Weather
English
RocksNews

International news in seven languages

Advertisement
Advertisement

Topic

Asia

Entertainment

Danny and Oxide Pang’s Josie Ho-Starring Supernatural Thriller ‘The Mage’ Sets Busan Market Debut With Abnormal Studios (EXCLUSIVE)

Danny and Oxide Pang’s supernatural crime thriller “The Mage,” starring Josie Ho, is being introduced to international buyers at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) as the film opens in its first Asian territories. Southeast Asian distributor Abnormal Studios will meet with buyers at the market and connect interested parties […]

Entertainment

Payal Kapadia, Anurag Kashyap Joined by Kavita Gupta’s Cineroost as Producer on Prateek Vats’ ‘Chronicles of a Confession’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Kavita Gupta’s U.S.-based Cineroost has boarded Prateek Vats’ second feature, “Chronicles of a Confession,” as producer, joining Payal Kapadia and Anurag Kashyap on the project, which starts shooting in early November. Cineroost stepped in to handle global representation and U.S. markets, and to help get the film into production. It is the company’s next feature […]

Entertainment

Sundance-Winning Producer Neeraj Churi Boards Awedacious Originals’ Busan Title ‘About an Intimate Matter’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Sundance-winning producer Neeraj Churi has boarded “About an Intimate Matter” (Ekanto Byaktigoto Bishoy), a Bengali-language queer drama from Awedacious Originals that will world premiere at the 31st Busan International Film Festival. Churi, of Lotus Visual Productions, produced Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s “Sabar Bonda” (Cactus Pears), winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the […]

Entertainment

‘Will You Still Be My Friend’ Director Lu Po-Shun on Finding Common Ground From San Sebastian to Busan

When Variety spoke with Taiwanese director Lu Po-Shun in March, he was seeking final financing for his debut feature, “Will You Still Be My Friend,” a coming-of-age drama weaving adolescent friendship with local politics and solar energy development. Now, following its San Sebastián premiere and two Golden Horse nominations, Lu is bringing the film to […]

Advertisement
Entertainment

Chinese Landscape Painting Film Series Will Run to a Fourth Installment, Says ‘First Taste of Loneliness’ Director Gu You (EXCLUSIVE)

Chinese filmmaker Gu You’s films modeled on Chinese landscape painting will not stop at three. The director of “The First Taste of Loneliness,” which world premiering in competition at the Busan International Film Festival, tells Variety that a fourth installment is already in research and development, and that it may lean toward genre. The new […]

Entertainment

Busan Jury President Zhang Yimou Weighs In on ‘The Assassin(s)’ History Row as Juror July Jung Says Her ‘Heart Feels So Cold’

Zhang Yimou, president of the Busan International Film Festival’s competition jury, waded into the dispute over historical fact and creative freedom that has engulfed Korean cinema, telling a press conference on Wednesday that history itself is written by people. The question from the press did not name a title, but the debate centers on Hur […]

Entertainment

Zhang Yimou Says ‘The Three-Body Problem’ Script Is Still Being Polished After Several Years: ‘It Is Very Difficult to Adapt’

Zhang Yimou is still reworking the script for his film adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem,” years into the process, the Chinese director said during the opening ceremony of the Busan International Film Festival, where he is president of this year’s competition jury. Questioned by festival director Jung Hanseok, Zhang said he is currently preparing a […]

Entertainment

Eddie Redmayne’s Kore-eda Hirokazu Film Is Still Being Scripted, Director Says at Busan

Eddie Redmayne’s upcoming collaboration with Kore-eda Hirokazu is still at the screenplay stage, the Japanese filmmaker said Wednesday at a Busan International Film Festival press conference for his manga adaptation “Look Back.” “Right now, I am writing the script,” Kore-eda said about the Searchlight Pictures film. “I cannot share specific plot details at this stage, […]

Advertisement
World

Malacca Strait: Why is it so strategic for China and the world?

The Malaca Strait is one of the main bottlenecks of world trade and an essential route for China's energy supply. Through its waters it transits a fundamental part of trade between Asia, the Middle East and the rest of the world. A possible blockade, whether by conflict, accident or disaster, could alter global supply chains and test Beijing's energy security. Why has this strait become one of Asia's major strategic points?

Entertainment

Fan Bingbing, Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Gainsbourg Dazzle as Busan Turns 31 in Style

The Busan International Film Festival marked its 31st edition Tuesday with one of its most star-laden opening ceremonies in recent memory, drawing Fan Bingbing, Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alfonso Cuarón, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Lee Chang-dong, Na Hong-jin, and a roll call of Asian cinema’s finest to the port city for a night that mixed Hollywood glamour […]

Topic: Asia | RocksNews