Venice Festival to Honor Tilda Swinton, Hong Kong Filmmaker Ann Hui

New films from Tilda Swinton and Regina King will be headlining the Venice Film Festival this September.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Hong Kong International Film Festival has taken the unusual decision of revealing the pictures it selected for its now canceled 44th edition. It also plans to award prizes in its competition sections, though there will be neither in-person or online screenings for the public.The festival had previously rescheduled its 44th edition from its usual slot in March, due to the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe Hong Kong Film Festival, which was due to get underway in less than four weeks on August 18, has been forced to cancel its upcoming edition after spikes of COVID-19 in the territory.The event already rescheduled from its original March dates after the virus began to spread, but had been on course to become one of the first big festivals to take place in a physical form after a swathe of cancellations over the summer.However, fest director Albert Lee

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Hong Kong International Film Festival, set to have taken place in the second half of August, has been canceled.The festival had previously rescheduled its 44th edition from its usual slot in March, due to the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak. It had set Aug 18-31 Aug.

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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentBoth are no strangers to Venice, where Hui’s “The Golden Era” unspooled in 2014. Swinton is a Venice veteran.“This great festival has been dear to my heart for three decades: to be honored by her in this way is extremely humbling,” said Swinton.

Hong Kong cinemas, along with the Walt Disney Co.'s Hong Kong theme park, have shut their doors again amid a local flareup of novel coronavirus infections. Across the border in the vastly larger mainland Chinese market, rumors that movie theaters would get the official green light to reopen in late July have yet to materialize.

Hong Kong’s controversial new national security law taking force on July 1, scenes once unimaginable in the financial hub have nightmarishly come true: a 15-year-old girl arrested for waving an independence flag; books potentially offensive to China’s Communist Party removed from public libraries; protesters, fearing life imprisonment for wielding slogans, holding up blank sheets of paper — but getting detained anyway.By imposing the law, Beijing is forcibly and abruptly moving its Great

The Walt Disney Co. on Monday announced it would again close Hong Kong Disneyland due to a rise in coronavirus cases in China.

Rebecca Davis editorNew York-based distributor Cheng Cheng Films has bought the North American rights to “My Prince Edward,” the first feature written and directed by Hong Kong screenwriter Norris Yee-Lam Wong, from Hong Kong distributor Golden Scene. The news come as Wong announced Monday that filmmaking duo Mabel Cheung and Alex Law, the husband and wife behind films such as “An Autumn’s Tale,” will executive produce her second feature.

multiple reports.Disney's Hong Kong park initially closed its doors on Jan. 26 as COVID-19 cases began to surge in Asia, and reopened on June 18.

coronavirus pandemic, Disney officials said Monday. Disney officials posted on the resort's website that the Hong Kong park was closing Wednesday until further notice.

The Walt Disney Co. said Monday it would close its Hong Kong theme park again amid a rising number of novel coronavirus cases in China.

Dade Hayes, Tom Grater Hong Kong Disneyland, which reopened June 18, is closing again temporarily due to the resurgence of COVID-19.Hong Kong cinemas also will be forced to close again starting Wednesday after a spike in local cases of the coronavirus led authorities to re-implement tighter lockdown measures.The government will close 12 types of businesses, including gyms, gaming centers and cinemas, and will limit group gatherings to just four people, down from 50.

Rebecca Davis editorHong Kong Disneyland will shutter again starting on July 15 due to a spike in cases of coronavirus, after about a month back in operation.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCinemas in Hong Kong are to close their doors again from Wednesday night as the city suffers a third wave of the deadly coronavirus.The move was part of a wave of new measures announced on Monday evening by Chief Executive Carrie Lam in response to a new surge in COVID-19 cases.New social distancing measures will halt restaurant dining from 6 p.m. till 5 a.m.