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Screen Singapore 2012: THE LAST TYCOON Interview with Wong Jing and Andrew Lau

Posted on 04 Jan 2013

We always knew that Andrew Lau had a thing for guns; but now, he’s apparently developed a similar affection for bombs. Indeed, though Wong Jing’s name is listed as director of ‘The Last Tycoon’, it is his producer and cinematographer Andrew Lau whom he credits – and whom the latter proudly acknowledges – is responsible for the most expensive sequence in the e ...

PRESS CONFERENCE WITH CHOW YUN FAT AND THE STARS OF 'THE LAST TYCOON'

Posted on 03 Jan 2013

Can you believe that it has been 13 years since Chow Yun Fat has acted in a film directed by a filmmaker born and bred in Hong Kong? Indeed, ‘The Last Tycoon’ would be his first since ‘Peace Hotel’ back in 1995, the years since spent middling in mediocre Hollywood flicks like ‘The Replacement Killers’ and ‘Dragonball: Evolution’ before the promise ...

CZ12 SINGAPORE PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted on 18 Dec 2012

Just when you think the Jackie Chan from of old might have quietly faded into the shadows, the ‘Dragon’ (as his Chinese name alludes) comes roaring back with a blockbuster that he says harks back to the kind of action comedy his fans have come to love about him. “I’ll keep doing what my fans love as long as I can,” he proclaims proudly at a press conferenc ...

AH BOYS TO MEN Interview With Men

Posted on 06 Nov 2012

The journey that their characters undertake through the course of National Service (NS) might be one from a boy to a man, but that which they personally go through is one from obscurity to celebrity. Indeed, just listening to the fresh new stars of Jack Neo’s latest movie ‘Ah Boys to Men’, it is without a doubt that they know this is the big break they have been waiting for th ...

AH BOYS TO MEN Interview With Jack Neo

Posted on 08 Nov 2012

If you’re going to make a film on a subject as dear to the hearts of Singaporeans as National Service (NS), then you jolly well make sure that you do it right. Over and above the publicity bluster for his new movie ‘Ah Boys to Men’, it’s apparent that director and co-writer Jack Neo was clearly aware of this right from the start. Speaking to the press on the eve of t ...

INTERVIEW WITH TONY LEUNG AND YUAN XIAOCHAO

Posted on 03 Oct 2012

Even after thirty years in the Hong Kong movie industry, there are still some roles that have eluded Tony Leung Kar-Fai, often regarded as ‘not the Tony Leung who stars in Wong Kar Wai movies’. In ‘Tai Chi Zero’, the veteran actor gets to play a gongfu master – or to be more precise, a ‘tai chi master’ – and Tony says that he is extremely gla ...

INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR STEPHEN FUNG FOR TAI CHI ZERO

Posted on 03 Oct 2012

When producer Chen Kuo-Fu came to Stephen Fung with a movie about tai-chi, the latter was puzzled. ‘Why me?’ was the first thought in his head, he said. It was only after reading the treatment, that incidentally was also written by Kuo-Fu, that Stephen realised what his producer wanted to accomplish with ‘Tai Chi Zero’, the first of two films shot back-to-back in wh ...

HUMAN INVASION FROM OUTER SPACE

Posted on 25 Aug 2012

It’s August 25, the opening weekend of sci-fi comedy Iron Sky – and we find Englishman Lee Stringer in the Preview Lounge of Orchard Cineleisure, of which the two most noteworthy features are (appropriately) a towering stand-up poster for the movie and (less appropriately) a troublesome clump of wires dangling between a laptop and a wall-mounted LCD screen. The computer graphics sup ...

KICKING TO THE TOP

Posted on 19 May 2012

Talent is no guarantee for success, Welsh-born filmmaker Gareth Evans and Indonesian ‘silat’ sensation Iko Uwais will tell you. They are the creative minds behind ‘The Raid: Redemption’, only the most talked-about martial-arts movie in and around the world since premiering at Midnight Madness in the Toronto International Film Festival. So dazzling is their movie that it ...

THINKING BIG

Posted on 19 Jan 2012

Scale was first and foremost on acclaimed director Dante Lam’s mind when he first approached ‘The Viral Factor’. “I wanted to do action on a much larger canvas that I’ve ever done before,” he said. “And so right from the beginning, I knew that this was not going to be a movie that we would film in Hong Kong and even China.” Best known for his ...

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