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Argentina's film academy has submitted Sebastián Borensztein's Heroic Losers (La Odisea De Los Giles) to the 2020 International Feature Film Oscar category. The film is based on a novel by Eduardo Sacheri, who also penned the book that was adapted into Juan José Campanella's 2009 Oscar-winning Argentinian drama The Sec…

As pro-democracy protests continued in the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday despite threats of Beijing’s military force, the Walt Disney Company could find itself caught between the two sides, on and off-screen. Disney has continually demonstrated a forward-thinking approach when it comes to doing business in China and…

A man who obviously didn’t get the memo on Avengers: Endgame — or chose to ignore it — was beaten outside a Hong Kong cinema for shouting out spoilers to fans waiting in line to see the film. Taiwanese media said the man, who was not identified, was left bloodied outside a cinema in Causeway Bay, after watching the…

STX Entertainment, which is known for action features like The Foreigner starring Jackie Chan and Killer’s Game with Jason Statham is looking to go public in Hong Kong in August. If the planned IPO goes through, it would mark the first U.S. company to raise funds in Hong Kong. According to the South China Morning…

STX Entertainment, as has long been suggested would be the case, has filed for an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange. If accepted, the proposal would make Bob Simonds’ burgeoning studio the first U.S.-based entertainment company to go public on the Hong Kong exchange. The company was valued at $1.5B last year…

STX Entertainment, the company founded three and a half years ago by Robert Simonds and Bill McGlashan of TPG Growth with investment from Gigi Pritzker and Chinese concern Hony Capital, plans to raise $500M in an IPO in the first quarter of 2018. It’s been known that STX has been talking about mounting an IPO for some…

At the beginning of October, Hong Kong actor and international star Chow Yun-fat became one of the few high-profile local celebrities to speak out on the pro-democracy protests in his native country. Over the past week, a backlash has started to brew against Chow and others who have lent their support to the…

The billionaire media mogul and co-founder of Shaw Studios, which produced hundreds of influential martial arts pics along with the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner, died early Tuesday local time in Hong Kong. Sir Run Run Shaw was 106. He started the Shaw Organization with brother Runme in 1926, and it evolved…

2ND UPDATE, 12:07 PM: Michael Bay has given his own version of events on Transformers 4, through his personal blog. Here goes: It's Michael. Yes, the story is being passed around is not all true! Yes, some drugged up guys were being belligerent asses to my crew for hours in the morning of our first shoot day in Hong Ko…