Showing posts with label Buddha Mountain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buddha Mountain. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

5.3.2011 - News

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Wing Shya: 'I see beauty in everything' (CNNGo)
Celebrated Hong Kong photographer Wing Shya tells us about the most beautiful people he has ever photographed and why it is all in the eyes

Interview: 'Buddha Mountain'
Controversial Chinese director Li Yu talks to Wang Ge about Buddha Mountain, her tough childhood, and the demons she has tamed.

CRI: Directors Jiang and De Niro Meet in New York

CRI: Shu Qi and Liu Ye:Loving Birds in New Film
Romance film "A Beautiful Life" released new photos featured Shu Qi and Liu Ye. (Sina)

Photos of Liao Fan and Andy Lau on the set of The Founding of a Party
Liao Fan

Liao Fan, Andy Lau

Wilson Yip, Liu Yifei (May 2)

Liu Yifei and Wilson Yip visited Soochow University in Taipei to promote A Chinese Ghost Story

Li Bingbing promoted the launch of the official website for Snow Flower and The Secret Fan. Li Bingbing will have many lines of dialogue in English in the film though she admitted her proficiency was not that high. She also stressed that the film did not involve homosexuality as reported in the press. When asked, Li Bingbing said that she didn't know the background as to why Zhang Ziyi was dropped by producer Wendi Deng. The film will be released on July 15 after debuting at Cannes.


Actor Tong Dawei recently blogged that Zhang Yimou's Nanjing Heroes may be getting another new English title, to "Rescue", under advice from Hollywood experts. (Sina)


Oxide Pang's interaction and discussion with fans on his weibo is helping to generate good word of mouth for The Detective 2 since opening on April 29.

Gu Changwei's Till Death Do Us Part opens May 10.
Zhang Ziyi



Sex and Zen is to be released in South Korea on May 12 and in France, India and Italy in June.

Sukie Shek Wing-Lei (of Freeze) sings "Bliss", the theme song for 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy.

Andrew Lin became a father over the weekend. His wife delivered baby Zachary in Los Angeles. Andrew flew in from Beijing where he has been working on the special effects for Man With the Iron Fist and Qian Xuesen.


Edison Chen performing at the Chengdu Music Festival last night.



A1: Nicholas Tse gives KL fans the slip
Nicholas Tse has arrived ahead of schedule to film the eagerly-awaited Against War movie.Zhang Ziyi: No hurry to marry
MSN: Andy Hui and Sammi Cheng to wed in France?
Rumour has it that Andy Hui & Sammi Cheng will be getting hitched this OctoberMSN: Richard Chang labeled insincere and guilt ridden
MSN: Jay Chou laments about agingJay Chou getting too old for showbiz? (CNA)
Jay laments that he's "getting older and unable to dance due to shortness of breath, which is why all the fast songs are arranged at the end of the concert."
Show Luo revealed that fellow Taiwan singer Jolin Tsai has bad manners at the Mahjong table, during an appearance on a Chinese variety show on Thursday

NMA does Osama Bin Laden [Looks like the video was pulled. There were some somewhat rude images, I suppose.]

Saturday, April 23, 2011

4.23.2011 - News

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FBA: Buddha Mountain review (8/10)
Loosely-built drama of three youngsters and a retired opera singer is deceptively impressive.

More images from Karen Mok's Route 66-Cadillac shoot
They promised me 5 Cadillacs!



Lam Suet and Cherrie Ying are currently filming in Beijing, along with Vic Chou (Apr.21)

Lam Suet helps Johnnie To at the box office on his day off with tickets for Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Apr.12)
Lam Suet and long lost brother in Beijing (Apr.10)


Huang Yi on the BIFF red carpet (Apr.23)

Retro style


Zhang Jingchu on the April cover of Orange

Zhao Wei - May cover of Cosmopolitan

Charlie Young at an appearance for Omega in Wenzhou (Apr.23)

Charlie in black and white

Poster for upcoming George Lam concert in Hong Kong

Poster for Chen Man's first solo Beijing exhibition



Sweet and Sour: Smithsonian Celebrates History of Chinese-American Food
That is a story of thousands of Chinese families in the United States.

Shanghai offers fee cuts to defuse drivers' strike at port

Friday, April 1, 2011

4.1.2011 - News

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According to Joseph Chan, the curator of the Days of Being Wild Anniversary Exhibition , Leslie Cheung's simple closeup for the "one minute-friend" scene had 47 NGs. (Xinhua)

Variety: Buddha Mountain review
From Wong Kar Wai's "Days of Being Wild" to Jia Zhangke's "Unknown Pleasures" and beyond, more than 20 years of aimless Asian youth running amok has lapsed into cinematic cliche. But "Buddha Mountain" finds a narrative drive that still keeps faith with the youthful alienation it's exploring.


China Lion Film Distribution has struck an exclusive deal with New Video, a North American entertainment distributor and digital content aggregator.
Aiming to handle some 15 Chinese-language films per year, with many of them day-and-date releases with mainland China, China Lion will next distribute the Jin Chen-directed The Warring States on 22 April.

Sun Honglei

Sun Honglei described Warring States as costumed version of Lurk, his hit TV series about spies costarring Yao Chen. (Sina)

Director Hou Liang previewed a 20-minute trailer of Deadly Will yesterday in Beijing.
Hou Liang

Han Xue


Two Lost Bladesman posters featuring Jiang Wen


Three production design images for Zhang Yimou's Nanjing Heroes



Tony Leung Ka-Fai plays a doctor in The Devil Inside Me

The suspense thriller is to be released in June

The Frightening Night opens just in time for Ching Ming Festival (Apr.5)

Tang Yifei


Tang Yifei - Beijing premiere (Apr.1)

Director Xu Bin, Tang Yifei and castmates
(Sina-gallery), 2
Stills from The Frightening Night



 (Sina-slideshow)

Michelle Yeoh with Dee Poon (Pan Chuying), daughter of ex-husband Dickson Poon, appeared together at a handbag brand's charity dinner.



Du Yiheng, frequent double for Andy Lau, has a new CD out



Barbie Hsu and Kelly Lin's weddings

Close friends and relatives of Alan Tang, who was known to be physically fit, have expressed shock that he passed away in his sleep.They speculated that it could be due to over-exhaustion.
In 1999, To [Yuhang] became the youngest person in Hong Kong to win the World Wushu Championships at age 18...Find out more about Dennis To's life after Ip Man, and meet Hong Kong's latest gongfu babe... former Olympic champion Liu Xuan, Hong Kong's latest addition to its slew of gongfu babes, about her transition from gymnastics to acting. She plays the wife of martial arts hero Wong Fei Hong in TVB drama Grace Under Fire (2011). (RazorTV)

Zhang Ziyi with Wendi Deng Murdoch (Xinhua)

Selina Jen’s fiancé fights back for his beloved
The Taiwanese singer-actress added that she would not jump into marriage suddenly
The most infamous example was in March 2002 when Nicholas crashed his Ferrari 360 Modena in Hong Kong Central. No one was injured but he fled the scene and later had his chauffeur take responsibility.