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Yuen is known around the globe for his fight choreog- raphy on The Matrix trilogy, CONTINUED ON PAGE � JOHNNIE TO READIES ELECTION � HE GOOD NEWS FOR FANS OF KIYOSHI disappointing ending. As a matter of fact, By Karen Chu Kurosawa’s early psychological J-horror Creepy feels an awful lot like the director’s 1997 irector Johnnie To is Tis that the master is back with all his cult horror piece Cure, with the caveat that readying Election 3 signature tropes intact: the haunted houses and there’s more smoke than fire in the mind-games D for a tentative 2018 scary atmosphere; the hypnotic evil-doer who featured here, and one can see the ending com- production date. forces others to do his unholy bidding; the good ing from a very long way off. The Hong Kong auteur detective going insane over a case that hits too Still, this is prime real estate for midnight told THR that he is almost close to home; his mentally unstable wife; and a CONTINUED ON PAGE �� finishing the script of the third installment of his critically acclaimed Election series. He is considering whether Louis Koo, will reprise his role in the New Macau Film Fest Goes Big third film. The gleaming casino enclave showed its hand on day two of Filmart, revealing an ambitious “The script is rather long bid to become a major hub on the global festival circuit By Patrick Brzeski right now, I haven’t decided irst announced in exploit a moment of uncertainty announced that Hong Kong which section of the script to February at the in the regional film festival scene, industry titans Johnny To and Ann be used,” said To. “If I use the F Berlinale, the inaugural while also riding a boom in the Hui have boarded the festival as later section, Koo might not International Film Festival and greater Chinese movie official ambassadors. The be in it.” Awards Macao (IFFA Macao) business, to become a pre- festival’s programming Election (2005) and its will kick off in the second week eminent industry platform plan is also beginning sequel were both huge local of December this year. The in East Asia. to come into greater hits in Hong Kong. Both films Macanese government has “Greater China needs Mueller focus. For the first edition, have become cult hits, becom- recruited former Venice and a film festival and market Mueller has recruited ten ing something akin to The Rome Film Festival head Marco organized in an internationally Asian genre filmmakers — whom Godfather films thanks to their Mueller to topline the upstart connected and welcoming envi- he says will be “big names” — to operatic look at the innner event. Mueller and his partners ronment — and Macau can fill lend their star power by selecting workings of local organized are betting that with the right that gap,” says Mueller. one film each to screen at the crime figures. positioning, IFFA Macao can On Tuesday, IFFA Macao CONTINUED ON PAGE � THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 1 theREPORT Macau is often called the ‘Las Vegas of Asia’ thanks to it’s numerous casinos and hotels MACAU CONTINUED FROM PAGE � estival. To suit the interests o the local audience — as well as the realities around film import in Mainland China — Mueller says the estival will have a delib- WO�PING erate slant towards genre films CONTINUED FROM PAGE � and popular cinema: “They will be mainstream films, but those Kill Bill and oreign language with interesting differences,” Oscar-winner Crouching Tiger, he explains, adding “it would be Hidden Dragon, as well as pointless to offer a new estival directing this year’s sequel in Greater China unless the films Crouching Tiger, Hidden had some chance o entering the Chinese market.” next year as the biggest box office on the planet — Dragon: Sword of Destiny. He Meanwhile, other would-be regional leaders in the right in the middle o awards season. made his name in Hong Kong East Asian scene are seen to be altering. The Busan “The key point would be to make Macau into the in the late 1970s directing International Film Festival, long artistically preemi- major hub or press junkets or Hollywood awards what would become kung u nent, has been battling brand-damaging political season films,” Mueller says — “especially since classics like Drunken Master intererence since its 2014 edition, when city offi- [the types o mainstream, creative films we want to and Snake in the Eagle’s cials lashed back at organizers or their decision to screen] would be those campaigning or awards.” Shadow. show the activist documentary Diving Bell (aka The “These films can have a premiere in Los Angeles Rounding out the slate, Truth Shall Not Sink With Sewol ), which explored or New York, and then they can come to us or inter- Hong Kong actor, singer, the Korean government’s response to the deadly national premiere,” he adds. songwriter, musician, Sewol erry disaster. In mainland China, neither Although IFFA Macao may add industry panels entrepreneur, and martial the Shanghai nor Beijing film estivals have carved and market activities, too, Filmart organizers say artist Nicholas Tse will star in out much global influence. And the much hyped they believe there is plenty o space in the Greater Emperors Cook Up A Storm, Qingdao International Film Festival — which was Chinese film sector or another major event. “The directed by Raymond Yip. expected to debut in 2017 at the $10 billion commer- Asian market now has the attention o consumers Emperor regular Tse will play cial real estate development-cum-movie production around the world,” says Peggie Liu, senior service a Cantonese street cook who acility being built by Dalian Wanda Group — is promotion manager o Filmart organizer HKTDC. competes against a Michelin- currently in jeopardy afer government regulators “The demand or quality entertainment content in starred che. denied it permission to hold an international jury the region is huge.” Meow, directed by Benny competition. IFFA Macao’s new ambassador To, who also Chan ( Shaolin) and starring Mueller and his team are also banking that serves as the vice-chairman o the Hong Kong Louis Koo and Ma Li, will be a Hollywood will be eager to participate in Macau, as International Film Festival, agrees that there is no comedy in which two pet own- the event will provide an invaluable international need or tension between the neighboring events. “I ers find out that their cats are PR opportunity in the ballooning Greater Chinese don’t believe in such a thing as conflict between film actually aliens come to earth market — Mainland box office grew by 48 percent estivals. We all promote film culture multilaterally to domesticate them. last year and is on track to surpass North America — I respect any estival that promotes cinema.” China’s Huace Partners With Korea’s Kakao in Cartoon Adaptation Deal By Patrick Brzeski orea’s dominant mobile chat app and social media platorm Kakao has partnered with K leading Chinese film and TV company Huace Group to adapt five internet cartoon titles into eature films, TV shows and online dramas in China. Kakao’s first success in bringing its digital cartoons to screen came with the local Korean adap- tations o Moss in 2010, Secretly, Greatly in 2013 and Excl usi ve First Look the TV series Misaeng: Incomplete Life in 2014. Four o the new titles that Huace will adapt include Help! Breakup Ghost, Just One Shot , Girl in the Mirror and Casheoro. The fifh title is expected to be My Boss Dies Once a Day, according to local Call of Heroes sources. Sean Lau, center, leads a group of villagers in a rebellion against a corrupt general during the Qing Dynasty in directorBenny Chan’s period adventure Call of Heroes. The film is repped at Filmart by Universe Films. KakaoTalk, the company’s chat app, is used by 93% o smartphone owners in South Korea. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 2 e n Gaza Biopic Offers Unlikely Musical Uplif Nikkatsu Tests H i d d M Online Market G E Director Hany Abu-Assad turns dismay into delight with his poignant look at a determined wedding singer from a refugee camp who wins Arab Idol By Alex Ritman With Distance he story o how Mohammed Assaf in 2013 won stopped accepting auditions. The story goes that By Gavin J. Blair the second season o Arab Idol , the Middle Assa climbed over walls, but without a pass to apan’s Nikkatsu released TEast version o the global talent show, almost perorm was lef waiting in the hall, singing to the its Filmart market title seems as i it were written with a swooping musical other contestants.