Thursday, April 28, 2011

Twins In New Mainland TV Series

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Twins Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung will reunite in a new mainland TV series (lit. Happy Marshal). Costars included Leo Ku, Ron Ng, Michelle Wai, Maggie Siu and Roger Kwok. Gillian appears as a guest in one episode of the 34 episode series. Photos show the official launch ceremony.







(Sina), (ifensi)

Fan Bingbing Gets Waxed in Shanghai

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Fan Bingbing's porcelain features are immortalized for Madame Tussauds Wax Museum draped in her famous Dragon gown worn at Cannes.







(Sina)

4.28.2011 - News

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CF: Cecilia Cheung, Xiao Shenyang to Play Wife and Husband
Joe Ma's The Lion Roars 2

Guan Yu rules
The Lost Bladesman reviewed

CF: 'Seal of Love' Making Waves
Produced to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Revolution of 1911, "The Seal of Love" (vide. White Flower in Autumn) tells the story of the romance between well-known political leader Qu Qiubai and his wife Yang Zhihua...Starring Dou Xiao and Dong Jie...

The elephant in the room throughout the Beijing event was the Shanghai festival that celebrates its 14th edition in June. Key staff were in attendance to observe the better-financed rival, but were seemingly ignored. While Beijing rejoiced in its large delegation of festival presidents, there to witness and advise the new event, Shanghai was present but not invited to speak.

Susan Sarandon, Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe and Marisa Tomei are all bound for China this June on a visit to the world’s fastest growing film market as guests of the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival, organizers said on Thursday.


Celebrity imitators including doubles for Andy Lau and Chow Yun-Fat (Wen Xiang)



After a few years' absence of what was once an annual summer tradition, 4 Star owner Frank Lee has once again ventured into the theater's crawlspace and come up with some forgotten gems of martial arts, action and erotica and cobbled together an Asian Movie Madness series to last through July.

Ung said he does not see Hollywood filmmaking or its tendency toward cliched happy endings as the pinnacle of success, and he admires the creativity of foreign films. He refers to Hong Kong films from the 1980s, which often end tragically and abruptly.
“I thought, ‘Wow, you can really end a film like this?’ You wouldn’t see this anywhere in an American screenwriting textbook,” Ung said. “These guys have guts.”

Documentary film "Xmas Without China" to tell new kind of story

Jacky Cheung sings the theme song for A Beautiful Life in the MV. (Sina)



Chow Yun-Fat, Ann Hui
Chow Yun-Fat presented the award for Outstanding Artistitic Contribution to director Ann Hui last night at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards Presentation Ceremony. Joseph Koo received the Lifetime Achievement award. (Xinhua)

New poster for No. 32, B District a domestic horror film co-produced with Thailand

Fan Bingbing won the award for Best Actress at the Beijing Student Film Festival today. Yao Chen was voted Most Popular Actress, Feng Xiaogang, Most Popular Director, Wen Zhang, Most Popular Actor. Aftershock won the award for Best Picture and Ge You received the Best Actor award. (Sina)

Fan Bingbing - Best Actress
Yao Chen - Most Popular Actress

Zhang Ziyi (Apr.27)
Zhang Ziyi attended the opening reception of an exhibition of Ralph Lauren's collection of automobiles at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. 

Ralph Lauren


Zhang Ziyi with Jean Todt, Michelle Yeoh and Jean Reno and wife, Nathalie Dyszkiewicz


Fan Bingbing, Yao Ming

Astronaut Yang Liwei, Fan Bingbing
Fan Bingbing, Yao Ming and Yang Liwei spoke about being representatives of China's national image at a cultural forum in Shanghai yesterday. (Xinhua), (Sina)


Chicken soup marriage proposal
Fan Bing Bing is the target of a very public marriage proposal from a man who claims he is not rich but is very good at making chicken soup, if billboards are anything to go by.
MSN: Isabella Leong spotted at a fast food joint with son
Netizens post pictures of the former Hong Kong actress online
The Taiwanese actress sudden weight gain sparks talks of pregnancy again
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Li Bingbing Promotes Green Travel

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(Apr.26)






(Xinhua), (Sina)

Eagle Shooting Heroes 2011 - Press Conference Photos

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Photos from the Guangdong press conference for Jeff Lau's Eagle Shooting Hero 2011. The cast includes Eason Chan, Ekin Cheng, Karen Mok, Kenny Bee, Stephy Tang, Tan Weiwei, William So and Alex Fong Lik-Sun.

Jeff Lau
Karen Mok

Karen Mok, Eason Chan

Ekin Cheng

Tan Wei Wei

Kenny Bee

Kenny Bee, Karen Mok

Stephy Tang, Alex Fong Lik-Sun

William So, Tan Wei Wei

4.27.2011 - News

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CF: "Four Detectives" Reveals Cast's Images

CF: Chen Kun's New Love Trangle in Rest on Your Shoulder
Chen Kun is in love with three ladies and faces a dilemma to choose his true love.

An entertaining hot pot of wry political commentary and general mischief.
Wai Ka-Fai
Wai Ka-Fai to take break from filmmaking? In an excerpt from a Jet magazine interview, frequent Johnnie To collaborator, Wai says that after wrapping up current projects he is considering a career change.(Yahoo) (Jet) (Thanks, to Joyce!)

Is Andrew Lau replacing Teddy Chen as Peter Chan's director for The Guillotines? That's the current rumour. (Sina)

CF: Stars Gather to Promote Chinese Films
Vivian Hsu

The Founding of a Party opens June 15 in IMAX and regular theatres
Director Huang Jianxin was flooded with text messages from actors asking whether they survived the final cut.  With 178 actors to fill only 131 minutes, the director assured the press at a trailer release event that John Woo (cut from the Founding of a Republic) and Tang Wei (previously rumoured to be cut) were not excised, at least in the trailer. (Xinhua)


Wilson Yip's A Chinese Ghost Story, an adaptation of the 1987 classic, led the China box office last week with RMB72.5 million ($11.1 million) after six days on release.
The action-romance-fantasy opened on 19 April, three days earlier than originally scheduled, so as to give it additional headroom ahead of The Lost Bladesman after it moved its own release date forward.

The censorship process for "Buddha Mountain" was not completely trouble-free.
Dante Lam's Against War




Posters for the mainland release of the 2009 Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends - The Movie to mark the 45th anniversary of Ultraman. Opens May 13. (Sina)

(Apr.27) At an event in Beijing promoting the 1987 A Chinese Ghost Story, Ng See-Yuen said he planned to rerelease more Hong Kong classics in the mainland.

Ng See-Yuen

Director Tony Ching Siu-Tung

Actor Lau Siu-Ming from the classic film

Leslie Cheung's costume (Sina)

Lin Chi-Ling
A new romantic comedy (lit. Happiness Quota) from director Leste Chen held a launch ceremony. The film stars Lin Chi-Ling, Liao Fan, Chen Kun and Tony Yang. The story has Lin Chi-Ling in a love triangle with three men. 
Chen Kun

Liao Fan
Tony Yang
Leste Chen

Chen Kun, Liao Fan, Lin Chi-Ling, Tony Yang

The boot ceremony for "Beasts and Flowers"(literally) was held at Hengdian today. The film directed by newcomer Zhang Lijia stars Ady An Yixuan, Jaycee Chan, Lam Suet, Ng Man-Tat, Frankie Ng Chi-Hung, Gong Xinliang, Ricky Chan, and others. The ensemble comedy is premised around the notion that we are all "Beasts and Flowers". 
Jaycee Chan

Ady An

Ady An, Jaycee
Director Zhang Lijia (Cheung Lap-Kar)
Frankie Ng

Group photo (Sina)

 
Shu Qi - A Beautiful Life

A Beautiful Life opens May 13. (Sina)

 
Hong Kong multi-hyphenate Stephen Chow Sing Chi is adding one more hyphen to his repertoire of skills – he has grand designs to open a dozen cinemas within one year in Mainland China, according to Xiao Xiang Morning Post.

Kelly Chen announced Tuesday on her blog that she will soon be getting back to work, after spending the past few weeks at home recovering from her recent miscarriage, reported Hong Kong media. 
Kelly's son, "Har Gow" 

Former TVB Number 1 Brother Gallen Lo Kar Leungrevealed that he has no regrets leaving TVB at the peak of his acting career in 2003 to pursue work in Mainland China, according to Chinese media.