American actor Harvey Keitel features alongside Taiwanese actress Vivian Hsu (徐若瑄) in a Singaporean movie about a hit man that was released in the city-state yesterday.
One Last Dance, produced by Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, is about an assassin hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important figure's son.
The movie also features Hong Kong actor Francis Ng (吳鎮宇) from Infernal Affairs II, and Hong Kong actor Ti Long (狄龍) from John Woo's (吳宇森) classic gangster film A Better Tomorrow, according to the movie's Web site.
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Keitel plays a character called Terrtano in One Last Dance.
One Last Dance, which was screened in the world-cinema competition at the Sundance Film Festival last year, is directed by Brazilian-born director Max Makowski, who has directed Nike commercials and the US reality TV show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Gail Berman, one of the most powerful women in Hollywood, resigned on Wednesday as president of Paramount Pictures after less than two years on the job as the film studio made way for an executive overhaul.
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A statement issued by the Viacom Inc.-owned film company said a "reorganization of the studio's production structure will be announced shortly," but no specific reason for Berman's departure was given.
Berman, 49, has been the focus of scrutiny almost from the moment she assumed the Paramount job in May 2005. In the past year, several reports have surfaced around Hollywood that the former Fox TV executive had a difficult time working with movie agents, talent managers and others.
"Gail's dedication in the last 18 months has been invaluable during this important and historic time at Paramount," said studio Chairman and CEO Brad Grey, who hand-picked Berman shortly after taking over from longtime studio boss Sherry Lansing in March 2005.
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As president of Paramount, Berman was one of the few women in Hollywood with the power to put motion pictures into production, overseeing development, budgeting and casting of those films.
United 93, a tense drama set aboard one of four airliners seized by the Sept. 11 hijackers, gathered more pre-Oscar momentum on Monday as it was named last year's best film by online critics.
The documentary-style movie, directed by British filmmaker Paul Greengrass, recounts the efforts of passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 to regain control of the plane before it crashed in rural Pennsylvania.
The Online Film Critics Society, an international association of Internet-based cinema journalists, also named Martin Scorsese as the best director of 2006 for his work on crime drama The Departed.
The society's top acting awards went to Forest Whitaker for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland and to Helen Mirren for her role as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen.
Actress Yvonne De Carlo, known to one generation as Moses' wife in C.B. De Mille's The Ten Commandments and to another as the wife on television's hit show The Munsters, has died at age 84, a source said on Wednesday.
De Carlo, who last appeared on screen in a 1995 television production, died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund's Retirement Home in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, the source said. A spokeswoman for the home had no comment.
A biopic about French singer Edith Piaf was selected to open the competition of the Berlin Festival next month, organizers said on Wednesday.
La Vie en Rose by director Olivier Dahan will make its world premiere on Feb. 8 at the 57th Berlinale, which has struggled the last few years with poorly received opening films that critics said were picked only if their stars attended.
The film, already sold to distributors around the world, stars Marion Cotillard as Piaf, who died in 1963 at age 47 after a rollercoaster career and is known around the world for her song Non, je ne regrette rien (No, I regret nothing).
The cast also includes Gerard Depardieu.
The Taipei Times last week reported that the rising share of seniors in the population is reshaping the nation’s housing markets. According to data from the Ministry of the Interior, about 850,000 residences were occupied by elderly people in the first quarter, including 655,000 that housed only one resident. H&B Realty chief researcher Jessica Hsu (徐佳馨), quoted in the article, said that there is rising demand for elderly-friendly housing, including units with elevators, barrier-free layouts and proximity to healthcare services. Hsu and others cited in the article highlighted the changing family residential dynamics, as children no longer live with parents,
It is jarring how differently Taiwan’s politics is portrayed in the international press compared to the local Chinese-language press. Viewed from abroad, Taiwan is seen as a geopolitical hotspot, or “The Most Dangerous Place on Earth,” as the Economist once blazoned across their cover. Meanwhile, tasked with facing down those existential threats, Taiwan’s leaders are dying their hair pink. These include former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) and Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁), among others. They are demonstrating what big fans they are of South Korean K-pop sensations Blackpink ahead of their concerts this weekend in Kaohsiung.
Taiwan is one of the world’s greatest per-capita consumers of seafood. Whereas the average human is thought to eat around 20kg of seafood per year, each Taiwanese gets through 27kg to 35kg of ocean delicacies annually, depending on which source you find most credible. Given the ubiquity of dishes like oyster omelet (蚵仔煎) and milkfish soup (虱目魚湯), the higher estimate may well be correct. By global standards, let alone local consumption patterns, I’m not much of a seafood fan. It’s not just a matter of taste, although that’s part of it. What I’ve read about the environmental impact of the
Oct 20 to Oct 26 After a day of fighting, the Japanese Army’s Second Division was resting when a curious delegation of two Scotsmen and 19 Taiwanese approached their camp. It was Oct. 20, 1895, and the troops had reached Taiye Village (太爺庄) in today’s Hunei District (湖內), Kaohsiung, just 10km away from their final target of Tainan. Led by Presbyterian missionaries Thomas Barclay and Duncan Ferguson, the group informed the Japanese that resistance leader Liu Yung-fu (劉永福) had fled to China the previous night, leaving his Black Flag Army fighters behind and the city in chaos. On behalf of the
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