The Weinstein Company Acquires Bong Joon-ho's SNOW PIERCER, 2013 Release Planned |
- The Weinstein Company Acquires Bong Joon-ho's SNOW PIERCER, 2013 Release Planned
- THE SWORD IDENTITY Director Returns With JUDGE ARCHER: Watch A Trailer And Two Scenes
- SHUTTER And ALONE Co-Director Banjong Pisanthanakun Launches Horror Comedy PEE MAK PHRAKANONG
| The Weinstein Company Acquires Bong Joon-ho's SNOW PIERCER, 2013 Release Planned Posted: 10 Nov 2012 05:00 PM PST  Though the film is still winding its way through post production the reel of footage displayed at the American Film Market was enough to convince The Weinstein Company to move quickly on The Host director Bong Joon-ho's English language debut, Snow Piercer.Based on French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, Bong's film - which boasts Oldboy director Park Chan-wook as a producer - is set in a future Ice Age with the remnants of civilization on board a train traveling the globe. Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Song Kang-ho, John Hurt, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer and Ed Harris are among the passengers.The Weinstein Company have acquired distribution rights for North America, UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa with a summer 2013 release date being eyed.... |
| THE SWORD IDENTITY Director Returns With JUDGE ARCHER: Watch A Trailer And Two Scenes Posted: 10 Nov 2012 04:30 PM PST  Director Xu Haofeng is an unusual one. Soon to be best known to audiences around the globe as the screenwriter of Wong Kar Wai's long anticipated The Grandmasters, Xu has a whole lot more in his repertoire. An acclaimed novelist and serious student of martial arts, Buddhism and Taoism, Xu approaches his films with a unique blend of grounded pragmatism - you'll never see anything in his fight sequences that wouldn't actually work - and philosophical rigor. While Chinese martial arts film are increasingly moving towards flash and style over substance, Xu is moving in the opposite direction, blending a deep love and knowledge of film with an even deeper knowledge and respect for the practice and philosophy of martial arts.Xu's sophomore film, Judge Archer,... |
| SHUTTER And ALONE Co-Director Banjong Pisanthanakun Launches Horror Comedy PEE MAK PHRAKANONG Posted: 10 Nov 2012 10:07 AM PST  Thailand's Banjong Pisanthanakun burst on to the international horror scene in 2004 as the co-director of chilling horror picture Shutter, later subjected to a greatly inferior US remake. Pisanthanakun would team up with his Shutter co-director again for 2007 effort Alone but fans have been waiting ever since for a return to feature length horror.It's not that he hasn't been busy ... Pisanthanakun turned in stellar solo efforts in the short film horror anthologies Phobia and Phobia 2, directed hugely successful romantic comedy Hello Stranger in 2010 and contributed the hysterical N Is For Nuptials segment to this year's international horror anthology The ABCs Of Death. But a feature in the genre that made him famous? That hasn't happened for five years now.So take heart,... |
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