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The sibling helmers behind Marvels Captain America franchise are teaming up with
Beijing-based partners to develop projects for the booming local market By Patrick Brzeski
Leung
Beautiful 2016
market
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The latest installment of the Hong Kong Film Fests signature anthology is a consistently
engaging omnibus that nonetheless lacks a standout segment by elizabeth kerr
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Join Japanese
Porn Reboot
By Gavin J. Blair
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Serkis
Andy Serkis
Imaginarium
Expands to Asia
By Patrick Brzeski
he Imaginarium
Studios, the Londonbased production
company and performance
capture studio, is planting its
flag in the fast-growing AsiaPacific region.
With backing from
Rhizophora Ventures, a statebacked Malaysian holding
company set up to invest in the
countrys entertainment and
media sectors, Imaginarium
Studios is launching a specialist performance capture and
content creation hub in Johor,
Malaysia at the Pinewood
Iskandar Malaysia Studios.
The Imaginarium Studios
was co-founded in 2011 by film
producer Jonathan Cavendish
and actor Andy Serkis, famous
for his revolutionary performance capture portrayals of
Gollum in the Lord of the Rings
franchise and the recent Star
Wars: The Force Awakens.
This is a huge step for
the studio and we are really
excited to see what opportunities this move to the
Asia-Pacific region will
bring, Tony Orsten, CEO of
Imaginarium said.
JET TONE
JAPANESE PORN
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Bad Cat
By Patrick Brzeski
Tarantino.
Odins Eye CEO Michael Favelle
closed the deal with IFDs Ghalia
Hayat, while the companys SVP of
international distribution in AsiaPacific, Martin Gallery, inked the
contract with Turbo Film founder
Jin Cai. Both distributors are planning wide theatrical releases.
Turbo Film is the perfect
partner to introduce Bad Cat to
Chinese audiences, who I know
will embrace our loveable rogue,
Shero. Im thrilled Jin and the
Turbo Film team share our
enthusiasm, says Gallery.
Adds Favelle: Bad Cat has
the potential to do for animation what Deadpool has done for
R-Rated superheros and its great
to be working with buyers who
have the same belief.
Wong
Emperor
Embraces
Wongs Curse
By Karen Chu
hanks to the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Filmart is not running concurrently with the Hong Kong International Film
Festival this year. The Hong Kong Arts Festival is going
on right now, and we cant have the venues theyre having, HKIFF
executive director Roger Garcia told THR. So in order to get the big
venues like the Cultural Centre for the big premieres, we have to
push back the dates of HKIFF to accommodate.
Nevertheless, the changes in the dates are not expected to impact
the attendance at Filmart this year. Overall visitors this year are
roughly in line with last year: There were 7,180 in 2015 with over
7,200 expected this year. And there are 800 exhibitors this year,
compared with 784 in 2015.
But the shift in dates has created some challenges for dealmakers, especially those traveling from overseas.
Now that Filmart and the HKIFF are held at different times,
the overseas buyers cant watch the films in the market and festival
screenings at the same time, said veteran Hong Kong distributor
Audrey Lee. They are unlikely to stay for a weekend more or to
wait for the festival to open.
The date changes have also created a tight schedule for exhibitors. There wasnt enough time to set up a booth this year, said
Golden Scenes managing director Winnie Tsag. We just got
back from Berlin, and I dont get to go to the Osaka Film Festival
because it overlaps with Filmart.
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Arabian Nights Offers a Surreal Take on Modern Portugal
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Miguel Gomes ambitious three-part epic employs ancient tall tales for an
imaginative look at the current challenges facing his country By Scott Roxborough
By Karen Chu
kong Kong-based
Distribution
Workshop is launching The Great Escape at
Filmart, the new feature from
Hong Kong arthouse veteran
Ann Hui (A Simple Life, The
Golden Era). Produced by
Chinas Bona Film Group. The
war drama, starring
Zhou Xun (Overheard
3) and Eddie Peng (To
the Fore) centers on
Fong Lan, a leading
Hui
real-life resistance
fighter in 1940s Hong Kong.
Director Hui is famous for
her delicate and perceptive
portrayal of women in film,
and the The Great Escape will
team her up for the first time
with Zhou Xun, one of the most
versatile actresses in Chinese
cinema today.
The film is produced by
Roger Lee, who was also the
producer Huis award-winning
Summer Snow (1995).
Production of The Great
Escape began at the end of
February in Guangdong,
China, and will continue in
Hong Kong.
ERIC TAN
Founder and CEO of Fifth Journey, a Hong Kong-based
gaming company that recently partnered with Universal,
Lionsgate and MGM to develop mobile games and virtual
reality experiences based on the studios film properties.
Strangest late-night
experience in Hong Kong?
Grabbing post-clubbing
grub at Hong Kongs 24-hour
old school diners, such as
Tsui Wah. Things can get wild
in there....
Best place to get away
from Filmart and the Hong
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Kong festival?
For nightlife, head to
Lan Kwai Fong to blow off
some steam. For a bit of
nature, check out Stanley
Market on the southern
side of the island. Its a nice,
laid-back place to unwind.
What should
visitors do to blend in
with the locals?
Just walk fast with your
head down [Laughs].
A Hong Kong faux
pas best avoided?
Sneezing in public. People
are still not over the 2003
SARS epidemic here.
One thing every visitor
should try?
Take a ride on the Star Ferry!
The Victoria Harbour view is
still to die for.
Distribution
Workshop Plans
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Wayne Wang
all-Japanese cast?
My producer Yukie Kito who
Ive worked with for a long
time was trying to get the
project together at Busan one
year, where we won some kind
of award, but couldnt get all the
financing. Then I get an email
from Yukie saying that Takeshi
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A short trip to Hong Kong for Filmart is the ideal opportunity to pad out your wardrobe with custom-designed shirts and suits
By Abid Rahman
Kevin Spacey
arrives at an event
in London wearing
a suit created by
Roshan Melwani
from Sams Tailor
in Kowloon.
WHERE?
There are dozens of
places in Hong Kong that
serve customers looking
for shirts or suits made
at speed but of course
they all vary in quality
and price. Kowloon is
famed for rapid tailors
but beware the tourist
traps. Sams Tailor (Ground
Floor K&L Burlington
Arcade, 90-94C Nathan
Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui,
Kowloon) is one of the best
known, having clothed
everyone from Jeb Bush
to Bruno Mars. For suits
in a hurry Raja Fashions
(2/F, Cammer Commercial
Building, 30-32 Cameron
Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui) and
Mak Mak
WHAT STYLE?
If youre a novice, Hong
Kong tailors will walk
you through the basics,
but be mindful that
they also want to push
more expensive fabrics
on to you. Despite that,
choosing the right style
and fabric from the
outset is crucial. Slim and
athletic? Double-breasted
works well. Tall? A threebutton is a safe option.
Short? two-button or
even one-button suit and
vertical stripes can also
help.
AMMO
Not too far from the Convention Center, indeed a mere 10 minute
cab ride away, is AMMO an Italian restaurant that was seemingly
made to be frequented by the film crowd. The interiors by Joyce
Wang are inspired by the 1965 film noir classic Alphaville and
theres certainly an old-world filmic sense to the ambience. AMMO
does comfort food like few other places in Hong Kong, all the pasta
is made on site in the authentic way. The gnocchi is to die for and
crab ravioli gets rave reviews too. 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty
Mott 32
HOW MUCH?
Unsurprisingly, prices
vary greatly depending
on where the tailor is
located and their relative
fame even before things
like quality of fabric and
style you choose. At well
known tailors like Sams
Tailor prices start from
$500, but at places like
Raja and Rashmi suits
can cost as low as $300.
At the high end, prices at
A-Man Hing Cheong start at
$1,200.
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Our philosophy is
to make films we
like, says Pang of
her collaboration
with Wong, seen
here the set of
The Grandmaster.
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Jacky Pang, the CEO of Wong Kar Wais Jet Tone film shingle, discusses the companys 25th anniversary, why she gave up
directing and how she became a trusted collaborator with one of the worlds most celebrated auteurs By Karen Chu
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Industry professionals from cinema exhibition and distribution converge at CineAsia,
Hong Kongs annual convention for theater owners, film buyers and distributors. Each
year, in addition to the trade show, the convention showcases film screenings of world
class cinema and events and informative seminars that highlight the latest in
film exhibition, in-theater marketing and more. These film screenings give international
theater owners a chance to preview programming in advance of film releases.
The Hollywood Repor ter will preview the events and conferences of the
multi-day convention and recognizes the 2016 CineAsia honorees.
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Wong Jing taps robots, stormtroopers and Psy for his latest
globetrotting gambling action-comedy by elizabeth kerr
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by signs of the netherworld, with a color palette that oscillates between the greens of the
jungle and the blue-red glow that guides the
sleepers days and nights.
Subdued and carefree in its storytelling,
Cemetery eventually does provide some clues
about Jen and her dedication to soldiers, as
well as an underlying mystery involving the
hospital grounds, which apparently house
the remains of a fallen kingdom. But such
details and a handful of frank sexual
moments, including a playfully erect penis
hidden beneath the sheets feel mostly like
communicating vessels for Weerasethakuls
extremely Zen approach to cinema, where the
real and the intangible are regarded as one
and the same. Its a vision that can make his
movies, and especially this one, seem both
inscrutable and strangely gratifying, and the
experience of watching it is like dreaming
with your eyes wide open.
Masters and Auteurs
Cast Jenjira Pongpas Widner,
Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram,
Petcharat Chaiburi
Director, screenwriter
Apichatpong Weerasethakul // 121 minutes
3 questions with
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
In the official summary for
Cemetery of Splendor, you
write that it is also a very
personal portrait of the
places that have latched onto
me like parasites. What do
you mean by that?
I dont know, its something
about the logic of living [in
Thailand]. Sometimes I feel
really sick of this country
that Id like to go away. But
time and again, I keep coming
back, and it inspires me to
make movies. Theres this
push and pull of the place.
What pushes you away?
The political situation and the
inequality. You feel a strong
powerlessness. Its almost
Trivisa
A topical and engaging crime thriller from producer
Johnnie To and a trio of young Hong Kong directors
by clarence tsui
I T H ROOK IE S L IK E T H E SE , W H Y WA I T FOR T H E
oldtimers? While still trying to finish his long-mooted omnibus featuring his fellow Hong Kong veteran auteurs, Johnnie
To has ushered in a powerful debut from three first-time directors
from the city instead. A fictional reinvention of the final hurrah of
three of Hong Kongs most notorious felons in the 1990s, Hong Kong
International Film Fest opener Trivisa is an engaging, reflective and
topical criminal thriller.
Hailing from the aptly titled Fresh Wave new talent showcase, which
To initiated a decade ago, the young collective of Frank Hui, Jevons
Au and Vicky Wong have delivered a pitch-black, noir-infused debut
resembling their mentors fatalistic classics of yore. Taking its international title from the Buddhist notion of the three poisons leading to
suffering delusion, desire and fury the directorial trio could claim
to have produced a trilinear allegory about the source of their hometowns fall from grace after its return to Chinese sovereignty.
While some nuances may go over the heads of uninitiated international audiences, viewers may still get something out of this very
different thriller in which criminal kingpins wallow in hilarious existential crises as they try to strike out for something new.
Sharply reflecting on how Hong Kong began to succumb to mainland Chinas willful rise from poor cousin to bullying big brother,
Trivisa focuses on three character types who have appeared in plenty
of Hong Kong films before, mostly in trashy cops-and-robbers flicks
with gunplay galore and massive body counts.
Not here, though, as the directors and their writers have fashioned
some kind of a fictional existential career-crossroads of sorts for all
three of the felons. Delusion is embodied in serial kidnapper Cheuk
Tsz-keung (Jordan Chan), who grows bored of extracting billions from
tycoons and dreams of sculpting a legacy with a more violent crime.
Desire, meanwhile, is the flaw in Kwai Ching-hung (Lam Ka-tung),
who exploits anyone, anytime as he tries to hatch a new heist while
laying low. Making up the triumvirate is the notorious Kalashnikovwielding Yip Kwok-foon (Richie Jen), whose seething fury grows as he
puts downs arms and tries to reinvent himself as a trader of smuggled
electric goods in China.
Filmed separately by the three directors, the narrative of the three
leading characters are convincingly welded together by Allen Leung
and David Richardson, two regular collaborators of Tos. While quite
a few of Tos hallmarks are present tense standoffs in the night and
the consequences of coincidences, for example the three young
directors all have offered variations in mise-en-scene, framing and
acting. While Jen and Lam deliver, Chans comedic schtick softens
the absurd comedy Wong might have wanted his strand to be. Such
unevenness aside, however, Trivisa remains an impressive calling card
signaling brighter cinematic futures than the one set out for Hong
Kong onscreen here.
Opening Gala
Cast Lam Ka-tung, Richie Jen, Jordan Chan
Directors Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong // 97 minutes
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