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Johnny & Clyde follows the story of two serial killers, Johnny (Avan Jogia) and Clyde (Ajanu Russell) as they plan to rob crime boss Alana’s (Megan Fox) casino.

In an exclusive interview with uInterview founder Erik Meers, Bai Ling revealed what it was like working with Fox on set.

“I’ve always liked Megan, I think she just somehow appeared to me, very sexy,” she began. “You know, this beautiful sexiness, you know. She’s white, I’m Asian, almost kind of similar quality, like kind of outrageous, extreme, and sexy, talented, and beautiful. I think that, you know, that quality on screen is very important because it’s visual, you know. People like to see it, feel it, even though in the film you know, we work together, but physically we do not work together because of our schedule’s differences but it’s the magic of film that you just cut it together.

The drama about two sisters is from first-time feature director Sasha Chuk.

Hong Kong project Fly Me To The Moon won five awards at the closing of this year’s Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.

The film will mark the feature directorial debut of Sasha Chuk and is produced by Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan, whose films as a director include Venice 2005 title Everlasting Regret, Cannes 2001 film Lan Yu and Berlin competition titles Center Stage, The Island Tales, Hold You Tight and Red Rose White Rose.

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Fly Me To The Moon was among...

Chow Yun Fat’s ‘One More Chance’ to be relaunched at the market.

Taiwan’s Distribution Workshop is set to introduce Cannes buyers to Philip Shih’s horror Antikalpa and relaunch Chow Yun-fat drama One More Chance.

Antikalpa is a Taiwanese supernatural horror that centres on a group of high school students who are lured into practicing mysterious rituals with demonic results. Adapted from a bestselling novel by Ling Jing, the film is set for a November release.

The cast includes Huang Guan-Zhi (TV series Detention), Regina Lei (The Sadness) and Tseng Wan-Ting (Gatao - The Last Stray). It marks...

Colleen Kwok’s “The Stars The Sun The Moon” won the top prize for a Hong Kong-produced in-development project at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum. Mainland Chinese title “Not Found” by Huang Ningwei won the equivalent prize for the best non-Hong Kong project.

A total of 14 prizes were announced at a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, with “Silent Ghosts,” another local project, directed by Hang Yeng, collecting the top work in progress award.

Haf organizers said that this year’s online platform hosted more than 900 private meetings between filmmakers and potential backers, a figure that was almost double the level of activity in 2020, when Covid forced the project market into a virtual format for the first time.

The third time it has been staged remotely, Haf this year hosted 43 projects, including 15 works-in-progress. There were also 11 Hong Kong projects, with 21 filmmakers presenting their debut feature projects. The event ran for three...

Winners revealed at virtual Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.

Yang Heng’s Silent Ghosts was awarded the Works-in-Progress prize at the close of this year’s virtual Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.

The Hong Kong fantasy drama was chosen from 15 projects presented this week at Haf, which took place online for the third time this year due to ongoing pandemic restrictions.

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Selected for its “originality and creativity,” the project received a cash award of $12,800. Produced by Yan Ni for No Chopsticks Pictures, the story centres on a tourist who follows the trail of...

“Papa Fujii’s Unexpected Journey,” a film project about a Japanese man’s attempt to understand his dead daughter’s life in Taiwan was named as the grand prize winner at the 2012 edition of the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion event. It wins a Nt$1 million prize.

Prizes were announced on Wednesday evening at a ceremony as part of the ongoing Golden Horse Film Festival. The Golden Horse Film Awards, often regarded as the most important for Chinese-language cinema, will be announced on Saturday (Nov. 27).

“Unexpected Journey” is to be directed by Hou Chi-jan, a writer-director and cinematographer best known for his 2012 film “When a Wolf Falls in Love With a Sheep.” The jury judging the project market praised the project’s “humanistic warmth and portrayal of intergenerational reconciliation,” and said that it is “not only poetic but also possesses commercial potential.”

The project market involved a record-high 63 works with some in development,...

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A new summer love story is already in the works, and Ross Butler is here to make us sigh longingly as we patiently wait for it to hit our screens. On Nov. 11, the To All the Boys: P.S I Still Love You star announced that he would be taking on his first role as executive producer with a movie adaptation of Abigail Hing Wen's New York Times Bestselling novel Loveboat, Taipei, directed by Arvin Chen.

"Here we go! Very excited to announce my next project that also happens to be my first venture into producing!" he wrote in an Instagram post. "I also [cannot] wait for you to meet the charismatic @ashleyjliao who I will be playing opposite in this hilarious romantic adventure. In the end, what drives me the most is knowing that we are all still here working hard to unearth and redefine the Asian American identity.

There’s something about childhood memories that’s inherently sweet, hopeful—how we saw and remembered the world before we learned about loss and disappointment. Multi-hyphenate Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical drama Belfast, told through the perspective of his 9-year-old self, has that innocent good cheer in spades. It also touches on the Irish fate of leaving and pays tribute to those who did so in search of a better life. From a formal stance, there’s not much here to blow one away, but the film’s heartfelt sentiments and polished production should have no trouble appealing to the general audience.

Set in 1969, Belfast takes place in a working-class neighborhood of the Northern Irish capital. The times are simpler: people dance in the streets, kids run around unsupervised, everyone knows everyone. But the times are also changing. Tension between Catholics and Protestants is rising, the economy is flailing, restlessness and frustration fill the air.

The 44th Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF44) announced the award winners of this year. Sinophone – especially Taiwanese – films did especially well this year. The award of Emerging Director – Narrative Feature went to Keff, director of “Taipei Suicide Story”, and the award of Emerging Director – Documentary Feature went to Wei Deng, director of “Father”. The full list of award winners and nominees is highlighted below. A hybrid festival combining in-person events with online screenings, AAIFF44 took place from Aug. 11-22.

AAIFF44 celebrated storytelling by the Aapi community with 102 feature and short films, in-person events such as Comedy Night Out and Music Video Showcase, as well as in-person and livestreamed panels including Americanish: A Case Study in American-Muslim Representation, 35 Years of Taipei Stories, and A Paradise Lost: Hollywood’s Effect on Hawai’i. 13 jury prize award winners were determined by leading industry professionals including Isabel Sandoval, director/producer/screenwriter of “Lingua Franca”, Bao Tran,...

From April 15th to 21st, the new Asian film festival Electric Shadows in Antwerp, Belgium, presents the free-access online event ‘Voices of Youth. Unseen Taiwanese films of the 1960s’. The program consists of a selection of Taiwanese films from the 1960s that have recently been rediscovered and restored.

The two film programs will be introduced by Victor Fan, Reader at Kings College London specializing in cinema from China and Hong Kong. On Saturday April 17, expert in Taiwanese cinema Wafa Ghermani will present her lecture ‘Mou Tun-fei and his exceptional position in Taiwan film history’, followed by a live Q&a with both speakers.

The film programs can be viewed free of charge across Europe, the lecture and Q&a are open to a global audience.

You can find more information on the website and via the Facebook event. Register for free for the lecture and Q&a here.

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Exclusive: Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals), Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy) and Erin Kellyman (Solo) are in negotiations for the three female leads in Willow, Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s upcoming TV series follow-up to the 1988 fantasy movie, with the film’s star Warwick Davis reprising his title role, I have learned. The new incarnation of Willow comes from Jonathan Kasdan, who wrote the pilot and serves as co-showrunner alongside Wendy Mericle; Jon M. Chu, who will direct the pilot episode; the original film’s director Ron Howard and writer Bob Dolman; as well as Lucasfilm, which produced the movie. A rep for Disney+ declined comment.

The Willow movie, written by Dolman from a story by George Lucas, starred Davis as a reluctant farmer who leads a ragtag crew on a quest to protect a special baby from a tyrannical queen who vows to destroy her.

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James Su (Su Che Hsien) was born in Taiwan, but lived in Beijing from 2011 until 2014. He got his Film Director degree (Mfa) from the Applied Media Arts School, National Taiwan University of Arts. His first film, “Hip Hop Storm”was awarded as “best documentary” in Taipei Golden Horse Award in 2010, which made James the youngest person to be awarded this. James directed a lot of Tvc and Short Films covering Taiwan and Mainland China markets. In 2019, he worked on “Summer”, a mainland China-Taiwan co-production long feature film and also for the first time created a short feature film, “Nine Shots”.

On the occasion of Nine Shots screening at Vienna Shorts, we speak with him about his career, the difference between feature and documentary, the film and the situation with immigrants in Taiwan, and many other topics

You were the youngest director to win a Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary.

Actor Justin Chon appeared in all five Twilight films and a number of TV shows before making his directorial debut in 2015 with Man Up. His second feature, the provocatively titled Gook, premiered in the Next lineup at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The film was shot by Ante Cheng, a Los Angeles-based cinematographer from Taipei. Cheng had previously shot shorts and directed commercials and music videos before getting tapped by Chon for Gook. Prior to the film’s debut at Sundance, Cheng spoke with Filmmaker about shooting in black and white, his favorite Los Angeles-set films and finding inspiration in the words of cinematographer Harris Savides. […]...

Shoot underway on Brooklyn and Taiwan-set drama from writer-director Jason Lester.

Shoot is underway on Us drama Taipei, starring rising actors Justin Chon (Twilight), whose film Gook, which he directed and stars in, will premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and Screen Star Of Tomorrow Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals), recently cast in the upcoming Disney feature The Nutcracker And The Four Realms.

Based on the novel from Tao Lin, the film follows the unexpected, fast-blooming romance between Brooklyn writers Erin and Paul.

It tracks the pair through a spontaneous wedding, drug binges, all-night urban revels, and to Taiwan, the country of Paul’s birth, where the couple will confront their individual alienation.

Jason Lester wrote and is directing the film, which is his feature debut. Mark L. Lester and Jesy Odio are producing with Jeff Sackman and Berry Meyerowitz executive producing.

“Taipei is about love, alienation, loneliness, drugs, writing, technology – how we can exist and connect amidst...

Ellie Bamber and Justin Chon have joined the cast of Jason Lester's romance Taipei, based on the novel by Tao Lin. The film, which has begun shooting, follows the unexpected, fast-blooming romance between Brooklyn writers Erin (Bamber) and Paul (Chon). It tracks the pair through a spontaneous wedding, drug binges, all-night urban revels and to Taiwan, the country of Paul's birth, where the couple will confront their individual alienation. Jason Lester wrote and is…...

Justin Chon, better known to Twilight fans as Eric Yorkie, together with Ellie Bamber, most recently seen in Nocturnal Animals and now cast in Disney's big-screen remake of The Nutcracker, have nabbed lead roles in the upcoming drama Taipei.

The film, which began principal photography Friday, is being directed by Jason Lester in his feature-length debut and is based on the acclaimed 2013 novel by Tao Lin. The story follows the fast-blooming romance between Brooklyn, N.Y., writers Erin and Paul, tracking the pair through a spontaneous wedding, drug binges, all-night urban revels and a trip to Taiwan, the country of...