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New Indie
The critically-acclaimed “Aviva” (Outsider/Strand) casts both male and female dancers as both of the romantic leads, throwing out conventions of gender and sexuality in a love story that features some gorgeous choreography. Boaz Yakin’s film was programmed at the 2020 SXSW festival, and the Blu-ray features behind-the-scenes footage of dance rehearsals.
Also available: Stand-up Steve Byrne wrote and directed the comics-on-the-road saga “The Opening Act” (Rlje Films), featuring such industry vets as Jimmy O. Yang, Alex Moffat, Cedric the Entertainer, Bill Burr, and Whitney Cummings; “Buddy Games” (Saban/Paramount) stars Josh Duhamel and Dax Shepard in an ensemble comedy about estranged friends enduring a ridiculous competition for a $150,000 prize; a newly sober carpenter tries to build a home and establish a life in “Major Arcana” (Gde/Kino Lorber).
New Foreign
Melina León’s Cannes fave “Song Without a Name” (Film Movement), about an indigenous woman trying to...
The critically-acclaimed “Aviva” (Outsider/Strand) casts both male and female dancers as both of the romantic leads, throwing out conventions of gender and sexuality in a love story that features some gorgeous choreography. Boaz Yakin’s film was programmed at the 2020 SXSW festival, and the Blu-ray features behind-the-scenes footage of dance rehearsals.
Also available: Stand-up Steve Byrne wrote and directed the comics-on-the-road saga “The Opening Act” (Rlje Films), featuring such industry vets as Jimmy O. Yang, Alex Moffat, Cedric the Entertainer, Bill Burr, and Whitney Cummings; “Buddy Games” (Saban/Paramount) stars Josh Duhamel and Dax Shepard in an ensemble comedy about estranged friends enduring a ridiculous competition for a $150,000 prize; a newly sober carpenter tries to build a home and establish a life in “Major Arcana” (Gde/Kino Lorber).
New Foreign
Melina León’s Cannes fave “Song Without a Name” (Film Movement), about an indigenous woman trying to...
- 12/30/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
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With the beginning of the pandemic taking place in the Sinophone world, the already tumultuous circumstances of the area reached a level pretty close to eruption. However, as it usual the case with sociopolitical instability, the creative forces of the artists emerged once more triumphant, ending up in a number of films that could easily be described as great. Taiwan cemented its place as one of the countries with the most intriguing cinema, China continued with its festival-appealing, European style movies along with a number of blockbusters, while Hong Kong took a definite step back, with the political situation in combination with the pandemic leaving an already declining industry in a rather bad situation, with very few, but occasionally notable, productions overall.
Without further ado, here are the best Sinophone films of 2020, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2019, but since they mostly circulated in 2020, we decided to include them.
Without further ado, here are the best Sinophone films of 2020, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2019, but since they mostly circulated in 2020, we decided to include them.
- 12/20/2020
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
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Mubi offers to all the readers of Asian Movie Pulse 30 days of free streaming. Check the details here
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Cheng Cheng offers a DVD of “My Prince Edward” to one lucky reader. Check the details here
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1. Mubi
Mubi offers to all the readers of Asian Movie Pulse 30 days of free streaming. Check the details here
2. Cheng Cheng Films
Cheng Cheng offers a DVD of “My Prince Edward” to one lucky reader. Check the details here
Khavn
Khavn has offered 20 codes to watch Mondomanila for free. Check the Details here. Very few codes remain, so please rush with this if you want to get one
All 20 codes are now given and this competition is expired Beskop
Beskop offers ten codes for 50% price off in their already quite low prices. Check the article here
Alternatively, for all the aforementioned, just send an email with your name and country at sinkazama82@asianmoviepulse.
- 12/14/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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In many ways, “My Prince Edward” reminds me of the 2012 independent film – Frances Ha, since it has a similar identity if not the same level of exuberance as the American one. It is driven by a similar personality as the prior. With a refusal to grow-up, the lead characters in both the cases live in a state of denial – without completely acknowledging their immaturity. Still, both of them struggle to get out of the mundane routines of their lives. It is a skill to keep one interested in their flawed personalities that get shadowed by an undeniable gloominess. Norris achieves it just as well as Noah, despite a different approach.
My Prince Edward is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
‘My Prince Edward’ is about a woman named Fong who is in her late twenties. She works as a clerk in Golden Plaza, a shopping mall from Hong Kong...
My Prince Edward is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
‘My Prince Edward’ is about a woman named Fong who is in her late twenties. She works as a clerk in Golden Plaza, a shopping mall from Hong Kong...
- 12/4/2020
- by Akash Deshpande
- AsianMoviePulse
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In order to thank our followers on Instagram, who recently surpassed the thousand, we offer 1 DVD of My Prince Edward, courtesy of Cheng Cheng Films
All you have to do is follow us on Instagram and leave a comment in the particular post about the competition. The deadline is Sunday December 6, 23.59 (GMT+2)
Check what Akash Deshpande wrote about the film in our review
Throughout the duration, ‘My Prince Edward’ follows Fong’s journey with a restrained approach. It never goes overboard with the dramatic sequences. And this female character is given room to breathe and live with her flaws, without blaming her for any of that. The narrative does not try to show her guilt for laziness and rather portrays her flaws with compassion. After all, these shortcomings are what makes one human. The film completely realizes that and gives an empathetic tale about this unambitious young woman.
While showing...
All you have to do is follow us on Instagram and leave a comment in the particular post about the competition. The deadline is Sunday December 6, 23.59 (GMT+2)
Check what Akash Deshpande wrote about the film in our review
Throughout the duration, ‘My Prince Edward’ follows Fong’s journey with a restrained approach. It never goes overboard with the dramatic sequences. And this female character is given room to breathe and live with her flaws, without blaming her for any of that. The narrative does not try to show her guilt for laziness and rather portrays her flaws with compassion. After all, these shortcomings are what makes one human. The film completely realizes that and gives an empathetic tale about this unambitious young woman.
While showing...
- 11/30/2020
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
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Cheng Cheng Films are bringing the award-winning film “My Prince Edward”, the directorial debut of Norris Wong, to DVD & digital in the UK on December 15th, 2020.
Synopsis:
Serving countless newlyweds in Hong Kong’s go-to one-stop-shop of cheap wedding supplies doesn’t exempt Fong from social pressure to marry. Since nodding to Edward’s proposal, she has been pushed beyond limits by unaffordable housing, archaic customs, and intrusive in-laws. What befuddles her further is the reappearance of Shuwei, a mainlander she’s supposed to be divorced from out of a sham marriage that solved her coming-of-age hardship. Zeroing in on nuts and bolts of modern marriage, My Prince Edward pokes around fixated correlations of freedom with relationship status and geographic residence. Like a breath of fresh air out of the breathless space it navigates, the whimsical gem contributes a rare humane take on the worldly metropolis’s divisions with humor and wisdom.
Synopsis:
Serving countless newlyweds in Hong Kong’s go-to one-stop-shop of cheap wedding supplies doesn’t exempt Fong from social pressure to marry. Since nodding to Edward’s proposal, she has been pushed beyond limits by unaffordable housing, archaic customs, and intrusive in-laws. What befuddles her further is the reappearance of Shuwei, a mainlander she’s supposed to be divorced from out of a sham marriage that solved her coming-of-age hardship. Zeroing in on nuts and bolts of modern marriage, My Prince Edward pokes around fixated correlations of freedom with relationship status and geographic residence. Like a breath of fresh air out of the breathless space it navigates, the whimsical gem contributes a rare humane take on the worldly metropolis’s divisions with humor and wisdom.
- 11/20/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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“Black Bear,” “Kokoloko,” “Night of the Kings,” “Rosa’s Wedding” and “Undine” have been selected as the competition titles for the Marimba Award at the upcoming Miami Film Festival Gems event.
The seventh annual edition of Gems will be held virtually from Oct. 8-11. The juried prize, which carries a $25,000 award, is given for a film that best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future.
“Black Bear is a U.S. film, directed by Lawrence Michael Levine and starring Aubrey Plaza, Sara Gadon and Christopher Abbot. It premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
“Kokoloko” (Mexico), directed by Gerardo Naranjo, received a Best Actor prize for Noé Hernández at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
“Night of the Kings” comes from Ivory Coast, France, Canada and Senegal. Directed by Philippe Lacôte, it is the Ivory Coast’s official submission in the Academy Awards’ Best International Feature Film category
“Rosa’s Wedding” (Spain...
The seventh annual edition of Gems will be held virtually from Oct. 8-11. The juried prize, which carries a $25,000 award, is given for a film that best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future.
“Black Bear is a U.S. film, directed by Lawrence Michael Levine and starring Aubrey Plaza, Sara Gadon and Christopher Abbot. It premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
“Kokoloko” (Mexico), directed by Gerardo Naranjo, received a Best Actor prize for Noé Hernández at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
“Night of the Kings” comes from Ivory Coast, France, Canada and Senegal. Directed by Philippe Lacôte, it is the Ivory Coast’s official submission in the Academy Awards’ Best International Feature Film category
“Rosa’s Wedding” (Spain...
- 9/23/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Nyaff 2020 to honour South Korean Lee Joo-young with the 2020 Screen International Rising Star Award
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South Korea’s actress Lee Joo-young, whose credits include Netflix drama “Itaewon Class” and the upcoming “Baseball Girl”, will be granted the 2020 Screen International Rising Star Award at the 19th (virtual) edition of New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff).
Lee, who won last year the Actress of the Year award at Busan in 2018 for “Maggie” and the Special Short Drama Actress Award at the 2019 Kbs Drama Awards for the TV drama “House of the Universe”, debuted in 2012 in the short film “Encounter”, but it is mainly known for her roles in “Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo”, several TV dramas and Netflix success “Itaewon Class”.
This year’s Nyaff features a “Women Transforming Film” programme including films directed and/or led by women such as the opening movie “The Girl And The Gun” by Pilipino Rae Red, Taiwanese Hsieh Pei-ju’s “Heavy Craving”, Norris Wong’s “My Prince Edward” from Hong Kong,...
Lee, who won last year the Actress of the Year award at Busan in 2018 for “Maggie” and the Special Short Drama Actress Award at the 2019 Kbs Drama Awards for the TV drama “House of the Universe”, debuted in 2012 in the short film “Encounter”, but it is mainly known for her roles in “Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo”, several TV dramas and Netflix success “Itaewon Class”.
This year’s Nyaff features a “Women Transforming Film” programme including films directed and/or led by women such as the opening movie “The Girl And The Gun” by Pilipino Rae Red, Taiwanese Hsieh Pei-ju’s “Heavy Craving”, Norris Wong’s “My Prince Edward” from Hong Kong,...
- 8/20/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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Talent stars in festival selection Baseball Girl, one of several South Korean films this year.
The 19th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) will honour South Korea’s Lee Joo-young with the 2020 Screen International Rising Star Award at its upcoming virtual edition.
Lee stars in Choi Yun-Tae’s Baseball Girl, which receives its international premiere and screens throughout the festival from August 28-September 12 on the Smart Cinema USA app.
Baseball Girl centres on a talented high school athlete who battles chauvinism to make it into the team.
Lee, who stars in Netflix drama Itaewon Class, made her screen debut in...
The 19th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) will honour South Korea’s Lee Joo-young with the 2020 Screen International Rising Star Award at its upcoming virtual edition.
Lee stars in Choi Yun-Tae’s Baseball Girl, which receives its international premiere and screens throughout the festival from August 28-September 12 on the Smart Cinema USA app.
Baseball Girl centres on a talented high school athlete who battles chauvinism to make it into the team.
Lee, who stars in Netflix drama Itaewon Class, made her screen debut in...
- 8/19/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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Since premiering at last year’s Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival, the “Chinese Oscars”, Norris Wong‘s debut dramedy “My Prince Edward” (2019) will reach North american theatres through Cheng Cheng Films starting September 4th. The film will also arrive at VOD and DVD on December 15th.
Distributor Cheng Cheng Films states: “Before “My Prince Edward,” Norris Wong had won wide admiration for her writing in some of most groundbreaking Cantonese TV series recent years. Challenging macroscale gender and social economic pressures her worldwide peers face with this directorial debut, she poured real individual experience into a microscale story set in her neighborhood in her home city. Her humane and multidimensional filmmaking soothes the disorientation and anger we consume from sensational headlines on related issues. It’s a notable cinematic contribution from a Hong Kong’s homegrown woman to the city’s global discourse. Witnessing legendary veterans William Chang, Paw Hee-ching...
Distributor Cheng Cheng Films states: “Before “My Prince Edward,” Norris Wong had won wide admiration for her writing in some of most groundbreaking Cantonese TV series recent years. Challenging macroscale gender and social economic pressures her worldwide peers face with this directorial debut, she poured real individual experience into a microscale story set in her neighborhood in her home city. Her humane and multidimensional filmmaking soothes the disorientation and anger we consume from sensational headlines on related issues. It’s a notable cinematic contribution from a Hong Kong’s homegrown woman to the city’s global discourse. Witnessing legendary veterans William Chang, Paw Hee-ching...
- 8/14/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
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(above) Still from “They Say Nothing Stays The Same,”Joe Oagiri, 2019, Japan
The 19th edition of the Lincoln Center’s New York Asian Film Festival will be virtual this year, and will go from August 28 to September 12, 2020. This year’s focus is on women filmmakers, under the title “Women Transforming Film.” In this year’s line-up, Nyaff spotlights titles directed and led by women — including “Heavy Craving”, “Lucky Chan-sil”, “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982,”, “My Prince Edward”, and “Victim(s)”.
A generous share of the program is devoted to new filmmakers, including striking directorial debuts and sophomore efforts. This edition reflects today’s particularly kinetic innovations, much informed by social media and the hyper information highway. An impressive cross-section of work highlights new ideas in storytelling and tackles social mores and personal demons, including “John Denver Trending”, “Beauty Water”, “Detention”, and “IWeirDo”, to name a few. Work by first and second-time directors...
The 19th edition of the Lincoln Center’s New York Asian Film Festival will be virtual this year, and will go from August 28 to September 12, 2020. This year’s focus is on women filmmakers, under the title “Women Transforming Film.” In this year’s line-up, Nyaff spotlights titles directed and led by women — including “Heavy Craving”, “Lucky Chan-sil”, “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982,”, “My Prince Edward”, and “Victim(s)”.
A generous share of the program is devoted to new filmmakers, including striking directorial debuts and sophomore efforts. This edition reflects today’s particularly kinetic innovations, much informed by social media and the hyper information highway. An impressive cross-section of work highlights new ideas in storytelling and tackles social mores and personal demons, including “John Denver Trending”, “Beauty Water”, “Detention”, and “IWeirDo”, to name a few. Work by first and second-time directors...
- 8/11/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
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New York-based distributor Cheng Cheng releases a new poster of “My Prince Edward“, the directorial debut from Hong Kong’s acclaimed scriptwriter Norris Wong. Since premiering at last year’s Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival, the “Chinese Oscars”, the dramedy about a newly engaged Hong Kong woman trying to nullify her secret sham marriage with a mainlander has been bagging awards from the most reputed film festivals in Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong Film Awards, China’s Cinephile Prize and Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award. “My Prince Edward” is now one of the highest grossing and best reviewed films of the year in Hong Kong where theatrical exhibition has resumed. Cheng Cheng is planning to show this brand new title to North American audience in reopening cinemas and via virtual formats through the rest of 2020.
Norris Wong is one of the just-announced recipients of the Hong Kong Film Revival Plan Development Fund.
Norris Wong is one of the just-announced recipients of the Hong Kong Film Revival Plan Development Fund.
- 7/22/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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Writer and director Norris Wong set her debut feature My Prince Edward in a crowded shopping district of Hong Kong, specifically the Golden Plaza mall. We’re introduced to Cheung Lei-fong (Stephy Tang) and her boyfriend Edward Yan (Chu Pak-hong), who work in a bridal shop but have yet to marry themselves. Fong is wondering whether to end the relationship when Edward suddenly proposes. That’s when Fong finds out she’s still technically in a sham marriage with Yang Shuwei (Jin Kaijie) from mainland China.
A mosaic of small, telling moments, My Prince Edward builds an intricate world of lost dreams and disappointments. Fong seems to drift passively through life, Edward has mommy issues, and Yang can’t commit to any of his plans. Yet Wong’s humor and sympathy for her characters make them people to care about.
Wong established herself as a novelist, songwriter, and screenwriter before...
A mosaic of small, telling moments, My Prince Edward builds an intricate world of lost dreams and disappointments. Fong seems to drift passively through life, Edward has mommy issues, and Yang can’t commit to any of his plans. Yet Wong’s humor and sympathy for her characters make them people to care about.
Wong established herself as a novelist, songwriter, and screenwriter before...
- 7/14/2020
- by Daniel Eagan
- The Film Stage
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New York-based distributor Cheng Cheng Films has bought the North American rights to “My Prince Edward,” the first feature written and directed by Hong Kong screenwriter Norris Wong Yee-Lam, from Hong Kong sales agent Golden Scene.
The news come as Wong announced Monday that filmmaking duo Mabel Cheung and Alex Law, the husband and wife behind films such as “An Autumn’s Tale,” will executive produce her second feature. Wong will make that film with assistance from a new $12.9 million local government fund intended to boost Hong Kong’s film industry.
Wong said on Facebook that she took Cheung’s class during her sophomore year at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2010, and was “so happy” the director still remembered her early work. Cheung said that Wong “has been looking to work with me throughout the years, but our availabilities never matched.” She praised Wong’s “potential,” saying, “I remember among...
The news come as Wong announced Monday that filmmaking duo Mabel Cheung and Alex Law, the husband and wife behind films such as “An Autumn’s Tale,” will executive produce her second feature. Wong will make that film with assistance from a new $12.9 million local government fund intended to boost Hong Kong’s film industry.
Wong said on Facebook that she took Cheung’s class during her sophomore year at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2010, and was “so happy” the director still remembered her early work. Cheung said that Wong “has been looking to work with me throughout the years, but our availabilities never matched.” She praised Wong’s “potential,” saying, “I remember among...
- 7/13/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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(Left: Stephy Tang, Right: Chu Pak Hong | Cheng Cheng Films)
New York-based distributor Cheng Cheng has acquired North American rights to “My Prince Edward,” the directorial debut from Hong Kong’s acclaimed scriptwriter Norris Wong. Since premiering at last year’s Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival, the “Chinese Oscars”, the dramedy about a newly engaged Hong Kong woman trying to nullify her secret sham marriage with a mainlander has been bagging awards from the most reputed film festivals in Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong Film Awards, China’s Cinephile Prize and Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award. “My Prince Edward” is now one of the highest grossing and best reviewed films of the year in Hong Kong where theatrical exhibition has resumed. Cheng Cheng is planning to show this brand new title to North American audience in reopening cinemas and via virtual formats through the rest of 2020.
“Before “My Prince Edward,...
New York-based distributor Cheng Cheng has acquired North American rights to “My Prince Edward,” the directorial debut from Hong Kong’s acclaimed scriptwriter Norris Wong. Since premiering at last year’s Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival, the “Chinese Oscars”, the dramedy about a newly engaged Hong Kong woman trying to nullify her secret sham marriage with a mainlander has been bagging awards from the most reputed film festivals in Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong Film Awards, China’s Cinephile Prize and Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award. “My Prince Edward” is now one of the highest grossing and best reviewed films of the year in Hong Kong where theatrical exhibition has resumed. Cheng Cheng is planning to show this brand new title to North American audience in reopening cinemas and via virtual formats through the rest of 2020.
“Before “My Prince Edward,...
- 7/9/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
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Norris Wong studied filmmaking at Hong Kong Baptist University after finishing her first degree in biology. When she earned an Mfa in 2012, she started experimenting with short films, including “From Here to There” (2012), about two men, inseparable as teens, reconnecting with each other after a decade. In 2013, Norris won Best Screenplay at the Hong Kong FreshWave International Short Film Festival with “Fall” and went on writing and directing her first feature film “My Prince Edward“ under the guidance of the First Feature Film Initiative (Fffi) scheme.
On the occasion of “My Prince Edward” streaming at the online edition of Udine Far East Film Festival 2020 we talked with director Wong about her inspirations, why the location of her film is so important, her vision and much more.
Producer Felix Tsang of Golden Scene (International Distribution) was translating for director Wong. Matthew Scott and his students of the Far East Festival Campus...
On the occasion of “My Prince Edward” streaming at the online edition of Udine Far East Film Festival 2020 we talked with director Wong about her inspirations, why the location of her film is so important, her vision and much more.
Producer Felix Tsang of Golden Scene (International Distribution) was translating for director Wong. Matthew Scott and his students of the Far East Festival Campus...
- 7/7/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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Hong Kong box office receipts plunged by more than 70% in the first six months of 2020 as audiences stayed away and cinemas shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Hong Kong government closed all cinemas on March 28 as the second wave of Covid-19 brought by returnees began to spread. Cinemas reopened six weeks later, on May 8, as the number of cases in the city came under control and social distancing measures began to be relaxed.
The impact on the box office however was felt before cinemas closed and continued after their reopening.
According to figures provided by the Hong Kong Box Office Ltd., a company under the Hong Kong Motion Pictures Industry Association, box office income totalled just $37.8 million (Hk$293 million) in the first six months of 2020. That was 72% down on the $135 million (Hk$1 billion) recorded during the equivalent period last year.
While the number of local titles released fell from...
The Hong Kong government closed all cinemas on March 28 as the second wave of Covid-19 brought by returnees began to spread. Cinemas reopened six weeks later, on May 8, as the number of cases in the city came under control and social distancing measures began to be relaxed.
The impact on the box office however was felt before cinemas closed and continued after their reopening.
According to figures provided by the Hong Kong Box Office Ltd., a company under the Hong Kong Motion Pictures Industry Association, box office income totalled just $37.8 million (Hk$293 million) in the first six months of 2020. That was 72% down on the $135 million (Hk$1 billion) recorded during the equivalent period last year.
While the number of local titles released fell from...
- 7/2/2020
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
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Tuesday Update after 9:22Am Sunday report, writethru with overall market details: Sony’s Oscar winner, Little Women, originally began offshore rollout back in late December 2019, but continued to show off its grit at the international box office this weekend. The Greta Gerwig-directed update on the classic opened in Japan at No. 1 with $495K. In total, on 440 screens in 13 offshore markets, the film’s weekend was worth $760K for a $99.5M overseas cume through Sunday.
The century mark should be in the offing with strong play continuing in Denmark, and a China release still a possibility. Gerwig’s modern take on the 19th century novel was originally scheduled to hit Middle Kingdom movie theaters on February 14, but was caught in the coronavirus crisis which shuttered all of the market’s cinemas in late January.
In Japan, this is one of the first new titles to release as Covid-19 and...
The century mark should be in the offing with strong play continuing in Denmark, and a China release still a possibility. Gerwig’s modern take on the 19th century novel was originally scheduled to hit Middle Kingdom movie theaters on February 14, but was caught in the coronavirus crisis which shuttered all of the market’s cinemas in late January.
In Japan, this is one of the first new titles to release as Covid-19 and...
- 6/16/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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Hong Kong Arts Centre: Moving Images announces their May programme, which includes their regular Golden Scene Selection, Independently Yours: Together We Stand and Independently Yours: Taking Back the Legislature + Inside the Red Brick Wall as well as the Hong Kong Arts Centre x Hong Kong Film Festival – Independently Yours: Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down, the delayed February programme which has finally been rescheduled for June.
Golden Scene Selection – June
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2020.06.23 – 2020.06.29
Price: Standard ticket: $80. Tickets are now available at Putyourself.in.
“Golden Scene Selection”, proudly presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) and Golden Scene Company Limited, will bring the audience a series of cherry-picked selections from around the world at the Hkac.
Screening Schedule
23/6 (Tue) 8pm Radioactive (Preview)
24/6 (Wed) 8pm Beyond The Dream (Preview)*
25/6 (Thu) 8pm A Family Tour*
26/6 (Fri) 8pm After the Wedding
27/6 (Sat) 3pm...
Golden Scene Selection – June
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2020.06.23 – 2020.06.29
Price: Standard ticket: $80. Tickets are now available at Putyourself.in.
“Golden Scene Selection”, proudly presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) and Golden Scene Company Limited, will bring the audience a series of cherry-picked selections from around the world at the Hkac.
Screening Schedule
23/6 (Tue) 8pm Radioactive (Preview)
24/6 (Wed) 8pm Beyond The Dream (Preview)*
25/6 (Thu) 8pm A Family Tour*
26/6 (Fri) 8pm After the Wedding
27/6 (Sat) 3pm...
- 6/16/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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