Monster Hunter producer Constantin Film apologizes for offensive line
When Monster Hunter premiered in cinemas across China and Germany this weekend, its debut wasn’t exactly met with enthusiasm. People certainly showed up ...
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Backlash towards racist scene has Monster Hunter pulled from Chinese theaters
Having premiered just yesterday, December 4, at German and Chinese box offices, Sony’s adaptation of Capcom’s blockbuster Monster Hunter franchise has been pulled from ...
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What were the highest-grossing box office releases of 2020?
With 2020 set to finally, FINALLY, end, this is usually the time of year where we start to reflect on everything that’s happened ...
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Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: Wheels on Meals
[Welcome to Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We’ll be ...
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World of Wong-kar Wai: In the Mood for Love
[On November 25th in NYC, Janus Films began presenting a slate of 4K remasters for legendary director Wong-kai Wai’s catalog of films. Set ...
Review: Iron Mask
The machinations of the film industry are a wild, complex, and massive endeavor whose huge workforces, boundless imaginations, and can-do attitudes collide time and time again, ...
Movies
Review: Vanguard
For years in the Chinese film industry, filmmakers have been doing their damnedest to replicate and ape Hollywood cinema. Instead of focusing on ...
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China’s box office is now more profitable than North America’s
It was bound to happen eventually, but that moment that nationalist, American patriot film-goers dreaded is finally here. The North American box office ...
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Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: Dirty Ho
[Welcome to Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We’ll be ...
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Nearly one-third of Disney+ subscribers bought Mulan
Despite being something of a bomb overseas, Disney’s live-action Mulan remake is a big hit here in America. According to a new report ...
Review: Mulan
After what felt like an eternity, Mulan has finally arrived. What was once one of the most anticipated movies of 2020, originally set to release ...
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Disney mistakenly lists when Mulan will hit Disney+ for free
(Update: Variety has confirmed that Mulan will be available to all Disney+ subscribers on December 4, 2020. Disney updated its “Premier Access” FAQ ...