The publicity drums are beating for the second season of Cobra Kai, the YouTube Premium web series that takes the Karate Kid film series 30 years into the future, following the aftermath of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament that was the original film’s focus. A Tweet featuring the main characters, including original film star Ralph Macchio, has already generated a huge buzz online. The tweet touts the success of the online series, which just had its first episode…Deadline https://ift.tt/2JpMnq9 October 31, 2018 at 02:36AM
Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a column devoted to exploring contemporary Chinese-language cinema primarily as it is revealed to us at North American multiplexes. The sneakiest major release of the year is surely the latest from Japanese director Shunji Iwai, whose new movie opens this Friday at a dozen multiplexes around North America courtesy of the distributor China Lion Film. Last Letter is Iwai’s first film made in China, and stars Zhou Xun, who starred in one of last year’s best films, Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come , which was also distributed here by China Lion. That he would be working in a new country is no surprise: Iwai is one of the more eclectic filmmakers of his generation: having started in TV and video in the early 90s before moving into film, he’s since made documentaries and music videos, science fiction films and anime, epics of modern alienation and ravishingly romantic odes to the wonders of youth and love. His last film, Chang-ok’s Letter , was an hour-long...
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