According to Next Magazine, Lynn Xiong (Hung Doi Lam) was reported to have been secretly hospitalized last week and diagnosed with a 2.5cm brain tumor last week after suffering from a persistent headache. Aaron Kwok rushed back to Hong Kong after his April 17th concert in Shanghai. Lynn's manager denied the report saying that she only went to the hospital for a stomach ache. The article reports that Lynn was overheard talking on the phone about worries of brain surgery. Doctors recommended that she stay in the hospital for observation but she was too anxious to remain and returned home.
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Kara Hui the veteran actress whose career underwent a massive revival following At The End of Daybreak has joined the cast of Singaporean-Malaysian comedy The Wedding Diary.
FBA: Huayi's Resistance comes to a halt
Production of time travel romance Underground Resistance has been halted as producers reassess the film's viability following casting and script changes.
CRI: 'The Lost Bladesman' Opens Beijing Film Panorama
CF: Jackie Chan's Cinema Opens in NE China
Christopher Doyle
From Los Angeles, Doyle discusses Chungking Express, the revitalization of Asian cinema and the appeal of revisiting a masterwork.
The real estate sector is awash with cash as it's one of the few vehicles available to Chinese private investors, who get little return from bank deposits in a time of rising inflation; where better for the real estate sector itself to invest than in the film biz, which is yielding high returns as more theaters are built and a cinemagoing culture starts to kick in. It's a symbiotic relationship.
"The standing joke is that funding comes from coal mine owners with cash to burn [like The Warring States?], but it is a combination of wealthy individual investors, funds and traditional sources," said Celestial Pictures CEO Ross Pollack.
Variety: Songzhuang docu fest cancelled
Beijing festival shadow falls on smaller event
A well-known Chinese indie docu fest, the Songzhuang Documentary Film Festival China, was forced to cancel its May 1-7 event, bowing to pressure ahead of the first state-run Beijing Intl. Film Festival, which opens at the weekend.
Film Festival Pulls Own Plug
With mainly male actors and action scenes, The Lost Bladesman is a macho film with only one female character, Qi Lan.
It is well-known historical supposition – and common sense – that Cao admired Guan's extraordinary talents and martial-arts ability and tried to coerce him to join his side, while Guan steadfastly refused to betray his master Liu Bei. The Lost Bladesman highlights the two's love-hate dynamic and even hints at something of a homoerotic relationship. It's certainly a fresh angle to the tired Three Kingdoms formula Chinese audiences have long been spoon-fed.
It was reported that the film's original print underwent an exacting digit refurbishment in the lead up to the re-release.
What started off as a promising premise turns choppy and relies very much on fast editing to make the plot really pop out. While it is commendable to experiment with cameraworks, but tilting the camera again and again is just plain sick. I don't feel any artistic twist to it every time the filmmaker does that; more like a vomit-inducing effect that I am more than please to take it off...
At times her jumpy character can be really annoying, but it's her innocence that actually draws people to her - like it or not. And she so much reminds me of Joey Wong, when she broke into the Hong Kong entertainment industry. Not bad.
One more A Beautiful Life poster.
A May 20 simultaneous release was previously reported.
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The Peter Chan-Teddy Chen production of the martial arts film The Flying Guillotines has been delayed according to Taiwan media due to not having received necessary approvals from the mainland. Production was due to begin filming this month. Ethan Ruan returned to Taiwan from Beijing where he had been training.
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Poster for Law Wing-Cheong's Punished, scheduled for a May 5 release
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Stills featuring Gong Beibi and Aaron Kwok from The Detective 2.
With no classification system, mainland audiences are warned that this is ' not another teen movie'. With scenes of a tongue being cut out, rotting corpses and other horrors, the words 'see with caution' have been added to all advertising posters, trailers, and other publicity materials in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities.. A promotional gimmick or an informal rating?
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No. 32, B District poster
The Chinese-Thai co-production is called the Asian "Paranormal" and opens June 3.
Karen Mok posted pictures of herself taken while filming on Rt. 66 outside of Los Angeles and Las Vegas while filming a micro-film for Cadillac. The road was closed for shooting with the help of the police.
Poster for Committed to Freedom
The micro-film is a follow up to the first one starring Daniel Wu entitled On the Verge filmed in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Cherie Chung's first TV advert in ages, directed by Lawrence Ah Mon and photographed by Cheung Man-Wa/Zhang Wenhua. [You can also look forward to seeing Cherie on the May cover of Elle.]
Li Bingbing promoting environmental protection in Beijing
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan will be released in July after screening a 10 minute clip at Cannes.
His comment took the blogosphere by storm, with come netizens even conferring upon him the title "Best Man of the Century" and expressing envy that Cheung had scored a husband whose love for her eclipsed his love for their children.
CNA: Kitty Zhang marries director 21 years her senior
For those who missed Rock Records' 30th anniversary in Taipei five months ago, its upcoming Beijing gig will offer another chance to catch up with the largest-ever line-up of Mandopop singers, responsible for 1,800 albums and 20,000 songs on Asia's largest independent label from the 1980s.
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