Friday, September 11, 2009

Fan Bingbing, Sylvia Chang in Upcoming Li Yu film

Huang Bo strikes a pose for Cow
Huang Bo, Director Hu Guan

Fan Bingbing has travelled to Chengdu to prepare shooting a new film, Guanyin Mountain. The movie will costar Sylvia Chang and the film's director, Li Yu (Lost in Beijing). Sylvia Chang has been learning Beijing Opera for her role. Fan is red hot in demand this year, currently shooting Sunshine in Chongqing with Wang Shuoshui and Guo Degang's Three Smiles (Flirting Scholar) and will soon be promoting Wheat. (Sina.com)

Poster for Huang Jia Ci Qing (Royal Tattoo)
The film is a costume kung fu comedy with a mix of a Chinese version of Prison Break. It's a humorous reinterpretation of a classic plot about a Qing Dynasty royal secret treasure and tattoo treasure map. (Sina.com)


Taipei Times review: Somewhere I Have Never Travelled
Small town, big ambitions
April Bride
In Japan, if you make a movie about a gorgeous bride with terminal breast cancer and cast the hottest young actors, you can make a lot of money. Whether or not it will encourage female viewers to have their breasts checked regularly is another matter. Nana Eikura is the unfortunate woman, whose diagnosis and a mastectomy send her fleeing from her perfect boyfriend (played by Eita), who manages to track her down in time to propose. Based on a true story.
Love Twisted
Late last year we previewed Man, Woman and the Wall (2006), a Japanese erotic thriller steeped in voyeurism. Love Twisted was made in Japan two years earlier, but shares the theme, as well as crossover porn star Sora Aoi in one of her first non-porn roles. Imagine Fatal Attraction with more nudity and set in a really depressing housing complex. Starts tomorrow.
Into the Faraway Sky
Taiwanese actor Chang Chen (張震) has a supporting role in this 2007 film set in Hokkaido about offbeat villagers standing in the way of an airport project and the government man sent to fix the problem. The Taiwanese distributor, ahead of a DVD rollout, has changed the Chinese title to link it to the otherwise unconnected Taiwanese production Orz Boyz! (冏男孩). Starts tomorrow.
The film, about a wife who discovers her husband is having an affair with another man, took the best screenplay award at the Festival de Cannes.
Initiative designed to help promote creativity industry in HK

Lau Ching-Wan
Lau Ching-Wan voices Garfield again in Garfield 3D which opens Oct. 1 in Hong Kong. Lau previously was the voice behind the cat in both previous Cantonese editions of Garfield. (Sina.com)
Brides, Bruce and boobs

No comments: