'Paddington 2' Director Paul King on Toppling 'Citizen Kane': "I Won’t Build My Xanadu"

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefReporting results fully seven and a half months after the fact, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort said that it lost nearly $1 million per day last year. For the financial year to September 2020, theme park and hotel revenues were $185 million.

HONG KONG -- After more than seven decades in radio, a 96-year-old Hong Kong DJ bid farewell to his listeners Saturday with “Time to Say Goodbye,” sung by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli.“Well that’s it. Thank you very much for tuning in, goodbye, thank you for coming,” Ray Cordeiro said in both English and Cantonese before signing off ahead of the 1 a.m.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Hong Kong government has begun the process of creating a new law to tackle the unauthorized release of personal data, or doxxing.“The current Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance… was not intended to address the doxxing acts committed in recent years,” officials said on Tuesday as a proposal was introduced in Hong Kong’s Legislative Council. The proposal could be formalized into a bill that is voted on and become law by the end of the year.

Vivienne Chow The Hong Kong government has acquired the broadcast rights to July’s Tokyo Olympics in order to allow citizens to watch the games for free and cheer for athletes from Hong Kong and mainland China, the city’s leader announced on Tuesday.The games will now be shown free of charge on free-to-air channels Television Broadcasts, ViuTV and Hong Kong Open TV and pay-TV stations Now TV and Cable TV.

Orson Welles did not believe his masterpiece Citizen Kane was the greatest film ever made, although for decades it has been regarded as such by cinephiles. The film, which actually premiered 80 years ago Saturday in New York City, has been back in the news lately after losing its perfect Rotten Tomatoes score.

Vivienne Chow The extension of an popular immersive exhibition that retraces the memories of one of Hong Kong’s most iconic cinema buildings, and the past glory of the local film and entertainment industries, has set high expectations for one of the city’s largest privately-run heritage conservation projects.A new life will be given to dilapidated cinema, the State Theatre building, a Grade I historic site at North Point on Hong Kong Island.

Citizen Kane was knocked off the top spot.After a negative review from The Chicago Tribune, published on May 7, 1941, resurfaced on the platform recently, Citizen Kane lost its 100 per cent score – with Paddington 2 now surpassing its score.Now, Rotten Tomatoes has collated a list dubbed “The 100% Club”, in which every film has exclusively ‘Fresh’ reviews rather than ‘Rotten’.Every film has at least 40 reviews, and ranges from Charlie Chaplin comedies to recent Oscar-nominated documentaries and

Vivienne Chow Hong Kong auteur Fruit Chan’s upcoming satirical horror anthology film “Coffin Homes” is set to be released in local theaters in August, distributor Edko Films announced on Wednesday.“Coffin Homes” revolves around Hong Kong’s housing problems caused by the lack of space and sky high property prices. “Hong Kong’s property prices are so expensive that they are out of reach to most people.

Vivienne Chow Inside a makeshift cafe set at Hong Kong’s luxurious Rosewood Hotel, local actor-producer Josie Ho sits across from British actor Julian Sands. Both are giving director Mike Figgis their full attention as he explains the scene that they are going to film.What was said could not be heard from afar, despite the set being unusually quiet.

weighted ranking, which also factors the number of reviews for each flick, still ranks “Citizen Kane” at No. 3 on the all-time list, behind “Black Panther” (2018) and “It Happened One Night” (1934) in the legitimate No.

To paraphrase what Carrie Bradshaw once wisely said on Sex and the City: Guys are nice, but your best friends can be soulmates. Selma Blair and Jaime King have been each other’s number one for the past 20 years, and that’s not changing anytime soon. Jaime and Selma sealed their friendship with a kiss in a throwback photo that Jaime posted to Instagram, complete with a cute caption.

People will think "what I tell them to think," Charles Foster Kane famously declared in Citizen Kane. And for decades, many critics and film scholars thought Orson Welles' 1941 film was hands-down the Best Movie Ever Made.

Paddington 2 has become the highest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes after Citizen Kane slipped from its 100 per cent rating.The Orson Welles classic, which is widely heralded as one of the greatest films of all time, lost its perfect score after review from 80 years ago was added to the site.The 1941 film now has a 99 per cent rating on the review aggregator, which means that Paddington 2 has surpassed its score.The beloved live action sequel debuted in 2017 to huge acclaim, and soon amassed a 100

The perfect run for “Citizen Kane” is technically over.

For decades, the 1941 movie Citizen Kane has held a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes…until March 2, 2021 when one negative review was added to the film’s profile on the famed site.

Citizen Kane has slipped from its 100 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes after a review from 80 years ago was added to the site. The Orson Welles classic – which is commonly praised as the greatest film of all time – has famously held a 100 per cent rating on the review-aggregator website, until recently.

Rebecca Davis editor“Better Days” is Hong Kong’s first Oscar submission to be nominated for best international feature film since 1993, but its nod has only inflamed political tensions at home.