YMU has snapped up Simon Cowell. The British X Factor and Got Talent creator and Syco Entertainment founder will join the transatlantic talent agency’s entertainment division and be managed by Group Executive Director Chris Hughes. YMU said it will work with Cowell across “all facets of business” including TV, formats, partnership and books. “YMU has invested […]Deadline https://ift.tt/uDc0sx6 July 25, 2022 at 09:31AM
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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