Mari Yamamoto will star opposite Brendan Fraser in Hikari’s “Rental Family.” The film follows a down and out actor living in Tokyo, who is hired as the token American guy for a Japanese rental family company providing professional stand-in services. The Searchlight Pictures’ release will commence principal photography next week in Japan.
Yamamoto was most recently seen in the Apple TV+ series “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” a sci-fi epic in which she appeared with Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell and Kiersey Clemmons. Prior to that series, she was seen in another Apple production, “Pachinko” opposite Youn Yuh-Jung and Jin Ha.
Fraser recently won an Oscar for his work in “The Whale.” His credits include “Gods and Monsters,” “The Mummy,” Crash” and “No Sudden Move.” He most recently appeared in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Hikari directed episodes of the Netflix series “Beef,” which won Emmys and Golden Globe Awards, as...
Yamamoto was most recently seen in the Apple TV+ series “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” a sci-fi epic in which she appeared with Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell and Kiersey Clemmons. Prior to that series, she was seen in another Apple production, “Pachinko” opposite Youn Yuh-Jung and Jin Ha.
Fraser recently won an Oscar for his work in “The Whale.” His credits include “Gods and Monsters,” “The Mummy,” Crash” and “No Sudden Move.” He most recently appeared in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Hikari directed episodes of the Netflix series “Beef,” which won Emmys and Golden Globe Awards, as...
- 3/5/2024
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
That the Toronto world premiere of “The Movie Emperor” is sponsored by high-end home appliance manufacturer Dyson is deliciously and understatedly ironic. In the movie, innocuous-seeming domestic equipment — from the humble suitcase to floor sweeping robots — run quietly amok.
So, too, do other forms of supposedly convenient technology, from dashboard cameras to smartphone apps, which seem to conspire to crush the ego of the film’s protagonist, a major movie star trying to get into his role as an angry pig farmer.
That the analog pigs and their distracted human owners are just as much of a handful makes the film an inky, black-humored pastiche on modern high-tech society, our obsessions with self-image and the arrogance of the movie industry.
Chinese director Ning Hao, previously the purveyor of arty satire “Mongolian Ping Pong” and the more scattershot (and commercially successful) “Crazy Racer” and “Crazy Alien,” has always had a cruelly funny streak.
So, too, do other forms of supposedly convenient technology, from dashboard cameras to smartphone apps, which seem to conspire to crush the ego of the film’s protagonist, a major movie star trying to get into his role as an angry pig farmer.
That the analog pigs and their distracted human owners are just as much of a handful makes the film an inky, black-humored pastiche on modern high-tech society, our obsessions with self-image and the arrogance of the movie industry.
Chinese director Ning Hao, previously the purveyor of arty satire “Mongolian Ping Pong” and the more scattershot (and commercially successful) “Crazy Racer” and “Crazy Alien,” has always had a cruelly funny streak.
- 9/14/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) launched a 15-film slate at Filmart to commemorate its 15th anniversary.
The line-up includes titles such as Chapman To-directed and Herman Yau-produced The Mobfathers, Stanley Kwan-produced romantic drama Love In Sicily, Fruit Chan’s suspense thriller Kill Time and the new Yuen Wo-ping Project.
For The Mobfathers, the makers of Sara are collaborating again on a dark comedy set in the Hong Kong underworld where the five leading gangs are holding an election for the ruling boss.
For Love In Sicily, Lin Yu-Hsien (Jump Ashin!) directs Korean star Lee Jun-ki in a coming-of-age love story set in Shanghai and Italy.
Angelababy and Ethan Ruan star in Kill Time, a film about an obscure shopping website that leads to a vital clue in a mysterious murder.
Albert Lee is producing the Yuen Wo-ping Project, an as-yet-untitled comedy in which eccentric martial artists gather for an epochal kung-fu showdown...
The line-up includes titles such as Chapman To-directed and Herman Yau-produced The Mobfathers, Stanley Kwan-produced romantic drama Love In Sicily, Fruit Chan’s suspense thriller Kill Time and the new Yuen Wo-ping Project.
For The Mobfathers, the makers of Sara are collaborating again on a dark comedy set in the Hong Kong underworld where the five leading gangs are holding an election for the ruling boss.
For Love In Sicily, Lin Yu-Hsien (Jump Ashin!) directs Korean star Lee Jun-ki in a coming-of-age love story set in Shanghai and Italy.
Angelababy and Ethan Ruan star in Kill Time, a film about an obscure shopping website that leads to a vital clue in a mysterious murder.
Albert Lee is producing the Yuen Wo-ping Project, an as-yet-untitled comedy in which eccentric martial artists gather for an epochal kung-fu showdown...
- 3/24/2015
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures has appointed production veteran Daniel Yu as production controller and Damon Chan as general manager, exhibition (Prc).
Based in Hong Kong, Yu will oversee all aspects of upcoming Emp productions. A producer with credits including Fruit Chan’s Made In Hong Kong and Ning Hao’s Crazy Stone, Yu co-founded Team Work Productions with Hong Kong star Andy Lau in 1990 and later co-founded production services company October Films.
Chan joins Emp’s Beijing office after seven years at Orange Sky Golden Harvest, where he most recently held the post of chief operating officer (Prc). In his new role, he will spearhead Emp’s foray into exhibition in mainland China.
Emp has a joint venture to develop mainland theatres with Hong Kong-based UA Cinemas. The venture’s first theatre, Emperor UA Vivo City, is scheduled to open in Foshan in May, followed by cinemas in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen...
Based in Hong Kong, Yu will oversee all aspects of upcoming Emp productions. A producer with credits including Fruit Chan’s Made In Hong Kong and Ning Hao’s Crazy Stone, Yu co-founded Team Work Productions with Hong Kong star Andy Lau in 1990 and later co-founded production services company October Films.
Chan joins Emp’s Beijing office after seven years at Orange Sky Golden Harvest, where he most recently held the post of chief operating officer (Prc). In his new role, he will spearhead Emp’s foray into exhibition in mainland China.
Emp has a joint venture to develop mainland theatres with Hong Kong-based UA Cinemas. The venture’s first theatre, Emperor UA Vivo City, is scheduled to open in Foshan in May, followed by cinemas in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen...
- 4/14/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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