The Hong Kong film industry is looking back even as it charts a course forward — and this week it has good reason to reflect. Filmart, the city’s annual entertainment industry gathering, is staging its 30th edition, while the Hong Kong International Film Festival prepares to mark its 50th in early April. Both milestones deserve…
Hong Kong’s annual Filmart industry platform marks its 30th edition March 17–20. Before diving into how this year’s event plans to help chart the future of global entertainment, it’s worth reflecting on where things stood at its 1997 debut — and how much has changed since. Filmart launched in June 1997, just weeks before Hong…
This photo released on the official Facebook page of the movie “Back to the Past” shows a poster of the movie. LOS ANGELES – Hong Kong historical sci-fi action film Back to the Past opened Friday in a limited theatrical release across North America. Distributed by Well Go USA Entertainment, the time-travel film is screening…
China’s state broadcaster CCTV has come under fire over a short film that romanticises food delivery jobs. The film told viewers that such jobs offer “the freedom to enjoy the scenery along the way” and “brings delivery workers closer to their dreams”. Netizens slammed the video for glorifying hardship and suffering, describing it as being…
In an age when audiences are spoiled for choice across countless entertainment platforms, it’s no secret that cinema operators worldwide are feeling the heat. The numbers alone make for grim reading. When PwC released its annual media and entertainment outlook in July, the industry winced: U.S. cinema revenue, the firm predicted, would not return to…
Jane Birkin’s style moments Gallery / 17 images Decades before she became a mythical, ubiquitous image on moodboard platforms like Pinterest and Tumblr, Jane Birkin was an artist. Despite her talents beyond fashion, the doe-eyed, wispy-fringed Londoner quickly became a visual synonym for French-girl style. Perhaps it was because she seemed to be playing herself…
Topline Fashion billionaire and occasional director Tom Ford is returning to film for the first time in a decade with an all-star cast lined up, including singer Adele in her acting debut, for an adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel “Cry to Heaven.” Tom Ford hasn’t written or directed a movie since “Nocturnal Animals” in 2016….
It’s not looking good for her Sydney Sweeney is back under fire after a bunch of chaotic interviews, and this time, some celebrities have been making it clear they don’t want to be associated with her at all. It all started with that weird Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad Earlier this year, Sydney Sweeney did…
Mira Nair and the future mayor of New York City. Photo: AFP via Getty Images Zohran Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair, managed to sum up the joy of her son’s election win in just three simple words. “Zohran you beauty,” the acclaimed filmmaker wrote on her Instagram Story the night of November 4, when Mamdani won…
Animation has been among the key drivers of the Chinese film industry’s rapid development over the past two decades, and the past 12 months have showcased just how far this art form has come in the country. Obviously much of the noise has been centered about the stunning box office success of Beijing Enlight Pictures’…