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Chen Kaige's mega budget fantasy epic The Promise , Peter Chan's
musical Perhaps Love and Tsai Ming-Liang's erotic musical The Wayward
Cloud will represent China to bid for the Best Foreign Language Film at
upcoming Oscar.
The Promise won the privilege by beating such
films like the highly appraised Kekexili, Mountain Patrol, Cannes
winner Shanghai Dreams, Silver Berlin Bear winner Peacock and Letters from
an Unknown Woman.
In Hong Kong, Perhaps Love is favored over Jackie Chan's latest action
The Myth and Stanley Kwan's Everlasting Regret, and in Taiwan, The Wayward
Cloud wins without competitors.
The Weinstein Company has acquired the North
American, English, Australian and South African rights to The Promise
along with IDG New Media Fund. However, it is unknown whether the
Weinstein brothers will support its Oscar quest
. Three years ago, when Zhang Yimou's Hero was
making the Oscar bid, MiramAxe, under the Weinstein brothers' control back
them, did absolutely nothing even thought the studio had already acquired
the rights to the film for major English speaking countries several months
before.
(CRI) |
Updated: 2005-09-29 09:04
