4.29.2012 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

CF: Tsui Hark to Shoot 3-D "Tracks in the Snow Forest"
Based on the novel of the same name, the film will tell the legendary story about a hero named Yang Zirong who outwits a group of gangsters in northeastern China in 1946. Yu said he expected famous actor/director Jiang Wen to play the lead role.

CF: Character Posters of "The Expendables 2" Released

Jet Li (Sina)

Jet Li  recently celebrated his 49th birthday on the 26th

Jet Li with wife Nina Li and two daughters
(Sina)

CF: Shooting begins for "Sha Jie"
"Ni Ni is an elegant actress," Liu Ye said regarding his opinion on Ni Ni. "Our collaboration is worthy of the anticipation."
CF: Shooting Begins on Lu Chuan's First Micro Film (Sina)
Lu told the media the movie was inspirited by the classic American film "The Graduate" starring Dustin Hoffman. It revolves around a young woman who must decide between two men before marrying one of them.
CF: The 19th Beijing College Student Film Festival Wraps up
The Most Popular Actor and Actress awards went to Wen Zhang and Yan Ni. Gu Changwei clinched the award for Best Director for feature film, "Love For Life". The coveted Best Film award was bagged by low-budget film, "Mr. Tree".
CF: "11 Flowers" Postpones Release Date
CF:  Chinese Actress Ju Ju Leads Peter Fudakowski's "Secret Sharer"

CF: LeTV Pictures Announces 10 Film Projects for 2012

LeTV Pictures' other big-budget films include director Gordon Chan's war suspense epic "The Dark Meteors" and director Law Chi-Leung's "The Ghost Bullets."

CF: Top Stars Help Promote "Design of Death" in Beijing

Directed by Guan Hu, the movie features renowned actors Huang Bo and Simon Yam as leading characters. It will hit the national screens on April 28.

Director Guan Hu, Liang Jing, Huang Bo, Simon Yam, Alec Su

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Huang Yi attended the press conference in Beijing for the wrap of Johnnie To's "Drug War"

Huang Yi

Sun Honglei, Huang Yi, Johnnie To, Louis Koo

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Aaron Kwok and Charlie Young play husband and wife in Yim Ho's biopic "Floating City"

(Sina)

CF: Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" Releases First Poster

TaipeiTimes: Pop Stop

Show Luo's foot fetish, Edison Chen at Coachella

CNA: Chapman To stops work to recuperate from rare nerve disease

A1: Shu Qi: My lips are sealed

A1: Karen Mok joins Mandarin Oriental's celebrity fan campaign

The campaign, "He's a Fan/She's a Fan", is designed to raise the hotel group's brand awareness by globally connecting 'the fan' with international celebrities who regularly stay at its hotels.

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1.19.2012 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

Austin TX: A Watery Grave Narrowly Avoided
35mm prints of lost HK actioners unspool in the Alamo's Asian Invasion series

TimeOutHK: Father Franco Mella
Portrayed in film by Anthony Wong in "Ordinary Heroes" (1999).

TimeOutHK: Dante Lam interview
Director Dante Lam is on the highway to becoming Hong Kong’s next action auteur. Expect more gunfire in his hard-hitting latest, The Viral Factor

Jay Chou: I had to grit my teeth and do it

Jay Chou was willing to risk life and limb while filming his latest movie, The Viral Factor, all because of "face".

THR: Taiwan Stands Tall as 'Warriors of the Rainbow' Earns Foreign-Language Oscar Shortlist Spot
Wei, one of Taiwan's most commercially and critically successful directors, received the news in the middle of the Asian night. He was unsure why Warriors had made the shortlist while the rest of East Asia is staying home. Asian films played no part in any major category last year.

FBA: Seediq Bale shortlisted for Oscars

CF: Ann HUI On-wah to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at AFA

CF: Behind the Scenes of "Repeat, I Love You" Released

The film stars Cecilia Cheung, Sang-woo Kwon, Angela Chang and Jing Boran

CF: Mainland Box Office Performance in Second Week 2012

"The Great Magician" debuted with $11.55 million over four days and managed to wrestle the first place from the highest-grossing hit of the year 2011"The Flowers of War". "Magician"is the latest film directed by Derek Yee, who is good at balancing commercial success with artistic integrity very successfully.

CF: Film Buzz: 2012

Smaller films made big splash
Over the past year, three small-budget movies, Eternal Moment, The Piano in a Factory and Love is Not Blind, flexed their competitive muscle by attracting audiences and critical praise.

According to Chen Shan, professor at the Beijing Film Academy, the allure of small-budget films in the era of big-budget blockbusters is their ingenuity.
"Because their original cost is much lower, they can be more flexible with their themes. They dare to try something different from the mainstream, while blockbusters have to be more cautious," he said to the Global Times.

A1: Is Jack Neo running out of movie ideas?

Singapore director Jack Neo is evidently sticking to his winning formula - fresh-faced teen actors, heart-breaking family drama and a healthy dose of social commentary in his latest directorial offering, We Not Naughty.

A1: We Not Naughty review

CRI: Comedian Zhao Benshan Will Not Perform in Spring Festival Gala

Famous comedian Zhao Benshan will not perform on this year's "CCTV Spring Festival Gala" because of health problems.

Johnnie To's "Romancing in Thin Air" launches, with a bang, on Feb. 9

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Guest stars in "The Great Magician" include Tsui Hark, Benz Kong, Jamie Luk, Vincent Kok, writer Lau Ho-Lueng and dubbing director Chiang Siu-Leung.

Tsui Hark

Eight military governors

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Stills from "All's Well Ends Well 2012"

Louis Koo, Kelly Chen

Sandra Ng, Donnie Yen

Chapman To, Lynn Hung

Lynn Hung, Chapman To (Sina)

Donnie Yen, Vincent Zhao, Jing Tian, Zhang Hanyu, Yang Kun attended the Beijing launch of a new Clarence Fok film (Chinese title, Special Status). Donnie Yen will action direct as well as produce. Peter Pau is the cinematographer for the film.

Vincent Zhao, Donnie Yen

(Sina)

Photos from Dubai where "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is filming. The film stars Andy Lau, Chen Kun and Zhang Jingchu.

Lin Chi-ling tries on a prop

Filming on a closed road

The crew prepares for a scene

Director Sun Jianjun (r)

Two British bandits 

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"Harpoon" poster featuring Hu Bing (Sina)

TaipeiTimes: Pop Stop
Jay, Hannah, Nic, Viral Factor, Wang Lee-Hom, Kanye West

CNA: Dragon Year spells nightmare for Hong Kong mums

"We didn't plan for a Dragon baby," says 38-year-old Michele Lee, who is expecting her second child, a girl, in April.
"It was exciting when we first found out the news but very soon that excitement turned into worry about whether we'll get a place in hospital."

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

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(Dec.15) Photos from the red carpet premiere in Macau for Tsui Hark's "Flying Dragons of Dragon Gate".

Zhou Xun

Bona Film's CEO Don Yu Dong, Zhou Xun

Jet Li

Chen Kun

Li Yuchun

Guei Lun-Mei

Tsui Hark, Shi Nansun

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10.10.2011 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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THR: China-Korea-Japan Ready 'Yang Gui Fei' for November Shoot
Yang Gui Fei tells the story of a Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong. Despite her legendary beauty and relationship with the emperor, she was ultimately killed by the emperor's guards after her family was blamed for a rebellion against the monarch.

THR: Asian Filmmaker of the Year: Tsui Hark
Filmmaker Tsui Hark expects bright future for 3D movies
CNA: Asia's movie makers embrace 3D revolution
A 3D horror movie set in a public toilet block is part of a revolution underway in the Asian film industry as low-budget 3D productions take on the big studios at their own game.
CF: "Starry Starry Night" Releases Six Hand Painted Posters by Jimmy
THR: Lin Pins Hopes on 'Starry Night'

CF: "Inseparable" Premieres at the Busan International Film Festival
"Inseparable" tells the tale of the things that happened between two men after their encounter, one is a mysterious American guy played by Kevin Spacey, and the other is a young engineer played by Daniel Wu, who has troubles both in his life and career. After experiencing constant accidents and intense danger, they both embark upon a totally unexpected journey which threatens to spiral out of their control.

WSJ: Spacey’s ‘Inseparable’ Opens at Busan

THR: Inseparable' Culture Clash Story Stars Kevin Spacey
Diverse background of director Dayyan Eng leads to a first in the Chinese film sector.

Eng has two upcoming projects set for 2012: a heist gone wrong film that will likely shoot in Hong Kong next spring, backed by China Film Group and a Hong Kong partner. The other is the birth of his first child, due in January.

CF: Trailer out for 'White Vengeance''

CF: 'Let the Bullets Fly 3' Postponed for Jiang Wen's New Project

Actress Fan Bingbing glitters in Busan
"My Way" centers around two men set in the Battle of Normandy during World War II. Even though it's a war film, the movie mainly portrays a drama of true humanity that transcends border and nationality.
Fan plays a Chinese woman with astonishing sniper skills, who seeks revenge for the Japanese army's murder of her family.

THR: Korean WWII Film Promises Big Action, Bigger Drama
“We aimed to provide visual effects that haven’t been seen before in a war movie, but My Way is essentially a dramaa bout humanist values,” said director Kang Je-kyu, who ends a seven-year hiatus since helming Taegukgi, a Korean War flick that became one of the highest-grossing films in local box office history.

The new film has been making headlines for bringing together three of Asia’s hottest superstars, including Jang, Odagiri and Chinese actress Fan Bingbing.

The film is slated to open in Korea in December and in Japan on Jan. 14, 2012. Discussions are underway for distribution dates in China and the United States, which are expected to fall sometime around mid-January next year.

Fan Bingbing at the Busan press conference for My Way

Jang Dong-gun, Fan Bingbing, Joe Odagiri and, presumably, their translators

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CF: Actress Fan Joins Li Yu's "Double Exposure"

The film tells a story about a couple of childhood sweethearts who are involved in two uninvestigated yet questionable murders.

Fan Bingbing, Li Yu

Kong Wei

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Laughing Gor - I'm back

Francis Ng - I'm bad

Turning Point Extreme, a new Laughing Gor film based on the TVB series Lives of Omission,  is set to begin shooting on October 20. The cast includes Michael Tse, Bosco Wong, Kate Tsui, Francis Ng and MC Jin. Francis Ng will play the villain. Fala Chen will not return, the female lead will be Rebecca Zhu, Miss Hong Kong 2011.(Sina)

Lost in Panic Cruise poster

The film is the follow up to Lost in Panic Room, also starring Alec Su. 

Based on positive response to a preview in Hong Kong, Barbara Wong's The Allure of Tears, besides a Mainland release, now will also open in Taiwan, Hong Kong, UK, Thailand, Malaysia and Australia on December 24. (Sina)

Tentative Lunar Holiday schedule (Mainland) released, a partial listing: White Vengeance (Nov.24), Happy Magic (Dec.1), The Flowers of War (Dec.16), The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (Dec.18), The Grandmasters (Dec.22), The Allure of Tears (Dec.24).

(Sina)

Gigi Leung's other wedding day dress, a traditional cheongsam in Spanish colors

MSN: Photos from Karen Mok’s bachelorette party revealed

Karen Mok married Woody Harrelson?