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...cheaply get their fix at home. With box office disappearing, the only sure money in moviemaking came from video rights, which meant an increasing number of films were made with a VCD expressly in mind?not a formula for cinematic greatness. "Videos are like drugs to us," says Peter Chan, a director and head of independent film company Applause Pictures. "You can't get off them, because it's the only way to make money off a film, but it's killing theatrical...
...Faced with shrinking revenue and investment, the Hong Kong film industry responded as threatened industries often do?it forgot how it became successful in the first place. Gone was the freewheeling spirit that fueled the creativity of the '80s and produced international icons like Jackie Chan. There were exceptions, but too many Hong Kong filmmakers began to churn out timid, formulaic comedies with the same old stars. Audiences flocked instead to the high-budget Hollywood event movies that are increasingly pitched at international audiences, and to films from Asian nations like South Korea, where young directors weaned on John...
...Presumably these expository time-outs also give the actors a chance to catch their breath between nearly nonstop action sequences. Ma, who worked with Jackie Chan on some of the superstar's best films, can shoot fight scenes that dodge and weave between ridiculous and dangerous. The 42-year-old Leung is no Jackie Chan (alas, neither is Jackie Chan these days), but he moves with a swashbuckling rhythm. Shu bats her eyes ferociously. Ma's easygoing balance gets a bit lost by the big finale. We won't say what happens, but it includes the line...
...next—whether to stay in California or return to Harvard; whether to find a new place or go back to school, where they could continue their educations and reunite with friends, including Saverin, back from New York, and Zuckerberg’s then-girlfriend, Priscilla Chan...
Past guests of the Foundation include George Lopez a year ago, Queen Latifah in 2003, Jackie Chan in 2001, Matt Damon in 2000, Halle Berry in 1998 and Pinkett-Smith’s husband, actor Will Smith...