Damn you, China Lion! It looks like D.C. has been dropped from the list of cities that is getting a release of "Magic to Win" this Friday. Presumably, no future films either. New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver remain on the island.
CF: Comedy Film "No Liar, No Cry" Premieres in Beijing
The film is set in the desert, and tells a tale between a mine owner and several money-mad people who want to buy his mine. The mine owner spends 10 years trying to find gold in the mine, while fending off people's attempts to take it over. In the end, the forces of nature and human triumph over greed.
CF: Row over Zhang Yimou's Blockbuster "Flowers of War"
Movie review: East Meets West 2011 (A1)
The new version often seems to be trying too hard - lacking the unaffected, carefree attitude that helped make the original so entertaining to watch
White Vengeance" took $12.58 million at the Mainland box office over six days, catching number one spot easily. Chinese New Year hit "East Meets West 2011" dropped to second place with gross $3.24 million...
Even taking advantage from the "Happy Ghost" movie franchise, "Magic to Win" just debuted to poor performance of $1.53 million in its four day run. Same day released film "Cold Steel" and "A Big Deal" earned $0.69 million and $0.64 million in box office respectively in their first week.Movie review: East Meets West 2011 (A1)
The new version often seems to be trying too hard - lacking the unaffected, carefree attitude that helped make the original so entertaining to watch
Joining the 3D fray is "Speed Pioneer", made for domestic audiences. Featuring parkour action, the film's cast includes Wang Zi (aka Prince) of Lollipop.
Parkour team
Wang Zi (Sina)
Stills from "Don't Follow", a micro film featuring Fan Bingbing dressed in men's clothing. Sponsored by Nokia. (Sina)
Posters for "Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault" based on the popular Taiwanese TV series, "Black & White", about triads.
Huang Bo, Terri Kwan
Alex To
Angelababy
Jack Kao
A Ken (Ken Lin)
Mark Chao
Soler - Dino and Julio Acconci
MSN: Andy Lau rumoured to have taken a secret remedy to improve his baby chances
The Hong Kong actor had hoped to improve his health and conceive a baby boy
Edison Chen: "I was too straight, too stupid and believed people." (CNA)
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ewaffle said...
Regarding "Flowers of War"...Zhang is looking forward to a box office result of over 1.5 billion dollars.
He must be very confident since that would put his movie solidly the third place in the all-time international box office list, behind only "Avatar" and "Titanic" and ahead of all of the Harry Potter movies, all of the Pirates of the Caribbean entries and every animated film by Pixar, Disney and Dreamworks.
Assuming he means U.S. dollars...
The Chinese articles I've seen don't indicate a denomination, so I presumed it was in RMB/yuan.
But Box Office Mojo shows Avatar's overseas box office as US$2B, plus $750M in US, so dollars seem to fit.
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