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Sundance Asia has officially kicked off in Taipei, Taiwan.

Over the next five days, 15 feature films and six shorts will screen at the Sundance Film Festival Asian edition, with Taiwanese American filmmaker Sean Wang’s “Didi” as the opening night selection.

Before Wang’s film (which won the audience award and a special jury prize for its ensemble at the Park City festival) made its Taiwan premiere, the Legacy Taipei played host to the opening ceremony gala. Hollywood creatives mingled with local filmmakers and actors: “Fancy Dance” producer Nina Yang Bongiovi, “Joker 2” cinematographer Lawrence Sher, “Porcelain War” director Brendan Bellomo, “Your Monster” director Caroline Lindy and producer Kayla Foster, Wang and Esther Liu, Chen Yi-Wen, Hank Chen and Aviis Zhong were just some of those in attendance.

With many having flown in from Toronto or Los Angeles, attendees swapped tips on jetlag survival. Wang and “Little Death” director Jack Begert...

List of What to Watch on HBO and Max in February 2024. (Picture Credit: IMDb)

If you are wondering what to watch on HBO and Max in February 2024, you have come to the right place. The TV network and the streaming platform have a captivating lineup of new titles.

Viewers will be treated with some exclusive releases, mainly some compelling series. Both platforms are known to provide quality entertainment to their viewers. So, there’s no doubt that they have planned some promising content even for February.

Compared to 2023, the number of releases on HBO and Max has evidently gone down. But quantity only matters a little if the quality is excellent. So take a pen and paper and save these exciting titles making their way on the streaming platform this month.

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The Post-Truth World (Zui hou zhen xiang) is a thriller movies directed by If Chen starring Joseph Chang and Edward Chen. You can watch it on Netflix starting January 21.

Taiwan is the place where this dark thriller comes from that is a quality product that knows how to find its rhythm in a plot that is attractive, does not let you down and is well posed. This will not go down in history nor will have many fans as it was premiered on a Saturday, at a bad hour and rather unwillingly by the streaming channel.

Howeverr, it has an interesting treatment of the characters, its rhythm as a reflective and dark thriller with a halo of “adult film” which finally deals with more serious issues, and that nonetheless is relegated to a back space by products of lesser quality.

We are before an interesting movie that knows how to...

Five bored young billionaires become vampires in “Dead & Beautiful,” a middling horror-thriller and social satire that opens with an intriguing premise but never probes its cashed-up characters deeply enough to create gripping drama from the heightened hedonism or existential crises they experience after acquiring new powers. Slickly photographed in a neon-drenched Taipei and featuring an attractive young cast, this riff on the eternal tale by Dutch filmmaker David Verbeek scores early points by drawing parallels between mythological vampirism and the modern metaphorical vampirism of rich elites before losing its sting and meandering toward an unsurprising “surprise” conclusion. After notching appearances at festivals including Rotterdam, Sitges and Fantastic Fest, “Dead & Beautiful” releases Nov. 4 in North America and the U.K. on genre streaming platform Shudder.

These rich young things deal with the burden of being unbelievably wealthy and incredibly bored by taking turns to arrange pranks and experiences that...

What would you do if you woke up shortly before dawn, after a night of hard partying and strange rituals, to discover that there was a dead man nearby and you had brand new pointy teeth? Mason (Gijs Blom), Bin-ray (Philip Juan), Anastasia (Anna Marchenko), Alexander (Yen Tsao) and Lulu (Aviis Zhong) are among the richest young people in the world, trust fund kids from families with private fortunes in the billions. They habitually take it in turns to try and surprise one another with new experiences. This particular experience involved a trip into the jungle to participate in a mysterious native ceremony. Now all they can think of is that, just in case, they need to find shelter before the sun rises.

A hit with critics and audiences alike when it played at the Rotterdam Film Festival earlier this year, David Verbeek’s film concerns itself not-so-subtly with the monstrousness of.

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has announced that psychological thriller Dead & Beautiful will premiere on Thursday, November 4 in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The film, which is written and directed by David Verbeek (R U There), is also set to play at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on Saturday, September 25.

In Dead & Beautiful, five rich, spoiled Asian twenty-somethings are suffering from upper class ennui, unsure how to spend their days when so little is expected from them. In search of excitement, the five friends form the “Circle”, a group where they take turns designing a unique, extravagant experience for the others. But things go wrong when the privileged urbanites awaken after a night out, to find they have developed vampire fangs and an unquenchable thirst for flesh, blood, and adventure at any price.

Dead & Beautiful...

Dead & Beautiful: "...Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has announced that psychological thriller Dead & Beautiful will premiere on Thursday, November 4 in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The film, which is written and directed by David Verbeek, is also set to play at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX on Saturday, September 25.

In Dead & Beautiful, five rich, spoiled Asian twenty-somethings are suffering from upper class ennui, unsure how to spend their days when so little is expected from them. In search of excitement, the five friends form the “Circle,” a group where they take turns designing a unique, extravagant experience for the others. But things go wrong when the privileged urbanites awaken after a night out, to find they have developed vampire fangs and an unquenchable thirst for flesh, blood, and adventure at any price.

Dead & Beautiful...

In Dead & Beautiful, five rich, spoiled Asian twenty-somethings are suffering from upper class ennui, unsure how to spend their days when so little is expected from them. In search of excitement, the five friends form the “Circle,” a group where they take turns designing a unique, extravagant experience for the others. But things go wrong when the privileged urbanites awaken after a night out, to find they have developed vampire fangs and an unquenchable thirst for flesh, blood, and adventure at any price. David Verbeek's Dead & Beautiful is playing at Fantastic Fest this coming Saturday then will roll out on Shudder on Thursday, November 4th. Today Shudder are dropping the trailer for...

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Shudder to Premiere Psychological Thriller Dead & Beautiful Thursday, November 4. The Film is Set to Play Fantastic Fest Saturday, September 25th – Watch the scary trailer:

Today, Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has announced that psychological thriller Dead & Beautiful will premiere on Thursday, November 4 in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The film, which is written and directed by David Verbeek, is also set to play at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX on Saturday, September 25.

In Dead & Beautiful, five rich, spoiled Asian twenty-somethings are suffering from upper class ennui, unsure how to spend their days when so little is expected from them. In search of excitement, the five friends form the “Circle,” a group where they take turns designing a unique, extravagant experience for the others. But things go wrong when the privileged urbanites awaken after a night out,...

Back in Rotterdam with his Taiwanese-Dutch production Dead & Beautiful, the IFFR regular David Verbeek had a world premiere of his genre-bending drama (which screened in the Limelight section) whose plot centers around five uber-rich young people and their attempts to feel real life by “taking turns”.

Dead and Beautiful screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam

The rules of the game are allegedly simple. “Turns” happen on weekends, when one of the five tries to impress the rest of the gang by organizing an unforgettable, unique experience. Any genuine emotion – extreme happiness, deep fear or immense sadness is a welcome reaction. But, it turns out that it’s very difficult to impress a billionaire, and almost impossible to impress four billionaires at the same time. Money alone isn’t enough to ignite fire in any of them, and the race for the best show begins.

Verbeek came up with the...

Dead & Beautiful

For his seventh narrative feature, Dutch director David Verbeek continues to pursue his unique cultural and co-production infusions with Dead & Beautiful, a Taiwan set vampire tale produced by Erik Glijnis and Leontine Petit and lensed by Jasper Wolf. Verbeek’s cast includes Gijs Blom, Aviis Zhong, Yen Tsao, Anna Marchenko and Philip Juan. Verbeek’s third feature, R U There, was programmed in Un Certain Regard in 2010 and he won the Return of the Tiger Award in Rotterdam for 2011’s Club Zeus, a festival he returned to in 2013 with How to Describe a Cloud (plus short film “Immortelle”).…...

Anthony Chen’s latest feature Wet Season and HBO Asia sci-fi series Dream Raider are among the first five projects backed by the fund.

The Taipei Film Commission (Tfc) has announced the first five projects to receive funding from its new initiative, the Taipei Film Fund, with the initial beneficiaries involving production teams from the Netherlands, France, Singapore, Austria and Hong Kong.

Launched by Taipei City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the fund has an annual budget of around $1m (Nt$30m) to invest in international film and TV co-productions with Taiwan, with the aim of attracting more international talent to Taipei.

Emily’s 5 Things — also known as Five Missions — just recently made its debut. And from what was aired on its premiere episode, it looks like viewers are in for fated hilarity even before the “5 things” (or “Five Missions”) is found or given. According to the synopsis for Emily’s 5 Things, it is a romantic comedy starring Aviis Zhong, Sam Lin, Edison Wang, and Diane Lin. Ai Mi Li or Emily (Zhong) is an assistant of a law firm that specializes in divorce cases. Although she has the help of photographer and her best friend Don Ru (Lin), […]

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