The love story between Cherie and Jimmy, which started in Love In A Puff (2010) and continued in Love In The Buff (2012), now comes to a new chapter in Love Off The Cuff. Hong Kong director Pang Ho Cheung reteams with stars Miriam Yeung and Shawn Yue for the third part of this popular film series. Thanks to Magnum Films, we have Five double passes for the film to give away to our readers. For a chance to win, all you have to do is to follow these two steps: 1) Like the Magnum Film Facebook page, and 2) Email your name and postal address to me at: hugo[at]screenanarchy.com Love Off The Cuff will open in Australian cinemas...
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- 4/19/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Production and distribution outfit reveals strong slate of titles at Hong Kong market.
Hong Kong-based Sun Entertainment Culture (Sunec) has unveiled a string of titles at Filmart, including crime suspense thriller Schemer from filmmaker Sunny Luk (who won best director at the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards for Cold War [pictured]); the big-screen adaptation of Louis Cha’s wuxia novel The Book And The Sword from veteran director Jacob Cheung and writer James Yuen; and Chinese New Year action comedy Keep Calm And Be A Superstar by director Vincent Kok.
Also on Sun’s slate are The Neighbour, a remake of German horror The Good Neighbour that will be directed by Stanley Liu and produced by Pang Ho Cheung.
Pang is also the producer of new TV series Women Who Flirt, based on his big-screen romantic comedy of the same name and directed by TV drama director Sammy Ko, and DoP Jason Kwan’s directorial debut A Nail Clipper...
Hong Kong-based Sun Entertainment Culture (Sunec) has unveiled a string of titles at Filmart, including crime suspense thriller Schemer from filmmaker Sunny Luk (who won best director at the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards for Cold War [pictured]); the big-screen adaptation of Louis Cha’s wuxia novel The Book And The Sword from veteran director Jacob Cheung and writer James Yuen; and Chinese New Year action comedy Keep Calm And Be A Superstar by director Vincent Kok.
Also on Sun’s slate are The Neighbour, a remake of German horror The Good Neighbour that will be directed by Stanley Liu and produced by Pang Ho Cheung.
Pang is also the producer of new TV series Women Who Flirt, based on his big-screen romantic comedy of the same name and directed by TV drama director Sammy Ko, and DoP Jason Kwan’s directorial debut A Nail Clipper...
- 3/13/2017
- by screenasia@yahoo.com (Silvia Wong)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Hong Kong-based Bravos Pictures has picked up worldwide rights to two titles produced by leading Hong Kong filmmaker Pang Ho Cheung – Luk Yee-sum’s Lazy Hazy Crazy and Jason Kwan’s A Nail Clipper Romance.
Currently in post-production, A Nail Clipper Romance is a quirky tale about a young man who thinks he has fallen for the perfect woman until she admits to having unusual appetites. Chang Hsiao-chuan and Zhou Dong Yu head the cast. Kwan was DoP on Pang’s 2014 drama Aberdeen.
Lazy Hazy Crazy is a drama about three teenaged girls who make money through ‘compensated dating’. Luk previously worked with Pang as a writer on hits such asLove In The Buff, Vulgaria and Women Who Flirt.
Pang and Subi Liang’s Making Films Productions is producing both A Nail Clipper Romance and Lazy Hazy Crazy, which is currently in pre-production.
Bravos has also picked up Hong Kong and South-East Asian rights to Singaporean...
Currently in post-production, A Nail Clipper Romance is a quirky tale about a young man who thinks he has fallen for the perfect woman until she admits to having unusual appetites. Chang Hsiao-chuan and Zhou Dong Yu head the cast. Kwan was DoP on Pang’s 2014 drama Aberdeen.
Lazy Hazy Crazy is a drama about three teenaged girls who make money through ‘compensated dating’. Luk previously worked with Pang as a writer on hits such asLove In The Buff, Vulgaria and Women Who Flirt.
Pang and Subi Liang’s Making Films Productions is producing both A Nail Clipper Romance and Lazy Hazy Crazy, which is currently in pre-production.
Bravos has also picked up Hong Kong and South-East Asian rights to Singaporean...
- 5/14/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Taiwanese film Meeting Dr. Sun proved popular with audiences and jury members alike at Osaka Asian Film Festival, receiving the Audience Award and the festival's Grand Prix. Director Yee Chih-yen and stars Zhan Huai-yuan and Matthew Wei were present to accept the brace of awards, and the 500,000 yen prize that comes with the festival's grand prize. The film follows four boys and their plans to steal an abandoned metal statue from a school storage room in order to sell it to raise money for school fees. The gang encounters trouble when they run into a rival out to claim the statue for himself. A jury consisting of Hong Kong film director Pang Ho Cheung, Korean Actress Yoon Jin-seo and Japan's own Takeda Rina, chose the...
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- 3/15/2015
- Screen Anarchy
The third installment of Alan Mak and Felix Chong's surveillance thriller series, Overheard 3, scored nominations in 11 categories, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, when the nominations for the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards were announced this past Thursday. Ann Hui's The Golden Era was named in 10 categories, Fruit Chan's The Midnight After garnered 8 nominations, Pang Ho Cheung's Aberdeen scored 6 nominations, despite Pang losing out to Dante Lam in the Best Director category, while Peter Chan's Dearest scored 5 nods rounding out the Best Film category.Despite missing out in many of the major categories, Roy Chow's Wong Fei Hong reboot Rise Of The Legend picked up 9 nominations, including a Best Actor nod for Eddie Peng and Best Action...
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- 2/7/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Terence Chang, Philippe Bober and Naomi Kawase are among the producers of the 30 projects selected for this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf, March 23-25).
Bober, one of the Europe’s most respected producers and distributors, is teaming up with award-winning Chinese director Lou Ye to produce Riddle from Zhou Hao, whose debut The Night screened at Berlinale 2014.
Chang, the longtime producing partner of John Woo, is co-producing coming-of-age drama That Summer, to be directed by new mainland Chinese talent Zhou Quan. Meanwhile, Kawase is serving as producer on a project to be directed by Cuba’s Carlos Machado Quintela, which is being made in collaboration with the Nara International Film Festival.
The Haf line-up also includes five projects from Hong Kong filmmakers of different generations. Following Doomsday Party, Ho Hong is returning to Haf with suspense drama Lost In Border, while Gilitte Leung is attending for the first time with inspirational sports drama Breathing...
Bober, one of the Europe’s most respected producers and distributors, is teaming up with award-winning Chinese director Lou Ye to produce Riddle from Zhou Hao, whose debut The Night screened at Berlinale 2014.
Chang, the longtime producing partner of John Woo, is co-producing coming-of-age drama That Summer, to be directed by new mainland Chinese talent Zhou Quan. Meanwhile, Kawase is serving as producer on a project to be directed by Cuba’s Carlos Machado Quintela, which is being made in collaboration with the Nara International Film Festival.
The Haf line-up also includes five projects from Hong Kong filmmakers of different generations. Following Doomsday Party, Ho Hong is returning to Haf with suspense drama Lost In Border, while Gilitte Leung is attending for the first time with inspirational sports drama Breathing...
- 2/4/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
After dipping his toe into China with his 2012 sequel Love In The Buff, Hong Kong auteur Pang Ho Cheung embraces the inevitable and presents his first full-blown mainland production, Women Who Flirt. Zhou Xun and Huang Xiaoming play the longtime friends and colleagues whose til-now platonic relationship is jeopardised by Taiwanese dolly bird Sui Tang, forcing Zhou to step up and show she's got what it takes to win the guy she's always loved.Based on the dating "toolbook" Everyone Loves Tender Women by Loverman, Women Who Flirt is hardly venturing into uncharted territory. Angie (Zhou Xun) and Marco (Huang Xiaoming) have been friends so long he no longer sees her as dating material, even going so far as to refer to her as a...
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- 11/28/2014
- Screen Anarchy
This week, Pang Ho Cheung's Chinese film Women Who Flirt will be released in the Us. James saw the film and liked it a lot, as you can read in his review (this is a link). It is a modern romantic comedy starring actress Zhou Xun on the prowl, and she is the subject of this week's quiz. I try never to judge an actress just by her looks, and with Zhou Xun I thankfully don't have to. Almost unearthly though her beauty sometimes is, she is also a mighty fine actress, and perfectly capable of bringing quirk or tragedy into a picture. That last bit may also be the reason why her movie characters generally have the life expectancy of Sean Bean's. Anyway, once...
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- 11/28/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Hong Kong director Pang Ho Cheung heads back to the mainland for his latest romantic comedy, Women Who Flirt, which showcases the A-list talents of Zhou Xun and Huang Xiao Ming, as well as Taiwanese beauties Siu Teng and Xie Yilin. In Women Who Flirt, Zhou Xun and Huang Xiao Ming play long-time friends and colleagues Angie and Marco. When Marco introduces his new girlfriend (Sui Tang), Angie and best friend May (Xie Yilin) set to work trying to break them up. China Lion will be releasing Women Who Flirt in selected cities across North America starting 26 November, two days before the film opens in China. The film will also debut in Australia and New Zealand the same week, and to accompany the release, China Lion has...
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- 10/29/2014
- Screen Anarchy
China Lion Film Distribution has announced it will be handling the North American, as well as Australia and New Zealand release of mainland Chinese rom-com Women Who Flirt, opening the film in these territories ahead of the film's domestic release.Directed by Hong Kong's Pang Ho Cheung, Women Who Flirt stars Chinese A-listers Zhou Xun and Huang Xiao Ming opposite Taiwanese actresses Sui Tang and Xie Yilin, and is set for release in China on Friday 28 November. According to a press release issued by China Lion, they will debut the film in selected cities in the Us and Canada starting Wednesday 26 November, and do the same down under the following day.In Women Who Flirt, Zhou Xun and Huang Xiao Ming play long-time friends and...
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- 10/29/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The current trend of raucous, foul-mouthed Hong Kong comedies inspired by Pang Ho Cheung’s hit “Vulgaria” continues with the category III rated “3D Naked Ambition”, which follows Chapman To as an unlikely Av (Adult Video) star making his way in the Japanese industry. The film was directed by Lee Kung Lok and co-written and produced by Hk veteran Chan Hing Ka, who’s worked on everything from “A Better Tomorrow” and the original 2003 “Naked Ambition” through to more recent fare like “The Midas Touch” and the 2011 and 2012 instalments of “All’s Well Ends Well”. Along with the popular To, the film also stars Josie Ho (“Dream House”), plus a bevy of real Av actresses, including Aso Nozomi, Tatsumi Yui, Yume Kana and Okita Anri, all of whom work hard to provide the film with its most obvious selling points. The film opens with Chapman To as Wai Man, a...
- 8/15/2014
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Pang Ho Cheung is easily one of Hong Kong's most interesting directors. His recent films Love In A Puff, Love In The Buff and Vulgaria have all been critical and commercial successes. His latest film, Aberdeen, was one of the two opening films at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival, and on-line tickets for its screening were sold out within 8 minutes! Starring Louis Koo, Miriam Yeung, Gigi Leung, Eric Tsang, Ng Man Tat and Carrie Ng, this is one of the must-see Hong Kong films of 2014. Now thanks to Magnum Films, we have Five double passes for Aberdeen to give away to our Australian readers. For a chance to win, all you have to do is to follow these two steps:1) Like the Magnum...
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- 4/28/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Milt Barlow’s Asia Releasing (Ar) will handle the theatrical release of Pang Ho Cheung’s Aberdeen in North America.
Ar is handling the film on behalf of Australian/New Zealand distributor and rights holder Magnum Films. The North America release is scheduled for May 8. Magnum will handle the Australia/Nz release.
“I am delighted that Jason Lau, CEO of Magnum, has entrusted this wonderful picture to Asia Releasing,” said Barlow.
“I was heavily involved in Pang Ho-cheung’s previous films Vulgaria and Love In The Buff with China Lion so it is a great personal delight to have been given the honour again. We will release day-and-date with China, Hong Kong and Australia & New Zealand.”
Magnum Films CEO Jason Lau said: “Milt has a terrific depth of knowledge and relationships in North America with Chinese films and we are delighted to be partnering with Asia Releasing for this important release. Milt will also...
Ar is handling the film on behalf of Australian/New Zealand distributor and rights holder Magnum Films. The North America release is scheduled for May 8. Magnum will handle the Australia/Nz release.
“I am delighted that Jason Lau, CEO of Magnum, has entrusted this wonderful picture to Asia Releasing,” said Barlow.
“I was heavily involved in Pang Ho-cheung’s previous films Vulgaria and Love In The Buff with China Lion so it is a great personal delight to have been given the honour again. We will release day-and-date with China, Hong Kong and Australia & New Zealand.”
Magnum Films CEO Jason Lau said: “Milt has a terrific depth of knowledge and relationships in North America with Chinese films and we are delighted to be partnering with Asia Releasing for this important release. Milt will also...
- 3/26/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Milt Barlow’s Asia Releasing (Ar) will handle the theatrical release of Pang Ho Cheung’s Aberdeen in North America.
Ar is handling the film on behalf of Australian/New Zealand distributor and rights holder Magnum Films. The North America release is scheduled for May 8. Magnum will handle the Australia/Nz release.
“I am delighted that Jason Lau, CEO of Magnum, has entrusted this wonderful picture to Asia Releasing. I was heavily involved in Pang Ho-cheung’s previous films Vulgaria and Love In The Buff with China Lion so it is a great personal delight to have been given the honour again. We will release day-and-date with China, Hong Kong and Australia & New Zealand,” said Barlow.
Magnum Films CEO Jason Lau said: “Milt has a terrific depth of knowledge and relationships in North America with Chinese films and we are delighted to be partnering with Asia Releasing for this important release. Milt will also...
Ar is handling the film on behalf of Australian/New Zealand distributor and rights holder Magnum Films. The North America release is scheduled for May 8. Magnum will handle the Australia/Nz release.
“I am delighted that Jason Lau, CEO of Magnum, has entrusted this wonderful picture to Asia Releasing. I was heavily involved in Pang Ho-cheung’s previous films Vulgaria and Love In The Buff with China Lion so it is a great personal delight to have been given the honour again. We will release day-and-date with China, Hong Kong and Australia & New Zealand,” said Barlow.
Magnum Films CEO Jason Lau said: “Milt has a terrific depth of knowledge and relationships in North America with Chinese films and we are delighted to be partnering with Asia Releasing for this important release. Milt will also...
- 3/26/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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a feature on the allure of Hong Kong;hot titles from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan;an interview with film-maker Pang Ho Cheung about Hkiff opening film Aberdeen;finalists for the Haf/Fox award;pavilions for Russia and Japan;a directory of companies attending Filmart 2014.
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a feature on the allure of Hong Kong;hot titles from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan;an interview with film-maker Pang Ho Cheung about Hkiff opening film Aberdeen;finalists for the Haf/Fox award;pavilions for Russia and Japan;a directory of companies attending Filmart 2014.
- 3/26/2014
- ScreenDaily
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a feature on the allure of Hong Kong;hot titles from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan;an interview with film-maker Pang Ho Cheung about Hkiff opening film Aberdeen;finalists for the Haf/Fox award;pavilions for Russia and Japan;a directory of companies attending Filmart 2014.
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a feature on the allure of Hong Kong;hot titles from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan;an interview with film-maker Pang Ho Cheung about Hkiff opening film Aberdeen;finalists for the Haf/Fox award;pavilions for Russia and Japan;a directory of companies attending Filmart 2014.
- 3/26/2014
- ScreenDaily
Pang Ho Cheung delivers a beautifully observed portrait of a modern Hong Kong family that fuses social commentary with fantastical imagery and his trademark cheeky humour to wonderful effect.In a notable shift in tone from his recent successes, Hong Kong director Pang Ho Cheung takes a more serious look at his home town in Aberdeen, and the myriad challenges facing its inhabitants, as experienced by the Cheng family. An increasingly despondent tour guide, Wai Ching (Miriam Yeung) wrestles with lingering grievances about her dead mother, while her doctor husband, Yau (Eric Tsang) has drifted into a steamy affair with his buxom young nurse (Jacky Choi). Meanwhile Wai Ching's brother Tao (Louis Koo), who tutors young women in using their looks to snare wealthy husbands, is struggling...
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- 3/25/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Drama will reunite director with Headshot producer Raymond Phathanavirangoon and is set to star Chermarn “Ploy” Boonyasak.
Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang is reuniting with his Headshot producer Raymond Phathanavirangoon on drama Samui Song, set to star Chermarn “Ploy” Boonyasak.
Chermarn will play an actress who is worried by her foreign husband’s growing obsession with a cult-like religious sect and its charasmatic leader, the Holy One. A mysterious stranger offers to rid her of her problem, but she ends up taking drastic measures to escape falling under the influence of the Holy One.
The cult leader will be played by Vithaya “Pu” Pansringarm, who recently starred in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives. Chermarn has credits including The Love Of Siam, Eternity and a supporting role in Pen-ek’s 2003 Last Life In The Universe.
Despite Samui Song’s dark themes, Pen-ek and Phathanavirangoon describe it as less serious than award-winning 2012 noir thriller Headshot.
“Using Hitchcock...
Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang is reuniting with his Headshot producer Raymond Phathanavirangoon on drama Samui Song, set to star Chermarn “Ploy” Boonyasak.
Chermarn will play an actress who is worried by her foreign husband’s growing obsession with a cult-like religious sect and its charasmatic leader, the Holy One. A mysterious stranger offers to rid her of her problem, but she ends up taking drastic measures to escape falling under the influence of the Holy One.
The cult leader will be played by Vithaya “Pu” Pansringarm, who recently starred in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives. Chermarn has credits including The Love Of Siam, Eternity and a supporting role in Pen-ek’s 2003 Last Life In The Universe.
Despite Samui Song’s dark themes, Pen-ek and Phathanavirangoon describe it as less serious than award-winning 2012 noir thriller Headshot.
“Using Hitchcock...
- 3/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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a feature on the allure of Hong Kong;hot titles from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan;an interview with film-maker Pang Ho Cheung about Hkiff opening film Aberdeen;finalists for the Haf/Fox award;pavilions for Russia and Japan;a directory of companies attending Filmart 2014.
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a feature on the allure of Hong Kong;hot titles from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan;an interview with film-maker Pang Ho Cheung about Hkiff opening film Aberdeen;finalists for the Haf/Fox award;pavilions for Russia and Japan;a directory of companies attending Filmart 2014.
- 3/25/2014
- ScreenDaily
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers is launching sales on Pang Ho Cheung’s romantic comedy Women Who Flirt and Mabel Cheung and Alex Law’s $12m historical drama A Tale Of Three Cities at Filmart.
Starring Huang Xiaoming (American Dreams In China) and Zhou Xun (Cloud Atlas), Women Who Flirt is currently in post-production for a tentative July release.
Zhou plays a besotted graduate who takes flirting lessons to take her friendship with a former classmate to the next level. Pang, director of Hong Kong International Film Festival opener Aberdeen, will produce the $7m film with Subi Liang.
Currently in production with Nansun Shi producing, A Tale Of Three Cities stars Tang Wei and Sean Lau Ching-wan in a story that is loosely based on the experiences of Jackie Chan’s parents in China in the turbulent 1930s.
Cheung and Law worked together on hit Hong Kong drama Echoes Of The Rainbow (2010), which Law directed and Cheung produced...
Starring Huang Xiaoming (American Dreams In China) and Zhou Xun (Cloud Atlas), Women Who Flirt is currently in post-production for a tentative July release.
Zhou plays a besotted graduate who takes flirting lessons to take her friendship with a former classmate to the next level. Pang, director of Hong Kong International Film Festival opener Aberdeen, will produce the $7m film with Subi Liang.
Currently in production with Nansun Shi producing, A Tale Of Three Cities stars Tang Wei and Sean Lau Ching-wan in a story that is loosely based on the experiences of Jackie Chan’s parents in China in the turbulent 1930s.
Cheung and Law worked together on hit Hong Kong drama Echoes Of The Rainbow (2010), which Law directed and Cheung produced...
- 3/24/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Us-based Story Mining & Supply Co (SMS) is teaming with director Pang Ho Cheung and Subi Liang’s Making Film Productions to develop and produce an adaptation of Zhang Youyou memoir Polaroid Stories.
Zhang’s forthcoming book follows a young woman who deals with her insecurities surrounding sex and relationships by taking a job assisting a famous photographer, who is capturing intimate pictures of couples on Polaroid film.
Pang and Liang brought the project to SMS and will produce with Jeffrey Sharp and Evan Hayes from the Us-based comapny. SMS’s director of Asia, Jane Yu, will executive produce.
The team plan to develop the project with a Us screenwriter for translation into Chinese.
Village Roadshow Pictures Asia is in talks to join the project as co-producer and financier under its recently-announced strategic alliance with SMS.
Making Film Productions also produced Pang’s Aberdeen, one of two opening films at the Hong Kong International Film Festival tonight...
Zhang’s forthcoming book follows a young woman who deals with her insecurities surrounding sex and relationships by taking a job assisting a famous photographer, who is capturing intimate pictures of couples on Polaroid film.
Pang and Liang brought the project to SMS and will produce with Jeffrey Sharp and Evan Hayes from the Us-based comapny. SMS’s director of Asia, Jane Yu, will executive produce.
The team plan to develop the project with a Us screenwriter for translation into Chinese.
Village Roadshow Pictures Asia is in talks to join the project as co-producer and financier under its recently-announced strategic alliance with SMS.
Making Film Productions also produced Pang’s Aberdeen, one of two opening films at the Hong Kong International Film Festival tonight...
- 3/24/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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a feature on the allure of Hong Kong;hot titles from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan;an interview with film-maker Pang Ho Cheung about Hkiff opening film Aberdeen;finalists for the Haf/Fox award;pavilions for Russia and Japan;a directory of companies attending Filmart 2014.
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- 3/23/2014
- ScreenDaily
The lineup has been announced, and two films we be officially opening this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival, which runs from 24th March to 7th April. The World Premiere of Pang Ho Cheung's Aberdeen, starring Miriam Yeung, Gigi Leung, Eric Tsang and Louis Koo (who is also this year's festival ambassador) will screen at the Hk Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, while the Asian Premiere of Fruit Chan's The Midnight After (which debuted in Berlin) will play concurrently at the Hk Convention & Exhibiton Centre in Wan Chai.It has already been announced that Dante Lam's latest explosive action thriller, That Demon Within, which pits Nick Cheung against Daniel Wu, will close the festival, but in between is a mammoth line-up of prestige titles...
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- 2/27/2014
- Screen Anarchy
After a dalliance on the mainland in his hugely successful sequel Love In The Buff, Hong Kong's Pang Ho Cheung has returned home for his latest directorial endeavour, Aberdeen - a comedy-drama focusing on three generations of one family as they deal with heartbreak and hardship.Pang regular Miriam Yeung stars alongside Eric Tsang, Louis Koo and Gigi Leung, and the film is slated for a May release in Hong Kong. While the official line-up has yet to be announced, it's very likely that Aberdeen will debut at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival, which is to be held from 24 March - 7 April.Here's the official synopsis:Life starts and ends with a breath of air. And between each breath, one goes through life's ups...
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- 2/10/2014
- Screen Anarchy
With the success of Pang Ho Cheung’s foul mouthed and hilarious “Vulgaria” having proved that rude and crude are still popular at the Hong Kong box office, it’s only natural that other film makers would follow suit. And so, up step directors Andy Lo, Henri Wong and Chong Siu Wing with the category III rated “Hardcore Comedy”, which as its title suggests, aims for raucous pop culture laughs and unfettered bawdiness. Split into three linked stories and revolving around sex, drugs, superheroes and more, the film has a cast packed with attractive faces, including Dada Chan (“Vulgaria”), Michelle Wai (“Girl$”), Christine Kuo (“Lan Kwai Fong 2”), Kelvin Kwan (“Tales from the Dark 2”), Oscar Leung (“Young and Dangerous Reloaded”) and William Chan (“Triad”). The film opens with Henri Wong’s “Shocking Wet Dreams”, in which a couple of college losers (Kelvin Kwan and Terence Siufay) are forced by a...
- 11/14/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Thanks to our friends at Magnum Films, we have Five double passes for Sdu: Sex Duties Unit from producer Pang Ho Cheung (Vulgaria, Men Suddenly In Black) to give to our Australian readers! Sdu: Sex Duties Unit stars funnyman Chapman To and Shawn Yue, and looks to be a raunchy sex comedy. For a chance to win, all you have to do is to follow these two steps:1) Name one other movie from Magnum Films' line-up of Hong Kong films for Australian cinemas in the second half of 2013, and2) Email your answer, name and postal address to me at: hugo[at]twitchfilm.netSDU: Sex Duties Unit will open in Australia on July 25 and our competition will close at 3pm on Tuesday July 23. Good luck!...
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- 7/15/2013
- Screen Anarchy
If you live in Australia and love Asian cinema, you will probably be very excited about the lineup of Hong Kong films that will be brought to our screens by Magnum Films in the second half of 2013. These include a sex comedy, two omnibus horror films and two action thrillers from a group of well-known filmmakers including Pang Ho Cheung (Love In A Puff, Vulgaria), Fruit Chan (Made In Hong Kong, Three... Extremes), Gordon Chan (Beast Cops, Painted Skin), Dante Lam (Beast Stalker, The Viral Factor) and the Pang Brothers (The Eye, The Detective). You can check out the details for each film in the gallery below. Please note that this is a preliminary program only and there may well be other gems added to...
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- 7/14/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Hot off the success of last year's riotous sex comedy Vulgaria, Pang Ho Cheung re-unites with his onscreen alter ego, Chapman To, for Sdu: Sex Duties Unit. Centering on Hong Kong's Special Duties Units (essentially the city's answer to Swat), the film follows one particular team through the ups and downs of both their high-risk jobs, and their more debauched personal lives - with much of the action taking place in the neighbouring sin city that is Macau.The tone here is definitely similar to Pang's previous work, particularly Vulgaria and Men Suddenly in Black and the film, which also stars Shawn Yue and a host of other familiar faces, is scheduled to hit Hong Kong screens this summer. Check out the first teaser below.Synopsis:The Special Duties...
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- 3/21/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Pang Ho Cheung, arguably the most talented writer and director working in Hong Kong today, swaps the gentle wit of his popular “Love in the Puff” and sequel for something considerably ruder in the aptly-titled “Vulgaria”. With Chapman To (“The Bounty”) leading an all-star cast as a producer struggling to get his film made while juggling various personal problems, “Vulgaria” is a hilariously vicious swipe at the Hong Kong industry, which earned a category III rating for its perverse themes and incredibly ripe and creative use of swearing. Local audiences certainly took to its brand of crudeness, the film emerging as one of the year’s biggest domestic hits, also notching up several nominations at the Golden Horse Awards as well as playing to acclaim at numerous international festivals. Chapman To plays film producer To Wai, the film opening with him being interviewed in front of a lecture theatre of...
- 3/6/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
The nominations for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards were announced earlier today, and predictably, star-studded cop drama Cold War scored 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director nods for its first-time helmers Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. More suprising was that Law Chi Leung's The Bullet Vanishes scored the exact same number of nominations, and goes head-to-head with Cold War in nine of those categories. In third place, with 8 nominations, is Felix Chong and Alan Mak's The Silent War, although it failed to secure a Best Picture nod. That category is filled out by Dante Lam's The Viral Factor, Soi Cheang's Motorway and Pang Ho Cheung's Vulgaria. The Best Director nominees follow suit, with the notable exception of Pang, who receives a nomination...
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- 2/6/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Comic actor Xu Zheng's directorial debut broke a slew of box office records to become the most successful Chinese language film of all-time on home soil. But despite slick production values and a strong cast, Lost in Thailand is a private joke, funny only to a 1.3 billion-strong home crowd. Xu Zheng made a name for himself as part of director Ning Hao's comedy ensemble, appearing in the smash hit caper movies Crazy Stone (2006) and Crazy Racer (2009), as well as Ning's still unreleased Western Sunshine (aka No Man's Land). Last year, Xu appeared in Pang Ho Cheung's Hong Kong hit Love in the Buff as Miriam Yeung's rich new boyfriend, but all of that is now firmly in his past, and he is likely to...
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- 2/1/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Writer / director / star / producer Xu Zheng has just set the bar phenomenally high for himself, absolutely shattering a literal handful of Chinese box office records with his debut directorial effort Lost In Thailand. Best known to fans in the west for his roles in Ning Hao's Crazy Stone and Crazy Racer and Pang Ho Cheung's Love In The Buff the wild success of Lost In Thailand has easily eclipsed any of those films and established Xu as a legitimate force in his own right.Lost in Thailand is the story of two rival business managers, Xu (Xu Zheng) and Bo (Huang Bo), who are fighting over a revolutionary new in-house technology for control of their company. If Xu wins, his future will be...
- 12/20/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The Hong Kong music industry comes under the spotlight in “Diva” from hotly tipped director Heiward Mak, who received praise and attention for her earlier outings “High Noon” and “Ex”, and for co-scripting Pang Ho Cheung’s excellent “Love in a Puff”. Headlined and produced by Chapman To, taking the role of a ruthless and shifty manager, the film appropriately also stars real life Canto-pop chanteuse Joey Yung (“Crazy N’ the City”) and new pop talent Mag Lam (“Live in Flames”) as two rival songbirds trying to navigate the pitfalls of the business, a premise ripe for a scandalous exposé. The film opens with manager Man (Chapman To) taking a young singer called J (Joey Yung) under his wing. Fast forward to the present day, and J is now one of Hong Kong’s top Canto-pop stars, her outwardly glamorous life completely controlled by the shrewd Man, who even manipulates her relationships to his benefit.
- 12/17/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Pang Ho Cheung, arguably most the talented and exciting Hong Kong film maker of the last decade, serves as producer on “Lacuna”, directed by his regular collaborators Derek Tsang and Jimmy Wan, who wrote his superb slasher “Dream Home”. The film sees the duo following up their unexpectedly on the money 2010 romantic ensemble drama “Lover’s Discourse” with more of the same, another very contemporary life and love story of sorts, revolving around the wild antics of a (very) drunken night out in Beijing. For its lead couple the film stars top Hong Kong actor Shawn Yue, who combined with Pang to great effect on the charismatic “Love in a Puff” plus sequel, and Mainland actress Zhang Jingchu, recently seen in the likes of “Flirting Scholar 2” and “City Under Siege”. The film gets off to a disorienting start, with Shen Wei (Shawn Yue) and Tong Xin (Zhang Jingchu) waking up...
- 10/15/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Awards season has begun in Asia, with the nominees for the 49th Golden Horse Awards announced in Taipei this evening. Leading the pack is Yang Ya Che's period coming-of-age tale, Gf * Bf, and Lou Ye's Mystery, which both garnered seven nominations, and Doze Niu's Love with five. There was also a strong showing of Hong Kong talent, with Johnnie To's Life Without Principle being named in six categories and Pang Ho Cheung's Vulgaria bagging three noms. Also, kudos to Chapman To, who is nominated in both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories, for Vulgaria and Heiward Mak's Diva respectively. The 49th Golden Horse Awards will be presented on Saturday, 24 November 2012.Here's the full list of nominees:Best Feature Film Beijing Blues Mystery...
- 10/2/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Already the most successful Hong Kong film of the year, and coming off a Best Actor win at last night's Fantastic Fest Awards, the hilarious Category III comedy Vulgaria is about to hit Us theatres courtesy of China Lion, and so we come to this new clip. Vulgaria is the latest film from writer/director Pang Ho Cheung, whose previous work includes such diverse films as Dream Home, Love In A Puff and Isabella, and charts the trials and tribulations of a struggling film producer (Chapman To), who will do just about anything to secure financing for his next film. When he gets caught up with a model nicknamed "Popping Candy" (Dada Chen), who is hustling for an acting career, To soon finds her advances impossible to resist and in...
- 9/25/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Third Window Films keeps the hits coming with their latest acquisition announcement. First up is Pang Ho Cheung's latest film, Vulgaria. Not only is this the first new film from Hong Kong to enter Third Window's catalog in a long time, it is also the latest in a massive string of critically successful films from the extremely diverse talent that is Pang Ho Cheung. The second film is one that sounds like it fits in quite nicely with Third Window's collection of Japanese comedies, and that is Shuichi Okita's The Woodsman and the Rain. I've seen neither, though the former is high on my "to see" list, but if any name stands for quality, it's Third Window, so here's more about these films from Adam...
- 8/6/2012
- Screen Anarchy
[After bagging the Netpac Award at PiFan last week, and enjoying weekend previews in Hong Kong ahead of its theatrical release next Thursday, now seems the perfect time to revisit my review from Hkiff back in March] Not content with having secured the opening night slot and a probable box office hit with his new rom-com sequel, Love In The Buff, writer-director Pang Ho Cheung has completed another uproarious comedy that will also debut at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival. Vulgaria stars Chapman To as a frustrated local movie producer, struggling not only with financing his next project but also with the collapse of his marriage. During a staged interview before an audiatorium of film students, second tier producer To Wai Cheung (Chapman To)...
- 8/3/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Undoubtedly one of the year's funniest films, Pang Ho Cheung's bawdy comedy Vulgaria is soon to get a theatrical release here in Hong Kong, after a healthy run on the festival circuit at such esteemed showcases as the Udine Far East Film Festival, the New York Asian Film Festival and here at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, where it premiered back in March. The film stars Chapman To, Ronald Cheng, Dada Chen and Fiona Sit and details the daily struggles of a second rate film producer as he battles to secure financing for his latest opus.If you've heard of the film at all, you will most likely already know that the film is a non-stop tirade of dirty anecdotes, sexual innuendo and the now-legendary...
- 7/4/2012
- Screen Anarchy
There is no getting away from Chapman To these days, but the guy has been on a roll of impressive form, starring in films like Wong Jing's Mr. & Mrs. Gambler, Herman Yau's Love Lifting, Pang Ho Cheung's uproarious comedy Vulgaria and Fung Chi Chiang's The Bounty. Later this summer, To will star in and also produce Diva, a vehicle for the talents of established pop star Joey Yung, as well as Mag Lam - who won Tvb's popular singing competition, The Voice, back in 2010.Diva is written and directed by young female filmmaker Heiward Mak, who has made a notable impact on Hong Kong's indie scene with films such as Ex in 2010 (also produced by To), and she also has a screenplay credit...
- 6/18/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Hong Kong 15 Film Festival announces its much anticipated programme to mark the 15th Anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty
1st July marks fifteen years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty. To commemorate this special occasion, the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office, London, in association with Terracotta Festival, has put together an exciting film festival to showcase the best of current Hong Kong films as well as to look back on the last fifteen years and beyond.
When & Where
The ‘Hong Kong 15 Film Festival’ will take place at the Odeon Covent Garden, London, commencing 2nd July 2012 for a fortnight until 14th July. With guests in attendance and fifteen films carefully selected, the festival will pay tribute to the extraordinary story of this vibrant and energetic island city through the eyes of its film-makers.
The diversity of Hong Kong cinema will be represented through a panorama of...
1st July marks fifteen years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty. To commemorate this special occasion, the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office, London, in association with Terracotta Festival, has put together an exciting film festival to showcase the best of current Hong Kong films as well as to look back on the last fifteen years and beyond.
When & Where
The ‘Hong Kong 15 Film Festival’ will take place at the Odeon Covent Garden, London, commencing 2nd July 2012 for a fortnight until 14th July. With guests in attendance and fifteen films carefully selected, the festival will pay tribute to the extraordinary story of this vibrant and energetic island city through the eyes of its film-makers.
The diversity of Hong Kong cinema will be represented through a panorama of...
- 6/17/2012
- by Tiger33
- AsianMoviePulse
Not content with having secured the opening night slot and a probable box office hit with his new rom-com sequel, Love In The Buff, writer-director Pang Ho Cheung has completed another uproarious comedy that will also debut at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival. Vulgaria stars Chapman To as a frustrated local movie producer, struggling not only with financing his next project but also with the collapse of his marriage.During a staged interview before an audiatorium of film students, second tier producer To Wai Cheung (Chapman To) discusses the obstacles facing the city's ailing film industry, spinning numerous outrageous anecdotes about the sacrifices he must make in his personal and professional life to get projects made. After comparing his role as being the "cushion...
- 3/23/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Thanks to our friends at Dream Movie Australia, we have Five double passes for the new Pang Ho Cheung film Love In The Buff to give away to our Australian readers! This film is the sequel to the 2010 Hong Kong word-of-mouth hit Love In A Puff, and has been selected as the Opening Film at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. How to win: It's really simple. All you have to do are 2 things: 1) Like us on Facebook2) Tell us the names of the film's lead actor and actress in order to enter the draw to win one of the double passes. You can email your answer, together with your name and postal address (in case you win!) to me at: hugo@twitchfilm.net. The competition...
- 3/21/2012
- Screen Anarchy
(Giving this review a bump as the film enjoys its official world premiere tonight as opening film of the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival) Writer-director Pang Ho Cheung's 2010 comedy Love In A Puff was something of a happy accident. During the agonising and lengthy post-production dramas that befell his Josie Ho slasher vehicle, Dream Home, Pang sought artistic refuge and revitalisation by immersing himself in a new production. Shot quickly and inexpensively, from a smart, yet foul-mouthed script he penned with Heiward Mak, the film was an honest and realistic examination of the modern Hong Kong romance. As was the case for Wong Kar Wai when he escaped the grueling rigmarol of Ashes Of Time and produced Chungking Express on the fly as...
- 3/21/2012
- Screen Anarchy
As local director Pang Ho Cheung is gearing up to premiere two new films at this month's Hong Kong International Film Festival, international distributor China Lion has announced that it already has one of them scheduled for release in North America at the end of the month. Love In The Buff, which is the official opening film of the 36th Hkiff on 21 March, will open in selected North American cities on 30 March. A sequel to Pang's incredibly well-received romantic comedy Love In A Puff, this second helping sees Miriam Yeung and Shawn Yue reconnect in Beijing, after the economic downturn sends them north of the border looking for work.China Lion is also expanding its release of Dante Lam's The Viral Factor into 10...
- 3/6/2012
- Screen Anarchy
HONG KONG -- Film submissions for the sixth Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum, organized by the Hong Kong International Film Festival and co-organized by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the MPA, are now being accepted, the HKIFF announced Thursday.
The call for HAF submissions comes hot on the heels of the Hong Kong Film Development Council's announcement Tuesday that they are inviting applications for the HK$300 million ($38.4 million) Film Development Fund they are in charge of administering to small- to medium-budget productions.
HAF is one of the core events of Hong Kong's Entertainment Expo and is designed to connect Asian filmmakers with film financiers, producers, bankers, distributors, buyers and funders for co-production ventures.
HAF promotes new talent as well as helping established directors. Past participants in the program have included China's Jiang Wen, Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan, Ann Hui, Pang Ho Cheung, Taiwan's Tsai Ming-Liang, Japan's Miike Takashi, Korea's IM Sang-Soo as well as Thailand's Pen-ek Ratanaruang.
The call for HAF submissions comes hot on the heels of the Hong Kong Film Development Council's announcement Tuesday that they are inviting applications for the HK$300 million ($38.4 million) Film Development Fund they are in charge of administering to small- to medium-budget productions.
HAF is one of the core events of Hong Kong's Entertainment Expo and is designed to connect Asian filmmakers with film financiers, producers, bankers, distributors, buyers and funders for co-production ventures.
HAF promotes new talent as well as helping established directors. Past participants in the program have included China's Jiang Wen, Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan, Ann Hui, Pang Ho Cheung, Taiwan's Tsai Ming-Liang, Japan's Miike Takashi, Korea's IM Sang-Soo as well as Thailand's Pen-ek Ratanaruang.
- 10/6/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HONG KONG -- Film submissions for the sixth Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) are now being accepted, the Hong Kong International Film Festival said Thursday.
The call for submissions comes hot on the heels of the Hong Kong Film Development Council's announcement Tuesday that they are inviting applications for the HK$300 million ($38.4 million) Film Development Fund they are in charge of administering to small- to medium-budgeted productions.
The forum is one of the core events of Hong Kong's Entertainment Expo and is designed to connect Asian filmmakers with film financiers, producers, bankers, distributors, buyers and funders for co-production ventures.
It is organized by HKIFF and co-organized by the development council and the MPA.
HAF promotes new talent as well as helping established directors. Past participants in the program include China's Jiang Wen, Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan, Ann Hui, Pang Ho Cheung, Taiwan's Tsai Ming-Liang, Japan's Miike Takashi, Korea's Im Sang-Soo and Thailand's Pen-ek Ratanaruang.
The call for submissions comes hot on the heels of the Hong Kong Film Development Council's announcement Tuesday that they are inviting applications for the HK$300 million ($38.4 million) Film Development Fund they are in charge of administering to small- to medium-budgeted productions.
The forum is one of the core events of Hong Kong's Entertainment Expo and is designed to connect Asian filmmakers with film financiers, producers, bankers, distributors, buyers and funders for co-production ventures.
It is organized by HKIFF and co-organized by the development council and the MPA.
HAF promotes new talent as well as helping established directors. Past participants in the program include China's Jiang Wen, Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan, Ann Hui, Pang Ho Cheung, Taiwan's Tsai Ming-Liang, Japan's Miike Takashi, Korea's Im Sang-Soo and Thailand's Pen-ek Ratanaruang.
- 10/5/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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