No, this is not yet another review of Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert's sci-fi action adventure from last year, and the movie's title stops after the second word. To further clear any form of confusion regardingits content, there is no action or sci-fi, although there is allegedly some kind of adventure involved in it. Or so we are told.
“Everything, Everywhere” is screening at Tallinn Black Nights
A young Japanese filmmaker Jay (Shogen) disappears somewhere on the territory of former Yugoslavia during the Covid-19 pandemic while searching inspiration for his new film. His former collaborator Eva (Adela Sou) travels to the region to trace him down. Why (we are given a glimpse into the past in which they didn't seem to harmonise after a while) and by which logic is the thing made of mystery.
“Everything, Everywhere” is the final chapter of Kim Kah Wai's Balkan trilogy which started in 2017 with “No Where,...
“Everything, Everywhere” is screening at Tallinn Black Nights
A young Japanese filmmaker Jay (Shogen) disappears somewhere on the territory of former Yugoslavia during the Covid-19 pandemic while searching inspiration for his new film. His former collaborator Eva (Adela Sou) travels to the region to trace him down. Why (we are given a glimpse into the past in which they didn't seem to harmonise after a while) and by which logic is the thing made of mystery.
“Everything, Everywhere” is the final chapter of Kim Kah Wai's Balkan trilogy which started in 2017 with “No Where,...
- 11/18/2023
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Sang-soo's films have a certain calm quality to them that many have tried to replicate over the years, with mixed results. So you would be forgiven for thinking that director Lim Oh-jeong, who has worked in Hong's directing department on a few of his films including “Tale of Cinema” and “Like You Know It All”, would try to replicate those qualities for her debut feature-length work “Hail to Hell”. However, this couldn't be further from the truth.
Hail to Hell is screening at London Korean Film Festival
The feature opens with a gang of students bullying Sun-woo. Shortly after, Sun-woo and Na-mi, another girl who is bullied by the same gang and the only person Sun-woo can remotely call a friend, go through a silly failed suicide attempt and decide that, instead of taking their lives, they should exact revenge on those that put them through hell.
Hail to Hell is screening at London Korean Film Festival
The feature opens with a gang of students bullying Sun-woo. Shortly after, Sun-woo and Na-mi, another girl who is bullied by the same gang and the only person Sun-woo can remotely call a friend, go through a silly failed suicide attempt and decide that, instead of taking their lives, they should exact revenge on those that put them through hell.
- 11/12/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Adele Lim, the screenwriter behind “Crazy Rich Asians” and Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon” animation, says that the opportunities for Asian filmmakers are growing as Hollywood is becoming more receptive to international talent.
“[In Hollywood] I felt that I was disadvantaged, coming from Malaysia. It is not the cultural nexus,” said Lim, whose infancy was in Malaysia, before her family moved to the U.S. “Later I realized the multicultural advantages of Asia.”
Lim, who also recently directed her first movie “Joy Ride,” was speaking at an on-stage event Wednesday in Taipei as part of the Taiwan Creative Culture Fest (Tccf), an annual convention and market for film and TV content and for story tech products.
“[When I arrived in Hollywood] “Flower Drum Song” and “Joy Luck Club” had preceded me. But there were few Asian writers. Hollywood was very masculine. Very white [..] There was this idea in America that Asians cannot be the hero of the story.
“[In Hollywood] I felt that I was disadvantaged, coming from Malaysia. It is not the cultural nexus,” said Lim, whose infancy was in Malaysia, before her family moved to the U.S. “Later I realized the multicultural advantages of Asia.”
Lim, who also recently directed her first movie “Joy Ride,” was speaking at an on-stage event Wednesday in Taipei as part of the Taiwan Creative Culture Fest (Tccf), an annual convention and market for film and TV content and for story tech products.
“[When I arrived in Hollywood] “Flower Drum Song” and “Joy Luck Club” had preceded me. But there were few Asian writers. Hollywood was very masculine. Very white [..] There was this idea in America that Asians cannot be the hero of the story.
- 11/8/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Adele Lim, screenwriter of Crazy Rich Asians and writer-director of Joy Ride, talked about the realities of bringing Asian stories to mainstream global audiences in a panel, ‘Asian Rising Power in Hollywood’, on the second day of Taiwan Creative Content Fest (Tccf).
Born in a small town in southern Malaysia, Lim explained that she studied in the U.S. and decided to work in Los Angeles after graduation as she wanted to be a writer and finally got a job as a writer’s assistant on a U.S. TV show.
“Growing up in Malaysia, I felt I was starting at a disadvantage, because I was nowhere near the cultural nexus of the world, which at that time was America and England, although that is all changing,” said Lim, who was also co-wrote Disney animation Raya And The Last Dragon.
“Then going over to the States, I realized that growing...
Born in a small town in southern Malaysia, Lim explained that she studied in the U.S. and decided to work in Los Angeles after graduation as she wanted to be a writer and finally got a job as a writer’s assistant on a U.S. TV show.
“Growing up in Malaysia, I felt I was starting at a disadvantage, because I was nowhere near the cultural nexus of the world, which at that time was America and England, although that is all changing,” said Lim, who was also co-wrote Disney animation Raya And The Last Dragon.
“Then going over to the States, I realized that growing...
- 11/8/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
New Philippines anime franchise “Solemn Vow” has set several partnerships across the Southeast Asian region.
Conceptualized as an anime series with a strategy for spinoffs into manga, games, music and merchandise, the franchise, created by Lawrence Panganiban, has formed partnerships with Philippines-based Enigma Kai and media startup Fire and Ice, and Singapore-based companies Anito Studios and Silver Media, in collaboration with Japanese animation giant Toei Animation Phils., Inc., which will handle production. Veteran music producer Alexander Lim will be consulting on the opening theme for the series.
The 13-episode anime series built around a fictional universe of magic and mystical creatures follows super powered spouses, Cef and Lia, who try to fix their marriage after the death of their young son. But their struggles worsen as their mercenary work leads them to a war between two tropical island nations, unleashing a serpent god that may destroy the world.
Panganiban, said:...
Conceptualized as an anime series with a strategy for spinoffs into manga, games, music and merchandise, the franchise, created by Lawrence Panganiban, has formed partnerships with Philippines-based Enigma Kai and media startup Fire and Ice, and Singapore-based companies Anito Studios and Silver Media, in collaboration with Japanese animation giant Toei Animation Phils., Inc., which will handle production. Veteran music producer Alexander Lim will be consulting on the opening theme for the series.
The 13-episode anime series built around a fictional universe of magic and mystical creatures follows super powered spouses, Cef and Lia, who try to fix their marriage after the death of their young son. But their struggles worsen as their mercenary work leads them to a war between two tropical island nations, unleashing a serpent god that may destroy the world.
Panganiban, said:...
- 10/25/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The eighth episode of the latest season of "Futurama" was called "Zapp Gets Canceled," and it finally put the show's most horrendous, inappropriate, and lascivious character, Zapp Brannigan (Billy West), on trial for his life of horrible behavior. He is emblazoned with a bright red "C" (for "canceled") and forced to attend a sensitivity training workshop. Zapp, as thick as two planks, doesn't quite absorb the training, feeling that his arrogant, crass, offensive, racist, misogynistic behavior is perfectly acceptable. Because "Futurama" is a pretty cynical show, Zapp is ultimately proven right. His brashness eventually proves to be useful in a crisis situation, and he is reinstated, un-canceled after all. I suppose the un-canceling of Zapp Brannigan is appropriate, coming from a show that, itself, has been un-canceled several times over.
The writers of "Futurama" are smart cookies, and series co-creator David X. Cohen has bragged in the past that his...
The writers of "Futurama" are smart cookies, and series co-creator David X. Cohen has bragged in the past that his...
- 10/7/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Following the announcement of the London Korean Film Festival’s (Lkff) upcoming 18th edition which gives special commemoration to the 40th Anniversary of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (Kafa), the festival is delighted to reveal its 2023 programme. At the BFI Southbank, the London Korean Film Festival will host the Opening and Closing ceremonies in celebration of the 140th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the UK and Korea.
The Festival runs from 2 November – 16 November 2023 with a programme of 40 films comprising the following strands: Cinema Now, Special Focus : 40th Anniversary of Kafa, Women’s Voices, Special Screenings and Korea Season.
A Normal Family by Hur Jin-ho will open the festival on the 2nd November at BFI Southbank with the director in attendance. The story is based on the celebrated Dutch novel Het Diner (The Dinner) by Herman Koch, which has sold over a million copies. The latest...
The Festival runs from 2 November – 16 November 2023 with a programme of 40 films comprising the following strands: Cinema Now, Special Focus : 40th Anniversary of Kafa, Women’s Voices, Special Screenings and Korea Season.
A Normal Family by Hur Jin-ho will open the festival on the 2nd November at BFI Southbank with the director in attendance. The story is based on the celebrated Dutch novel Het Diner (The Dinner) by Herman Koch, which has sold over a million copies. The latest...
- 10/6/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Adele Lim is anxious to hear my recap of the previous night’s screening of Joy Ride when she pipes in from her home office in early June. Not only is it the screenwriter’s directorial debut, but it’s a bawdy, R-rated buddy comedy — the type of flick that rarely inspires the same reaction in a sparsely populated room of journalists as it does in theaters filled with friends. So she’s heartened to learn about the contagious laughter from one attendee. “You just need one unhinged bitch,” she says, “then everybody’s like, ‘Greenlight the party!'”
Lim, once a journeywoman TV scribe, has segued into film in a way that has made her a sought-after voice and even an accidental firebrand. Before her new film, one notably featuring four Asian American leads (three of them female and one nonbinary), the Malaysia-born mother of two co-wrote Disney’s...
Lim, once a journeywoman TV scribe, has segued into film in a way that has made her a sought-after voice and even an accidental firebrand. Before her new film, one notably featuring four Asian American leads (three of them female and one nonbinary), the Malaysia-born mother of two co-wrote Disney’s...
- 6/23/2023
- by Mikey O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Joy Ride” directed byAdele Lim, is a new ‘raunchy’ comedy feature, produced by Seth Rogan, starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu, releasing July 7, 2023 in theaters:
“…childhood best friends ‘Audrey’ and ‘Lolo’, accompanied by Audrey's former roommate ‘Kat’ and Lolo's cousin ‘Deadeye’…
“…set out on a journey to find Audrey's birth mother…”
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“…childhood best friends ‘Audrey’ and ‘Lolo’, accompanied by Audrey's former roommate ‘Kat’ and Lolo's cousin ‘Deadeye’…
“…set out on a journey to find Audrey's birth mother…”
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- 6/22/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The working title for Adele Lim’s new comedy “Joy Ride” was “Joy Fuck Club.”
It’s a profane callback to “The Joy Luck Club,” a multigenerational family saga that broke ground. But if “Joy Ride” builds on the legacy set by that landmark 1993 film in that nearly all of its cast is Asian, the similarities between the two end there. “Joy Ride,” which was written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao, is bawdy and irreverent, more akin to “The Hangover” than to a prestige drama.
“I don’t think [the writers] realize how crazy they’ve made their own movie,” says Sabrina Wu, who stars in the film alongside Ashley Park, Sherry Cola and Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu. “Joy Ride” centers on Park’s Audrey, a lawyer who flies to China to close a deal and embarks on a madcap adventure to find her birth mother. Cola plays Audrey’s impulsive childhood best friend,...
It’s a profane callback to “The Joy Luck Club,” a multigenerational family saga that broke ground. But if “Joy Ride” builds on the legacy set by that landmark 1993 film in that nearly all of its cast is Asian, the similarities between the two end there. “Joy Ride,” which was written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao, is bawdy and irreverent, more akin to “The Hangover” than to a prestige drama.
“I don’t think [the writers] realize how crazy they’ve made their own movie,” says Sabrina Wu, who stars in the film alongside Ashley Park, Sherry Cola and Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu. “Joy Ride” centers on Park’s Audrey, a lawyer who flies to China to close a deal and embarks on a madcap adventure to find her birth mother. Cola plays Audrey’s impulsive childhood best friend,...
- 6/21/2023
- by Rachel Seo and Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
AI is “giving Bitcoin”, according to Swarm and She-Hulk: Attorney At Law writer Kara Brown.
Brown, speaking on a panel at the Banff Media Festival alongside This Is Us writer Elan Mastai and Crazy Rich Asians writer Adele Lim, highlighted the challenges for writers as the strike against the studios is in its second month.
But while Brown discussed the issue of artificial intelligence, which has become one of the most talked about issues during the strike, she said that there are more fundamental issues at heart, including residuals. “It sounds scary, but to me at least, I don’t think it’s close to our biggest issue,” she added.
Brown highlighted the lack of streaming residuals as one of her main concerns, having previously written shows for cable and broadcast. She said that she’ll never get another cheque for work on Disney+’s She-Hulk. “That character we built,...
Brown, speaking on a panel at the Banff Media Festival alongside This Is Us writer Elan Mastai and Crazy Rich Asians writer Adele Lim, highlighted the challenges for writers as the strike against the studios is in its second month.
But while Brown discussed the issue of artificial intelligence, which has become one of the most talked about issues during the strike, she said that there are more fundamental issues at heart, including residuals. “It sounds scary, but to me at least, I don’t think it’s close to our biggest issue,” she added.
Brown highlighted the lack of streaming residuals as one of her main concerns, having previously written shows for cable and broadcast. She said that she’ll never get another cheque for work on Disney+’s She-Hulk. “That character we built,...
- 6/12/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Anna Shay, star of Netflix’s “Bling Empire,” has died. She was 62.
“It saddens our hearts to announce that Anna Shay, a loving mother, grandmother, charismatic star, and our brightest ray of sunshine, has passed away at the early age of 62 from a stroke,” her family said in a statement to media on June 5. “Anna taught us many life lessons on how not to take life too seriously and to enjoy the finer things. Her impact on our lives will be forever missed but never forgotten.”
Shay appeared on two seasons of the Netflix show, first showing up on the first season in 2021 and rising to fame for her outstanding wealth. The first season profiled Shay’s rivalry with international fashionista Christine Chiu in addition to a complicated love triangle situation between three other stars — self-made entrepreneur Kelly Mi Li, model Kevin Kreider and her ex-boyfriend “Power Rangers”.
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“It saddens our hearts to announce that Anna Shay, a loving mother, grandmother, charismatic star, and our brightest ray of sunshine, has passed away at the early age of 62 from a stroke,” her family said in a statement to media on June 5. “Anna taught us many life lessons on how not to take life too seriously and to enjoy the finer things. Her impact on our lives will be forever missed but never forgotten.”
Shay appeared on two seasons of the Netflix show, first showing up on the first season in 2021 and rising to fame for her outstanding wealth. The first season profiled Shay’s rivalry with international fashionista Christine Chiu in addition to a complicated love triangle situation between three other stars — self-made entrepreneur Kelly Mi Li, model Kevin Kreider and her ex-boyfriend “Power Rangers”.
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- 6/5/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
“Nothing in any future I see can replace the communal theatrical experience,” emphasized Lionsgate Motion Picture Vice Chair Adam Fogelson at the top of Lionsgate CinemaCon presentation, which closed out the 2023 Las Vegas confab this afternoon.
“Neither the advent of television or the advent of videotapes or the advent or DVDs or the advent of streaming platforms or a global pandemic can stop that,” he said told the crowd of exhibitors.
“As long as we do our part to please customers, we can all thrive,” Fogelson said emphasizing the studio’s release strategy for both tentpoles and audience specific movies, “the business can’t thrive on tentpoles alone.”
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Fogelson pointed to the novelty of Lionsgate in meeting different demos: This Friday it has the feature take on Judy Blume’s classic novel, Are You There God?...
“Neither the advent of television or the advent of videotapes or the advent or DVDs or the advent of streaming platforms or a global pandemic can stop that,” he said told the crowd of exhibitors.
“As long as we do our part to please customers, we can all thrive,” Fogelson said emphasizing the studio’s release strategy for both tentpoles and audience specific movies, “the business can’t thrive on tentpoles alone.”
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Fogelson pointed to the novelty of Lionsgate in meeting different demos: This Friday it has the feature take on Judy Blume’s classic novel, Are You There God?...
- 4/27/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
"Joy Ride" is the big, broad, studio comedy to beat this year, an incredible directorial debut with one of the funniest scripts in a while, and a cast that should get all the praise in the world because they just became the dynamic quartet to watch.
Ashley Park plays Audrey, an Asian woman raised in the U.S. by her adoptive white parents in suburban Washington. Given how monolithic their community is, it's no wonder Audrey would end up becoming best friends with Lolo (Sherry Cola), the only other Asian American kid in town. What starts as a convenience, however, quickly develops into a beautiful, if a bit dysfunctional, friendship. While Audrey rises to become a prominent lawyer with a lifetime of achievements and successes, Lolo still doesn't get out of the starving stage of the life of an artist, crashing at Audrey's guest house while trying to convince anyone...
Ashley Park plays Audrey, an Asian woman raised in the U.S. by her adoptive white parents in suburban Washington. Given how monolithic their community is, it's no wonder Audrey would end up becoming best friends with Lolo (Sherry Cola), the only other Asian American kid in town. What starts as a convenience, however, quickly develops into a beautiful, if a bit dysfunctional, friendship. While Audrey rises to become a prominent lawyer with a lifetime of achievements and successes, Lolo still doesn't get out of the starving stage of the life of an artist, crashing at Audrey's guest house while trying to convince anyone...
- 3/19/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Adele Lim’s debut film Joy Ride will make you cry your eyes out, in addition to showing the audience that women know how to party hard.
Written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong & Teresa Hsiao, the film stars Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu as four friends on a global adventure of self-discovery — but also drugs, sex and comedy. I expected nothing less from a movie that was originally titled Joy F**k Club, which I find hilarious.
Audrey (Park) is an adoptee growing up in an all-white household, and Lolo’s (Cola) parents just moved from China. Their friendship starts on the playground when Audrey is approached by a bully and Lolo punches him in the face.
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Written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong & Teresa Hsiao, the film stars Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu as four friends on a global adventure of self-discovery — but also drugs, sex and comedy. I expected nothing less from a movie that was originally titled Joy F**k Club, which I find hilarious.
Audrey (Park) is an adoptee growing up in an all-white household, and Lolo’s (Cola) parents just moved from China. Their friendship starts on the playground when Audrey is approached by a bully and Lolo punches him in the face.
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- 3/18/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Adele Lim’s Joy Ride is a raunchy and propulsive feature directorial debut set in motion by a sweet chance meeting. It’s 1998 and Lolo (Milana Wan) and her parents have just moved to White Falls, a suburban and very Caucasian enclave in Washington state. Their first meaningful encounter with the neighborhood — which Lim introduces in a zippy montage — and its residents is at a local playground. “Are you Chinese?” the Sullivans (David Denman and Annie Mumolo), a white family, asks them. The Chens (Kenneth Liu and Debbie Fan) exchange incredulous looks before snapping back: “Yes, but we speak English.” And, they add, they’re from California.
The Sullivans are thrilled; it turns out their clumsy inquiry was a sincere attempt to help their daughter Audrey (Lennon Yee), a Chinese adoptee, make a new friend. So begins Audrey and Lolo’s relationship, which blossoms from there into an affectionate sororal bond.
The Sullivans are thrilled; it turns out their clumsy inquiry was a sincere attempt to help their daughter Audrey (Lennon Yee), a Chinese adoptee, make a new friend. So begins Audrey and Lolo’s relationship, which blossoms from there into an affectionate sororal bond.
- 3/18/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There’s something about friendships that makes a gal’s heart sing. No one understands you quite like your closest girlfriends, and no one is there to pick up the pieces when everything goes sideways like they are. And things do go sideways in Adele Lim’s laugh-out-loud hilarious directorial debut “Joy Ride,” a sweet mix of a buddy comedy and a girl’s trip film that will have you laughing so much you’ll cry — and then crying for real, and laughing some more. This is such a bold and genuine movie, one that highlights the concepts of found family, maternal connections and doing what makes you happy alongside all of its unrestrained and risque fun.
The boisterous comedy follows Ashley Park’s Audrey, a Chinese girl adopted by white parents in a mostly-white suburban town. As a child, she meets and becomes BFFs with Sherry Cola’s Lolo,...
The boisterous comedy follows Ashley Park’s Audrey, a Chinese girl adopted by white parents in a mostly-white suburban town. As a child, she meets and becomes BFFs with Sherry Cola’s Lolo,...
- 3/18/2023
- by Lex Briscuso
- The Wrap
When Teresa Hsiao (“Family Guy”), Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (“Family Guy”) and Adele Lim (“Crazy Rich Asians”) set out to write “Joy Ride,” the aim was to develop a story that they wished they could have had seen in their twenties.
“Joy Ride” sees Lim transition from writer to director in this “Girls Trip” meets “The Hangover” ride of a film where Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola, and Sabrina Wu follow Ashley Park’s Audrey across the world on a business trip to Asia. Things go awry when she has to track down her birth mother to close a huge business deal.
The writers wanted a film that would show young Asian women having fun and being messy, smashing past narratives of Asian women as exotic fetishes. This was a story they wanted to tell on their terms.
Says Lim, “It’s a crazy bananas movie and you don’t know how it...
“Joy Ride” sees Lim transition from writer to director in this “Girls Trip” meets “The Hangover” ride of a film where Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola, and Sabrina Wu follow Ashley Park’s Audrey across the world on a business trip to Asia. Things go awry when she has to track down her birth mother to close a huge business deal.
The writers wanted a film that would show young Asian women having fun and being messy, smashing past narratives of Asian women as exotic fetishes. This was a story they wanted to tell on their terms.
Says Lim, “It’s a crazy bananas movie and you don’t know how it...
- 3/18/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The “Joy Ride” trailer is out now and certainly will take you for one.
“Crazy Rich Asians” director Adele Lim is behind the film, along with production credits from the comedic minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. It follows four women as they embark on a chaotic and explicit journey across Asia to search for one of the character’s birth mothers.
Audrey (Ashley Park) links up with her childhood best friend Lolo (Sherry Cola), her college roommate who is now a Chinese soap star (Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu), and her unconventional cousin Deadeye (Sabrina Wu).
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The four girls are embroiled in everything from cocaine smuggling to K-Pop star impersonating. Still, the main lesson they take from their adventure is the importance of friendship and self-discovery.
In a recent profile with Variety,...
“Crazy Rich Asians” director Adele Lim is behind the film, along with production credits from the comedic minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. It follows four women as they embark on a chaotic and explicit journey across Asia to search for one of the character’s birth mothers.
Audrey (Ashley Park) links up with her childhood best friend Lolo (Sherry Cola), her college roommate who is now a Chinese soap star (Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu), and her unconventional cousin Deadeye (Sabrina Wu).
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The four girls are embroiled in everything from cocaine smuggling to K-Pop star impersonating. Still, the main lesson they take from their adventure is the importance of friendship and self-discovery.
In a recent profile with Variety,...
- 3/17/2023
- by Emerson Pearson
- ET Canada
Rising star Stephanie Hsu is following up her Oscar-nominated turn in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” by going on a girls’ trip in the R-rated friendship comedy “Joy Ride,” which is coming to theaters this summer and got a new trailer on Friday.
Hsu, who plays an American star of Chinese soap operas named Kat, is part of an ensemble cast led by “Emily in Paris” breakout Ashley Park as Audrey, a woman who was born in China and adopted by white American parents, and “Good Trouble’ star Sherry Cola as Lolo, her childhood friend. Rounding out the foursome is comedian Sabrina Wu, who plays Lolo’s cousin Deadeye, a moniker they received for their dead eyes. The film follows the group on a trip to China in search of Audrey’s birth mother. Comic misadventures involving sex, drugs, culture clash, and K-pop ensue.
The raunchy film is the directorial...
Hsu, who plays an American star of Chinese soap operas named Kat, is part of an ensemble cast led by “Emily in Paris” breakout Ashley Park as Audrey, a woman who was born in China and adopted by white American parents, and “Good Trouble’ star Sherry Cola as Lolo, her childhood friend. Rounding out the foursome is comedian Sabrina Wu, who plays Lolo’s cousin Deadeye, a moniker they received for their dead eyes. The film follows the group on a trip to China in search of Audrey’s birth mother. Comic misadventures involving sex, drugs, culture clash, and K-pop ensue.
The raunchy film is the directorial...
- 3/17/2023
- by Liam Mathews
- Gold Derby
Book your flight, hide your drugs, and pack your bags because Adele Lim is bringing you on an unpredictable joy ride of discovery across the pond! From the producers of Neighbors and the co-screenwriter of Crazy Rich Asians, the Joy Ride red-band trailer features Ashley Park, Oscar-nominated actress Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola, and Sabrina Wu (Doogie Kamealoha M.D.) as four friends on a journey of discovery, identity, and outrageous adventures.
The Joy Ride red-band trailer is a hilarious and unapologetic look at Lim’s new comedy, centering on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey’s (Ashley Park) business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Sherry Cola), her irreverent childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat (Stephanie Hsu), her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), Lolo’s eccentric cousin.
The Joy Ride red-band trailer is a hilarious and unapologetic look at Lim’s new comedy, centering on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey’s (Ashley Park) business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Sherry Cola), her irreverent childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat (Stephanie Hsu), her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), Lolo’s eccentric cousin.
- 3/17/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
How could a trip to the motherland go so hilariously, disastrously wrong? The quartet at the heart of Adele Lim’s “Joy Ride” – Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu – have no idea what they’re in for at the top of the trailer, which Lionsgate released Friday ahead of the film’s premiere at SXSW.
The trailer begins with the origin story of Audrey (Park) and Lolo’s (Cola) friendship, when they meet at a park as young kids. Lolo punches a white boy in the throat after he calls Audrey a racist slur, sealing the deal on their lifelong friendship. Flash forward to the future and Audrey is preparing to visit China to find her birth parents, with Lolo as her translator. In Beijing, they link up with Kat (Hsu), Audrey’s college friend, now a Chinese soap star, as well as Lolo’s eccentric cousin...
The trailer begins with the origin story of Audrey (Park) and Lolo’s (Cola) friendship, when they meet at a park as young kids. Lolo punches a white boy in the throat after he calls Audrey a racist slur, sealing the deal on their lifelong friendship. Flash forward to the future and Audrey is preparing to visit China to find her birth parents, with Lolo as her translator. In Beijing, they link up with Kat (Hsu), Audrey’s college friend, now a Chinese soap star, as well as Lolo’s eccentric cousin...
- 3/17/2023
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
SXSW audiences always love a good comedy, and fans of raunchy humor appear to be in for a treat when “Joy Ride” premieres at the festival today. One of the most anticipated films on the lineup, the film about four friends making a trip to Asia to find one of their birth mothers promises to be a crowd-pleasing R-rated comedy told from a perspective fans haven’t often seen before.
According to the official synopsis, “Joy Ride” is a hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery that centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey’s (Ashley Park) business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Sherry Cola), her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat (Stephanie Hsu), her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), Lolo’s eccentric cousin.
According to the official synopsis, “Joy Ride” is a hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery that centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey’s (Ashley Park) business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Sherry Cola), her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat (Stephanie Hsu), her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), Lolo’s eccentric cousin.
- 3/17/2023
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Lionsgate has released the first trailer for Adele Lim’s “Joy Ride,” a comedy feature starring Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu, Ashley Park, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu. Premiering March 17 at SXSW, the film is set to be released in theaters July 7.
“Joy Ride” tells the raunchy and fun story of how four best friends embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. In the film, Audrey (Park) has to go to Asia on a business trip to close a massive deal. Things go drastically wrong when she searches for her birth mother with her childhood best friend Lolo (Cola), her college friend turned Chinese soap star Kat (Hsu) and Lolo’s eccentric cousin Deadeye (Wu). They also nearly end up in a Chinese jail for doing drugs.
The red band trailer features a glimpse into the wild adventure the foursome embark on, including cocaine-filled condoms and impersonating a K-Pop band. And that’s just the beginning.
“Joy Ride” tells the raunchy and fun story of how four best friends embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. In the film, Audrey (Park) has to go to Asia on a business trip to close a massive deal. Things go drastically wrong when she searches for her birth mother with her childhood best friend Lolo (Cola), her college friend turned Chinese soap star Kat (Hsu) and Lolo’s eccentric cousin Deadeye (Wu). They also nearly end up in a Chinese jail for doing drugs.
The red band trailer features a glimpse into the wild adventure the foursome embark on, including cocaine-filled condoms and impersonating a K-Pop band. And that’s just the beginning.
- 3/17/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu are four unlikely friends taking a wildly debauched trip to Asia in Joy Ride, a friendship comedy from the producers of Neighbors and Lionsgate.
Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Adele Lim’s directorial debut from Seth Rogen’s Point Grey features a road trip gone wrong for Audrey (Park) after she enlists help from Lolo (Cola), Chinese soap star Kat (Hsu) and eccentric cousin Deadeye (Wu).
“You’re drug dealers now, bitches!” the four unlikely Asian American friends discover after encountering an American drug mule on a Chinese bullet train ride.
What ensues is a journey of bonding and belonging fueled by alcohol abuse and other raunchy hijinx jam-packed into the two-minute trailer.
Joy Ride is having its world premiere Friday at SXSW, ahead of a wide release July 7, 2023.
Fans of Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once, where she...
Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Adele Lim’s directorial debut from Seth Rogen’s Point Grey features a road trip gone wrong for Audrey (Park) after she enlists help from Lolo (Cola), Chinese soap star Kat (Hsu) and eccentric cousin Deadeye (Wu).
“You’re drug dealers now, bitches!” the four unlikely Asian American friends discover after encountering an American drug mule on a Chinese bullet train ride.
What ensues is a journey of bonding and belonging fueled by alcohol abuse and other raunchy hijinx jam-packed into the two-minute trailer.
Joy Ride is having its world premiere Friday at SXSW, ahead of a wide release July 7, 2023.
Fans of Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once, where she...
- 3/17/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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