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06.06.2022 / 13:35

Kevin Chu to be Honored at Taipei Festival – Global Bulletin

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Taipei Film Festival has named prolific writer-director-producer Kevin Chu (aka Chu Yen-ping) as the recipient of its Outstanding Contribution Award. During the 1980s and the 1990s, Chu made many popular memorable commercial films and discovered several promising new actors — Chu wrote the script of “Never Too Late to Repent” and won the best screenplay award at the Asia Pacific Film Festival. After that, Chu made this directorial debut, “The Clown and the Swan,” which was a critically-acclaimed box office success in which comedy actor Hsu Pu-liao established his name.

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15.04.2022 / 00:31

Deckert Acquires Visions du Reel Competition Title ‘A Holy Family’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Lise Pedersen Germany’s Deckert Distribution has picked up international rights for Taiwanese filmmaker Elvis A-Liang Lu’s sophomore feature “A Holy Family,” which world premiered in Visions du Réel’s international competition section.The film is a home-coming story about the director who returns to his village in Taiwan after a 24-year absence. His elder brother is a psychic who offers career advice to the villagers, but fails in his own entrepreneurial ventures as a farmer, and his father is a gambling addict in poor health.

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08.04.2022 / 11:55

Jimmy Wang Yu, Pioneering Martial Artist and ‘One-Armed Swordsman’ Star, Dies at 79

Vivienne Chow Jimmy Wang Yu, once a superstar of multiple Asian martial arts genres, died on Tuesday. He was 79.News of his death in a Taipei hospital was posted on social media by Wang’s daughter Linda, herself a former Canto-pop star of the 1990s.

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07.04.2022 / 13:49

‘Teletubbies’ Licensor WildBrain Expands in Asia-Pacific, Opens Trio of New Offices

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWildBrain CPLG, the agency and licensing arm of kids and family entertainment group Wildbrain, is to open three new offices in Singapore, Taipei and Seoul as part of a major expansion into the Asia-Pacific. The licensing team which is part of WildBrain’s existing Shanghai operations will be expanded and renamed WildBrain CPLG China.Maarten Weck, EVP & MD of WildBrain CPLG, will lead the Asia expansion and be responsible for the management and growth of WildBrain CPLG’s team and business in the region.

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07.04.2022 / 03:55

Jimmy Wang Yu Dies: Martial Arts Action Star In Hong Kong Films Was 79

Jimmy Wang Yu, a Taiwanese actor who was once one of the biggest stars of martial arts cinema, died Tuesday in a Taipei hospital from an undisclosed illness he battled for six years. He was 79 and his death was announced on Instagram by his daughter, Linda Wang.

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09.02.2022 / 17:15

Roku Picks up ‘The Pact’ Sci-Fi Adventure Series From Katara Studios (EXCLUSIVE)

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Roku Channel has picked up sci-fi adventure series “The Pact” from Qatar-based Katara Studios and Taipei- and Los Angeles-based Organic Media Group.The Roku Channel is the home of free and premium entertainment on the Roku hardware and software platform.The six-part show will be exclusively available on The Roku Channel in the U.S., U.K. and Canada from March 26, 2022, and release to the rest of the world in July.

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03.02.2022 / 19:07

88Rising and Anonymous Content Executives Form EST Studios to Target Asian Marketplace – EFM (EXCLUSIVE)

Manori Ravindran International Editor88Rising co-founder Jaeson Ma and Anonymous Content executive producer Eric Tu are joining forces to launch EST Studios, an independent finance, production and sales outfit geared towards the Asian marketplace.Launching just ahead of the European Film Market — which officially kicks off Feb. 10 — the company specializes in premium film and episodic content.Ma (pictured, left) will serve as the company chairman and co-CEO, with Tu (right) serving as co-founder and co-CEO.

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02.02.2022 / 23:35

Netflix Orders Gangster Drama ‘Brothers Sun’ From Brad Falchuk, Byron Wu

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered the drama series “The Brothers Sun” from co-creators Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu, Variety has learned.The streamer has given the series an eight-episode order. It follows a Taipei gangster, Charles Sun, who’s settled into his life as a ruthless killer. But when his father is shot by a mysterious assassin, Charles must go to L.A.

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02.02.2022 / 23:33

Asian Soap ‘The Brothers Sun’ From Brad Falchuk & Byron Wu Lands Series Order At Netflix

Netflix is heading into the world of Taipei gangsters.

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24.01.2022 / 20:23

‘Elden Ring’ can be beaten in 30 hours, says developer FromSoftware

FromSoftware’s hotly-anticipated open-world action RPG Elden Ring will take around 30 hours to complete, the game’s producer has said.Speaking at Taipei Game Show 2022 (as spotted by VGC), Elden Ring producer Yasuhiro Kitao said that “the idea is that the main route should be able to be completed within around 30 hours”. However, Kitao also noted that this would “differ significantly” from player to player.Players who were hoping to pour hundreds of hours into Elden Ring, fear not – the emphasis seems to be very much on only the “main route” through the game’s story – which boasts a mythology and background created by George R.

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22.01.2022 / 04:05

Seoul Street Options Cindy Pon’s ‘Want’ & ‘Ruse’ Sci-Fi Novels For Television

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Will Yun Lee and Mark and Christine Holder’s Seoul Street has acquired rights to Silver Phoenix author Cindy Pon’s bestselling sci-fi novels Want and sequel Ruse for development as an international television series.

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11.01.2022 / 23:11

‘Loveboat, Taipei’: Cindy Cheung Boards YA Romance From Director Arvin Chen

EXCLUSIVE: Cindy Cheung (The Sinner, Awkafina Is Nora from Queens) will star alongside Ashley Liao, Ross Butler, Nico Haraga and Chelsea Zhang in Loveboat, Taipei, a YA romance, which is currently in production in Taipei.

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30.11.2021 / 07:39

China Unveils Golden Rooster Awards Nominees, to Surprising Jibes

Rebecca Davis editorChina has released the list of nominees for its upcoming Golden Rooster Awards, a set of government-approved film industry prizes that it wants to be seen as rivaling the Taipei-based Golden Horse Awards, historically considered as the “Chinese-language Oscars.”The winning Roosters will be announced amidst a film festival running Dec. 28-30 in the port city of Xiamen in coastal Fujian province, just a short boat ride away from Taiwanese soil.

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28.11.2021 / 05:59

‘Revolution of Our Times,’ ‘The Falls’ Triumph at Golden Horse Film Awards

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“The Falls,” Taiwan’s Oscar contender and a timely drama about the trauma of home quarantine, emerged as the unsurprising winner at the Golden Horse Film Awards in Taipei on Saturday.And, in a bold decision that has the potential to enrage Mainland Chinese authorities, the prize for best documentary feature was awarded to “Revolution of Our Times.” The film chronicles the brutality of the political crackdown on the streets of Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020.“The Falls,” which debuted at the Venice Film Festival in September, tells the tale of a mother and daughter cooped up in an apartment during a quarantine.

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12.11.2021 / 22:23

‘Battle at Lake Changjin’ Sets U.K., Ireland Releases (EXCLUSIVE)

Rebecca Davis editorTrinity Cine Asia has acquired “The Battle at Lake Changjin” from Taipei-based sales firm Distribution Workshop and is set to release the war epic in the U.K. and Ireland on Nov.

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11.11.2021 / 20:33

‘Loveboat, Taipei’: Ashley Liao & Ross Butler To Topline YA Romance From Ace Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Liao (Physical, Fresh Off the Boat) and Ross Butler (Netflix’s To All The Boys franchise, Shazam!) have signed on to star in Loveboat, Taipei, a romance film from ACE Entertainment and 1 Productions Film Co., which will enter production in Taipei later this month.

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04.11.2021 / 04:17

‘Dead & Beautiful’ Review: Rich Kids Become Bloodsuckers in a Glossy Horror Set in Taipei

Richard Kuipers Five bored young billionaires become vampires in “Dead & Beautiful,” a middling horror-thriller and social satire that opens with an intriguing premise but never probes its cashed-up characters deeply enough to create gripping drama from the heightened hedonism or existential crises they experience after acquiring new powers. Slickly photographed in a neon-drenched Taipei and featuring an attractive young cast, this riff on the eternal tale by Dutch filmmaker David Verbeek (“R U There,” “Full Contact”) scores early points by drawing parallels between mythological vampirism and the modern metaphorical vampirism of rich elites before losing its sting and meandering toward an unsurprising “surprise” conclusion.

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03.11.2021 / 23:55

Golden Horse Film Awards Jury to Be Chaired by Taiwanese Film Scholar Huang Jianye

Rebecca Davis editorFilm scholar and former director of Taiwan’s Film Archive Huang Jianye is set to chair the jury for the 58th iteration of the Taipei-based Golden Horse Awards, the festival said Wednesday.The awards are now heading into the third year without participants from China after a controversial awards speech in 2018 included mentions of Taiwanese independence. The comments led Beijing to order its citizens to make a hasty retreat that year and impose a ban on attending what had once been known as the Oscars of Asia.Without China’s presence, the Golden Horse Awards have shrunk in scope, but are still soldiering on.

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01.11.2021 / 02:01

TIFFCOM Project ‘Moving Bangladesh’ Receives Taipei Film Fund Backing

Naman Ramachandran Bangladeshi filmmaker Nuhash Humayun’s “Moving Bangladesh” has received NT$2.5 million ($89,800) from the Taipei Film Fund. With this, the TIFFCOM selected project has achieved 60% of its $659,000 budget and aims to raise the rest in Tokyo.In “Moving Bangladesh,” sick of being stuck in traffic — and in life — a struggling middle-class Bangladeshi entrepreneur creates a motorcycle-based ride sharing app that may change transport in developing cities such as Dhaka. But first he must overcome his family’s skepticism and a hostile political environment.Humayun’s credits include a segment of anthology film “Sincerely Yours, Dhaka,” which premiered at Busan in 2018 and was Bangladesh’s entry to the Oscars.

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14.09.2021 / 13:07

Sports Drama ‘Pierce’ Gets to the Heart of Sibling Relationships

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAward-winning Taiwan actors Ding Ning and Tsao Yu-Ning have joined the cast of “Pierce” a sports drama film hailing from Jeremy Chua’s Singapore production firm Potocol.Ding, who won a Golden Horse Award for her supporting role in “Cities of Last Things,” and Tsao, who won at the Taipei Film Festival for his supporting role in another sports drama, 2014 baseball tale “Kano,” respectively play the mother and elder brother of a promising young fencer. The high school fencer is portrayed by rising star Liu Hsiu-Fu.The story sees the youngster choose to trust and help his dangerous older brother who is released from jail.

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14.09.2021 / 01:33

Lars Ulrich’s sons’ band Tapei Houston play first live show

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich – Myles and Layne Ulrich – have played their first-ever live gig.The inaugural show on Thursday (September 9) at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, California came less than a month after the Ulrich brothers announced the formation of their band.Myles has followed in his father’s footsteps by taking up drums, while Layne has taken up bass and singing.The band opened for Earth guitarist Dylan Carlson and also played a bill that included Not A Friend and DJ Dove Armitage.See a clip from Tapei Houston’s debut gig below.A post shared by Taipei Houston (@taipei_houston)The group’s next show is on Wednesday (September 15) at The Mint in Los Angeles with Left Of The Slash, Zach Lewis, and Nautical Front.They haven’t confirmed

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02.09.2021 / 12:13

The sons of Metallica’s Lars Ulrich form new band Taipei Houston

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich’s sons have formed a new two-piece band named Taipei Houston.The band – consisting of Layne Ulrich on bass and vocals, and Myles on drums – took to Instagram yesterday (September 1) to share a snippet of a new song entitled ‘Respecter’.‘Respecter’ features reverberating vocals sandwiched between heavily distorted bass and tight, snappy drumming reminiscent of Lars’ early days in Metallica. Listen to the snippet below.A post shared by Taipei Houston (@taipei_houston)While Taipei Houston have not confirmed any firm dates for their releases, they did tease on social media last week that they will put out “new music soon”.

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23.08.2021 / 21:25

Tsai Ming-Liang Short ‘The Moon and the Tree’ to World Premiere at Taipei Film Festival

Rebecca Davis editorTaiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang’s short “The Moon and the Tree” will world premiere at the upcoming Taipei Film Festival. The 23rd iteration will be held in-person from Sept.

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19.08.2021 / 14:07

This is when you can play the ‘Diablo II: Resurrected’ open beta

Diablo II: Resurrected open beta.The open beta begins simultaneously in all regions at 5 PM GMT August 20, which works out as 10 AM PDT, 1 PM EDT, 6 PM BST and 7 PM CEST. That also means an August 21 launch for regions in Asia and Oceania with 1 AM the launch time in Singapore and Taipei.The Diablo II: Resurrected open beta gives players the chance to participate in both single and multiplayer modes, with cross-progression across PC and consoles enabled.It allows players to try out Act I and Act II of the main campaign, with five of the seven classes available to play.

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27.07.2021 / 22:45

‘Sheep Without a Shepherd’ Review: A Film Buff and a Crooked Cop Match Wits in a Cracking Chinese Crime Thriller

Richard Kuipers Audiences will be rooting for a working-class family to get away with manslaughter in “Sheep Without a Shepherd,” a gripping Chinese crime thriller set in small-town Thailand. Centered on an ordinary guy whose extraordinary film knowledge holds the key to keeping his family out of jail, this cleverly scripted item marks an auspicious feature debut for Malaysia-born, Taipei-based director Sam Quah.

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06.07.2021 / 14:27

Producer Jeremy Chua Discusses Cannes Pic ‘Rehana,’ Film Funding

Carole Horst Singaporean producer Jeremy Chua has amassed an impressive body of work in a relatively short period of time. Adullaah Mohammad Saad’s “Rehana,” a Singapore/Bangladesh co-production led by Chua’s Potocol, will pay at Un Certain Regard.

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01.06.2021 / 17:21

Eurovision Pulls Big Audience Numbers in Post-COVID Return – Global Bulletin

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Eurovision impresses in its post-COVID return; the Walt Disney Company appoints Winradit (Win) Kolasastraseni as its new GM for much of Southeast Asia; the Producers Guild of India launches a vaccination drive for industry members; Bangladesh’s International Academy of Film and Media kicks off its first online script lab; Cartoon Network MENA gets kids involved in the fight against climate change; the Taipei Film Festival is postponed after an uptick in COVID-19 activity; and Tchéky Karyo will be honored at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.2021’s Eurovision Song Contest was watched by more than 183 million viewers across 36 markets, according to results from EBU, and based on Glance, relevant

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15.05.2021 / 13:35

Cinemas in Taipei Ordered to Close for First Time Due to Virus Surge

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCinemas in Taipei and surrounding areas have been ordered to close for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis.Taiwan authorities issued an order on Saturday morning putting the capital city on a level three alert.This requires the shutdown of cinemas, sports venues, libraries and other entertainment spots. Family get-togethers will be limited to five people indoors and ten outdoors.

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03.03.2021 / 09:17