4.26.2010 - News

CRI: Wang Xiaoshuai's Film Competes for Golden Palm

Wang Xiaoshuai has earned his second Golden Palm nomination for his latest film "Chongqing Blues" (aka Mosaic).

CRI: Release of 'No Man's Land' Delayed Again
Release of Chinese director Ning Hao's film, "No Man's Land", was delayed because of its controversial content.

The 2006 film "Crazy Stone" brought director Ning Hao great fame among movie-goers, but his latest film has been delayed several times since the end of last year. It has been criticized for having no sense of social responsibility because there are no heroic characters in it, only bad guys. [Looking back, it was originally scheduled for a Dec.18 release.]

CRI: 'The Double Life' Premieres in Guangzhou

During the premiere, a full-on naked shot of lead actor Yuan Wenkang caused a sensation. At the press conference, when Yuan was asked whether he would do more nude scenes, director Ning said she believed Yuan is a good actor who realizes the value of nudity in art.

Karen Mok

Kay Tse, Kenny Bee and Karen Mok promote anti-drug awareness for Girl Scouts

(Xinhua), (Sina)

Chrissie Chau is off to Monte Carlo to shoot her new photo album

(Sina)

A-mei/Amit

 

(HunanTV)

A-Mei whips the crowd into a rocking frenzy

Taiwanese pop diva A-Mei unleashed the raw power of her aboriginal rock-chick alter-ego, Amit, with her Amit First World Tour Live concert here yesterday night to thousands of screaming fans at the Putra Indoor Stadium in Bukit Jalil.
The three-hour concert, titled after her aboriginal name, Gulilai Amit, sees the singer-songwriter clad in leather outfits, leopard-print skirts, complete with heavy Goth make-up...

To the delight of her fans, A-Mei brought along renowned American guitarist Marty Friedman, the former lead guitarist of trash metal group, Megadeth.
CRI: Richard Li to Be a Father Again Soon
Li's girlfriend, Isabella Leong, was confirmed pregnant with his second child and has flown to Vancouver to prepare for the delivery. Hong Kong media say Leong is expected to give birth in November.

True Legend, Three Guns, Reviews

Andy On plays the villain possessed by the devil

Guo Xiaodong first time doing martial arts - grades out an '80'

Michelle Yeoh plays a hermit in seclusion living in the mountain

(Sina)

True Legend (Beggar So) HD slides (5) (Sina)

Xiao Shenyang (Sina)

Zhang Yimou's Three Guns HD slide show (4) (Sina)
THR: 'Blood Simple' remake set for December

CRI: "Ip Man 2" Shifts Focus to Life

He Ping's Wheat accused of plagiarising The Robbers/Tang Dynasty Brothers. He Ping was chairman of the jury at the 2007 Shanghai International Film Festival when The Robbers was awarded as having the most market potential. He Ping and director Yang Peng had discussed the script, Bitter Bamboo Grove, at the time. (Sina)

Wang Kuirong in Wang Xiaoshuai's Mosaic tries to capture old Chongqing (Sina)

Hot pot scene with 100 extras

Wang Xueqi and Qin Hao also costar (ifeng) (Sina)

Jackie Chan: The Centurion
The action star celebrates his 100th film

Variety: Blue Mansions (Singapore)

It's been a long time between drinks for Singapore helmer Glen Goei, whose 1999 debut pic, "Forever Fever," a contagious local riff on "Saturday Night Fever," promised to expand the island republic's filmmaking horizons beyond local comedies and festival navel-gazers.

Variety: McDull Kung Fu Kindergarten

Though the least "Hong Kong" of the series -- with the usual local in-jokes and linguistic wordplay virtually absent -- this is the most marketable of the four to date, as well as a timely commentary on the onetime Brit colony's cultural relationship with the mainland.

Taipei Times: History repeats itself as farce
Yonfan’s overly self-conscious ‘Prince of Tears’ treats the White Terror period with a glib sentimentality that can best be described as political terror as soap opera

Taipei Times: City of Life and Death review
Imagining the unimaginable

Taipei Times - Short Takes

Old Fish (千鈞一髮)
An unusual Chinese police drama, to say the least. A Harbin cop is forced — and able — to defuse a time bomb thanks to his engineering background, only to find that more and more explosives are being planted in the area, and his superiors want him to keep doing the dirty work. Is Dennis Hopper on the loose? Ma Guowei (馬國偉) plays “Old Fish,” the put-upon policeman, in an award-winning turn. Directed by Gao Qunshu (高群書), who co-directed The Message (風聲), which is currently on release.

Plastic City (蕩寇)
A Chinese crook (Anthony Wong, 黃秋生) and his cooler-than-cool adopted Japanese son struggle to keep their enterprise afloat in Sao Paulo, Brazil, when rivals and the authorities turn on them, including a Taiwanese entrepreneur. Critics said the fascinating idea behind the film and its visual distinctiveness were undercut by avoidable technical problems (dubbing, for starters) and a stereotypically art house divergence from coherent narrative — not to mention stylistic lapses that verge on the silly.

Vengeance (復仇)
Johnnie To (杜琪峰) is a Hong Kong director who has kept pumping out solid action flicks over the years. He probably doesn’t have as much international exposure as he should, but this film may help to change that. The lead actor is legendary French singer Johnny Hallyday, who arrives in Macau after his daughter is nearly killed in a triad hit (the rest of her family is wiped out). Hallyday, now a chef, must draw on his unsavory past to accomplish his vengeful mission — but that past is disappearing as an old injury accelerates his amnesia. Co-stars include the formidable Anthony Wong (黃秋生) as a criminal (again) and Simon Yam (任達華) as a triad boss.

Screen Daily: Far East festivals compete for market attention
US and European buyers were scarce at both events. “There were some US companies in Tokyo but they were looking for remake material, not doing acquisitions,” says Tadayuki Okubo of Japanese studio Toei.

The Message - Beijing Premiere

Alex Su, Li Bingbing, Zhou Xun, Huang Xiaoming

Li Bingbing

Zhou Xun

(Xinhuanet.com)

The Huang Xiaoming, Li Bingbing nude scene was deleted from the final version of the film. At the premiere, Li Bingbing said that, in fact, Huang Xiaoming wore less than she did in the kinky torture scene. Alec Su who practiced hard studying Kun Opera for the film also had his scenes deleted.

CRI: 'The Message' Well Received

Tianjin - "The Message" set for nationwide premiere

Screen Daily: Wang Xiaoshuai starts work on Mosaic (literally, Sunshine in Chongqing)

Starring Wang Xueqi, Fan Bingbing and young actors Qin Hao, Zi Yi and Li Feier, the film revolves around a sailor who returns to his home town and discovers his son’s tragic death. The film will shoot for two months, mostly in the south-western city of Chongqing, and is scheduled for release in mid-2010.

Hollywood Reporter: Huayi Brothers plans $91 mil IPO