1.24.2012 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

FBA: Speed Angels review
Female racing driver drama is trashy fun, boosted by Tang Wei's relaxed performance.

FBA: Flying Swords of Dragon Gate review

Enjoyably retro swordplay antics, with a superb cast but a weak finale. 

Tim Robbins has joined the cast of Feng Xiaogang's "Remembering 1942" according to a post on the director's Weibo account. (Sina)

 
CF: Documentary about Chinese in Britain Released
Bai adds that "Talk of Home" is the first documentary talking about the British-Chinese community from a British angle.

"I Do" opens Feb. 10

Li Bingbing and Duan Yihong play "first loves". Duan Yihong tries to reignite feelings seven years later.

Sun Honglei co-stars.

(Sina), 2, 3

New Year's greetings from "I Love Hong Kong 2012" Eric Tsang and Teresa Mo

Teresa Mo

Eric Tsang

Eric Tsang, Teresa Mo

(Sina)

Horror film "Cold Pupil" (Chinese title) started shooting in Sanya, Hainan Island. The cast includes Chrissie Chau, Sam Lee, Calvin Sun and Sammy Hung.

Calvin Sun, Chrissie Chau, Sam Lee

(Sina), (qq)

Kelly Chen's new theme song
Pregnant Hong Kong award-winning diva Kelly Chen Wai-Lam is not one to lay low. Recently seen in Chan Hing-ka and Janet Chun's Chinese New Year latest, "All's Well Ends Well 2012", where she played a photographer, Chen has also sung the theme song for the movie.

Chrissie Chau in business

For fashion lovers, take note that a new inner-wear line has just been released, and it is not just any inner-wear, for it is designed by Hong Kong actress-model Chrissie Chau in collaboration with a reputable inner-wear brand in China,
MSN: Elaine Ng was cheated of money
A1: Elaine Ng is in financial difficulty
MSN: Jay Chou loses to Vic Chou at box office

Row as China professor calls Hong Kongers 'dogs'
Chinese Professor: Hong Kong Residents Are Dogs and Thieves (WSJ)

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Photographs of the characters in Feng Xiaogang's upcoming "Remembering 1942"  in conjunction with an museum exhibit opened in Beijing today. The film officially begins shooting in Shanxi later this month after 9 months of preparation.

The victims

Fan Wei, Zhang Hangyu

Li Qian, Zhang Guoli, Wang Ziwen, Zhang Mo

Xu Fan, Feng Yuanzheng, Zhang Shaohua

The Kuomintang

Qiao Zhenyu, Liu Zhen, Lin Yongjian

Li Xuejian, Ke Lan, Chen Tao-ming, Yu Zhen, Alec Su

Duan Yihong, Yang Lixin, Luo Yang, Zhang Chenguang

A few of the cast and crew at the exhibition

Director Feng Xiaogang

Xu Fan

Duan Yihong

Wang Ziwen

Zhang Guoli

Zhang Hanyu

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5.5.2011 - News

THR: Feng Xiaogang's Next Film Tackles China Famine During Japanese Invasion
Remembering 1942 will be the first time Feng addresses on the big screen Japan’s WWII era atrocities, a fraught subject for Chinese filmmakers, but one that in recent years has proven commercially popular in the marketplace.

CRI: "Nanjing Heroes" Reveals Battle Scenes
CRI: "Wu Xia" to Premiere in Cannes Film Festival
Peter Chan Ho-sun's martial art flick, "Wu Xia," originally known as Swordsman, will have a global premiere on May 13 at the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival this year.

Reportedly, the director has employed a very different approach to demonstrate the physicality of martial arts by magnifying some medical and scientific elements in the action choreography.

CRI: First Peek of Love Birds Deng and Sun in "Painted Skin 2"

Deng Chao opened up on his marriage with years-long girlfriend and fellow actress Sun Li in a recent on location interview of his new film "Four Famous Detectives."

Deng Chao in The Founding of a Party

Pan Yueming, Deng Chao (Sina)

CF: Theme Song of "Till Death Do Us Part" Releases

CF: Poster Released for "My Kingdom"

"My Kingdom" is based on an epic story about two orphans adopted in an opera troupe in the 1920s in Shanghai.

THR: Chinese Director Chen Kaige Named Jury President of Sydney Film Festival, (FBA)

A1: Bladesman of Glory
The Lost Bladsman - Granted that the feature-film format provides only a limited canvas to properly explain the entire history and myriad of characters of that era, it's clear that at the core of the film is the treachery of politics that even heroes can't get untangled from.

FBA: Bladesman cuts to top of China BO 

The Lost Bladesman made a robust RMB100.4 million ($15.5 million) in its first six days in cinemas last week.

Stills of Kelly Lin from newly-released trailer of The Devil Inside Me

(Sina)

Additional stills (Sina)

Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu press conference in Guangzhou, the film opens May 10 (May 5)

Wang Baoqiang, Michelle Ye

Wang Baoqiang, Ng Man-Tat (Sina)

Gillian Chung and Kevin Kwan have been filming in the mainland. The Chinese title is literally Midnight Angel and Gillian plays an OL (office lady).

(Sina)

Beijing premiere press conference for Gu Changwei's Love For Life/Till Death Do Us Part (May 5)

Zhang Ziyi , Aaron Kwok , and Pu Cunxin , Jiang Wenli , Tao Zeru , Sun Haiying , Cai Guoqing , and others attended the press conference for the premiere of Till Death Do Us Part.

Zhang Ziyi and Aaron Kwok arriving

Gu Changwei

Zhang Ziyi

Tao Zeru

Li Danying

(Sina), 2, (Sina-gallery)

Edison Chen, Andrew Lau

Edison Chen helped Andrew Lau promote A Beautiful Life by recording the theme song with him. According to the report, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is also helping out. (Sina)

Poster for The Pretending Lovers

Huang Bo

The Pretending Lovers (lit.Pretend Couple) is an urban romance-comedy shot in Norway(!) and stars Huang Bo and Jiang Yiyan. The film is set to be released June 24. (Sina)

Tse and Chou in action as filming gets under way, (A1)
KUALA LUMPUR: Hong Kong superstar Nicholas Tse and Taiwanese heart-throb Jay Chou have started shooting for the action movie Against War at two locations right in the heart of the city.
MSN: Andy Hui meets his in-laws to discuss wedding plans
MSN: A-Mei has a fear for crowds
During the shoot of her album cover, she had an attack and was spotted to be trembling and sweating profusely. The sudden attack brought on by her fear for crowds caused her manager, Chen, to suffer a relapse in depression.

MSN: Wu Chun donates $5.2mil to Japan relief efforts

Suzanne Siu (Xinhua)

Suzanne: "How come I'm such a bitch?"
Taiwan actress Suzanne Siu went behind bars yesterday for the second time and is paying the price again for her drug-related offences, according to Apple Daily.
The jail term is one year and seven months but with good behaviour she might be released on probation in March 2012 the earliest.

The 34-year-old Siu (other aliases Suzanne Siu Suk-San, Lily Siu, Suzanne Xiao Shu-Shen, Hsiao Shu-Shen, Cecelia Hsiao, Siu Sou-San and Suzanne Hsiao) was viewed as a shining star when she first entered showbiz at the age of 21

."Other people who take drugs never get caught. Why does it have to be me? So I just abandoned myself to vice," she said in a recent interview.
(Nov.6.2009), (Oct.10 2009), (Nov. 2008), (Nov.2007), 2

Speaking at an anti-drug rally in Taiwan recently (Xinhua)