Awards Won:
The 27th Blue Dragon Film Awards:
Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best New Actress, Best Lighting, Top Box Office Award.
The 5th Korea Film Awards:
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Lighting, Best Special Effects, Best Sound Effects.
Catch it on VCD/DVD Now! Review of DVD soon on moviexclusive.com!
Movie distributors Golden Village Pictures (GVP) and Encore Films are extending the DEATH NOTE marathon screenings over the long New Year weekend!
The first two marathon sessions, on 29th December, were completely sold out within four days after sales started on 14th December. To satisfy the overwhelming response from die-hard DEATH NOTE fans out there, two additional sessions were added on 30th December, As tickets for both sessions are snapping up fast, GVP and Encore Films have decided to extend the marathon screenings again for another 3 more days. All in all, there will be a total of 10 DEATH NOTE marathon screenings!
Details for DEATH NOTE Marathon Screenings as follows:
| Dates: | 29 December 2006 to 02 January 2007 |
| Time: | 9:30pm (29 Dec – 01 Jan); 6:00pm (02 Jan) |
| Venues: | Exclusively at GV Plaza and GV Tampines only |
| Price: | $19 |
Tickets for the extended marathon screenings can be purchased via all GV sales channels (GV box office, GV website, telephone booking hotline and AXS machines) from Saturday, 23rd December onwards.
Remember to enter our DEATH NOTE: THE LAST NAME contest as well!
In its special issue of 25/12/2006, Time Magazine has released its famous Best of The Year, including personalities, events, books and films. The highly-anticipated dark fairy tale by Guillermo Del Toro, PAN’S LABYRINTH is Time’s number 6 Best Film of The Year. Richard Corliss & Richard Schickel said “Guillermo Del Toro mixes the airiest fantasy with the harshest social realism to prove that fascism is a fairy tale of power and a nightmare of terror”.
After its Golden Globes nomination as Best Foreign Language Film and its 3 nominations for the 27th London Film Awards (Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Scriptwriter), PAN’S LABYRINTH scored this week 13 nominations at the GOYA Film Awards (The Spanish Oscars) including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Original Script.
PAN’S LABYRINTH opens in Singapore on 11 January. Sneak previews from 5 January. http://www.panslabyrinth.com/
PAN'S LABYRINTH page on moviexclusive.com:
http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/panlabyrinth/panlabyrinth.htm
The chance to win an amazing AU$10,000 round-the-world journey.
Lonely Planet calls for short fi lms and videos that are ‘<3 Less Than Three’ For the fi rst time, Lonely Planet has launched an online fi lm and video competition, ‘<3 Less Than Three’; a celebration of the creativity, humour and passion inspired by travel. <3 Less Than Three gives aspiring young travellers (and budding filmmakers!) the chance to win a AU$10,000 journey around the world. And, the exclusive opportunity to check out Lonely Planet Television in action. Submit a short video (less than three minutes long) showing your ‘Great Moment in Travel’.
Is it a life-changing sunset, an encounter with long-lost friend in Paris, or a guy falling off a chair at the local backpackers? However you describe great moments in travel, you’ve got less than three minutes to tell the story. Upload your old travel videos or shoot from scratch. You don’t even have to set foot on a plane to enter. Great moments in travel can happen in your home town. Scorsese need not apply. Shoot on your old family camcorder, mobile phone or digital, we don’t care – just use your imagination and upload your video at www.lonelyplanet.com/lessthanthree
Entries close Monday 15th January 2007.
An online gallery featuring a selection of submitted video clips will be updated throughout the competition at www.lonelyplanet.com/lessthanthree
For more details, spot prizes, media content and more visit www.lonelyplanet.com/lessthanthree
Essential guidelines are as follows:
• View videos and enter online at www.lonelyplanet.com/lessthanthree
• Each video entry must be less than three minutes long
• Entries will only be accepted in the following formats: .Mov, .avi, .asf, .mpg, .mpeg, .mpe, .wmv, and .fl v.
Files must be less than 20MB.
• If you wish to post us your movies, we accept old school (ie: video cassette) or DVD/CD of the formats listed above.
Mail to: Less Than Three Competition, Lonely Planet, Locked Bag 1, Footscray, Victoria 3011, Australia.
All the casts of Confession of Pain, Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Shu Qi and Xu Jing Lei together with Director Alan Mak, and Screenplay Felix Chong were in Beijing on 17th Dec to talk about their latest collaboration, Confession Of Pain.
Confession of Pain will be released in Singapore on 28th Dec and is reviewed here.
Terrific news as Warner Bros. Singapore garnered 12 nominations in the film categories. Below are the highlights:
Best Picture: The Departed
Best Motion Picture - Drama: Little Children
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Kate Winslet, Little Children
Best Foreign Language Film: Letters From Iwo Jima
Best Director: Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers
Best Director: Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
**A first for a director to be nominated for two different films in the same year
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Best Actor Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
**A first for an actor to be nominated twice in the same category
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Best Supporting Actor: Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Best Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed
Blood Diamond opens in cinemas 4th January 2007; Little Children opens in cinemas 8th February 2007.
THE QUEEN, the highly anticipated film about Queen Elisabeth II and Princess Diana, received yesterday four major Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture (Drama), Best Actress (Drama) for Helen Mirren, Best Director for Stephen Frears and Best Screenplay for Peter Morgan.
PAN'S LABYRINTH, the beautifully crafted dark fairy tale by Guillermo Del Toro, has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards will take place Monday, January 15, 2007, at The Beverly Hilton.
THE QUEEN will open in Singapore on January 4th (special sneaks 29/12 - 02/01). PAN’S LABYRINTH opens on January 11th.
MovieXclusive.com was at IMM last Sunday for the Singapore Dreaming Meet the Cast and Autograph session. Attended by directors Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen, cast members - Richard Low, Lim Yu-Beng, Alice Lim were also in attendance, with Dick Su doing double duties as the MC for the afternoon. As revealed by Colin Goh, IMM was one of the venues where the dinner and toilet scene were filmed (which happen to be one of my favourite scenes in the movie), so it wasn't a random selection of venues to host the event.
For a local non big-budgeted film, such a session is indeed rare, and it's to coincide with the recent launch of the Singapore Dreaming DVD and VCD. As MC, Dick was given the task of rousing the crowd and getting everyone at IMM to come to the stage area for some Q&A, where some attractive prizes sponsored by Crocodile and Scorpio East were given away to lucky winners.
The highlight of the evening was the interactive game where selected audiences were given the opportunity to partner the cast members in a game in search of the 5Cs, or rather, to gather items from around the shopping complex which begin with the letter C. It's to no surprise that the charismatic Richard Low and his team managed to win this one, given that he actually tried staying in character every now and then, and was "donated" items like cucumbers and corn from an enthusiastic member of the audience who had just gone about doing his grocery shopping.
For those who had bought the VCD or DVD, the directors and cast were on hand to autograph the items, and even those who had not made purchases, they were also able to meet the team up close, and obtain an autographed poster. How cool is that?
text: stefan shih photos: richard lim jr
moviexClusive was on location for the final post production shooting of the new local film "Just Follow Law" staring Fann Wong and Gurmit Singh. Take a sneak peek of what's to be in the future poster...
The esteemed jury of acclaimed actress Cecilia Yip, documentarian Michael Yorke, director Ketan Mehta, screenwriter Jim Hart and cinematographer Volker Langhoff gifted China's "The Road" Best Film, Best Script and the new Foreign Press Choice’s Purple Orchid award, making it the big winner on Wednesday's star-studded awards ceremony at the Jubilee Hall.
The List of Winners:
Best Film
The Road (China)
Best Producer
Ramakant Gaikwad, Dombivli Fast (India)
Lam Nguyen, Journey from the Fall (US)
Best Director
Nishikanth Kamat, Dombivli Fast (India)
Ham Tran, Journey from the Fall (US)
Best Actor
Le Go, The Road in the Air (Taiwan)
Best Actress
Kangana Ranaut, Gangster (India)
Best Screenplay
Yuan Daju and Zhang Jiarui, The Road (China)
Best Cinematographer
Tassaduq Hussain, Omkara (India)
Bobby Singh, Gangster (India)
Best Documentary
One Show Less (India)
Best Director of Documentary
Roseanne Liang, Banana in a Nutshell (New Zealand)
Foreign Press Association Choice
The Road (China)
DEATH NOTE, the film adaptation of the popular Japanese manga of the same name is the highest grossing Japanese movie in Singapore for 2006! It grossed over S$1.4 million after playing in the theatres for 4 weeks. Come 28th December, its sequel DEATH NOTE 2 THE LAST NAME will hit our screens islandwide!
This sequel will see Light join the task force to search for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself and also, to get rid of L. The mystery deepens as another Death Note with its shinigami, is brought into the human world. A second and third Kira complicates the mystery. Making things even more unpredictable are the ‘Eyes of Death’, given to the second Kira, enabling the owner to know the true identity and lifespan of any person. Who will be the Last name?
In anticipation of popular demand, distributors Golden Village Pictures and Encore Films have arranged for two special marathons held at GV Plaza and GV Tampines on Friday, 29th December. Fans will be able to enjoy both DEATH NOTE and DEATH NOTE 2 THE LAST NAME in a single screening at a price of $19. One DEATH NOTE 2 THE LAST NAME pocket calendar will also be given out for every two tickets purchased.
Tickets for the two marathon screenings can be purchased via all GV sales channel (GV box office, GV website, telephone booking hotline and AXS machines) from Thursday, 14th December onwards.
http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/deathnote2/deathnote2thelastname.htm
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER, China's submission for the Academy Awards®, will be released in Singapore by Buena Vista International.
Directed by critically acclaimed Zhang Yimou (Hero, Raise the Red Lantern) and produced by Bill Kong (Fearless, House of Flying Daggers), the film sees the comeback of the veteran actor, Chow Yun Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, coming Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End) to the Asian movie scene. The veteran actor is joined by notable actress Gong Li (Miami Vice, Memoirs of a Geisha) for the first time. The movie also casts a leading role for Asia's pop idol, Jay Chou (Initial D,) in his period epic debut.
In the spirit of such a landmark film, the leading cast will be in Singapore to promote the film and to grace the Gala Premiere of the movie. The event will be held at the Golden Village Cineplex at VivoCity on December 12, 2006.
Curse of the Golden Flower is the most ambitious undertaking in Chinese contemporary filmmaking history which brings Zhang Yimou's production to an even greater height. It promises to be Zhang's most colorful and biggest production to date, fusing great visual composition with high drama and romantic intrigue.
The sense of opulence is intensely portrayed in the movie through the extensive use of the color gold and elaborate costumes. Colorful Chinese art glass forms the entire structure of the palace from the pillars, walls and windows, to intensify hues and translucence. The end result is both astonishing and elaborate.
An epic tale of love, betrayal and ultimately vengeance the plot concerns the volatile balance of power between the King (Chow Yun Fat), the Queen (Gong Li) and his three sons in the mysterious Tang Dynasty Imperial palace grounds.
"Curse of the Golden Flower" opens in Singapore theatres December 21, 2006
The 2nd Asian Festival of First Films is coming to an end on December 5th 2006. If you’ve yet to catch them, reserve your tickets with Golden Village’s online booking service. You can also purchase them at the Arts House.
The 22 nominated first films and documentaries will compete for nine awards in the categories of: Best Film, Best Director, Best Producer, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Script or Screenplay, Best Cinematographer or Editor, Best Documentary, and Best Director (Documentary).
This year’s nominee list includes, two Singaporean films in “Becoming Royston”, garnering 3 nominations including Best Script and “A Hero’s Journey” which is up for Best Documentary!
The festival culminates in a grand, star-studded Awards Night at Jubilee Hall, where the results of the competition will be announced.
The screening schedule AFFF 2006: http://www.asianfirstfilms.com/screen_schedule.pdf
For the first time ever! Asian popstar & fashion icon Ayumi Hamasaki pen the lyrics and sang the theme song for Confession of Pain, Song named
The Media Development Authority of Singapore (“MDA”), Fortune Star Entertainment (HK) Limited (“Fortune Star), Singapore’s video and movie distributor, InnoForm Media and Singapore production company, Boku Films today announced that they have entered into an agreement to co-produce a full length Mandarin action thriller film entitled, “Rule Number One”. Written and directed by Singapore director Kelvin Tong (“The Maid”, “Love Story”), the thriller is targeted to start production in mid 2007.
Under the agreement, MDA and Fortune Star will fund the production together with InnoForm Media and Boku Films. Fortune Star will be responsible for distributing the film worldwide and will work closely with InnoForm in distributing the film in Singapore and Malaysia.
Mr Peter E. Poon, General Manager of Fortune Star said, “We are delighted to work with the MDA on “Rule Number One” as they have shown great support in getting this project together from day one. Talented director Kelvin Tong has developed a highly compelling story with “Rule Number One” and we look forward to bringing this exciting script to the big screen for audiences worldwide, while also securing another high quality original title for our viewers on the Star Chinese Movies channel.”
Dr Chris Chia, Chief Executive of MDA said, “This collaboration marks another milestone for the Singapore media industry. It reaffirms MDA’s commitment to support and develop Made-by-Singapore content for the global audience. It is a win-win Asian partnership to showcase creative Asian talents and original Asian content.”
Director Kelvin Tong said: "It is a huge honour collaborating with Hong Kong on an edgy movie like Rule Number One alongside the Media Development Authority of Singapore. I see this film as a great opportunity to introduce even more movie-goers around the world to Singapore cinema."
Mr Lim Teck, InnoForm Media General Manager said, “We are happy to be part of this exciting collaboration, and are sure that with the expertise each party is bringing to the project, this film will be a huge success! This project represents InnoForm Media’s commitment in producing high quality movies, and I am sure Kelvin will deliver another great movie!”
Straight from its victory at the recent 43rd Golden Horse Award in Taipei, the stellar cast of After This Our Exile (Aaron Kwok, Charlie Young, Ng King To, Valen Hsu & Tsui Tin Yau) and Director Tam attended the Gala Premiere on Monday night (27th Nov’06).
Among the many guests, acclaimed director Johnnie To was also present to lend support to After This Our Exile.
http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/afterthisourexile/afterthisourexile.htm
Best Feature Film After This Our Exile
Best Director
Peter CHAN Ho Sun ( Perhaps Love )
Best Leading Actor
KWOK Fu Shing ( After This Our Exile )
Best Leading Actress
ZHOU Xun ( Perhaps Love )
Best Supporting Actor
GOUM Ian Iskandar ( After This Our Exile )
Best Supporting Actress
Nikki SHIE ( Reflections )
Best New Performer
Bryant CHANG ( Eternal Summer )
Best Original Screenplay
NING Hao ( Crazy Stone )
Best Screenplay Adaption
NING Dai, ZHANG Yuan ( Little Red Flowers )
Best Cinematography
Peter PAU ( Perhaps Love )
Best Visual Effects
FOO Sing Choong ( Silk )
Best Art Direction
Tim YIP ( The Banquet )
Best Makeup & Costume Design
Tim YIP ( The Banquet )
Best Action Choreography
LING Chun Pong, WONG Chi Wai ( Exiled )
Best Original Film Score
LIM Giong ( Do Over )
Best Original Film Song
Crossroad ( Perhaps Love)
Best Film Editing
CHEN Po Wen ( Do Over )
Best Sound Effect
TU Du Chi,GUO Li Chi,KE Yi Jun ( Amour- Legende )
Jack Neo is one of Singapore's prolific filmmakers, and arguably the only one whose movies are consistently making decent box office returns. Starring familiar faces from television, Fann Wong (Shanghai Knights) and comedian Gurmit Singh, Jack is once again taking a satirical look at the civil service in Singapore with his new movie, set to make its debut on 15 Feb 2007.
Official Website and Trailer
The star-studded Gala Premiere of A Battle Of Wits was held in Hong Kong on 20th November’06.'
Our Review of "A BATTLE OF WITS":
http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/abattleofwits/abattleofwits.htm
“Confession of Pain”, Media Asia Films’ grand finale this year, literally illuminated the apm shopping mall last night (Nov. 20) as its star Tony Leung Chiu-wai and directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak hosted the Christmas lighting ceremony. Thousands of dedicated fans already swarmed the place hours early, and they screamed with joy when Tony Leung appeared in a sports car with the directing duo.
Leung said he needed to stay in Shanghai this Christmas for director Ang Lee’s new film “Lust, Caution”, and had to forgo spending the holiday with his girlfriend Carina Lau. “As this film has foreign investment, everything has a strict schedule to follow,” Leung explained. “I would feel bad if I cause any delay.”
Regarding the upcoming Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, which Carina Lau was nominated for Best Actress, Tony Leung couldn’t be there to support her, but he was confident that she could win. “The nomination is already an acknowledgement of your work. For the audience, the apt reward is to see actors performing their best on screen.”
The lighting ceremony also previewed the music video of “Confession of Pain’s” promotional song, performed by Denise Ho. Director Andrew Lau laughed when someone noticed the MV featured more shots of Takeshi Kaneshiro than Tony Leung. He explained that the MV was edited by the song’s producer, but Tony will get a second chance when the extended version is released later.
When being asked if he was worried that his film would be up against “Curse of the Golden Flower”, Lau said that it’s always fun to have competition. When “Infernal Affairs” was released four years ago, it clashed with Zhang’s “Hero”, the first “Harry Potter” film and comedy “Golden Chicken”, yet everyone came out a winner. He believed this would be the healthy sign for the film industry.
The movie page on moviexclusive.com:
http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/tenaciousdinthepickofdestiny/tenaciousdinthepickofdestiny.htm
Eng Wah Organization is SPBA Heritage Brand Award 2006 winner. Celebrated since 1940s, Eng Wah (“EW”) is always the place to catch the latest & the hottest entertainment. In celebration of the occasion, EW offers movie tickets from as low as $5. Founded by Mr. Goh Eng Wah, Executive Chairman, the cinema chain first found its home in the then highly popular playground - Happy World (later renamed Gay World). Since then the Eng Wah Group of companies have gone on to garner accolades such as :
• World's First 2K Digital Cineplex
• Best Sound*
• Best Service*
• Best Snack Bar*
* The Sunday Times, March 2006 (EW-Suntec)
Eng Wah introduces the industry's only Movie Gift Cards – store value cards EW invites all to join in the revelry with special movie ticket prices from as low as $5. The tickets comes in the form of e-vouchers loaded onto EW Movie Gift Cards (store value cards). The EW Movie Gift Cards brings greater convenience to customers, are wonderful as gifts, and comes in attractive designs. Customer needs to only bring along the EW Movie Gift Card to any EW Box Office to redeem for a movie admission ticket and/or popcorn combo voucher.
For a limited promotional period, EW Movie Gift Cards are priced at $50 (U.P. $70) for set of 10 weekday e-vouchers, and $48 (U.P. $57) for set of 6 weekend e-vouchers. E-vouchers expires in 12 months. EW Movie Gift Cards are currently available in three attractive designs, and will only be available at all EW Box Office from 18 November 2006.
Confession of Pain”, Media Asia Films’ grand finale this year, is a HK$80m production co-produced by Media Asia, Hong Kong’s Sil-Metropole, Japan’s Avex and Beijing’s Polybona Films. The “Infernal Affairs” creative trio, including co-directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, with scriptwriter Felix Chong, will collaborate again on this film. The stellar cast features the hottest screen idols in Asia, including Cannes winner Tony Leung Chiu-wai, pop icon Takeshi Kaneshiro, Golden Horse-winning actress Shu Qi, Hundred Flowers winner Xu Jinglei, and Golden Horse nominee Chapman To.
A regular in Andrew Lau’s films since “Infernal Affairs”, Chapman To is a renowned trickster on location, often bringing laughter to crew members and his female co-stars. When the film was lensed at a brand new five-star hotel in Central recently, To attempted to break the ice with his reserved co-star Xu Jinglei. He began with his famous rubber band magic trick, which appeared in his previous film “Isabella”. It soon caught Xu’s attention and the actress was aspired to learn it. When she attempted and failed continuously, director Andrew Lau finally exposed To’s devious plan that he had withheld a key step so Xu would never succeed! The trickster’s mission had accomplished.
The official poster of “Confession of Pain” is out in theatres, and it features leading men Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro in their respective roles -- Leung as a shady officer in the Organized Crime Division, and Kaneshiro as an alcoholic private detective. The production of this magnificent poster is as meticulous as the film itself, as it requires the two actors to spend an entire day posing for the camera. Being the professionals as always, Leung and Kaneshiro got into their characters quickly, and the audience would undoubtedly sense the tingling simply from the poster, as it foretells the immaculate showdown between two of Asia’s greatest screen icons!
You can see the official poster on our webpage:
http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/confessionofpain/confessionofpain.htm
InnoForm Media and Shaw Organisation are proud to announce that COLIC, a thrilling and gripping Thai Horror scored a healthy collection of $35,000 during its sneak previews over the past weekend.
COLIC tells the captivating tale of a young couple whose newborn child, Pan, cried incessantly, despite all possible treatments. After various visits to the doctor, Pan was diagnosed as having colic, but his condition never seems to improve even as he grows older… Soon, his parents begin to experience strange happenings whenever he cried.
To further illustrate the horror elements of COLIC and baby Pan’s encounter with the supernatural forces, special displays of baby cot and spooky standee were erected at both Shaw Lido and Cathay Orchard Cineplex. Over the weekend, the creepy exhibits caught the attention of many curious patrons and attract many horror-film lovers.
COLIC will open in theatres this Thursday, 16th November and is review here:
http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/colic/colic.htm
1. Best Actor Award – (Under the Canopy of Love) Kevin Cheng as Sum Long (Alan)
2. Best Actress Award – (Maiden’s Vow) Charmaine Sheh as Ngai Yu Fung, Wang Ci Guan, Bak Wei Jen, Dai See Ka
3. Best Supporting Actor Award – (Dance of Passion) Kenny Wong as Song Dong Yang
4. Best Supporting Actress Award – (Always Ready) – Shirley Yeung as Chow Siu Guen
5. My Favourite Actor Character Award – (Safe Guards) Sheung Chi (Steven Ma
6. My Favourite Actress Character Award – (Maiden’s Vow) Ngai Yu Fung, Wang Ci Guan, Bak Wei Jen, Dai See Ka (Charmaine Sheh)
7. Most Improved Actor Award – Kenneth Ma
8. Most Improved Actress Award – Linda Chung
9. Best Host / Hostess – Sam Mei
10. Best Series - La Femme Desperado
11. Best Variety Show – Beautiful Cooking
12. Best Variety Show – Beautiful Cooking
13. Best Outsource Programme – Ben and Jim
14. Best Promotional Clip – Miss International 2006 (Beautiful Version)
15. The Most Appreciated/ Highly Valued Award – On the Road
16. Artistes Achievement Award – Chung King Fai
THEIR HAPPY FEET ARE MARCHING BACK! March of the Penguin Return to GV Vivocity this November 16.
In anticipation of the upcoming HAPPY FEET, the Oscar-winning documentary MARCH OF THE PENGUINS will embark on a return journey to the big screen at Golden Village VivoCity next week in its original French version.
For booking information, please log on to
http://www.gv.com.sg/Booking/movies/moviedetails_1738.htm
Our Movie Review of MARCH OF THE PENGUINS:
http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/marchofthepenguins/March%20of%20The%20Penguins.htm
Crocodile International, Boku Films and InnoForm Media are proud to announce the 14 finalists running in for Kelvin Tong's movie, Men In White talent search competition. Men In White talent search was initiated to uncover acting talents in Singapore and give these talents a chance to star in a movie.
Titled I Want To Be A Movie Star, this first movie talent search drew in more than 300 entries over a period of 2 weeks from 23rd October to 3rd November. The shortlisted 14 finalists are; Auston Cai, David Aw, Jiang Jiaxi, Desmond Low, Calvin Bok, Teo Kim Peng, Nicholas Lee, Chavy Goh Kah Wee, Lawrence Ong Pang Wei, Wang Peng, Michael Ng, Adrian Lee, Lu Phin Wen and Francis Phuang.
This is also the first time giant apparel, Crocodile is teaming up with InnoForm Media and Boku Films to conduct this talent search competition.
Terence Ang, Head of Marcom, Crocodile International says, We are very proud to be associated with this movie and to have this competition to uncover talents. It is a good platform for aspiring Singaporeans to launch their acting career.
Lim Teck, General Manager of InnoForm Media says, "We have received overwhelming response during a short span of time. For a first-time movie talent search, we are impressed with our participants qualification where some of them are IT consultants, animation designer, engineer and architects
The 14 finalists will have a first public appearance on 12th November, Sunday from 2pm ¨C 2.30pm at Vivo City Centrestage. The final will be held on 19th November, Sunday from 3pm ¨C 4.30pm at Bugis Junction. All finalists will be judged on their eloquence, language diction, acting skills and overall performance.
Men in White talks about four Singaporeans who die on the same day and find themselves back on the streets as clueless ghosts. This movie is scheduled to start production in December this year.
The many kissing scenes between Tony Leung and Xu Jinglei from CONFESSION OF PAIN.
http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/confessionofpain/confessionofpain.htm
