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Hayao Miyazaki is frowning. The director's latest animated feature film Spirited Away is hurtling past Titanic to become Japan's top-grossing movie release ever. The magical fable has cemented his status as a cultural icon in Japan. And his pet project?a whimsically playful children's museum on...
By that same calculus, then, the beginning of the new century unquestionably belongs to Jive Records, the colossally successful independent label that has almost singlehandedly brought the teen-pop revolution--you know, the army of dimpled boy bands and midriff-baring teen queens--into homes across North America, Europe and...
He had the Midas touch as far back as 1988 when The Eighth Happiness, a broad but nimble romantic comedy starring Chow as an effeminate babe magnet, was the year's top-grossing film, raking in $4.7 million. (Says To today: "I've still no idea why the movie was...
Financially, they won the battle. Needing You..., with Cheng as a harried office worker and Lau as the playboy she reforms, was the biggest Hong Kong grosser since The Storm Riders in 1998. Help!!! (it was a big summer for punctuation), a hospital drama, mixed cynicism and sentiment in crowd...
Feng is an ordinary guy of a somewhat heightened sort?he's brutally no-nonsense, unsentimental, funny and earthy to the point of raunchiness?who makes movies that are very much like their creator. And they have made Feng China's most successful contemporary film director. Three of Feng's...