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...first tried the e-mail stunt earlier this year with Friends, a star-studded buddy flick set in the port city of Pusan in the 1970s. Using a name list culled from an online site, his company, Korea Pictures, fired off a video pitch featuring the film's star Jang Dong Gun (sort of a South Korean Tom Cruise) to 1 million hard-core moviegoers. The movie this month became Korea's biggest blockbuster ever. It's hard to know exactly how much the Internet helped, but if an online pitch is going to work anywhere, it's in Korea...
...That film, about a girl with the ability to contact spirits and see ghosts, has the imprimatur of Ann Hui, one of Hong Kong's few art-house directors. Its three-day box office opening in Hong Kong set an all-time record, eclipsing Ring, Hideo Nakata's horror flick. Meanwhile, Joan Chen, former-leading-lady-turned-auteur with Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, is courting her for a script to be shot in China, based on Yan Geling's novel, The Lost Daughter of Happiness. And last week Shu Qi signed up with one of the region...
Watching Erik scramble up a rock face is a little like watching a spider make its way up a wall. His hands are like antennae, gathering information as they flick outward, surveying the rock for cracks, grooves, bowls, nubbins, knobs, edges and ledges, converting all of it into a road map etched into his mind. "It's like instead of wrestling with a person, I am moving and working with a rock," he explains. "It's a beautiful process of solving a puzzle." He is an accomplished rock climber, rated 5.10 (5.14 being the highest), and has led teams...
...Watching Erik scramble up a rock face is a little like watching a spider make its way up a wall. His hands are like antennae, gathering information as they flick outward, surveying the rock for cracks, grooves, bowls, nubbins, knobs, edges and ledges, converting all of it into a road map etched into his mind. "It's like instead of wrestling with a person, I am moving and working with a rock," he explains. "It's a beautiful process of solving a puzzle." He is an accomplished rock climber, rated 5.10 (5.14 being the highest), and has led teams...
...years. He has worked with Bruce Willis and Forest Whitaker. He has been directed by Joel Schumacher (Batman Forever) twice. And he's currently filming with Steven Spielberg alongside some guy called Tom Cruise. Last year his turn as Roland Bozz, the lead in Schumacher's low-budget Vietnam flick Tigerland, had American journalists branding him the One to Watch, the Next Big Thing. Now he's asking more than $2 million a film. Still, few people have heard...