The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has unveiled its Carte Blanche lineup, featuring personal film selections from actor Fan Bingbing, director Kim Jeewoon and cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo. Carte Blanche, a French term meaning complete freedom of choice, invites prominent figures from film and culture to pick titles that shaped their own sensibilities and discuss
But now Zhu can sense this freedom being curtailed. She says she finds herself encountering authorities more often in Hong Kong than in mainland China. At one bookshop event, she recalls government officials entering the premises. “They just sat there listening alongside us.” Increasing raids have not only targeted explicitly political shops, according to a
Legendary Entertainment’s first theme park attraction, “Kong x Godzilla” at Lotte World in Seoul, opens on July 24, marking the studio’s entry into location-based entertainment after several years of development on the project. “It was a big priority for me when I joined Legendary nine years ago,” says James Ngo, executive vice president of franchise
Lam was taken to Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei on Tuesday and later fell into a coma, the South China Morning Post reported, citing local media. He died late Thursday. In a Facebook post, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te wrote that he was “deeply saddened” by Lam’s death and sent condolences to her family and friends.
