Tag: The Farewell
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‘Spider-Man’ Is Fast Approaching $1 Billion While ‘The Farewell’ Has One Of 2019’s Best Debuts [Box Office]
Coming into the weekend, everyone knew that “Spider-Man: Far From Home” was going to win the domestic box office crown for a second frame. Sure, there were some wide releases debuting, but the latest ‘Spider-Man’ film is riding incredible buzz and strong reviews and was never poised for a “Dark Phoenix”-esque plummet. And a strong…
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‘The Lion King,’ ‘The Farewell,’ and ‘Stuber’ Reviews – IndieWire Weekly Roundup
We like to think the IndieWire Review Roundup is always essential reading, but this one is particularly packed. A lot of festival hits are rearing their heads this week, as Sundance breakout “The Farewell” and SXSW favorite “The Art of Self Defense” are both being released. And if you had money riding on “Stuber” being…
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‘The Farewell’ Review: Awkwafina Delivers an Electric Performance in This Charming Dramedy
(This review originally ran during our coverage of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The Farewell hits theaters on July 12, 2019.) In 2018, rapper and actress Awkwafina broke out in a big way, delivering memorable turns in Ocean’s 8 and Crazy Rich Asians. Those two particular performances were indeed enjoyable and fun, but they also…
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‘The Farewell’ Director Lulu Wang Lines up Next Project With ‘Children of the New World’
Lulu Wang — whose latest film “The Farewell” opens this weekend — has set her sights on her next directorial project in Alexander Weinstein’s “Children of the New World.”Plot details for the science-fiction film are being kept under wraps, but Wang is adapting the feature based on Weinstein’s collection of short stories of the same…
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Lulu Wang Lines Up Her Third Feature, A Sci-Fi Adaptation Mining The Same Source Material As Filmmaker Kogonada
Lulu Wang’s Sundance smash, “The Farewell,” will be released by A24 this Friday. It’s simply one of the most formally layered and dramatically nuanced films of the year, and we imagine the indie film community will be hearing the incredibly talented filmmaker’s name come up in more than a few conversations this summer and hopefully…
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‘The Farewell’ Director Lulu Wang is Making a Sci-Fi Film ‘Children of the New World’ Next
Lulu Wang directed one of the best movies of 2019 – The Farewell. That movie isn’t even officially out yet, but Wang already has her next project lined-up: a sci-fi film called Children of the New World. Going from the indie drama territory of The Farewell to a sci-fi flick seems like a big jump,…
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Hot Off ‘The Farewell,’ Lulu Wang to Direct Sci-Fi Movie ‘Children of the New World’
If there is one summer movie that I bet you’ll love if you just give it a chance, it’s The Farewell, from writer-director Lulu Wang. It stars Awkwafina as a young Chinese-American woman who travels to China to say goodbye to her beloved grandmother who has recently been diagnosed with late-stage cancer, though her family…