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Presented by the Asian Film Awards Academy (Afaa) with support from the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau (Ccidahk) and the Film Development Fund with McL Cinemas as cinema partner, Asian Cinerama returns—fresh from a well-received March edition—to once again showcase outstanding films from across Asia. Under the theme “Growing Light”, eight feature films invite audiences to rediscover their own journeys—from childhood curiosity and teenage impulses to adult choices and reconciliation. Screenings run from 30 August to 7 September 2025 at K11 Art House; tickets go on sale at 12:00noon on 18 August. Four special guests—Korean director Seo Yoo‑min, Japanese director/photographer Yoshiyuki Okuyama, Japanese director Satoko Yokohama and Thai actor Pae Arak Amornsupasiri—will attend post‑screening talks to share their creative journeys with Hong Kong audiences.

Opening the programme, Secret: UntoldMelody transplants Jay Chou’s beloved piano romance to a Korean campus, led by Exo’s D.O.

Having played in theaters worldwide for less than a week, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is passing the $250 million milestone as we speak. The movie had a solid debut at the box office and has already overtaken the entire lifetime haul of a mostly forgotten superhero film from 2011. Released during the first "phase" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — this was after Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger, but before The Avengers — The Green Hornet continued star-producer Seth Rogen's collaboration with Sony, but he didn't exactly have a great time working on the project.

With $242 million at the global box office so far, First Steps has passed the $230 million lifetime haul of The Green Hornet. Directed by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's Michel Gondry, who could be considered an odd choice for a big-budget superhero movie, The Green Hornet was based on the superhero character popularized...

Your daily dose of movie-related puzzles can be found at Framed, which offers a total of 3 interactive puzzles that must be solved within 6 attempts each. It’s a great way to exercise your thinking muscles and aid you in pattern recognition. This also helps keep your mind sharp and is a generally more productive way to pass the time.

These puzzles can be a fair bit challenging for the average movie-goer though, and I have prepared a series of solutions for all 3 puzzles of the day. This will include both a breakdown of the puzzle and its correct answer. Let’s begin, shall we?

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Today’s Framed Classic solution follows the same rules set by its predecessors. That is, players will have to guess the correct name of the movie from a set of 6 slides. These slides are random stills from the movie in question.

Leo Messi has scored over 800 goals throughout his career—the most recent just a few days ago against Minnesota in Mls.

Many of them have defined legendary moments and sealed major titles; some are remembered for their beauty, others for their brilliance. Some were scored while representing Argentina; others with Fc Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, or Inter Miami Cf. Each one holds a special place in the hearts of fans around the world.

For years, fans and pundits alike have debated which of those goals stand out the most—for their significance or aesthetic perfection. But now, for the very first time, Messi himself will select his personal favorite, giving rise to a never-before-seen fusion of art and football.

The chosen goal was revealed globally on Inter Miami Cf Foundation’s official social media channels on May 22, and will now be immortalized through a groundbreaking collaboration with Refik Anadol—a key...

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Brit rockers Kaiser Chiefs and legendary DJ Pete Tong were among the musical headliners at the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament last month, which also doubled as the debut event at the city’s new Kai Tak Stadium.

Sponsored by Hong Kong’s home airline carrier, Cathay Pacific, the weekend-long event brought out more than 110,000 fans, according to organizers, topping previous tournament attendance records. Argentina took home the...

Action-comedy Hitman 2 dominated the Korean box office for a second consecutive weekend, claiming 28% of admissions.

The film earned $1.3m from Friday to Sunday (February 7 to 9), according to Kobis, the Korean Film Council’s box office tracking service.

The sequel has grossed $15m since its January 22 release, surpassing original Hitman: Agent Jun, which took $14.1m in 2020, and pushing the film past its break-even point of 2.3 million admissions. Kwon Sang-woo reprises his role as secret agent-turned-webtoon artist who, in this instalment, is falsely accused of plotting a terrorist attack.

Ranking second was mystery romance Secret: Untold Melody, which added $937,000. Based on...

What if we told you we knew a magic trick that would allow you to watch the first two films of the Now You See Me franchise for free? Granted, it's not really a magic trick, per se, just some information about the films heading to a certain streaming platform to be watched for free. The timing couldn't be better for this to happen because a third installment is on the way in 2025, which gives fans and the uninitiated a chance to get reacquainted or familiar with the popular franchise.

Now You See Me and Now You See Me 2 are headed to Tubi on Dec. 31. Tubi is a free ad-supported streaming service launched in 2014 and has been owned by the Fox Corporation since 2020. The service has stepped up its game considerably and consists of original programming as well as some of your favorite films – all available for free. It...

“True Legend” signals the return to the director’s chair for Yuen after he last directed “Tai Chi Boxer” back in 1996. Meanwhile, he had been busy choreographing the fight sequences for films like “The Matrix” series, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, “Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2”, “Fearless” and “The Forbidden Kingdom”. Including an all-star cast set in the late Qing dynasty, “True Legend” tells the story of a retired general Su Can who later mastered the Drunken Fist style and became the folk hero Beggar Su.

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Qing general Su Can (Vincent Zhao) rescues a kidnapped prince held in a mountain fortress and the grateful Emperor wants to promote him to a governor. But Su only wants to set up his Wushu school and live a peaceful family life away from politics. Therefore, his adopted brother Yuan (Andy On) got the position instead.

Martial arts movies have been a staple genre of Western culture since the 1970s. Pioneers like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan set the standard for epic, fast-paced fight scenes and brought them to the silver screen. Films like Robert Clouse's Enter The Dragon and Yuen Woo-Ping's Drunken Master helped create the world of martial arts cinema that is famous today.

The genre hasn't slowed down since its creation, with many upcoming projects like the long-awaited Karate Kid reboot set to hit screens in 2025. However, certain martial arts movies take themselves more seriously than others. While some plots are centered around character development and realistic fighting applications, other films go the extra mile and focus on downright absurd scenarios. These campy martial arts movies set aside realism and include fighting that is truly ridiculous, but altogether extremely fun to watch.

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Being two of comedy’s most famous talents, Seth Rogen and James Franco had an enduring friendship, which included a long history of riffing off one another and collaborating. Beginning their collaboration with the 1999 show Freaks and Geeks, Rogen and Franco had a friendship spanning over two decades until the duo fell apart in 2018.

James Franco and Seth Rogen in The Interview | image: Columbia Pictures

Despite working together in hit comedies and sharing an unbreakable bond, Seth Rogen and James Franco sparked a rift, after the latter was accused of s*xually inappropriate behavior in an L.A. Times article. After Franco’s s*xual misconduct lawsuit was settled, the allegations seemingly caused him and Rogen to drift apart. Since then, their friendship has never been repaired.

The Beginning of James Franco and Seth Rogen’s Friendship

James Franco and Seth Rogen were both young and newcomers in the industry when...

The rather successful debut of Taiwanese musician Jay Chou in 2007, “Secret”, sent ripples to the film industry of the whole of Asia, with a Korean remake coming up in 2021, and this year, a Japanese one titled “Secret: A Hidden Score”. This review will deal with the latter.

Secret: A Hidden Score is screening at Nippon Connection

Minato was studying music in the US, but he came back to Japan after experiencing trauma and is currently studying piano at a prestigious music academy. One day, he hears a beautiful song played on the piano and becomes fascinated by the music. The song leads him to meet Yukino, who is the source of the music. Minato falls head over hills for the beautiful, cheerful, intriguing but also secretive and mysterious girl, and the two soon start hanging out as much as they can. Or better, as much as Yukino will allow, to the disgruntlement of another girl,...

Lizzy Caplan, who played Lula May in Now You See Me 2, is notably missing from Now You See Me 3's cast lineup. Despite Isla Fisher's return, there's room for both female Horsemen in the main cast - it's disappointing to see Caplan absent. Ruben Fleischer will direct Now You See Me 3, featuring most of the original cast from the previous films.

With Now You See Me 3 officially in the works, the news that a certain cast member might not be returning is nothing short of frustrating. Following years of speculation, Now You See Me 3 was recently confirmed to be in the early stages of development. While most of the main cast from the previous two installments are set to return, alongside a handful of new Now You See Me cast members, there is one former Now You See Me star who's notably and annoyingly missing from the line-up.

Growing up in Hong Kong, the future members of the 12-member boy band Mirror had all kinds of jobs — from personal trainers to dancers and martial arts instructors. “The 12 of us did not debut from a training program,” says Edan (who, like the other members, typically goes by his first name). “We came from different places and backgrounds in Hong Kong, and so we have different strengths.”

One thing that they all had in common was a love of Cantopop, the locally popular genre that blends Cantonese lyrics with a melting pot of disco,...

So many celebrities have descended on Paris for the most fashionable time of the year – Fashion Week!

On Friday (January 19), a slew of stars stepped out to attend the Dior Homme Menswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 show.

The guestlist included the likes of Rita Ora, Nicholas Hoult and Kate and Lila Moss. That’s still barely scratching the surface, too. We pulled together pics of everyone and arranged them for you to easily peruse inside.

Head inside to see all of the pics from the fashion show…

Keep scrolling to see photos of all of the celebrities at the Dior Homme Menswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 show…

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Tokyo Drift star Sung Kang says that he is currently developing a new Initial D film based on the original manga -- an expression of his love for cars.

The Korean-American actor has teased that the movie will be a faithful adaptation of the original manga. Kang is best-known to Fast & Furious franchise fans as Han, a recurring character first introduced in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. In an interview with South China Morning Post, Kang confirmed that the Initial D movie is already in development, hinting that the story will take the protagonist on a hero's journey.

Related: New Futuristic Racing Anime Highspeed Étoile Releases First Promo Video

Kang also revealed in the interview that the Initial D movie is one of two projects he's currently working on, saying, "It's about cars and drifting and cool things like that. Almost a Rocky or Karate Kid. A fun,...

Sung Kang, the Korean-American actor best known for his role as Han Lue in the Fast & Furious franchise, has revealed that he will be directing a live action film based on the popular manga and anime series Initial D. The announcement was made during his podcast Car Stories with Sung Kang and Emelia Hartford, where he discussed his passion for cars and drifting1.

Initial D is a Japanese comic series created by Shuichi Shigeno that follows the exploits of Takumi Fujiwara, a young tofu delivery driver who becomes a legendary street racer in his father’s Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86. The series has spawned several anime adaptations, video games, and a 2005 Hong Kong film starring Jay Chou as Takumi2.

Sung Kang said that he will be producing and directing two films after this, one about his childhood, and another based on Initial D. He described the latter as “a fun,...

The Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents and Film Market wrapped up its 2023 edition with record attendance from over 2,479 industry representatives, according to organizers.

Despite industry-wide headwinds, attendees from sales and licensing companies, buyers, producers and investors gathered in Busan in an expanded exhibition hall at Bexco, the main venue, to trade content ranging from films and videos to such intellectual property (IP) as novels and digital comics.

“Given the slow film market globally, I think many were eager to find new business opportunities and share information about the state of the market,” said Hyung-rae Kim, the festival representative. “There were a lot of visitors from Indonesia this year. The exhibition hall was packed. Overall, it went smoothly. We’re hoping to connect with other markets in Europe next year and set up new programs.”

The newly established Networking Lounge provided various networking opportunities, including the AFCNet Networking Reception,...

Fantasy romance stars Doh Kyung-soo of K-pop group Exo and Won Jin-a of Netflix’s ‘Hellbound’.

South Korea’s Finecut has closed sales of fantasy romance feature Secret: Untold Melody in several key territories across Asia.

The film has sold to Cis (Capella Films), Inflight (Encore Inflight), Japan (The Klockworx), Philippines (Viva Networks), Singapore, Malaysia, including Brunei (Purple Plan Pte), Taiwan (Moviecloud) and Thailand (Gdh 559). A local release is planned for 2024.

The time-travel romance follows a promising pianist and a mysterious music student who meet each other in an old practice room with a hidden secret.

Directed by Seo You-min...

Korean sales agency Finecut has struck a raft of rights sales on upcoming fantasy-romance “Secret: Untold Melody.”

The film, which will premiere at the upcoming Hawaii International Film Festival, tells the tale of a man whose promising piano career is cut short by a wrist injury. He returns to Korea and falls in love with a mysterious woman at his music college. While he is encouraged to revive as a genius pianist thanks to her, a hidden secret is revealed that transcends time and space.

“Secret: Untold Melody” is a remake of the 2007 Taiwanese hit movie Secret, that originally starred Jay Chou and Gwei Lun-mei.

The Korean retread is directed by Seo You-min (“Recalled”) and stars K-pop performer-turned actor Doh Kyung-soo and Won Jin-a (Netflix’s “Hellbound”).

Finecut has struck deals for Cis (with Capella Films), inflight (Encore Inflight), Japan (The Klockworx), Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei (Purple Plan), Taiwan...

It was 2017 the last time we saw Vin Diesel‘s action hero Xander Cage in xXx: Return of Xander Cage, but a fourth movie just got a little closer with some big news, and the Fast & Furious star has been getting fans excited on social media. According to Deadline, xXx 4 is on the upcoming slate of production company The H Collective, although production could get delayed due to the ongoing WGA and SAG strikes. It was previously reported that D.J. Caruso would return as director, with Diesel starring alongside Jay Chou (The Green Hornet) and Zoe Zhang (Eternal Wave). There is also a holdup due to a lawsuit from Weying Galaxy Entertainment, which claims H Collective and Diesel breached a contract on the production rights for xXx 4. The suit remains active as of writing. Further teasing a fourth movie in the franchise, which is a huge worldwide streaming hit,...

A fourth xXx movie is still in early development, though audiences could be waiting a while for the return of Xander Cage. The last audiences saw of Vin Diesel's action hero was in 2017's xXx: Return of Xander Cage, which saw huge box office success despite middling reviews. Vin Diesel is also set to return as the character Riddick in the upcoming film Riddick: Furya, which will explore the character's origin.

A fourth movie in the action franchise xXx is still in early development courtesy of production company The H Collective. Audiences have not seen Vin Diesel’s tattooed action hero since 2017’s xXx: Return of Xander Cage, but it sounds like a fourth movie is still on the cards. Though it could take a while...

According to a report from Deadline, xXx 4 is still on the upcoming slate of production company The H Collective, alongside a sequel...

Seth Rogen recalls a crazy argument he once had with The Green Hornet producer Neil Moritz. Directed by Michel Gondry, The Green Hornet was a 2011 action-comedy remake of the 1960s show of the same name. It starred Rogen and Jay Chou as a pair of masked crime-fighters who team up after Rogen’s character’s father dies. Despite its famous cast and the beloved director at its helm, The Green Hornet was widely loathed.

Related: Why The Green Hornet Reboot Will Be Very Different To Previous Versions

Speaking on Earwolf’s How Did This Get Made? Podcast, Rogen reveals a crazy conversation between him and Moritz on the set of The Green Hornet. One day Moritz and Rogen, who have been longtime creative partners, were having “an argument over part of the movie” with them and others on set. As a rebuttal to his opposition, Moritz made one surprising argument...

Seth Rogen got brutally honest about film critics during a discussion about mental health and self-doubt on the “Diary of a CEO” podcast. The comedian told host Steven Bartlett that negative reviews from critics “hurt everyone very much.”

“I think if most critics knew how much it hurts the people that made the things that they are writing about, they would second guess the way they write these things,” Rogen said. “It’s devastating. I know people who have never recovered from it honestly – a year, decades of being hurt by [film reviews]. It’s very personal…It is devastating when you are being institutionally told that your personal expression was bad, and that’s something that people carry with them, literally, their entire lives and I get why. It fucking sucks.”

Bartlett brought up Michel Gondry’s 2011 superhero comedy “The Green Hornet,” which starred Rogen as the eponymous hero opposite Jay Chou and Cameron Diaz.

‘Next Sohee’ closed this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week.

South Korean sales agency Finecut has closed a raft of deals on titles including Next Sohee and Project Wolf Hunting ahead of this week’s American Film Market (AFM).

July Jung’s Korean crime thriller Next Sohee, which closed this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week, has sold to France and French-speaking Switzerland (Arizona Films Distribution), India and Indian subcontinent (Pictureworks), Japan (Rights Cube), Switzerland (Trigon) and Taiwan (Sky Films Entertainment).

Produced by Twinplus Partners Inc. and Crank Up Film, Next Sohee is set for release in Korea in the first half...

Korean sales agent Finecut has added “Secret: Untold Melody” and “The Dinner” to its burgeoning Asian Contents & Film Market slate. Both titles are sourced from a deal with Hive Media Corp..

An adaptation of 2007 Taiwan hit “Secret,” “Secret: Untold Melody” is a romance film about pianist and a student. While the original film starred Jay Chou and Gwei Lun-mei, the Korean retread stars Doh Kyung-soo (a.k.a D.O. from celebrated K-pop group Exo) who has acting credits including “Swing Kids” and the “Along With The Gods” franchise, and rising star Won Jin-a (“Netflix’s “Hellbound”). Now in post-production, the film is directed by Seo You-min (“Recalled”).

Black comedy, “The Dinner” is the first Asian adaptation of the Herman Koch bestselling novel of the same name that skewers the middle classes in a tale of two families whose children have committed crimes. It has previously been produced as films in the U.

A US version of ‘The Dinner’ starring Richard Gere played in competition at the Berlinale.

Korea’s Finecut is launching international sales on two Korean remakes at the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm): Secret: Untold Melody, based on Jay Chou’s Taiwanese hit Secret, and The Dinner, an adaptation of Herman Koch’s bestselling novel.

The Dinner has been adapted in three other countries, including Oren Moverman’s US version, which premiered in competition at the Berlinale in 2017 and starred Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall. This will be its first adaptation in Asia.

Both Secret:...

Acting and directing were not on Jay Chou’s mind when he first began his music career nearly two decades ago. But over the years, he has accumulated several memorable film and TV roles locally in Asia and in Hollywood. And, between music ventures, he has sat in the film director’s chair.

“I was born to believe in myself and complete my work on my own,” Chou said in a 2012 interview, discussing his work in acting and directing. “Once I understand how something works, I like to do it myself.”

His screen career began in 2005, when Chou made his film debut with the release of car-racing action feature “Initial D,” an on-screen adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same name, directed by Hong Kong’s Andrew Lau and Alan Mak (“Infernal Affairs”).

The singer-songwriter from Taiwan was cast to play the film’s lead role, an emotionally reserved...

Exclusive: One of the more highly sought after open directing jobs may have just been filled as Sources tell Deadline that Leigh Whannell is in negotiations to direct The Green Hornet And Kato for Universal. Execs have been meeting with directors over the past couple of weeks but insiders close to the meetings felt as soon as Whannell threw his name in the mix he had the edge as the studio has wanted to get back in business with him after he delivered Invisible Man pic to critical acclaim and box-office success. The studio got a script in from David Koepp early this year they are high on and once a deal closes the film should be fast-tracked to the pre-production stages.

Universal optioned rights to The Green Hornet from Amasia in the spring of 2020, after co-founders Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo acquired control of the motion picture franchise from...

French football club Paris Saint-Germain (Psg) and Mandopop superstar Jay Chou, represented by Edison’s Co., recently announced they are launching a new metaverse art project together.

The promotional video on Instagram has Lionel Messi, Neymar and Chou teasing a preview of the artwork, which combines Psg’s mascot with Chou’s unique style of design.

Chou, who starred in “The Green Hornet” and “Now You See Me 2”, is well known as Asia’s top pop singer. Last year, he became one of the most streamed artists in numerous Asian countries on Spotify (provided by Edison’s Co). Chou’s last month’s online concert alone received over 100 million views.

Chou has recently made a name for himself in the art world, with renowned collectors praising the star’s artwork. In 2021, he sold his white-glove collection at Sotheby’s for 10.7 million dollars. This time, Chou wishes to collaborate with...

Racing films were all the rage in the early 2000s thanks to the successful launch of the Hollywood “The Fast and the Furious” franchise. A year before that franchise relocated briefly to Tokyo for its third drive, which introduced and focused on the technique of drifting, Hong Kong cinema also turned to Japan for “Initial D”, a feature based on a manga and anime of the same name, which also looked at the world of street racing and drifting in Japan.

“Initial D” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival

By day, Takumi Fujiwara works at the gas station of his best friend Itsuki’s father. Come nightfall, he goes down the nearby Mt. Akina and delivers tofu for his father Bunta “Tofuman” Fujiwara’s business in his father’s AE86 car. The Mt. Akina mountain pass is a favourite track amongst underground street racers as well as professionals,...

Racing films were all the rage in the early 2000s thanks to the successful launch of the Hollywood “The Fast and the Furious” franchise. A year before that franchise relocated briefly to Tokyo for its third drive, which introduced and focused on the technique of drifting, Hong Kong cinema also turned to Japan for “Initial D”, a feature based on a manga and anime of the same name, which also looked at the world of street racing and drifting in Japan.

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By day, Takumi Fujiwara works at the gas station of his best friend Itsuki’s father. Come nightfall, he goes down the nearby Mt. Akina and delivers tofu for his father Bunta “Tofuman” Fujiwara’s business in his father’s AE86 car. The Mt. Akina mountain pass is a favourite track amongst underground street racers as well as professionals, who test their and each...

Released during the Chinese New Year, this movie is ideal for viewers looking for light holiday entertainment. It has two popular leading actors, it’s a family drama but above all, it’s a well-made action movie with a Hollywood feel to it.

Jay Chou is agent Jon Man Fai and he works for the Idc (International Defense Commission). He is in Jordan with his team escorting a criminal scientist to Europe. But they run into an ambush on the way, and his girlfriend, also a team member, is killed and the scientist is kidnapped. Worse of all, he ends up with a bullet lodged in his head. Since it’s too dangerous to remove the bullet, he has only a few weeks left before he becomes completely paralyzed. Hence, he returns home to Beijing to be with his elderly mother.

He soon finds out that he...

The Green Hornet is one of our longest-running, most ubiquitous superheroes in culture. Originating in 1930s radio plays, the masked vigilante and his phenomenal partner Kato has since been in film serials, a hit TV show that gave Bruce Lee an American breakthrough, and most recently, a 2011 big-budget movie starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, and Christoph Waltz. Now, the well-known filmmaker/orator of geek-friendly projects Kevin Smith will be revving up Black Beauty and taking another crack at it. Per Deadline, Smith is developing an animated series out of The Green Hornet. Smith …...

Kevin Smith is taking another crack at “The Green Hornet.”

Smith, who already has a “Green Hornet” comic book series based on the un-produced feature screenplay he was hired to write by Miramax under his belt, is developing an animated version of “Green Hornet” with kids content producer WildBrain.

The new series will be targeted at a family audience, while retaining many elements from the comics, including the titular character’s high-tech car, the “Black Beauty.”

Set in contemporary times, the new series will follow the adventures of a re-imagined Green Hornet and Kato – now the grown son of the original Green Hornet and the daughter of the original Kato – as they partner to battle crime in Century City.

“It’s an honor to escort the legendary Green Hornet and Kato into their very own animated series for the first time in the rich history of these iconic pop culture characters!

Dust off your fedora and domino mask and make sure there’s gas in the Black Beauty, because the Green Hornet and Kato will once again return to the screen. Despite the fact that the masked vigilantes pre-date Batman and Robin by several years (having first leaped into action on The Green Hornet radio show in 1936), these legendary pop culture figures haven’t had much luck on the screen recently. That’s about to change with Amasia Entertainment partnering with Universal Pictures for The Green Hornet and Kato, the latest attempt to update the pair for a new generation. Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo are producing.

“The Green Hornet is one of the most iconic and beloved superhero tales ever created, and it has entertained generations of fans in every form of storytelling,” Universal Pictures president Peter Cramer said in a statement (via Variety). “We are thrilled to be partnering with Michael,...

When it comes to superhero movies, the McU and Dceu are at the top of the pile. After that comes stuff like Fox’s X-Men films, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy and so on. Then you have the largely forgotten curiosities. These are superhero adventures that don’t draw from DC or Marvel and generally don’t do as well at the box office. And right now, for some weird reason, one of them’s cleaning up on Netflix. I’m talking about 2011’s The Green Hornet.

Helmed by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry and based on the 1960s TV show, the film stars Seth Rogen as the titular hero and Jay Chou as his sidekick Kato. Though the movie has a decent amount of visual panache and some really cool frame-in-frame editing, it feels confused and never settles on a tone. Critics deemed it ‘Rotten,...

A classic superhero is getting another shot at the big screen. It's been revealed that Universal Pictures has partnered with Amasia Entertainment for a Green Hornet reboot titled The Green Hornet and Kato. Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo, who founded Amasia, landed the movie rights to the franchise in a competitive bidding war earlier this year. Now, Universal is stepping in to help make the reboot a reality.

Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to the characters, with The Green Hornet and Kato already in development. This is one of few major superhero properties not controlled by Marvel or DC, which makes it a potentially big get. The characters were created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker in the 1930s and started life as a series of radio serials before being adapted in other mediums, most notably a TV series in the 60s that starred Bruce Lee. Universal Pictures...

Netflix has picked up a sixth season of Emmy-winning Queer Eye ahead of its Season 5 premiere. The new season will see the Fab Five return to their Southern roots with a home base in Austin, where they will “scour the prairie in a search for a whole new roster of heroes in need of a little TLC.”

Season 5 will debut this summer globally on Netflix.

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The series returned to Netflix in 2018 with a new Fab Five. In Season 5, makeover experts Antoni Porowski (food and wine), Bobby Berk (interior design), Jonathan Van Ness (grooming), Karamo Brown (culture) and Tan France (fashion) take their brand of self-love, confidence and encouragement to a new roster of heroes in Philadelphia.

Taiwanese popstar Jay Chou, who has appeared in Hollywood films including The Green Hornet and Now You See Me 2, is to front a magic travelogue for Netflix.

The streamer has ordered weekly series J-Style Trip – one of its latest commissions coming out of Asia.

The 12-part series will launch on the service on March 21 and episodes will drop weekly on Saturdays.

The show will give viewers the chance to glimpse into Jay’s personal life and candid moments with friends and fans around the world as well as see the group, which also includes Funky Tu, Norman Chen and Will Tsai perform magic tricks.

Guests will include Jam Hsiao, JJ Lin, Blackie Chen, Nicholas Tse, Yohji Yamamoto, Cyril Takayama, Ryota Katayose, Darren Chou from the Drifters and Chien-chang Sung from Nan Quan Mama. The group will travel to The Gold Coast, Innsbruck, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Taipei and Vienna.

In something of a surprise announcement, a reboot of Green Hornet is in the works. When last we heard, Paramount Pictures was developing a new take on the classic hero. The studio let the rights expire and that version is dead in the water. Now, Amasia Entertainment has won the movie rights to the franchise and they intend to develop a new big screen version of the character.

Amasia Entertainment is headed up by Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo. Helfant, it's worth noting, is the former president of Marvel Studios, a job which Kevin Feige famously held for sometime before recently being promoted to chief creative officer at Marvel. Now, Helfant will be trying to make his own superhero franchise outside the realm of the big two, Marvel and DC. Helfant had this to say about it in a statement.

"When I was a kid, The Green Hornet was one of my favorite television series.

In a superhero-dominated film culture ruled by Marvel and DC, one company is banking on an old, familiar name to shake up the duopoly. Indie film/TV production company Amasia Entertainment announced Wednesday that it secured motion picture rights to classic character The Green Hornet.

First created in 1938 by George W Trendle and later a staple in radio serials, the character spawned multiple big-screen adaptations in the early ’40s before surfacing as a cult hit TV series. Airing just one season from 1966-67, “The Green Hornet” starred Van Williams as Britt Reid, the newspaper publisher who by night fought crime as the masked vigilante that gave the show its title. In one of his early American roles, Bruce Lee played the role of Kato, Britt’s trusted partner.

Amasia, which was co-founded in 2012 by former Marvel executive Michael Helfant and former CNN reporter Bradley Gallo, acquired the rights to “The Green Hornet...

Amasia Entertainment has won the feature film franchise rights “The Green Hornet,” nine years after Seth Rogen took on the title role for Sony Pictures.

Amasia’s co-founders Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo made the announcement Wednesday. Helfant is a veteran Hollywood executive who was president and chief operating officer of Marvel Studios for several years starting in 2005.

“When I was a kid, ‘The Green Hornet’ was one of my favorite television series,” he said. “I loved everything about it – The Green Hornet, Kato, and of course, the Black Beauty. They were the coolest! It was personally painful to leave them all behind when I left Dimension. So I tried to option the property again at Marvel before it went over to Sony, and then again in 2017 before the rights landed at Paramount.”

“The Green Hornet” originated as a radio show during the 1930s based on the vigilante Britt Reid character,...

Singapore studio MM2 Asia and Fox Networks Group Asia are producing “Memory Eclipse,” a mini-series and movie inspired by the classic Chinese songs of Teresa Teng.

Teng was a Taiwan-born singer who was said to be have the best voice of her generation in Chinese. She also recorded in English and Japanese. She died in middle age in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 1995, but her repertoire and her image have remained popular.

The anthology series takes its cue from three of Teng’s songs: “Just Like Your Tenderness,” “I Only Care About You,” and, arguably her most famous, “The Moon Represents My Heart.” Each song inspires an individual story, which is are then connected to form the story arc.

The feature movie will be completed in the second quarter of 2020 and release before the series airs. It stars Yu Hua Sung, Cheryl Yang, Kaiser Chang, Esther Liu, J.C. Lin and Hsin-Ying Hsieh.

Can this Kung Fu League help save the day? Chinese distributor United Entertainment Partners released this Hong Kong action comedy last fall. This is not a new trailer, but we never featured it whenever it first appeared last year. So why not now...! (Thanks to a tip from Rob.) It looks crazy fun, and super cheesy, and perhaps some renewed interest in this will help it get an international release. Kung Fu League is a big-hearted comedy about a comic book artist nerd who "summons four legendary Kung Fu masters to learn the highest level of martial arts" so he can win the heart of a girl at his office. It's the latest film from Kung Fu Hustle director Jeffrey Lau, and already opened in theaters in China last year. Starring Ashin as Fei Ying Xiong, Kwok-Kwan Chan, Jay Chou, Madina Memet, Andy On, Yu-Hang To, and Vincent Zhao. The...

Global streaming giant Netflix has licensed rights to Chinese series “I Hear You” from Chinese streaming platform Youku. The 24-part romantic comedy will play out from May 15 to Netflix subscribers in 190 countries.

Directed by Sunny Hsu, the series is based on a popular Internet novel “The Most Pleasant Thing to Hear,” written by Shi Xiao Zha. It is a story about the romance between a cold and aloof violinmaker and a sweet girl next door who aspires to become a voice actor, as they find themselves unexpectedly starring in a reality-dating show.

The series was produced by Zhou Mo, Huang Jin Ming, and is jointly owned by Youku, part of e-commerce leader Alibaba’s Digital Entertainment Group, and Chinese film studio Sugarent Film & TV. It began airing in China from late January on Youku and on Mango TV.

Netflix previously bought Youku detective thriller series “Day and Night,” in 2017. Youku...

Romantic drama, produced by Youku and Sugarent, will start streaming on Netflix on May 15.

Netflix has acquired exclusive streaming rights to romantic comedy series I Hear You, produced by leading Chinese Ott platform Youku, outside of China.

Youku and Chinese film studio Sugarent jointly own rights to the 24-episode series, which will start streaming on Netflix on May 15.

Based on the popular Chinese novel of the same name, it revolves around the romance between a cold and aloof violin maker and a sweet ‘girl next door’ aspiring to become a voice actor, as they find themselves unexpectedly starring in a...

XXX 4 is gearing up for production and they've just locked in a key piece of the puzzle. Legendary Japanese rockstar and drummer/co-founder of the band X Japan, Yoshiki is set to score the upcoming installment of the action franchise, in addition to composing a new theme song. It's amazing that it's taken this long for Vin Diesel's Xander Cage to get his own theme song, but better late than never.

The news came to light via a press release from The H Collective, the production company behind xXx 4. The rockstar previously worked on soundtracks for movies such as Saw IV and Repo! The Genetic Opera, as well as the anime series Attack on Titan. The studio is apparently very happy to be working with Yoshiki Hayashi as they've also tapped him to compose music for another one of their projects, the animated feature Spycies. Yoshiki had this...

Paramount is in talks with “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage” director D.J. Caruso to take the reins of its movie adaptation of the Nickelodeon horror series “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”

The project was unveiled last year with “It” writer Gary Dauberman hired to write the script. Matt Kaplan is producing along with Dauberman, who’s a co-writer on both “It” movies, and “The Conjuring” and “Annabelle” franchises.

“Are You Afraid of the Dark?” was created by D.J. MacHale and Ned Kandel and ran as an anthology series on Nickelodeon between 1992 and 1996. It followed a group of teenagers who called themselves the Midnight Society and would meet weekly at a secret location in the woods to tell a scary story. The show was revived in 1999 for two more seasons.

Each episode was introduced with the storyteller saying “Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society,” who then would...

Clover Films is getting ready to unwrap spooky Singaporean comedy “When Ghost Meets Zombie” in time for Valentines Day next year. The film stars local singer-actor Nathan Hartono, who made it to the grand finals of the “Sing! China” singing contest variety program in 2017. He was Jay Chou’s protege during that season of the singing contest, and has since become well-known across the region.

The movie tells the story of Pong (Hartono), who turns into a zombie when saving his town from a disaster. He leads a mechanical and aimless life until a female ghost comes into his life. Believing that even an afterlife should be lived to the full, she drags Pong into her dream of joining a beauty pageant.

Female lead, Ferlyn Ng, was selected after a talent search for the role in Singapore. Other cast include Jesseca Liu, Jeremy Chan, Fann Wong, Gurmit Singh, Andie Chen,...

The third entry in the XXX franchise – XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage – didn’t do so hot in North America, but across the world it did gangbusters business, so per the laws of the universe, a fourth outing is on the way. We can expect to see some new faces pop up in the series, and now one of them will be played by Taiwanese musician and actor Jay Chou, who…...