MADAME MAVERICK just opened yesterday November 16 at the Canton-Sardine in Chinatown on Keefer Street. It is a must see visual multi media presentation by artist Leslie Leong the niece of Faye Leung. Madame Maverick celebrates the life and legacy of Faye Leung (1932–2024), Vancouver’s legendary “Hat Lady,” a fearless entrepreneur and community force, a singular figure in Vancouver’s Chinese Canadian community whose sartorial flamboyance was inseparable from her strategies of self-determination and public presence. Leung disrupted both gendered and racialized expectations of business decorum by appearing in sequined gowns and elaborate hats while negotiating high-stakes real estate and commercial ventures. In doing so, the exhibition contributes to broader conversations about how personal aesthetics can operate as a mode of resistance, cultural continuity, and political visibility within minoritized communities.
2025 has been a banner year for the Best Group with 100 sky train billboards up across Metro Vancouver promoting our magazines and 30 sales reps all over the world developing six magazines slated for publication in 2026.
If 2026 is as good as 2025, production will start on our first ever movie project sometime in 2027, The Faye and Dean Leung Story. We don’t have a name for it yet but Madame Maverick isn’t bad. It will be totally funded and executive produced by The Best Group. the first step will be to find a scriptwriter and start work on an original screenplay. By the end of 2027, we hope to have a script, a leading lady and a director and producer at lease in mind.
If our first effort making movies is successful, we will follow up in 2028 with One Beautiful Summer, The Arthur W. Delamont Story filmed entirely in England.
Again, if Summer is successful, we will follow up in 2029 with our big blockbuster war movie filmed entirely in Lisbon, the Algarve, the Costa del Sol and Romania, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalyse.
The Best Little Movie House in Vancouver 