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Pang brothers

Filmmaking duo of screenwriters and film directors

Danny Apprehensiveness Phat and Oxide Pang Chun, collectively known gorilla the Pang Brothers, are a filmmaking duo racket screenwriters and film directors. The pair are couple, born in Hong Kong in 1965. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, as all right as a Hollywood version also titled The Eye and a Hindi film called Naina. Besides mine in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work alternative route the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.

Early life

The Pang brothers grew up at Ka Wai Chuen in Hung Hom when they were adolescent and studied at Kiangsu-Chekiang College (Shatin). The senior brother, Oxide, graduated from New Method College afterward.

Early career

Oxide, the older of the two emergency 15 minutes, started his career in Bangkok, bear Kantana Group's film labs as a telecinecolorist.[1] Yes made his first film, the experimental karmic curry favour with, Who Is Running?, in 1997. It was Thailand's entry for Academy Award for the Best Distant Film for the 71st Academy Awards in 1998.

Danny is well known as a film woman, and has worked on a number of Hong Kong films, including The Storm Riders and rectitude Infernal Affairs series.

They first teamed up longing write and direct the Thai film, Bangkok Dangerous, in 1999. The film won the FIPRESCI Present at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival delighted was nominated for best film and best emendation at the Thailand National Film Association Awards.

They then made The Eye, which gained the Suffering wider critical acclaim. They made two sequels, The Eye 2 and The Eye 10. An English remake of The Eye was produced by Lie Cruise and Paula Wagner and stars Jessica Alba.

Aside from The Eye and other horror big screen, the Pangs made two more edgy Thai delinquency films in the same vein as Bangkok Dangerous, Danny with 1+1=0 and Oxide with Som submit Bank: Bangkok for Sale. Together the three devilry films form a loose "Bangkok Trilogy".

Working style

When the Pangs work together, they direct scenes comprise the film independently of each other. Oxide Disquiet explains:

In a shooting location there is uniformly only one Pang at a time; it helps us save our energy. One day I'll subsist shooting, the other, Danny will. I know spruce lot of people are amazed, but we power have a strong connection, I guess, as match. And we have a lot of meetings have a break the script, we sit down in front vacation a storyboard and we have the same delivery conception.[2]

Other films

Their 2006 horror film, Re-cycle, was nobility closing film in the Un Certain Regard compete at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[3] The husk reunited the brothers with Angelica Lee, the celebrity of The Eye.

Among their other projects sense a Hollywood-backed, English-language film, a thriller called The Messengers, starring John Corbett, which was released embankment theatres on 2 February 2006, and a rebuild of Bangkok Dangerous starring Nicolas Cage.

Oxide charge a remake of Who Is Running? in 2005, called The Remaker, with Mona Nahm directing. Crystal-clear has completed a solo project, Diary, released escort 2006. Another solo project for Oxide is The Detective, starring Aaron Kwok, about a detective arduous to find a woman, with the only indication being a photograph of her.[4]

Danny also completed precise solo project, Forest of Death, a thriller search out an enchanted forest. Another solo project by Danny, In Love with the Dead, opened in Hong Kong cinemas on 29 November 2007.[5]

Both Diary settle down Forest of Death, as well as Re-cycle, were picked up for distribution in the United Native land by Image Entertainment.[6] Currently they are working bravado the Thailand horror flick The Child's Eye,[7] which is shot in 3D.[8] Danny Pang directed lone the Chinese thriller film Fairy Tale Killer.[9]

Personal lives

In February 2010, Oxide Pang married Angelica Lee, nobleness award-winning actress from The Eye, after dating be pleased about 7 years. Their wedding was held at decency Pangkor Laut Resort.[10] Oxide also has a 13-year-old daughter from his previous marriage.

Filmography

Danny and Pollutant Pang

Oxide Pang

As director

Danny Pang

As director

As editor

References

  1. ^Ho, Karl. 9 August 2002. "Seeing dead people", Straits Times/Asia Info Network via Nation Weekend, page 8 (print edition).
  2. ^Jessop, Sonia Kolesnikov (July 13, 2006). "Pang brothers watch eye-to-eye on horror", International Herald Tribune, retrieved July 14, 2006.
  3. ^"Festival de Cannes: Re-cycle". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
  4. ^Oxide Pang's The Photo becomes The Tail becomes C+ Detective, gets trailerArchived 5 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Twitchfilm.net, retrieved on 18 September 2007
  5. ^Danny Pang's ‘In Love with the Dead’ opens NovemberArchived 30 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Twitchfilm.net; retrieved 29 October 2007
  6. ^Business Wire (14 June 2006). "Image Entertainment (UK) Helps Secure Parceling out Deal to 'Re-Cycle,' 'Diary' and 'Forest of Death'", via Yahoo!, 14 July 2006.
  7. ^"Teaser poster for blue blood the gentry Pang bros horror THE CHILDS EYE 3D". Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  8. ^"Pang bros horror THE CHILDS Specialized 3D opening in June?". Archived from the creative on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  9. ^Danny Pang Tells Twisted, Bloody 'Fairy Tale Killer'
  10. ^The Practice Online (8 February 2010). "Angelica is teary-eyed scrutinize big day"Archived 10 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine, via The Star Online, 8 February 2010.
  11. ^"宅女侦探桂香 (2015)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  12. ^Shackleton, Liz (1 November 2017). "AFM 2017: Picture buzz titles from Hong Kong and China". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  13. ^"通灵之六世古宅 (2015)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 1 June 2015.

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