The Walking Dead‘s Michael Cudlitz is going from the wastelands of a zombie apocalypse to the highrises of Metropolis when he joins the cast of Superman & Lois for the show’s third season. According to Entertainment Weekly, Cudlitz is playing a new version of the supervillain genius known to hold the DC Universe in a vice-like grip tighter than Superman’s most aggressive handshake.
Per the EW’s official description, “Cudlitz’s Lex Luthor is known to the world as the visionary billionaire behind LexCorp, but secretly, the criminal underworld knows who Lex truly is: a brutal psychopath who terrorizes anyone he crosses paths with. When Lex debuts this season, it’s been years since he dropped out of the public eye, and he’s re-emerging hellbent on correcting a personal injustice by enacting revenge on the two people he feels have wronged him — Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) and Lois Lane...
Per the EW’s official description, “Cudlitz’s Lex Luthor is known to the world as the visionary billionaire behind LexCorp, but secretly, the criminal underworld knows who Lex truly is: a brutal psychopath who terrorizes anyone he crosses paths with. When Lex debuts this season, it’s been years since he dropped out of the public eye, and he’s re-emerging hellbent on correcting a personal injustice by enacting revenge on the two people he feels have wronged him — Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) and Lois Lane...
- 1/24/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Sales push to start at Busan’s Asian Project Market and AFM.
Finance, production and sales company Est Studios has acquired international sales rights to bilingual drama Beneath The Banyan Tree and will introduce the film later this year at Busan’s Asian Project Market and American Film Market.
Asian-American filmmaker Nani Li Yang makes her feature directorial debut on the story in English and Chinese about a Chinese matriarch whose son is jailed and attempts to parent her estranged daughter and her teenage grandchildren while seeking shelter in the US.
Ah-Leh Gua from The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink...
Finance, production and sales company Est Studios has acquired international sales rights to bilingual drama Beneath The Banyan Tree and will introduce the film later this year at Busan’s Asian Project Market and American Film Market.
Asian-American filmmaker Nani Li Yang makes her feature directorial debut on the story in English and Chinese about a Chinese matriarch whose son is jailed and attempts to parent her estranged daughter and her teenage grandchildren while seeking shelter in the US.
Ah-Leh Gua from The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink...
- 7/13/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Subtle storytelling isn't effortless.
Too often, the urge is to use overly dramatic plotlines to make points with the belief a lesser approach will find a filmmaker's point overlooked.
Nani Li Yan directs Beneath the Banyan Tree with a deftly subtle hand that underscores a Chinese family's struggle to continue tradition while accepting that they can live outside traditional beliefs.
If the way Yang delivers the story is relatively simple, what the story conveys is not.
But the approach allows non-Chinese speakers to grasp fully what a family is experiencing by allowing the actors to perform, often in silence.
The lens captures the beauty of every moment, joyful or troubled, as this tale of a family finding renewed connection while entirely out of their element unfolds.
Ai-Jai (Kathy Wu) left China for California to escape her mother's control.
But when her mother, Mrs. Jia-Rong Woo, is abandoned by her husband...
Too often, the urge is to use overly dramatic plotlines to make points with the belief a lesser approach will find a filmmaker's point overlooked.
Nani Li Yan directs Beneath the Banyan Tree with a deftly subtle hand that underscores a Chinese family's struggle to continue tradition while accepting that they can live outside traditional beliefs.
If the way Yang delivers the story is relatively simple, what the story conveys is not.
But the approach allows non-Chinese speakers to grasp fully what a family is experiencing by allowing the actors to perform, often in silence.
The lens captures the beauty of every moment, joyful or troubled, as this tale of a family finding renewed connection while entirely out of their element unfolds.
Ai-Jai (Kathy Wu) left China for California to escape her mother's control.
But when her mother, Mrs. Jia-Rong Woo, is abandoned by her husband...
- 4/20/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Exclusive: Indican Pictures has acquired One Moment, a family comedy starring the late Danny Aiello, with plans to release it in theaters in May and on VOD in July.
One Moment tells the story of middle-aged siblings struggling to manage their lives and careers while also caring for their recently widowed aging father, Joe (Aiello). Joe, demanding and difficult, stubbornly believes he is still capable of running his own life which leads to sad, but sometimes hilarious situations. Although at odds on how to best care for Joe in his final years, the family is united in wanting to ensure his well-being and help him find peace of mind—without them losing their own.
Adria Tennor, Frankie Ingrassia, Natalie Seus, Sioux Madden and Sal Rendino round out the cast of the film written and directed by Deirdre O’Connor, who produced alongside Jodie Weiner. Shaun Hill and Gary Goldberger negotiated the...
One Moment tells the story of middle-aged siblings struggling to manage their lives and careers while also caring for their recently widowed aging father, Joe (Aiello). Joe, demanding and difficult, stubbornly believes he is still capable of running his own life which leads to sad, but sometimes hilarious situations. Although at odds on how to best care for Joe in his final years, the family is united in wanting to ensure his well-being and help him find peace of mind—without them losing their own.
Adria Tennor, Frankie Ingrassia, Natalie Seus, Sioux Madden and Sal Rendino round out the cast of the film written and directed by Deirdre O’Connor, who produced alongside Jodie Weiner. Shaun Hill and Gary Goldberger negotiated the...
- 2/18/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – The Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Apuc) of Chicago, and their international Selection Committee, has announced the winners of the Apuc “Funniest Stay-At-Home Short Film Competition. The competition took place over the last three months of the global quarantine, and attracted entries from the U.S. and the world.
The Top Five winners were Raymond Hui with 2020 A Year In Review, Saloni Nahar with Self Tapes, Michael Crowley with Family Social Distancing, Jennifer Zhang with Stay Inside Jennifer Zhang Song and Meiling Jin with Meiling-ual … the films are available to view below.
2020 A Year In Review By Filmmaker Raymond Hui
Photo credit: AsianPopUpCinema.org
The international Selection Committee included chair Patrick McDonald, Mark Schilling, Darcy Paquet, Shelly Kraicer, Aimeé Laberge, Cherrie Lau, Kathy Wu and Sophia Wong Boccio.
Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema – founded and curated by veteran film programmer Sophia Wong Boccio – is dedicated to highlighting films in different Asian...
The Top Five winners were Raymond Hui with 2020 A Year In Review, Saloni Nahar with Self Tapes, Michael Crowley with Family Social Distancing, Jennifer Zhang with Stay Inside Jennifer Zhang Song and Meiling Jin with Meiling-ual … the films are available to view below.
2020 A Year In Review By Filmmaker Raymond Hui
Photo credit: AsianPopUpCinema.org
The international Selection Committee included chair Patrick McDonald, Mark Schilling, Darcy Paquet, Shelly Kraicer, Aimeé Laberge, Cherrie Lau, Kathy Wu and Sophia Wong Boccio.
Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema – founded and curated by veteran film programmer Sophia Wong Boccio – is dedicated to highlighting films in different Asian...
- 6/15/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Apuc) continues their “Funniest Stay-At-Home Short Film Competition, and the deadline is extended through May 15th, 2020. The idea is – while many of us are staying at home during the pandemic quarantine – to create a one-minute film while you’re “inside.”
Put your phone to “video” setting or get your most expensive Panavision camera out and shoot a one minute short film (editing is accepted) that expresses the funny side of our current inside-the-home life. A panel of judges from around the world, combining local experts (Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com is chair of the Selection Committee) and international Asian Pop-Up contributors – including actors Christian Bables of the Philippines and Kathy Wu in Los Angeles – will take part in determining the Top Five best of the submissions. Those five will be shown on the big screen during Apuc’s Season 11.
Create a One-Minute Film Inside!
Put your phone to “video” setting or get your most expensive Panavision camera out and shoot a one minute short film (editing is accepted) that expresses the funny side of our current inside-the-home life. A panel of judges from around the world, combining local experts (Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com is chair of the Selection Committee) and international Asian Pop-Up contributors – including actors Christian Bables of the Philippines and Kathy Wu in Los Angeles – will take part in determining the Top Five best of the submissions. Those five will be shown on the big screen during Apuc’s Season 11.
Create a One-Minute Film Inside!
- 4/27/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Want a unique way to stay creative and support an essential Windy City film festival during the pandemic quarantine? Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Apuc) announces their “Funniest Stay-At-Home Short Film Competition. The idea is to create a one-minute film while you’re “inside.”
Put your phone to “video” setting or get your most expensive Panavision camera out and shoot a one minute short film (editing is accepted) that expresses the funny side of our current inside-the-home life. A panel of judges from around the world, combining local experts (Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com is chair of the Selection Committee) and international Asian Pop-Up contributors – including actors Christian Bables of the Philippines and Kathy Wu in Los Angeles – will take part in determining the Top Five best of the submissions. Those five will be shown on the big screen during Apuc’s Season 11.
Create a One-Minute Film Inside! Presented by Apuc
Photo credit: AsianPopUpCinema.
Put your phone to “video” setting or get your most expensive Panavision camera out and shoot a one minute short film (editing is accepted) that expresses the funny side of our current inside-the-home life. A panel of judges from around the world, combining local experts (Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com is chair of the Selection Committee) and international Asian Pop-Up contributors – including actors Christian Bables of the Philippines and Kathy Wu in Los Angeles – will take part in determining the Top Five best of the submissions. Those five will be shown on the big screen during Apuc’s Season 11.
Create a One-Minute Film Inside! Presented by Apuc
Photo credit: AsianPopUpCinema.
- 4/8/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – How do you communicate Hong Kong’s homeless situation in a fresh and relatable way? Wong Hing Fan’s new film “I’m Livin’ It” takes on not only poverty, but the shortage of housing for professional and working class people. The main setting is a 24 hour burger restaurant – with the sly marketing slogan of “I’m Livin’ It!”
Once a star in his finance firm, Bowen (Aaron Kwok) now spends his nights in that fast food joint, which allows the homeless an overnight respite area, and he encounters other “roommates” who are in a similar predicament. There is a child and her mother (Cya Liu) – who has taken out high interest loans to cover her mother-in-law’s debt, an old man (Alex Man) who is too afraid to go home, a young runaway (Zeno Koo), and a singer (Miriam Yeung) who was part of the financier’s past.
Once a star in his finance firm, Bowen (Aaron Kwok) now spends his nights in that fast food joint, which allows the homeless an overnight respite area, and he encounters other “roommates” who are in a similar predicament. There is a child and her mother (Cya Liu) – who has taken out high interest loans to cover her mother-in-law’s debt, an old man (Alex Man) who is too afraid to go home, a young runaway (Zeno Koo), and a singer (Miriam Yeung) who was part of the financier’s past.
- 3/14/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Season Ten for Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema will kick off on March 10th, 2020, with (click on title for tickets and info) ”I’m Livin’ It,” which begins a week highlighting Hong Kong films. ”A Witness Out of the Blue” is on March 11th.
Season Ten of the Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Apuc) will run for the next five weeks, until April 9th. Each week will be dedicated to highlighting films in different Asian territories – Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Most of the screenings will be presented at the festival’s primary venue, AMC River East 21 in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, and other select titles will screened at the venues of Apuc’s collaborative partners … Chicago Filmmakers, Alliance Française de Chicago, and the Chinese American Museum.
”I’m Living It” Kicks Off Season Ten of the Asian Pop-Up Cinema
Photo credit: Apuc
The ongoing success of the...
Season Ten of the Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Apuc) will run for the next five weeks, until April 9th. Each week will be dedicated to highlighting films in different Asian territories – Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Most of the screenings will be presented at the festival’s primary venue, AMC River East 21 in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, and other select titles will screened at the venues of Apuc’s collaborative partners … Chicago Filmmakers, Alliance Française de Chicago, and the Chinese American Museum.
”I’m Living It” Kicks Off Season Ten of the Asian Pop-Up Cinema
Photo credit: Apuc
The ongoing success of the...
- 3/9/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema has announced the full line-up for its 10th Season including 16 new films from across Asia. Season Ten runs for five-weeks from March 10 through April 9, 2020. Each week will be dedicated to highlighting films from the same geographic location with one film shown on different days each week. A majority of the screenings will be presented at the festival’s primary venue, AMC River East 21. Select titles are screened at collaborative partners’ premises: Chicago Filmmakers, Alliance Française de Chicago, and the Chinese American Museum.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema’s Season Ten opens by honoring Hong Kong filmmaking with two North American Premieres starting with “I’m Livin it” on March 10. Nominated for 10 awards from the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards, “I’m Livin It”, tells the story of a man who was once a star in his finance firm (Aaron Kwok), but now spends his life in a...
Asian Pop-Up Cinema’s Season Ten opens by honoring Hong Kong filmmaking with two North American Premieres starting with “I’m Livin it” on March 10. Nominated for 10 awards from the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards, “I’m Livin It”, tells the story of a man who was once a star in his finance firm (Aaron Kwok), but now spends his life in a...
- 2/27/2020
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Pablo Schreiber, Noah Taylor, McKenna Roberts, Kevin Rankin, Roland Moller, Byron Mann, Matt O’Leary, Hannah Quinlivan, Beatrice King, Tzi Ma, Chin Han, Paul McGillion, Kathy Wu | Written and Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
Dwayne Johnson reteams once again with director Rawson Marshall Thurber for Skyscraper, after the critically mixed and modest box office reception Central Intelligence two years previously.
Global disaster flick Skyscraper sees Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson star as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Ford, who now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in China he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he’s been framed for it. A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who is trapped inside the building… above the fire line.
Skyscraper is, a heart,...
Dwayne Johnson reteams once again with director Rawson Marshall Thurber for Skyscraper, after the critically mixed and modest box office reception Central Intelligence two years previously.
Global disaster flick Skyscraper sees Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson star as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Ford, who now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in China he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he’s been framed for it. A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who is trapped inside the building… above the fire line.
Skyscraper is, a heart,...
- 7/12/2018
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Stars: Amy Johnston, Muriel Hofmann, Jenny Wu, Kathy Wu, Jet Tranter, Mayling Ng, Sunny Coelst, Rosemary Vandebrouck, Lisa Cheng, Chalinene Bassinah, Lauren Rhoden, Lisa Henderson, Isa Sofa Chan Kwan Nga, Nathalie Ng, Kirt Kishita, Happy Ma | Written by Bey Logan | Directed by Chris Nahon
Question: Are you a fan of Bloodsport, Kickboxer, King of the Kickboxers, or any of the many similar “fighting championship” movies that were released around the time Van Damme’s film hit it big? You are? Then stop reading any firther and go out and buy Lady Bloodfight. Right now. Go on. You can come back here later to read what I think…. Shop’s are shut? Go buy it digitally. Now.
Why? Because Lady Bloodfight is The female equivalent of Bloodsport. It may have taken 28 years but we’ve finally got one. It’s just as badass, just as packed with top-notch martial arts and...
Question: Are you a fan of Bloodsport, Kickboxer, King of the Kickboxers, or any of the many similar “fighting championship” movies that were released around the time Van Damme’s film hit it big? You are? Then stop reading any firther and go out and buy Lady Bloodfight. Right now. Go on. You can come back here later to read what I think…. Shop’s are shut? Go buy it digitally. Now.
Why? Because Lady Bloodfight is The female equivalent of Bloodsport. It may have taken 28 years but we’ve finally got one. It’s just as badass, just as packed with top-notch martial arts and...
- 4/28/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Three
Stars: Louis Koo, Wei Zhao, Wallace Chung, Siu-Fai Cheung, Suet Lam, Hoi-Pang Lo, Michael Tse, Adrian Wong, Kathy Wu | Written by Ho Leung Lau, Tin Shu Mak | Directed by Johnnie To
When a cop, a wounded crime boss and a doctor are thrown together in the hustle and bustle of an emergency room, a hospital descends from a pristine sanctuary to an explosive battleground. Bullets fly in a when the crime boss’s gang turn up to try and rescue him, and the cop must prevent innocent lives from being caught in the crossfire.
Johnny To’s hospital-set thriller is a Die Hard-esque tale that instantly recalls the John Woo classic Hard Boiled and yet is in no way similar in story and action. Like a number of his films before this, To takes his time building his film – introducing his characters, exploring their motivations etc. – before finally getting...
Stars: Louis Koo, Wei Zhao, Wallace Chung, Siu-Fai Cheung, Suet Lam, Hoi-Pang Lo, Michael Tse, Adrian Wong, Kathy Wu | Written by Ho Leung Lau, Tin Shu Mak | Directed by Johnnie To
When a cop, a wounded crime boss and a doctor are thrown together in the hustle and bustle of an emergency room, a hospital descends from a pristine sanctuary to an explosive battleground. Bullets fly in a when the crime boss’s gang turn up to try and rescue him, and the cop must prevent innocent lives from being caught in the crossfire.
Johnny To’s hospital-set thriller is a Die Hard-esque tale that instantly recalls the John Woo classic Hard Boiled and yet is in no way similar in story and action. Like a number of his films before this, To takes his time building his film – introducing his characters, exploring their motivations etc. – before finally getting...
- 4/13/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
"Where did you learn to fight like that?" Vertical Entertainment has released the first trailer for an indie called Lady Bloodfight, about a woman who trains to fight in an underground martial arts tournament in Asia. This kinda, sorta seems like an all-women version of Jcvd's Bloodsport, but with its own modern cinematic quirks. Amy Johnston plays a woman named Jane who is recruited by Shu, a Wudang champion played by Muriel Hofmann, to participate in the tournament. The full cast includes Jenny Wu, Kathy Wu, Mayling Ng, Jet Tranter, Sunny Coelst, Rosemary Vandebrouck, Lisa Cheng, Chalinene Bassinah, and Lauren Rhoden. This looks both extremely cheesy and extremely badass, I'm definitely intrigued, but also worried it's going to be straight-to-dvd quality. We'll have to see ourselves. Take a look. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Chris Nahon's Lady Bloodfight, direct from YouTube: A blonde woman named Jane (Amy Johnston) arrives in Asia,...
- 4/4/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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