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Disney Won’t Promote ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Until After ‘Mission: Impossible’ Opens
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Just a few days ago Disney announced the title of the first Star Wars spin-off movie: Star Wars: Rogue One. And shortly afterward, Paramount released the first teaser and the final title for the new Mission: Impossible movie, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation . Jokes flew immediately about the similar titles, but as it turns out there was […]
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- Russ Fischer
Simon Kinberg Will Turn Ruairi Robinson’s ‘The Leviathan’ Into a Full-Length Feature
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Ruairi Robinson‘s proof of concept trailer for The Leviathan became an overnight sensation when it hit Vimeo and YouTube last week, and Hollywood has taken notice. A feature film is now in the works with two men who know a thing or two about bringing vast sci-fi universes to life: Simon Kinberg (X-Men) and Neill […]
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- Angie Han
David Gordon Green Talks Globetrotting Next Film ‘Our Brand Is Crisis’ And Taking Actors “Safely Into Dangerous Places”
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Quietly turning in two back-to-back Texas gems in the form of “Joe” and “Manglehorn” (the latter of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and hits theatres soon via IFC Films), director David Gordon Green seems to have struck gold with a home turf advantage —during production of “Manglehorn,” he could ride his bike to nearly every location. But he’s set a challenge for himself with follow-up “Our Brand is Crisis,” a political comedy-drama starring Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy and Billy Bob Thornton. “Bolivia, Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Colorado, and Los Angeles,” Green told us at SXSW of his globetrotting filming locations, going on to hint further at what the film has in store. Based on the 2005 documentary of the same name by Rachel Boynton, Green’s film focuses on questionable political strategies used by U.S. consultancy company Greenberg Carville Shrum during on the 2002 Bolivian political elections. »
- Charlie Schmidlin
Mindy Kaling on Whether or Not These 6 Classic Rom-Com Couples Are Still Together
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And they lived happily ever after. Maybe. But probably not. If there's one thing I really, really love in this dark world we live in, it's a good romantic comedy. You know the ones. They make you cry. They make you sigh. They cause a goofy, delirious smile to take over your face. Fortunately for me, Mindy Kaling loves them just as much as I do. And decided TV was majorly lacking in the rom-com department (it was), and gifted us unabashed saps with The Mindy Project in 2012, a weekly rom-com-gone-wrong, a perfect blend of love letter and satire to the genre. When I recently sat down with Mindy, we bonded over our shared love of You've Got Mail, quoting lines "She makes coffee nervous!") »
Korea's Up introduces 'The Priests'
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Korea’s United Pictures (Up) has launched sales at Filmart on new exorcist thriller The Priests.
The film stars Kim Yun-seok from Haemoo and The Thieves with Gang Dong-won from Woochi and Secret Reunion.
Produced by Zip Cinema (Cold Eyes, Woochi) and directed by Jang Jae-hyun, the film is currently in production for release in mid-2015.
In The Priests, a young girl falls into a coma after a hit-and-run accident and Father Kim and a young seminarian named Choi suspect it’s not a simple case of a coma but that she is possessed by an evil spirit.
Up is also selling documentary Wonders, directed by Cho Jung rae and Kim Bo-kyung and produced by Tps Company.
Set for an April release in Korea, the film investigates he dissolution of Korea’s first independent professional baseball team, the Goyang Wonders, while telling the true story of coach Kim Sung-geun and his players who “lived for baseball »
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Nippon sells sci-fi 'Strayer's Chronicle' to S Korea
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Exclusive: Japan’s Nippon TV has pre-sold Heaven’s Story director Takahisa Zeze’s sci-fi thriller Strayer’s Chronicle to Nk Contents for South Korea.
Starring Masaki Okada (Life Back Then) and Shota Sometani (Himizu), the film features the struggles of two sets of genetically manipulated children who grow up with extraordinary powers that could either save or destroy the world.
Warner Brothers Japan has the film set for theatrical release locally in June 27.
Nippon TV has also picked up romantic comedy Heroine Shikkaku (aka No Longer Heroine), based on the popular manga series by Momoko Koda.
Starring Mirei Kiritani (Ace Attorney), Kenta Yamazaki (L・Dk) and Kentaro Sakaguchi (Umimachi Diaries), the high school lesbian love triangle film is directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa (Handsome Suit, Sadako 3D).
The company also has Initiation Love, directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi (Memories of Tomorrow), starring Shota Matsuda (Boys Over Flowers) and Atsuko Maeda (Tamako in Moratorium).
The film, in post-production »
- hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
Hideo Nakata's 'Ghost Theatre' scares up sales
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Exclusive: Japan’s Nikkatsu has sold J-horror master Hideo Nakata’s new film Ghost Theater to Red Pictures Pte. Ltd. for Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.
The Ring director is currently in post-production on the film which takes place in a haunted playhouse.
A young actress, Sara, who lands a leading role in a major play, soon encounters bitter rivalry amongst her fellow cast members which escalates into out-and-out hatred.
Strange things start happening at rehearsals and Sara begins to investigate a very real and menacing threat.
Starring Haruka Shimazaki, Rika Adachi, Riho Takada and Keita Machida, the film is due for release in Japan in the third quarter of 2015. »
- hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
Hk's Sun Entertainment shines on seven films
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Hong Kong-based Sun Entertainment Culture is unveiling several new projects at Filmart, including romantic drama Concerto Of The Bully, starring Ronald Cheng and Janice Man.
Fung Chih-chiang has scripted and will direct Concerto Of The Bully, which is based on his novel about a street punk who kidnaps a gifted songwriter who never forgets anything she has heard.
Peter Kam, who won a Berlin Silver Bear for best music for Isabella in 2006, has written the score of the film, which is currently in pre-production.
Sun is also introducing Fire Lee’s Robbery, which stars Derek Tsang, J. Aire and Lam Suet in a story about a series of bizarre events at a corner convenience store.
The Cantonese-language drama is in post-production for release later this year.
Sun has also invested in Wilson Chin’s ‘girls with guns’ action drama, Special Female Force, starring Anita Chui, Jeana Ho and Eliza Sam.
Chin previously »
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One Cool Group debuts with Soi Cheang thriller
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A collective of Hong Kong companies, under the banner One Cool Group, launched their debut slate of productions at Filmart yesterday, which includes as as-yet-untitled crime thriller to be produced by Soi Cheang.
Jonathan Li Chi-jun will direct the project which interweaves the world of the internet and reality. Soi Cheang’s credits include The Monkey King and upcoming action drama SPL2: A Time For Consequences.
One Cool Group’s debut slate also includes an untitled youth love story to be produced by Sam Lee and directed by Sam Leong Tak-sam; an untitled crime mystery to be directed by Cash Chin Man-kei; and an untitled drama about a soccer coach inspiring his team to be directed by Lam Chi-chung.
Sam Lee and Lam Chi-chung are both well-known Hong Kong actors – Lee regularly works with Fruit Chan, while Lam starred in Stephen Chow’s Kung-fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer.
The slate also includes two horror movies – Get Outta »
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Mega-Vision plots Macau 3, Invincible 12
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Hong Kong-based Mega-Vision Pictures (Mvp) is unwrapped a slate of five new projects at Filmart, including action title The Invincible 12 and a third instalment in the From Vegas To Macau franchise.
The Invincible 12 will mark the 100th movie of Mvp founder and veteran producer-director Wong Jing, whose credits as director include the wildly successful From Vegas To Macau movies.
The second instalment in the franchise recently grossed $160m in mainland China. The third instalment, again to be produced by Andrew Lau, will be released over Chinese New Year 2016.
Mvp’s slate also includes children’s adventure film Girl Of The Big House, starring Francis Ng and Angela Wang (From Vegas To Macau), about a battle of wits between a group of street kids and a gang of robbers.
Meanwhile, action drama Cheat Me If You Can revolves around a small-time conman who goes undercover for the police to help investigate a money laundering case in Macau.
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Hk's Emperor unveils 15 films on 15th anniverary
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Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) launched a 15-film slate at Filmart to commemorate its 15th anniversary.
The line-up includes titles such as Chapman To-directed and Herman Yau-produced The Mobfathers, Stanley Kwan-produced romantic drama Love In Sicily, Fruit Chan’s suspense thriller Kill Time and the new Yuen Wo-ping Project.
For The Mobfathers, the makers of Sara are collaborating again on a dark comedy set in the Hong Kong underworld where the five leading gangs are holding an election for the ruling boss.
For Love In Sicily, Lin Yu-Hsien (Jump Ashin!) directs Korean star Lee Jun-ki in a coming-of-age love story set in Shanghai and Italy.
Angelababy and Ethan Ruan star in Kill Time, a film about an obscure shopping website that leads to a vital clue in a mysterious murder.
Albert Lee is producing the Yuen Wo-ping Project, an as-yet-untitled comedy in which eccentric martial artists gather for an epochal kung-fu showdown »
- hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
Korea's M-Line has 'Wonderful Nightmare'
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Exclusive: Korea’s M-Line Distribution has picked up three films for international sales.
The pick-ups are led by family drama Wonderful Nightmare, starring Uhm Jeong-hwa (Dancing Queen) and Song Seung-heon (Obssessed).
Directed by Kang Hyo-jin (Dirty Blood, Twilight Gangsters), the film follows a fast-tracked lawyer who is killed in an automobile accident. She wakes in heaven to find that her death was a clerical error and it was actually an old woman with the same name who was meant to die.
To hide the mistake, she is asked to live as another woman - a housewife who was also killed by mistake – for just one month. Married to a very ordinary civil servant with a difficult teenage daughter and a precocious six-year-old, she finds herself changing in unexpected ways.
The film, in post-production, is set for a May release in Korea.
M-Line also has comic action feature Untouchable Lawmen, starring Yim Chang-jung and Choi Daniel.
Directed by Shin »
- hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
Wu Jing's 'Wolf Warrior' heads to Us
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Exclusive: Well Go USA has swooped on North American rights to Easternlight Films’ 3D war epic Wolf Warrior, directed by and starring Wu Jing.
Yu Nan and Scott Adkins [pictured] also star in Wolf Warrior, which is in post-production and will be available in IMAX 3D.
Easternlight has also sold it to Noori Pictures for Thailand, Viswaas for India and Myanmar Cineplex for Myanmar.
Wu Jing stars as a Chinese special forces soldier who is expelled from the army and joins a mysterious troupe of insurgents known as the Wolf Warriors.
Yu Nan plays the formidable female captain of the insurgents, while Scott Adkins plays a foreign mercenary out to capture him.
Easternlight, the Asian arm of Arclight Films, previously worked with Wu Jing on Spl and Legendary Assassin.
The film will be released in China on April 2, one day before Easternlight’s Outcast, starring Nicolas Cage, which was mysteriously pulled from release last year. »
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Malaysia's Said shooting supernatural 'Interchange'
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Exclusive: Malaysian director Dain Iskandar Said has started shooting supernatural thriller Interchange, the first project to be backed by Malaysia’s new slate financing fund Sonneratia Capital.
Produced by Said and Nandita Solomon’s Apparat, the film stars Malaysian actors Iedil Putra (Nova) and Shaheizy Sam (Songlap) along with Indonesia’s Prisia Nasution (The Dancer) and Nicholas Saputra (Postcards From The Zoo). Solomon is producing the film.
The story revolves around a forensics photographer investigating a series of macabre ritual murders. He meets a woman who reveals she is a shaman from Borneo, trying to free her tribes people, whose souls have been trapped in glass plate negatives.
A division of Rhizophora Ventures, Sonneratia Capital plans to provide partial slate financing for Malaysian films with export potential. It will invest in up to four qualifying films from Apparat and is in talks with further Malaysian production companies.
Rhizophora Ventures group managing director Michael Lake, who formerly »
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Hk's Mei Ah grows slate with Jet Tone, Gordon Chan
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Exclusive: Hong Kong’s Mei Ah Entertainment will unveil several projects at Filmart today, including a co-production with Wong Kar Wai’s Jet Tone Productions titled Drive Me Crazy, and a Boyhood-inspired drama, Growing Up, which will be shot over a period of 15 years.
Drive Me Crazy, a $12m romantic drama scripted by Zhou Jingzhi (The Grandmaster), tells the story of a jilted bride who pays a stranger to take her on a road trip from Beijing to Yunnan.
Chen Chang and Luodan Wang (The Continent) will head the cast of the film, which is currently in pre-production. The director has yet to be confirmed.
Produced by Manfred Wong and directed by Yu Zhong, Growing Up will follow a group of child actors as they grow up in Beijing – with the aim of capturing the growth of the city and China as a country, as well as the children.
In addition, Gordon Chan and [link »
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