Lawrence Kan’s newsroom drama In Broad Daylight leads the pack going into the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards with 16 nominations.
The feature, which follows an undercover journalist who exposes the abuse of residents in a nursing home, secured nods in all but three of the 19 categories. It marks the second feature by Kan and proved the fourth highest grossing local film in 2023.
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Also gaining multiple nominations was Nick Cheuk’s emotive drama Time Still Turns The Pages and Felix Chong’s financial crime extravaganza The Goldfinger, which secured 12 nods apiece, while Jack Ng...
The feature, which follows an undercover journalist who exposes the abuse of residents in a nursing home, secured nods in all but three of the 19 categories. It marks the second feature by Kan and proved the fourth highest grossing local film in 2023.
Scroll down for full list of nominations
Also gaining multiple nominations was Nick Cheuk’s emotive drama Time Still Turns The Pages and Felix Chong’s financial crime extravaganza The Goldfinger, which secured 12 nods apiece, while Jack Ng...
- 2/6/2024
- ScreenDaily
‘Suzume’, ‘John Wick 4’ and ‘Someday Or One Day’ among leading titles.
Taiwan’s gross box office for the first quarter of 2023 topped Nt$2bn ($65.6m), up 5% on the same period in 2019, according to a leading distributor.
“It is really exciting to see audiences finally return to movie theatres,” said Wayne Chang founder of distributor GaragePlay and acquisition company MovieCloud. “The total box office was over Nt$2bn ($65.6m) for 2023 Q1, which is even better than the Nt$1.9bn ($62.3m) for pre-Covid 2019 Q1.”
The Taipei-based distributor emerged as the highest grossing theatrical distributor in Q1, accounting for 25% of box office...
Taiwan’s gross box office for the first quarter of 2023 topped Nt$2bn ($65.6m), up 5% on the same period in 2019, according to a leading distributor.
“It is really exciting to see audiences finally return to movie theatres,” said Wayne Chang founder of distributor GaragePlay and acquisition company MovieCloud. “The total box office was over Nt$2bn ($65.6m) for 2023 Q1, which is even better than the Nt$1.9bn ($62.3m) for pre-Covid 2019 Q1.”
The Taipei-based distributor emerged as the highest grossing theatrical distributor in Q1, accounting for 25% of box office...
- 4/13/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Michael Fassbender plays football coach in feel-good drama.
Searchlight has pushed Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins into the awards season corridor, moving the feel-good drama from September 22 to November 17.
Waititi’s new feature stars Michael Fassbender as a football coach tasked with improving the American Samoa football team after their 31-0 drubbing by Australia in a 2001 World Cup qualifier.
As the next World Cup qualifiers approach, can the down-on-his-luck coach reverse the team’s fortunes?
Next Goal Wins is based on the 2014 documentary of the same name and also stars Oscar Kightley, non-binary Samoan actor Kaimana, David Fane, Elizabeth Moss,...
Searchlight has pushed Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins into the awards season corridor, moving the feel-good drama from September 22 to November 17.
Waititi’s new feature stars Michael Fassbender as a football coach tasked with improving the American Samoa football team after their 31-0 drubbing by Australia in a 2001 World Cup qualifier.
As the next World Cup qualifiers approach, can the down-on-his-luck coach reverse the team’s fortunes?
Next Goal Wins is based on the 2014 documentary of the same name and also stars Oscar Kightley, non-binary Samoan actor Kaimana, David Fane, Elizabeth Moss,...
- 4/12/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Figures returned to pre-pandemic levels.
RankFilmApr 7-10Total gross to date Week 1. Super Mario Bros: The Movie $1.91m (Hk$14.97m) $2.94m (Hk$23.06m) 1 2. Over My Dead Body $742,000 (Hk$5.83m) $1.32m (Hk$10.33m) 1 3. John Wick: Chapter 4 $449,000 (Hk$3.53m) $3.81m (Hk$29.94m) 3 4. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
$140,000 (Hk$1.1m) $637,000 (Hk$5m) 2 5. Suzume $137,000 (Hk$1.08m) $3.31m (Hk$26.66m) 6
Hong Kong’s box office returned to pre-pandemic levels over the four-day Easter weekend, led by US animation The Super Mario Bros. Movie and local feature Over My Dead Body.
Total revenues reached $3.83m (Hk$30m) from April 7-10, up 1.6% on Easter 2019 (April 19-...
RankFilmApr 7-10Total gross to date Week 1. Super Mario Bros: The Movie $1.91m (Hk$14.97m) $2.94m (Hk$23.06m) 1 2. Over My Dead Body $742,000 (Hk$5.83m) $1.32m (Hk$10.33m) 1 3. John Wick: Chapter 4 $449,000 (Hk$3.53m) $3.81m (Hk$29.94m) 3 4. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
$140,000 (Hk$1.1m) $637,000 (Hk$5m) 2 5. Suzume $137,000 (Hk$1.08m) $3.31m (Hk$26.66m) 6
Hong Kong’s box office returned to pre-pandemic levels over the four-day Easter weekend, led by US animation The Super Mario Bros. Movie and local feature Over My Dead Body.
Total revenues reached $3.83m (Hk$30m) from April 7-10, up 1.6% on Easter 2019 (April 19-...
- 4/12/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
“Like & Share” from Indonesia’s Gina S. Noer was named the best picture and collected the Grand Prix on Sunday at the Osaka Asian Film Festival.
“All of us on the jury were struck by the film’s clear and powerful message, which affirms young women’s sexual curiosity and desire while clearly saying no to sexual violence. The style of the film is also original. The sweet, poppy feeling that fascinates the audience in the first half of the film becomes darker as the story progresses, making us shudder. “Like & Share,” with its strong message and brilliant direction, is a film that needs to be seen now more than ever,” said the jury in a statement.
“This movie is talking about how we deal with trauma and how we deal with sexual violence. It’s not easy to tell and it’s not easy to make a movie about it,...
“All of us on the jury were struck by the film’s clear and powerful message, which affirms young women’s sexual curiosity and desire while clearly saying no to sexual violence. The style of the film is also original. The sweet, poppy feeling that fascinates the audience in the first half of the film becomes darker as the story progresses, making us shudder. “Like & Share,” with its strong message and brilliant direction, is a film that needs to be seen now more than ever,” said the jury in a statement.
“This movie is talking about how we deal with trauma and how we deal with sexual violence. It’s not easy to tell and it’s not easy to make a movie about it,...
- 3/20/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023 (Oaff 2023) held its Special Opening Ceremony today, March 15, with stage greetings featuring filmmakers attending the festival and the World Premiere of the Hong Kong film “Over My Dead Body” (死屍死時四十四).
Oaff 2023 started on March 10, but “Over My Dead Body” was the first title to play at the festival's main venue of ABC Hall. Taking place at ABC Hall, the special event marked the first time since Oaff 2020, and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, that the festival was able to host guests for Q&As and more. Waiting to meet them was a full audience made up of enthusiastic filmgoers who welcomed an array of stars drawn from 16 films from Japan and abroad.
Among their number were
Hong Kong
“Over My Dead Body”
Director Ho Cheuk Tin (Competition Jury) and Actor Wong You Nam
“Hong Kong Family”
Director Tsang Hing Weng Eric
“Lost Love”
Director Ka Sing Fung...
Oaff 2023 started on March 10, but “Over My Dead Body” was the first title to play at the festival's main venue of ABC Hall. Taking place at ABC Hall, the special event marked the first time since Oaff 2020, and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, that the festival was able to host guests for Q&As and more. Waiting to meet them was a full audience made up of enthusiastic filmgoers who welcomed an array of stars drawn from 16 films from Japan and abroad.
Among their number were
Hong Kong
“Over My Dead Body”
Director Ho Cheuk Tin (Competition Jury) and Actor Wong You Nam
“Hong Kong Family”
Director Tsang Hing Weng Eric
“Lost Love”
Director Ka Sing Fung...
- 3/15/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Acquisition
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights from Participant to “A Compassionate Spy,” the new documentary from Steve James. The film, which world premiered at the Venice Film Festival ahead of its North American launch at Telluride, is a real-life spy story about Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades. Magnolia will release the film in theaters later this year.
“A Compassionate Spy” is presented by Participant and is a Mitten Media and Kartemquin Films production produced by Mark Mitten p.g.a., Dave Lindorff, and Steve James. Executive producers are Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Tim Horsburgh and Gordon Quinn.
The deal was negotiated by Magnolia executive VP Dori Begley and senior VP of acquisitions John Von Thaden; Participant’s Liesl Copland, executive VP content strategy and sales, Adam Macy,...
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights from Participant to “A Compassionate Spy,” the new documentary from Steve James. The film, which world premiered at the Venice Film Festival ahead of its North American launch at Telluride, is a real-life spy story about Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades. Magnolia will release the film in theaters later this year.
“A Compassionate Spy” is presented by Participant and is a Mitten Media and Kartemquin Films production produced by Mark Mitten p.g.a., Dave Lindorff, and Steve James. Executive producers are Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Tim Horsburgh and Gordon Quinn.
The deal was negotiated by Magnolia executive VP Dori Begley and senior VP of acquisitions John Von Thaden; Participant’s Liesl Copland, executive VP content strategy and sales, Adam Macy,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran and Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Edward Woodward, probably best known to U.S. audiences as crime-fighting ex-agent Robert McCall on the cool 80s series The Equalizer, has died at the age of 79.
Of course, before taking that role, Woodward had a long, distinguished film career, starring in such classic films as Breaker Morant and The Wicker Man. Long before The Equalizer he did a British series where he played a spy in the series Callan, which ran from 1967 to 1972.. He appeared in several other TV shows over the years, including The Defenders, The Saint, La Femme Nikita, CI5, Over My Dead Body, Nice Work, 1990, The Edward Woodward Hour, and many others.
This year he guest starred in several episodes of the classic British show EastEnders. He was also an accomplished stage actor and singer.
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Of course, before taking that role, Woodward had a long, distinguished film career, starring in such classic films as Breaker Morant and The Wicker Man. Long before The Equalizer he did a British series where he played a spy in the series Callan, which ran from 1967 to 1972.. He appeared in several other TV shows over the years, including The Defenders, The Saint, La Femme Nikita, CI5, Over My Dead Body, Nice Work, 1990, The Edward Woodward Hour, and many others.
This year he guest starred in several episodes of the classic British show EastEnders. He was also an accomplished stage actor and singer.
Continue reading The Equalizer's Edward Woodward dead at 79
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- 11/16/2009
- by Bob Sassone
- Aol TV.
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