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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

2.8.2012 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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Variety: Flying Swords of Dragon Gate review
The 3D is terrific in "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate," but helmer Tsui Hark's costume actioner -- the first Chinese-lingo movie shown in the stereoscopic Imax format -- is let down by two-dimensional characters.

CF: Video Clip of Remastered "New Dragon Inn" Released

CF: "Let the Bullets Fly" Gets North America Release

Shu Qi, Shawn Yue star in Carol Lai's "The Second Woman"
Shu Qi plays duo roles as twin sisters in the romance-horror.




(Sina), 2

Final poster for "Romancing in Thin Air"  (Sina)

Lau Ching-Wan and Nicholas Tse attended the announcement of the HKFA nominations
(Sina)
MSN: Nicholas Tse’s eldest son Lucas hospitalised for high fever
MSN: Choi Min-Sik afraid of Cecilia Cheung
The actress made news in South Korea recently when veteran actor Choi Min-Sik revealed an unhappy working experience with the former 11 years ago on the movie Falian.
Cecilia's father, Zhang Ren Yong, was said to have powerful connections to the triads and stirred much fear within the production team of movie Falian.

Ceclia Cheung and father (Sina)

  MSN: Did Denise Ho and Joey Yung “break up”?
A1: Lollipop F's Owodog avoids tweeting Gillian Chung
Rumours started flying last September when the two were seen tweeting each other on Weibo frequently.
Gillian was also seen attending a gathering at Owodog's home, and catching You Are The Apple of My Eye with him in Taipei.

CNet: Ethical iPhone 5 petitions to be delivered to Apple stores
In a statement today, watchdog group SumOfUs said that it plans to deliver its own petition, along with one from Change.org, to a number of Apple's retail stores around the world. That includes New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Bangalore.
Mike Daisey was a self-described "worshipper in the cult of Mac." Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out. 

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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

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


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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.
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)





Saturday, December 31, 2011

12.31.2011 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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FBA: White Vengeance review
Impressive costume drama about two warring leaders loses the plot halfway.

THR: Flying Swords of Dragon Gate review
The Bottom Line
An effects-infatuated swordplay extravaganza with no down time.
CRI: 'Flying Swords of Dragon Gate' audio review
Director Tsui Hark has succeeded in creating a lasting impression on viewers with many of his wuxia films, including "New Dragon Gate Inn". But will his new film "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" be as successful as its prequel?
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate: A new wu xia classic (CNA)
In sharp contrast to Peter Chan's cerebral martial arts film "Wu Xia", Tsui's "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" is a much more traditional wu xia film that is more boisterous and less melodramatic.

CRI: Tibetan Antelope Poacher Arrested 17 Years after Murder of Official, (Variety)
Victim was subject of Lu Chuan's "Kekexili: Mountain Patrol"

Orange Sky-Golden Harvest announced a series of classic film remakes for 2012. The first film will be the Cecilia Cheung-Richie Jen "Fly Me to Polaris". No casting has been made yet. Also on the list of planned remakes: Stephen Chow's "Fight Back to School", "Tokyo Raiders" and "Marry a Rich Man". (Sina)

CF: Shu Qi to Challenge Morality in "The Second Woman"
Shu Qi, best actress of the Golden Horse Awards, plays twin sisters who fall in love with a stage actor portrayed by Shawn Yue. The two sisters struggle with the discovery that they've slept with the same man.
THR: Christian Bale's 'Flowers of War' Already Top-Grossing Chinese Film of 2011
"Laughing Gor: Turning Point 2" sees Laughing Gor go undercover as a prison inmate, to investigate the death of a police officer.



And last week (51)
“The Flowers of War” bested “Flying Swords of Dragon Gate” at the mainland box office over first four-day run, by both admissions and box office income. Zhang Yimou's “The Flowers of War” opened to the No.1 place of mainland box office with $24.07 million over four days, while Tsui Hark's “Flying Swords of Dragon Gate”, which opened 4-hour earlier on the same day last Thursday, seconded the ranking with $22.42 million by Sunday night.


APA: Best of 2011: Chinese Films
Let the Bullets Fly, The Flowers of War, Love is Not Blind, and Piano in a Factory are amongst the best Chinese films of 2011.

"Love in the Buff" officially wrapped up shooting in Hong Kong on Christmas.

The movie is co-produced by Thailand and Hong Kong, China. Yue performs as a villain in the movie who going after a journalist and trying to kill her in order to keep his crime a secret.

Newly released stills from Johnnie To's "Romancing in Thin Air" featuring Louis Koo and Sammi Cheng.




Doomsday romantic comedy, "Love Shock" (lit. 2012 Is Coming), opens today. The film's stars are from the Mainland, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan: Tanaka Chie, Wong You-Nam, Cheung Tat-Ming, Huang Xiaolei, Jung Hsiang, Li Jing, and Lee Seong-hyun.



(Sina)

"The Great Magician" opens January 12. (Sina)

Vivian Hsu promotes "Puss in Boots" for which she dubbed her voice.




Zhang Jingchu poses for a photo spread featured in the December issue of the lifestyle magazine "Femina".
Director Sun Zhou's latest romance "I Do" released a batch of new still photos featuring four leading actresses of the movie recently. Up and coming actress Li Bingbing performs as the leading character in the movie -- a left-over business woman who insists to find her true love disregarding her growing age and the pressure from her parents
Li Bingbing and Sun Honglei, lead actors of the soon-to-be-released urban fashion romance "I Do", posed for a photo shoot for a renowned fashion magazine in promoting their new movie.






 
Is Viann Zhang Xinyu an absentminded person, or a crafty starlet staking out her territory so as to boost her career in the entertainment business?

Jackie Chan has 3 new TV commericals for V8 juice. Caught one the other day but can't remember which one. Here they are on YouTube.com

MSN: Miriam Yeung may be having a baby boy
While Miriam is elated with her pregnancy, she is also fraught with worries.
In an earlier test, the singer was told that her baby faces a high risk of Down Syndrome. The singer has been advised to take a further test. However the test comes with an average risk of 1% of having a miscarriage.
Bolin and Lun-mei met on the set of Blue Gate Crossing 10 years ago. In the movie, they played a pair of lovers, who did not end up together in the end.
[Sweet! Finally, just watched Blue Gate Crossing last week!]
The Taiwanese singer jokingly grumbled that filming movie ‘The Viral Factor’ was like toying with his life.
It was rumoured that despite having her own manager, Hannah needs to get the green light from Jay before accepting a job. She is also not allowed to wear revealing clothes, or be intimate with other male celebrities on set.

China says man dies of bird flu
The 39-year-old bus driver living in Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, developed symptoms on December 21 and was admitted to a hospital on December 25 because of severe pneumonia, the official Xinhua news agency said.
He died in the early afternoon of multiple organ failure, having tested positive for the H5N1 virus, the report added.

China says its most wanted man admits crimes (Canada Lai)
Beijing had sought the deportation of Lai Changxing for years, accusing him of running a multi-billion dollar smuggling ring in the southeastern city of Xiamen in the 1990s in one of China's biggest political scandals in decades.
2009: China's most-wanted man hopes to sell real estate here
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