Taiwanese director Ang Lee (李安) wowed the film industry with the release of a clip from his upcoming movie Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk in Las Vegas on Saturday.
The 11-minute footage, filmed in an ultra-high-definition 4K resolution, 3D, 120 frames-per-second format, sparked words of praise such as “awesome” and “unbelievable” from viewers at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
“It was the most compelling 3D film I have ever seen,” Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers standards director Howard Lukk told the Hollywood Reporter.
The Hollywood Reporter said the current standard format is 24 frames per second, with Peter Jackson, the director of the The Lord of the Rings franchise, trying to push the envelope by adopting 48 frames per second in 2012’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
The new movie by three-time Oscar winner Lee is an adaptation of US writer Ben Fountain’s 2012 book of the same title, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the US National Book Award.
It stars Kristen Stewart from the Twilight series and Vin Diesel known from the Fast and Furious franchise, while young British actor Joe Alwyn was picked to play the title role, Billy Lynn, a US soldier who returns from the war in Iraq and is used to drum up support for the military intervention.
The film is scheduled to be released in the US on Nov. 11 by TriStar Pictures, the same date as the nation marks Veterans Day.
Former Czech Republic-based Taiwanese researcher Cheng Yu-chin (鄭宇欽) has been sentenced to seven years in prison on espionage-related charges, China’s Ministry of State Security announced yesterday. China said Cheng was a spy for Taiwan who “masqueraded as a professor” and that he was previously an assistant to former Cabinet secretary-general Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰). President-elect William Lai (賴清德) on Wednesday last week announced Cho would be his premier when Lai is inaugurated next month. Today is China’s “National Security Education Day.” The Chinese ministry yesterday released a video online showing arrests over the past 10 years of people alleged to be
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