)
“Night in Paradise” by Park Hoon-Jung (South Korea)
Horizons
“Milestone” by Ivan Ayr (India)
“The Wasteland” by Ahmad Bahrami (Iran)
“Genus Pan” by Lav Diaz (Philippines)
“Careless Crime” by Shahram Mokri (Iran)
“Gaza Mon Amour” by Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser (Palestine/Qatar)
“The Best Is Yet to Come...
- 7/31/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Veteran casting director Linda Lowy has been named EVP Casting for WarnerMedia’s HBO Max, TNT, TBS and truTV, the company announced Wednesday.
In her new role, Lowy, who cast Shonda Rhimes’ series such as Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder, will be responsible for overseeing casting for scripted series, feature films, docudramas, animation, and unscripted programming for the streaming platform and linear networks.
Additionally, Henry Russell Bergstein has been named VP Casting, reporting to Lowy. He’ll be responsible for casting for both scripted and unscripted content, scouting talent and working with other WarnerMedia Entertainment departments, series casting directors, talent, and their reps.
“Linda is an unstoppable force who has cast some of the most iconic and longest lasting programs, not only changing television, but also having a ripple effect on our culture at large,” said Kevin Reilly, Chief Content Officer, HBO Max and President,...
In her new role, Lowy, who cast Shonda Rhimes’ series such as Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder, will be responsible for overseeing casting for scripted series, feature films, docudramas, animation, and unscripted programming for the streaming platform and linear networks.
Additionally, Henry Russell Bergstein has been named VP Casting, reporting to Lowy. He’ll be responsible for casting for both scripted and unscripted content, scouting talent and working with other WarnerMedia Entertainment departments, series casting directors, talent, and their reps.
“Linda is an unstoppable force who has cast some of the most iconic and longest lasting programs, not only changing television, but also having a ripple effect on our culture at large,” said Kevin Reilly, Chief Content Officer, HBO Max and President,...
- 7/29/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s pandemic-altered Venice Film Festival will include a record number of competition films directed by women, festival organizers announced on Tuesday. And two of those are also the only Hollywood studio films to make the competition lineup — Mona Fastvold’s “The World to Come” and Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland.”
In all, eight of the 18 competition features have a female director — an improvement from last year, when just two made the cut.
“Nomadland,” a drama starring Frances McDormand released by Searchlight Pictures, will simultaneously premiere through the Toronto Film Festival as well as through the New York Film Festival and the now-canceled Telluride fest (at a special drive-in screening in Southern California). Sony’s “The World to Come” stars Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston.
Also Read: Frances McDormand's 'Nomadland' to Get Joint World Premiere From Venice and Toronto Film Festivals
Other top titles screening out...
In all, eight of the 18 competition features have a female director — an improvement from last year, when just two made the cut.
“Nomadland,” a drama starring Frances McDormand released by Searchlight Pictures, will simultaneously premiere through the Toronto Film Festival as well as through the New York Film Festival and the now-canceled Telluride fest (at a special drive-in screening in Southern California). Sony’s “The World to Come” stars Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston.
Also Read: Frances McDormand's 'Nomadland' to Get Joint World Premiere From Venice and Toronto Film Festivals
Other top titles screening out...
- 7/28/2020
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
With Telluride Film Festival forced to cancel their yearly event, what is now the first of the major fall festivals, Venice, has announced their complete lineup. Along with Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which was revealed yesterday, the lineup includes more of our most-anticipated films of the year, including Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, Gia Coppola’s Mainstream, Abel Ferrara’s Sportin’ Life, Lav Diaz’s Genus Pan, Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman, Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, and more.
There were also a few surprises in the lineup. Luca Guadagnino has directed a new documentary titled Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, while Alice Rohrwacher and Jr have teamed for the new short film, Omelia Contadina. Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibules will also premiere out of competition.
In perhaps the best surprise of all, a new, recently uncovered film by Orson Welles,...
There were also a few surprises in the lineup. Luca Guadagnino has directed a new documentary titled Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, while Alice Rohrwacher and Jr have teamed for the new short film, Omelia Contadina. Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibules will also premiere out of competition.
In perhaps the best surprise of all, a new, recently uncovered film by Orson Welles,...
- 7/28/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Venice Film Festival is unveiling the lineup of its 77th edition, which, barring complications, will be the first major international film event to hold a physical edition following the coronavirus crisis.
Previously announced titles include Chloé Zhao’s road drama “Nomadland,” starring Frances McDormand, which will screen at Venice and Toronto simultaneously on Sept. 11, in both cases preceded by virtual introductions.
The out-of-competition opener will be Italian director Daniele Luchetti’s anatomy of a marriage drama “Lacci” (“The Ties”) (pictured) starring Alba Rohrwacher (“Happy as Lazzaro”) and Luigi Lo Cascio (“The Traitor”) as the couple at the film’s center.
The virtual press conference is scheduled to begin at 11am Cet. This post will be updated live as films are revealed.
Venice Film Festival Lineup
In Competition
“In Between Dying,” Hilal Baydarov
“Le Sorelle Macaluso,” Emma Dante (Italy)
“The World to Come,” Mona Fastvold (U.S.)
“Nuevo Orden,” Michel Franco
“Lovers,...
Previously announced titles include Chloé Zhao’s road drama “Nomadland,” starring Frances McDormand, which will screen at Venice and Toronto simultaneously on Sept. 11, in both cases preceded by virtual introductions.
The out-of-competition opener will be Italian director Daniele Luchetti’s anatomy of a marriage drama “Lacci” (“The Ties”) (pictured) starring Alba Rohrwacher (“Happy as Lazzaro”) and Luigi Lo Cascio (“The Traitor”) as the couple at the film’s center.
The virtual press conference is scheduled to begin at 11am Cet. This post will be updated live as films are revealed.
Venice Film Festival Lineup
In Competition
“In Between Dying,” Hilal Baydarov
“Le Sorelle Macaluso,” Emma Dante (Italy)
“The World to Come,” Mona Fastvold (U.S.)
“Nuevo Orden,” Michel Franco
“Lovers,...
- 7/28/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Competition line-up includes films by Chloe Zhao, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Kornel Mandruczo and Andrei Konchalovsky.
The line-up of the 77th Venice Film Festival (September 2-12) has been announced.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The big talking points from this year’s selection include an improved gender split, with eight women selected for the competition section (compared to two last year), and a lack of major US projects. Venice will be one of the first major film festivals to take place as a physical event following the Covid-19 outbreak.
Among the big-name auteurs selected are Chloe Zhao (Nomadland), Michel Franco (Nuevo...
The line-up of the 77th Venice Film Festival (September 2-12) has been announced.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The big talking points from this year’s selection include an improved gender split, with eight women selected for the competition section (compared to two last year), and a lack of major US projects. Venice will be one of the first major film festivals to take place as a physical event following the Covid-19 outbreak.
Among the big-name auteurs selected are Chloe Zhao (Nomadland), Michel Franco (Nuevo...
- 7/28/2020
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Filmmaker Ann Hui and actress Tilda Swinton are each to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival (2 September – 12 September, 2020).
The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia upon the recommendation of Venice Film Festival Director, Alberto Barbera.
Accepting the award, Swinton said: “This great festival has been dear to my heart for three decades: to be honored by her in this way is extremely humbling. To come to Venice, this year of all years, to celebrate immortal cinema and her defiant survival in the face of all the challenges that evolution might throw at her – as at us all – will be my sincere joy.”
Swinton started making films with the director Derek Jarman in 1985 with Caravaggio. They made seven more films together including Edward II for which she won the Best Actress award at the 1991 Venice International Film Festival.
The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia upon the recommendation of Venice Film Festival Director, Alberto Barbera.
Accepting the award, Swinton said: “This great festival has been dear to my heart for three decades: to be honored by her in this way is extremely humbling. To come to Venice, this year of all years, to celebrate immortal cinema and her defiant survival in the face of all the challenges that evolution might throw at her – as at us all – will be my sincere joy.”
Swinton started making films with the director Derek Jarman in 1985 with Caravaggio. They made seven more films together including Edward II for which she won the Best Actress award at the 1991 Venice International Film Festival.
- 7/20/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Scheduled for this year’s Cannes Film Festival was a 20th-anniversary screening of Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love. Along with awards for actor Tony Leung Chui-wai and editor, costume designer, and production designer William Chang Suk-ping, the film received the Grand Prize of the Superior Technical Commission for directors of photography Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bing. Doyle had hoped to present his latest films, including Love After Love, at the festival before it was postponed on April 14. Directed by Ann Hui, Love After Love is a period romance adapted from a work by writer Eileen Chang. […]...
- 4/29/2020
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Scheduled for this year’s Cannes Film Festival was a 20th-anniversary screening of Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love. Along with awards for actor Tony Leung Chui-wai and editor, costume designer, and production designer William Chang Suk-ping, the film received the Grand Prize of the Superior Technical Commission for directors of photography Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bing. Doyle had hoped to present his latest films, including Love After Love, at the festival before it was postponed on April 14. Directed by Ann Hui, Love After Love is a period romance adapted from a work by writer Eileen Chang. […]...
- 4/29/2020
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Amsterdam and Beijing-based sales company is also stepping into Asian TV series sales with Horizon Tower.
Fortissimo Films is launching sales at the Efm on two Chinese titles – fantasy action film The Yin-Yang Master: Dream Of Eternity and arthouse drama Hot Soup, directed by Zhang Ming, whose 2018 The Pluto Moment premiered in Cannes Directors Fortnight.
The Amsterdam and Beijing-based sales company is also stepping into Asian TV series sales with Horizon Tower, produced by Tencent Penguin Pictures. All three titles are currently in post-production and scheduled for delivery later in 2020.
Directed by Guo Jingming (Tiny Times franchise), The Yin-Yang Master:...
Fortissimo Films is launching sales at the Efm on two Chinese titles – fantasy action film The Yin-Yang Master: Dream Of Eternity and arthouse drama Hot Soup, directed by Zhang Ming, whose 2018 The Pluto Moment premiered in Cannes Directors Fortnight.
The Amsterdam and Beijing-based sales company is also stepping into Asian TV series sales with Horizon Tower, produced by Tencent Penguin Pictures. All three titles are currently in post-production and scheduled for delivery later in 2020.
Directed by Guo Jingming (Tiny Times franchise), The Yin-Yang Master:...
- 2/18/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Includes new films from Ann Hui, Mohamed Diab and Kaouther Ben Hania.Asia
Love After Love (China)
Dir. Ann Hui
Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui revisits the work of Eileen Chang with this adaptation of 1943 novella Aloeswood Incense about a young woman from Shanghai who heads to Hong Kong to continue her studies, but ends up working for her aunt, seducing rich and powerful men. The cast features Eddie Peng, Ma Sichun and Faye Yu. Hui is regularly feted on the Asian festival circuit but has not been selected for an A-list European event since 2011 when A Simple Life played in competition in Venice.
Love After Love (China)
Dir. Ann Hui
Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui revisits the work of Eileen Chang with this adaptation of 1943 novella Aloeswood Incense about a young woman from Shanghai who heads to Hong Kong to continue her studies, but ends up working for her aunt, seducing rich and powerful men. The cast features Eddie Peng, Ma Sichun and Faye Yu. Hui is regularly feted on the Asian festival circuit but has not been selected for an A-list European event since 2011 when A Simple Life played in competition in Venice.
- 1/14/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦¬134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
Love After Love
Hong Kong’s Ann Hui will be ready with her latest feature in 2020, the preliminarily titled Love After Love (which was the title of the 1992 Diane Kurys film as well as the 2017 indie film from Russell Harbaugh). Hui employs a stellar crew on her latest project, lensed by Wong Kar-Wai alum Christopher Doyle, costume designer Emi Wada (of Kurosawa’s Ran and Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers) and art director Zhao Hai (who also worked on Hui’s 2014 title The Golden Era). Eddie Peng (who worked on Yimou’s The Great Wall) and Ma Sichun (recently seen in Lou Ye’s The Shadow Play) headline.…...
Hong Kong’s Ann Hui will be ready with her latest feature in 2020, the preliminarily titled Love After Love (which was the title of the 1992 Diane Kurys film as well as the 2017 indie film from Russell Harbaugh). Hui employs a stellar crew on her latest project, lensed by Wong Kar-Wai alum Christopher Doyle, costume designer Emi Wada (of Kurosawa’s Ran and Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers) and art director Zhao Hai (who also worked on Hui’s 2014 title The Golden Era). Eddie Peng (who worked on Yimou’s The Great Wall) and Ma Sichun (recently seen in Lou Ye’s The Shadow Play) headline.…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Environmental crime drama had its world premiere at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival.
Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights to Argentinian environmental thriller Furtive, following its world premiere at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival.
Directed by Francisco D’Eufemia, the film follows a forest ranger on the trail of a group of poachers in a national park, whose motives soon become open to question.
D’Eufemia previously worked on documentaries and co-directed narrative feature Escape From Patagonia with Javier Zevallos in 2016. Furtive, his first feature as a solo director, also played at this year’s Tallin Black Nights Film Festival,...
Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights to Argentinian environmental thriller Furtive, following its world premiere at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival.
Directed by Francisco D’Eufemia, the film follows a forest ranger on the trail of a group of poachers in a national park, whose motives soon become open to question.
D’Eufemia previously worked on documentaries and co-directed narrative feature Escape From Patagonia with Javier Zevallos in 2016. Furtive, his first feature as a solo director, also played at this year’s Tallin Black Nights Film Festival,...
- 12/10/2019
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Actress/model Dree Hemingway ("Starlet"), the daughter of Mariel Hemingway ("Star 80") poses for the December 2019 issue of "Elle" (Spain) magazine, wearing Paco Rabanne fashion, photographed by Xavi Gordo:
The great-granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, Dree first played 'Jane', the lead in the feature "Starlet" (2012).
She was a 'Playboy Playmate' in the first 'non-nude' issue of Playboy magazine (March 2016).
Specializing in independent features, Hemingway had a supporting role in "Listen Up Philip" (2014)...
...and leading roles in "The People Garden" and "Live Cargo".
In 2017, Hemingway appeared in "It Happened in L.A.", "Love After Love", with upcoming films including "7x7", "In a Relationship"...
..."Wanderland", "Run With the Hunted", "The Unicorn" and "Violet".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dree Hemingway...
The great-granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, Dree first played 'Jane', the lead in the feature "Starlet" (2012).
She was a 'Playboy Playmate' in the first 'non-nude' issue of Playboy magazine (March 2016).
Specializing in independent features, Hemingway had a supporting role in "Listen Up Philip" (2014)...
...and leading roles in "The People Garden" and "Live Cargo".
In 2017, Hemingway appeared in "It Happened in L.A.", "Love After Love", with upcoming films including "7x7", "In a Relationship"...
..."Wanderland", "Run With the Hunted", "The Unicorn" and "Violet".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dree Hemingway...
- 12/9/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Exclusive: Andie MacDowell is set for a key supporting role opposite Tye Sheridan in Wireless, a survival thriller for Quibi that’s exec produced by Steven Soderbergh. Lukas Gage, Francesca Reale and Mace Coronel also have joined the cast in recurring roles.
Created and exec produced by newcomers Zach Wechter and Jack Seidman (Pocket), the series follows a self-obsessed college student (Sheridan) stranded in the Colorado mountains whose only hope for survival is the tool he has spent his whole life learning to use: his smartphone. Wireless is a survival thriller set inside the car he crashed and the quickly dying phone that now is his lifeline.
Character details for the new cast members are being kept under wraps.
Soderbergh will exec produce alongside Michael Sugar, Cathy Konrad and Danny Sherman, Wechter — who also directs the series, which is in production — and Seidman. Alpine Pictures’ Christian Heuer and Propagate’s Isabel San Vargas produce.
Created and exec produced by newcomers Zach Wechter and Jack Seidman (Pocket), the series follows a self-obsessed college student (Sheridan) stranded in the Colorado mountains whose only hope for survival is the tool he has spent his whole life learning to use: his smartphone. Wireless is a survival thriller set inside the car he crashed and the quickly dying phone that now is his lifeline.
Character details for the new cast members are being kept under wraps.
Soderbergh will exec produce alongside Michael Sugar, Cathy Konrad and Danny Sherman, Wechter — who also directs the series, which is in production — and Seidman. Alpine Pictures’ Christian Heuer and Propagate’s Isabel San Vargas produce.
- 12/4/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lisa Takeuchi Cullen has signed an overall deal with Universal Television. As part of the deal — her first overall pact — Cullen will develop new drama projects for the studio and serve as consulting producer on the historic 21st season of Law & Order: Svu.
“Lisa Takeuchi Cullen is a phenomenally talented writer and an inspiring collaborator,” said Universal Television’s Evp Drama Development Erin Underhill. “From the first time we developed with her, we knew she was a star and couldn’t wait to make her a part of the Universal Television family.”
Cullen made her TV debut with a spec script that became the 2013 CBS drama pilot The Ordained, starring Charlie Cox, Audra McDonald, Hope Davis and Sam Neill. Since then, she’s developed a number of series projects for broadcast and cable including Love After Love, a drama at NBC during the 2017-18 season based on an Argentinian format,...
“Lisa Takeuchi Cullen is a phenomenally talented writer and an inspiring collaborator,” said Universal Television’s Evp Drama Development Erin Underhill. “From the first time we developed with her, we knew she was a star and couldn’t wait to make her a part of the Universal Television family.”
Cullen made her TV debut with a spec script that became the 2013 CBS drama pilot The Ordained, starring Charlie Cox, Audra McDonald, Hope Davis and Sam Neill. Since then, she’s developed a number of series projects for broadcast and cable including Love After Love, a drama at NBC during the 2017-18 season based on an Argentinian format,...
- 7/30/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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
Crew includes DoP Christopher Doyle, costume designer Emi Wada and art director Zhao Hai.
Ann Hui’s Love After Love (working title) has started shooting in China with Eddie Peng, Ma Sichun and Faye Yu heading the cast.
The crew includes cinematographer Christopher Doyle (In The Mood For Love), costume designer Emi Wada (Hero), art director Zhao Hai (The Golden Era), sound designer Tu Duu Chih (In The Mood For Love) and editor Eric Kwong Chi-Leung (Battle Of Wits).
Peng starred in Hui’s 2017 drama Our Time Will Come and action hit Operation Mekong, while Ma’s credits include Lou Ye’s The Shadow Play,...
Ann Hui’s Love After Love (working title) has started shooting in China with Eddie Peng, Ma Sichun and Faye Yu heading the cast.
The crew includes cinematographer Christopher Doyle (In The Mood For Love), costume designer Emi Wada (Hero), art director Zhao Hai (The Golden Era), sound designer Tu Duu Chih (In The Mood For Love) and editor Eric Kwong Chi-Leung (Battle Of Wits).
Peng starred in Hui’s 2017 drama Our Time Will Come and action hit Operation Mekong, while Ma’s credits include Lou Ye’s The Shadow Play,...
- 5/24/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Eddie Peng (“Operation Mekong” “The Hidden Man”) will head the cast of “Love After Love” the new film by Hong Kong’s Ann Hui. He plays opposite Ma Sichun.
The picture, which started shooting on Wednesday in China, is the story of a young woman from Shanghai who travels to Hong Kong, borrows money, and falls in with a rich crowd whose luxury lifestyle is beyond her means. The story is a reworking of an Eileen Chang short story “Aloeswood Incense” and is Hui’s third Chang adaptation after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs.”
The film is backed by Alibaba Pictures, Hehe Pictures, Qingniao Pictures, Maxtime Culture, Black Ant Film and Dongtai Each Media. Fortissimo Films, which itself is backed by He He, handles international sales. The project was introduced to international distributors this week on the margins of the Cannes Film Festival.
A multi-award-winning crew included director of photography Christopher Doyle,...
The picture, which started shooting on Wednesday in China, is the story of a young woman from Shanghai who travels to Hong Kong, borrows money, and falls in with a rich crowd whose luxury lifestyle is beyond her means. The story is a reworking of an Eileen Chang short story “Aloeswood Incense” and is Hui’s third Chang adaptation after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs.”
The film is backed by Alibaba Pictures, Hehe Pictures, Qingniao Pictures, Maxtime Culture, Black Ant Film and Dongtai Each Media. Fortissimo Films, which itself is backed by He He, handles international sales. The project was introduced to international distributors this week on the margins of the Cannes Film Festival.
A multi-award-winning crew included director of photography Christopher Doyle,...
- 5/22/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Beijing and Amsterdam-based sales agent also adds Super Me, exec produced by the Russo Brothers, to its Cannes slate.
Fortissimo Films is launching sales in Cannes on Ann Hui’s latest drama, Love After Love, an adaptation of a short story by Eileen Chang.
Based on the story Aloeswood Incense, published in Chang’s Love In A Fallen City collection, the film follows a young woman who moves from Shanghai to Hong Kong in search of an education. However, she ends up working for her aunt by luring rich and powerful men and is forced into a loveless marriage with a playboy.
Fortissimo Films is launching sales in Cannes on Ann Hui’s latest drama, Love After Love, an adaptation of a short story by Eileen Chang.
Based on the story Aloeswood Incense, published in Chang’s Love In A Fallen City collection, the film follows a young woman who moves from Shanghai to Hong Kong in search of an education. However, she ends up working for her aunt by luring rich and powerful men and is forced into a loveless marriage with a playboy.
- 5/7/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Juliet Rylance has been tapped as the lead in The Hypnotist’s Love Story, ABC’s drama pilot based on the bestselling book by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty. She joins the project’s executive producer Heather Graham, who plays the co-lead; Adan Canto, who plays the male lead; and Jane Seymour, who co-stars.
Written by Katie Wech and directed by Francesca Gregorini, The Hypnotist’s Love Story centers on successful hypnotherapist Ellen (Rylance), who after a string of failed romances is optimistic about her current boyfriend, Patrick (Canto), until he reveals a disturbing truth: a stalker ex-girlfriend Sasha (Graham) has been following him for years. Ellen finds herself intrigued and oddly thrilled by the stalker, entirely unaware that they’ve already met.
Rylance’s Ellen is a passionate and talented hypnotherapist who has helped countless clients overcome obstacles and achieve their goals but never has...
Written by Katie Wech and directed by Francesca Gregorini, The Hypnotist’s Love Story centers on successful hypnotherapist Ellen (Rylance), who after a string of failed romances is optimistic about her current boyfriend, Patrick (Canto), until he reveals a disturbing truth: a stalker ex-girlfriend Sasha (Graham) has been following him for years. Ellen finds herself intrigued and oddly thrilled by the stalker, entirely unaware that they’ve already met.
Rylance’s Ellen is a passionate and talented hypnotherapist who has helped countless clients overcome obstacles and achieve their goals but never has...
- 3/8/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Family animation Charming to be Blue Finch’s first theatrical release.
Blue Finch Films - the UK distribution outfit set up by former Kaleidoscope executive Mike Chapman with sales exec Simon Crowe and financier Matthew Joynes in August this year - has picked up its first titles.
Among the deals is a title that will mark the company’s first theatrical release, family animation Charming. Directed and written by Ross Venokur, the film features the voices of Demi Lovato, Sia, Avril Lavigne and John Cleese in the story of three fairy tale princesses who find themselves engaged to the same guy,...
Blue Finch Films - the UK distribution outfit set up by former Kaleidoscope executive Mike Chapman with sales exec Simon Crowe and financier Matthew Joynes in August this year - has picked up its first titles.
Among the deals is a title that will mark the company’s first theatrical release, family animation Charming. Directed and written by Ross Venokur, the film features the voices of Demi Lovato, Sia, Avril Lavigne and John Cleese in the story of three fairy tale princesses who find themselves engaged to the same guy,...
- 11/2/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Andie MacDowell has boarded Radio Silence’s heightened genre thriller Ready or Not.
MacDowell joins Picnic at Hanging Rock actress Samara Weaving who has already been announced in the Fox Searchlight pic. Ready or Not tells the story of a young woman, who on the night of her wedding, is invited to her new in-laws time-honored tradition which turns into a lethal game of survival. MacDowell will play the mother-in-law to Weaving’s protagonist.
MacDowell is a three-time Golden Globe lead actress nominee for Green Card; Sex, Lies and Videotape; and Four Weddings and a Funeral. She received a special Golden Globe ensemble award for Robert Altman’s Short Cuts. Recent credits include IFC’s Love After Love which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, Only the Brave, the Netflix movie The Last Laugh with Richard Dreyfus and Chevy Chase and the TV series Cuckoo. MacDowell is repped by the Gersh Agency,...
MacDowell joins Picnic at Hanging Rock actress Samara Weaving who has already been announced in the Fox Searchlight pic. Ready or Not tells the story of a young woman, who on the night of her wedding, is invited to her new in-laws time-honored tradition which turns into a lethal game of survival. MacDowell will play the mother-in-law to Weaving’s protagonist.
MacDowell is a three-time Golden Globe lead actress nominee for Green Card; Sex, Lies and Videotape; and Four Weddings and a Funeral. She received a special Golden Globe ensemble award for Robert Altman’s Short Cuts. Recent credits include IFC’s Love After Love which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, Only the Brave, the Netflix movie The Last Laugh with Richard Dreyfus and Chevy Chase and the TV series Cuckoo. MacDowell is repped by the Gersh Agency,...
- 9/20/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Twenty years ago, "people would keep saying to me when I was interviewed: 'How does it feel to turn 40 and know that you’re not going to work anymore?'" Andie MacDowell recalls. She's proven those naysayers wrong, earning raves for her turn as a widow in this year’s drama Love After Love — and doing her first nude scene at 60. "Now everybody knows what I look like [naked], and I’m not worried about it anymore. I’d be happy to do it again." That’s not the only way Andie has stripped down to the bare essentials. The South Carolina native found fame in hits like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Groundhog Day, but left Hollywood for a Montana ranch. "I like to be in nature around trees," she says. "I had a big house, and I’ve had a small house, and I think I was happier in the smaller house.
- 9/16/2018
- by Editorial Staff
- Closer Weekly
Paris, 1963. Anne (Eléonore Klarwein) has just turned 13, while her cool older sister Frédérique (Odile Michel) already has a rep at age 15. Forty years after French filmmaker Diane Kurys’ semi-autobiographical debut (she’s the Anne of this story), “Peppermint Soda” is as refreshing and bubbly as any other coming-of-age film, a feature that was both ahead of its time and true to the life Kurys led as an impressionable teen. Turns out, growing up has always been awkward and weir and fun, and the enduring power of “Peppermint Soda” speaks to exactly that.
Kurys went on to direct a slew of signature features, including “Entre Nous” and “Love After Love,” but “Peppermint Soda” captures the filmmaker at her most effervescent. The film screened at both Tiff and Nyff, and went on to win Best Foreign Language Film from the National Board of Review.
On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, the...
Kurys went on to direct a slew of signature features, including “Entre Nous” and “Love After Love,” but “Peppermint Soda” captures the filmmaker at her most effervescent. The film screened at both Tiff and Nyff, and went on to win Best Foreign Language Film from the National Board of Review.
On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, the...
- 7/31/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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