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Opening This
Week: December 20 - 26
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December 26, 2008 |
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Happy
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This week, Lady Cop & Papa Crook, the
made-in-Hong Kong, is released in the mainland China. This
semi-comedy-semi-actioner is the newest from writing-directing pair
Alan Mak and Felix Chong. The story, inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s
Heaven and Hell, is about a red-colored diesel trafficking
kingpin asks a short-tempered woman chief detective of the HKPD to
find his kidnapped son. The rescue mission quickly becomes a joint
operation between the HKPD and the mainland police. Release of the
film in Hong Kong has been pushed back to the New Year day.
Mainland Chinese director Feng Xiaogang’s comedy
If You Are The One arrives at Hong Kong theaters this
Thursday. Both Lady Cop & Papa Crook and If You Are The
One are jointly produced by Beijing-based Huayi Brothers and
Hong Kong-based Media Asia. The difference is Lady Cop & Papa
Crook is purely a mainland production with Huayi Brothers owning
the majority of the rights; and If You Are The One is a Hong
Kong movie with Media Asia as the major financier. These are the
results of a strategic alliance between two studios, which helps
both of them to grab more profit in each other's territories.
Foreign language films becoming available this
week include:
China – Hollywood animation Bolt.
Hong Kong – Japanese manga-adapted crime-solving
drama
Garireo,
and two kid’s movies,
Bedtime Stories
and
The Tale of Despereaux.
Taiwan – Australia, US drama Elegy
(pushed back from last week), Hollywood comedy Four Christmases,
comic adaptation
The Spirit, and Japanese
crime solving drama
Suspect X.
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Opening This
Week: December 13 - 19
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December 19, 2008 |
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If You Are The One |
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After making war drama
Assembly,
Chinese director Feng Xiaogang returned to his old territory of
comedy and made
If You Are The One,
about a romantic story of a newly-rich self-made inventory and a
flight attendant.
Ip Man is released in Hong Kong theater this week. It is a
biopic which is loosely based on the story of master Ip Man, who
trained Bruce Lee before he became an international star. It shows
how he transformed from a stay-at-home husband and father to a
fighter against the Japanese occupation.
Desire of Love ,
a mainly mainland Chinese made comedy is also released in Hong Kong.
Forever Enthralled ,
the biopic of Peking opera artist Mei Lanfang's biopic by Chen Kaige,
opens this Friday in Taiwan.
Foreign language
films
becoming available this week include:
China - Finish family fantasy story
Joulutarina.
Hong Kong - France-Japan-Germany-South Korea jointly produced drama
Tokyo!,
Hollywood thriller
Twilight, and three kid's
movie: Thomas the Tank Engine's
The Great Discovery,
Hollywood animation
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,
and Japanese anime
Pok閙on: The Rise of Darkrai.
Taiwan - US drama
Elegy, French actioner
Transporter 3, and US romantic
story
Nick and Norah''s Infinite Playlist.
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RED CLIFF 2
Trailer
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December 17, 2008 |
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The second part of John Woo's historical war drama Red Cliff will
start rolling out in Asian this month. This is a trailer made for
the Chinese market.
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Opening This
Week: December 6 - 12
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December 16, 2008 |
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All About Women |
Ip Man |
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This week, Tsui Hark's modern day comedy
All About Women
is released in Hong Kong, the mainland China and Taiwan, and Ip Man,
a semi-documentary, the latest from Wilson Yip, Sammo Hung and
Donnie Yen is opened in the mainland.
All About Women ,
was allegedly a remake of Tsui Hark's
Peking Opera Blues
but turned out to be something else. It tells the
stories of three young single women in today's Beijing, a white
collar who masterfully using her beauty to make men hopelessly fall
for her and to pave the way for her success; an unattractive doctor,
who knows everything about rectum and nothing about men; and a lead
band singer plus boxer, who has a perfect boyfriend existing only in
her own fantasy.
Ip Man
is a biopic which is loosely based on the story of master Ip Man,
who trained Bruce Lee before he became an international star. It
shows how he transformed from a stay-at-home husband and father to a
fighter against the Japanese occupation.
Legendary Assassin,
the directorial debut of Beijing-born action star Wu Jing, is also
released this week in the mainland China, one week after arriving in
Hong Kong theaters.
Hollywood thriller The Day the Earth Stood
Still are released both in Hong Kong and Taiwan this week.
Hollywood comedy Four Christmases is another new title
becoming available in Hong Kong. In Taiwan, new movies for this week
also include: French drama A Christmas Tale, US drama The
Family That Preys, Thailand-made children抯 story My Girl, and
Hollywood movie Twilight.
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Wars and a Peace Time - Taiwan's 45th
Golden Horse Film Awards
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December 6, 2008 |
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Double winner Peter Chan,
for producing and directing
The Warlords, is kissing his actress wife Sandra Ng. |
Beast Leading Actor winner Zhang Hanyu and Best
Leading Actress winner Prudence Liew. |
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Tonight, two heaviest awards, Best Feature Film
and Best Director are given to Hong Kong director Peter Chan抯
The Warlords. Alone with Best Visual Effects, the film with a
story set in the Chinese civil war in the mid-19th century, collects
three awards.
Cape No. 7, the
most popular made-in-Taiwan this year just created a box-office
miracle has not been seen for many years in the island, received
four awards, three are for all Chinese language films, Best
Supporting Actor (Ma Ju-Lung), Best Original Film Score and Best
Original Film Song, and one for Taiwanese films only, The
Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year.
The Best Leading Actor title is given to Zhang
Hanyu, for playing Captain Gu in Assembly, a mainland Chinese
drama set in the backdrop of the Chinese civil war in the mid-20th
Century. Then war ended with the Communist Party taking control of
the mainland and the defeated Nationalist Party holding the island
of Taiwan. The war drama is also awarded for its screenplay, adapted
from a short story by Liu Heng.
The Best Leading Actress award is given to
Prudence Liew, for playing a mid-age prostitute in Hong Kong film
True Women For Sale.
Mei Fang collects the Best
Supporting Actress title for playing an old woman in Taiwanese movie
Orzboyz.
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Best Short Film
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Cape No.7 |
My Grandma Graduate School of Filmmaking |
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Orzboyz |
A Son |
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Assembly |
Hopscotch |
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Ocean
Flame |
The end of the tunnel |
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The Warlords |
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Best Documentary
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Best
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This Darling Life |
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Erotic Float Dancers |
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Up The Yangtze |
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Best Director |
Best Leading Actor |
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Wei Te-Sheng - Cape No.7 |
Zhang Hanyu - Assembly |
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Pang Ho-Cheung - Trivial Matters |
Liao Fan - Ocean Flame |
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Peter Ho-Sun Chan - The Warlords |
Jet Li - The Warlords |
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Sylvia Chang - Run Papa Run |
Louis Koo - Run Papa Run |
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Best Leading Actress |
Best Supporting Actor |
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Prudence Liew - True Women For Sale |
Ma Ju-Lung - Cape No.7 |
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Monica Mok - Ocean Flame |
Eason Chan - Trivial Matters |
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Karene Lam - Claustrophobia |
Leon Dai - Parking |
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Sandrine Pinna - Miao Miao |
Hu Jun - Red Cliff |
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Best Supporting Actress |
Best New Performer |
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Mei Fang - Orzboyz |
TANAKA Chie - Cape No.7 |
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Lai Ming - Money No Enough
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Johnny C.J. LIN - Cape No.7 |
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Li-Qi Wu - Detours to Paradise |
Pang Chin-Yu - Orzboyz |
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Nora Miao - Run Papa Run |
Suming Chiang - Hopscotch |
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Best Original Screenplay |
Best Screenplay Adaptation |
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Yang Ya-Che - Orzboyz |
Pang Ho-Cheung - Trivial Matters |
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Tsai Tsung-Han,Tom
Shu-Yu Lin - Winds of September |
Liu Heng - Assembly |
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Xu Lan, Chun Tin Nam, Aubrey Lam,
Huang Jian-Xin,
Jojo Hui,
He Ji Ping,
Guo Jun Li,
James Yuen
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The Warlords |
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Ivy Ho - Claustrophobia |
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Best Cinematography |
Best Visual Effects
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Chin Ting-Chang - Cape No.7 |
Phil Jones - Assembly |
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Chen Ying-Chan, Chen Chor-Keung - Ocean Flame |
Ng Yuen-Fai, Chau Chi-Shing, Tracy Kok - The
Warlords |
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Arthur Wong - The Warlords |
Craig Hayes, The Orphange - Red Cliff |
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Cheng Siu-Keung (HKSE) - Sparrow |
Eddy Wong, Victor Wong,
Ken Law - CJ7 |
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Best Art Direction |
Best Makeup & Costume Design |
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Li Yang,
Raymond Kwok - Ocean Flame |
Man Lim-Chung - Trivial Matters |
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Yee Chung -Man,
Yi Zheng-Zhou,
Pater Wong
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Luke Huang, Sai Com - Candy Rain |
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- The Warlords |
Yee Chung -Man,
Jessie Dai,
Lee Pik-Kwan |
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Chao Shih-Hao - Parking |
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Tim Yip - Red Cliff |
Tim Yip - Red Cliff |
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Best Action Choreography |
Best Original Film Score |
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Park Ju-Chun - Assembly |
Fred Lu, Lo Chi-Yi - Cape No.7 |
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Li Chung-Chi - Connected |
Chan Kwong-Wing, PeterKam, Chatchai |
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Ma Yuk-Sing, Huang Ming-Jian, Ching Siu-Tung |
Pongprapaphan, Leon Ko -
The Warlords |
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- An Empress And The Warriors |
Ricky Ho - 12 Lotus |
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Ching Siu-Tung - The Warlords |
Xavier Jamaux,Fred Avril - Sparrow |
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Best Original Film Song |
Best Film Editing |
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from : ?Cape No.7 ?Lyric: Matthew Yen Composer: |
Chen Hsiao-Dong - Winds of September |
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Tseng Chih-Hao, Preformer: Van - Don't Sell
Dou Fu |
Yau Chi-Wai - Connected |
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from : ?Kung Fu Dunk ?Lyric: Vincent Fang Wen Shan |
Wenders Li - The Warlords |
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Composer: Jay Chou Preformer: Jay Chou, Tu Kuo- |
Kong Chi-Leung - Claustrophobia |
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Cgang Pang Pang |
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from : ?Drifting Flowers ?Lyric: Christine HSU |
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Composer: Christine HSU Preformer: Serena FANG
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Get together |
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from : ?Miao Miao ?Lyric:
Cin Cin Lee,
Cheng Kuei |
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Composer:
Cin Cin Lee,
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Chilam Cheung |
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Best Sound Effect |
The Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year |
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Tu Duu-Chi - Cape No.7 |
Cape No.7 |
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Wang Danrong,
Kim Suk-Won - Assembly |
Winds of September |
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Sunit Asvinikul, Nakorn Kositpaisal - The Warlords |
Parking |
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Steve Burgess - Missing |
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The Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year |
Lifetime Achievement Award |
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Wei Te-Sheng |
Chang Feng |
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Li Lung-Yu |
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Special Contribution Award |
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Huang Ren |
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Click here for the complete
nomination list.
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Opening This
Week: November 29 - December 5
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December 5, 2008 |
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Forever Enthralled |
Legendary Assassin |
Buttonman |
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(Images: China Film
Group, CMC Entertainment, Emperor Motion Pictures, Gold Lable
Entertainment, Neway Star Pictures, Seasonal Films [Shanghai]
Corporation, Mei Ah Entertainment.) |
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This Friday, director Chen Kaige's
Forever Enthralled
is released in theaters across China. The bio-pic of Mei Lanfang
chronicles the life of the greatest Beijing opera artist, how he
rises as a star, how he has a short-lived marriage with another
Beijing opera artist, and how he survives the Japanese occupation.
Legendary Assassin , released
in Hong Kong this Thursday, is the directorial debut of martial-art
star Wu Jing. The story is set In a small island of Hong Kong, a
hiding place of a gang leader. One night, the gang leader is
murdered and his head is missing. A lone killer nicknamed Wolf Fang
comes to the island to steal the missing head and befriends a female
cop. Meanwhile, members of the gang also show up for revenge.
Buttonman , a Hong Kong produced helmed by Taiwanese
director
Chie Jen-hao, is released in Taiwan this Friday.
In the
dark thriller,
Wei is a buttonman, whose job is disposing dead bodies for the gang.
After taking care of the body of his assistant, he decides to quit.
Then he finds out his prot間?has an affair with his girlfriend and
the prot間?s first assignment is disposing Wei's body.
Hollywood thriller
Next
is another new film released this week in the mainland China.
New titles open this Thursday in Hong Kong also include: Taiwan-Hong
Kong joint production
Winds of September,
UK drama
Brideshead Revisited,
Japanese horror flick
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit,
and US comedy
What Just Happened.
Other movies becoming available this week in Taiwan are: Hong
Kong-mainland Chinese thriller
Painted Skin,
animation
Dragon Hunters
from France, Germany and Luxembourg, Brazilian-Italian drama
Estomago: A Gastronomic Story,
What Just Happened and Paul Verhoeven's
Black Book.
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Kung Fu Star Wu Jing's Directorial Debut -
WOLF FANG, aka. LEGENDARY ASSASSIN
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December 4, 2008 |
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Beijing-born 38 year old Wu Jing (Jacky Wu) was trained at Beijing
Wushu Academy, which also created Jet Li. He was discovered by
choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping in 1995 and played a role in his
Tai Chi Chuan.
In the following years, he starred in a large number of movies
and TV series, such as Tsui Hark's
The Leegend of Zu,
Liu Chia-Liang's
Drunken Monkey,
Wilson Yip's
S.P.L.
and Benny Chan's
Invisible Target.
He even played "Assassin #1" recently in
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
Wolf Fang's is Wu's first try-out in the director's chair with
help from another director plus action director Li Chung-Chi ( Invisible
Target,
Rob-B-Hood,
New Police Story).
The story of Wolf Fang is set in a small island of Hong Kong, a
hiding place of a gang leader. One night, the gang leader is
murdered and his head is missing. A lone killer nicknamed Wolf Fang
comes to the island to steal the missing head and members of the
gang also show up for revenge.
The case also include Celina Jade, Alex Fong, Kou Zhanwen, Ronald
Cheng, Jiang
Baocheng, Sammy Leung, Mark Cheng, Lam Suet, Tin Kai-Man and
Noriko Aoyama.
Release in Hong Kong and the mainland China is set in this Month.
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