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With its charming ensemble cast, Sunny Chan's ‘Table for Six' mixed slapstick comedy with melodrama, creating a number one box office hit in Hong Kong in 2022. The original film explored romantic complications and family issues, and most of this film took place at a single apartment dinner table. More ambitious in scope, the sequel ‘Table for Six 2' has an expansive budget, the same charismatic cast and takes place in a multitude of locations, replacing the apartment dinners with three respective wedding ceremonies. Despite this new makeover, ‘Table for Six 2' feels lackluster in script and story when compared to its predecessor, with only its stellar cast keeping it alive.

“Table for Six 2” is screening in UK and Irish cinemas, courtesy of Trinity CineAsia

Returning to their roles as half-brothers, Louis Chung and Charm Man Chan are Bernard and Lung. Although the siblings are seemingly...

In a battle of two Universal titles at the U.K., Ireland box office, animation film “Migration” flew to the top, besting star-studded caper “Argylle” in the process.

“Migration” debuted with £3.5 million ($4.4 million), according to numbers from Comscore. “Argylle,” a global under performer, bowed in second place with £2 million.

In third position, in its third weekend, Paramount’s “Mean Girls” earned £843,601 for a total of £6.8 million. Disney’s “All of Us Strangers” collected £797,004 in fourth place in its second weekend for a total of £2.7 million.

Rounding off the top five was A24’s “The Zone of Interest,” which debuted with £585,855. The only other bow in the Top 10 was Curzon-Amazon MGM’s “American Fiction” with £389,375.

Coming up, opening mid-week on Wednesday Feb. 7 is horror-comedy “Dagr” from Fizz and Ginger Films. Feb. 8 sees the release of Tamil-language sports and gangster drama “Lal Salaam,” headlined by Indian superstar Rajinikanth.

There are a plethora of releases on the Friday.

Titles include ‘A Guilty Conscience’, ‘Everything Under Control’ and ‘Say I Do To Me’.

In Hong Kong, local films A Guilty Conscience and Everything Under Control are set to open tomorrow (January 21) on the eve of Chinese New Year while Donnie Yen’s Sakra and Kiwi Chow’s Say I Do To Me are also joining the festive race.

It marks the first year since 2020 that Hong Kong cinemas can open for business during the lucrative holiday period, following two consecutive years of blackout due to the Covid pandemic that led to cancellations both in the city and overseas markets that scheduled day-and-date releases.

Multi-territory distributor, Trinity CineAsia has acquired U.K. and North American rights to Hong Kong comedy film “Everything Under Control.”

The film will be released in the U.S. and U.K. on Jan. 21, simultaneously with its commercial outing in Hong Kong, on the eve of the Chinese New Year holidays. A theatrical release in Canada will follow on Feb. 3.

The film is a remake of 2021 Taiwanese movie “Treat Or Trick,” directed by Hsu Fu-Hsiang. That film was itself a remake of 2004 Korean horror comedy “To Catch A Virgin Ghost.”

The story, as retold by director Ying Chi Wen for Emperor Motion Pictures, involves two security guards who travel to a village to retrieve some stolen jewellery, and there encounter feisty villagers and a ghost.

The film stars an A-list cast from Hong Kong, Hins Cheung and Ivana Wong (“Table for Six”), who are known for their on-stage chemistry and...

Upcoming Hong Kong comedy will star Hins Cheung and Ivana Wong.

Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) is set to release comedy Everything Under Control over the Chinese New Year period in mid-January 2023, buoyed by the recent commercial success of a string of Hong Kong productions.

It marks the second feature of director Ying Chi Wen and stars popular Hong Kong singer Hins Cheung in his second leading film role, Ivana Wong of recent hit comedy Table For Six and Michael Ning (Port Of Call) along with upcoming actors Jeffrey Ngai and Joey Hung Ka-Ho. Ying’s feature debut...

The First Two Episodes Of Fung Chih-chiang’S “I Swim”

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Asian Pop-Up Cinema proudly presents its first world premiere of a television series screening prior to airing in its native origin – Hong Kong’s ViuTV Original Drama “I Swim”. The first two episodes will be shown on April 3, at 4:30pm at AMC River East 21.

Asian Pop-Up Cinema’s goal is to give Chicago audiences the first look of the new production written and directed by director Fung Chih-Chiang. Fung, no stranger to the festival, attended the festival in 2018 with the premiere of Concerto of The Bully; then again in the spring of 2020 for A Witness Out of The Blue for its North American Premiere.

A Witness Out of The Blue garnered 6 nominations including Best Actor and Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards,...