One thing that's still Hong Kong about him is his work rate: six films already since the turn of the decade, the frequency of which perhaps depresses his grosses to the $20-30m range (though it looks like DGBMH2 will go higherange
He accepted, abandoning two films already in pre-production, X-Men: The Last Stand (which, coincidentally, would come to be directed by Ratner) and a remake of Logan's Run.
- UNICEF / Chris Schuepp / 2012 We have managed to finish five films already and the visitors are amazed by the clarity of the ideas and by he way the children tell their stories.
Because these three films have already reaped honors on the festival circuit, they are not involved in the Tribeca festival's competitions for best world narrative film and best world documentary.
Three films in, and already we know what an Andrea Arnold film might entail: visual poetry blooming in the harshest terrain; brutalised souls achieving emotional catharsis; and animals, lots of animals, the better to point up the underlying savagery of human experience.
But none have had the wide appeal — at home and abroad — of Labaki, who, with merely two films, has already established herself as an important female Arab filmmaker.
He's only directed five films and already the BFI is putting on a retrospective titled, Jacques Audiard and the French Thriller, in which his work is considered alongside classics by Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean Renoir, Henri-Georges Clouzot and Claude Chabrol.
The similarities between the two films have already been recognised, particularly during the Toronto film festival premiere (2003), where one cheeky critic retitled Emile "Mild Strawberries" - a typically Canadian way of shaming a young director for his audacity.
Since the Floyd album appeared in 1973, at least two films have already borne the same title, not to speak of a video game, at least three novels and a whole bunch of songs.
The two films are already fan favourites in the superhero genre, and that little capital R on the posters is at least partially to than Deadpool was especially successfully, briefly holding the record for biggest single-day opening of an R-rated film.
