HBO Asian Pacific American Visionaries to Honor Short Films for Breaking Barriers

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has struck a deal for world rights to Valley Of Tears, Israel’s biggest-budget TV series ever made, in a major deal for London-based sales and production org WestEnd Films.The show marks WestEnd’s first foray into TV, through its banner WeSeries.

Nellie Andreeva, Patrick Hipes HBO is development a limited series about the rise of SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private rocket company that is in the midst of reviving the United States’ space aspirations.The six-episode series would tells the story of Musk as he handpicks a team of engineers to work on a remote Pacific Island where they build, and launch, the first manned SpaceX rocket into orbit — the Falcon 9 — on May 30, 2020.

Jane Fonda promised she'll never buy another item of clothing again.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThis weekend, Paladino Casting got into some hot water with a recent casting notice it posted for a Kinder Joy commercial. The notice, which called for a “Chinese/Korean Mom With Child/Children”, started off OK, but upon further reading of the breakdown, it just got offensive.The notice started to get attention on social media, but when Kim’s Convenience and Shang Chi actor Simu Liu tweeted it, that’s when it started to spread like wildfire.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorRefresh for latest…: China’s National Day holiday officially ended last Thursday, with takings for the October 1-8 period at an estimated RMB 3.95B ($589M) as the market continues to close the 2020 gap with domestic. This weekend saw continued play for the key titles, led by patriotic pic My People My Homeland which added another $42M (-65% for the FSS) to bring the local cume to about $321M.

Audrey Cleo Yap When Trieu Tran auditioned for Hulu’s horror anthology series “Monsterland,” he didn’t anticipate being a lead or that his character’s life would, in some ways, mirror so much of his own.In the episode titled “Palacios, TX,” Tran stars as Sharko, a down-on-his-luck fisherman suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who discovers a mermaid washed up on-shore, played by Adria Arjona. He brings her home, defending her from other greedy fishermen.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: The origin story on Essence magazine is the subject of a period drama series in development at HBO Max.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterLovecraft Country actress Jamie Chung has been set at the next ambassador and spokesperson for HBO’s fifth annual Asian Pacific American Visionaries (APAV) short film competition.  Previous ambassadors have included Executive Producer of Cinemax’s Warrior Shannon Lee, Insecure’s Sujata Day, Westworld’s Leonardo Nam and Silicon Valley’s Jimmy O. Yang.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe sophomore season of Warrior premieres October 2 (that’s tonight) on Cinemax and actor Dustin Nguyen returns as a series regular in the role of the big baddie Zing, who was introduced at the end of the first season.

Believe it or not, there are a lot of people that love mindless Gerard Butler-led action films. There’s a reason why the actor is able to headline massive films that end up turning profits at the box office.

Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond revved up with caravans in the Highlands yesterday – complete with a coronavirus testing centre.They were at picturesque Glentruim filming their show despite heavy downpours.The area is the geographic centre of Scotland and the trio filmed about half a mile from the stone that marks the spot.They arrived on the Glentruim Estate in 70s American cars towing caravans.The group also had some American and Russian cars which they raced around a field.The crew

With its debut at this year’s TIFF, Spike Lee’s “David Byrne’s American Utopia” has proven that HBO doesn’t have to stick with your typical narrative features and TV series to succeed. The premium network/streamer can take risks with projects that don’t adhere to conventional structures or storytelling methods.

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Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentary Films has acquired North American rights to The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart. The feature documentary, which was an official selection of the 2020 Telluride Film Festival before it was scratched by the pandemic, tells the story of an iconic band that is way more than a symbol of the polyester disco era from when their soundtrack fueled Saturday Night Fever.

Manori Ravindran International EditorHBO has acquired award-winning documentary short “The Undocumented Lawyer,” which showcases the fight for immigrant rights through the perspective of an American lawyer on the front lines. (Check out a trailer for the film above.)Directed by Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci, the film world premiered in the short competition at the Tribeca Film Festival and won best documentary at the 2020 Boston Short Film Festival.

The world needs something to lift its spirits. 2020 has been rough, to say the least, with a global pandemic leaving so many people tragically dead, political turmoil in governments around the world, and civil unrest as systemic racism becomes headline news.

, comes an all-new exploration of youth and identity in the HBO limited series,. Starring breakout star Jack Dylan Glazer and newcomer Jordan Kristine Seamón, the eight-part series tells the story of two American teenagers living on a U.S.