One mega Twilight fan just got very lucky...for a very hefty price. Twi-hards near and far gathered for an exciting two-day auction at the Hollywood Chinese Theater on Nov. 19 and 20. The event was hosted by memorabilia company Prop Store, which put over 900 of the film's biggest props up for bid. One of the most exciting elements that went up for auction was Bella Swan's engagement ring from Edward Cullen. The fan who ended up scoring the piece beat out over a thousand other bidders, putting up a whopping $16,800. Other props that sold included Edward's journal, which went for $7,800 as well as Bella's meadow costume, which closed at $8,400. If your mouth is...
- 11/23/2016
- E! Online
Sony Pictures Entertainment announced Tuesday that it is launching a China Writers Initiative for emerging writers in China. The budding talent will meet with established Hollywood film, television executives and screenwriters to exchange and collaborate on ideas both for Hollywood films as well as Hollywood Chinese co-productions, according to a statement from the studio. “The screenplay is the foundation of everything we do – it all starts with the writer. So as we look to make great content for global audiences, it’s critical that the writers we work with both here and in China understand each other’s cultures,” Tom Rothman,...
- 11/2/2016
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
Drake Doremus‘ Sundance Grand Prize winner Like Crazy will be the opening night film for the 7th annual Film Independent Forum, according to the non-profit.
Taking place Oct. 21-23 at the Director Guild of America in L.A., Like Crazy (which Paramount Vantage opens on Oct. 28) will kick off the the three-day forum for emerging and established independent filmmakers that covers production, distribution, documentary and new media.
Speakers for the 2011 Film Independent Forum include:
Sara Bernstein, HBO Documentary Films
Laura Bickford, producer, Duplicity, Che
Josh Braun, Submarine
Lisa Callif, Donaldson & Callif, Llp
Juan Devis, Kcet Public Media
Arthur Dong, director, Hollywood Chinese
Jennifer Dubin, producer, The Perfect Family, Good Dick
Craig Emanuel, Loeb & Loeb
Christian Gaines, withoutabox.com and imdb.com
Matthew Greenfield, Fox Searchlight
Azazel Jacobs, director, Terri
Patty Jenkins, director, Monster, The Killing
Gina Kwon, producer, The Future
Greg Laemmle, Laemmle Theatres
Lisa Leeman, director, One Lucky Elephant
David Magdael,...
Taking place Oct. 21-23 at the Director Guild of America in L.A., Like Crazy (which Paramount Vantage opens on Oct. 28) will kick off the the three-day forum for emerging and established independent filmmakers that covers production, distribution, documentary and new media.
Speakers for the 2011 Film Independent Forum include:
Sara Bernstein, HBO Documentary Films
Laura Bickford, producer, Duplicity, Che
Josh Braun, Submarine
Lisa Callif, Donaldson & Callif, Llp
Juan Devis, Kcet Public Media
Arthur Dong, director, Hollywood Chinese
Jennifer Dubin, producer, The Perfect Family, Good Dick
Craig Emanuel, Loeb & Loeb
Christian Gaines, withoutabox.com and imdb.com
Matthew Greenfield, Fox Searchlight
Azazel Jacobs, director, Terri
Patty Jenkins, director, Monster, The Killing
Gina Kwon, producer, The Future
Greg Laemmle, Laemmle Theatres
Lisa Leeman, director, One Lucky Elephant
David Magdael,...
- 9/14/2011
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Fu Manchu for Mayor! Joe Dante explains.
Just look at this:
Click to make huuuuuuge.
Classic FemJep stuff, huh? (That’s females-in-jeopardy for you non-industry types.)
Karin Dor grapples with one of Fu Manchu’s dacoit assassins in the first and best of the sixties Fu Manchu series starring Christopher Lee, The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the Oriental arch-villain character created by Sax Rohmer in 1913 and continued in a series of novels through 1959.
“Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, … one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present … Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.” – Rohmer in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
For obvious reasons, this yellow peril stuff has gone out of fashion, to say the least, although Rohmer...
Just look at this:
Click to make huuuuuuge.
Classic FemJep stuff, huh? (That’s females-in-jeopardy for you non-industry types.)
Karin Dor grapples with one of Fu Manchu’s dacoit assassins in the first and best of the sixties Fu Manchu series starring Christopher Lee, The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the Oriental arch-villain character created by Sax Rohmer in 1913 and continued in a series of novels through 1959.
“Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, … one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present … Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.” – Rohmer in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
For obvious reasons, this yellow peril stuff has gone out of fashion, to say the least, although Rohmer...
- 9/13/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
By Lisa Horowitz
The Los Angeles Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles, has set the jurors for its narrative, documentary and shorts sections.
On the narrative jury are directors Charles Burnett ("Killer of Sheep") and Larry Karaszewski ("The People vs. Larry Flynt"), as well as La Weekly film critic Ella Taylor.
The documentary jurors are director-actress Karen Moncrief ("Blue Car"), director Arthur Dong ("Hollywood Chinese") and film critic-journalist Robert Abele.
Judging the short films will be writer-...
The Los Angeles Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles, has set the jurors for its narrative, documentary and shorts sections.
On the narrative jury are directors Charles Burnett ("Killer of Sheep") and Larry Karaszewski ("The People vs. Larry Flynt"), as well as La Weekly film critic Ella Taylor.
The documentary jurors are director-actress Karen Moncrief ("Blue Car"), director Arthur Dong ("Hollywood Chinese") and film critic-journalist Robert Abele.
Judging the short films will be writer-...
- 6/17/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth The ethnic controversy surrounding the casting of Gérard Depardieu as Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou’s The Other Dumas reminded me of Arthur Dong’s 2007 documentary Hollywood Chinese, which discusses how Caucasian actors usually played major Chinese roles in American movies up to the not-too-distant past. Among those featured in Hollywood Chinese, whether in clips or as talking heads or both, are Paul Muni, Peter Sellers, Nancy Kwan, Luise Rainer, Katharine Hepburn, Turhan Bey, Joan Chen, Ang Lee, Christopher Lee, Sidney Toler, and, inevitably, Warner Oland, the most famous Dr. Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan (for those who know their film history). At a panel discussion held after the Los Angeles’ [...]...
- 2/20/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
As part of the TCA panel to discuss the upcoming PBS documentary, Hollywood Chinese, actor B. D. Wong (M.Butterfly, Oz, Law & Order) was on hand to discuss the history of stereotyping asians in TV and movies. But Wong grew up being part of more than just the Asian minority and was willing to talk about it. Listen in below: [Media=632]...
- 1/9/2009
- by admin
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Directors Arthur Dong, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Chris Eska, Clark Gregg, Davis Guggenheim and Freida Lee Mock are among the participants in Film Independent's fourth annual Filmmaker Forum, which will be held Sept. 26-28 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles.
Producer Ted Hope will deliver this year's keynote address at the three-day event, which focusses on the latest developments in independent filmmaking.
The forum will kick off on Sept. 26 with a screening of Rian Anderson's "The Brothers Bloom," followed by a Q&A with producer Ram Bergman and other members of the creative team and a reception in the DGA atrium.
On Sept. 27 and 28, panel discussions will be held on such topics as "Finding the Financial Sweet Spot"; "What's Up Doc?"; "The Micro Budget Film as a Calling Card; New Tools for Audience Building; The Cost of Cutting Corners: Production Dos and Don'ts"; "Keeping Your Documentary on...
Producer Ted Hope will deliver this year's keynote address at the three-day event, which focusses on the latest developments in independent filmmaking.
The forum will kick off on Sept. 26 with a screening of Rian Anderson's "The Brothers Bloom," followed by a Q&A with producer Ram Bergman and other members of the creative team and a reception in the DGA atrium.
On Sept. 27 and 28, panel discussions will be held on such topics as "Finding the Financial Sweet Spot"; "What's Up Doc?"; "The Micro Budget Film as a Calling Card; New Tools for Audience Building; The Cost of Cutting Corners: Production Dos and Don'ts"; "Keeping Your Documentary on...
- 9/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- I’m not sure what the previous years have churned out, but this year’s Real to Reel (Tiff's doc section) packs a wallop: either the film’s selected happen to have a muscle name among doc filmmakers attached or the docu subject will raise more than one eyebrow. Among the mix we have Phil Donahue’s Body of War – a doc that is coming to the fest with ample buzz, we have film critic Todd McCarthy’s documentary of a Cannes fest icon Pierre Rissient who makes the term 'cinephile' sound like a disease, and after a successful crossover into feature films, Kevin Macdonald looks into the mind of Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, a.k.a the Butcher of Lyon. Here is the complete list:algerie, Histoires A Ne Pas Dire Jean-Pierre Lledo, AlgeriaFour Algerians of Muslim origin revisit the last years of their country's War of Independence, searching
- 7/31/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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