More "Christmas Rose" Stills [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

The publicity campaign heats up as new stills, featuring Chang Chen, from "Christmas Rose" are released. There's also a new behind-the-scenes trailer.

(Sina)

New "Christmas Rose" Stills [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

New stills of Guei Lun-Mei in Charlie Young's (Yeung Choi-Nei) "Christmas Rose" were released today. Guei Lun-Mei plays a disabled pianist who's sexually assaulted by a doctor.

Xia Yu - for the defense

Aaron Kwok - prosecutor

Chang Chen - defendant

(Sina), 2

Christmas Rose Posters [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

Guei Lun-Mei

Chang Chen

Xia Yu

Aaron Kwok

Charlie Young and Guei Lun-Mei at a press conference in Beijing earlier this week 

(Sohu)

"Christmas Rose" [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

A trailer for Charlie Young's "Christmas Rose" was released at a press conference in Beijing yesterday. The story of the Tsui Hark-produced film has been under tight wraps and the title led many to expect a romantic film. Instead, the film is involves a case of sexual assault by a doctor, played by Chang Chen. It was only a few days ago that Chang Chen was revealed to be in the cast. The cast includes Aaron Kwok, Xia Yu, Qin Hailu, Guei Lun-Mei as well. Aaron Kwok plays the prosecutor, Guei Lun-Mei, the victim; and Xia Yu, Chang Chen's defending lawyer. The film, written and directed by Young, opens in April.

Aaron Kwok, Charlie Young, Xia Yu, Chang Chen

(Sina), 2, 3

Shu Qi in LA, Milan, Taiwan, New/Old Project Launched [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

Shu Qi was in LA last weekend for a World Heart Day charity dinner. Before that, she was in Milan for the 2013 Spring Jimmy Choo rollout.

Also, Shu Qi and Chang Chen have started a new/old (in development since 2005) martial arts film project helmed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. The official launch ceremony for "The Assassins" (yes, another one!) was held in Taiwan on Sept. 25. Besides Shu Qi and Chang Chen, Nikki Hsieh Hsin-ying and Chang Shao-huai have been announced as cast members. The film will require Shu Qi to learn marital arts as well as flying by wire for the story set during the Tang Dynasty..

Shu Qi in Los Angeles

Seafood dinner!

"Habit" is the worst partner ... (???)

Perhaps a response to refute the latest rumour having Shu Qi reuniting with ex-bf Leon Lai?

Upcoming cover for October issue

With stylist Sev Tsang in Milan

Jimmy Choo show in Milan

Source

ScreenDaily: Hou’s The Assassin to start shooting in October

Set in the Tang Dynasty, the story revolves about a young woman who is secretly trained by a Taoist nun to become a ruthless assassin but is then asked to kill her lover.

Shu Qi in Taiwan

Chang Chen

Chang Shao-huai, Nikki Hsieh, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Shu Qi, Chang Chen

Chang Chen

(Sina)

3.26.2012 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

Variety: Studio complex puts China in the picture
Huairou Film Base hopes to lure Westerners

In a recent coup for Huairou, Keanu Reeves signed on to shoot "Man of Tai Chi," a $32 million contemporary chopsocky and tai chi actioner that will film here. The cast includes Tiger Chen and Karen Mok, with Reeves as a bad guy -- and martial arts choreography by Yuen Woo-ping ("The Matrix").

Variety: Film is art to Chinese helmer Lu Chuan

Local auds didn't flock to "City of Life and Death" in expected numbers, partially because Lu made the Japanese general in the war movie a real character.
Now the director wants his vision to appeal to auds in the booming China market as he gets ready to unveil "The Last Supper," a costume drama about two warring generals, toplining mainland-friendly stars Liu Ye, Daniel Wu and Taiwanese thesp Chang Chen.
FBA: Audience invited to all or nothing Supper

Qin Lan as Empress Lu in "The Last Supper", opening July 5th

Qin Lan

Liu Ye, Qin Lan, Daniel Wu, Chang Chen at recent Beijing press conference (Sina)

Daniel Wu

Liu Ye

Chang Chen (Sina-gallery)

Trailer for "The Last Supper"

Gong Li will play Empress Wu in "Tang Dynasty Mystic/Mystery Map"

Two versions of the film are in the pipeline, with Jacob Cheung Chi-Leung directing and Tony Ching Siu-Tung producing and filming to begin in July. An international US-China version hopes to get Danny Boyle to direct with an unnamed actress in the lead.

(Sina), 2, 3

First stills from Guan Hu's black comedy "Design of Death"

A quack doctor (Simon Yam) performs an autopsy to determine whether the cause of a death is a murder or an accident. The setting is an ancient village in the mountains.

Simon Yam

Yu Nan atop a coffin

Huang Bo

Alec Su (Sina)

CF: China's First Banned Film Released after 60 Years
After its premier in 1951, the film was soon caught up in ideological disputes, which saw it pilloried as being pro-capitalist, a severe accusation in an era characterized by its black-and-white politics. However, Mao Zedong's criticism of the film, in which he labeled it as carrying a message detrimental to the principles of socialism, was perhaps the main reason behind the banning of the film.

(Sina)

MSN: Showbiz boss Albert Yeung dishes the dirt on celebrity scandals

Jackie Chan, Elaine Ng (Sina), 2

 

 

WaPo: Hong Kong selects new leader after tumultuous contest
After a boisterous but highly undemocratic contest featuring feuding tycoons, dark rumors of closet communism and a host of scandals over sex, gangsters and an illegal wine cellar, Hong Kong elites on Sunday selected a wealthy, China-backed populist as the new leader of this former British colony.
SCMP: Leung wins chief executive race
“We, Hong Kong people, have no rights to cast our votes, We come here just to voice our anger,”

SCMP: Majority cast blank votes in people's poll for chief

"We already have no right to vote in the real election. Why should we be deprived of our rights even in a fake one?"

WaPo: In Hong Kong, fears of China’s hidden hand overshadow election