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2046 Wins At European Film Awards
December 12, 2004
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2046 —
director Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited sequel of sorts to his
2000 art-house hit In the Mood for Love,
starring Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi,
Maggie Cheung,
Chang Chen,
Gong Li,
Carina Lau,
Takuya Kimura,
Faye Wong and
Dong Jie —
won the Best Non-European Film Award at the 17th European Film Awards
held in Barcelona, Spain yesterday, December 11, 2004.
Presented by the European Film Academy, made up
of 1,600 film industry professionals from around Europe, this year's European Film Awards featured 44 films competing in 17 categories.
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Zhang Ziyi To Attend Oscars
December 12, 2004
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Zhang Ziyi
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Demonstrating her growing popularity and influence within Hollywood, Zhang Ziyi was recently invited by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to attend the
77th Annual Academy Awards to be held Sunday, February 27, 2005
in Hollywood, California.
Ziyi's very busy schedule has postponed the premiere of Jasmine Women
(aka Mo Li Hua Kai, formerly Jasmine Flower) — famous Chinese photographer and director
Hou Yong's film about a family of three generations
of women, starring Zhang Ziyi, Joan Chen,
Jiang Wen,
Lu Yi and
Liu Ye. The film was previously set to be released
in China on Valentine’s Day, 2005, but rescheduled for March, 3.
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2046 To Open Indian Film Festival
December 09, 2004
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2046 —
director Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited sequel of sorts to his
2000 art-house hit In the Mood for Love,
starring Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi,
Maggie Cheung,
Chang Chen,
Gong Li,
Carina Lau,
Takuya Kimura,
Faye Wong and
Dong Jie —
will open the 9th International Film Festival of Kerala
tomorrow, December 10, 2004, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Nearly 150 films from around the world will be screened
at this year's festival, which runs through December 17, 2004.
Moving forward in one-year increments throughout the 1960's, 2046 continues the tale of journalist Mr. Chow (Tony Leung).
After moving into a hotel vacated by a nightclub performer he once knew, he gradually crafts a science-fiction novel about
the future named after his room number, 2046.
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Operetta Tanukigoten Official Website Open
December 08, 2004
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Zhang Ziyi
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The official website for Operetta Tanukigoten ("Operetta Raccoon Dog Palace") —
legendary director Seijun Suzuki's new Japanese musical, starring
Zhang Ziyi as a tanuki ("raccoon dog") that takes human form and falls in love with a young Japanese nobleman played by
Jô Odagiri (aka Joe Odagiri) —
is open. This beautifully designed site includes trailers:
Princess Raccoon
Operetta Tanukigoten is planned to be released nationwide in Japan in the Fall of 2005. No international distributor has yet been announced.
Thanks to BootlegZiyi for the news update.
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2046 Release In The Philippines
December 06, 2004
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Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 2046 —
director Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited sequel of sorts to his
2000 art-house hit In the Mood for Love,
starring Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi,
Maggie Cheung,
Chang Chen,
Gong Li,
Carina Lau,
Takuya Kimura,
Faye Wong and
Dong Jie —
will be released in the Philippines.
The film will screen at all Metropolitan Manila area Ayala Theaters cinemas.
For more info, contact:
Ayala Theaters Management, Inc
4/F Glorietta 4 Building
Ayala Center, Makati City
Phone: (632) 752-7859 to 78
Moving forward in one-year increments throughout the 1960's, 2046 continues the tale of journalist Mr. Chow (Tony Leung).
After moving into a hotel vacated by a nightclub performer he once knew, he gradually crafts a science-fiction novel about
the future named after his room number, 2046.
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2046 Wins Two Golden Horse Awards
December 05, 2004
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Last night, Saturday, December 5, 2004, the 41st Golden Horse Film Awards,
essentially Taiwan's equivalent
of the Academy Awards, were held in Taichung City,
Taiwan. Among the many winners was
2046 —
director Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited sequel of sorts to his
2000 art-house hit In the Mood for Love,
starring Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi,
Maggie Cheung,
Chang Chen,
Gong Li,
Carina Lau,
Takuya Kimura,
Faye Wong and
Dong Jie.
Though Wong Kar-wai was not nominated for Best Director, 2046 received 8 nominations, more than any other film,
including nominations for Best Film,
Best Lead Actor (Tony Leung), Best Cinematography (Cristopher Doyle,
Lai Yiu-fai and Kwan Pun-leung),
Best Art Direction (William Chang),
Best Make-Up and Costume Design (William Chang),
Best Original Film Score (Shigeru Umebayashi and
(Peer Raben),
Best Sound Effects (Tu Du-che).
Of the 8 Golden Horse nominations, 2046 won two: Best Art Direction (William Chang) and Best Original Film
Score (Shigeru Umebayashi and Peer Raben).
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Flying Daggers North American Release Today
December 03, 2004
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House of Flying Daggers
(Shi Mian Mai Fu - "No Way Out", aka Lovers) — director Zhang Yimou's second wuxia
film since 2002's internationally successful, Oscar nominated Hero,
starring Zhang Ziyi, Andy Lau and
Takeshi Kaneshiro (Jin Chengwu) and choreographed by Tony Ching Siu-tung —
will begin a limited North American release today, Friday, December 3, 2004, in 15 New York and Los Angeles area theaters.
Distributor Sony Pictures Classics will expand the film's
release on December 17, 2004, throughout North America, including Canada, to a total of 200 theaters by Christmas and 1000 by
mid-January 2005.
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First Look: Memoirs of a Geisha
December 03, 2004
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The following great pictures, the first known to be released from the set of
Memoirs of a Geisha
— a Columbia Pictures / DreamWorks Films /
Spyglass Entertainment feature film adaptation
based on author Arthur Golden's exotic and enthralling
best-selling novel of the same name, directed by Oscar nominated
director Rob Marshall, produced by
multiple Oscar award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg
and starring British Academy Award nominee Zhang Ziyi,
Michelle Yeoh,
Gong Li,
Ken Watanabe,
Yôki Kudô and
Koji Yakusho, among others —
have recently been published in BlackFilm.com.
Nitta Sayuri (Zhang Ziyi) and Chairman Iwamura Ken (Ken Watanabe); Nitta Sayuri; Hatsumomo (Gong Li) and Sakamoto Chiyo (Young Sayuri - Suzuka Ohgo):
Memoirs of a Geisha, scheduled for release in Fall 2005, depicts the life of a poor girl from a small Japanese fishing village sold to a geisha
house in Kyoto, Japan during the Great Depression, her ultimate rise to become the most successful geisha in Kyoto's Gion District and her unending
desire to be loved by the man she's always loved.
BlackFilm.com, the film industry resource for the Black community, presents and promotes general cinema to the Black community and
Black cinema to the public at large.
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Flying Daggers Wins National Board Of Review Award
December 02, 2004
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Yesterday, Wednesday, December 1, 2004, House of Flying Daggers
(Shi Mian Mai Fu - "No Way Out", aka Lovers) — director Zhang Yimou's second wuxia
film since 2002's internationally successful, Oscar nominated Hero,
starring Zhang Ziyi, Andy Lau and
Takeshi Kaneshiro (Jin Chengwu) and choreographed by Tony Ching Siu-tung —
was announced as the recipient of the Outstanding Production Design Award by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.
The award will be presented at a ceremony to be held by the National Board of Review on January 11, 2005, at
Tavern on the Green, Central Park at West 67th Street, New York City, New York.
The National Board of Review, dedicated to the support of film, domestic and foreign, as both art and entertainment, is a
New York-based nonprofit organization, composed of film professionals, educators and historians.
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