'Joy Luck Club' director says city-state is 'ready' for more By Janine Stein SINGAPORE -- Chinese-American director Wayne Wang is talking to Singapore financiers, directors and film industry authorities about making movies in the Southeast Asian city-state. Lauded both for his art house efforts such as "Smoke" and for his mainstream movies such as "Maid in Manhattan" and "The Joy Luck Club," Wang spoke to The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday on the eve of an Oct. 9-15 retrospective of his work at Singapore's Golden Village cinemas. Wang's two most recent films, "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" and "The Princess of Nebraska," will open here on Oct. 16. For a long time, Singapore was not on Wang's filmmaking radar because he long thought that films and television produced here were "rather boring." "They were always very middle...
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