Three Smiles - Beijing Premiere

The Love of Three Smile-Scholar and the Beauty opens May 7.

Director/actor Guo Degang, Yu Qian

Guo Degang

Yu Qian

Yao Di

Yao Di

Yao Di

Zhang Ran

Zhang Heng

Zhang Heng

Cao Yunjin

Yao Di, Guo Degang

Guo Degang, Huang Jianxiang, Yu Qian

Guo Degang Huang Jianxiang

Huang Jianxiang, Cao Yunjin

Zhang Ran

(Sina), 2, 3

4.30.2010 - News

Charlene Choi

Li Bingbing

New Triple Tap posters feature Charlene Choi and Li Bingbing

(Sina)

Taipei Times: Ip Man 2
Taipei Times: Let the Wind Carry Me (documentary)
Mark Ping-bing Lee's unique sensibility has shaped the look of Taiwanese cinema for more than two decades. Now he finds himself on the other end of the camera.
THR: Dream Home

Bottom Line: A satire on real estate speculation crossed with a slasher film that drowns any social relevance in pools of blood and entrails.

CRI: "Ma Wen's Battle" Releases Trailer

This film touches on the complex and twisted relationships between husband and wife, ex-couple and even parents and children. Strange and awkward situations fueled by these difficult relationships make up this urban family dark comedy.

CRI: Ang Lee's New Film Attempts 3D

Taiwan director Ang Lee wants to shoot Canadian writer Yann Martel's renowned novel "Life of Pi" in 3D. Filming is set to begin this August, qq.com reports.
CRI: Shanghai Int'l Film Festival Releases Poster

Nicholas Tse offered 10million yuan movie deal

Shu Qi has indeed dropped out of Feng Xiaogang's sequel to If You Are the One due to a schedule conflict with Andrew Lau's Beautiful Life. (HunanTV)

Guo Degang - Three Smiles

Yao Di

The Love of Three Smiles opens May 7. (Sina)

Daneil Lam, Ekin Cheng, Elanne Kwong

Producer Daneil Lam Siu-Ming invested in a beauty company in Jordan

(Sina)

Rosamund Kwan, queen of property market?

Vivian Hsu shooting a body gel advert on the streets of Hong Kong

(Sina), (Xinhua)

4.28.2010 - News

Poster for The Love of Three Smile an update of Stephen Chow's Flirting Scholar

(HunanTV)

Olga Kurylenko and Shi Yanfei 

Empires of the Deep

Shi Yanfei 

Olga Kurylenko

Steve Polites

 

Shi Yanfei, Olga Kurylenko

(Sina), (HunanTV)

CRI: China, US Create Colossal 3-D 'Empires'
THR: 'Empires' has deep Chinese pockets
China real estate tycoon bankrolls $100 mil, 3D film

On Tuesday, first-time film producer Jon Jiang opened the set of his self-financed $100 million digital-3D underwater action-adventure film, "Empires of the Deep."

Screen Daily: Olga Kurylenko joins Empires of the Deep shoot in Beijing

Marked as the biggest 3D film currently in production in China, the film is co-directed by Michael French (Heart of a Dragon) and Jonathan Lawrence (The Family Mancuso, Dream Parlor) and scripted by Frank Randall and Jon Jiang, with Harrison Liang and Jon Jiang producing.

Set in ancient Greece, Empires tells about a young man’s adventure in the undersea mermaid kingdom in order to save his father, while encountering ferocious sea monsters and gets involved in large-scale battles in the seabed between mermaids, monsters and demons.

Kurylenko stars as the Queen of the Mermaid Empire and plays opposite leading actor Steve Polites and Chinese actress Yanfei Shi.

CRI: 'The Fantastic Water Babes' to Hit Summer Screen

CRI: Mel Gibson's First Chinese Film
Ip Man 2: Ip Man delivers another hit

Gong Li in Shanghai

(Sina)

Sandra Ng plans to conceive again
Andy Lau rallies support with 300 celebs
HK celebrities raise HK$35 million for China quake victims

Zhang Ziyi visits a young Tibetan woman recovering from multiple surgeries in Beijing

With father

Presenting her with red dance shoes.

Dolma is a dance student, like Zhang Ziyi who heard through the media that her dream was to meet her.

(Sina)

Three Smiles - Lunar New Year Film

Yao Di (City of Life and Death)

Guo Degang

Yao Di and actor, director Guo Degang

Yao Di

An Ze Hao

Cao Yunjin

Yu Qian, Guo Degang

Beijing Film Studio 'shutdown ceremony' for Three Smiles. Guo Degang regrets that he could not work with the film's producer Fan Bingbing who was originally cast as the lead. (Sina.com)

Fan Bingbing will turn the table in an adaptation of Three Smiles/Flirting Scholar when she becomes the pursuer instead of the pursued. Guo Degang directs the Lunar New Year comedy.(Sina.com)

Simon Yam makes a pair of shoes for Sandra Ng to promote their new film Echoes of the Rainbow (lit.1969 A Space Odyssey) in which Simon plays a shoemaker. However, he only had time to make one shoe.

(Sina.com)

Jiang Wenli

Jiang Wenli's Lan is screening in competition at the Pusan International Film Festival. Jiang wrote, directed and produced the film. (cri.cn)

Hollywood Reporter: Lan - review

Bottom Line: Dated drama of growing pains during the Cultural Revolution enhanced by superb elderly role.

Hot Summer Days

Hollywood Reporter: Fox International cranks up 'Summer' 

Chinese romantic comedy is company's first China pic

Variety

Set during a summer of record-breaking temperatures, "Days" tells six intertwined stories of love.

Screen Daily: ox, STAR, Huayi Brothers line up China rom-com Hot Summer Days
Huayi Brothers president James Wang said: “Huayi Brothers highly values the partnership with Fox. We admire Fox’s courage and decision in going into a mainstream romantic comedy. With a superb story, high production values and star-studded cast from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Hot Summer Days will sure become the hottest movie for the Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day period.”

Zhou Xun - The Message

Huang Xiaoming brought his camera on set and acted the paparazzi to help the actors decompress and release suppressed emotions from the tension of the film shoot. Huang, Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Jizhong purchase shares and became majority shareholders in the recent Huayi Brothers IPO. (Sina.com)

Anthony Wong and Michelle Ye in Secrets of Yang Kwai Fai (Sina.com)

Huayi Brothers Goes Public

According to the company's prospectus, top director Feng Xiaogang holds about 2.88 million shares, or 2.3 percent of the total current shares. Pop star Huang Xiaoming is also an owner, with 1.8 million shares.

Danwei: China Film Group CEO interview with Southern Weekly

The full interview, translated below, touches on the films that China Film Group has produced, and on the investments that Han Sanping has made, good and bad, including Crazy Stone (疯狂的石头) and Mobile (手机), to the hundred million productions such as Red Cliff (赤壁) and Hero (英雄)...