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Jon M. Chu's 2018 romantic comedy "Crazy Rich Asians" -- based on the novel by Kevin Kwan -- was a massive, massive hit. Made for only $30 million, Chu's lightweight puffball grossed $239 million worldwide. It follows the adventures of a young economics professor named Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) who has been enjoying her romantic relationship with the dash-handsome Nick Young (Henry Golding). Nick is called back to his home country of Singapore to attend a wedding, and Rachel is reluctantly invited along. Reluctantly, because Nick has been trying to keep his vast wealth hidden from Rachel. It seems his family is practically royalty in Singapore, inviting new conversations about honesty and their inescapable class divide into their relationship. Also, Nick's family doesn't necessarily approve of a middle-class woman dating one of their own, and some of them accuse Rachel of being a golddigger. 

Oh yes, and Nick fully intends to...

Exclusive: After a successful West Coast/East Coast partnership over the past three years, Platform PR and Serge PR are becoming one — officially partnering under the Platform banner.

Scott Boute (Serge PR CEO) will join Siri Garber (Platform PR CEO) and Angela Mach (Platform PR Vice President) to head up the West Coast office in Los Angeles, with industry veteran Darren Olcsvary remaining head of New York operations. Jane Negline will continue to run the Australian branch of Platform which includes clients Danielle Cormack (Wentworth), Miranda Tapsell (Top End Wedding), Sam Frost (Home & Away), Nicole da Silva (Wentworth), Belinda Bromilow (Hulu’s The Great), Rodger Corser and Geraldine Hakewill (Wanted).

“I am so thrilled to partner with Serge PR,” said Garber. We have worked together for three years now and felt that this was the perfect time to evolve and move in a new direction. It is exciting...

Spider-Man: Far From Home features some of our favorite returning Marvel stars, including Tom Holland (Peter Parker/Spider-Man), Jacob Batalon (Ned), and Zendaya (Mj). But there are also some new, insanely attractive faces gracing the big screen with their presence. One of the standout hunks is the character Brad Davis, who competes with Peter for Mj's attention. So, who plays him? Say hello to 32-year-old Remy Hii.

In the comics, Brad is the star quarterback at Empire State University where he and Mj date. But in the McU, he's introduced as a suave ladies' man, amassing countless eye-rolls and side-eyes from Peter. When half of all living things get snapped to dust in Avengers: Infinity War - an event dubbed "the blip" - those who disappear into oblivion don't age within the five years it takes for the Avengers to get back on track and ultimately defeat Thanos. Spider-Man: Far From Home reveals that Peter,...

Alexander Skarsgård, Pharrell Williams, Heidi Klum, Kyle Maclachlan, and Michelle Yeoh were among those who gathered at the fifth annual amfAR Gala Hong Kong at the newly opened Rosewood Hong Kong to honor renowned entrepreneur and change-maker Adrian Cheng for his exceptional contributions to the global struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Nicole Scherzinger Performs at amfAR Hong Kong Gala

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Pansy Ho, a leading supporter of the gala since its inception in 2015 and an influential figure in the Hong Kong and international business community, served as Honorary Chair of this year’s event. Presented by Apm Monaco and Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, the gala raised over $2.75 million for amfAR’s life-saving AIDS research programs. American Express, Champagne Perrier-Jouët and Absolut Elyx were Signature Sponsors. Wines were provided courtesy of Boroli.

Other guests in attendance included Choi Jin Hyuk, Ha Ji-Won, Paulo Pong and Sonia Cheng, Martin and Cathy Lee,...

Celebrating 10 years of sustainable fashion, author, actor and environmental advocate Suzy Amis Cameron hosted her annual Red Carpet Green Dress (Rcgd) Pre-Oscars Celebration in partnership with Absolut Elyx, Amur and Aka West Hollywood last week at the Albright Fashion Library in Beverly Hills.

Suzy Amis Cameron and James Cameron at 2019 Red Carpet Green Dress Pre-Oscars Celebration

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With over 160 guests, some high profile faces included this year’s celebrity partners Laura Harrier (BlacKkKlansman), Danielle Macdonald (Skin & Bird Box), last year’s representative Lakeith Stanfield, Amis Cameron’s husband James Cameron, Michelle Rodriguez (Fast & Furious franchise), and Fiona Xie (Crazy Rich Asians) among others.

Guests entered the celebration greeted by exclusive wardrobe pieces from the Amur x Rcgd debut collection. The collection features six looks, revealed last night for the first time, and were displayed in a curated presentation created by Oh Mannequin! The Amur x Rcgd...

Stars from international hit “Crazy Rich Asians” were on hand Wednesday night to add a little sparkle to the otherwise brisk and efficient opening night events for the 29th edition of the Singapore International Film Festival.

Hundreds of film buffs gathered at the 85-year-old neoclassical Capitol Theatre to cheer the stars walking the red carpet. The festival runs as part of the Singapore Media Festival through Dec. 9.

Singaporean filmmaker Royston Tan, who will celebrate the 15th anniversary of his seminal debut feature, “15: The Movie” at the festival, walked the red carpet with festival executive director Yuni Hadi. Other luminaries included “The Hush” actors Adele Wong, Jason Godfrey and Irene Ang. The guest of honor was Tan Kiat How, chief executive of Singapore’s industry regulator, the Infocomm Media Development Authority.

Causing a stir with fans were local “Crazy Rich Asians” stars Fiona Xie, a vision in Fendi; Constance Lau in a Stylease gown,...

Fiona Xie (Crazy Rich Asians) has inked with the Gersh Agency. The Singaporean actress plays gold-digging social climber Kitty Pong in the summer hit Crazy Rich Asians. She was with Singapore media conglomerate Mediacorp from 2001-09 and won Best Newcomer at the 2001 Star Awards. Her credits also include miniseries Serves You Right! and features The Golden Couple and Fist of Dragon, and Xie also has done ad campaigns for the likes of Ysl Beauty, Cartier and Tom Ford. She continues to be managed by Authentic Talent & Literary Management, East West Artists and Platform PR.

Anand Desai-Barochia (The Outpost) has signed with Matt Luber and Jomer Calma at Luber Roklin Management. The actor is a series regular on The Outpost, playing brewer/scientist Janzo on the CW drama whose first season wraps next week. Desai-Barochia’s TV credits also include Skins, The Fresh Beat Band, Days of Our Lives and Tyrant,...

Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for “Crazy Rich Asians.”

With two big weekends at the box office and at least one sequel in the works, Jon M. Chu’s groundbreaking “Crazy Rich Asians” is on its way to franchise movie history. The first studio film in 25 years with a predominantly Asian cast was adapted from Kevin M. Kwan’s bestselling trilogy of the same name, and as Chu’s first film only pulls from one of them, the door is wide open for the further adventures with Rachel Chu (Constance Wu), Nick Young (Henry Golding), and a cast of breakout talents.

Peter Chiarelli, who adapted the screenplay with Adele Lim, told IndieWire that despite some big changes to the film’s ending, they set out with a mission to not screw up the potential for future installments. “[We] stayed true to the spirit of the book, didn’t make...

To the surprise of no one, Warner Bros. is already developing a sequel to last weekend’s box office hit Crazy Rich Asians. The writing will begin soon, Deadline confirmed, with screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson’s Color Force and Ivanhoe’s John Penotti already had dibs on the follow-up books in Kevin Kwan’s trilogy, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems well before Crazy Rich Asians hit cinemas.

Director Jon M. Chu is also planning to return as well. Actors Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh have options for the sequel. Once a script is in place, Warners will assess a full greenlight.

“Let the audience ask for the sequel,” Jacobson told Deadline over the weekend, “We’d love to make one, but not unless the audience asks for it, and hopefully they will this weekend.” Indeed they have, shelling out...

When fakes are more real than the real…— A Confucian ConfusionIn 1991, the playwright Frank Chin wrote this of Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club: “[It writes] to the specifications of the […] stereotype of Asia being as opposite morally from the West as it is geographically. [...] We expect Asian-American writers, portraying Asia and Asians, to have a knowledge of the difference between the real and the fake. This is a knowledge they have admitted they not only do not possess but also have no interest in possessing. [...] They talk about the agony of the stereotype, but when pressed, have no idea how to describe it.”1Two years later, filmmaker Wayne Wang’s adaptation of Joy Luck Club was a box-office hit that earned nearly three-times its budget in theaters. Frank Chin was labelled a contrarian cynic, and Joy Luck Club continued to rise above all criticism—“It is not deep,” declared the Washington Post...

Warner Bros. rolled out the jade carpet for the Hollywood premiere of “Crazy Rich Asians.”

With the temperature hovering around 95 degrees outside Tcl Chinese Theatres on Tuesday night, everyone seemed to be talking about the weather — while blotting and wiping sweat from their faces.

“Do you like how Warner Bros. managed to create Singapore-style temperatures?” producer Brad Simpson joked.

The cast and crew may have been melting, but they powered through with excitement over the movie, the first studio film featuring Asian-Americans in lead roles in 25 years.

“To be in a film that is representative of what should be, we should be normalizing all of this,” said Henry Golding, who stars in the romantic comedy about a New York University professor (Constance Wu) who accompanies her boyfriend, Nick Young (Golding), to Singapore to meet his uber wealthy family. “We shouldn’t be the only Asian film made in 25 years. That’s ridiculous.

Rising star Awkwafina, who will be seen alongside Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett in next summer's Ocean's Eight, has signed on to star in the new comedy Crazy Rich Asians. The actress joins a cast that is lead by Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu and Henry Golding, who play young couple Rachel and Nick at the center of this film. Awkwafina will play Rachel's college friend Peik Lin, with production getting under way on this Warner Bros. comedy featuring an entirely Asian cast.

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that this project is based on Kevin Kwan's best-selling book that was published in 2013. The story centers on Rachel (Constance Wu), an American-born Chinese economics professor, who heads to Singapore with her boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding) for a wedding in his hometown. It doesn't take long for the truth to come out, that Nick is from an incredibly wealthy family...