Tag: junomak

Trivisa was a big winner at this year’s Hong Kong Film Awards but judging by the number of new talents whose films were nominated and awarded, the Hong Kong film industry was perhaps the biggest winner of all, as a...

Hong Kong popstar-turned-actor Juno Mak continues to defy expectations with his directorial debut, a sombre and eerie eulogy to the hopping vampires of the 1980s that trades the sub-genre's signature laughs for world-weary melancholy from a fine cast of screen...

2013 has proven to have a bumper crop of new talents from around the globe and - continuing a tradition that began for me a few years back when I realized that the 'New Talents' part of my year end...

Way back in the summer of 2012, ScreenAnarchy was gifted the rare opportunity to visit the set of Juno Mak's homage to classic Chinese vampire movies, Rigor Mortis. Now that Mak's film has completed a hugely successful fesitval run and...

After a successful international festival run, Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis is heading to theater screens throughout Asia and you know what that means: New trailers. The main trailer out there now is the same one that has been circulating for...

Though Juno Mak's directorial debut Rigor Mortis has not yet debuted in Venice, that hasn't stopped it from finding a home in North America. WellGo USA have moved fast to pick up all North American rights to the Hong Kong...

What strange things hath Juno Mak wrought with his directorial debut Rigor Mortis? Audiences will find out in a couple months when the film premiere's but for a taste of what's to coming in this dark update of the Chinese...

The Giornate degli Autori, Venice Film Festival sidebar section, modeled on the prestigious Director's Fortnight of Cannes and promoted by the associations of Italian film directors and authors (Anac and 100autori), has revealed its 2013 programme. Among the selected titles, we...

Juno Mak is bringing back the hopping vampire and - with the help of The Grudge director Shimizu Takashi - he's taking them in a dark and thoroughly compelling direction. It was back in June that our own James Marsh...

The vampire is coming back to Hong Kong screens. Once a staple genre in Hong Kong, the geung si has fallen out of favor in recent years, something that doesn't sit well at all with Juno Mak. He has made...