Update: Audience award winner revealed; Good Manners, Winter Brothers also among winners.
Documentary filmmaker Wang Bing became the fifth director from China in Locarno’s seven-decade history to win the top honour of the Golden Leopard at this year’s edition.
Mrs. Fang, which is the first documentray ever to win the festival’s top prize, follows the last days of a 67-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in southern China.
Previous Golden Leopard winners from China were Hongqui Li with Winter Vacation in 2010 and Xiaolu Guo with She, a Chinese a year before, as well as Shuo Wang with Father in 2000 and Yue Lü with Mr Zhao in 1998.
The decision by the international competition jury, headed by director Olivier Assayas, reflects a trend at international festivals of recent years for documentaries beating out competition from fiction productions.
While the special jury prize went to the Brazilian writing and directing team Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s Good Manners about...
Documentary filmmaker Wang Bing became the fifth director from China in Locarno’s seven-decade history to win the top honour of the Golden Leopard at this year’s edition.
Mrs. Fang, which is the first documentray ever to win the festival’s top prize, follows the last days of a 67-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in southern China.
Previous Golden Leopard winners from China were Hongqui Li with Winter Vacation in 2010 and Xiaolu Guo with She, a Chinese a year before, as well as Shuo Wang with Father in 2000 and Yue Lü with Mr Zhao in 1998.
The decision by the international competition jury, headed by director Olivier Assayas, reflects a trend at international festivals of recent years for documentaries beating out competition from fiction productions.
While the special jury prize went to the Brazilian writing and directing team Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s Good Manners about...
- 8/12/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
La-headquartered China Lion Film Distribution has picked up Chinese titles Running Man and Somewhere Only We Know for release in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Both will go day-and-date with their Mainland debuts later this month and in mid-February, the latter taking advantage of the early Chinese New Year corridor. (See teasers below.)
Each of the films has a strong hook for Chinese, and Korean, audiences. Running Man mixes talent from both countries and is adapted from a popular reality TV series which itself was based on an original Korean format. Somewhere Only We Know taps the trend of romance and nostalgia, and stars Kris Wu, a former member of Korean/Chinese boy band Exo.
Running Man, which China Lion picked up from Wanda Media Group, is a feature spinoff of the popular reality TV show that revolves around celebrity teams who compete against one another for an ultimate prize.
Each of the films has a strong hook for Chinese, and Korean, audiences. Running Man mixes talent from both countries and is adapted from a popular reality TV series which itself was based on an original Korean format. Somewhere Only We Know taps the trend of romance and nostalgia, and stars Kris Wu, a former member of Korean/Chinese boy band Exo.
Running Man, which China Lion picked up from Wanda Media Group, is a feature spinoff of the popular reality TV show that revolves around celebrity teams who compete against one another for an ultimate prize.
- 1/19/2015
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Will Ferrell.s tireless efforts to promote Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues have paid off handsomely as the comedy he co-wrote with director Adam McKay dominated the Australian box-office last weekend.
Ferrell.s turn as clueless anchorman Ron Burgundy, co-starring Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and Aussie Josh Lawson, raked in $5.2 million in four days, plus $360,000 in Wednesday night previews.
That eclipses the original, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which wound up earning a modest $2.28 million in Oz in 2004.
Pro-rata, the Australian launch is much bigger than in the Us where Paramount.s comedy took $US26.2 million in the first three days and $39.4 million in five days.
Ferrell cut a lot of promos specifically for the UK, where the sequel opened with an estimated £4.5 million ( $8.2 million) and Oz, the overseas markets which were most receptive to the original.
Down Under, the weekend B.O. jumped by 43% to $12.8 million,...
Ferrell.s turn as clueless anchorman Ron Burgundy, co-starring Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and Aussie Josh Lawson, raked in $5.2 million in four days, plus $360,000 in Wednesday night previews.
That eclipses the original, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which wound up earning a modest $2.28 million in Oz in 2004.
Pro-rata, the Australian launch is much bigger than in the Us where Paramount.s comedy took $US26.2 million in the first three days and $39.4 million in five days.
Ferrell cut a lot of promos specifically for the UK, where the sequel opened with an estimated £4.5 million ( $8.2 million) and Oz, the overseas markets which were most receptive to the original.
Down Under, the weekend B.O. jumped by 43% to $12.8 million,...
- 12/22/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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