Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang have been selected to star in an upcoming remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 romcom The Wedding Banquet. The reboot will be directed by Andrew Ahn from a screenplay by Ahn and James Schamus. The screenplay for the 1993 movie had been co-written by Lee, Schamus, and Neil Peng. According to…
©Brokeback Mountain/Focus Features Director Ang Lee suggests that homophobia was a prime reason why his 2006 film Brokeback Mountain did not win a Best Picture Oscar. It lost out to the crime drama Crash, which has been called one of the worst films to win the award. Lee’s groundbreaking film about a love relationship between two…
Ang Lee has signed on to direct Bruce Lee, a biopic about the eponymous legendary martial arts legend, for Sony’s 3000 Pictures. The Oscar-winning filmmaker will work with his son, Mason Lee, who has been cast in the titular role, Deadline is reporting. Dan Futterman, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original…
©Courtesy of GKIDS Kokuho : Nagasaki, 1964 — After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men…
©Courtesy of Toho The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan has chosen Kokuho, a film that depicts a Japanese traditional theater (“Kabuki”), to represent the country in the Best International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards next year. Nine Japanese films were submitted to be taken into consideration for the international category. The life…
Jamie Lee Curtis, who won an Oscar, is the favored choice to star in the upcoming Murder, She Wrote film at Universal, as Deadline reported. Although no deal has been reached, it is believed that she will be playing the role of Jessica Fletcher, which was popularized by Angela Lansbury in the hit series that…
Synopsis : A college student navigates life and school while dealing with the unique predicament of living with a former K-pop idol. Starring: Bae Suzy, Yang Se-jong, Park Se-wan, Ha Young, Kim Do-wan TV Network: Netflix Premiere Date: Oct 20, 2023 Genre: Romance Press Conference with Actors Suzy, Yang Se-jong, and director Lee Jung-hyo Q…
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees” This is the first verse of the song Strange Fruit sung by Billie Holiday, that has become the true protagonist of Lee Daniel’s latest cinematic oeuvre….
Photo by Zade Rosenthal – © ILM/Revolution Studios New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori has died at the age of 75 after struggling with Parkinson’s disease. In a statement to RNZ, New Zealand’s public-service broadcaster, his family declared: “His legacy endures with his whānau, his mokopuna, every filmmaker he inspired, every boundary he broke and every story…
Receiving a resurgence in attention for their long-lost work can create a wistful melancholy for many creatives. That’s certainly true for poets in a culture like downtown New York City that values independent art. Willem Dafoe‘s protagonist, former poet Ed Saxberger, must do just that amongst a newfound circle of literary aspirants. The up-and-coming writers…
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