Takeshi Kaneshiro has been invited to join the cast for the prequel to The Message. Huang Xiaoming, Li Bingbing and Zhou Xun are slated to return. (Sina)
Joan Chen riles S’pore film-makers
Joan, who rose to fame in The Last Emperor in 1987, said: “I love Singapore, life is great here, it’s clean, well-managed and well-run. The people are wonderful too…”
Then she added: “It’s just that, perhaps, the (film) industry isn’t ripe enough at the moment. It’s still in the process of development.
“I mean, Singapore is beautiful and orderly, it’s like a fairyland film set. You guys are really lucky that everything is so good here.
“But personally, I feel that art comes from dissent, not from contentment.”



HKMDB
Forty foot leap launched movie career

Lam Kau
With Ti Lung at Mid Autumn Festival appearance with Hong Kong Performing Artists Guild


So Ji-Sub, Zhang Ziyi








Overheard cast and guests attend Hong Kong premiere

Michael Wong and wife
“Overheard” Premieres in Hong Kong
Hollywood Reporter: Alan Mak hopes for hit in China
‘Chengdu’ to close Venice festival
Fruit Chan, Cui Jian unveil sci-fi film
Chengdu, I Love You to close Venice Film Festival
[ I wonder, did the third part get cut out because Hur Jin-ho expanded his segment to a full length feature?]
Previously: Hur Jin-ho wraps feature-length Season Of Good Rain
‘Chengdu’ to Close Venice Film Festival
Variety: SPC to distribute Yimou’s ‘Blood’ [Amazing Tales: Three Guns]
Sony Pictures Classics is continuing its relationship with filmmaker Zhang Yimou, agreeing to distribute his planned remake of the Coen brothers’ comedic thriller “Blood Simple” domestically and in several major foreign territories
Screen Daily: Sony Classics on board for Zhang Yimou’s Blood Simple remake
China welcomes ‘Haeundae’ wave
Korean disaster film looks for success onshore in China
Lee Byung-hun Returns With Film ‘G.I. Joe’
Kwon Sang-woo May Make Hollywood Debut
Hollywood’s Korean ninjas


Sandra Ng and Barbie Hsu - On His Majesty’s Secret Service





Aftershock officially launches production
Ceremony held at Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Square
HK actress Michelle Reis returns to the big screen


Anthony Wong, Yin Tao to Lead Epic Tang Drama
Jia Zhangke: In fact it is the President of the World Uighur Congress Kadeer, a documentary film, and invited me to attend the film premiere, it is known that political figures in the film will appear, too political, and I am not sure about the history of Xinjiang, so it is not the time to attend the film festival a good time, so I choose not to participate. ”
Jia Zhangke speaking at the Hong Kong Book Fair
Jet Li’s Singapore citizenship confirmed

Shing Fui-On gives a thumbs up

Shing Fui-On’s cancer has spread to his lungs. He entered the hospital last week and only weighs 45kgs (not lost 45kgs as previously reported)


86 year-old Lam Kau enters hospital with foot injury

Nick Cheung films a tourism program in Finland


I spy: Vivian Chow secretly meeting with Peter Chan in Shanghai
Sparks rumors of plans for comeback
England: Family made £7m in fake DVD scam