BIFF Red Carpet - Fan Bingbing [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

Fan Bingbing, Wang Lee-Hom and Feng Xiaogang walked the red carpet together Monday night. Fan and Wang will be appearing together in the Tian Zhuangzhuang-helmed "Yang Gui Fei".

Fan Bingbing carrying a pagoda purse

Wang Lee-Hom, Fan Bingbing

Fan Bingbing, Feng Xiaogang

Wang Lee Hom, Feng Xiaogang, Fan Bingbing

Wang Lee-Hom, Fan Bingbing

Fan Bingbing, Feng Xiaogang,

(Sina)

Inked - Maggie Q, Zhang Xinyi [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

Maggie Q is featured on the cover of the May issue of Inked magazine. Zhang Xinyi ("An Inaccurate Memoir", "Love is Not Blind") showed off her tattoo at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing International Film Festival Monday night.

Maggie Q

Zhang Xinyi

(Sina), 2

4.23.2012 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

CF: New Posters of the Fantastic "Painted Skin 2" (Sina)
A1: Fei Xiang plays evil sorcerer

CF: Movie Posters for "Design of Death" Released

CF: Feng Xiaogang and Tsui Hark to Direct Huayi Bros' New Projects
Feng Xiaogang will return to the silver screen with a comedy named "Si Ren Ding Zhi (Private Reservation)."

The announced release schedule for 2012 includes: Wuershan's "Painted Skin 2/Painted Skin: The Resurrection", June 28; Stephen Fung's "Tai Chi 0", September 28; Ronny Yu's "Saving General Yang", October 26; Jackie Chan's "Chinese Zodiac/CZ12", December 20; Feng Xiaogang's "1942" was not revealed yet. (Sina), 2, 3

CF: Lu Chuan and Ning Hao on How to Defend Chinese Commercial Films

Posters for Danny Pang's "Fairy Tale Killer"

Lau Ching-Wan

Wang Baoqiang (Sina)

CF: Trailer of "Floating City" Released
In the film, Aaron Kwok portrays a business mogul who develops from a nobody into an influential person over the course of 40 years.

THR: Hong Kong Film Piracy on YouTube Amounts to $308 Million Loss

A few pictures from the red carpet at this evening's Opening Ceremony of the 2nd Beijing International Film Festival. Among the guests: James Cameron, Wendi Deng, Fan Bingbing, Huang Yi, Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Aarif Lee, Yao Chen, Wang Xueqi, Feng Xiaogang, Mo Xiaoqi, Andy Lau, Deanie Ip, Ann Hui, Yan Ni, Angelababy, Wang Lee-Hom, Jaycee Chan, Simon Yam, Patrick Tse, Huang Xiaoming, Tsui Hark, Shi Nansun, et al.

Gordon Chan, Liu Yifei, Deng Chao representing "The Four"

Nicky Wu, Zhang Jingchu

Zhang Ziyi (Sina), (Sina-gallery)

MSN: Nicholas Tse plans to list his company on the stock exchange
MSN: Cecilia Cheung to prioritize family over work
Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung's return to showbiz had been lacklustre. The actress is speculated to take time off making movies because her recent movies have been box office flops.
MSN: Eason Chan hopes for a Dragon son
Yahoo: Hong Kong pop star Eason Chan sells out in London
Hong Kong superstar Eason Chan's world tour has an unofficial catch-phrase: "Who the hell is Eason Chan?"

4.20.2012 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

CF: "Full Circle": No Home for Old Men
The film and its Chinese title somehow pay tribute to Miloš Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"; but instead of slavishly following the dark theme of Forman's classic, Zhang has managed to produce a bittersweet family drama.
CF: Latest Poster and Stills of "11 Flowers"

CF: Mainland Box Office Chart in the 15th Week of 2012

"Painted Skin 2" will premiere in Chengdu, Sichuan June 15th ahead of the national release on June 28.

Zhao Wei

Stills of Chen Kun in the battlefield

(Sina), 2

TaipeiTimes: Pop Stop

Isabella Leong, Edison Chen, Jay Chou et al

Kelly Chen and Riley

MSN: Kelly Chen’s newborn son meets the media
MSN: Are wedding bells ringing for Mark Chao and Gao Yuan Yuan?
MSN: Yang Mi refutes rumours of her dating Nicholas Tse
Did she dump Harwick Lau, son of HK veteran actor Lau Dan?

SGYahoo: Donnie Yen, porn actor?
Needless to say, this latest controversy reached Yen's ears, and he responded by posting two lines of lyrics from Sam Hui and the late Leslie Cheung's song "Silence is Golden", which was, "Let people laugh and scold as they like, be a carefree person."

Teasers for Danny Pang's "Fairy Tale Killer" [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

Lau Ching-Wan gets into a battle of wits with Wang Baoqiang after a series of bloody murders; opens May 11.

Longer version

Cui Jian Sings "Lost Season" in MV for Ning Hao's "Guns and Roses" [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

Here's the video mentioned in one of yesterday's news items.

31st HKFA Awards [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

Belated posting; just a quick summary, and odds and ends. And if you haven't already, check out more posts at Favorite Hong Kong actresses

Ann Hui, Andy Lau, Deanie Ip

FBA: Simple Life tops HK awards

MSN: Deanie Yip wins first ever Best Actress award at Hong Kong Film Awards

MSN: Andy Lau vows to punish Sandra Ng

Veteran actor Andy Lau laughed it off when Sandra Ng teased him by calling him "a middle-aged man who still wants to have a baby" at the Hong Kong Film Awards where he was crowned Best Actor for the third consecutive year.

Anthony Wong and Shu Qi arriving for the Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony

Deanie Ip performing at the awards show Sunday night (CNA-slideshow)

Gordon Lam Ka-Tung and Angelababy walk the red carpet

And, Gordon is inelegantly sockless

Really, does anyone think this looks good? 

(Gordon, that is, not Angelababy)

(Sina-slideshow)

(Sina-slideshow) (Sina-Apr15)