In the same year, CATCHPLAY also provided financing and local production support to director Martin Scorsese’s passion project Silence, making it the first international production filmed entirely in Taiwan. CATCHPLAY and partners also control exclusive distribution rights to these films in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Macau, with The Revenant generating outstanding box office results from these territories in 2016. In early 2015, we closed a partnership deal to invest in New Regency’s three enthralling titles, namely The Revenant, Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell, marking the first investment of a Taiwanese company in major Hollywood productions. Both investments generated considerable box office performance in Taiwan and China respectively. In the same year, we invested in the locally produced film, Paradise in Service and co-produced 20 Once Again with CJ Entertainment for the Chinese market. ![]() In spite of this, Fractured is an eerily entertaining journey, even if the final destination isn't a dark-mirrored Twilight Zone.In 2014, in addition to distributing the movies CATCHPLAY loves, we embarked in earnest co-production and investment projects, venturing into content creation. While the ending is unsettling and somewhat disturbing, it's also an ending that seems so obvious, it's easy to feel like a sucker for ever thinking it would be any other way. Ray's perception of reality is so much more interesting than the actual story, that, as much as one might root for Ray and his family, you find yourself rooting instead for a surreal external dark parody of American health care as opposed to a resolution that ultimately feels contrived and disappointing. Which leads to the problem with Fractured. As the story moves deeper into the mystery, and as Ray grows increasingly desperate in his search for his missing wife and child, it's only natural to root for him as he fights back, even if Ray's perception of reality isn't exactly what's happening. As the lead character Ray, Sam Worthington comes off as a relatable enough Middle-Aged Everyman trying to protect his family in the face of what appears to be a cold hospital bureaucracy. ![]() This decent thriller does an excellent job of playing on the sympathies of the audience. Desperate to find his wife and daughter, and suspicious of what's really going on in this hospital, Ray must find a way to rescue Joanne and Peri. When he wakes up, he discovers that the hospital has no record of Peri checking in, and no record of Peri and Joanne even being in the hospital. While Joanne accompanies Peri, Ray passes out from exhaustion in the waiting room. ![]() Berthram ( Stephen Tobolowsky), who insists that Peri immediately gets an MRI. At the hospital, Ray and Joanne must contend with long wait times and intrusive bureaucratic questioning. As Ray tries to rescue Peri, Peri falls backwards and breaks her arm. A wolf emerges and stands between Peri and the car. ![]() They pull off at a gas station, and while Joanne is in the rest room and Ray is trying to clean up the coffee and alcohol he just spilled all over the back seat, Peri wanders off to a construction site next door. In FRACTURED, during a Thanksgiving road trip, Ray ( Sam Worthington) is driving while arguing with his wife Joanne ( Lily Rabe) and trying to keep his daughter Peri entertained.
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