2.1.2011 - News

FBA: The Killer gets green light for 3-D remake
South Korea’s Jung Woo-sung will star in a 3-D English-language remake of iconic Hong Kong film The Killer.

Variety: Shaolin
Well-mounted Chinese-Hong Kong martial-arts co-production “Shaolin” elevates enlightenment above brute strength, but weak helming undercuts the pic’s punch.

FBA: Shaolin (7/10)

Potentially epic tale ends up as okay popcorn entertainment.

(Sina)

Louis Koo plays a makeup artist in All's Well Ends Well 2011

(Sina)

Eric Tsang crashed the Hong Kong premiere of CNY rival Raymond Wong's All's Well Ends Well 2011.

He sported an I Love Hong Kong t-shirt, of course. (Sina)

Josie Ho has dropped out of Quentin Tarantino-RZA project The Man With the Iron Fist in order to remain in Hong Kong and deal with the Stanley Ho family financial squabble. The project would have required her to spend a month-long shoot in Shanghai. (Sina)

Jay Chou and Lin Chi-Ling rehearse for CCTV's Spring Festival broadcast.

(Sina-gallery)

New Year greetings from My Own Swordsman

Yao Chen

Yan Ni

Writer Ning Caishen, director Shang Jing

(Sina)

CNA: Celluloid time machine: "It's a Great Great World"

"This is the first Singaporean film that shows how people lived from the 40s to the 60s," says director Kelvin Tong of his new film which was shot on a lavish set built at a former army camp in Choa Chu Kang.

MSN: Lin Chi-ling has no time to get married

MSN: Faye Wong never gave up on her daughter

MSN: Jay Chou’s ‘The Green Hornet’ topples charts in Taiwan

1.27.2011 - News

FBA: Shaw to sell stake in TVB
FBA: Seven Days in Heaven (6/10)
Original, low-key black comedy set during the week-long Taoist mourning process for an average small-town father.


‘Mr. & Mrs. Incredible’ and Sandra Ng (WSJ)
All's Well Ends Well 2011: A Lunar New Year Laugh-in (WSJ)
Fiona Law, who teaches a class on Hong Kong cinema at the University of Hong Kong and has done extensive research on the phenomenon of the Chinese New Year movie, says the first known example was “Bloom and Prosper,” a 1937 comedy from mainland director Tang Xiaodan. No copy is believed to survive, but Dr. Law says it involves a familiar theme for the genre: winning the lottery and easy fortune.

Tsang and Leung lead CNY movie pack in I Love Hong Kong

I Love Hong Kong poster

The film features over 100 HK stars (Sina)

Posters for The Lost Bladesman 

  

Various aspects of General Guan Yu depicted

Alan Mak and Felix Chong direct Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen in the costume epic.(Sina), 2

PETA ad targets Gong Li

(Xinhua)

MSN: Ronald Cheng and Charlene Choi given probationary divorce

1.26.2011 - News

PR: China Lion Knows 'What Women Want' February 3rd
China Lion Film Distribution will open the Mandarin-language remake of 'What Women Want' (Wo Zhi Nu Ren Xin), starring Andy Lau and Gong Li, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, February 3rd, at select theaters throughout North America, as well as day-and-date in China and releasing in Australia and New Zealand. The film will be the first China Lion release for 2011...

(Sina)

Hong Kong gives tepid reception to remake of John Woo gangster classic 'A Better Tomorrow'

All's Well Ends Well 2011 posters

(Sina)

New stills featuring Daniel Wu in Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai's Don't Go Breaking My Heart hint that his character transforms from frog to prince.

Daniel Wu

Frog

Prince

(Sina)

Stills from Gao Xiaosong's My Kingdom. Action director Sammo Hung recreates the era of the Seven Little Fortunes .

Yuen Biao

Yu Rongguang

(Sina)

CNNGo: Can a kung fu movie about Peking opera save Chinese souls?

Celestial Pictures press release

Sammo Hung recently celebrated his 59th birthday (Jan. 7)

Unfortunately, Sammo was also in the tabloid news after being photographed hand-in-hand with a young woman. When shown the photograph, his wife (Joyce Godenzi/Gao LiHong, 2nd right, above) said that she did not recognize her but she didn't know all of Sammo's friends. (Sina)

WSJ: Wives, Kids and a Pop Star: A Who's Who of Stanley Ho's Family 

MSN: Kelly Chen rumoured to have taken 30 injections to help ovulation

MSN: First look at Vicki Zhao’s daughter

1.17.2011 - News

CRI: Nicholas Tse, Jay Chou to Collaborate in Action Movie
Dante Lam to direct Reversal Wars [Against War]
MSN: Jay Chou, Nicholas Tse set to act in a movie together
Nicholas and Jay would play two brothers, while the antagonist would either be Korean stars Jung Woo-sung or Lee Byung-Hun, Chinese actress Lee Bingbing would play one of the female leads.

CRI: 'Aftershock', the Winner at Harbin Film Festival

Zhang Jingchu and Wang LeeHom on the red carpet

Anthony Wong (Xinhua-gallery)

Karen Mok having a bit of fun in Harbin (Xinhua)

CRI: Chinese Version of 'What Women Want'
Interview with director Chen Daming

Andy Lau

Andy Lau in What Women Want 

(Sina-slide show)

The cast of heavily-under-wraps Tony Ching Siu-Tong's Madame White Snake (current English title, It's Love) was revealed to the public at the production wrap press conference on the 16th. The cast presented to the press: Jet Li, Charlene Choi, Vivian Hsu, Huang Shengyi, Raymond Lam and Wen Zhang. The lineup also includes Lam Suet, Chapman To, Sonija Kwok, Law Kar-Ying, and Miriam Yeung. The film is now in post-production with a year-end release planned.

Jet Li

Jet Li, Vivian Hsu, Charlene Choi, Huang Shengyi, Raymond Lam Fung, Wen Zhang

Producer Yang Zi with Charlene Choi

and Vivian Hsu

(Xinhua-gallery)

Publicity stills for All's Well Ends Well 2011

Cecilia Cheung, Louis Koo

Carina Lau, Donnie Yen

Yan Ni, Raymond Wong

Lynn Hung, Chapman To

(Sina)

Andy Lau and Fan Bingbing promote Shaolin in Shanghai which opens on the 19th.

Benny Chan, Andy Lau, Fan Bingbing, Nicholas Tse

(Sina)

Angelababy

Pakho Chau and Angelababy promote Adidas brand in Beijing. (Jan.16)

(Xinhua-gallery), (Sina)

MSN: Selina Jen receives apology from drama director