News Links - 2/27/07

[dleedlee]

HK director basks in Oscars glory for 'The Departed'
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/archiv ... 103402.htm
Infernal director toasts HK glory night
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... con_type=1

Scorsese's ties to Chinese film trace beyond Oscar-winning remake 'The Departed'
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/ ... e-Ties.php

Confessions of Pain remake
Departed team to follow recipe for success
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0 ... 96,00.html
DiCaprio, "Departed" scribe eye another thriller
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070227/med ... aprio_dc_1

Roy Lee - The Korean-American Who Is Hollywood’s Link to Asia
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/ ... 70018.html

"Night" and "Protege" top New Year B.O. week
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/862/1/

Sea Pirates Lurked in Hong Kong
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/02/27/272@199900.htm

[dleedlee]

HK Film Archive tribute to Li Han-hsiang
http://media-newswire.com/release_1044406.html

Raise the red box office
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 47,00.html

[Brian Thibodeau]

Roy Lee - The Korean-American Who Is Hollywood’s Link to Asia
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/ ... 70018.html

You know, I get kinda sick of reading about this guy, even though he has—via these remarkably inferior remakes, including THE DEPARTED—raised the awareness of Asian cinema in general, even if it is largely in the sense that it simply exists as opposed to a marked increase in people seeking it out. There's just something that bugs me about phrases like this, that make it seem like no one else could possibly source out remake material but Roy Lee and his "Asian sensibilities":

Hollywood studios rely on Lee’s Asian sensibility and network to find Asian movies suitable for remakes. He has had a hand in introducing almost all Asian horror movies that found an enthusiastic audience in the U.S.

Lee must be ferociously protective of his lucky position, considering how ephemeral it could easily be if people at the big studios actually realized how easily they could do what he does without the "middleman."