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Brand New TML

2009-02-04T04:13:00.001+08:00

Tsai Ming-liang's Face (aka Visages) will premiere at this year's Cannes

Idiots Follow Memory Loss

2009-02-02T11:30:00.000+08:00

After Ghajini, it's 3 Idiots for Aamir Khan

Johnnie To's New One

2009-02-02T11:15:00.002+08:00

Fresh stills from Johnnie To's Vengeance

Trailer for Shinagawa Hiroshi's Drop

Tiger Awards

2009-02-01T02:53:00.001+08:00

South Korea, Turkey and Iran bag the VPRO Tiger Awards in Rotterdam

The End Is Nigh

2009-01-31T20:25:00.001+08:00

Twitch reports the possible end of Variety Asia

Japan Box-Office 2008

2009-01-30T01:28:00.001+08:00

Ponyo On A Cliff By The Sea was tops at home last year

Jason Gray scrutinises the list at Screen Daily

Stephen Chow Heads West

2009-01-29T23:47:00.003+08:00

There's proof Stephen Chow is going ahead with Journey To The West, according to Monkeypeaches (frustrating thing about that site, no permalink)

Red Cliff Tops In Korea

2009-01-29T12:56:00.001+08:00

Red Cliff 2 continues to blaze through Asian box-office

Historical Humour

2009-01-25T14:55:00.002+08:00

Kong Rithdee in Bangkok Post reviews Blue Sky Of Love, which he calls a product of total ignorance

The trailer gave Wisekwai a headache

Movie Disease

2009-01-25T14:46:00.001+08:00

Mark Schilling in Japan Times takes a look at Kansen Retto (Pandemic), the latest disaster pic from Japan

Big B Clears The Air

2009-01-24T11:22:00.001+08:00

Amitabh Bachchan says Slumdog Millionaire comments were misunderstood

Windy Movie

2009-01-24T01:58:00.002+08:00

Huayi Brothers' Sound Of Wind, starring Zhou Xun and Zhang Hanyu, to start production soon

Ip Man On DVD And Blu-ray

2009-01-24T01:54:00.001+08:00

Twitch reports that Ip Man will be out on DVD and Blu-ray on Feb 13 in Hong Kong

Movie Music

2009-01-24T01:50:00.001+08:00

Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra will present the music of Joe Hisaishi

Supermodel Time Travels

2009-01-22T23:40:00.000+08:00

Lin Chiling to star in Jay Chou time-travel movie

Lunar Neo Year

2009-01-22T01:32:00.001+08:00

A Nutshell Review scrutinises Jack Neo's Love Matters

Film Ratings Finally

2009-01-22T00:24:00.001+08:00

A proposal for a film ratings system in China finally appears

More Awards

2009-01-22T00:23:00.002+08:00

The Good, The Bad, The Weird leads Asian Film Awards nominations

Meanwhile, more Asian films for Berlinale's Forum

Big In Japan

2009-01-21T00:33:00.002+08:00

Medical thriller Pandemic (Kansen Retto) knocks Pixar off the Wall-E

Miike Takashi's Crows Zero 2 and Takita Yojiro's Sanpei The Fisherman will premier at Yubari

Awards

2009-01-21T00:25:00.002+08:00

Japan's Departures nabs Best Feature at Palm Springs

John Rabe, a film about the Nanking Massacre, co-produced with, among others, Beijing's Huayi Brothers, wins big in Germany's Bavarian

Big Bad Wolf Does Big Business

2009-01-21T00:17:00.002+08:00

Local animated film Pleasant Goat And Big Big Wolf off to a great start in China

Big B Slams Slumdog

2009-01-20T10:31:00.001+08:00

Amitabh Bachchan dislikes Slumdog Millionaire, but lauds A.R. Rahman's win

Chandni Chowk Bad News

2009-01-19T19:27:00.001+08:00

Chandni Chowk To China gets thumbs down from critics

Chandni Chowk 2 Being Planned

2009-01-19T10:29:00.002+08:00

Having just had its release worldwide, it's been revealed that there are already plans for a sequel to Chandni Chowk To China

2009-01-19T10:23:00.001+08:00

Mark Schilling reviews Zen and finds it a little disappointing

Cycling Comedy

2009-01-18T18:27:00.001+08:00

Ning Hao of Crazy Stone fame offers Chinese New Year comedy, Silver Medallist

First Glimpse Of Jackie

2009-01-18T18:17:00.002+08:00

Twitch points us to the first glimpse of Jackie Chan in Shinjuku Incident

While Yahoo News has this bit about Miyazaki saying he can't stand modern animation

Japan's Oscar Bid

2009-01-14T11:54:00.002+08:00

Takita Yojiro's Departures is among the nine films vying for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars

Upcoming Thai Films This Year

2009-01-13T10:11:00.000+08:00

Here's a rundown from the ever vigilant Wisekwai

China In 3D

2009-01-13T10:04:00.000+08:00

China to release first ever 3D animated film

Little Orphan Kati

2009-01-11T23:35:00.000+08:00

Wisekwai reviews The Happiness Of Kati and finds it a bit dull

Bolly Goes Globes

2009-01-10T18:49:00.002+08:00

Shah Rukh Khan will be one of the awards presenters at the Golden Globes

Chandni Chowk To China will have the biggest ever US opening starting Jan 16

Get Political

2009-01-10T01:34:00.001+08:00

Singapore will amend Film Act to allow "certain types" of party political films

Ip Man Sequel

2009-01-09T10:27:00.000+08:00

Variety Asia reports that Ip Man 2 is a go

Mysterious Thai Film

2009-01-09T00:10:00.002+08:00

Wisekwai points to a mysterious collaboration between Wisit Sasanatieng and Nonzee Nimibutr, that happened long ago, but the film was seized by the studio for debts unpaid

Andy Lau - Ancient Sherlock Holmes

2009-01-07T23:43:00.001+08:00

The Hollywood Reporter says Tsui Hark's next film is a period detective yarn starring Andy Lau

Gong Li and Jim Carrey

2009-01-07T23:36:00.003+08:00

Gong Li is set to star opposite Jim Carrey in an upcoming comedy

Far East Films says it's a biopic called Believe It Or Not, about Robert Ripley, to be directed by Chris Columbus

Hong Kong Top Films Of 2008

2009-01-07T01:03:00.001+08:00

CJ7 tops the list of highest grossers of 2008 in Hong Kong

Red Cliff Goes West

2009-01-07T01:01:00.002+08:00

John Woo has finished editing the international cut of Red Cliff for western audiences

No Naughty Stuff

2009-01-07T00:56:00.001+08:00

Sina.com among portals and sites determined to be "problematic" in China government's anti-pornography campaign

What's Up, Singapore?

2009-01-07T00:36:00.001+08:00

A Nutshell Review gives a rundown (with trailers and clips) of the Singaporean films of 2009

Korean Vamp

2009-01-04T12:40:00.003+08:00

Here's a short news report on Korean TV about Park Chan-wook's new vampire flick, Thirst.

Twitch has some stills

Bloody Poster

2009-01-02T15:02:00.003+08:00

CYWorld has snapshots of the poster for Blood: The Last Vampire, starring Korean actress Jeon Ji-hyeon

And looks like Edison Chen's Sniper, his post-sexy time scandal movie, will finally be released on Easter this year, except in China, that is

And a bit late this, but anyway, Ashes Of Time Redux R1 DVD to be released in March

My Name Is Khan

2009-01-02T14:45:00.002+08:00

Ghajini becomes the only Indian film to earn one billion rupees at the box office across the country in less than a week of its release

OneIndia earlier report that some of the Muslim crew members of Karan Johar's My Name Is Khan have been denied US visas for the shoot in Los Angeles

Japanese Cinema 2009

2009-01-01T03:43:00.004+08:00

Mark Schilling of Japan Times looks at what's coming up in Japanese cinema in 2009

For starters

2008-12-30T15:30:00.006+08:00

Wise Kwai gives us the English-subtitled trailer for Happiness Of Kati, adapted from the best-selling youth novel. There are also four posters of the movie. Wise Kwai says: "The youth novel has been translated into eight languages, including English. It is indeed heartwarming, and well worth a read."

Variety Asia reports that three Asian directors - Fruit Chan, Cui Jian, and Hur Jin-ho - will helm an omnibus not unlike Paris, je t'aime and New York, I Love You, but set in earthquake-devastated Sichuan.

In other news, Gong Li got snubbed by the China Film Association.

Over at Twitch, Stefan reviews Ghajini, the "unofficial" Bollywood remake of Christopher Nolan's Memento.

A Nutshell Review of Singapore announces the new Jack Neo production, Love Matters (formerly known as Republic Of Happiness), directed by Gilbert Chan. Slated for a Chinese New Year release. It's a Singapore-Malaysia co-production.

Hello

2008-12-30T13:09:00.000+08:00

This will be the sister blog to The Storyboard. It will be a blog aggregate and news collection area for Asian films.

Will kick off soon.