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Korean Box Office: MAN OF STEEL Not Quite Great Enough For SECRETLY

Korean Box Office: MAN OF STEEL Not Quite Great Enough For SECRETLY

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 04:00 AM PDT

Business was up again this past weekend as just over 2.5 million tickets were sold, though this was largely a result of two blockbusters duking it out for the top spot. Each scored over one million, an achievement in itself though not the first time it's happened. Meanwhile, the local market share stood at 45%, decent given the time of year and on par with last year's figure. However, with only two Korean titles in the top 10, one wonders what that figure might look like with a stronger mix of local fare on the marquees.  Title Release Date Market Share Weekend Total Screens 1 Secretly Greatly 13/06/05 42.10% 1,053,983 5,267,923 925 2 Man of Steel (us) 13/06/13 46.20% 1,025,784 1,205,677 998 3 Star...

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Melbourne 2013: Strong Asian Lineup from Cannes Acquisitions And More!

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 03:00 AM PDT

The timing of the Melbourne International Film Festival is magical. Positioned soon after Cannes, the programmers have done a stellar job of sourcing the best films from the Croisette. This is a relief. After last year's poorer effort at representing New Wave Asian Cinema, this year sees it out in full force! It is a genuinely exciting line-up of the best of Cannes, albeit with a few caveats.There are a whopping twenty nine acquisitions in total but here are the Asian film highlights:Anthony Chen's Camera d'Or winner Ilo Ilo (Singapore), the stirring tale of a Singaporean family who take in a Filipino woman as a live-in maid.MIFF staple Kore-eda Hirokazu's Jury Prize winner Like Father Like Son (Japan), exploring themes of responsibility and what it means to be...

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No Dwarf-Tossing For Leo In Scorsese's THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Trailer

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:19 AM PDT

The first trailer for Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street has arrived, and it gives a startling glimpse at this tale of reckless decadence in the stock market's healthier days, courtesy of Jordan Belfort's autobiography.Leo DiCaprio stars as the New York stockbroker who became embroiled in a huge securities fraud case that looked to pull in some of the biggest names on Wall Street. If you're thinking this sounds like Goodfellas Goes Banking, then you're clearly on the same page as Scorsese, as this first trailer goes to great lengths to show just how much fun the good times were before the bubble burst and the FBI came a-knocking.DiCaprio continues to produce his best work under Scorsese's direction, while the veteran helmsman is certainly...

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Review: SO YOUNG Is (Mostly) An Endearing Nostalgia Trip From Zhao Wei

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 10:11 PM PDT

For her directorial debut, mainland actress Zhao Wei employs a vivacious cast of mostly unknown youngsters for a spirited adaptation of Xin Yiwu's best-selling novel. The resulting film has proved a box office sensation in China, despite major dramatic missteps in its final act.For a solid ninety minutes, Zhao Wei's first feature film as a director, So Young, is an endearingly nostalgic tale of romance and rite-of-passage played out against the backdrop of university life in the 1990s. Based on Xin Yiwu's popular novel To Our Youth That Is Fading Away (which the film uses as its Chinese title), Zhao uses Li Qiang's script as a jumping off point to reminisce about her own adolescence, turning a work of popular fiction into a personal exploration...

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First Trailer For Donnie Yen's THE MONKEY KING 3D Finally Arrives!

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 08:15 PM PDT

While Donnie Yen's Iceman 3D is still filming due to production difficulties, it looks like his other 3D adventure, The Monkey King, is closer to full completion. The Monkey King is directed by Soi Cheang, responsible for recent Milkyway hits like Accident and Motorway, with an all-star cast including Yen, Chow Yun Fat and Aaron Kwok. It has been in post-production for some time, and a while back, there was a teaser that showed nothing but the big names in the cast. Now the first real trailer has arrived. It looks pretty colorful and features a lot of CGI. Check it out to see how it compares with Stephen Chow's adaptations of the same source material (Chinese Odyssey and Journey To The West)!...

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Climb Into the CRAWLSPACE Script

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 07:00 PM PDT

After snaking around the world and playing at a string of genre festivals, Justin Dix's sci-fi horror Crawlspace is coming to Melbourne for a hometown premiere extravaganza at the Astor Theatre on Sunday 7 July. In the lead up, Dix is releasing a series of behind the scenes videos dissecting the making of the movie. Here he takes a look at the script with the cast. Watch it below.Crawlspace screens at the Astor Theatre on Sunday 7th July at 7pm, followed by a Q&A....

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BUCKSKIN Wins Sydney 2013 Documentary Prize, PERCEPTION Wins the Dendys

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 05:30 PM PDT

Yesterday Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives won the whopping $60,000 Jury Prize at the 60th Sydney Film Festival. This was the second time Refn had won the award in its short history - Bronson also won in 2009, the year after the festival introduced the prize. Last night at the closing ceremony, the other awards were announced. Buckskin, about a young man who has dedicated his life to his Aboriginal culture, won the $10,000 Foxtel Australian Documentary Prize. The win heralds the arrival of a striking new talent, Dylan McDonald, who is the son of producer Penelope McDonald and Samson & Delilah writer-director Warwick Thornton. Buckskin follows Jack Buckskin, who is on a mission to renew Kaurna, an Australian language, and through that and dance, inspire a...

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LA Film Fest 2013 Review: EUROPA REPORT Is Mushy But Enjoyable Sci-Fi

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 03:45 PM PDT

Ecuadorian filmmaker Sebastián Cordero has a handful of titles on his directing resume, the best known probably 2004's John Leguizamo-starring non-comic journalist drama Cronicas. All of his films have been in Spanish and none venturing into what we would commonly call "genre cinema." Therefore, the decision to hire Cordero for what has repeatedly been referred to as a "hard sci-fi" project may seem a bit out of left field. The decision, as it turns out, was a wise one. Cordero brings a well-tuned human element to this space exploration drama that succeeds on the strength of the performances and interactions between characters. Though the storytelling gets more than a bit mushy in the editing room, ultimately Europa Report gets it right and provides a...

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LA Film Fest 2013 Review: ALL TOGETHER NOW, In The Woods, Rocking Out, And Philosophizing The Night Away

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Multi-thread narratives or group narratives prove to be an interesting corner of cinema to explore. The best ones I find rarely rely on compelling plots, but are often loose and meandering affairs, with existential wit to spare and a cornucopia of colorful characters that shoot from the hip. One could argue that Robert Altman is the gold standard for this larger construct. And when we are talking flicks about adolescents and young adults the bar has been set considerably high by American Graffiti and Dazed And Confused and their life changing one-nighters. It is then a real testament to director Alexander Mirecki and his entire cast and crew that his feature debut All Together Now feels so fresh. Ron (Lou Taylor Pucci) is putting on...

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Jackie Chan Takes Manhattan, Discusses His Life, Movie Career, and "I Am Jackie Chan: The Musical"

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 02:00 PM PDT

The fine folks at Subway Cinema and the New York Asian Film Festival scored a major coup last week when they brought action film maestro Jackie Chan to NYC for a two-day visit on June 10 and 11 in advance of his upcoming retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from June 23-27. On June 10, Chan was presented with the Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award and sat for a conversation with Grady Hendrix prior to a screening of his latest film Chinese Zodiac at Lincoln Center. On the morning of June 11, a press conference with Jackie Chan was held at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO). Below is my report on Chan's comments at that press conference.Chan began his remarks...

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European Film Industry Saved from EU-US Trade Talks

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

With talks about to begin on reworking free trade agreements between the European Union and the United States, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht has apparently removed cultural industries from the table, an article in The Hollywood Reporter states. Prominent filmmakers such as Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Wim Wenders and Pedro Almodóvar, amongst many others, have fought a hard battle to keep the cultural exception.The cultural exception declares that cultural products, such as film, literature and music, in which each product is unique (as oppose to say a bar of soap or a bottle of wine) and should be protected. Many countries impose quotas on film, dictating that a certain percentage of films shown in theatres should be from the originating country; France has...

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The Holocaust Serves As Backdrop For Psycho Sexual Thriller IN HIDING

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Assuming that filmmakers around the globe wish to continue making films about the Holocaust - and given that such films are routinely trotted out as awards bait in countries across Europe, I would assume that is the case - then I would suggest they need to find a new approach to the material. It's not that the historical events are no longer worth talking about - they are - but that the subject matter has been so overworked that viewer fatigue set in long, long ago and none of it seems to matter at all any more.We've seen the story so many times that it has become little more than noise.And so Polish director Jan Kidawa-Błoński has found a different story, one that goes in...

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70s Rewind: Bridges, Barbra, Bogdanovich, Brynner

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 09:59 AM PDT

Amazon's Prime Instant streaming service is not as well-established as Netflix and has far more modest offerings in off-beat and strange cinema. Still, since I temporarily dropped Netflix, I've been diving deeper into Amazon's catalog, and discovered a good number of films from my favorite movie decade. Here's a selection of picks that I've recently watched, most of which will be expiring from the service at the end of June....

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Even More Ricardo Darin In This Teaser Trailer For HISTORIAS SALVAJES

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Whenever Argentina's top leading man, Ricardo Darin, shows up in a film, one can't help but feel giddy with anticipation, which makes the epic teaser trailer for next year's Historias Salvajes seem even more promising than it already is.Darin is the star of one of the six short stories that make up the film, which also includes other well-known faces such as Leonardo Sbaraglia (Intacto) and Dario Grandinetti (Talk To Her).Director Damian Szifron previously gained notice with 2003's psychological thriller The Bottom of The Sea and its follow-up, 2005's buddy-action movie On Probation. Where the director has truly made a splash though, is in television, having created ratings smashes such as Los Simuladores (sometimes referred to as Argentina's version of The A-Team) and Hermanos y...

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Live Action 009-1 Trailer Features Plenty Of Female Cyborg Action!

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 07:30 AM PDT

009-1: The End Of The Beginning is an upcoming live action adaptation of Ishinomori Shotaro's classic manga 009-1, which was published from the mid-60s to early 70s and previously adapted into an anime series in 2006. It tells the story of Miléne '009-1' Hoffman, a female cyborg working as a secret agent, who is famous for using breast guns as her weapons.Sakamoto Kōichi, director of a number of recent Kamen Rider films and stunt coordinator for the long-running Power Rangers series, is at the helm of the film. The central character is played by young actress Iwasa Mayuko. Ishinomori (1938-1998), who also wrote 009 Re: Cyborg, would have turned 75 this year, and 009-1: The End Of The Beginning is his 75th birthday anniversary project. The...

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Brazil's RIO 2096: A STORY OF LOVE AND FURY Wins Top Prize At Annecy Film Festival

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 06:30 AM PDT

Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury, the feature debut from Brazilian director Luiz Bolognesi, has won the top prize at Annecy Film Festival. The film revolves "around the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years." The story is set in four phases of Brazil's history: colonization, slavery, during the military regime and in the future, in the midst of wars over water. It is the first Brazilian film to play in competition at Annecy. Other prize winners include Oscar-winner Chris Landreth (Ryan) winning best short film for Subconscious Password and Australian Julian Frost taking home best commissioned film for the viral hit Dumb Ways To Die. The audience award goes to Fernando Cortizo...

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