“Mother Tongue,” a suspense thriller directed by two-time Academy Award nominee Mike Figgis starts shooting in Hong Kong this week. It stars and is produced by actor-singer-producer Josie Ho.
Figgis and Ho will hold a start-of production ceremony Wednesday at Hong Kong’s Shaw Studios. Production is expected to last until April with the completed film having set a tentative release schedule in January 2022.
Ho plays two characters. The first is an award-winning actress who is involved in a relationship with a younger woman played by Minami (“Battle Royale”) while in search of her long lost daughter, behind her partner’s back. She also plays the actress’s bitter sister.
Bruce Wagner penned the script and Ho is producing the film together with Conroy Chan, with whom she co-founded film entertainment 852 Films. “Mother Tongue” also stars Julian Sands (“A Room With A View”), Elaine Jin (“Mad World”) and Canon Nawata...
Figgis and Ho will hold a start-of production ceremony Wednesday at Hong Kong’s Shaw Studios. Production is expected to last until April with the completed film having set a tentative release schedule in January 2022.
Ho plays two characters. The first is an award-winning actress who is involved in a relationship with a younger woman played by Minami (“Battle Royale”) while in search of her long lost daughter, behind her partner’s back. She also plays the actress’s bitter sister.
Bruce Wagner penned the script and Ho is producing the film together with Conroy Chan, with whom she co-founded film entertainment 852 Films. “Mother Tongue” also stars Julian Sands (“A Room With A View”), Elaine Jin (“Mad World”) and Canon Nawata...
- 2/16/2021
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
Josie Ho vows to master the art of calculated risk in the year 2019. As an actress and film producer, she is conscious of the choices of projects she makes: appearing in the new film by Japanese hotshot director Shinichiro Ueda, producing a new documentary feature while developing some 10 titles in the pipeline of 852Films, the company she co-founded and chairs. She wants the world to know that she dares to take risks for projects she believes in, but she is not to be taken advantage of, again.
She tells her story with new catchy rock tune “Shui Yu”, released just ahead of her band Josie & the Uni Boys’ April 6 concert The Classic Purple Psycho Experience. The song’s title, which literally means softshell turtle, is the Cantonese slang for people who always get taken advantage of, particularly financially. “It’s about me. It happens to me all the time,” Ho says.
She tells her story with new catchy rock tune “Shui Yu”, released just ahead of her band Josie & the Uni Boys’ April 6 concert The Classic Purple Psycho Experience. The song’s title, which literally means softshell turtle, is the Cantonese slang for people who always get taken advantage of, particularly financially. “It’s about me. It happens to me all the time,” Ho says.
- 3/18/2019
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
HONG KONG -- Screening in competition at Sundance, Kenneth Bi's "The Drummer" stars Josie Ho, daughter of billionaire gambling mogul Stanley Ho. It's the first Hong Kong film to make it to Park City, and is a chance for the audience there a chance to view cinema outside the typical Hong Kong gangster-comedy-art house troika embodied by directors Johnnie To ("Exiled"), Stephen Chow ("Kung Fu Hustle") and Wong Kar-wai ("My Blueberry Nights"). Ho followed her dream into the world of singing, then acting from an early age. After a slew of bit parts playing bad girls, Ho shined in "Exiled" and later found herself on Forbes list of "20 Most Intriguing Billionaire Heiresses" after gaining attention through such antics as calling Chinese film industry execs "cock-faces" on her blog. Ho was too busy working to get to Sundance but took time to chat with The Hollywood Reporter's Saul Symonds in her trendy cafe in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay.
The Hollywood Reporter: What attracted you to "The Drummer"?
Josie Ho: What fascinated me about the whole concept of "The Drummer" was that someone could write a story out of these musicians. When I first heard the story from the director, he was so enthusiastic telling me what these bands where about and that kind of interested me.
THR: What about your particular role attracted you?
Ho: I always seem to have been approached to play bad girls or negative roles with twisted morals, and suddenly here was such a positive vibe. I guess it was the character's positive vibe that attracted me, because no one asked me to do such roles before. She's a rebel with a cause, and it's a whole different mindset.
The Hollywood Reporter: What attracted you to "The Drummer"?
Josie Ho: What fascinated me about the whole concept of "The Drummer" was that someone could write a story out of these musicians. When I first heard the story from the director, he was so enthusiastic telling me what these bands where about and that kind of interested me.
THR: What about your particular role attracted you?
Ho: I always seem to have been approached to play bad girls or negative roles with twisted morals, and suddenly here was such a positive vibe. I guess it was the character's positive vibe that attracted me, because no one asked me to do such roles before. She's a rebel with a cause, and it's a whole different mindset.
- 1/25/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
UPDATED 6:10 p.m. PT Dec. 17, 2007
HONG KONG -- Pansy Ho, managing director of the newest Las Vegas-style mega-casino in the South China gambling hot spot of Macau, already is looking beyond her family's gaming legacy to other forms of media and entertainment.
As the MGM Grand Macau opens its doors today to guests invited from an Asian and international who's who list, Ho, a 50% owner, said Macau casinos and the ferries from Hong Kong remain the core business.
But the daughter of Stanley Ho -- a man whose four-decade Macau casino monopoly made him one of the world's 100 richest men -- said she hopes to inject "personality" and "her strengths as a woman" into the new resort, drawing on her love of art to bring more than just gambling to the former Portuguese colony, which is now China's most freewheeling city.
In addition to the 600-room hotel -- half-owned by MGM Mirage -- its adjacent 350,000-square-foot luxury brand retail space (including the first Hermes homewares shop) and the casino itself, Ho said the MGM Grand Macau has saved space for a cabaret or circus theater.
"We will turn our attention to the entertainment side, but it's going to be a heavy investment," Ho told The Hollywood Reporter in Hong Kong. "A fixed program show like this is going to be $100 million for building, upkeep and all the performers.
HONG KONG -- Pansy Ho, managing director of the newest Las Vegas-style mega-casino in the South China gambling hot spot of Macau, already is looking beyond her family's gaming legacy to other forms of media and entertainment.
As the MGM Grand Macau opens its doors today to guests invited from an Asian and international who's who list, Ho, a 50% owner, said Macau casinos and the ferries from Hong Kong remain the core business.
But the daughter of Stanley Ho -- a man whose four-decade Macau casino monopoly made him one of the world's 100 richest men -- said she hopes to inject "personality" and "her strengths as a woman" into the new resort, drawing on her love of art to bring more than just gambling to the former Portuguese colony, which is now China's most freewheeling city.
In addition to the 600-room hotel -- half-owned by MGM Mirage -- its adjacent 350,000-square-foot luxury brand retail space (including the first Hermes homewares shop) and the casino itself, Ho said the MGM Grand Macau has saved space for a cabaret or circus theater.
"We will turn our attention to the entertainment side, but it's going to be a heavy investment," Ho told The Hollywood Reporter in Hong Kong. "A fixed program show like this is going to be $100 million for building, upkeep and all the performers.
- 12/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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