Still reeling from the cancellation of the theatrical release of its blockbuster “The Eight Hundred,” production studio Huayi Brothers has been hit with another setback: Its comedy “The Last Wish” has also been quietly pulled from China’s summer lineup. Both films have fallen afoul of China’s increasingly heavy-handed censors.
The unwelcome development comes as Huayi has announced that it expects losses of more than $48 million in the first half of 2019. That will pile onto a reported net loss of RMB1.09 billion (about $160 million) last year, creating a difficult hole for the company to climb out of without a new box-office hit.
Directed by Tian Yusheng, the writer-director of the bankable “The Ex-File” romcom series, “The Last Wish” stars Peng Yuchang (“An Elephant Sitting Still”) and Taiwanese actor Darren Wang in a buddy comedy about a young man with a terminal disease who hopes to lose his virginity before he dies.
The unwelcome development comes as Huayi has announced that it expects losses of more than $48 million in the first half of 2019. That will pile onto a reported net loss of RMB1.09 billion (about $160 million) last year, creating a difficult hole for the company to climb out of without a new box-office hit.
Directed by Tian Yusheng, the writer-director of the bankable “The Ex-File” romcom series, “The Last Wish” stars Peng Yuchang (“An Elephant Sitting Still”) and Taiwanese actor Darren Wang in a buddy comedy about a young man with a terminal disease who hopes to lose his virginity before he dies.
- 7/16/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Nathaniel R giving you the heads up on what's newly available to screen at home.
DVD/Blu-Ray/Rental
• High Life - In which Dr Juliette Binoche gets nasty with her patients and Robert Pattinson mopes around in outer space while caring for an infant.
• Tell It to the Bees - In which Dr Anna Paquin seduces her new friend Holliday Grainger (fine performance!) in a small homophobic British town in the 1950s. But it's actually a sentimental family movie of sorts. Watch out for the unintentionally hilarious killer bees!
Also newish on blu-ray and/or DVD: Pet Sematary, The Best of Enemies, Little, After, Mojin: The Worm Valley, and Gotham (the complete series).
iTunes 99¢ Deals
Titles you can rent on the cheap this week include the orgiastic French film Climax, 2016's Best Picture winner Moonlight, 2017's very best film Lady Bird, the new horror classic The VVitch, Bong Joon-ho's popular...
DVD/Blu-Ray/Rental
• High Life - In which Dr Juliette Binoche gets nasty with her patients and Robert Pattinson mopes around in outer space while caring for an infant.
• Tell It to the Bees - In which Dr Anna Paquin seduces her new friend Holliday Grainger (fine performance!) in a small homophobic British town in the 1950s. But it's actually a sentimental family movie of sorts. Watch out for the unintentionally hilarious killer bees!
Also newish on blu-ray and/or DVD: Pet Sematary, The Best of Enemies, Little, After, Mojin: The Worm Valley, and Gotham (the complete series).
iTunes 99¢ Deals
Titles you can rent on the cheap this week include the orgiastic French film Climax, 2016's Best Picture winner Moonlight, 2017's very best film Lady Bird, the new horror classic The VVitch, Bong Joon-ho's popular...
- 7/9/2019
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Mojin: The Worm Valley The Action-Packed Sequel to the Worldwide Box Office Hit Debuts on Digital, Blu-ray™ Combo Pack & DVD July 9th Following in the footsteps of the blockbuster Mojin: The Lost Legend and based on the bestselling novel series, critically-acclaimed mystical action-adventure Mojin: The Worm Valley debuts on digital, Blu-ray™ Combo Pack and …
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- 6/18/2019
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
This New Year offers over thirty horror films to salivate over and to pare it down to the essential ten is tough. There's no denying some works are a must, especially adaptations of Stephen King's works, and not all of these comic book to film adaptations are considered essential viewing. This list offers a different take than the usual, and I suggest the following as must-sees, including two from Asia. Mojin: The Worm Valley Jan. 4th (Limited Release) Many adaptations of the Chinese horror-fantasy novel, Ghost Blows Out the Light have been made over the years. Mojin: The Worm Valley is the continuation of a saga. It follows after the last film, Lost Legend where the team is now seeking to break the Ghost Eye curse. The tone of these works is blockbuster action adventure than pure horror. However, the supernatural elements put the execution behind the remake of...
- 1/7/2019
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Typical to the start of a new year, specialty newcomers are rather few this weekend. Holiday and awards holdovers are still at center stage, while the Sundance Film Festival looms toward the end of the month. This weekend, Katherine Waterston, Michiel Huisman, Michael Shannon and Luke Evans star in Tribeca premiere State Like Sleep, opening Friday day-and-date via the Orchard. The film is the second narrative feature by Meredith Danluck. Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson and Micah Hauptman star in IFC Midnight’s thriller Rust Creek by Jen McGowan, which also will roll out day-and-date. And Well Go USA is releasing Chinese action title Mojin: The Worm Valley, the follow-up to Mojin: The Lost Legend, which the company released stateside in 2015.
State Like Sleep
Director-writer: Meredith Danluck
Cast: Katherine Waterston, Michiel Huisman, Michael Shannon, Luke Evans
Distributor: The Orchard
State Like Sleep debuted at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where...
State Like Sleep
Director-writer: Meredith Danluck
Cast: Katherine Waterston, Michiel Huisman, Michael Shannon, Luke Evans
Distributor: The Orchard
State Like Sleep debuted at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where...
- 1/4/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Local releases were the best performers again.
While the Chinese box office in 2018 ended with a bang with a groundbreaking annual milestone of $8.86bn (RMB60.98bn), 2019 failed to get off to a good start when the three-day New Year ticket sales (Dec 30 2018 – Jan 1 2019) plummeted by 21% compared to the same period last year.
Nevertheless, it is still the second highest New Year window period in Chinese history, after last year’s astounding success driven mainly by strong local titles such as The Ex-File: The Return Of The Exes and Feng Xiaogang’s Youth.
This year, local releases continued to dominate but their performance paled in comparison.
While the Chinese box office in 2018 ended with a bang with a groundbreaking annual milestone of $8.86bn (RMB60.98bn), 2019 failed to get off to a good start when the three-day New Year ticket sales (Dec 30 2018 – Jan 1 2019) plummeted by 21% compared to the same period last year.
Nevertheless, it is still the second highest New Year window period in Chinese history, after last year’s astounding success driven mainly by strong local titles such as The Ex-File: The Return Of The Exes and Feng Xiaogang’s Youth.
This year, local releases continued to dominate but their performance paled in comparison.
- 1/2/2019
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
New local Chinese titles beat Hollywood heavyweights “Aquaman” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” at the box office this weekend, with a remake and a panned sequel leading the pack. Meanwhile, expensive Bollywood flop “Thugs of Hindostan” failed to redeem itself in China, with a weak opening weekend marking the first Aamir Khan flop in China in years.
Chinese comedy drama “Kill Mobile,” a remake of the 2016 Italian film “Perfect Strangers,” rings in the new year at the top of the box office after a $24.3 million three-day opening weekend. The directorial debut of screenwriter Yu Miao, it tells the story of the fallout from a dinner party game in which a group of friends decides to share all the messages and calls receive over the course of an evening. Though originally scheduled to open Saturday, it hit theatres a day early due to strong pre-screening reviews and word-of-mouth.
Local fantasy sequel,...
Chinese comedy drama “Kill Mobile,” a remake of the 2016 Italian film “Perfect Strangers,” rings in the new year at the top of the box office after a $24.3 million three-day opening weekend. The directorial debut of screenwriter Yu Miao, it tells the story of the fallout from a dinner party game in which a group of friends decides to share all the messages and calls receive over the course of an evening. Though originally scheduled to open Saturday, it hit theatres a day early due to strong pre-screening reviews and word-of-mouth.
Local fantasy sequel,...
- 12/31/2018
- by Becky Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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