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Johnnie To’s ‘Life Without Principle’ Takes Top Prize At Asia-Pacific Film Festival

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday December 15, 2012 @ 11:30pm PSTTags: Johnnie To

Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney

Johnnie To’s crime drama Life Without Principle (watch trailer below) was named best film at the 55th Asia-Pacific Film Festival awards presented today at Macau’s Venetian Resort Hotel. The festival originally was to take place in September in Shanghai, the first time the event would have been held in mainland China, but was cancelled after the Chinese government raised objections about the fest’s secretariat being based in Taiwan. To’s saga about a criminal, a bank officer and a cop caught up in the global financial crisis — Hong Kong’s submission for best foreign-language film at the Oscars — also garnered the best supporting actor gong for Lo Hoi-pang.
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Global Showbiz Briefs: Branagh Knighted, Winslet Honored, ‘Drug Lord’ In Rome

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday November 11, 2012 @ 5:35pm PSTTags: Johnnie To, Kate Winslet, Kenneth Branagh

Actor-director Kenneth Branagh has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth who also recognized actress Kate Winslet as a Commander of the British empire. Stage and screen veteran Branagh will now be known as Sir Kenneth. “I feel very humble about it, I feel elated about it,” he told the BBC.  Branagh is currently directing and co-starring with Chris Pine in Paramount’s Tom Clancy reboot Jack Ryan. Winslet will be seen next in the ensemble comedy Movie 43 that opens January 25. Additionally Take That frontman Gary Barlow, a judge on the British version of X-Factor, received the Order of the British Empire.
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