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Director Ang Lee Sours On 3D After Experiences With ‘Billy Lynn’ & ‘Gemini Man’: “The Whole Ecosystem Is Bad”

April 2, 2024 10:20 am

More than just a dramatist and storyteller, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (“Brokeback Mountain”) is an innovator in the vein of James Cameron and has always been quick to test new filmmaking technologies. Lee...

Ang Lee To Direct A Bruce Lee Biopic Starring The Filmmaker’s Son

Charles Barfield

November 30, 2022 2:09 pm

News

Ang Lee has finally found his next big film. And you better believe, there will be a lot of people anxiously awaiting what he has coming. You see, Ang Lee has enlisted his own son to star in a biopic about the...

The 14 Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘News Of The World,’ ‘Collective,’ ‘World Of Wong Kar-Wai’ & More

Jason Bailey

March 30, 2021 1:35 pm

News

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a spl...

Ang Lee Thinks Movie Theaters Need To “Upgrade” To Survive & Continues Push For 3D And High Frame Rate

Charles Barfield

January 20, 2021 12:12 pm

Box Office, News

There are filmmakers working today that not only see themselves as storytellers, but they see themselves as the folks carrying the torch in the fight to push the medium of film forward into the future. You hav...

Ang Lee Talks Difficulties “Upgrading A B-Movie” While Making ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’

Charles Barfield

January 13, 2021 1:51 pm

News

Believe it or not, it’s been 20 years since “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” arrived in theaters. The film would go on to be nominated for 10 Oscars in 2001 (a record for a non-English-language film at the tim...

Watch Taylor Swift’s New Music Video ‘Cardigan,’ Shot By Scorsese Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto

Kambole Campbell

July 24, 2020 9:30 am

News, Video

Accompanying the surprise release of her new album Folklore (the visual art for which has some Robert Eggers-esque leanings), Taylor Swift released a new music video for her song “Cardigan” last night. Direct...

Ang Lee’s Science Experiment, ‘Gemini Man,’ Might Lose $75 Million After Chinese Audiences Don’t Save The Day

Charles Barfield

October 23, 2019 1:34 pm

Box Office, News

Ang Lee knew, coming into the release of “Gemini Man,” that he was taking a big risk. Even before the film’s launch in theaters, the filmmaker talked about how he is willing to take a critical beating in favor ...

‘Avatar’ Sequels Won’t Use High Frame Rate Technology Because James Cameron Doesn’t Think It’s “The Next Big Thing”

Charles Barfield

October 22, 2019 1:45 pm

News

Ang Lee is a filmmaker that takes chances. He really swings for the fences with each and every project he releases, much like his peer, James Cameron. And lately, the films that Lee is releasing, though ambitio...

‘Gemini Man’: Ang Lee Makes A Motion-Smoothing, Fresh Prince Deep Fakes, Dad Jokes Sci-Fi Actioner With Will Smith

Rodrigo Perez

October 9, 2019 5:01 pm

Features, News, Reviews

Given how he can expertly craft beautifully detailed and intimate dramas when he wants, it does a disservice to describe filmmaker Ang Lee as an Asian analog to James Cameron. That said, there's a similar prose...

No U.S. Theaters Will Have The Ability To Show Ang Lee’s ‘Gemini Man’ As The Director Intended

Charles Barfield

October 8, 2019 2:14 pm

News

Honestly, you wouldn’t be blamed if all you know about Ang Lee’s upcoming film, “Gemini Man,” is that it stars Will Smith and is using some crazy mixtures of technology to bring a whole new level of immersion t...

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