Exclusive: In their first-ever professional collaboration, top Asian-American fashion designers Prabal Gurung and Phillip Lim have joined the creative team for the upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese. The duo will work together with American Born Chinese costume designer Joy Cretton to design costumes for culturally significant characters from Chinese mythology and classic literature portrayed in the series by stars Michelle Yeoh and Daniel Wu.
Based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of Jin Wang, an average teenager juggling his high school social life with his home life. When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods. The genre-hopping action-comedy explores identity, culture, and family.
“Prabal and Phillip are both incredibly talented artists who have made their mark in the fashion world,...
Based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of Jin Wang, an average teenager juggling his high school social life with his home life. When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods. The genre-hopping action-comedy explores identity, culture, and family.
“Prabal and Phillip are both incredibly talented artists who have made their mark in the fashion world,...
- 4/28/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that has completed production. Simu Liu, the frontman of the upcoming superhero pic, as well as the film’s director Destin Daniel Cretton enthusiastically announced that the film has wrapped shooting.
“We made a baby!!!” declared Liu on Instagram with a pic of him adorned in leis. “We can’t wait to introduce him to the world in 9 months…”
Cretton also posted a picture of himself, his wife Nikki Chapman, his sister Joy Cretton and actor Zhang Meng announcing that they have wrapped.
In the private Facebook group ‘Subtle Asian Traits”‘ Liu explained the impact of the first Asian-fronted superhero movie at Marvel Studios. “For all of those who hated us because of the color of our skin, or been made to feel less than because of it; No More,” Liu wrote. “This is Our movie,...
“We made a baby!!!” declared Liu on Instagram with a pic of him adorned in leis. “We can’t wait to introduce him to the world in 9 months…”
Cretton also posted a picture of himself, his wife Nikki Chapman, his sister Joy Cretton and actor Zhang Meng announcing that they have wrapped.
In the private Facebook group ‘Subtle Asian Traits”‘ Liu explained the impact of the first Asian-fronted superhero movie at Marvel Studios. “For all of those who hated us because of the color of our skin, or been made to feel less than because of it; No More,” Liu wrote. “This is Our movie,...
- 10/25/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
When Francine Jamison-Tanchuck signed on as the costume designer for “Just Mercy,” the true story of defense attorney Bryan Stevenson (played by Michael B. Jordan) and his fight to overturn the murder conviction of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), she was drawn to the prospect of depicting real-life characters through her work.
“It can sometimes be more challenging than anything coming out of your imagination,” says Jamison-Tanchuck, whose early credits include “The Color Purple,” “Glory” and, more recently, “The Birth of a Nation” and “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” After reading the “Just Mercy” script, the veteran costume designer was driven by the idea of illustrating not only the time period of 1987 to 1992 in small-town Alabama, where the film takes place, but also “a beautiful family that was going through this horrendous time in their lives.”
For resources, Jamison-Tanchuck turned to photographs provided by both McMillian’s family and Stevenson. The attorney...
“It can sometimes be more challenging than anything coming out of your imagination,” says Jamison-Tanchuck, whose early credits include “The Color Purple,” “Glory” and, more recently, “The Birth of a Nation” and “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” After reading the “Just Mercy” script, the veteran costume designer was driven by the idea of illustrating not only the time period of 1987 to 1992 in small-town Alabama, where the film takes place, but also “a beautiful family that was going through this horrendous time in their lives.”
For resources, Jamison-Tanchuck turned to photographs provided by both McMillian’s family and Stevenson. The attorney...
- 12/13/2019
- by Lesley McKenzie
- Variety Film + TV
Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This August, we get to once again profile an American Independent filmmaker who had the wind blowing in his sails moments before he launched his micro-budgeted I Am Not a Hipster at Sundance in 2012. Before unleashing his sophomore film, the character-rich, emotionally textured Short Term 12 in March, Destin Daniel Cretton had won over the Sundance jury with the short film going by the same name (2009 Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking). Winner of the 2013 SXSW Film Festival Grand Jury Award (worth mentioning, of which I was a proud member of) and an Audience Award at a handful of fests since SXSW, its the folks at Cinedigm who’ll be launching the film in select theaters on August 23rd. Here is our profile on Destin Daniel Cretton and we’re lucky enough that...
- 8/15/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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