News Links - 3/9/08

[dleedlee]

Louis Koo Plans Asian Star Wars Film
http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=685

Kelvin Tong’s back with favourite genre of movies in Rule #1
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?fi ... sec=nation

Special Report: Hong Kong and China 2008
http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyA ... &Category=
Hot projects
http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyA ... ryID=37680
Rising stars
http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyA ... ryID=37686


China co-productions breathe life into Hong Kong film
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... d79166d8a5
In the pipeline: Co-productions fuel Hong Kong resurgence
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... ae14774184

Maggie Q dropped from Three Kingdoms promotion tour for excessive demands
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/We-don-t ... 12054.html

Rene Liu Holds Solo Concert in Beijing
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/03/09/1722@331607.htm

[Gaijin84]

Maggie Q dropped from Three Kingdoms promotion tour for excessive demands
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/We-don-t ... 12054.html

this doesn't seem really like an accurate news story... did the translator embellish a little bit? Headline: "MAGGIE Q WILL BE LEFT OUT ON MOVIE PROMO DUE TO HER GREED" ???

[Brian Thibodeau]

Bring On The Creepy Girls
Hollywood loves to remake Asian horror movies - and ruin them in the process. Joe Queenan on how terror gets lost in translation
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/fea ... 34,00.html


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[ewaffle]

I posted the following on asianfanatics:

Hard to say if she actually made all those demands or not but she is probably happy if whatever she asked for got her excluded from the promo tour. Actors hate doing promotions--most of them barely recall the movie they are pushing--few if any have actually watched the movie, since by the time the editing and post-production stuff was done they were working on something else.

Telling an actor that they won't be touring in support of a movie is something most of them would welcome. That they come off as pleased to be doing so--especially the seemingly necessary stuff about "what a great shoot it was and how we all look forward to working together again" simply shows that they are good at what they do, which is acting.

[Fan]

this doesn't seem really like an accurate news story... did the translator embellish a little bit? Headline: "MAGGIE Q WILL BE LEFT OUT ON MOVIE PROMO DUE TO HER GREED" ???

Not sure if that's translated from the internet version, if yes, I guess some personal comments included.

Offtopic

Read this from asianfanatics:

Frederic Ambroisine begins filming new production of Milkyway Image, 'An Sha' 《暗殺》
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/index.ph ... pic=511025

The source said the director is 鄭保瑞, so 鄭保瑞 = Frederic Ambroisine?

Is Frederic one of our editors/members?

[Brian Thibodeau]

Read this from asianfanatics:

Frederic Ambroisine begins filming new production of Milkyway Image, 'An Sha' ????
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/index.ph ... pic=511025

The source said the director is ???, so ??? = Frederic Ambroisine?

Is Frederic one of our editors/members?

He is a member here. Can't remember his user name at the moment (Abbott something??)

He has a nice blog at AliveNotDead, which includes pictures of him which strongly suggest he's not Soi Cheang! (might require membership, not sure)
http://www.alivenotdead.com/fredambroisine

Perhaps he's been hired to do the behind-the-scenes material. His work in that field is phenomenal, and some of it can be seen on his Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FredAmbroisine

[Gaijin84]

He is a member here. Can't remember his user name at the moment (Abbott something??)

Yes, he simply goes by "abbot"

[Fan]

Thanks guys!

This Michelle Ye's fansite said it's a movie by Frederic too, maybe I should ask him directly.








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[Fan]

Frederic replied that's not him.