The ideal cinema trip after new year festivities should be filled with fun and merriment, so how fortunate that Ying Chi-wen’s “Everything Under Control” has arrived at the dawn of the Year of the Rabbit. Straddling the line between wacky comedy and old-fashioned adventure, it has arrived just in time for international audiences to jumpstart their cinematic year against the grain of Oscar season. This is a film that couldn’t be less concerned with awards prestige, and instead, with just using every traditional mode of blockbuster entertainment, it can to stimulate a good time: action, comedy, adventure, horror, musical, it’s all here…even if it is spread a little too thinly to form its own distinct identity.
If any Asian Movie Pulse reader has seen Fu-Hsiang Hsu’s “Treat or Trick” or Shin Jung-won’s “To Catch a Virgin Ghost”, then “Everything Under Control” might seem more than a bit familiar.
If any Asian Movie Pulse reader has seen Fu-Hsiang Hsu’s “Treat or Trick” or Shin Jung-won’s “To Catch a Virgin Ghost”, then “Everything Under Control” might seem more than a bit familiar.
- 2/6/2023
- by Simon Ramshaw
- AsianMoviePulse
Titles include ‘A Guilty Conscience’, ‘Everything Under Control’ and ‘Say I Do To Me’.
In Hong Kong, local films A Guilty Conscience and Everything Under Control are set to open tomorrow (January 21) on the eve of Chinese New Year while Donnie Yen’s Sakra and Kiwi Chow’s Say I Do To Me are also joining the festive race.
It marks the first year since 2020 that Hong Kong cinemas can open for business during the lucrative holiday period, following two consecutive years of blackout due to the Covid pandemic that led to cancellations both in the city and overseas markets that scheduled day-and-date releases.
In Hong Kong, local films A Guilty Conscience and Everything Under Control are set to open tomorrow (January 21) on the eve of Chinese New Year while Donnie Yen’s Sakra and Kiwi Chow’s Say I Do To Me are also joining the festive race.
It marks the first year since 2020 that Hong Kong cinemas can open for business during the lucrative holiday period, following two consecutive years of blackout due to the Covid pandemic that led to cancellations both in the city and overseas markets that scheduled day-and-date releases.
- 1/20/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Also out this weekend: ’Holy Spider’, ’Alice, Darling’ and ’Dreaming Walls’.
Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is the widest new release at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, playing at 631 sites for Paramount, and hoping to make a dent on Avatar: The Way Of Water’s box office dominance, after five weeks atop the chart for Disney.
It is Chazelle’s widest release in the territory – beating his Oscar-winning musical La La Land, which opened at 606 sites in 2017 for Lionsgate, and took £5.6m at the box office in its opening weekend, plus £943,751 in previews.
Chazelle’s latest paints a hedonistic portrait of 1920s and 1930s Hollywood,...
Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is the widest new release at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, playing at 631 sites for Paramount, and hoping to make a dent on Avatar: The Way Of Water’s box office dominance, after five weeks atop the chart for Disney.
It is Chazelle’s widest release in the territory – beating his Oscar-winning musical La La Land, which opened at 606 sites in 2017 for Lionsgate, and took £5.6m at the box office in its opening weekend, plus £943,751 in previews.
Chazelle’s latest paints a hedonistic portrait of 1920s and 1930s Hollywood,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Gangster mashup deserves credit for fighting the corner of the city’s cinema in the face of the mainland film behemoth
Hoping to sustain a recent mini-resurgence of Hong Kong films through to lunar new year, Ying Chi-wen’s second feature is a silly, initially laboured but increasingly endearing comedy mashup. A remake of 2021 Taiwanese gangster film Treat or Trick, which is itself a do-over of 2004 Korean horror-comedy To Catch a Virgin Ghost, it manages to hit virtually every branch on the genre tree on the way down: Bad Boys buddy action comedy, dead wet girl Asian horror, knockabout Beijing opera farce, wuxia parody.
Yau Shing (Hong Kong singer Hins Cheung) is a hotshot point man in Ray-Bans for So Good security firm. Told to escort a consignment of diamonds across the city, he fails to anticipate his driver Jelly (Kaho Hung) hightailing it with the bling, which also cheeses...
Hoping to sustain a recent mini-resurgence of Hong Kong films through to lunar new year, Ying Chi-wen’s second feature is a silly, initially laboured but increasingly endearing comedy mashup. A remake of 2021 Taiwanese gangster film Treat or Trick, which is itself a do-over of 2004 Korean horror-comedy To Catch a Virgin Ghost, it manages to hit virtually every branch on the genre tree on the way down: Bad Boys buddy action comedy, dead wet girl Asian horror, knockabout Beijing opera farce, wuxia parody.
Yau Shing (Hong Kong singer Hins Cheung) is a hotshot point man in Ray-Bans for So Good security firm. Told to escort a consignment of diamonds across the city, he fails to anticipate his driver Jelly (Kaho Hung) hightailing it with the bling, which also cheeses...
- 1/18/2023
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Multi-territory distributor, Trinity CineAsia has acquired U.K. and North American rights to Hong Kong comedy film “Everything Under Control.”
The film will be released in the U.S. and U.K. on Jan. 21, simultaneously with its commercial outing in Hong Kong, on the eve of the Chinese New Year holidays. A theatrical release in Canada will follow on Feb. 3.
The film is a remake of 2021 Taiwanese movie “Treat Or Trick,” directed by Hsu Fu-Hsiang. That film was itself a remake of 2004 Korean horror comedy “To Catch A Virgin Ghost.”
The story, as retold by director Ying Chi Wen for Emperor Motion Pictures, involves two security guards who travel to a village to retrieve some stolen jewellery, and there encounter feisty villagers and a ghost.
The film stars an A-list cast from Hong Kong, Hins Cheung and Ivana Wong (“Table for Six”), who are known for their on-stage chemistry and...
The film will be released in the U.S. and U.K. on Jan. 21, simultaneously with its commercial outing in Hong Kong, on the eve of the Chinese New Year holidays. A theatrical release in Canada will follow on Feb. 3.
The film is a remake of 2021 Taiwanese movie “Treat Or Trick,” directed by Hsu Fu-Hsiang. That film was itself a remake of 2004 Korean horror comedy “To Catch A Virgin Ghost.”
The story, as retold by director Ying Chi Wen for Emperor Motion Pictures, involves two security guards who travel to a village to retrieve some stolen jewellery, and there encounter feisty villagers and a ghost.
The film stars an A-list cast from Hong Kong, Hins Cheung and Ivana Wong (“Table for Six”), who are known for their on-stage chemistry and...
- 1/6/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Upcoming Hong Kong comedy will star Hins Cheung and Ivana Wong.
Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) is set to release comedy Everything Under Control over the Chinese New Year period in mid-January 2023, buoyed by the recent commercial success of a string of Hong Kong productions.
It marks the second feature of director Ying Chi Wen and stars popular Hong Kong singer Hins Cheung in his second leading film role, Ivana Wong of recent hit comedy Table For Six and Michael Ning (Port Of Call) along with upcoming actors Jeffrey Ngai and Joey Hung Ka-Ho. Ying’s feature debut...
Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) is set to release comedy Everything Under Control over the Chinese New Year period in mid-January 2023, buoyed by the recent commercial success of a string of Hong Kong productions.
It marks the second feature of director Ying Chi Wen and stars popular Hong Kong singer Hins Cheung in his second leading film role, Ivana Wong of recent hit comedy Table For Six and Michael Ning (Port Of Call) along with upcoming actors Jeffrey Ngai and Joey Hung Ka-Ho. Ying’s feature debut...
- 10/31/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive Set Visit: Cop thriller stars The Grandmaster’s Zhang Jin.
Renowned Hong Kong director Fruit Chan is currently shooting new action cop thriller Made In Kowloon in Macau.
The new film follows a Hong Kong police officer who crosses over to Macao after his fiancée has gone missing and stumbles on a series of murder cases.
The cast is headlined by Zhang Jin who won best supporting actor for The Grandmaster at the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards, popular Hong Kong actor Kelvin Cheng and Annie Liu.
“The story is imbued with some Chinese mythical elements, which will set it apart from the traditional Hong Kong cop thrillers,” Chan - who is also the screenwriter - told Screen during the set visit.
It marks his first action-thriller, a departure from his early independent productions such as Little Cheung and Durian Durian and subsequent genre films Dumplings and The Midnight After.
Despite the film...
Renowned Hong Kong director Fruit Chan is currently shooting new action cop thriller Made In Kowloon in Macau.
The new film follows a Hong Kong police officer who crosses over to Macao after his fiancée has gone missing and stumbles on a series of murder cases.
The cast is headlined by Zhang Jin who won best supporting actor for The Grandmaster at the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards, popular Hong Kong actor Kelvin Cheng and Annie Liu.
“The story is imbued with some Chinese mythical elements, which will set it apart from the traditional Hong Kong cop thrillers,” Chan - who is also the screenwriter - told Screen during the set visit.
It marks his first action-thriller, a departure from his early independent productions such as Little Cheung and Durian Durian and subsequent genre films Dumplings and The Midnight After.
Despite the film...
- 12/11/2016
- by screenasia@yahoo.com (Silvia Wong)
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) is launching sales on new titles from Yuen Woo-ping, Fruit Chan and Ho Yuhang at Filmart.
Yuen’s action film, titled Hand Over Fist, follows a cartoon artist who gets swept up in a feud between battling groups of martial arts masters.
Emp plans to start shooting the film at the end of the year. Yuen Woo-ping, fight choreographer on The Matrix and veteran director of Drunken Master (1978) and Iron Monkey (1993), recently directed martial arts sequel Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny.
Following suspense thriller Kill Time, Chan is directing Shining Moment, a drama revolving around a Latin dance competition, for Emp. The film, in post-production, stars Hins Cheung and Echo Hao.
Ho Yuhang is also in post on action title Mrs K, starring Kara Wai and Simon Yam, produced by Malaysia’s Red Films and Paperheart.
New titles on Emp’s slate also include Herman Yau’s horror...
Yuen’s action film, titled Hand Over Fist, follows a cartoon artist who gets swept up in a feud between battling groups of martial arts masters.
Emp plans to start shooting the film at the end of the year. Yuen Woo-ping, fight choreographer on The Matrix and veteran director of Drunken Master (1978) and Iron Monkey (1993), recently directed martial arts sequel Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny.
Following suspense thriller Kill Time, Chan is directing Shining Moment, a drama revolving around a Latin dance competition, for Emp. The film, in post-production, stars Hins Cheung and Echo Hao.
Ho Yuhang is also in post on action title Mrs K, starring Kara Wai and Simon Yam, produced by Malaysia’s Red Films and Paperheart.
New titles on Emp’s slate also include Herman Yau’s horror...
- 3/13/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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
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