Korean Director PARK CHAN-WOOK Directs his First English Movie - STOKER

Chan-Wook – who goes by the name Director Park on set – is one of the most celebrated and popular filmmakers in Korea, his work known for its very precise framing and violent subject matter. His earliest films were not a huge success, and he initially supplemented his income as a film critic. It was 2000’s "Joint Security Area" that would help him break through, and by 2004 he’d won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for "Oldboy." Director – and fan – Quentin Tarantino, as head judge, personally pushed for him to also be awarded the Palme d’Or.

Filmmaker Park Chan-Wook has created a singular body of work during his more than 20 years as a writer, director and producer of some of Korean cinema’s most innovative and original movies, crafting feverish scenarios that combine lyrical beauty with shattering acts of violence and operatic emotion. “Stoker” is a dark and disturbing thriller about a mysterious and isolated American family. Even the film’s title makes metaphorical allusion to evil, invoking the name of Dracula author Bram Stoker, whose groundbreaking novel is as much about an opportunist who preys on the innocent as it is the supernatural world of the vampire. 

HITCHCOCK Teaser Trailer

In the world of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies, chaos, danger and sinister evil hide in the shadows of his characters’ ordinary lives. But what about Hitchcock’s own everyday life? The consummately skilled director carefully cultivated a public persona – constructed out of his portly silhouette and macabre wit – that managed to keep his inner psyche tightly under wraps.

 But for decades the question has lingered: might there be a way to get inside Hitchcock not as an icon but as a person?

Now, for the first time, filmmaker Sacha Gervasi’s “HITCHCOCK” lays bare a captivating and complex love story. It does so through the sly, shadowy lens of their most daring filmmaking adventure: the making of the spine-tingling 1960 thriller, “Psycho,” which would become the director’s most controversial and legendary film.


 
When the tumultuous, against-the-odds production was over, nothing about movies would ever be the same – but few realized that it took two to pull it off. Take a peek of this thrilling yet endearing story of two people in love and their unsurpassed passion for the cinema in HITCHCOCK trailer debut, starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, Tony Collette, Tony Huston and James D’Arcy. 

“Hitchcock” will soon be seen on screens nationwide in the Phils. on February 6 from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

Thriller STOKER Trailer now Playing

In the most anticipated thriller “STOKER” starring Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska, Dermot Mulroney and Matthew Goode, a girl named India Stoker treads on perilous grounds as she gets infatuated with a man whom she barely knows.

Directed by Chan-Wook Park (known for his works “Old Boy” and “Vengeance Trilogy”) and in a script written by Wentworth Miller (best known for his ‘Prison Break’ role), Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska lead to unfold a thrilling secret in “Stoker” where a man who claims to be a relative suddenly moves and lives with them after the unexpected death in the family. India Stoker (Wasikowska) is left with her emotionally unstable mother Evie (Kidman) when her father and best friend Richard (Mulroney) died in a car accident. Unconsciously, the misery within her is slowly being replaced by an increased infatuation to a man who claims to be her Uncle Charlie (Goode). When Charlie moves in to live with them, she felt the void left by her father has finally been filled by her uncle only to realize that the man they treated as family may have a hideous motives in the end.



Check out “Stoker’s” trailer in Fox’s YouTube 20thCenturyFoxPh.

A Fox Searchlight Pictures presentation, “STOKER” is one of the must-see films for the first quarter of 2013. The movie will open on March 1 in theaters from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros. (in Phils.)

Milla's Alice Gets Unchained in “RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION”

As always, the central figure in the gritty and gripping fifth “Resident Evil” movie “Resident Evil: Retribution” is Alice, played once again with implacable ferocity by Milla Jovovich.

“Milla is a huge factor in the success of the films,” says producer Jeremy Bolt. “One of the things that makes Resident Evil interesting is that we present a woman as a convincing action hero. She’s tough as hell. She’s a leader; she’s determined. If anybody’s going to beat the evil corporation Umbrella, it’s Alice.”

Alice has evolved with each chapter of the ongoing saga, transforming from naïve amnesiac to superhumanly gifted warrior and, now, a battered foot soldier in the ongoing war against the ultimate evil. After playing the character for a decade, Jovovich has come to know her more intimately and care more deeply about her action-hero alter ego.