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Exclusive: Beijing-based Chinese-American filmmaker Dayyan Eng (aka Wu Shixian) has signed with Paradigm. Eng most recently directed Wished, a Mandarin-language action comedy that grossed about $10.2 million in China this year. It has also seen 90M paid download and streaming hits, a big number for a comedy. The film was made employing a mix of proven Middle Kingdom and international talent to give home audiences a Chinese movie with a Hollywood sheen. Backed in part by…...

Exclusive: Beijing-based filmmaker Dayyan Eng has started shooting contemporary comedy fantasy Wished, with a hot ensemble cast including Xia Yu, Yan Ni, Victoria Song and Pan Binlong.

Produced by Eng’s Colordance Pictures, the film follows a 30-year-old career guy who runs into a magical ‘celestial being’ at a point when he is becoming disillusioned with life. She tells him she can make all his wishes come true – including those from childhood.

“He’s typical of a lot of young guys, especially the so-called post-80’s generation in China, who thought they would own the world after leaving college, but after being out in the real world start questioning what the definition of success is, and what it means to be happy in life,” says Eng.

Edko Films (Monster Hunt) and Union Films (The Mermaid) are jointly distributing the film. Eng is producing with Han Zhang, and also co-wrote the script with Justin Malen (aka Mai Hongwen...

★★☆☆☆ Sometimes, you really have to question a film's motives. Inseparable (2011), directed by Dayyan Eng and starring Kevin Spacey, Daniel Wu and Beibi Gong, is a case in point. Li (Wu) is at the end of his tether. Unable to get close to his wife Pang (Gong) and caught in a moral quandary at work - where doing the right thing will inevitably result in his dismissal - he feels that life isn't worth living. As he's in the process of attempting to hang himself, he hears a knock at he door. Enter the enigmatic Chuck (Spacey), who makes Li see his situation from a different angle, setting him on a path which may just change his life for the better.

Inseparable is a film which raises a number of perplexing questions, in addition to the one posed in the introduction. Firstly, what, if any, is its message. Clearly aiming to...

Stars: Daniel Wu, Kevin Spacey, Beibi Gong, Ni Yan, Peter Stormare, Kenneth Tsang, Mo Zhang | Written and Directed by Dayyan Eng

Originally filmed in 2011, Inseparable is one of those movies that defies pigeon-holing. Pegged as a “buddy-cop” superhero movie, the film actually deals with the breakdown of a marriage, mental health issues and how one man can actually make a difference.

Inseparable tells the story of Li (Wu) who, after a series of tragic life events, is burnt out. His beautiful but increasingly moody wife is never home, the unpaid bills are piling up and his work is pressuring him to lie at a public hearing. With seemingly no options left he decides to end it all. But he can’t even do that right. Enter Chuck (Spacey), Li’s wise-talking American neighbour who takes Li under his wing and encourages him to stand up for himself and the exploited people around him.

Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey dons his finest superhero garb for Taiwanese director Dayyan Eng's Inseparable (2011), a funny and often touching drama about a man on the edge of despair and his gradual ascent from down-and-out loser to masked avenger. To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of Eng's multinational, tongue-in-cheek comic book homage, we've kindly been provided with Three Blu-ray copies of the film to give away to our loyal readership, thanks to UK distributor Matchbox Films. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.

After a series of tragic life events, Li (Daniel Wu) is burnt out. His beautiful but increasingly moody wife is never home, the unpaid bills are piling up and his work is pressuring him to lie at a public hearing.

Despite having a huge budget, global aspirations and Christian Bale, the harrowing Chinese film The Flowers of War bombed in the Us. Will the setback deter China's ambitious film-makers?

Few could question Zhang Yimou's ambition. In the 1980s and 1990s, he won acclaim with the likes of Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern. In the 2000s, he stormed to global box-office success with Hero. Though Danny Boyle's Olympics opener is now fresher in the mind, Zhang's spectacular staging of the Beijing opening ceremony four years ago left a lasting impression of Chinese capability that any of history's greatest propagandists would have envied. It also signified that Zhang, who hailed from a family with a Chinese nationalist past and was once seen as a subversive film-maker, had been welcomed into the fold of official Communist party approval.

Zhang's latest production, The Flowers of War, hits British cinemas Friday – and aims even higher.

Yep, Hollywood actors making films in China is definitely going to be big. After Hugh Jackman going to China for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Christian Bale for Flowers of War (what’s with all the flowers?), Kevin Spacey will shoot Inseparable, new Dayyan Eng‘s movie about a brash American crimefighter. The movie has [...]

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Kevin Spacey has become the latest Oscar winner to make a foreign movie in China.

Following on from Christian Bale, who appeared in drama The Flowers of War, Spacey plays a brash American crimefighter in Dayyan Eng's new film Inseparable, which has been shot with Mandarin and English dialogue.

In the film, the Usual Suspects star plays a neighbour who inadvertently prevents Chinese actor Daniel Wu's depressed character from committing suicide, and persuades him to become his vigilante sidekick.

Spacey admits he had a great time making the movie and now hopes to return to China to produce more films there.

He says, "A great deal of finance and talent is going to be coming to China in the next decade. I have every intention of returning and working again, both as an actor, but I would also love to produce films in China."...

While actor Kevin Spacey has been hard at work assembling the new series “House of Cards” with fellow producer David Fincher at Netflix, he’s also finding time to join the ranks of talent like Christian Bale in the recent “The Flowers of War” and Hugh Jackman in “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,” A-Listers starring in a Chinese movie featuring both Mandarin and English languages.

The “American Beauty” and “The Usual Suspects” Academy Award winner hit China’s theaters just this past weekend in the “Super”-esque superhero drama “Inseparable,” directed by Beijing based helmer Dayyan Eng. "Inseparable” follows the monotonous day-to-day routine of Li (Daniel Wu) as he wears his suit and tie and works a quirky job at a prosthetic-limb company. After the desperate nature of his life begins to haunt him, Li decides to commit suicide, but just as he's going to hang himself in the living room,...

Johannesburg — U.S. actor and director Kevin Spacey said he sees opportunity for expanding film making in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Spacey spoke about his international outlook during a brief visit to South Africa Saturday for the premiere of a local short film he helped produce and in which he stars.

With backing from a whiskey company, Spacey ran a contest to find talent from the United States, Russia and South Africa.

A script from each country was chosen, and Spacey starred in and helped produce the three films, including South African Alan Shelley's "A Spirit of a Denture," which was given a red-carpet premiere in Johannesburg.

The 26-year-old Cape Town writer-director's movie is about a workaholic dentist who gets a visit from a pirate.

Spacey recently starred in "Inseparable," by Chinese-American director Dayyan Eng. In the movie, which was filmed in China, Spacey plays an American expat who befriends...

This is the world we live in, one where Kevin Spacey dons a superhero costume and kicks ass in China. It’s a great day to be alive. Although this trailer for Inseparable doesn’t show it, the two-time Oscar winner rocks a lot of tight spandex and a helmet mask for the movie from Dayyan Eng. It also stars the great Daniel Wu (Shinjuku Incident, The Man With the Iron Fists). In a way, it would be far better if this trailer were insane, but it’s maybe even more bizarre that it’s, you know, not bizarre. It looks incredibly straight forward. Except the part where John Doe dressed up like a blue version of the guy in Super. Yes. Source: Movieline...

Inseparable Trailer. Dayyan Eng‘s Inseparable (2011) teaser trailer stars Kevin Spacey, Daniel Wu, Beibi Gong, Peter Stormare, and Kenneth Tsang. Inseparable‘s plot synopsis: “A young man with problems at home and work befriends his odd neighbor, a mysterious American expatriate.” Kevin Spacey is supposedly “the first Western star to feature in an all China financed [...]

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Screened at the 2012 Terracotta Far East Film Festival. “Inseparable” is somewhat of a landmark event, being one of the first Chinese films to feature a bona fide Hollywood star in a lead role. The actor in question is Kevin Spacey, who shares top billing with top Chinese talent Daniel Wu (recently in “Don’t Go Breaking my Heart” and “Overheard 2”) and actress Beibi Gong (“The Detective 2”, “Connected”). The film was directed by Dayyan Eng, known for the romantic comedy “Waiting Alone” and the shorts “Bus 44” and “East 22nd Street”, and has a further international flavour thanks to the presence of cinematographer Thierry Arbogast, a long time collaborator of Luc Besson, having worked with him on the likes of “Leon”, “The Fifth Element” and “The Lady”. Daniel Wu plays Li, a young man who works as an artificial limbs designer and who is going through a difficult time, his parents having died in a car crash,...

Terracotta Festival is proud to hold the European premiere of the Chinese movie Inseparable directed by Dayyan Eng, featuring Daniel Wu and Kevin Spacey on Sunday 15th April -Ticket Information Below

Ticket Information

Sunday 15 April 2012 (doors open 16:20)

Venue: Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London WC2H 7By

Box Office: Tel: +44 (0)20 7494 3654

Tickets: £8.00, £7.00 (concessions), £6.50 (Members)

Other Movies Showing At Terracotta Seediq Bale:

Director: Wei Te-Sheng, starring Masanobu Andô, Umin Boya, Da Ching

Production country: Taiwan, Languages: Aboriginal (Seediq)

Action saga produced by John Woo, tells the true story of Taiwan’s aboriginal Seediq tribes who were almost wiped out by Japanese colonisers in the 1930s.

Lead actor Da Ching will attend the festival to present the film, Q&A with audience and a masterclass.

Taiwan Party after the screening at our Terracotta café, upstairs at the Slug and Lettuce (Chinatown, lisle St, London)

One Mile Above (Kora)

Director: Du Jiayi,...

Everett ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’: A hit in both China and the U.S.

Co-productions and international box office were among the various topics discussed at the U.S.-China Film Summit Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles. Organized by the Asia Society Southern California, the event brought together industry executives, financiers, producers and filmmakers unified in their interest in cross-country movie-making.

Two separate panels, one focusing on the financial aspects of the U.S. and Chinese marketplaces and one focusing on the creative side,...

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has agreed to star in a new Chinese movie. The American Beauty actor has signed up to take one of the lead roles in director Dayyan Eng's black comedy Inseparable, which will be shot in both Mandarin and English, reports variety.com. Shooting for the film, about a troubled young man who befriends a mysterious American ex-pat, is scheduled to begin in southern China later this month. ...

Multiple Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is set to star in Inseparable for writer-director Dayyan Eng, which will be shot in China and be almost completely funded by a Chinese backer.

Inseparable is a dark comedy that has Spacey playing “a mysterious American expatriate who befriends a young engineer with problems at work and at home.” The film has already started shooting and will feature dialogue in both Mandarin and English.

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THR reports that Moon Bloodgood and British actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen have joined George Tillman Jr.’s (Notorious) upcoming action-thriller Faster, starring Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Maggie Grace, with Salma Hayek in negotiations to co-star. Faster centers on an ex-con (Johnson) who is pursued by cops and killers as he attempts to avenge his brother’s death. Bloodgood would play the ex-con’s girlfriend while Jackson-Cohen would play “a self-made millionaire who kills for fun,” which is redundant because I think that’s what all self-made millionaires do.

According to Screen Daily, Kevin Spacey has come on board Dayyan Eng’s China-based dark comedy Inseparable. The film, which will be shot in both Mandarin and English, is about a troubled young man (Daniel Wu) who is befriended by a mysterious American expatriate (Spacey) who changes his life. Beibi Gong will co-star as the young man’s investigative reporter wife. The...

With a bunch of films scheduled to start shooting later this month and into the dregs of winter, we're starting to get some new blasts of casting info. First up, Moon Bloodgood has a new role in Faster, the George Tillman Jr.-directed revenge drama starring Dwayne Johnson. She'll play Johnson's girlfriend; Johnson is "an ex-con pursued by cops and killers as he sets out to avenge his brother's death." Also in the cast is Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who will be one of the killers on the Rock's trail. The trade report describes his character as "a self-made millionaire who kills for fun." [THR] After the break, Kevin Spacey goes to China and Paul Giamatti may work with The Visitor director Tom McCarthy. Kevin Spacey is going to China. He's joining director Dayyan Eng's black comedy Inseparable, "about a troubled young man who is befriended by a mysterious American expat (Spacey...

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has agreed to star in a new Chinese movie.The 'American Beauty' actor has signed up to take one of the lead roles in director Dayyan Eng's black comedy 'Inseparable', which will be shot in both Mandarin and English, reports variety.com.Shooting for the film, about a troubled young man who befriends a mysterious American ex-pat, is scheduled to begin in southern China later this month.

London, Jan 13 (Ians) Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has agreed to star in a new Chinese movie.

The ‘American Beauty’ actor has signed up to take one of the lead roles in director Dayyan Eng’s black comedy ‘Inseparable’, which will be shot in both Mandarin and English, reports variety.com.

Shooting for the film, about a troubled young man who befriends a mysterious American ex-pat, is scheduled to begin in southern China later this month.

The Oscar-winning actor and theatre impresario is taking the plunge into the Chinese movie market with a leading role in Inseparable, a wholly locally financed production

The Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is to become the biggest Hollywood star ever to appear in a Chinese film production. Spacey has signed on to take a leading role in the black comedy Inseparable as a mysterious American expat who befriends a troubled young Chinese man, Variety reports.

The Chinese film industry and Hollywood have co-financed movies starring the likes of Ed Norton, Willem Dafoe and Donald Sutherland, but Inseparable marks the first occasion where a wholly locally financed production has starred an actor of Spacey's renown.

The film will be shot in Mandarin and English. Daniel Wu will play the lead, with Beibi Gong as his wife, an investigative reporter. Dayyan Eng, a Beijing-based Us national who shot the Chinese cult hit Waiting Alone,...

Xinhua Sports & Entertainment Limited, a leading sports and entertainment media company in China, today announced that two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey has signed on to star in director Dayyan Eng's dark comedy from his own script titled Inseparable . The project, principally financed by Fantawild Pictures, co-stars Daniel Wu ( Overheard , Shinjuku Incident ) and Beibi Gong ( The Detective 2 , Waiting Alone ) will begin production in southern China this month. It is being produced by David U. Lee of Xinhua Media Entertainment ("Xme"), a majority owned subsidiary of Xsel, and Dayyan Eng of Colordance Pictures. Li Ming of Fantawild Pictures, Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti in association with Trigger Street Productions, Bill Block of Qed International and Steven...

Kevin Spacey is set to give China's film industry a major boost - he's agreed to star in a new Chinese movie.

The actor has signed up to take one of the lead roles in director Dayyan Eng's black comedy Inseparable, which will be shot in both Mandarin and English.

The film, about a troubled young man who befriends a mysterious American ex-pat, is scheduled to begin filming in southern China later this month - making Spacey the highest profile Hollywood actor to tackle a role in a local Chinese production, according to Variety.com.

Two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey has signed to star in director Dayyan Eng's dark comedy "Inseperable." From Xinhual Sports & Entertainment Limited, an entertainment media company in China, "Inseperable" is the first time an award-winning A-lister like Spacey has starred in a Chinese production.

The film will co-star Daniel Wu ("The Shinjuku Incident") and Beibi Gong ("The Detective 2") and is currently in pre-production. Shooting is set to begin in southern China later this month. Director Eng previously wrote and directed "Waiting Alone" and is again working from his own script.

"Inseperable" stars Spacey as a mysterious American expat who befriends a young engineer (Wu) with problems at home and work and changes his life. Gong stars as the young engineer's investigative reporter wife.

"Fantawild Pictures and Xsel are leading the way in the Chinese film entertainment sector by being the first to bring a two-time Academy Award winning actor to a Chinese production,...

Kevin Spacey will star in the Chinese black comedy "Inseparable" reports Variety.

The story centres on a young man (Daniel Wu) with problems at home and work who is befriended by a mysterious American expat (Spacey).

Beibi Gong also stars as the investigative-reporter wife of Wu's character.

Dayyan Eng penned the script and helms the part-Mandarin and part-English production. Filming will begin in southern China this month.

Kevin Spacey is mixing things up by agreeing to star in the Chinese film, Inseparable, making him the highest-profile Hollywood actor to ever star in a Chinese production. I don't know about you, but that sounds like bit of a compliment!

Kevin Spacey for Inseparable

Directed by Dayyan Eng, Inseparable will be shot in Mandarin and English and will center on a young man (Daniel Wu) with problems at home and work who is befriended by a mysterious American expat (Spacey). Beibi Gong also stars as the investigative-reporter wife of Wu's character.

In what looks to be a first for a wholly financed local Chinese film production, a truly high profile actor - Kevin Spacey - has taken a part in Dayyan Eng's black comedy Inseparable. Spacey will play an American expat in China who befriends a young man (Daniel Wu) going through troubles at home and at work. Eng, who is originally from the Us but lives in Beijing, has written the script and will start calling the shorts this month in Southern China.

Kevin Spacey to star in Dayyan Eng's black comedy. Kevin Spacey is teaming with Great Wall of Chinese film production to star in director Dayyan Eng's black comedy Inseparable. According to Variety, Spacey is the highest-profile Hollywood actor to ever star in a Chinese production. The film, which will be shot in Mandarin and English, centers on a young man (Daniel Wu) with problems at home and work who is befriended by a mysterious American expat (Spacey). Beibi Gong also stars as the investigative-reporter wife of Wu's character. Eng, a Beijing-based U.S. national, penned the script and is producing through his Colordance Pictures banner. Production will begin in southern China this month.