Well Go USA Entertainment has announced that Fruit Chan’s genre-bending The Midnight After will be available on DVD and digitally on 21 June 2016.
The film premiered at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival and was the recipient of numerous prestigious nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography at the Hong Kong Film Awards, where it also won in the Best Original Score category.
Based on a cult internet novel by Hong Kong writer “Mr. Pizza“, The Midnight After follows a group of 16 bus passengers who find that, in the time between entering and emerging from a traffic tunnel, the city was struck by an apocalyptic event.
The innovative Chan sculpts a blend of horror, comedy, mystery and sci-fi, flinging his unique cast of characters into increasingly bizarre scenarios.
The film received critical praise for its tone, most notably the blasé manner in which characters respond to the otherworldly circumstances they find themselves in.
The film premiered at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival and was the recipient of numerous prestigious nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography at the Hong Kong Film Awards, where it also won in the Best Original Score category.
Based on a cult internet novel by Hong Kong writer “Mr. Pizza“, The Midnight After follows a group of 16 bus passengers who find that, in the time between entering and emerging from a traffic tunnel, the city was struck by an apocalyptic event.
The innovative Chan sculpts a blend of horror, comedy, mystery and sci-fi, flinging his unique cast of characters into increasingly bizarre scenarios.
The film received critical praise for its tone, most notably the blasé manner in which characters respond to the otherworldly circumstances they find themselves in.
- 5/17/2016
- by WarBanana
- AsianMoviePulse
Somewhere deep inside of us there's a spot that still hasn't forgiven director Fruit Chan for what he did to our psyche with his disturbing flick Dumplings (we can still hear that crunching). Will his next flick have the same effect?
Screen Daily reports that Hong Kong’s Golden Scene is producing Chan’s (pictured) first Hong Kong-set feature in almost a decade, sci-fi thriller The Midnight After, based on bestselling novel Lost on a Minibus by Mongkok To Tai Po.
Chan plans to start shooting in June with an ensemble cast including regulars from his previous films like Wong You Nam (Hollywood Hong Kong), Chui Tien You (Little Cheung) and Sam Lee (Made In Hong Kong). The cast also includes Hong Kong stars Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Janice Man, Kara Hui and Vincci Cheuk.
The story follows a group of passengers on a minibus who emerge from a tunnel...
Screen Daily reports that Hong Kong’s Golden Scene is producing Chan’s (pictured) first Hong Kong-set feature in almost a decade, sci-fi thriller The Midnight After, based on bestselling novel Lost on a Minibus by Mongkok To Tai Po.
Chan plans to start shooting in June with an ensemble cast including regulars from his previous films like Wong You Nam (Hollywood Hong Kong), Chui Tien You (Little Cheung) and Sam Lee (Made In Hong Kong). The cast also includes Hong Kong stars Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Janice Man, Kara Hui and Vincci Cheuk.
The story follows a group of passengers on a minibus who emerge from a tunnel...
- 5/19/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Golden Scene and One Ninety Films Co. are set to produce the Hong Kong-set sci-fi thriller "The Midnight After".
Fruit Chan ("Three Extremes: Dumplings," "Made in Hong Kong") will helm the project, based on the story "Lost on a Red Minibus to Taipo" by Mr. Pizza, with shooting to begin in June.
The story follows a group of passengers on a minibus who emerge from a tunnel to discover that every single person has disappeared from Hong Kong.
Then the remaining passengers start to go missing one by one. Wong You Nam, Chui Tien You, Sam Lee, Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Janice Man, Kara Hui and Vincci Cheuk star.
Source: Screen Daily...
Fruit Chan ("Three Extremes: Dumplings," "Made in Hong Kong") will helm the project, based on the story "Lost on a Red Minibus to Taipo" by Mr. Pizza, with shooting to begin in June.
The story follows a group of passengers on a minibus who emerge from a tunnel to discover that every single person has disappeared from Hong Kong.
Then the remaining passengers start to go missing one by one. Wong You Nam, Chui Tien You, Sam Lee, Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Janice Man, Kara Hui and Vincci Cheuk star.
Source: Screen Daily...
- 5/18/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Director: Steven Soderbergh Writer: Scott Z. Burns Starring: Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tien You Chui, Demetri Martin, Elliott Gould, Enrico Colantoni, Bryan Cranston, John Hawkes It is not without a bitter taste of irony that I type this review while coughing, sneezing and suffering from an oh-so-painful headache. Whether or not whatever the hell I have -- my assumption is that this is "just" allergies -- is contagious or not is unknown, yet I admit that I still rode public transportation and went to work on a large university campus today. After the H1N1 scare, I should know better; but unfortunately I live in a world where sometimes staying at home in bed is not always an option. This fast-paced, overpopulated, global society is precisely what Steven Soderbergh's Contagion comments on. We humans have manufactured a world where germs thrive...
- 9/9/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Chicago – In our latest special edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two advance-screening movie passes plus three grand prize packs up for grabs to the highly anticipated new film “Contagion” with Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law! The film, which also stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Laurence Fishburne, opens everywhere on Sept. 9, 2011.
“Contagion,” which was filmed in part in Chicago, also stars Bryan Cranston, John Hawkes, Jennifer Ehle, Sanaa Lathan, Tien You Chui, Josie Ho, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Griffin Kane, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Teri McEvoy, Sue Redman, Stef Tovar, Mary Jo Faraci and Grace Rex from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns. Four grand-prize winners will win the following prize packs:
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“Contagion,” which was filmed in part in Chicago, also stars Bryan Cranston, John Hawkes, Jennifer Ehle, Sanaa Lathan, Tien You Chui, Josie Ho, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Griffin Kane, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Teri McEvoy, Sue Redman, Stef Tovar, Mary Jo Faraci and Grace Rex from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns. Four grand-prize winners will win the following prize packs:
A “Contagion” water bottle A “Contagion” hand sanitizer Two “Contagion” T-shirts
To win your free “Contagion” admit-two advance-screening movie pass with your chance at the grand prize packs courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just refer a few friends to the free,...
- 9/1/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Wai Ying-Hong (aka Kara Hui), Chui Tien You in Ho Yuhang’s At the End of Daybreak Teddy Chen’s Bodyguards and Assassins was the big winner at the 2010 Hong Kong Film Awards, held on Sunday. Set in the early years of the 20th century, the action thriller with political undertones — and a national blockbuster ($44 million) — received a total of eight awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor (Nicholas Tse). Other Hong Kong Film Award top winners included Best Actress Wai Ying-Hong, who plays a single mother whose son is accused of rape in At the End of Daybreak, and writer-director Alex Law, who won the Best Screenplay award for Echoes of the Rainbow, a [...]...
- 4/19/2010
- by Irene Young
- Alt Film Guide
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