There was an interesting period of a few years when Hollywood seemed convinced that Chinese-language cinema in general was going to break through in a big way. Unsurprisingly Sony believed it more than anyone else—Sony Pictures Classics picked up Chinese movies left and right, none of which made much of an impression…

And more to the point, Crouching Tiger set the stage for a whole new era in action cinema, one where people from different countries and cultures worked together, often outside the Hollywood system, to make movies that resonated globally. Two years later, we’d get The Transporter, in which a French…

China probably killed Kung Fu Panda as a theatrical franchise. The last film (which was an official co-production) made barely half as much in China as predicted and ended up being the lowest grosser in the series. It dropped pretty much everywhere else, but that wouldn't have mattered if it had performed in line with…

The Weinsteins weren't involved with The Lost City of Z, but that is exactly what happened with The Immigrant. Amazon released Z and as far as I can tell Gray hasn't said a word against them.

Wrong, this is the objectively correct Star Wars viewing order: https://i.imgur.com/gPunyqx…

Um, yay? TBS or TNT does one of these every couple of months.

Just the Playstation version. They disguised it as a .DAT file so it took a few weeks for anyone to notice.

Fun fact: The Playstation version of EA Sports' Tiger Woods 99 had the '95 version of "The Spirit of Christmas" hidden on the disc as a Quicktime file, which eventually led to a recall.

So, uh, was this literally the entire interview, or is the assumption here that the AVC readership wants to hear nothing from Neil Gaiman that isn't about blowjobs or the lack of blowjobs?

One of the most frustrating examples of this is how the Timex Sinclair PCs sold in the U.S. (the TS1000, TS1500, and TS2068) were mostly incompatible with the UK Sinclair systems they were based on. So the vast majority of the insanely huge ZX Spectrum catalog wouldn't run on a TS2068 without hardware modifications,…

So did Thurston Moore join the New Year, or is something missing from the article?

I see it as symptomatic of the laziness of the whole thing. Toy Story and Monsters Inc. use popular notions of toys and monsters as their starting points, and they fall apart if you try to plug in anything except toys and monsters. The Cars franchise just substitutes cars for people and doesn't do much with the idea…

This is what I was hoping to read about when I clicked through. It's a bad game by most "reasonable" measures, but fun in the same way as Z-grade schlock movies. Night Trap is just dull.

I guess the Lost Highway opera didn't do well enough.

In the whole history of movies there's only been one underwater fight scene worth a damn: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I'd say Rosamund Pike is doing at least as well 15 years after her Bond film as Seymour was at the same point in her career.

I don't think it got reported here, but the Netflix deal for The Irishman sounds shady as fuck and may not withstand legal challenges: http://variety.com/2017/fil…

Why the focus on large theater chains? A lot of the stuff that Netflix gets isn't stuff that the big chains would show anyway. AMC isn't going to show Nocturama, but an independent arthouse or a local film society might. The comments here suggest that Netflix isn't interested in working with such penny-ante outlets…

I choose to remember her from this long-running hit: http://i.imgur.com/8RfdkKE.png

My big "discovery" this week was Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait, the newest film by Khyentse Norbu, the pioneering Bhutanese director and maybe the only filmmaker who's also a tülku (unless you count Steven Seagal). He's probably best known for The Cup, about a bunch of soccer-loving monks, but he's done a few…