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Confucius (Kong ze)

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:51:05 +0000

Well if you haven’t watch this movie, you should spend some time online reading about the review, sadly due to the current situation of the Avatar situation in China, the box office is not going very well, although it seems the DaDi Film Co is trying something in foreign land.

Here is a few things came from Screendaily:

Chow Yun-fat is the main attraction in Confucius, a ponderous and weakly-imagined attempt at repackaging the ancient sage for the blockbuster era. Hu Mei’s (For All Eternity) film includes both battle sequences and an attempted seduction of the legendary philosopher in hopes of drawing mainstream audiences, but a lack of narrative development results in a film that is neither entertaining nor enlightening.

From what you can see in the trailer actually the film images looks alright, although the main complain from the audience are focus on “story”, but it’s still worth most people and their pop-corn.

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The Shanghai Film Festival 2009 Market Session is Finished

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:44:49 +0000

Hello Everyone, it was nice to meet everybody during the Shanghai Film Festival 2009, the market session is coming to an end, but our manager Charlie Moretti still busy with meeting up old contacts and new friends. Did we mention that we met Halle Berry?

We need to thank all the visitors who been to our booth during previous days, this year’s festival is bigger than last year, and we managed to meet a lot more people than before, we hope that you found the opportunity during the film market as well, just in case you missed our booth, here is a picture of it.

We will have a lot more info updated these days, stay around!

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Suggestions for Fresh Film Directors

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:25:23 +0000

This Post Originally from here.

Yu Nan, one of the jury members for the Asian New Talent Award during the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, had an exclusive interview with correspondent from Daily News yesterday. As a jury member, Yu Nan expressed her excitement to see so many spirited works, and she hoped these fresh film directors could stick to their own style, not to be distracted by material gain. Besides work, for the first time, Yu Nan replied to questions related to love in her real life and confessed that she was hoping for true love.

Yu Nan has already had some experience of being a jury member on International Film Festival overseas ahead of the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, but she told the reporter that this time she felt very familiar and a sense of achievement. “I feel honored, because to be a jury member means that people already recognized my acting; and I feel very familiar, because I can speak native language to communicate with people and meet so many old friends. The get-togethers are most exciting.”
As for the evaluating criteria to this Asian New Talent Award, Yu Nan laughed and continued, “Each jury member has his own taste, but we will get together and discuss over it. The exchanges of ideas are valuable.” Yu Nan indicated that she had viewed four pieces of works so far to compete for the award, among them two were very impressive. However, being a jury member, she declined to reveal those names. She went on to comment, “I am so glad to see vitality and creativity all over these works, and each piece of work has its own style. I hope these fresh film directors could stick to their own style and not to be lead by material gain, including the awards. I firmly believe these film directors are the promising ones on international film festivals in the future.” As for the debate on “art or business” by Wang Xiaoshuai and Lu Chuan during the forum the day before, Yu Nan smiled and said, “maybe different directors have different perspectives towards films. But from my point of view, whether it’s business film or art film, the key lies in its good quality.”

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