The Hong Kong box office recorded a rise of 22.2% year-on year over the Easter holiday weekend led by We 12, the action comedy starring all 12 members of Cantopop boy band Mirror.
Gross box office in the territory from March 29 to April 1 was $4.7m (Hk$36.8m) further powered by new releases Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire and Kung Fu Panda 4, according to data provided by Hong Kong Box Office.
Last year, the Easter weekend ran from April 7-10 and marked a return to pre-pandemic levels, up 1.6% on Easter 2019.
Distributed by Edko Films, We 12 topped the four-day chart with revenues of...
Gross box office in the territory from March 29 to April 1 was $4.7m (Hk$36.8m) further powered by new releases Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire and Kung Fu Panda 4, according to data provided by Hong Kong Box Office.
Last year, the Easter weekend ran from April 7-10 and marked a return to pre-pandemic levels, up 1.6% on Easter 2019.
Distributed by Edko Films, We 12 topped the four-day chart with revenues of...
- 4/3/2024
- ScreenDaily
Trinity CineAsia has acquired UK and Ireland rights to We 12, the upcoming action comedy starring all 12 members of Cantopop boy band Mirror, in a deal with Hong Kong’s Makerville.
The film will open in UK and Ireland cinemas on March 29, the day after its release in Hong Kong through Edko Films, and coincides with the Easter holiday weekend.
Directed by Berry Ho and written by Lai Sze Cheung, the story follows 12 members of an underground organisation who secretly maintain peace in the world using a range of extraordinary skills. After long being separated, they must reunite to steal an...
The film will open in UK and Ireland cinemas on March 29, the day after its release in Hong Kong through Edko Films, and coincides with the Easter holiday weekend.
Directed by Berry Ho and written by Lai Sze Cheung, the story follows 12 members of an underground organisation who secretly maintain peace in the world using a range of extraordinary skills. After long being separated, they must reunite to steal an...
- 3/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
The caper or heist film is one of the sub-genres of action that has a lot to offer thematically and stylistically if done correctly. If we think back to “To Catch a Thief” or even the “Oceans”-series, the world these stories show are a reflection of a society based on materialism and property, with the thieves sharing the same obsession as the owners of the object they want to steal. On the other hand, given its potential to be an ensemble piece, the caper/heist feature also offers actors the chance to shine. Steve Yuen's “The Moon Thieves”, the director's third feature, tries to combine the two aspects of the genre, but fails to offer some depth to its otherwise intriguing premise.
The Moon Thieves is released exclusively in UK cinemas by Central City Media
Uncle (Keung To) is a major player in the Hong Kong underworld and...
The Moon Thieves is released exclusively in UK cinemas by Central City Media
Uncle (Keung To) is a major player in the Hong Kong underworld and...
- 2/29/2024
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The Hong Kong box office was dominated by a trio of local titles over Chinese New Year, earning almost $8m (Hk$62m) in 10 days.
Taking the top spot was Table For Six 2, with a cumulative box office of $4.07m (Hk$31.86m) as of February 18, while The Moon Thieves ($2.5m/Hk$19.58m) and Rob N Roll ($1.35/Hk$10.54m) ranked second and third respectively.
All three opened on Chinese New Year’s Eve (February 9) when multiple tentpole titles traditionally open to take full advantage of the lucrative festive period.
Ensemble family comedy Table For Six 2 rode on the success of its predecessor,...
Taking the top spot was Table For Six 2, with a cumulative box office of $4.07m (Hk$31.86m) as of February 18, while The Moon Thieves ($2.5m/Hk$19.58m) and Rob N Roll ($1.35/Hk$10.54m) ranked second and third respectively.
All three opened on Chinese New Year’s Eve (February 9) when multiple tentpole titles traditionally open to take full advantage of the lucrative festive period.
Ensemble family comedy Table For Six 2 rode on the success of its predecessor,...
- 2/20/2024
- ScreenDaily
Three members of Hong Kong Cantopop band Mirror feature in this fiendishly watchable crime caper which steals much from Ocean’s Eleven and, oddly, Asmr videos
Here is a very silly and yet fiendishly watchable heist thriller that features three members – Edan Lui, Anson Lo and Keung To – of the Hong Kong Cantopop boyband Mirror in major roles. That’s worth knowing not because they break into song at any point, but because that explains the film’s prepackaged feel and why at least one of the actors, Keung To, feels so weirdly miscast as a ruthless gangster. But as with much of the plot mechanics in this film, it’s best not to think too much and just roll with punches.
The obscure objects of desire here are vintage watches: specifically a trio of timepieces owned at one point by Pablo Picasso and a fourth watch alleged to have been...
Here is a very silly and yet fiendishly watchable heist thriller that features three members – Edan Lui, Anson Lo and Keung To – of the Hong Kong Cantopop boyband Mirror in major roles. That’s worth knowing not because they break into song at any point, but because that explains the film’s prepackaged feel and why at least one of the actors, Keung To, feels so weirdly miscast as a ruthless gangster. But as with much of the plot mechanics in this film, it’s best not to think too much and just roll with punches.
The obscure objects of desire here are vintage watches: specifically a trio of timepieces owned at one point by Pablo Picasso and a fourth watch alleged to have been...
- 2/20/2024
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The crime drama will be released on December 30.
Trinity CineAsia has acquired Hong Kong tentpole The Goldfinger for the UK and Ireland after striking a deal with Emperor Motion Pictures.
The crime drama will reunite Hong Kong superstars Andy Lau and Tony Leung with writer/director Felix Chong for the first time since 2002’s Infernal Affairs. That film, co-written by Chong and directed by Lau and Alan Mak, spawned a trilogy of films and inspired Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Oscar-winning crime thriller The Departed.
UK-based Trinity CineAsia will theatrically release The Goldfinger in UK and Irish cinemas on December 30, co-ordinated with...
Trinity CineAsia has acquired Hong Kong tentpole The Goldfinger for the UK and Ireland after striking a deal with Emperor Motion Pictures.
The crime drama will reunite Hong Kong superstars Andy Lau and Tony Leung with writer/director Felix Chong for the first time since 2002’s Infernal Affairs. That film, co-written by Chong and directed by Lau and Alan Mak, spawned a trilogy of films and inspired Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Oscar-winning crime thriller The Departed.
UK-based Trinity CineAsia will theatrically release The Goldfinger in UK and Irish cinemas on December 30, co-ordinated with...
- 10/31/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Figures returned to pre-pandemic levels.
RankFilmApr 7-10Total gross to date Week 1. Super Mario Bros: The Movie $1.91m (Hk$14.97m) $2.94m (Hk$23.06m) 1 2. Over My Dead Body $742,000 (Hk$5.83m) $1.32m (Hk$10.33m) 1 3. John Wick: Chapter 4 $449,000 (Hk$3.53m) $3.81m (Hk$29.94m) 3 4. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
$140,000 (Hk$1.1m) $637,000 (Hk$5m) 2 5. Suzume $137,000 (Hk$1.08m) $3.31m (Hk$26.66m) 6
Hong Kong’s box office returned to pre-pandemic levels over the four-day Easter weekend, led by US animation The Super Mario Bros. Movie and local feature Over My Dead Body.
Total revenues reached $3.83m (Hk$30m) from April 7-10, up 1.6% on Easter 2019 (April 19-...
RankFilmApr 7-10Total gross to date Week 1. Super Mario Bros: The Movie $1.91m (Hk$14.97m) $2.94m (Hk$23.06m) 1 2. Over My Dead Body $742,000 (Hk$5.83m) $1.32m (Hk$10.33m) 1 3. John Wick: Chapter 4 $449,000 (Hk$3.53m) $3.81m (Hk$29.94m) 3 4. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
$140,000 (Hk$1.1m) $637,000 (Hk$5m) 2 5. Suzume $137,000 (Hk$1.08m) $3.31m (Hk$26.66m) 6
Hong Kong’s box office returned to pre-pandemic levels over the four-day Easter weekend, led by US animation The Super Mario Bros. Movie and local feature Over My Dead Body.
Total revenues reached $3.83m (Hk$30m) from April 7-10, up 1.6% on Easter 2019 (April 19-...
- 4/12/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The progress of director Eric Tsang Hing-weng has been gradual but steady. Hailing from a journalism and communications background at University, he has participated in Johnnie To's Fresh Wave Short Film Competition a number of times, working first as a Dop on the award winning “Liu Yang He” and then as a director himself with the Best Film winning “The Umbrella” followed by “A Thousand Sails”, which premiered at Sundance. In 2022, he finally progressed from the constraints of the short form to make his feature-length debut with “Hong Kong Family”, which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival.
The Sunny Side of the Street is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Middle-aged couple Ling and Chun head to their ancestral home for the winter solstice dinner with their children Yeung and Ki. All through the journey, the two continue arguing over petty matters, an argument that continues when they reach their destination.
The Sunny Side of the Street is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Middle-aged couple Ling and Chun head to their ancestral home for the winter solstice dinner with their children Yeung and Ki. All through the journey, the two continue arguing over petty matters, an argument that continues when they reach their destination.
- 3/17/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Some 16 titles were showcased at a packed launch in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) presented a massive line-up of 16 titles at Filmart, including actor Nicholas Tse’s directorial debut New Police Story 2 and a further two action films also led by Tse.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first New Police Story, which was directed by the late filmmaker Benny Chan. The new feature reunites the original cast, including Tse, Jackie Chan and Charlene Choi, from the original film. Chan will produce for Tse who will direct for the first time.
The film is set to enter production this year,...
Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) presented a massive line-up of 16 titles at Filmart, including actor Nicholas Tse’s directorial debut New Police Story 2 and a further two action films also led by Tse.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first New Police Story, which was directed by the late filmmaker Benny Chan. The new feature reunites the original cast, including Tse, Jackie Chan and Charlene Choi, from the original film. Chan will produce for Tse who will direct for the first time.
The film is set to enter production this year,...
- 3/15/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The Special Opening Film of the 18th Osaka Asian Film Festival (running from March 10-19) will be the World Premiere screening of “Over My Dead Body” (死屍死時四十四), an ensemble comedy directed by Ho Cheuk Tin (何爵天). It will have its World Premiere on March 15 at ABC Hall along with a ceremony.
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Welcome to Seaside Heights, a fancy residential building where a group of residents experience a night of chaos and comedy after the nude body of a man appears and threatens to cause scandal and plunging property values!
It all begins when Ming (Wong You Nam), together with his wife (Jennifer Yu), mother-in- law (Teresa Mo), and brother-in-law (Alan Yeung Wai Lun), finds an anonymous naked body lying at their doorstep. Fearing that the presence of a corpse will turn their unit into a “murder home” and its property value will nosedive and impoverish them, their bickering family unite...
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Welcome to Seaside Heights, a fancy residential building where a group of residents experience a night of chaos and comedy after the nude body of a man appears and threatens to cause scandal and plunging property values!
It all begins when Ming (Wong You Nam), together with his wife (Jennifer Yu), mother-in- law (Teresa Mo), and brother-in-law (Alan Yeung Wai Lun), finds an anonymous naked body lying at their doorstep. Fearing that the presence of a corpse will turn their unit into a “murder home” and its property value will nosedive and impoverish them, their bickering family unite...
- 2/26/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
‘My Nineteen-Year-Old Self’ withdrawn over public screening consent issues.
Courtroom drama The Sparring Partner has received 16 nominations for the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards, which saw the last-minute withdrawal of Mabel Cheung’s documentary To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self.
The Sparring Partner, which marks the feature directorial debut of Ho Cheuk Tin, leads the pack with nominations in all but three categories. Based on the true story of a gruesome double murder case, its nods include best film, best director and five nominations for performers including lead actors Mak Pui Tung and Yeung Wai Lun. The film has become Hong Kong...
Courtroom drama The Sparring Partner has received 16 nominations for the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards, which saw the last-minute withdrawal of Mabel Cheung’s documentary To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self.
The Sparring Partner, which marks the feature directorial debut of Ho Cheuk Tin, leads the pack with nominations in all but three categories. Based on the true story of a gruesome double murder case, its nods include best film, best director and five nominations for performers including lead actors Mak Pui Tung and Yeung Wai Lun. The film has become Hong Kong...
- 2/9/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Riding on the box office success in Hong Kong of its “Table for Six,” Edko Films, the production, distribution and exhibition conglomerate headed by Bill Kong (“Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”), is launching a trio of new titles at the American Film Market this week.
One titles is courtroom drama “A Guilty Conscience,” which follows the aftermath of a manslaughter case in which a barrister’s mistake lands his supermodel client in jail. The path to an appeal, however, seems like justice itself is on trial.
Writer and director Jack Ng is making his feature directing debut on the drama; his track record as a writer that includes Edko’s 2021 hit “Anita” and “Cold War II.” The company’s confidence is such that the picture is set as Edko’s biggest title for the crucial Chinese New Year slot. It stars Dayo Wong and Louise Wong (“Anita”).
Eric Tsang Hing Wen...
One titles is courtroom drama “A Guilty Conscience,” which follows the aftermath of a manslaughter case in which a barrister’s mistake lands his supermodel client in jail. The path to an appeal, however, seems like justice itself is on trial.
Writer and director Jack Ng is making his feature directing debut on the drama; his track record as a writer that includes Edko’s 2021 hit “Anita” and “Cold War II.” The company’s confidence is such that the picture is set as Edko’s biggest title for the crucial Chinese New Year slot. It stars Dayo Wong and Louise Wong (“Anita”).
Eric Tsang Hing Wen...
- 11/2/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Starring two members of boyband Mirror, it is set to world premiere in Busan.
Hong Kong-based Edko Films has picked up worldwide rights to Eric Tsang Hing-weng’s Hong Kong Family, which is set to world premiere at Busan International Film Festival.
Starring Edan Lui and Anson Lo, from hit Hong Kong boyband Mirror, along with veteran actors Teresa Mo and Tse Kwan Ho, the family drama is based on Tsang’s own family experience. Marking his feature directorial debut, it follows a family that was torn apart after their last winter solstice dinner turned sour. Eight years later, a...
Hong Kong-based Edko Films has picked up worldwide rights to Eric Tsang Hing-weng’s Hong Kong Family, which is set to world premiere at Busan International Film Festival.
Starring Edan Lui and Anson Lo, from hit Hong Kong boyband Mirror, along with veteran actors Teresa Mo and Tse Kwan Ho, the family drama is based on Tsang’s own family experience. Marking his feature directorial debut, it follows a family that was torn apart after their last winter solstice dinner turned sour. Eight years later, a...
- 10/6/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The family comedy drew bigger audiences than the latest Marvel superhero film.
Disney blockbuster Thor: Love And Thunder led the Hong Kong box office on its second weekend of release but was beaten in terms of admissions by local family comedy Chilli Laugh Story.
Coba Cheng’s Cantonese comedy earned 1.06m (HK8.3m) over its opening weekend (July 14-17), making it the third highest four-day opening weekend for a local film in the Covid-19 pandemic. It recorded 123,587 admissions, which was 14.3 higher than Thor: Love And Thunder.
However, the Marvel superhero sequel grossed 4.9 more in ticket sales (1.11m /HK8.7m) than...
Disney blockbuster Thor: Love And Thunder led the Hong Kong box office on its second weekend of release but was beaten in terms of admissions by local family comedy Chilli Laugh Story.
Coba Cheng’s Cantonese comedy earned 1.06m (HK8.3m) over its opening weekend (July 14-17), making it the third highest four-day opening weekend for a local film in the Covid-19 pandemic. It recorded 123,587 admissions, which was 14.3 higher than Thor: Love And Thunder.
However, the Marvel superhero sequel grossed 4.9 more in ticket sales (1.11m /HK8.7m) than...
- 7/19/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Lockdown and New Year have something in common. They both bring family members closer (in any sense) and allow them – or force them – to share joys and pains. “Chilli Laugh Story” is the debut feature of young director Coba Cheng, who plays on this convenient communality, and sets this classic Lunar New Year comedy based on his own similar experience, in the Hong Kong community during the lockdown. Because of those same featured restrictions, the film couldn’t be released in cinemas for the New Year, but it is finally out now and also due to UK theatres these days.
The house-bound Cheung family is composed by proud dad Alan (Ronald Cheng), mum Rita (Gigi Leung) eternally worrying and dreaming of owning a flat in Hong Kong one day, and son Coba (Edan Lui) who struggles to work from home, disturbed all day by dad’s television and the constant...
The house-bound Cheung family is composed by proud dad Alan (Ronald Cheng), mum Rita (Gigi Leung) eternally worrying and dreaming of owning a flat in Hong Kong one day, and son Coba (Edan Lui) who struggles to work from home, disturbed all day by dad’s television and the constant...
- 7/14/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
A Hong Kong family’s lockdown project to market a much-loved home recipe is an engaging effort that might just appeal to international tastes
As film distributors are all too painfully aware, comedies are notoriously difficult to export from one culture to another, however successful they may have been in their home territory. But this perky Cantonese feature is relatable and timely, given the story revolves around an extended family of working-class Hong Kong strivers trying to get ahead and survive the recent pandemic.
Twentysomething protagonist Coba Cheung (popstar Edan Cheuk-On Lui), lives in a modest flat with his hardworking mother Rita (Gigi Leung) and charming but shiftless dad Alan (Ronald Cheng). An average student who doesn’t have the same prospects as his friends from wealthier families, Coba has to do what he can with a natural hustler’s instinct. As Covid-19 hits Hong Kong hard and confines everyone indoors,...
As film distributors are all too painfully aware, comedies are notoriously difficult to export from one culture to another, however successful they may have been in their home territory. But this perky Cantonese feature is relatable and timely, given the story revolves around an extended family of working-class Hong Kong strivers trying to get ahead and survive the recent pandemic.
Twentysomething protagonist Coba Cheung (popstar Edan Cheuk-On Lui), lives in a modest flat with his hardworking mother Rita (Gigi Leung) and charming but shiftless dad Alan (Ronald Cheng). An average student who doesn’t have the same prospects as his friends from wealthier families, Coba has to do what he can with a natural hustler’s instinct. As Covid-19 hits Hong Kong hard and confines everyone indoors,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Trinity Cine Asia has acquired upcoming Hong Kong comedy “Chilli Laugh Story” for distribution in the U.K. and North America.
The work-from-home story of the director Coba Cheng’s relatives sees a locked-down family starting an online business during the pandemic. It stars Sandra Ng, who also produces, Ronald Cheng, Gigi Leung and Edan Lui, a member of the wildly popular Hong Kong boy band Mirror.
The film earned nearly 150,000 in previews at the Hong Kong box office last weekend and goes on full release from July 14, 2022. It will open theatrically in the U.K., where there is a growing expatriate Hong Kong population, the following day. A release in U.S. and Canadian theaters will follow on July 22.
The film was produced by Treasure Island Production with rights sales handled by Peter Chan’s We Distribution. It was originally set to release at Chinese New Year in February,...
The work-from-home story of the director Coba Cheng’s relatives sees a locked-down family starting an online business during the pandemic. It stars Sandra Ng, who also produces, Ronald Cheng, Gigi Leung and Edan Lui, a member of the wildly popular Hong Kong boy band Mirror.
The film earned nearly 150,000 in previews at the Hong Kong box office last weekend and goes on full release from July 14, 2022. It will open theatrically in the U.K., where there is a growing expatriate Hong Kong population, the following day. A release in U.S. and Canadian theaters will follow on July 22.
The film was produced by Treasure Island Production with rights sales handled by Peter Chan’s We Distribution. It was originally set to release at Chinese New Year in February,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Keung To and Jer Lau, two members of the wildly-popular Hong Kong boy band Mirror will make their screen debut with a feature film produced by Emperor Motion Pictures, the company announced on Monday.
The currently untitled production is to be directed by writer-director Kearan Pang (“29+1”) and will also star award-winning actress Teresa Mo (“Tomorrow Is Another Day”). Pang was previously a guest star of ViuTV’s reality show “King Maker,” in which Mirror was discovered.
Details of the production such as story synopsis, budget, start date and international sales company are yet to be revealed. However, it was indicated that Mo and Keung will play mother and son roles.
Mirror and four-piece boy band Error were formed following the first season of “King Maker” in 2018. But they did not shoot to superstardom until this year. In the last few months, they have become an antidote to the political strife...
The currently untitled production is to be directed by writer-director Kearan Pang (“29+1”) and will also star award-winning actress Teresa Mo (“Tomorrow Is Another Day”). Pang was previously a guest star of ViuTV’s reality show “King Maker,” in which Mirror was discovered.
Details of the production such as story synopsis, budget, start date and international sales company are yet to be revealed. However, it was indicated that Mo and Keung will play mother and son roles.
Mirror and four-piece boy band Error were formed following the first season of “King Maker” in 2018. But they did not shoot to superstardom until this year. In the last few months, they have become an antidote to the political strife...
- 8/17/2021
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
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