New poster of The Warrior and the Wolf reveals Maggie Q (Sina.com)
The Warrior and the Wolf Debuts at Toronto Film Festival
FFWD: Short take
The Warrior and the Wolf (dir. Tian Zhuang Zhuang)A disclaimer on this one: mid-TIFF exhaustion was setting in, and I was drifting a bit, but I also know for a fact that I wasn’t the only one who thought this Chinese period piece was tough to follow. The attrition rate was far higher than any other movie I’ve seen at TIFF, and even interstitial title cards couldn’t spell out exactly what was going on. A great warrior (maybe) is reluctant to kill people in battle, leading to his army’s defeat (I think). He hides out in a desert for a bit, sleeping with a female outcast he meets, and after a really strange sandstorm, they both turn into wolves. For some reason. It’s well shot, but that’s about all I can really say for it.

Lin Chi-Ling (!)

Treasure Hunter poster was released yesterday. The Jay Chou, Lin Chi-Ling movie is set to be released in December. (Sina.com)
'Treasure Hunter' Gears up for Release
The official poster and the first trailer for "The Treasure Hunter", starring Jay Chou and Lin Chi-Ling, were released Thursday.

Spy vs Spy
This autumn, "The Message" ("Feng Sheng") will join the growing list of flicks about the shadowy lives of secret agents.
The Message stills

Danwei: What do stars having a meeting look like? On Founding of a Republic and Ye Daying's Tian'anmen
Tian'anmen tries to face the behemoth of The Founding of a Republic

All-star Epic Presents a New Face for China
All-Star Movie Gives Nation's History
Screen Daily: Founding Of A Republic has record-breaking opening day
The film was originally scheduled to open on Sept 17, but was pushed ahead to 2pm on Sept 16. Its nationwide gross reached $1.9m (RMB14m) up until midnight of Sep 16, which is the best half-day sales record in Chinese film history.
Hollywood Reporter

Jackie Chan, journalist

Telegraph: Epic film The Founding of a Republic marks 60 years of Chinese Communism

Screen Daily: Media Asia scores deals on Venice title Accident

Hollywood Reporter: Tian's 'Warrior' to open HKAFF
Two-week event highlights Asian directors for HK audience

The latest work from upcoming directors, including Singaporean Ho Tzu-nyen’s “Here," Indian Laxmikant Shetgaonkar’s “The Man Beyond the Bridge," Hong Kong director Risky Liu’s “Pastry" and Hong Kong film critic turned indie filmmaker Bono Lee’s “Beijing is Coming," which is making its world premiere at the festival, will compete for this year’s New Talent Awards, which commend newcomers making their debut or sophomore efforts.


Yakkity Yek: Blood Ties a good start
Blood Ties features Cheng Pei Pei and Kenneth Tsang in Singapore film
It has that under-lit urban mystery look, especially in scenes featuring cops in a tense station, which seem as though they could have come from Infernal Affairs or a Johnnie To expose into a seedy underbelly of some kind.

Time Out: Film about illegal Chinese immigrant claustrophobic, in a good way
In Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s film, “Take Out,” the audience follows an illegal Chinese immigrant, Ming Ding (Charles Jang). He has one day to pay back a debt or the debt doubles.

Take Out DVD Review: Chinese Lament Delivers

A kind of road movie to nowhere that literally goes around in circles and plays out in the course of a single day...

Taipei Times: 02'20" review
With its sports theme and a physically challenged character in a pivotal role, this melodrama seems ready to capitalize on the Taipei Deaflympics and the Kaohsiung World Games. But it deserves no medal — if anything, the script should have been disqualified

They could be Heroes
Chinese 'Hero' for NBC's Hit Drama: Report
NBC is currently approaching Hong Kong-based stars Daniel Wu, Allen Ting and Stephen Fung for the role, according to the report. Daniel Wu and Stephen Fung share an American upbringing.


Anna May Wong documentary featured at weekend film festival
The first annual festival, sponsored by the San Francisco Chinatown Merchants Association, will screen Elaine Mae Woo’s acclaimed 2007 documentary on Anna May Wong along with two highly regarded documentaries by Jeff Adachi, The Slanted Screen from 2006, and the recently released You Don't Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story.

Taipei Times: Pop Stop