The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival drifted to a conclusion in midweek, with project awards presented on Wednesday, followed by Thursday’s festival closing events. These involved a screening of portmanteau film “Tales of Taipei” followed by a sit-down dinner-cum-ceremony with a breezy pair of speeches and no prizes.
The film fortnight then sprang to life again on Saturday evening when the 60th edition of the Golden Horse Film Awards represented a new climax. The winners were announced at a ceremony at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.
For decades the Golden Horse awards had been the most prestigious prize ceremony in the Chinese-language firmament. That high profile has been harder to maintain over the last couple of years, given that the mainland Chinese industry is under government instruction to boycott the event, following a pro-independence speech given by an award winner at the 2018 ceremony.
Parts of the Hong Kong industry have stayed away too.
The film fortnight then sprang to life again on Saturday evening when the 60th edition of the Golden Horse Film Awards represented a new climax. The winners were announced at a ceremony at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.
For decades the Golden Horse awards had been the most prestigious prize ceremony in the Chinese-language firmament. That high profile has been harder to maintain over the last couple of years, given that the mainland Chinese industry is under government instruction to boycott the event, following a pro-independence speech given by an award winner at the 2018 ceremony.
Parts of the Hong Kong industry have stayed away too.
- 11/25/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Cmc Capital Partners takes ‘minority strategic investment’ in agency.
CAA and Chinese media investment fund Cmc Capital Partners (Cmc) on Monday announced they have formed a partnership that includes the launch of CAA China.
Cmc has made a “minority strategic investment” in CAA and Cmc chairman Li Ruigang will join the CAA board.
The move will enable CAA to strengthen its ties to the region after it established an office in Beijing in 2005, which currently houses more than 24 employees.
Jonah Greenberg will continue to lead the agency’s China activities in film, while Roeg Sutherland, co-head of CAA’s Global Film Finance and Sales Group, will continue to lead the film finance business in the market.
CAA China will add additional senior management. The partnership will enable CAA to parlay its expanding operations in China and Cmc’s network and experience in entertainment and sports into opportunities in talent representation, endorsements, sports...
CAA and Chinese media investment fund Cmc Capital Partners (Cmc) on Monday announced they have formed a partnership that includes the launch of CAA China.
Cmc has made a “minority strategic investment” in CAA and Cmc chairman Li Ruigang will join the CAA board.
The move will enable CAA to strengthen its ties to the region after it established an office in Beijing in 2005, which currently houses more than 24 employees.
Jonah Greenberg will continue to lead the agency’s China activities in film, while Roeg Sutherland, co-head of CAA’s Global Film Finance and Sales Group, will continue to lead the film finance business in the market.
CAA China will add additional senior management. The partnership will enable CAA to parlay its expanding operations in China and Cmc’s network and experience in entertainment and sports into opportunities in talent representation, endorsements, sports...
- 4/17/2017
- ScreenDaily
The partners are moving ahead on their local-language co-production and Chinese remake of the rom-com in a move that will resonate with the global vision of new Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Tom Rothman.
My Best Friend’s Wedding is scheduled to open in China on Valentine’s Day 2016 and stars Shu Qi, Feng Shaofeng, Song Qian aka Chinese singer and actress Victoria Song (pictured) and Ye Qing.
Alexi Tan of Blood Brothers and Color Me Love fame will direct and produce with his company Play Productions.
Principal photography is scheduled to commence in late July on location in London, Italy and Beijing.
My Best Friend’s Wedding centres on a journalist who sets off to London to visit her lifelong best friend and win his heart after he announces he is to be married to a wealthy Chinese girl.
Hong Jiu, Fu Linran and Tan co-wrote the screenplay.
“We are delighted to be collaborating with Columbia Pictures on this...
My Best Friend’s Wedding is scheduled to open in China on Valentine’s Day 2016 and stars Shu Qi, Feng Shaofeng, Song Qian aka Chinese singer and actress Victoria Song (pictured) and Ye Qing.
Alexi Tan of Blood Brothers and Color Me Love fame will direct and produce with his company Play Productions.
Principal photography is scheduled to commence in late July on location in London, Italy and Beijing.
My Best Friend’s Wedding centres on a journalist who sets off to London to visit her lifelong best friend and win his heart after he announces he is to be married to a wealthy Chinese girl.
Hong Jiu, Fu Linran and Tan co-wrote the screenplay.
“We are delighted to be collaborating with Columbia Pictures on this...
- 5/26/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
In a move to expand its footprint in China, Columbia Pictures has revisited its local production ties and entered into split-rights deals with Chinese production companies.
Principal photography has commenced in Xianghe, Hebei Province, on Chen Kaige’s (pictured) martial arts feature The Monk.
The film is a Cao Huayi presentation produced by Chen Hong, who produced Kaige’s previous two features.
New Classics Media will distribute in China in summer 2015 while Sony Pictures Releasing International handles the rest of the world including Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The Monk is based on Xu Haofeng’s novel Dao Shi Xia Shan (A Monk Comes Down The Mountain) and marks Columbia Pictures’ second recent production in mainland China following the co-production Gone With The Bullets from director Jiang Wen, currently in post.
Wang Baoqiang stars alongside Taiwanese actress Lin Chi-ling and Fan Wei in the story of a monk on a quest who must defend a supremely important book.
Columbia Pictures...
Principal photography has commenced in Xianghe, Hebei Province, on Chen Kaige’s (pictured) martial arts feature The Monk.
The film is a Cao Huayi presentation produced by Chen Hong, who produced Kaige’s previous two features.
New Classics Media will distribute in China in summer 2015 while Sony Pictures Releasing International handles the rest of the world including Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The Monk is based on Xu Haofeng’s novel Dao Shi Xia Shan (A Monk Comes Down The Mountain) and marks Columbia Pictures’ second recent production in mainland China following the co-production Gone With The Bullets from director Jiang Wen, currently in post.
Wang Baoqiang stars alongside Taiwanese actress Lin Chi-ling and Fan Wei in the story of a monk on a quest who must defend a supremely important book.
Columbia Pictures...
- 3/12/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
In this rollicking adventure, feisty young Lan Ting (Chiling Lin, Red Cliff) is kidnapped by master criminal Pork Rib (Eric Tsang) who wants to get hold of a map held by Lan's dad. The parchment allegedly shows the site of a mythical Chinese city hidden deep beneath the desert. Fortunately, The Green Hornet's Jay Chou is on hand to aid the damsel in distress..
- 10/9/2012
- Sky Movies
As the Cannes film festival is underway, a trailer for Switch (富春山居图) has been release at this event. No official word on the story behind the 20-million budgeted action adventure film yet but from the trailer, I'm assuming leading man Andy Lau plays a special agent akin to James Bond and much like any of the James Bond films, the key ingredients are present: exotic international location, mysterious femme fatale and thrilling stunt sequence. The director is Jay Sun and the other cast member include Zhang Jingchu, Lin Chi-ling and Tong Dawei.You'll find the trailer embedded below....
- 5/19/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi is set to appear in an upcoming Japan-China co-production called Sweetheart Chocolate alongside Taiwanese actress Chi-ling Lin (Moon Lovers, Red Cliff).
The movie is said to feature a tragic love story involving three main characters and spanning two decades. Lin plays an exchange student from Shanghai named Yue Lin. Ikeuchi plays a ski patrol member she meets in Yubari, Hokkaido.
Junichi Mori was originally attached to the project as director when it was first listed on the Shanghai International Film Festival website, but Tetsuo Shinohara has since taken the helm. Ikeuchi’s casting was reportedly Shinohara’s idea, and received strong support from the Chinese staff. They previously worked together in 2003’s Showa Kayo Daizenshuu.
Filming with a mix of Chinese and Japanese staff began on the 15th of this month in Yubari after about a year of preparation. The production will later move to China.
In order to fit in,...
The movie is said to feature a tragic love story involving three main characters and spanning two decades. Lin plays an exchange student from Shanghai named Yue Lin. Ikeuchi plays a ski patrol member she meets in Yubari, Hokkaido.
Junichi Mori was originally attached to the project as director when it was first listed on the Shanghai International Film Festival website, but Tetsuo Shinohara has since taken the helm. Ikeuchi’s casting was reportedly Shinohara’s idea, and received strong support from the Chinese staff. They previously worked together in 2003’s Showa Kayo Daizenshuu.
Filming with a mix of Chinese and Japanese staff began on the 15th of this month in Yubari after about a year of preparation. The production will later move to China.
In order to fit in,...
- 3/27/2012
- Nippon Cinema
The filming of the long-awaited Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains has begun. The director, Sun Jianjun is on a mission to top the stunts of Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible 4, which is also set in Dubai. In fact, there are many similarities between both films, the most obvious being that Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains promises to be an action-thriller with lots of flashy boats and cars, amazing stunts, and breathtaking views of Dubai.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is the first offering from the Chinese movie industry to be filmed internationally. Sun Jianjun told reporters that their film will be much better at representing Dubai’s beauty and unique identity, rather than the cliched view of Arab countries which never seem to lack sandstorms, turbans, and camels. This movie will star Andy Lau, Chiling Lin, and Jingchu Zhang and, with a budget of $20 millions Usd, they will have only...
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is the first offering from the Chinese movie industry to be filmed internationally. Sun Jianjun told reporters that their film will be much better at representing Dubai’s beauty and unique identity, rather than the cliched view of Arab countries which never seem to lack sandstorms, turbans, and camels. This movie will star Andy Lau, Chiling Lin, and Jingchu Zhang and, with a budget of $20 millions Usd, they will have only...
- 1/19/2012
- by ahmedfernando
- AsianMoviePulse
The Golden Horse Awards were held last night. They're often thought of as the Chinese Oscars because the tradition goes back the furthest and honors a wide pool of Chinese language films from multiple countries (China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, etcetera). Though neither Monga, Taiwan's submission for Oscar's Foreign Language Film competition, nor Aftershock (China's submission), were nominated for Best Picture they both had multiple nominations .
Monga, a popular youth crime drama we've mentioned before, won Best Actor for 28 year old Ethan Ruan (left), who amusingly brought a cardboard cutout of his co-star who was not nominated. And yes he brought the cutout with him onstage when he won. He said...
Woo! Sorry, I brought my buddy along. [mimicing his co-star] 'Hi everyone. I'm Mark Chao'...to big laughs from the crowd.
Here's the Best Actor presentation. The clips begin at 2:25 after Li BingBing and Tony Leung Ka Fai (yes,...
Monga, a popular youth crime drama we've mentioned before, won Best Actor for 28 year old Ethan Ruan (left), who amusingly brought a cardboard cutout of his co-star who was not nominated. And yes he brought the cutout with him onstage when he won. He said...
Woo! Sorry, I brought my buddy along. [mimicing his co-star] 'Hi everyone. I'm Mark Chao'...to big laughs from the crowd.
Here's the Best Actor presentation. The clips begin at 2:25 after Li BingBing and Tony Leung Ka Fai (yes,...
- 11/21/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
HollywoodNews.com: Three international stars are coming together for watches.
Actress Kate Winslet is teaming up with Indian actress Aishwarya Rai and Taiwanese model Chi-ling Lin to film a commercial, reports Oh No They Didn’t. The three starlets are filming the commercial together for Swiss watchmaker Logines’ DolceVita collection.
The commercial is reportedly based on the 1960s film La Dolce Vita. Filming is taking place in Rome, Italy.
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Actress Kate Winslet is teaming up with Indian actress Aishwarya Rai and Taiwanese model Chi-ling Lin to film a commercial, reports Oh No They Didn’t. The three starlets are filming the commercial together for Swiss watchmaker Logines’ DolceVita collection.
The commercial is reportedly based on the 1960s film La Dolce Vita. Filming is taking place in Rome, Italy.
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- 7/20/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Chicago – When moviegoers think of John Woo, the first image that comes to mind isn’t legions of ancient armies fighting each other with bows and arrows, but rather two men holding each other at gunpoint (as in his 1992 classic “Hard-Boiled”). His best action set-pieces are the most intimate, with gunplay and bloodshed taking on an almost balletic grandeur.
Yet at age 61, Woo was clearly ready to venture out into new terrain, and tackle a project he had been dreaming up for nearly two decades, based on Guanzhong Luo’s 14th century historical novel, “Romance of the Three Kingdoms.” It’s reportedly the most expensive film ever made in China, and certainly one of the most audacious. Unfortunately, like many epic films aiming to reach an international audience, the picture has been butchered for mass consumption.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0
“Red Cliff” was originally a five-hour epic released theatrically in two parts...
Yet at age 61, Woo was clearly ready to venture out into new terrain, and tackle a project he had been dreaming up for nearly two decades, based on Guanzhong Luo’s 14th century historical novel, “Romance of the Three Kingdoms.” It’s reportedly the most expensive film ever made in China, and certainly one of the most audacious. Unfortunately, like many epic films aiming to reach an international audience, the picture has been butchered for mass consumption.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0
“Red Cliff” was originally a five-hour epic released theatrically in two parts...
- 4/2/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… China! It's a full fifty-nine minutes into John Woo's new film, Red Cliff, before the first white dove appears. I don't mention that to be cheeky (well maybe a little cheeky), but instead I'm bringing it up because it shows a certain amount of restraint on the part of the dove-loving director. It's one of the very few instances where Woo's film seems to take it's sweet time, and while that sounds like a criticism it actually isn't for a couple reasons. One, the version of Red Cliff currently playing in limited Us release is actually a truncated two and a half hour cut of two complete films (that were themselves over two hours each). And two...
- 12/4/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Photo: Magnet Releasing In searching for a way to describe John Woo's Red Cliff the best I can come up with is to call it exactly what it is, a beautifully rendered 208 A.D. Chinese epic living in the world of a John Woo blockbuster popcorn feature. However, such a description seems almost contradictory, but nonetheless as accurate as I can get when referring to this equally playful, romantic and violent war story loosely based on the 14th-century Chinese novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."
I wish I was more familiar with the early work of director John Woo, but other than his highly acclaimed Hard Boiled, I'm afraid my knowledge is limited to his mixed bag of Hollywood features with Face/Off being my favorite of the bunch. However, I guess I'm not entirely at a loss as Woo has commissioned one of his Hard Boiled stars in...
I wish I was more familiar with the early work of director John Woo, but other than his highly acclaimed Hard Boiled, I'm afraid my knowledge is limited to his mixed bag of Hollywood features with Face/Off being my favorite of the bunch. However, I guess I'm not entirely at a loss as Woo has commissioned one of his Hard Boiled stars in...
- 11/20/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
A critic and enthusiast as old as myself was feeling bad for director John Woo a few years back. The American-produced 2002 World War II epic Windtalkers, concerning Native American code-breakers, was both widely misunderstood and unfairly subject to Private Ryan fatigue. It threw one-time cinephile cult-favorite Woo's already tentative Hollywood career into a tailspin; or at least that's how it looked to both his American claque and the detractors who felt his highly personal style of action-movie direction created too much friction with Tinseltown convention. His next picture, the indifferent, star-driven P.K. Dick adaptation Paycheck, provided a ready-made punchline concerning its ambitions and executions with its very title.
So rather than force the issue, Woo and longtime producing partner Terence Chang headed East once more, to embark on the most ambitious project of their long on-hold Asian careers: a massive two-part historical epic budgeted at $80 million—the biggest Asian-movie budget in history,...
So rather than force the issue, Woo and longtime producing partner Terence Chang headed East once more, to embark on the most ambitious project of their long on-hold Asian careers: a massive two-part historical epic budgeted at $80 million—the biggest Asian-movie budget in history,...
- 11/17/2009
- MUBI
(John Woo, above.)
By Terry Keefe
Director John Woo tells a story in the interview below about one major difference between his experience working on Hollywood blockbusters, and making Red Cliff (Chi Bi), his blockbuster-sized film which he shot in China with strong support from the Chinese government: he never had to sit through endless development meetings. He simply said he wanted to make the film, came up with a budget, received financing, and shot it. As someone who actually was a [very junior level] studio development executive at one time, I loved hearing this. The process by which films are created today at the studios, as it has been for a few decades now, is ridiculously time-consuming and both financially and creatively wasteful. Practically every script “fast“-tracked for production goes through a gauntlet of seemingly endless story notes in which not only the director, but also the studio, the producer, the stars,...
By Terry Keefe
Director John Woo tells a story in the interview below about one major difference between his experience working on Hollywood blockbusters, and making Red Cliff (Chi Bi), his blockbuster-sized film which he shot in China with strong support from the Chinese government: he never had to sit through endless development meetings. He simply said he wanted to make the film, came up with a budget, received financing, and shot it. As someone who actually was a [very junior level] studio development executive at one time, I loved hearing this. The process by which films are created today at the studios, as it has been for a few decades now, is ridiculously time-consuming and both financially and creatively wasteful. Practically every script “fast“-tracked for production goes through a gauntlet of seemingly endless story notes in which not only the director, but also the studio, the producer, the stars,...
- 11/13/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Director John Woo and actor Chow Yun-Fat are reuniting for the action epic Battle of Red Cliff. The Hard Boiled duo, who made their names working together on a string of Hong Kong hits in the late 1980s, will team up with Hero's Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Taiwanese supermodel Lin Chiling for the project based on part of Han dynasty novel titled Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Written by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon co-writer Wang Hui-ling, the Lion Rock Entertainment project is not to be confused with a similar project inspired by the book, starring Maggie Q and Andy Lau. Shooting on both projects, however, is scheduled to start in March.
- 12/12/2006
- IMDbPro News
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