2011 Beijing Pop Music Awards [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

Jane Zhang Liangying won the award for Best Female Singer (Mainland) at a concert and awards ceremony at the Beijing Olympic Sports Center Stadium on the evening of the 19th.

Jay Chou won Favorite Male Artist of the Year (HK/TW), A-Mei (Chang Hui-mei) took the awards for Album of the Year (HK/TW) and Best Female Singer (HK/TW). Most Popular Female Singer of the Year went to Stephanie Sun (HK/TW) and Li Yuchun (Chris Lee)(Mainland). Yang Mi took the prize for Most Popular New Artist (Female). Jay Chou and Li Yuchun also won Artist of the Year awards. Yoga Lin, Song Zuying, Bibi Chou, Tan Weiwei were also awarded prizes.

Jane Zhang

Jane Zhang

Jay Chou

Jay Chou, Li Yuchun

Yang Mi

A-Mei

Song Zuying took the prize for Best Concert of the Year

Jane Zhang

(Sina)
(Sina-List of Awards)
(Sina-slideshow)

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate - Li Yuchun, Chen Kun Stills [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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Stills featuring Chen Kun in disheveled robe wounding Li Yuchun in Tsui Hark's "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D".

(Sina)

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate - Li Yuchun [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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Poster and stills featuring Li Yuchun (Chris Lee) ahead of its premiere in Toronto. The film is scheduled for a December 18 release in theaters.

(Sina)

4.12.2011 - News

CRI: Li Yuchun in "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate"
Tsui Hark's 3D Wuxia film, "The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate", released new still photos featuring singer-actress Li Yuchun. 

Li Yuchun (Chris Lee)

(Sina-gallery)

CRI: Weinstein Bros. Loves "The Lost Bladesman"

(Apr.12) Alan Tam, Vivian Hsu and Vic Chou attend a press conference to promote a new film, Live* Fashion . Vivian awkwardly denied recent rumours that she was getting married soon. The film is directed by Yin Lichuan, who co-wrote the script for Love Under the Hawthorn Tree.

Director Yin Lichuan

Vivian Hsu looking like Elvira 

Alan Tam, Vivian Hsu, Vic Chou

A newcomer

(Sina-gallery), 2

CRI: Newly Single Isabella Leong Shows off New Look

It also has been reported that Leong will be the female lead in director Tsui Hark's new film project "Detective Dee: The Prequel."

CF: In The Mood for Love

Hong Kong filmmakers are turning to romantic comedies for easier access to the mainland market.

FBA: Four Detectives reteam

CF: Liu Yifei, Deng Chao to Play Detectives

Director Gordon Chan has been shooting his martial arts film "The Four Detective Guards"("Si Da Ming Bu") in Ningbo Xiangshan Motion Picture City for several days,Sina.com reports. [vide. Four Marshals] 

(Sina)

Jin Chen, Sun Honglei, Jing Tian, Kim Hee-Sun, Kiichi Nagai, Francis Ng

The Warring States officially launched today with an advance screening. (Sina)

"Not a traditional epic telling, more like a romance"

(Sina), 2

Cheung Tat-Ming

Guest Anthony Wong

Sandra Ng, Andy Lau

Cheung Tat-Ming will be taking his live show to the mainland, with stops including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Cheung finished three consecutive shows in Hong Kong and plans to add new elements for the mainland shows. (Sina)

Jiang Xinxin is planning on making a mainland version of Young and Dangerous. He will direct and play the lead, Chan Ho-Nam (the Ekin Cheng character)

(Sina)

CF: Shu Qi's New "Vogue" Photos

Porn star lived a nun's life

The world can now breathe a sigh of relief as porn actress Leni Lan Yan has been confirmed alive and well after 3 weeks of disappearance from the public eye.

Gigi Leung breakup

Hong Kong singer and actress Gigi Leung has broken up with U.S. diplomat boyfriend Matthew Steven Dolbow after less than a year of dating.

MSN: Barbie Hsu obeys her mother-in-law

The Taiwanese actress and her husband had wanted to sue for the unauthorised recording of their wedding

MSN: Ronald Cheng admits he’s a father

Tired of having his family harassed by the media, actor Ronald Cheng has come out of the baby closet. 

CNA: Ronald Cheng confirms girlfriend Sammie Yu is pregnant

MSN: Pan Shuang Shuang calls Raymond Lam a “two-timer”

Things are getting murkier in the Raymond Lam-Pan Shuang Shuang saga. Mavis Pan: "I was two-timed"

MSN: Lynn Hung involved in a quarrel with reporter

The Hong Kong model is accused of breaking reporter’s camera (CNA)

MSN: Cecilia Cheung goes shopping with Nicholas Tse

The actress is also rumoured to be pregnant with a third child (Sina-gallery)

Quintus The Little Hulk

1.13.2010 - News

THR: Let the Bullets Fly
A rollicking Chinese western directed with cinematic gumption.

THR: Ip Man 2

A smashing martial arts extravaganza dented by crude nationalism. [Look for a theatrical release in the US this month.]

THR: Sacrifice
A classical historical drama of grand passions and humanity.

Variety: The Green Hornet

Michel Gondry's "The Green Hornet" reinvents the retro vigilante, delivering the goods for a punchy 3D breakout.

CNN: China's Woody Allen on turning a disaster into a hit
Film director Feng Xiaogang may have made China's biggest box office hit, the disaster movie, "Aftershock", but he built his reputation in comedies, comparing himself to American director, Woody Allen.

FBA: Lion and Fox run together on Butcher

THR: 'The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman' Gets March U.S. Bow

Fox International Productions and China Lion Film Distribution said Wednesday they will release the Mandarin-language martial arts film The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman on March 17 in North America, Australia and New Zealand, simultaneously with its premiere in China.

THR: Chinese Delegation Touring Hollywood in Search of Box-Office Success
Five Chinese film veterans and ambitious newcomers are seeking to hire Hollywood help to achieve their goal: exportable movies.

CRI: Daniel Wu, Gao Yuanyuan Promote New Film (Don't Go Breaking My Heart/Single Men and Women)

CRI: Stanley Kwan to Put Han Han's Novel on Big Screen
CRI: Jiang Wen Plays Cao Cao in New Film (Lost Bladesman)
(Sina-gallery)

Fan Bingbing

Fan Bingbing's first foreign film has been released in France this week. The all-English language film, Stretch, is directed by Charles de Meaux and required Fan to cram to learn English. This is the same production that David Carradine was shooting in Thailand when he died. (Xinhua)

Li Yuchun, Andrew Lau

(Jan.12) Andrew Lau directed and co-starred with Li Yuchun in a 15-minute musical film called 'Prologue'. The premiere event was held in Beijing with screenings planned for Chengdu, Changsha, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Lau praised Li as a 'female version of Jay Chou'. (Sina)

Videos: Making of Shaolin (8) (YouTube) (Thanks, to Valerie)

MSN: Aaron Kwok denies his engagement with Lynn Hung
MSN: Selina Jen to return home for Lunar New Year
The S.H.E member will host a media conference to thank the people who showed concern for her during the ordeal

MSN: Overworked Jolin Tsai spotted with receding hairline

SG: Chinese pop diva Faye Wong to come out with new album soon (?)

10.27.2010 - News

Mavis Fan and Li Yuchun (Chris Lee) have joined the cast of Tsui Hark's 3D Flying Swords of Dragon Gate.

Li Yuchun

Mavis Fan

(Sina)

CRI: Li Yuchun, Mavis Fan Join Cast of Tsui Hark's 3-D Film

FBA:  Tsui has fun with Catching Monkey

Tsui Hark has secretly made a movie in 3-D, which will be pitched for sale at next month's American Film Market in Santa Monica.

CRI: Horror Movie 'Lost in Panic Room' Set for Halloween Release (previously Hidden Chamber of Secrets, here)

Pace Wu and Yuan Chengjie are reportedly planning on skipping the premiere in anger over the 'assistant gaffer' (lighting assistant) nude scene leakage threats. (Xinhua)

CRI: Ang Lee Gets Male Lead for His First 3-D Work

Seventeen-year-old Indian boy Suraj Sharma has been chosen by director Ang Lee to star in his 3-D film. The movie is an adaptation of Yann Martel's novel "Life of Pi".

FBA: Lee brings Pi to Taiwan and India

CRI: 'Hawthorn Tree' Actor Grabs New Role

"Under the Hawthorn Tree" actor Shawn Dou Xiao will play Qu Qiubai in a biopic to be directed by Huo Jianqi.

Chrissie Chau - Vampire Warriors

With director Dennis Law distributing limited edition vampire dolls in Mongkok

(Xinhua)

Director Alexi Tan

Liu Ye

Yao Chen

Color Me Love launches official website

(Sina)

Hong Kong's Eastweek is reporting that Vivian Chow is 3 months pregnant. 

(Sina)

MSN: Selina Jen had wedding photos taken before accident

MSN: Sammi Cheng and Andy Hui not avoiding close contact

S.H.E. group mates praise Selina Jen's bravery (Xinhua)

HK TV host Amigo Choi arrested for drink driving