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EXCLUSIVE: After confirming last week it would reopen April 16, Film at Lincoln Center is offering details about its comeback, confirming spring programming and the theatrical return of New Directors/New Films. After more than a year of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organization affirmed safety…

Wong Kar-wai hasn't directed a film in eight years, but the Hong Kong maestro has just done the next-best thing, having produced a film by a young protégé that's both swooningly beautiful and honestly affecting in its account of some young emotional searchers. Director Baz Poonpiriya has made two previous films, the…

Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai has set an adaptation of Jin Yucheng's novel Blossoms as his first series project. Created and produced by Wong, Blossoms Shanghai will be an homage to his birthplace, Shanghai, by exploring its massive economic growth in the 1990s. It follows a self-made millionaire, Mr Bao, and his…

Chinese filmmaker Wong Kar Wai has boarded upcoming buddy film One For The Road from helmer Nattawut (Baz) Poonpiriya, the director behind 2017 Thai crime comedy hit Bad Genius, which grossed more than $40m in China. Wong Kar Wai's Jet Tone Films has attached to the pic as a producer, and the Chinese filmmaker's Block…

Filmmaker Wong Kar-wai has been set as the recipient of this year's Prix Lumière. A tribute to the director will be held at the Lumière Festival in Lyon on October 20. This is the fest that's organized by Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and which each year welcomes big-name talent for a…

When Thierry Frémaux unveiled this year's lineup, the Cannes Film Festival chief made the surprise admission that one of his selections—Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here—was missing a few scenes at the time of programming. The amount of work needed was minimal, but submitting unfinished work can be a poisoned…

Huanxi Media Group, led by Chairman and powerhouse producer Dong Ping (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Journey To The West, Lost In Hong Kong) is teaming with Wong Kar Wai and Peter Chan, signing them to six-year cooperation deals. Both Wong and Chan become Director Shareholders and members of the Artistic Advisory of…

Celebrated Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai (In The Mood For Love) will produce his first film for Alibaba Pictures, the film production arm of Jack Ma’s online retail giant. Bai Du Ren will be written and directed by Zhang Jiajia and will star Wong Kar Wai regular Tony Leung (2046). The film will also be the first…

Deadline’s Anita Busch contributed to this article. Cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd expected to work for six months on director Wong Kar Wai’s epic martial arts actioner The Grandmaster, but it ended up being a 3-year job. "Making The Grandmaster was a challenge," he said. “It was a big journey, and I didn't expect…

In this week’s podcast, Deadline International Editor Nancy Tartaglione talks with host David Bloom about which overseas titles survived the largest-ever field of candidates to nab an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and one notable director who was left out once again; the flood of announcements…

EXCLUSIVE: It is hard to believe, at least from my point of view, that the great Wong Kar Wai, perhaps China’s greatest living filmmaker has never once been nominated for an Academy Award. In fact, incredibly, his latest film The Grandmaster is only the second time one of his films has even been submitted in Oscar’s…

Catch up on Deadline’s top film stories you missed this week: 'Lawrence Of Arabia's Peter O'Toole Dead At 81 – 8-Time Oscar Nominee Retired Last Year By Anita Busch and Jen Yamato – Oscar-nominated actor Peter O'Toole died yesterday, his agent confirmed Sunday. He was 81. Often called the Hamlet of his generation, his…