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Donnie Yen’s stand-out appearance in John Wick: Chapter 4 is an excellent opportunity to raise Hong Kong’s global prominence, and the city’s government must step up to take it.

  • Summer box office results offer a bright spot amid nation’s uneven consumption-led economic recovery, against the backdrop of weaker retail sales and real estate investments
  • Rush to release movies in coveted summer season seen reflecting market’s confidence as cinema-goers return
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Michelle Yeoh is a Hollywood darling now, but Tomorrow Never Dies and Memoirs of a Geisha, two of her early films made in the United States, did not bring the Hong Kong action heroine lasting success there.

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Photographer Basil Pao was allowed unfettered access during the filming of The Last Emperor. Here is a selection of photos from his new book about the making of the epic movie.

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Discovered by director Wong Jing in the 1980s, Sharla Cheung appeared in over 50 films and was a frequent collaborator of another Hong Kong director, Stephen Chow.

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Lonely Eighteen, partly based on the life and career of its co-star, Hong Kong actress Irene Wan, charts the contrasting fortunes of a pair of actresses. While the film is sincere, it ultimately has no emotional pay-off.

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Rain Town, which debuts this week at the Silk Road International Film Festival, is a Cantonese family story set in Malaysia’s Perak state from Malay director Tunku Mona Riza.

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Gareth Edwards’ The Creator marries the Star Wars: Rogue One director’s love of Asian culture with the current conversation around the use of AI. He talks to the Post about making the film.

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Based on classic 16th-century Chinese novel The Investiture of the Gods, Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms – the first instalment in a trilogy – is a visually impressive fantasy epic full of breathtaking action.

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Scottish-born McCallum, who most recently returned to television in 2003 to play Dr Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard in NCIS, died on Monday of natural causes at a New York hospital.

The Moon is the latest in a slew of bad Korean space dramas. Director Kim Yong-hwa has managed to make a film that is illogical, infuriating, casually xenophobic and head-bangingly stupid.

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Apparent breakthrough will raise hopes that striking actors can also reach terms with studios to end a months-long impasse that has seen US film and TV production largely halted.

Jimmy Wang Yu directed 1973 action epic Beach of the War Gods. One of his most underrated movies and an underperformer at the box office, it is based on Akira Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai.

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Chinese blockbuster No More Bets focuses on the very real issue of phone scammers tricking people into working in illegal Southeast Asian call centres – but is almost laughably bad.

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Helen Mirren stars as Israeli stateswoman Golda Meir and her role in the 1973 Yom Kippur war in this slightly dreary biopic that struggles with the complexities of Israeli politics during that time.

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Sung Kang, the Korean-American actor best known for playing Han Lue in the Fast & Furious films, talks about discrimination in Hollywood and directing his first film, Shaky Shivers, a horror comedy.

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From Disney’s Wish and Ridley Scott’s Napoleon to another edition in the Saw franchise and an Aquaman sequel, our pick of the 12 best new Hollywood films of autumn 2023.

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Hong Kong film directors such as John Woo, Benny Chan and Wong Kar-wai have revealed down the years how they make an action move, from developing storylines to working with martial arts choreographers.

Kim So-hyun, the 24-year-old star of Korean drama series My Lovely Liar, has been acting for 18 years. We look back at her career, starting when she was a child actress, and ahead to her upcoming roles.

Reports of Danny Masterson’s long-time involvement in the controversial Church of Scientology have recently surfaced after the actor was sentenced to prison time – so who else joined the religion?

Anson Kong of Cantopop group Mirror stars in Back Home, a supernatural horror that is chilling enough, but will probably be more appreciated as a thinly veiled critique of Hong Kong’s sociopolitical environment.

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A young man (Ng Siu-hin) who wants to become a stand-up comic lives with his father (Ben Suen), who has a mild intellectual disability. They learn to savour their time together while enduring life’s hardships.

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Emma Stone shines in Golden Lion-winning black comedy Poor Things, J.A. Bayona retells the true survival story from 1993’s Alive, and films about Salvador Dali and Leonard Bernstein impress at this year’s festival.

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A young man (played by Takumi Kitamura) goes back in time to prevent the formation of the gang that killed his girlfriend. This second part of the trilogy lacks the action and violence of the first film.

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Nia DaCosta gives her diagnosis for recent superhero movies’ struggles, why she took the job directing The Marvels, and relating to Carol Danvers and Ms. Marvel.

Hong Kong cinema had to reinvent itself in the late ’90s to combat flagging ticket sales. Gen-X Cops led the way, with new young stars Nicholas Tse and Stephen Fung, computerised special effects and a faster pace.

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As Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival, the late Japanese composer’s son, who directed the feature, spoke to the Post about the challenges ofilming his cancer-stricken father.

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The anticipated TV show Expats just premiered its penultimate episode ‘Central’ at TIFF – so who’s in it, who directed it, and why did Kidman spark controversy while filming in the city?

Despite a good turn from Chrissie Chau as a jailed businesswoman, Prison Flowers is so badly scripted it makes nothing of the friction between inmates and guards and resorts to desperate plot devices.

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