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Saturday, June 4, 2022

[2022.06.04] NEVER FORGET

REMEMBER TIANANMEN. REMEMBER HONG KONG.

[Revolution of Our Times June 1st Worldwide Online Release!]

It’s been 3 years since 2019, the team of "Revolution of Our Times" and the protesters in the film share the same belief in letting the world know about our struggle through the documentary, and to witness the determination and courage of the Hongkongers in the pursuit of democracy and freedom.

Never forget why we started this journey, we hope the documentary will travel far, and reach out to more people. “Revolution of Our Times” has been recognised by world-renowned film festivals and awards, it was then released in theaters in various countries and community screenings were held everywhere. The team has been receiving numerous enquiries from audiences around the world who still have not seen the film, the team therefore decided to release “Revolution of Our Times” on Vimeo, the online streaming platform, on the 1st June, 2022, so the world can finally have the chance to see it . There will be two versions to choose from, "Chinese and English subtitled" and "English only subtitled" versions, more versions in other languages will be available in the future. Please spread this important news and continue supporting the distribution of “Revolution of Our Times” in different countries.

Pre-order links: English only subtitled version - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/revolutionofourtimeseng
Chinese and English subtitled version - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/revolutionofourtimes

Friday, June 3, 2022

[2022.06.03] EDDIE CHEUNG TAKES ON 78 PAGES OF DIALOGUE

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The Eddie Cheung Siu Fai, Dada Chan Jing and Timmy Hung Tin Ming starred suspense film A MURDER ERASED (BEI SIU SUT DIK HUNG ONG) will open soon. The film would continue director Dennis Law Sau Yiu's violent and bloody style with a cast of actors of substance. However a 78 page Department of Justice scene stumped many actors. Brother Fai, Maggie Siu Mei Kei before the shoot kept quietly reciting their lines -- completely like students making a final push before an exam.

In the film a building rebuilt uncovered 8 year old human remains. The police was certain that the victim Yung (Tony Ho Wa Chiu)'s ex-wife Yin Fung Ping (Chan Jing) and their landlord Chiu (Hung Tin Ming) conspired to commit murder. Yet as the police investigated, all the suspicions left the issue unresolved. That 78 page scene was a discussion of the case between police captain Brother Fai, inspector Maggie, prosecutors Stephanie Che Yuen Yuen and Joe Junior. Brother Fai said, "Before the shoot I already had a complete script, but during the shoot the director would come up with better ideas, lines or scene order. Later everything would be rearranged and the dialogues would be fixed live on the set. This time I don't have any action scene, but it's harder on the brain." On the set, Brother Fai often had a script in hand and asked the director whenever he had any question. Then he would return to his seat and bury his head in the script.

Also stumped by the long dialogues, Maggie revealed that the 78 page case discussion took two days to shoot. She said, "This time was a huge challenge, because the dialogue mostly analyzed the case a lot of the information couldn't be said wrong. As soon as I heard 'action' it was like a test, and 'cut' it was like the end of school bell. It was really interesting, the actors were like a group of classmates."

[2022.06.03] EDAN LUI ThINKS RONALD CHENG NAGS MORE THAN THE VENERABLE TANG MONK

In the film Edan Lui feels his father nags too much
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The Ronald Cheng Chung Kei, Gigi Leung Wing Kei, Edan Lui Cheuk On starred, Sandra Ng Kwan Yu produced and starred film CHILLI LAUGH STORY (HOP GA LAT) would open on July 14th. Yesterday the film company released its latest trailer, which opened with Cheng Chung Kei, Edan, Gigi being interviewed in their bathroom individually. They shared a lot of fun highlight from their home life and complained about each other. Edan seemingly minded Papa Chung Kei, citing that he knew how to recite the scripture like the "Venerable Tang Monk" as he would nag incessantly everyday.

To show despicable Chung Kei's Papa character was, a delivery person delivered something but had no idea what it was. Chung Kei slammed him. "You delivered the goods without any idea what it is, now you are 'punt' delivery person! I haven't complained about you yet!" Without any idea how troublesome he was, he instead said that his family was hard to take. He stated, "They can't be without me!" Finally Edan was forced to come up with a great idea to sell "chili sauce" so the family would have something to do and not have time to bother him! However the business blew up as the flavor spread far and wide, and every corner heard about it! The trailer even flashed a scene in which Edan and his on screen girlfriend Angela Yuen Lai Lam shared a bath, which became the talk of the town.

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

[2022.06.02] 40TH HONG KONG FILM AWARDS TO PROVIDE NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION AND SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION

ANITA's Louise Wong is the Best New Performer favorite
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ANITA's Louise Wong and ZERO TO HERO's Leung Chung Hang
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The 40th Hong Kong Film Awards would take place on July 17th. Before the ceremony, the event yesterday release the Best New Performer and New Director nominees' individual photos to welcome the upcoming ceremony.

This year's five Best New Performer nominees each had two nominations. Louise Wong Dan Nei played the diva of a generation in ANITA, Leung Chung Hang in ZERO TO HERO (MAMA DIK SUN KEI SIU JI) played the Hong Kong Special Olympics athlete So Wa Wai. They respectively would compete for Best Actress and Best Actor as well. Fung Ho Yeung played the "young So Wa Wai", Will Or Wai Lam who played a young man with aphasia in DRIFTING (JOOK SHUI PIU LAU), and Chung Suet Ying who played the unwed pregnant young woman in TIME (SAT CHOOK GOR WONG FUN) would compete for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

New Director nominees included DRIFTING's Jun Li Jun Shek, CAUGHT IN TIME (CHUI BO)'s Lau Ho Leung, four time Hong Kong Film Award Best Art Direction and Best Costume and Make Up Design winner Man Lim Chung who was nominated for the first time as a director for his Ann Hui On Wa documentary KEEP ROLLING (HO HO PAK DIN YING); ONE SECOND CHAMPION (YUT MIU KUEN WONG)'s Chiu Sin Hang and HAND-ROLLED CIGARETTE (SAU GUEN YIN)'s Chan Kin Long would also compete for the prize for the first time. As usual, this year's New Director winner would receive HK$ 100,000 from Create Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Film Development Fund.

In addition, the event also announced that the July 17th live broadcast of the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards would provide narrative description and sign language interpretation. The Hong Kong Society for the Blind and Hong Kong Sign Language From Deaf Star would provide services for the visually impaired, the hearing impaired and those in need so they would be able to enjoy the event without any obstacle.

[2022.06.02] PATRICK TAM WORKS ON A FIGHT SCENE WITH KENNY WONG DESPITE INJURY

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Patrick Tam Yiu Man earlier worked on the film BREAKOUT BROTHERS 3 (TOH YUK HING DAI 3) with an injury and had a close quarter combat in the kitchen with Kenny Wong Tak Bun. He joked that he was already used to working with an injury.

The Ng Kin Hung and Edmond Wong Tze Wun produced, Mak Ho Bong directed, Tam Yiu Man, Ron Ng Cheuk Hei, Justin Cheung Kin Sing, Adam Pak Tin Nam, Kenny Wong Tak Bun starred BREAKOUT BROTHERS 3 added Moses Chan Ho as the new prison warrant Ma Man Ho. They battled brawn and brains to resolve another prison escape conspiracy! At the end of the second film Tak Bun went from the prison warrant to a prisoner. This time he even had conflict with the Tam Yiu Many played prison boss. Tam Yiu Man even performed their fight scene despite his injury as he and Tak Bun locked in on close combat.

Reportedly, Tam Yiu Man while working on BREAKOUT BROTHERS 2 injured his rib from a car roll over scene. Also because the second and the third films were being shot at the same time, when working on the BREAKOUT BROTHERs 3 kitchen fight scene with Tak Bun Tam Yiu Man despite his injury still fully submerged himself into it. He even said that he was already used to working with injury. "I am used to it, since becoming an actor I really have had any and all kinds of injury. Luckily my co-star is the rich in experience Tak Bun. I could not only relaxed during the shoot but the result was also great. However the most memorable was for my first film a Muay Thai master knocked out one of my tooth. Perhaps he thought he was in the ring, so I couldn't blame him. After I picked up the tooth I immediately went to the hospital. After the bleeding stopped I returned to the set to keep shooting."

Tak Bun said that he knew Tam Yiu Man was injured, so during the shoot he was extra cautious. "Because in that scene everyone was in close combat, I had to push him onto a table and punch him. I was very worried that I would hurt him more, but everyone was very professional. we had good stunt coordinators on the set. Although the process was difficult in the end everyone was able to finish the shoot successfully. I hope that the audience would enjoy watching it."

[2022.06.02] KEUNG TO PLAYS A CUTE CAFE CLERK IN NEW FILM

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The Kearen Pang Sau Wai directed, Teresa Mo Shun Kwan, Keung To, Jer Lau Ying Ting starred new film MAMA'S AFFAIR (AH MA YAU JOR DAI YI GOR) earlier was selected for the 17th Osaka Asian Film Festival and won the Chicago Asian Pop Up Cinema "Audience's Choice" award, but due to the pandemic it was unable to be released. Yesterday Emperor Motion Pictures released its first trailer. In it mother Mo Shun Kwan would return to her job as a manager as she planned to make a cafe worker Fong Ching (Keung To) into a singer. Her son Tze Hin (Lau Ying Ting) did not seem too supportive about his Ma's decision. Later the two guys "lived together" but Jer was obviously upset. He often nitpicked everything with Keung To. When Keung To introduced himself as a cafe worker, Jer coldly responded, "I can tell!" He also rejected Keung To's invitation to sing karaoke together. They set off a lot of spark and were a lot of fun.