From Deal Frenzy to Decoupling: Is the China-Hollywood Romance Officially Over? Patrick Brzeski
Nomadland at the 93rd Oscars, Disney began tiptoeing around potential land mines with regard to China, the director’s home country and the studio’s most important international market. “Please note in your ongoing coverage of
Nomadland that Chloé Zhao is a Chinese filmmaker,” an executive for Disney-owned Searchlight emailed members of the Hollywood press on March 4. “You may accurately refer to her as Chinese or a Chinese National.”
A number of news outlets, including
The New York Times, had mistakenly referred to Zhao as Asian American, but the bluntness and blanket nature of the proviso was conspicuous. As it would turn out, Disney had abundant reason to be concerned over how the provenance and perceived allegiances of its rising star director, who was also helming the studio’s forthcoming $200 million Marvel tentpole
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An image of The Pope Of Greenwich Village getting filmed in New York City in the eighties. (Mgm/Ua/Kobal/Shutterstock)
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY Right now, I m the Pope of Greenwich Village, Mickey Rourke s character says as he slams his fists together talking to a mafia boss in the 1980 s film The Pope Of Greenwich Village.
The film created quite the buzz when it came out in 1984, and Deadline reports that the story is coming back to the screen in the form of an eight-part miniseries.
The entertainment news site recently announced that original producers on the film Hawk Koch and Gene Kirkwood have created a team of critically acclaimed writers and directors to make a TV series based on the best-selling 1979 book and its 1984 screen adaptation.