The Detective 2 - Press Conference

(Mar.28) Oxide Pang's The Detective 2 (B+ Detective) opens April 29. The director and cast attended a press conference today to promote the film and answer questions. Aaron noted that this was his third film with Oxide Pang so he knew what the director wanted. He "complained" that Pang was becoming increasingly demanding in his search for horror effects and the actors were greatly challenged.

Aaron Kwok

 

Oxide Pang

Patrick Tam Yiu-Man

Gong Beibi

Izz Xu Zhengxi, Gong Beibi

(Sina), 2

Inseparable - Daniel Wu, Gong Beibi in Guangzhou

Producer, director Dayyan Eng

(HunanTV)

12.03.2009 - News

Time: China vs. Disney: The Battle for Mulan

China is moving to take back one of its own — even if it is legend. Mulan is the Middle Kingdom's gender-bending heroine, its Joan of Arc. The character from folktale is a daughter who disguises herself as a male soldier to take her father's place in the conscription army. The problem for the Chinese is that, since 1998, the definitive version of the story has been Disney's.

Wang Baoqiang has a cameo role in Jackie Chan's Big Soldier (Sina)

CRI: Li Bingbing: Acting Is Everything

Screen Daily: At The End of Daybreak

In case you were wondering about the film Kara Hui won the Golden Horse for Best Supporting Actress

B+ Detective cast and crew

Oxide Pang and Gong Beibi

Gong Beibi and Aaron Kwok

B+ Detective is now in post-production and Oxide Pang promises an unexpected ending (Sina)

Karen Mok (Sina)

Karen Mok, Jackie Chan

(Sina)

Gillian Chung

Jane Zhang

Stephen Fung dressed to the nines, or as the article relates, looking homeless

(Xinhua)

CRI: MTV Names the Most Stylish Chinese Entertainers of the Year

Vicki Zhao sparks pregnancy rumours

4-months pregnant Cecilia Cheung spotted shopping with her son and in-laws

Deborah Kerr?

Jay Chou is the 2009 top-earner [Taiwan] with S$27 million (2)

China's Zhang Ziyi most "Googled" person in Taiwan

11.25.2009 - News

Hong Kong director takes on Mulan with real actors
It's a drag
Legendary heroine

14 Blades is scheduled to be released February 4 (Sina)

Nic Tse, Dante Lam

Nic Tse shaves his head for Stool Pigeon (Sina)

(cri.cn)

Aaron Kwok, Gong Beibi

(Sina)

Oxide Pang is filming B+ Detective, the sequel to The Detective (lit.C+ Detective) in Thailand.

Eddie Cheung and Sandra Ng

Vivian Chow relaxing on set of Ann Hui's 'Leisurely Fried Rice' (Sina)

CRI: Lin Chiling 2010 Photo Calendar

Edison Chen's 5th Shanghai store gets $4m investment from lady tycoon

Twins' Charlene Choi admits to dating Ronald Cheng

Kay Tse furious at online photo featuring a lookalike with another man

(cri.cn)

Veteran Hong Kong actor Chan Hung Lit dies

11.06.2009 - Movie News

THR: Tang Wei returns in 'Manchu' remake
'Lust, Caution' actress coming off ban, stars in English film

“Full Autumn” in Korean -- by Kim Tae-yong (“Family Ties”) will start shooting later this month in Seattle, and will travel to other cities across the United States, the Korean producer said...


THR: Hong Kong movies make a dramatic showing at the boxoffice
Four local films got into the top 10 in the summer: the Shaw Brothers' comeback "Turning Point" (HK15.7 million), "Overheard" from the "Infernal Affairs" team (HK15.5 million), Edko's Aaron Kwok thriller "Murderer" (HK11.7 million) and period comedy "On His Majesty's Secret Service" (HK8.8 million). Only two made the cut last summer...Although the number of local releases rose slightly in 2009, what's staggering is the upcoming Chinese New Year public holiday slot, which will see 10 Hong Kong/Chinese-language high-profile projects competing in three weeks in February. It's something the which hasn't been seen since the 1990s....

THR: AFM Special Report: Hong Kong
Boxoffice may be up, but the outlook is troubled

"If there (were) enough films to make in Hong Kong, I'd rather not go anywhere else," says [Herman] Yau, the hugely prolific Hong Kong director who works with three crews simultaneously -- even while many technicians have followed the helmers to the mainland. "Although a large number of Hong Kong filmmakers are now working in China," he says, "they can't bring all the film crews with them, so there're still a lot of local crew members stranded here, unemployed."

THR: 'Bodyguards and Assassins' sells at AFM
Cinema Popular also is shopping its action-romantic comedy "The Return of the Incredible Wu Xia Couple," directed by Vincent Kuk, and Dante Lam's period actioner "Flying Guillotines" at AFM.
Screen Daily

THR: Jung to star in 'Rain of Swords'
Film co-stars Michelle Yeoh, co-produced by John Woo

Screen Daily: TF1 buys Media Asia’s Chen Zhen for France
Hong Kong’s Media Asia Distribution has sold The Legend Of Chen Zhen, directed by Andrew Lau and starring Donnie Yen, to France’s TF1.

Leading Hong Kong action star Yen plays Chen Zhen in the film, a folk hero who fights the Shanghai mafia and occupying Japanese. Shu Qi and Anthony Wong also star...Meanwhile, Dream Movies also took rights for Australia and New Zealand to Pang Ho-chueng’s Love In A Puff, a comedy starring Miriam Yeung and Shawn Yue, and Johnnie To’s new project, Death Of A Hostage, starring Lau Ching Wan.

Screen Daily: Cameron's Avatar forces Chinese blockbusters to shift release dates

Zhang Yimou’s remake of Blood Simple [Amazing Tales: Three Guns] has bought its release forward from December 18 to December 11, while Hong King Universe’s The Storm Warriors has shifted its release to December 10. Jay Chou-starring Treasure Hunter will be released on December 9 instead of mid-month as originally planned, and Ning Hao’s road movie Wu Ren Qu [No Man's Land] will move back its release by three months to March next year...

Variety: CineAsia honors Zhou Xun
Actress to receive star of the year kudo

Variety: Fair Love (South Korea)

Variety: The Laughing Policeman (Japan)

Taipei Times: Golden Horse seeks new pastures

CRI: Golden Horse Film Festival Opens

Taipei Times - Short Takes

Wheat (長平大戰之麥田)

What first might appear to be another tiresome period costumer about one of the millions of battles in China’s history turns out to be something rather different. Two deserters from the Qin army in the Warring States period lucklessly find themselves in an enemy town whose men are away fighting. Their lies and ingratiations with the women gradually wear thin — especially as others arrive with contradictory news. This meticulously photographed drama-comedy is structured around elemental themes, of which wheat, the local crop, is prominent. Directed by He Ping (何平), who made The Swordsman in Double Flag Town

Meat Grinder

(雙旗鎮刀客).

A coming-on-middle-aged street vendor projects her madness and history of abuse onto (mostly) unsuspecting, sleazy men — and cooks up a storm. Surprisingly good reviews greeted this gory Thai drama, which is right up there with Hong Kong’s The Untold Story (八仙飯店之人肉叉燒包) as a boundary-pushing, gag-inducing Asian incarnation of Sweeney Todd; it’s also a perfectly timed essay for people who think US beef is the sign of the Devil. Abstruse political subtexts (it’s set during student riots in the 1970s) and class and gender commentary ... or blood, guts and torture for their own sake? Take your pick. Taiwan’s censors have let this one through without cuts, though it isn’t clear if this is the version originally banned in Thailand. Either way, here’s the question: Why doesn’t Taiwan make movies like this?

4 new Three Guns images in HD (Sina)

CRI: Stefanie Sun Sings for Mulan

Let The Bullets Fly

Ge You

Carina Lau plays Ge You's wife

(Xinhua)

CRI: 'Bullets' Go Stylish (HD version Sina)

Gong Beibi and Aaron Kwok

Oxide Pang has started shooting B+Detective, the sequel to C+Detective (aka The Detective) in Thailand. (HunanTV)

Li Xiaolu and Alfred Cheung (actor, director, writer)

Love At Seventh Sight (lit.Seven Days To Fall in Love)

(HunanTV)

The Founding of a Republic - Beijing Red Carpet, Premiere

John Woo

Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Shen Ao Jun

Peter Chan

Vivian Wu

Chen Kun

Zhang Guoli

Gong Beibi

Han Sanping

Huang Shengyi

Wang Baoqiang

Ning Jing

Chen Daoming

Photo gallery (Xinhuanet.com)

Jackie Chan

John Woo, Peter Chan

Han Sanping, Huang Jianxin

(Sina.com)