8.1.2011 - News

AFP: Taiwan indignant over Venice film festival error
Taiwan has protested to the Venice film festival for wrongly listing a film vying for the Golden Lion award as co-produced by China
FBA: Taiwan protests Venice label

FBA: Thieves completes Macau casino raid

Mysterious Island - Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
There's a paradox about Chinese horror films. A genre subject to rigorous censorship pertaining to the supernatural, what's released is rarely good and no big director ever picks the genre. At the same time, what does succeed are often shoestring affairs, meaning great returns on little investment.

At a Mei Ah press conference in Beijing, it was announced that Yang Mi would be featured in four upcoming projects: Chinese Princess Turandot, Windseeker, Butterfly Cemetery and Great Wudang. Mei Ah will invest $300M in the four films.Windseeker is an espionage thriller about a blind man with extraordinary hearing. It  will be directed and written by Alan Mak and Felix Chong, respectively, and star Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. Windseeker and Great Wudang will begin shooting in October for release next year.

Yang Mi is red hot and has plenty to be happy about

Butterfly Cemetery is based on an adaption of a story by suspense novelist Cai Jun (Deserted Inn, Curse of the Deserted)

Chinese Princess Turandot screenwriter Chan Khan

Windseeker

Great Wudang will be an action movie filmed at Wudang Mountain

Great Wudang

Director Patrick Leung Pak-Yin, producer Chan Khan, action director Corey Yuen

Mei Ah Entertainment Group Chairman Li Guo-Hsing

Mysterious Island "smashed" $80M box office

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Alan Mak and Felix Chong's Overheard 2 opens Aug. 18 

Wu Fung, Kenneth Tsang Kong

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Love in Space posters

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CF: Posters of "Love in Space" Unveiled

Perfect Baby poster

Deng Chao stars in the Sino-French co-production

Deng Chao, Clemence Saint-Preux

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CF: "Perfect Baby" Releases Poster

The 13th ACGHK (Animation-Comics-Games Hong Kong) Fair opened Friday

Ada Wong, 21 year-old daughter of Wong Jing tries her hand at modeling

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MSN: Cecilia Cheung willing to give away her two apartments to save marriage

A1: Cecilia apologises to mum-in-law

MSN: Huang Xiaoming fends off relationship rumours with his mother

6.14.2011 - News

Fei Mu's Confucius Restored for Posterity

CRI: Jia Zhangke Produces Surreal "Mr. Tree"
Director Han Jie inspired by Brother Sharp

CRI: Expectant Father Deng Chao Promotes "Perfect Baby"
In this lighthearted Sino-French urban romance co-production, Deng plays a Chinese student in Paris who gets himself involved in a love quadrangle when he unexpectedly becomes a dad after sperm donation.

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CF: Bond Girl to Join Huang Bo in RomCom

Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta will play opposite Chinese actor Huang Bo in a Sino-Italian co-produced romantic comedy "Shi Chu You Yin,"

The film will center on a romantic story between a homely Chinese chef and a beautiful Italian restaurateur. It will be shot on the Italian isle of Sicily and in China's Chengdu. 

CF: "Love for Life" Premieres in HK

  THR: Sunny Sky Media Unveils 'Coming Back' as First Project, Starring Simon Yam
In Coming Back, which was shot in Mandarin, Yam plays a painter who restores art to increase its value. He’s also a father of an estranged daughter struggling with two personalities, one dark and one light, reflected, Yam said, in the alternately black and pink socks he brought to his screen costumes.

Li Yuan, Annie Yi, Simon Yam

Cheng Pei-Pei

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A1: Nicholas Tse divorces Cecilia Cheung

MSN: Nicholas Tse has filed for divorce

The actor has reportedly agreed on divorce, and a lawyer’s letter was sent to Cecilia Cheung

Recently, netizens dug up yet another rumour that circulated in 2008 when Cecilia was embroiled in the photo scandal with Edison Chen. It was said that the Tse family then suspected that Lucas, the couple's elder son, may not be Nicholas's biological son and they had even sent him for a DNA test to verify who his father is.

Lucas, who is your father?

Lucas (left), Nicholas (right)

Young Edison

Lucas

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CRI: Barbie Hsu Announces Career Break to Have a Baby

MSN: Barbie Hsu announces her departure from showbiz

MSN: Sammi Cheng and Andy Hui went on an early honeymoon in Tokyo

The Hong Kong media too speculated that the couple was busy making babies as they stayed in the hotel for four consecutive days without leaving the premise.

Chinese Spying Devices Installed on Hong Kong Cars
Real life Overheard
Smugglers were the first to note something strange about the devices. A source told Apple Daily that after the cards were installed mainland authorities had no trouble picking off the cars carrying illicit goods.