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The Pang Brothers need a hit. They haven't made a decent movie together since way back in 2006 with fantasy horror, Re-cycle. Their collaborations have always looked the part, but when it comes to storytelling, the Pang Brothers have failed to set the screen on fire. Which brings us neatly to their latest project together, a fire-fighting action thriller called Out of Inferno. Kind of fitting, don't you think? On the hottest day in fifty years, a serious fire breaks out in a busy commercial tower. Keung (Louis Koo), Si Lok (Pang faithful Angelica Lee), and several others are trapped in the inferno. Meanwhile, Keung's older brother, Dai Kwan (Sean Lau), has arrived at the scene and is coordinating the rescue. He'd better hurry up, that beautifully rendered CGI won't stay pretty for long. Unsurprisingly, Out of Inferno is another lacklustre entry in the Pang Brothers cannon. The special effects are pretty enough,...

The Pang Brothers failed to set the world on fire recently with Out of Inferno, so forgive me for not getting too excited about the upcoming Hong Kong DVD and Blu-Ray release of As the Light Goes Out, a big-budget disaster thriller from Gallants director Derek Kwok. Okay, so that's maybe brightened my evening a little bit. Sharing the screen for the first time since Dragon Tiger Gate, Nicholas Tse and Shawn Yue co-star as two fire-fighters whose friendship is tested in the face of great calamity. Two more reasons to get excited then. Co-starring Simon Yam, Hu Jun and Andy On, As the Light Goes Out topped the Hong Kong box office for four consecutive weeks and earned eight nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards. It's available to buy from May 22, 2014. Synopsis: Christmas Eve, Hong Kong. Temperature is at an all-time high, and so is the tension between...

The Pang Brothers failed to set the world on fire recently with Out of Inferno, so forgive me for not getting too excited about the upcoming Hong Kong DVD and Blu-Ray release of As the Light Goes Out, a big-budget disaster thriller from Gallants director Derek Kwok. Okay, so that's maybe brightened my evening a little bit. Sharing the screen for the first time since Dragon Tiger Gate, Nicholas Tse and Shawn Yue co-star as two fire-fighters whose friendship is tested in the face of great calamity. Two more reasons to get excited then. Co-starring Simon Yam, Hu Jun and Andy On, As the Light Goes Out topped the Hong Kong box office for four consecutive weeks and earned eight nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards. It's available to buy from May 22, 2014. Synopsis: Christmas Eve, Hong Kong. Temperature is at an all-time high, and so is the tension between...

The Hollywood Reporter's first daily from 2014's Hong Kong filmart includes news, interviews and reviews from the festival. Titles reviewed are Second Coming 3D, The Midnight After, Blind Massage, Out of Inferno 3D, Mea Culpa, Once Upon a Forest, and Miss Granny. THR's daily features include:  Q&A With Director Vivian Qu The Beijing-based producer talks about becoming a director, her triumph at the Berlinale and changing Chinese filmmaking one movie at a time. -- Clifford Coonan Malaysia Makes Its Big Move Perhaps more so than anywhere else in the upwardly mobile markets of Southeast Asia, Malaysia is a film territory on the move.

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Ah, the wonders of parallel development, that odd quirk that - from time to time - results in two films with remarkably similar premises hitting screens in close proximity to one another. Why it happens is up for much debate - a spike in public awareness around a similar issue triggering interest from multiple quarters, the urge by one producer to beat another to the punch and steal their thunder are the prime reasons - but it definitely happens. Thus Hollywood produces Deep Impact and Armageddon right on top of one another while in Hong Kong right now we have multiple competing firefighter thrillers.In one corner - and releasing first - there are the Pang Brothers with Out Of Inferno, a Lau Ching Wan and...

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Thanks to our friends at Magnum Films, we have Five double passes to give away for Out Of Inferno, the latest film from Hong Kong's Pang Brothers, who are most famous for their 2002 film The Eye.  Out Of Inferno stars Lau Ching Wan and Louis Koo, who have collaborated numerous times previously in hits like Overheard, Overheard 2 and La Brassiere. Angelica Lee from The Eye and Re-cycle plays the female lead.For a chance to win one of the double passes, all you have to do is to follow these two steps:1) Like the Magnum Film Facebook page, and2) Email your name and postal address to me at: hugo[at]twitchfilm.netOut Of Inferno will be opening in Australian cinemas on October 3. The competition will close...

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Pan-Asian broadcaster Celestial Tiger Entertainment (Cte) has signed exclusive output deals with Hong Kong-based producers Mega-Vision Project Workshop (Mvp) and Universe Entertainment.

The deals cover first-run pay-tv rights, pay-per-view and VoD for all upcoming movies from the two studios for Cte’s Celestial Movies channel in Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.

The Hong Kong-based broadcaster has similar deals with local studios Media Asia Distribution, Emperor Motion Pictures and Distribution Workshop.

Headed by prolific director-producer Wong Jing, Mvp recently produced Young And Dangerous: Reloaded, a remake of the classic triad franchise, and comedy Princess And The Seven Kung Fu Masters.

Upcoming Mvp productions include From Vegas To Macau, starring Chow Yun Fat, Nicholas Tse and Chapman To, and comedies Mr & Mrs Player, directed by Wong Jing, and Black Comedy, directed by Wilson Chin.

Universe’s upcoming slate includes the Pang Brothers’ fire-fighting drama Out Of Inferno 3D, starring Louis Koo, Sean Lau and Lee Sinje, and action...

Keshet Int’l Invades Canada With Mark Rubenstein Keshet International is moving into Canada via a joint venture with veteran TV executive Mark Rubinstein. Keshet Canada will bring Keshet’s scripted and unscripted formats to the Canadian market and will look to develop, produce and co-produce original content. Rubinstein is a former president and CEO of Insight Sports and COO of Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting. The venture will have the rights to over 50 Keshet International properties, to be produced in the territory under the Keshet Canada banner. Keshet, the company behind Prisoners Of War, the Israeli source of Homeland, has recently set up shop in Australia and the UK. Bona Film Group Gets $34.2M Credit Line China’s Bona Film Group, which part-owned by News Corp., has secured a $34.2M revolving credit line with China Minsheng Banking Corp. The facility will be for three years and will be used to help grow exhibition,...