International sales on cult martial arts splatter comedy “African Kung-Fu Nazis,” its sequel and a behind-the-scenes documentary have gone to Hong Kong-based Cappu Films. The deal, struck with filmmaker and producer Sebastian Stein of Humanmade Films, was unveiled on the sidelines of Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. It covers “African Kung-Fu Nazis I,”
Jane Fonda was giddy Thursday night at the Women in Film Honors gala in Beverly Hills. “I’m so excited,” she told me while practically skipping down the red carpet. The longtime political activist is riding the Election Day blue wave that helped the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. “I
The New York Times Company has reportedly “entered exclusive negotiations” to acquire Letterboxd for $330 million, according to a report from The New York Times itself. Letterboxd, an online platform for movie lovers that could be compared to Goodreads for movies, has grown dramatically in recent years. Letterboxd reported 3 million users in January 2021,
Sue Wang, chair of the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), opened the seventh Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei on Friday by saying artificial intelligence is reshaping how the creative industries, and even human society, are defined. “We are all asking: Does cultural content still have a future?” Wang said. She said AI could
Helene Hahn Loyd, the executive who was part of the executive team that built DreamWorks SKG and was instrumental in Disney’s renaissance of the 1980s and ’90s, died Oct. 24 in Park City, Utah. She was 78. Born Helene Bulakoff in Westbury, New York, she graduated from Hofstra University and moved to Los Angeles. She
A young Singaporean couple who sell pictures of the wife’s feet online end up with a corpse in their freezer in “Build to Order,” the debut feature from director Huang Junxiang, which is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei this week. Singaporean couple Penny and Allan both work in real estate. They
