Exhausted Ang Lee pulls out of TV pilot 'Tyrant'

Never mind. Lee has backed out of the project, which would have been his first since for which he won this years best-director Academy Award. Tyrant, about an Arab state dictator who dies, leaving his American son to head the country, was created by ...

Lee Won, a descendent of the Daehan Empire's ruling family, was speechless. Not long after, tears ran down his face.On Feb. 5, Lee - also the president of the Imperial Household Culture Center - was allowed a rare glimpse into some of the artifacts ...

) - Drawing more than 500 people, Taiwan Cinema Party held at Plage Royale in Cannes Film Festival on May 18 was a successful hit. Taipei Factory executive producers Lee Lieh, Yeh Jufeng, and director Chang Jung-chi, Shen Ko-shang, Midi Chao, ...

Director Ang Lee. Taiwan on Friday awarded Oscar-winning director Ang Lee a top medal of honour to recognise his achievement in the film industry after he garnered two best director Oscars. President Ma Ying-jeou conferred the highest class of the, ...

Christoph Waltz, Daniel Auteuil, Naomi Kawase, Lynne Ramsay, Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman, Cristian Mungiu, Ang Lee and Vidya Balan walk the carpet at "The Great Gatsby" premiere Wednesday night at the Cannes Film Festival. "Gatsby" star Carey ...

The main jury of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, headed by Steven Spielberg, has as many as four other directors Ang Lee, Lynne Ramsay, Noami Kawase and Cristian Mungiu. That can only be good news for the makers of the 20 films competing for the ...

Photo - (from left) Andrew Lee, Managing Director, NEC Corporation of Malaysia Sdn Bhd; and Lawrence Ang, Senior General Manager, NEC Corporation of Malaysia Sdn Japanese-headquartered IT solutions firm NEC Corporation, which has marked its 25 years ...

Vidya Balan talks to NDTV's Noopur Tiwari about being in the "august company" of Steven Spielberg and Ang Lee, and how the Cannes Film Festival proves cinema has no language barriers. Vidya Balan swapped her Mughal princess look for a matronly sari ...

Should I quit school if I want to start my own business? Lee Du-hee, 30, a doctoral student in computer science at Seoul National University (SNU) asked Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, during a lecture Gates gave to about 300 SNU students on ...