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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

5.11.2011 - News

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A striking change of pace for director Zhang Yimou, with a sensitive love story during the Cultural Revolution.

Based on a 16th century fantasy novel, the $60 million "Monkey King" plays at the Cannes Film Festival this year. For the Hong Kong film sector, creating a future with the lucrative Chinese film industry lies in the past.

Sydney gold medalist Liu Xuan moves to Hong Kong for a shot at the big time in acting and singing.

Let the Wind Carry Me is Kwan Pun-leung’s moving portrait on the preeminent cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing

Wuxia Knight centers on a pair of high-flying detectives in a battle against a super-villain on a quest to take over a mystical martial arts kingdom in Chinatown.
Shi Nansun, Cannes Jury Photocall 


Jury press conference photos
Johnnie To at the red carpet Grand Opening (Sina)



When "City of Life and Death" makes its New York debut Wednesday, it will mark the culmination of a long journey for the sweeping wartime drama that centers on the Nanjing Massacre of 1937.

The Weinstein Company has landed one of the first big deals in Cannes this year, taking worldwide rights outside of Asia and French-speaking Europe for Dragon (Wu Xia). [How creative, Harvey!]
Variety: Weinstein Co. nabs most 'Dragon' rights
TWC has also acquired first option to remake rights for the film. CRI: Trailer Released for 'Wu Xia'
Cannes Special: Chinese Film 'Wu Xia' (CRI)

CRI: Chinese Quake Film Expected to Compete in Montreal
A product of the Changchun Film Studio, "The Sun" ("Da Tai Yang") was inspired by stories of the survivors' psychological struggles after the magnitude-8.0 earthquake in southwestern China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.

CF: Ning Hao's New Film to Begin Shooting, (Sina)
Zhang Yibai to executive produce. Ning Hao is likely to cast students from his recent training program as well as regulars such as Guo Tao, Huang Bo and Liu Hua.

Director He Ping (Wheat, Heaven and Earth, Swordsman in Double Flag Town) seemed to confirm that Tang Wei's scenes were deleted from Founding of a Party in posts he made on his weibo. He said that her performance was very good and it was pity it was deleted. Not naming her directly, He said that a "little girl" was deleted leading netizens to guess he was referring to Tang Wei. Manfred Wong doubted it though because such instructions could only from the highest levels. If true, the pressure from on high was great or simply she was edited for length as John Woo's scenes were cut in the previous film. (Sina)

Latest poster for Love For Live patterned after The Last Supper.
Zhang Ziyi and directro Gu Changwei in Nanjing to promote Love For Life.





Tony Leung Ka-Fai - The Devil Inside Me





Pretending Lovers with Huang Bo and Jiang Yiyan opens June 24. Director Liu Fendou has writing credits that include Shower, Subway, Spicy Love Soup, Ocean Flame and others.





Cannes arrivals: Fan Bingbing, Gong Li



Fan Bingbing and Tintin (Sina)


Most of the time, the Love Again male lead, Korean actor Kwon Sang Woo was forced to act with the double. While he is not thrilled by the arrangement, Sang Woo obliged.
Ceci's double, lower left (Xinhua)

Seeing their sweet exchanges, fans have urged them to just get hitched. One wrote, "Don't waste time on the weibo (microblog). Just go get married!"
He urged Wong, whom he called "an eternal friend" to settle down as well as "have children soon" because she was getting old...The 51-year-old singer revealed that it was Wong's father who objected to their relationship as he was worried that Chyi, a rock singer, would become a drifter in the future and would not make a good husband for Wong. Chyi Chin shows off newborn baby girl on micro blog, (CRI)


Leftover women are not only single, but are usually “three-high” too highly-educated, highly-paid and highly independent. Thus they usually have a relatively high standard for their material life. In Hong Kong, there’s the same phenomenon. Men in Hong Kong complain about Hong Kong women being too materialistic and first thing these women ask are their education background, job and salary. It’s like these women are doing target-based sales.

Friday, October 15, 2010

10.15.2010 - News

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Variety: Addicted to Love (China) review
A Chinese senior citizen rediscovers the power of the heart in the beautifully observed and played “Addicted to Love.”
Reign of Assassins  - Michelle Yeoh’s swordplay gem


Pang went to the cinemas to observe the opening day crowd for “The Child’s Eye” on Thursday in Hong Kong, and saw firsthand the three main advantages that 3D brings to the film industry as a whole.
Also: Filming for “The Sleep Walker” is scheduled to start at the end of this month in Hong Kong and Thailand for a 2011 release.
Indomina Releasing has acquired domestic rights to Hong Kong martial arts thriller "Bodyguards and Assassins" from We Distribution.
Indomina also recently acquired "Griff the Invisible," "Wasted on the Young," "True Legend" and "Fire of Conscience."
Midnight Heartbeat/Midnight Pulse new poster

The Simon Yam, Francis Ng hospital horror film has finally received an official release date after passing a final cut and review following another round of edits. The release date is set for December 24th. Ho, Ho, Ho! (Sina)

Ning Hao's film No Man's Land has finally been freed from limbo. Originally scheduled for a December 8, 2009 release, the film had been held up by authorities and now finally granted a December 18, 2010 release. Reportedly too dark for censors, the film has been reedited many times. Though Ning Hao had previously said the changes were minor, netizens were expressing doubts. (Sina)

Zhou Dongyu, Shawn Dou Xiao

Zhang Yimou brought Under the Hawthorn Tree to the Hawaii International Film Festival. As Dou Xiao is fluent in English, he acted as Zhou Dongyu's translator. 


Alec Su, Pace Wu


Pace Wu
Hidden Chamber of Secrets unveiled the film's poster and officially launched its website yesterday. The film opens October 29. (Sina), 2

The cast of Jingle Ma's Dynamic Angel (Race Car) celebrate Jimmy Lin's 36th birthday.
Cecilia Cheung, Jimmy Lin, Tang Wei, Chie Tanaka, Han Jae-Seok

Jimmy Lin, Rene Liu, Jingle Ma

On the set of Love Island
Simon Yam, Francis Ng

Francis Ng

The cast also includes Song Jia, Janice Man, Chang Chen and Joan Chen
(Sina) (Thanks, to Valerie)

Stanley Fung

Stanley Fung appeared on a Beijing TV program recently (Sina)

Friday, October 8, 2010

10.8.2010 - News

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THR: Under the Hawthorn Tree
THR: Zhang's 'Hawthorne' opens Pusan
Director is guest of honor at Asia’s largest film fest

Reign of Assassins review
Famous for his script-crafting skills, Su displays his talents yet again in “Assassins” with detailed plotlines and humorous convos without trying too hard.

Interview: Man with the Iron Fist Director, Wu-Tang Impresario RZA
Christopher Doyle to shoot RZA's The Man With the Iron Fist

CRI: Miriam Yeung Stages Concert in Hong Kong,
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CRI: Zhao Wei Releases First Music Video for Latest Album, (Sina-gallery)
CRI: Fan Bingbing Shows Her Style in Paris
CRI:Chinese Film 'Buddha Mountain' Completes Tokyo Fest Lineup
"Buddha Mountain" and "The Piano in a Factory" by Chinese director Zhang Meng, are set to compete for six awards, including the prestigious Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix.

FBA: Detective Dee dominates box office in China
FBA: World wins Vancouver prize
Japanese film Good Morning to the World was announced today as the winner of the Dragons and Tigers Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Francis Ng 
Publicity for Wind Blast which opens Oct. 28 is starting to ramp up.

Pat Ha Man-Chik
Pat Ha and husband
45 year-old Pat Ha Man-Chik returns to show biz in Calvin Poon's upcoming Derailed Women. Married to a Taiwan businessman, Pat Ha is the mother of three girls and was living in the US. Rumored to be now separated from her husband, Pat Ha was spotted snuggling with a young 25 year-old man in a Happy Valley apartment. He was later spotted in the laundry room washing her D&G underwear. (!)
  


Maggie Cheung, working behind the camera this time, for jewellry brand Qeelin as creative director. Model Pei Bei on right.
Maggie advising Pei Bei on posing sexy


SG: Andy Lau hands over billions to wife
SG: Andy Lau's wife rumoured to be three months pregnant
SG: Shu Qi prepares for retirement?
Supermodel Lin Chiling ordered to pay NT$6.84m in tax case
HKStandard: Off the hook
Pals of the Philippine president who have been blamed over the Manila bus bloodbath in which eight Hongkongers were killed are to have charges against them dropped or reduced...But punishment for the media - accused of disrupting the government's botched rescue action - will be harsh, with two reporters likely to be charged.