Exiled News

The 2007 SXSW Film Festival Lineup Unveiled

February 07, 2007 10:02:44

Entering the 14th edition of the South By Southwest Film Festival which is set to take place in Austin, Texas on March 9-17, 2007, the organizers of the event finally revealed the complete list of film features screened over those nine days. Of 110 titles, 61 of them will encounter their world premieres with nine getting North American premieres and seven earning U.S premieres.

Lined up in Spotlight Premieres section are 27 movies that include Jonathan Levine's "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane", Hong Kong action flick "Exiled", "The Ten", "He Was a Quiet Man", "Knocked Up", and "The Lookout" among others, the latter previously being reported to be the opening film for the festival.

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Magnolia Gets "Exiled"

September 14, 2006 08:09:55

This time it's Asian's turn to see the light in the States. Magnolia Pictures has been reported to have successfully optioned the rights to action thriller "Exiled" from Hong Kong filmmaker Johnny To and Media Asia Entertainment Group with an eye to release it in U.S theaters by the next year.

Recently screened at this year's Venice International Film Festival, pic is a noisy, high body-count gangster feature set in the gambling haven of Macau before the former Portuguese colony's handover to Chinese rule. The story tells about a professional hit-man sent to eliminate a renegade gang member named Wo who is attempting to start a new life with his wife and baby.

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