In the 2000s, there have been some bright spots. Milkyway Image, founded by filmmakers Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai in the mid-1990s, has had considerable critical and commercial success, especially with offbeat and character-driven crime films like "The Mission" (1999) and "Running on Karma" (2003). An even more successful example of the genre was the blockbuster "Infernal Affairs" trilogy (2002–03) of police thrillers co-directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak (the Oscar-winning movie "The Departed", was based on this movie). Comedian Stephen Chow, the most consistently popular screen star of the 1990s, directed and starred in "Shaolin Soccer" (2001) and "Kung Fu Hustle" (2004); these used digital special effects to push his distinctive humor into new realms of the surreal and became the territory's two highest-grossing films to date, garnering numerous awards locally and internationally. Johnnie To's two Category III movies: "Election" and "Election 2" also enjoyed Hong Kong box office successes. "Election 2" has even been released in the US theatrically under the new title "Triad Election"; this movie received very positive reviews in the United States, with a more than 90% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. New LGBT films such as "City Without Baseball" (2008), "Permanent Residence" (2009) and "Amphetamine" (2009) followed the success of earlier 1990s films such as "Bugis Street" (a 1995 Hong Kong–Singapore co-production), and "Hold You Tight" (1998).