When her previous project “Ordinary Heroes” failed to make a dent at the box office, director Ann Hui turned to a genre which has proven time and time again to be popular with audiences, especially in Asia, which is the blend of horror and comedy. In the past, Hong Kong cinema has made a name for itself, creating a plethora of features representing this unique brand, often with a few martial-arts-scenes added for good measure. In the case of Ann Hui, her new project “Visible Secret” is certainly a deviation when compared to, for example, “Boat People” or “Night and Fog”, whose stories, themes and characters are more grounded within reality. However, while it does stay close to popular tropes of the horror genre of the time, “Visible Secret” also offers an interesting twist to some of the themes which have been a constant presence in the director's work, even...
- 11/10/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. Office (2015) is showing July 26 – August 24, 2020 on Mubi in the United States.The camera swoops up on the lyrical laments of two high-level careerists, dwarfed and backgrounded by the least subtle metaphor for capitalist grind. Waning golden boy David (Eason Chan), screwed after losing $20 million in company funds, and accountant Sophie (Wei Tang), dumped by her fiance for prioritizing work, just had a meet-cute contrived and earnest as the duet they’ve broken into. At first glance mistakable for a Modern Times-themed Armani campaign, the blatant staginess and uncanny lighting of the moment feels barely believable, even amateurish. With Johnnie To’s Office, unnaturalness isn’t a flaw, it’s a feature. Facing the present repercussions of 2008’s subprime mortgage crisis, our minds slip off realities vast as “$600 billion in...
- 8/12/2020
- MUBI
The upcoming Chinese period drama “The Diary”, written, produced and directed by Jackie Chan is expected to be released in autumn 2020.
About the soundtrack:
American composer Nathan Wang and French composer Alan Tyler will curate the score for “The Diary”. The film will also contain original soundtracks. Nathan Wang has already worked several times with Jackie Chan in movies including: “Rumble in the Bronx”, “Who Am I”, “First Strike” or the upcoming “Vanguars”. Alan Tyler is a French composer who works in Los Angeles; he contributed to the music of films and TV like “Curb your Enthusiasm” and “Nurses”, and more recently on Jackie Chan’s production “Project X-Traction” (Sparkle Roll Media). Jackie Chan has chosen the composers himself and in addition to the main theme, the director/actor will sing for the movie’s soundtrack
About the movie:
“The Diary” will be a musical drama set in China and Europe during the 1930s.
About the soundtrack:
American composer Nathan Wang and French composer Alan Tyler will curate the score for “The Diary”. The film will also contain original soundtracks. Nathan Wang has already worked several times with Jackie Chan in movies including: “Rumble in the Bronx”, “Who Am I”, “First Strike” or the upcoming “Vanguars”. Alan Tyler is a French composer who works in Los Angeles; he contributed to the music of films and TV like “Curb your Enthusiasm” and “Nurses”, and more recently on Jackie Chan’s production “Project X-Traction” (Sparkle Roll Media). Jackie Chan has chosen the composers himself and in addition to the main theme, the director/actor will sing for the movie’s soundtrack
About the movie:
“The Diary” will be a musical drama set in China and Europe during the 1930s.
- 4/25/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
With early finales littering the schedule of late, we're going to offer other fun things to consider far off the beaten path.
From one-time concerts to streaming shows we think you need to see and a whole lot more, we're guiding the remainder of your Covid-19 quarantine time with a bunch of best bets.
And this is another reminder that this is a curated list and not a repeat of the TV Guide. Yes, there are a lot of other things to watch, but we're not pointing them out here. So, let's get started!
Dishing with Julia (PBS Streaming)
Let's start small. Well, if you consider the magic of Julia Child small. And if you do, you'll surely reconsider once you check out Dishing with Julia Child on PBS.
All six episodes of this delightful series are currently streaming on PBS through your local PBS affiliate.
So what is it?...
From one-time concerts to streaming shows we think you need to see and a whole lot more, we're guiding the remainder of your Covid-19 quarantine time with a bunch of best bets.
And this is another reminder that this is a curated list and not a repeat of the TV Guide. Yes, there are a lot of other things to watch, but we're not pointing them out here. So, let's get started!
Dishing with Julia (PBS Streaming)
Let's start small. Well, if you consider the magic of Julia Child small. And if you do, you'll surely reconsider once you check out Dishing with Julia Child on PBS.
All six episodes of this delightful series are currently streaming on PBS through your local PBS affiliate.
So what is it?...
- 4/18/2020
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Global Citizen has announced a second round of artists for its “One World: Together At Home” global broadcast Saturday night, with Taylor Swift, Celine Dion, Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, Sam Smith, Usher and Pharrell Williams among the musicians newly set to join the telecast.
Other personalities coming on board include Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Awkwafina, Amy Poehler, LL Cool J, Lupita Nyong’o, Matthew McConaughey and Victoria Beckham.
That’s just the beginning of the volume of names included in the announcement, as Global Citizen has also set a a six-hour streaming event to precede the televised two-hour special, with about 80 singers and actors taking part in that. Among the high-profile artists participating in the live-stream pre-telecast are John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Sheryl Crow, Luis Fonsi, the Killers, Lang Lang, Lady Antebellum, Charlie Puth, Ben Platt, Hozier, Jack Johnson, Juanes, Maren Morris, Michael Buble, Adam Lambert, Annie Lennox and Common.
Other personalities coming on board include Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Awkwafina, Amy Poehler, LL Cool J, Lupita Nyong’o, Matthew McConaughey and Victoria Beckham.
That’s just the beginning of the volume of names included in the announcement, as Global Citizen has also set a a six-hour streaming event to precede the televised two-hour special, with about 80 singers and actors taking part in that. Among the high-profile artists participating in the live-stream pre-telecast are John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Sheryl Crow, Luis Fonsi, the Killers, Lang Lang, Lady Antebellum, Charlie Puth, Ben Platt, Hozier, Jack Johnson, Juanes, Maren Morris, Michael Buble, Adam Lambert, Annie Lennox and Common.
- 4/14/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
“Money makes the world go around” was a popular song in Bob Fosse’s “Cabaret” about the global economic crisis of 1929. Speeding forward to 2007, not much has changed. We are at the edge of another big collapse of global markets. A few months before Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy. The Billion Dollar Company Jones & Sunn from Hong Kong is about to go public.
Johnnie To, who is mainly known in the West for his die-hard action flicks, adapts Sylvia Chang’s play “Design for Living”. Together they produced a shorted cinematic version of the four-hour long musical from 2008.
Office is screening at /Slash Festival
The musical is about two new hires at Jones & Sunn, who put all their dreams into this job. Ultimately, they get entangled in the logic of intrigue rules, power play, and love-hate relationships. A cynical take on the mechanism of neoliberal markets and the expectations of a generation brought up in capitalism.
Johnnie To, who is mainly known in the West for his die-hard action flicks, adapts Sylvia Chang’s play “Design for Living”. Together they produced a shorted cinematic version of the four-hour long musical from 2008.
Office is screening at /Slash Festival
The musical is about two new hires at Jones & Sunn, who put all their dreams into this job. Ultimately, they get entangled in the logic of intrigue rules, power play, and love-hate relationships. A cynical take on the mechanism of neoliberal markets and the expectations of a generation brought up in capitalism.
- 9/27/2018
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Kong star Eason Chan (Office, Dream Home) is delivering kung fu slapstick with ‘Keep Calm and Be a Superstar’, a fun-filled comedy from director Vincent Kok (Gorgeous). The film has obvious references to Jackie Chan’s Drunken Master and Police Story and centers around a cop who goes undercover on an action movie to try and stop a drug trafficking ring. Alongside Easton Chan the cast includes Eason Chan, Li Ronghao, Li Yitong, and Danny Chan Kwok-Kwan.
- 1/16/2018
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Kong star Eason Chan (Office, Dream Home) is delivering kung fu slapstick with ‘Keep Calm and Be a Superstar’, a fun-filled comedy from director Vincent Kok (Gorgeous). The film has obvious references to Jackie Chan’s Drunken Master and Police Story and centers around a cop who goes undercover on an action movie to try and stop a drug trafficking ring. Alongside Easton Chan the cast includes Eason Chan, Li Ronghao, Li Yitong, and Danny Chan Kwok-Kwan.
- 1/16/2018
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
The Ex-File: The Return Of The Exes stays top of the chart.
Now nearing $300m, The Ex-File: The Return Of The Exes continued to top the Chinese box office in the second week of 2018 (Jan 8-14), while Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle won the weekend.
Source: Sony / Disney
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle / Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Local romance comedy Ex-File 3 (The Return Of The Exes) has further consolidated itself as the year’s first megahit, adding $76.3m for a 17-day total of $293.3m. It has surpassed two 2017 Chinese New Year blockbusters, Kung Fu Yoga and Journey To The West: The Demons Strike Back, to become the fifth highest grossing local film of all time and the eighth highest grossing film overall.
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle debuted with $42.9m from its three-day opening weekend, ending Ex-File 3’s reign as the No.1 film for 13 straight days. Sony’s adventure sequel was the undisputed top performer for the weekend...
Now nearing $300m, The Ex-File: The Return Of The Exes continued to top the Chinese box office in the second week of 2018 (Jan 8-14), while Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle won the weekend.
Source: Sony / Disney
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle / Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Local romance comedy Ex-File 3 (The Return Of The Exes) has further consolidated itself as the year’s first megahit, adding $76.3m for a 17-day total of $293.3m. It has surpassed two 2017 Chinese New Year blockbusters, Kung Fu Yoga and Journey To The West: The Demons Strike Back, to become the fifth highest grossing local film of all time and the eighth highest grossing film overall.
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle debuted with $42.9m from its three-day opening weekend, ending Ex-File 3’s reign as the No.1 film for 13 straight days. Sony’s adventure sequel was the undisputed top performer for the weekend...
- 1/15/2018
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Well, this was unexpected... During a show in Macau earlier this week, Madonna brought a random fan up on stage to get a little rowdy with her, but she didn't realize exactly who it was until it was already too late. The Queen of Pop ended up picking Cantonese popstar Eason Chan—a name she had a difficult time pronouncing—to come on stage and dance around with her. It was all fun and games, but then things took a turn for the worse when she handed him a banana and asked him to show the crowd how he'd lick it. Confused, Chan asked her to explain, at which point she told him to get "X-rated" with the fruit. As an international musician who's sold out the O2 Arena and...
- 2/26/2016
- E! Online
Johnny To's Office (Hua Li Shang Ban Zou) is "without a doubt one of the best films of the year," declares Notebook editor Daniel Kasman. The 3D musical with songs by 80s Taiwanese hit-maker Lo Taiyu and starring Yun-Fat Chow, Sylvia Chang, Eason Chan, Wei Tang and Siu-Fai Cheung, "is pure joy to look at, the sets (designed by Wong Kar-wai’s essential collaborator William Chang!) rendered as abstract stagecraft, a mix of Alain Resnais's last adaptations of Alan Ayckbourn plays, The Ladies Man, PlayTime and Tout va bien." We're collecting more reviews and we've got the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/15/2015
- Keyframe
Johnny To's Office (Hua Li Shang Ban Zou) is "without a doubt one of the best films of the year," declares Notebook editor Daniel Kasman. The 3D musical with songs by 80s Taiwanese hit-maker Lo Taiyu and starring Yun-Fat Chow, Sylvia Chang, Eason Chan, Wei Tang and Siu-Fai Cheung, "is pure joy to look at, the sets (designed by Wong Kar-wai’s essential collaborator William Chang!) rendered as abstract stagecraft, a mix of Alain Resnais's last adaptations of Alan Ayckbourn plays, The Ladies Man, PlayTime and Tout va bien." We're collecting more reviews and we've got the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/15/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Johnnie To is defying expectations once again with this trailer from one of his latest projects, the film Design For Living. Design For Living is an adaptation of the 2009 musical and reunites To with stars Chow Yun Fat and Sylvia Chang. The trio last worked together on To's breakout drama All About Ah-Long in 1989. Eason Chan and Tang Wei also star.I am already in love with the production design in this film. I wonder how much of this comes from To's admiration of French New Wave cinema. We would not be surprised if Design For Living is part of the lineup at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival next month....
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- 2/13/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Projects include an omnibus about Hong Kong’s history that brings together eight of the territory’s leading directors.
Media Asia is unleashing a trio of Johnnie To projects at Efm, including an omnibus about Hong Kong’s history that brings together eight of the territory’s leading directors.
The as-yet-untitled project will include segments directed by To, John Woo, Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-ping. To will also produce through his Hong Kong-based Milkyway Image.
“The idea is that each of them will focus on one decade of Hong Kong’s history, although it may not end up being as strict as that,” explained Media Asia general manager and head of sales and international co-productions Fred Tsui.
Ann Hui has already started shooting her segment, set in 1940s Hong Kong, which delves into social commentary with a tale about kindergarten classes that were held on rooftops.
To is also...
Media Asia is unleashing a trio of Johnnie To projects at Efm, including an omnibus about Hong Kong’s history that brings together eight of the territory’s leading directors.
The as-yet-untitled project will include segments directed by To, John Woo, Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-ping. To will also produce through his Hong Kong-based Milkyway Image.
“The idea is that each of them will focus on one decade of Hong Kong’s history, although it may not end up being as strict as that,” explained Media Asia general manager and head of sales and international co-productions Fred Tsui.
Ann Hui has already started shooting her segment, set in 1940s Hong Kong, which delves into social commentary with a tale about kindergarten classes that were held on rooftops.
To is also...
- 2/6/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
As can be guessed from its title, “Love in Space” is a romantic comedy, which sees directors Tony Chan and Wing Shya following up their surprise 2010 hit “Hot Summer Days” with more of the same. Boasting Fruit Chan back on board as producer and a glossy budget courtesy of Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox, the film is headlined by a trio of top female stars in Rene Liu (“Run Papa Run”), Guey Lun Mei (“Taipei Exchanges”) and Angelababy (“Hot Summer Days”), with high profile male support from Eason Chan (“Lover’s Discourse”), Aaron Kwok (“Love For Life”) and Jing Boran (“Hot Summer Days”). The film follows the amusing romantic adventures and misadventures of the three Huang sisters and their mother in a series of intertwining subplots. Lily (Guey Lun Mei) is a budding artist in Sydney whose love life is complicated by her obsessive-compulsive fear of germs – put to the...
- 1/10/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
There’s nothing quite like waking up bright and early to a some outrageous cinematic silliness. If you’re missing a little goofiness in your diet this morning, then take a quick peek at the teaser trailer for directors Jeffrey Lau and Susie Au’s “East Meets West 2011″. The upcoming superhero endeavor, which stars Karen Mok, Eason Chan, Alex Fong, Stephy Tang, Ekin Cheng, and Jaycee Chan, doesn’t look like it takes itself too seriously. Which is good, really, because the flick looks mind-numbingly stupid. In a good way, of course. Best to clear that up now. Need a plot synopsis? Good. You’re getting one: Ten thousand years ago eight gods fought incessantly, not realizing that by doing so they were securing their own demotion into the secular world. They can only return to heaven once they come to understand one another and can get along with each other harmoniously.
- 11/2/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
With its Hong Kong premiere set for December 1st, a few details, including a trailer and a pretty interesting poster, have emerged for Chris Chow's directorial debut, Strawberry Cliff.
Synopsis:
Teenager Kate (Leslie-Anne Huff) has a rare gift: She can tell when people will die, down to the precise hour and minute, just by looking at them. One day she encounters Jason, who is supposed to die within hours according to Kate’s premonition. They make a peculiar deal: If there is such a thing as “the Afterlife”, Jason promises to send Kate a message after his death.
That night, as Kate predicted, Jason dies under mysterious circumstances. In the last moments of his life, Jason sees the vision of an ominous presence.
Days later a phone call from “the Afterlife” startles Kate and sets her off on a journey from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, where she encounters...
Synopsis:
Teenager Kate (Leslie-Anne Huff) has a rare gift: She can tell when people will die, down to the precise hour and minute, just by looking at them. One day she encounters Jason, who is supposed to die within hours according to Kate’s premonition. They make a peculiar deal: If there is such a thing as “the Afterlife”, Jason promises to send Kate a message after his death.
That night, as Kate predicted, Jason dies under mysterious circumstances. In the last moments of his life, Jason sees the vision of an ominous presence.
Days later a phone call from “the Afterlife” startles Kate and sets her off on a journey from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, where she encounters...
- 10/28/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
“Mr. and Ms. Single” is the latest offering from Hong Kong director Patrick Kong, and is another in his ongoing line of modern Chinese urban romances, following the likes of “Marriage with a Liar”, “Love is Not All Around” and others. The film was his 10th, and both his first made especially for the lucrative Mainland market, and the first which he didn’t actually write himself, being based on a popular stage play, with a script from original writer Ha Zhi Chao and Ru Xiao Guo. The film does represent Kong’s next step up the commercial cinema ladder, and appropriately sees him bringing together an impressive big name cast, including popular actor singer Eason Chan (recently in “Lover’s Discourse”), Rene Liu (“Hot Summer Days”), Bai Bing (“Let the Bullets Fly”) and Harlem Yu (“Butterfly Lovers”). The plot covers some familiar rom-com territory, with Eason Chan as the rather dowdy Cui Minguo,...
- 8/20/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
If our Us readers haven't already rushed out at bought their copy then don't forget you can check out Pang Ho-Cheung's 'Dream Home' now on DVD thanks to IFC Midnight. 'Dream Home', not to be confused with the Jim Sheridan movie 'Dream House', stars Josie Ho, Eason Chan, Derek Tsang, Lawrence Chou, Juno Mak and Michelle Ye. Check out the plot and the poster below....
- 8/10/2011
- Horror Asylum
Dream Home
Stars: Josie Ho, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Eason Chan, Michelle Ye, Norman Chu | Written by Ho-Cheung Pang, Kwok Cheung Tsang | Directed by Ho-Cheung Pang
Darker than Satan’s pencil case, Dream Home serves up a healthy hammock full of blood, guts and gore. All of which had me laughing, wincing and most importantly, enjoying for the full 96 minute duration.
If you aren’t familiar with Asian cinema then know this. I love it and Dream Home further exacerbated my enthusiasm for it. Directed by Pang Ho-cheung, Dream Home is the story of Cheng Li-sheung who is a young, upwardly mobile professional that is finally ready to invest in her first home. However, when the deal falls through and after years of saving and searching for her ‘dream home’ she is forced to keep her dream alive, even if it means utilising some household products in the most malicious fashion imaginable…...
Stars: Josie Ho, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Eason Chan, Michelle Ye, Norman Chu | Written by Ho-Cheung Pang, Kwok Cheung Tsang | Directed by Ho-Cheung Pang
Darker than Satan’s pencil case, Dream Home serves up a healthy hammock full of blood, guts and gore. All of which had me laughing, wincing and most importantly, enjoying for the full 96 minute duration.
If you aren’t familiar with Asian cinema then know this. I love it and Dream Home further exacerbated my enthusiasm for it. Directed by Pang Ho-cheung, Dream Home is the story of Cheng Li-sheung who is a young, upwardly mobile professional that is finally ready to invest in her first home. However, when the deal falls through and after years of saving and searching for her ‘dream home’ she is forced to keep her dream alive, even if it means utilising some household products in the most malicious fashion imaginable…...
- 3/26/2011
- by Rob
- Nerdly
Sanford Panitch, President of Fox International Productions, announced yesterday that principal photography for rom-com Love in Space will start March 8.The pics will shoot on location in Beijing and Sydney.
Features a star cluster from the Greater China Area, including Hong Kong’s Cantopop singer/actors Aaron Kwok (‘After This,” Our Exile’) and Eason Chan (Lady Cop & Papa Crook), and Chinese shemale lead of last year’s grossing ($91.2 million) Aftershock, Xu Fan, and Taiwan’s Kwai Lun-Mei (Ocean Heaven, The Stool Pigeon). Liu, Angelababy and Boran also appeared in “Days.”
The film is a sequel to last year’s ensemble romantic comedy, co-directed by Hot Summer Days helmers Wing Shya and Tony Chan. Chan and Lucretia Ho, who previously collaborated on ‘Hot Summer Days,’ wrote the screenplay and Fruit Chan is producing.
The film represents the second co-production between Fip and Huayi Brothers, with Hong Kong’s Sundream as a new partner.
Features a star cluster from the Greater China Area, including Hong Kong’s Cantopop singer/actors Aaron Kwok (‘After This,” Our Exile’) and Eason Chan (Lady Cop & Papa Crook), and Chinese shemale lead of last year’s grossing ($91.2 million) Aftershock, Xu Fan, and Taiwan’s Kwai Lun-Mei (Ocean Heaven, The Stool Pigeon). Liu, Angelababy and Boran also appeared in “Days.”
The film is a sequel to last year’s ensemble romantic comedy, co-directed by Hot Summer Days helmers Wing Shya and Tony Chan. Chan and Lucretia Ho, who previously collaborated on ‘Hot Summer Days,’ wrote the screenplay and Fruit Chan is producing.
The film represents the second co-production between Fip and Huayi Brothers, with Hong Kong’s Sundream as a new partner.
- 3/4/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
Los Angeles, CA (March 3, 2011) – Sanford Panitch, President of Fox International Productions, announced today that principal photography for Love In Space will begin March 8. The film will shoot on location in Beijing and Sydney, and stars Aaron Kwok, René Liu, Eason Chan, Kwai Lun Mei, Angelababy, Jing Boran, with a special appearance by Xu Fan. Wing Shya and Tony Chan direct a screenplay written by Chan and Lucretia Ho, who previously collaborated on Hot Summer Days. Fruit Chan is producing the film. An ensemble romantic comedy, Love In Space is the follow up to the directing team’s box office hit, Hot Summer Days. The story follows a mother and her three grown daughters as they juggle their assorted love lives. Each woman is successful in everything except love – until they unexpectedly encounter new romances in Beijing, Sydney and even on the moon. “Our concept is certainly something that has never...
- 3/3/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Hong Kong's first slasher film 'Dream Home' (Aka 'Wai dor lei ah yut ho'), is certainly high on the radar lately. Pang Ho-Cheung's new blood-thirsty feature is looking more and more awesome day by day. A massive batch of new stills from the movie have been released and are particulary gruesome. Take note that these baby's are not safe for work (Nsfw) and do include the sight of a hot topless Asian chick with a large bit of wood being inserted in her (oo-er!). 'Dream Home' stars Josie Ho, Michelle Ye, Lawrence Chou, Eason Chan, Kwok Cheung Tsang, Norman Chu, Hee Ching Paw and Lap-Man Sin. Check out the stills below....
- 2/9/2011
- Horror Asylum
Pang Ho-Cheung's 'Dream Home' (Aka 'Wai dor lei ah yut ho'), not to be confused with Jim Sheridan's new mystery thriller 'Dream House' starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts, is coming to VOD. And to celebrate this fact a new international one-sheet has popped up featuring a nasty looking set of keys. Josie Ho, Michelle Ye, Lawrence Chou, Eason Chan, Kwok Cheung Tsang, Norman Chu, Hee Ching Paw, Lap-Man Sin all star in the slasher flick. Check out the new one-sheet below....
- 1/31/2011
- Horror Asylum
This is the new international poster for director Pang Ho-Cheung's Dream House. The Hong Kong slasher flick stars Josie Ho, Michelle Ye, Lawrence Chou and Eason Chan. There's still no word of an official U.S. release from IFC Midnight who acquired the film back in October but should be sometime this Spring.
Plot:
Cheng Li-sheung is a young, upwardly mobile professional finally ready to invest in her first home. But when the deal falls through, she is forced to keep her dream alive - even if it means keeping her would-be neighbors dead.
- 1/29/2011
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
Dream Home (Wai dor lei ah yut ho)
Stars: Josie Ho, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Eason Chan, Michelle Ye, Norman Chu | Written by Ho-Cheung Pang, Kwok Cheung Tsang | Directed by Ho-Cheung Pang
Darker than Satan’s pencil case, Dream Home serves up a healthy hammock full of blood, guts and gore. All of which had me laughing, wincing and most importantly, enjoying for the full 96 minute duration.
If you aren’t familiar with Asian cinema then know this. I love it and Dream Home further exacerbated my enthusiasm for it. Directed by Pang Ho-cheung, Dream Home is the story of Cheng Li-sheung who is a young, upwardly mobile professional that is finally ready to invest in her first home. However, when the deal falls through and after years of saving and searching for her ‘dream home’ she is forced to keep her dream alive, even if it means utilising some...
Stars: Josie Ho, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Eason Chan, Michelle Ye, Norman Chu | Written by Ho-Cheung Pang, Kwok Cheung Tsang | Directed by Ho-Cheung Pang
Darker than Satan’s pencil case, Dream Home serves up a healthy hammock full of blood, guts and gore. All of which had me laughing, wincing and most importantly, enjoying for the full 96 minute duration.
If you aren’t familiar with Asian cinema then know this. I love it and Dream Home further exacerbated my enthusiasm for it. Directed by Pang Ho-cheung, Dream Home is the story of Cheng Li-sheung who is a young, upwardly mobile professional that is finally ready to invest in her first home. However, when the deal falls through and after years of saving and searching for her ‘dream home’ she is forced to keep her dream alive, even if it means utilising some...
- 11/15/2010
- by Rob
- Nerdly
"Although brutal and unnervingly realistic at times, Dream Home is full of inventive deaths and comical touches..."
Acclaimed Hong Kong Director, Pang-Ho-Cheung picked up film festival awards for 2006's Isabella and 2007's Exodus and after a three year break returns with the comically gory and socially relevant, Dream Home.
Struggling to survive and desperate to live at Victoria Place overlooking the harbour, Sheung works in Jetways bank and has a second store job. Supporting her ex-builder father (who inhaled asbestos and now needs expensive medical treatment and life insurance) isn't easy when he's so ungrateful and smoking/drinking away any chance of survival. With her mother dead and her brother dependent, Sheung's only support is an unsympathetic cheap-skate lover with his own family.
The government in Hong Kong have formed an alliance with property developers causing widespread unrest. Surrounded by signs of despair, Sheung's situation is clearly not unique -...
Acclaimed Hong Kong Director, Pang-Ho-Cheung picked up film festival awards for 2006's Isabella and 2007's Exodus and after a three year break returns with the comically gory and socially relevant, Dream Home.
Struggling to survive and desperate to live at Victoria Place overlooking the harbour, Sheung works in Jetways bank and has a second store job. Supporting her ex-builder father (who inhaled asbestos and now needs expensive medical treatment and life insurance) isn't easy when he's so ungrateful and smoking/drinking away any chance of survival. With her mother dead and her brother dependent, Sheung's only support is an unsympathetic cheap-skate lover with his own family.
The government in Hong Kong have formed an alliance with property developers causing widespread unrest. Surrounded by signs of despair, Sheung's situation is clearly not unique -...
- 11/4/2010
- Shadowlocked
IFC acquired the North American rights to the thriller Dream Home . Directed by Pang Ho-Cheung and starring award-winning actress and rock star Josie Ho, Anthony Wong, Eason Chan, Michelle Ye Suen, Lawrence Chou, Derek Tsang, Juno Mak, Sin Lap Man, and veteran actors Wong Ching and Lo Hoi Panground off the cast. IFC Midnight will release the film theatrically and on VOD in early 2011. Dream Home was filmed entirely in Hong Kong and tells the story of a young woman who goes over the edge when she discovers that she can no longer afford the home of her dreams. She has to work hard at two full-time jobs, and she even goes as far as stealing customer data to sell to other companies. However, no matter how much she toils, she cannot earn enough to keep up with the...
- 10/27/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
The UK's most amazing horror film festival Film4 FrightFest has released what could very well be another one of the best horror line-ups we've seen ever for its latest show taking place from Thursday the 26th of August to Monday the 30th of August, brimming with films we've been salivating over Stateside!
From the Press Release
This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.
From the Press Release
This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.
- 7/2/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The complete lineup for the 2010 edition of the Film4 Frightfest has just been announced and, as usual, it is a quality selection of the best in horror film from the UK and around the world. The program splits into two programs - the main lineup and sidebar Discovery program - and you'll find both below!
Programme = Screen 1
Thursday Aug 26
6.30pm Hatchet II (World Premiere)
FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...
Programme = Screen 1
Thursday Aug 26
6.30pm Hatchet II (World Premiere)
FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...
- 7/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Cheng Lai Sheung (Josie Ho) has a dream. One day she wants to buy a luxury apartment with a harbour view. She knows exactly which one she wants and has been saving her whole life to get it. Property has always been an issue in her family. Like many working class families in Hong Kong, she grew up in small cramped lodgings, sharing a room with her younger brother. She works two jobs and never allows herself to spend frivolously, even if it means missing out on trips with her friends and colleagues. Her only release is a secret affair with a married businessman (Eason Chan), but their brief rendezvous in love hotels offer little in the way of real pleasure or romance. When the opportunity finally arises to secure the purchase of her dream home, Sheung will do whatever it takes to ensure the deal goes through - even...
- 5/6/2010
- Screen Anarchy
How far would you go to keep your dream home? That's the question director Pang Ho Cheung will ask of audiences when his new movie Dream Home comes out later this year. Judging by the stills this film's main character is willing to go pretty damned far!
Dream Home tells the story of a young woman who goes to extreme measures when she can no longer afford her dream home. The film, which is in post-production, stars Josie Ho (Exiled) and Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs) with Eason Chan, Michelle Ye Suen, Lawrence Chou, Derek Tsang, Juno Mak, Sin Lap Man, Wong Ching, and Lo Hoi Pang.
The filmmakers are hoping to turn the flick into a successful franchise, and I'm willing to bet that if the movie is even halfway good, we'll be seeing an American remake in like two weeks.
Click on the image below to see some...
Dream Home tells the story of a young woman who goes to extreme measures when she can no longer afford her dream home. The film, which is in post-production, stars Josie Ho (Exiled) and Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs) with Eason Chan, Michelle Ye Suen, Lawrence Chou, Derek Tsang, Juno Mak, Sin Lap Man, Wong Ching, and Lo Hoi Pang.
The filmmakers are hoping to turn the flick into a successful franchise, and I'm willing to bet that if the movie is even halfway good, we'll be seeing an American remake in like two weeks.
Click on the image below to see some...
- 5/13/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Variety just reported on a new Chinese slasher film that was filmed right under our nose. Fortissimo Films has boarded Hong Kong helmer Pang Ho-cheung's slasher pic Dream Home which tells the story of a young woman who goes to extreme measures when she can no longer afford her dream home. Start-up shingle 852 Films is producing the pic, for which Fortissimo is handling worldwide sales, excluding Hong Kong. "Dream Home," which is in post-production, stars Josie Ho ("Exiled") and Anthony Wong ("Infernal Affairs"), Eason Chan, Michelle Ye Suen, Lawrence Chou, Derek Tsang, Juno Mak, Sin Lap Man, Wong Ching and Lo Hoi Pang. "We're hoping with 'Dream Home' to have a repeat of the success we previously enjoyed in the genre zone with the 'Eye' films," commented Fortissimo co-chairman Michael J. Werner.
- 5/7/2009
- bloody-disgusting.com
Hong Kong director Pang Ho Cheung turning slasher? Well, yes please! The film is titled Dream Home, one that has quietly gone into production with Josie Ho in the lead - and if I’m reading this correctly this will be an entirely female-centric hack and slash affair a la Inside. The slasher wave seems to be spreading across Asia at the moment and, honestly, I can’t imagine a director in Hong Kong better suited to do this than Pang. Anthony Wong and Eason Chan also star. Check the full press release below the break!
- 3/28/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
It's a translation thing we know - but its still hard to get around the fact that a movie titled Lady Cop and Papa Crook is one the most hotly anticipated "crime" thrillers in Hong Kong at the moment. So twee titles aside, theres a great new poster for the film to be seen. Synopsis: John Fok (Eason Chan) is the kingpin of illegal red oil in Greater China. When an oil tanker explodes accidentally, he becomes the focus of investigation by Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese police and is forced to halt his business to wait things out. While his business rivals start closing in, a member of his household is planning to betray him.
- 12/1/2008
- 24framespersecond.net
It's a translation thing we know - but its still hard to get around the fact that a movie titled Lady Cop and Papa Crook is one the most hotly anticipated "crime" thrillers in Hong Kong at the moment. So twee titles aside, theres a great new poster for the film to be seen. Crook is helmed by directing duo Alan Mak and Felix Chong who were behind the hit crime films "Infernal Affairs" and "Confession of Pain," to name but a few. If that wasn't enough the excellent cast includes Sammi Cheng (Infernal Affairs) , Eason Chan (The Pye-Dog) Zhang Guoli. A real Crime caper dream team. Lady Cop opens in Hong Kong January 1st.
- 12/1/2008
- 24framespersecond.net
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