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November 17, 2009

Filed under: News — Tags: chen kun, Jay Chou, Jiang Wen, Let the Bullets Fly, Li Yuchun, Pop Stop, Tian Zhuangzhuang — dleedlee @ 2:56 pm

CRI: First Timer Li Yuchun Fights like A Kung Fu Panda

Singer-turned-actress Li Yuchun believes her role in “Bodyguards and Assassins” corresponds to Po.

Jiang Wen aims for commercial success (Let The Bullets Fly)

I will make a film that everybody understands,” he said at a Beijing press conference last week.

Danwei: Tian Zhuangzhuang: The film world as mafia and commerical models of film

Taiwan’s Lam[Lin] Chi-ling stars in new film

Taiwan’s top model-turned-actress Lam Chi-ling stars in “The Treasure Hunter”, due for release next month. Another one of her films will be released next summer. In that film, she plays opposite mainland actor, Sun Honglei.

Jay Chou’s Pandaman estimated to rack in S$50 million

Chen Kun

Chen Kun, Luo Haiqiong

New Huayi Brothers TV series set in Republican era. Cast includes Chen Kun and Cheng Pei Pei

(Cri.cn)

Taipei Times: Empire of the rising sun ‘

‘Pattenrai’ tells the story of the Japanese engineer whose projects turned an arid wilderness into one of Taiwan’s most important agricultural regions

Taipei Times: Pop Stop

Rainie Yang, Terri Kwan, A-Mei, Jay Chou making news and more…

Carol Chu, a prisoner of fame?

HONG Kong superstar Andy Lau has barred his Malaysian wife Carol Chu from going out, Sin Chew Daily has reported.

Secret spouses

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November 16, 2009

Filed under: News — Tags: Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Fan Bingbing, Gong Mi, Jackie Chan, Kwai Lun-Mei, Let the Bullets Fly, Lin Chi-Ling, Miriam Yeung, Monica Mok, Nic Tse, Nick Cheung, Stool Pigeon, To Live and Die in Mongkok, Vivian Chow, Zhang Ziyi — dleedlee @ 3:36 pm

Stool Pigeon - On location with Nic Tse and Kwai Lun-Mei

Nic Tse

Kwai Lun-Mei

(12) (HunanTV)

To Live and Die in Mongkok - Nick Cheung and Monica Mok

Nick Cheung’s hot scene with Monica Mok. Film opens Thursday in Hong Kong. (HunanTV)

CRI: Jackie Chan Reunites with ‘Little Fortunes’

THR: Chan marks Peking Opera school anniversary

Chan, Hung, Yuen celebrate half-century of institute

CRI: Fan Bingbing Promotes “The Last Night of Madame Chin”

CRI: Jiang Wen Reveals Details about New Film

Actor turned director Jiang Wen’s upcoming film Let the Bullets Fly is still in production, but Jiang and his cast discussed the film recently with reporters in Beijing.

Carina Lau skipping Golden Horse awards because of Maggie Cheung?

Hong Kong actress Carina Lau is reportedly skipping this year’s Golden Horse Film Awards in Taiwan because of rumoured love rival Maggie Cheung.

Five-time Golden Horse award winning actress Cheung has agreed to be a presenter at the November 28 award show, her first appearance in nine years. The awards is seen as the Chinese-language “Oscars”.

Shortly after the news made headlines, Lau who was invited to represent husband, actor Tony Leung, at the film festival’s executive committee meeting, declined the invitation, citing work commitments as an excuse.

Leung, 47, is unable to attend the prestigious event as he is busy filming martial arts movie “The Grand Master”, which is scheduled to be released next year, while Lau, 43, is involved in Chinese film “Let The Bullets Fly”.

Lau’s manager has played down the matter, saying, “Things are fine between Carina and Maggie. Carina would very much like to attend the meeting but the crew refuse to let her go. She is still trying to fight for it.”

The long-running feud between love rivals Lau and Cheung, 45, over Leung is no secret and a rendezvous between Leung and Cheung in August this year has reignited rumours of the love triangle.

Exposed: The Real deal on Miriam Yeung’s hubby

Lin Chiling faces resistance on her return as a TV host

Memoirs of a travel host - Zhang Ziyi Travel Series

Joey Yung diagnosed with degenerative knee condition

Andy Lau and wife make pact to thwart media

Lau and Choo in ‘theatre of dreams’

Vivian Chow

(Sina)

Gong Mi (Little Cecilia Cheung) endorsing a Shenyang mall (Sina)

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November 6, 2009

Filed under: News — Tags: Aaron Kwok, alfred cheung, All's Well Ends Well 2010, Bodyguards and Assassins, Carina Lau, Daniel Wu, Ge You, Golden Horse, Gong Beibi, Hot Summer Days, Jay Chou, Let the Bullets Fly, Li Xiaolu, Love At Seventh Sight, Oxide Pang, Rain of Swords, Seediq Bale, Tang Wei, Treasure Hunter, Vivian Hsu, Zhou Xun — dleedlee @ 2:49 pm

Divaasia: Vivian returns to her roots

Actress Vivian Hsu will soon start work on the new Taiwanese movie Seediq Bale, directed by Wei Te Sheng, who also directed last year’s Cape No 7.

Vivian plays the lead role in the movie that portrays the Wushe Incident, a 1930 Seediq uprising led by Mona Rudao against the Japanese when Taiwan was colonised.

The Seediq are Taiwanese aboriginal people who, along with the Truku people, were previously classified as the Atayal tribe.

She said: “I won’t be speaking any Mandarin in the movie at all. Instead, I would have to speak Japanese and Seediq.”

The movie is due to film for half a year and will be completed in 2011.

It is budgeted at $21 million.

Treasure Hunter poster featuring Jay Chou

(HunanTV)

Bodyguards and Assassins main poster

The difficulty in fitting all the cast took three months before finalizing the poster.

World premiere will be in Nanjing Nov. 12 where Sun Yat-Sen’s mausoleum is located.

(HunanTV)

THR: Tang Wei returns in ‘Manchu’ remake

‘Lust, Caution’ actress coming off ban, stars in English film

“Full Autumn” in Korean — by Kim Tae-yong (“Family Ties”) will start shooting later this month in Seattle, and will travel to other cities across the United States, the Korean producer said…

THR: Hong Kong movies make a dramatic showing at the boxoffice

Four local films got into the top 10 in the summer: the Shaw Brothers’ comeback “Turning Point” (HK15.7 million), “Overheard” from the “Infernal Affairs” team (HK15.5 million), Edko’s Aaron Kwok thriller “Murderer” (HK11.7 million) and period comedy “On His Majesty’s Secret Service” (HK8.8 million). Only two made the cut last summer…Although the number of local releases rose slightly in 2009, what’s staggering is the upcoming Chinese New Year public holiday slot, which will see 10 Hong Kong/Chinese-language high-profile projects competing in three weeks in February. It’s something the which hasn’t been seen since the 1990s….

THR: AFM Special Report: Hong Kong

Boxoffice may be up, but the outlook is troubled

“If there (were) enough films to make in Hong Kong, I’d rather not go anywhere else,” says [Herman] Yau, the hugely prolific Hong Kong director who works with three crews simultaneously — even while many technicians have followed the helmers to the mainland. “Although a large number of Hong Kong filmmakers are now working in China,” he says, “they can’t bring all the film crews with them, so there’re still a lot of local crew members stranded here, unemployed.”

THR: ‘Bodyguards and Assassins’ sells at AFM

Cinema Popular also is shopping its action-romantic comedy “The Return of the Incredible Wu Xia Couple,” directed by Vincent Kuk, and Dante Lam’s period actioner “Flying Guillotines” at AFM.

Screen Daily

THR: Jung to star in ‘Rain of Swords’

Film co-stars Michelle Yeoh, co-produced by John Woo

Screen Daily: TF1 buys Media Asia’s Chen Zhen for France

Hong Kong’s Media Asia Distribution has sold The Legend Of Chen Zhen, directed by Andrew Lau and starring Donnie Yen, to France’s TF1.

Leading Hong Kong action star Yen plays Chen Zhen in the film, a folk hero who fights the Shanghai mafia and occupying Japanese. Shu Qi and Anthony Wong also star…Meanwhile, Dream Movies also took rights for Australia and New Zealand to Pang Ho-chueng’s Love In A Puff, a comedy starring Miriam Yeung and Shawn Yue, and Johnnie To’s new project, Death Of A Hostage, starring Lau Ching Wan.

Screen Daily: Cameron’s Avatar forces Chinese blockbusters to shift release dates

Zhang Yimou’s remake of Blood Simple [Amazing Tales: Three Guns] has bought its release forward from December 18 to December 11, while Hong King Universe’s The Storm Warriors has shifted its release to December 10. Jay Chou-starring Treasure Hunter will be released on December 9 instead of mid-month as originally planned, and Ning Hao’s road movie Wu Ren Qu [No Man's Land] will move back its release by three months to March next year…

Variety: CineAsia honors Zhou Xun

Actress to receive star of the year kudo

Variety: Fair Love (South Korea)

Variety: The Laughing Policeman (Japan)

Taipei Times: Golden Horse seeks new pastures

CRI: Golden Horse Film Festival Opens

Taipei Times - Short Takes

Wheat (長平大戰之麥田)

What first might appear to be another tiresome period costumer about one of the millions of battles in China’s history turns out to be something rather different. Two deserters from the Qin army in the Warring States period lucklessly find themselves in an enemy town whose men are away fighting. Their lies and ingratiations with the women gradually wear thin — especially as others arrive with contradictory news. This meticulously photographed drama-comedy is structured around elemental themes, of which wheat, the local crop, is prominent. Directed by He Ping (何平), who made The Swordsman in Double Flag Town

Meat Grinder

(雙旗鎮刀客).

A coming-on-middle-aged street vendor projects her madness and history of abuse onto (mostly) unsuspecting, sleazy men — and cooks up a storm. Surprisingly good reviews greeted this gory Thai drama, which is right up there with Hong Kong’s The Untold Story (八仙飯店之人肉叉燒包) as a boundary-pushing, gag-inducing Asian incarnation of Sweeney Todd; it’s also a perfectly timed essay for people who think US beef is the sign of the Devil. Abstruse political subtexts (it’s set during student riots in the 1970s) and class and gender commentary … or blood, guts and torture for their own sake? Take your pick. Taiwan’s censors have let this one through without cuts, though it isn’t clear if this is the version originally banned in Thailand. Either way, here’s the question: Why doesn’t Taiwan make movies like this?

4 new Three Guns images in HD (Sina)

CRI: Stefanie Sun Sings for Mulan

Let The Bullets Fly

Ge You

Carina Lau plays Ge You’s wife

(Xinhua)

CRI: ‘Bullets’ Go Stylish (HD version Sina)

Gong Beibi and Aaron Kwok

Oxide Pang has started shooting B+Detective, the sequel to C+Detective (aka The Detective) in Thailand. (HunanTV)

Li Xiaolu and Alfred Cheung (actor, director, writer)

Love At Seventh Sight (lit.Seven Days To Fall in Love)

(HunanTV)

All’s Well Ends Well 2010 costumes - Angelababy

Lynn Xiong (Sina)

Hot Summer Days - Daniel Wu

Vivian Hsu (Sina)

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October 21, 2009

Filed under: News — Tags: 14 Blades, Astro Boy, Benny Chan, Chow Yun-Fat, Golden Harvest, Keanu Reeves, Let the Bullets Fly, Michelle Yeoh, New Shaolin Temple, Prince of Tears, Tiger Chen Hu, Wada Emi — dleedlee @ 11:55 am

14 Blades poster

(cri.com)

Terri Kwan, Oceane Zhu Xuan

Cheng Pei-Pei, Karena Lam, George Lam, Daniel Wu, Kenneth Tsang and wife

Prince of Tears Hong Kong premiere - slide show (28) (Sina.com)

(Sina.com)

THR: Chow Yun-Fat to star in Jiang’s ‘Bullets’

CRI: Chow Yun-Fat Joins “Bullets” Cast

… there were no less than ten options for the ending of the movie. The director and Chow came up with the final version when they were drinking and chatting…

The 11 major male roles will go towards assembling a Chinese “Ocean’s Eleven”, according to earlier reports.

Investment in the movie has hit 150 million Hong Kong dollars, or about 20 million US dollars.

Michelle Yeoh goes back to gongfu

In Jianyu Jianghu, loosely translated as Rain Of Swords In The Martial Arts World, she will play an assassin.

Co-directed by acclaimed Chinese director John Woo (Face/Off) and Taiwanese film-maker Su Chao-pin (Silk), filming for the movie will start in China next week.

Emi Wada: A many-hued Oscar

The world knows Emi Wada for her Academy Award-winning costumes for Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, but most Chinese know her as the brains behind the techni-colored wardrobe of Zhang Yimou’s 2002 Hero (Yingxiong).

Astro Boy’s Huge Comeback

Deng Chao’s Astro Boy haircut

Deng Chao as Astro Boy

THR: Golden Harvest promises rebirth

New managers vow to resurrect storied HK studio Golden Harvest

Benny Chan’s New Shaolin Temple won’t be like the Jet Li version. Filming begins in December and will feature Nic Tse, Fan Bingbing, Andy Lau, Jackie Chan, and Wu Jing. But the female lead has not been cast yet. Fan Bingbing replaces Zhou Xun who was originally announced but had a schedule conflict. Script is by New Police Story’s Yuen Kam-Lun. Filming will take place at the actual Shaolin Temple then move to Hengdian Studio. (Xinhua)

Keanu Reeves will act in producer/investor capacity and ’spiritual pillar’. He will not star, as previously reported, in Kung Fu Hero. Keira Knightly is slated to guest appear. Ning Ying will direct.[An odd choice as she is noted for harder hitting films like On The Beat and Railroad of Hope.] Beijing launch ceremony photos below. (Sina.com)

Tiger Chen Hu

Chen Hu, Lin Shen

Director Ning Ying

Three leads - Chen Hu, Jiang Mengjie, Lin Shen

Brandy Yuen, action director

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August 25, 2009

Filed under: News — Tags: Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Charlene Choi, chen kun, Documentary, Founding of the Nation, Gillian Chung, Haeundae, Jet Li, Karen Mok, Korean Film, Legend of Yang Guifei, Let the Bullets Fly, Message, Sophie's Revenge, Stephen Chow, Tangshan Earthquake, The Great Cause of China's Foundation, Wuyi Roots, Zhang Ziyi — dleedlee @ 10:50 am

Costume design of spy movie “The Message”

Shooting underway for “Tangshan Earthquake”

Jet Li returns to Chinese film after 3 US movies
Jet Li makes a quiet appearance at Cartier for his charity
alivenotedead: Jet Li - Going Green With Tony Blair

‘Haeundae’ Attracts 10 Mil. Audience

Sophie’s Revenge takes in RMB$60M in ten days
Zhang Ziyi abandons tough image, more like a child, perhaps even too vulnerable.

Chen Kun Is A Handsome Bandit in “Let Bullets Fly”
Chen Kun to join Jiang Wen’s Let the Bullets Fly
Taking on new tough guy image in film

Poster for TV series The Legend of Yang Guifei
Stars include Anthony Wong, Ruby Lin
Anthony Wong

China’s birthday movie has many seeing red

Xiao Shenyang
Yan Ni
Stills from Zhang Yimou’s Three Guns

Three Guns will be released on the same day as Bodyguards and Assassins in December

Stephen Chow quietly supporting Red Cross typhoon efforts, denies retirement rumor
Ching Siu-Tung confirmed co-shooting martial arts super-hero comedy with Jack Black and Anne Hathaway

Gillian Chung being wooed for 30-episode CCTV series Legend of White Snake
Director waiting for SARFT approval, Gillian accepting lower fee, Fan Bingbing considered but fee too high

Jackie Chan puckers up to Wang Lee Hom

alivenotdead: Karen Mok - Canon Fireworks Display

Andy “appear” on web to admit his relationship with Zhu family

Charlene Choi shot a new series of photos for fall and winter women’s sportwear

Wuyi Roots
In Wuyi, China, lies Jiangmen, one of Riverside’s Sister Cities. Wuyi is “The Number One Homeland of the Overseas Chinese” who came to California in 1849 to work in the goldfields, on the railroad, and then in Riverside’s citrus industry. The documentary tells their story. “Wuyi Roots” TV documentary was produced in Jiangmen, China (2005) by the Guangdong Provincial Publishing House/Guangdong Petrel.

In the Pearl River Delta of southern China, west of Macao & Hong Kong, is located the beautiful and unique city of Jiangmen, China. The districts of Xinhui,Taishan, Kaiping, and Heshan under its jurisdiction are customarily called “Wuyi”, meaning 5 Counties. Many of the ancestors of today’s Chinese Americans, including those who settled in Riverside, came from Wuyi. Wuyi Roots is their story and the story of Wuyi as it has developed over the past 150 years.

SCMP: Canadian Tourist missing in Hong Kong: Help find Ani Ashekian 1/7
Previously

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August 5, 2009

Filed under: News — Tags: Empire of Silver, Fan Bingbing, Gao Yuanyuan, Gillian Chung, Green Hornet, Jay Chou, jeff lau, Let the Bullets Fly, Light-Transcending Pandora's Box, Lin Chi-Ling, Shing Fui-On, Stanley Ho, Zhao Wei — dleedlee @ 10:30 am

Jay Chou to play Stephen Chow’s role in ‘Green Hornet’?

“Empire of Silver” Generates Its Own Fortune in Taiwan

Success of Overheard has producer, directors considering sequel
Story would center around Lau Ching-Wan, but they hope to sign up Andy Lau and Donnie Yen. Meanwhile, Derek Yee will start filming ‘Double Tap King’ with Louis Koo and Daniel Wu in August.

Gillian Chung in costume for a guest appearance in Jeff Lau’s multi-star Light Transcending Pandora’s Box a sendup of Red Cliff
Cast includes Ronald Cheng, Eric Tsang
More on the film here and here
Ronald Cheng and Sun Li are playing the lead roles in Light-transcending Pandora’s Box and they are joined by various Chinese and Hong Kong celebrities including veteran artistes Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng, Kenny Bee, Bruce Liang, Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu; a number of indispensable comedian extras Johnny Kong Yeuk Sing, Tin Kai Man, Lam Tze Chung, Lee Kin Yan; from Mainland are Guo De Gang, Yu Rong Guang, Huang Bo, Guo Tao, Wang Xue Bing, Sha Yi; from Hong Kong arrives Alex Fong, Fan Siu Wong, Danny Chan Kwok Kwan, Marco Ngai, Patrick Tam, Edmond Leung; and it’s being complemented and adorned by female artistes Athena Chu, Gigi Leung, Betty Huang Yi, Ada Choi, Xu Jiao…

Rumor: Jet Li has been invited to star in New Shaolin Temple an update of Shaolin Temple
He would not play a main character but a senior temple official. Andy Lau is also under discussion for a part, reuniting The Warlords duo.

Chow Yun-Fat confirmed for Jiang Wen’s Let the Bullets Fly
Gong Li is still tentatively cast

Watch for Lin Chi-Ling

Sexy Siren Fan Bingbing Graces ‘Esquire’
http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/m/p/2009-08-05/02272638541.shtml

Gao Yuanyuan: Follow Me in South Korea

Zhao Wei - new fashion photo gallery

Taiwanese singer-actor Nicky Wu and wife divorce

Shing Fui-On in stable condition switches hospital according to good pal Ken Lo

Stanley Ho’s condition deteriorates
Family gathers at hospital

Cowherd, looking for Weaver Girl
Romances in the Show Business

Minibond celebrities tagged as `professional’

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July 30, 2009

Filed under: News — Tags: Bey Logan, Chengdu I Love You, Chow Yun-Fat, Fruit Chan, Gong Li, Hello Kitty, Jiang Wen, Kelly Chen, Kungfu Cyborg, Let the Bullets Fly, Li Bingbing, Liu Ye, Michelle Reis, Pace Wu, Qin Hailu, Shu Qi, Sophie's Revenge, Three Guns, Tracing Shadow, Zhao Wei — dleedlee @ 10:08 am

New Sophie’s Revenge poster

Zhang Ziyi

More stills - Sophie’s Revenge

Tracing Shadow poster

Recent posts from Bey Logan’s blog
Bey Logan: Chow on Fire
Fat Gor tries to change a flat tire/tyre

Bey Logan: Coffee with Gong Li
Gong dominated Chinese cinema to such an extent that, when she proved unavailable for the project, Chen Kaige begrudgingly began his film Temptress Moon with another actress, Iron Monkey’s Jean Wang, before summarily dismissing her when Gong Li did become available (and then, rather unkindly, criticizing Wang in the press.)

Bey Logan: The Man With The Deadly Pen
Ngai Hong (AKA Ni Kuang) (and Vivian Chow’s father-in-law)

Guardian: Can Kung Fu Cyborg kick Transformers’ arse?

Shu Qi performing action stunts on City Under Siege - slide show

Fruit Chan’s Chengdu, I Love You to close Venice Film Festival

Xiao Shenyang
Sun Honglei
Zhang Yimou’s Three Guns

Li Bingbing was admitted to the hospital with heat stroke and hospitalized for two days but has now returned to the set of Detective Dee
on.cc

Chow Yun-Fat possibly joining the cast of Jiang Wen’s Let the Bullets Fly

The woman who changes one man’s destiny - Michelle Reis
“If a woman can change a man’s whole life, that’s an attractive story to me,” the 39-year-old says. “My role encourages a beggar to stand up to hardship and live with dignity and confidence. She makes me believe in love.”

Qin Hailu to star in Sun Zhou’s 1949 war drama set in Guangzhou

Hong Kong media is reporting that Kelly Chen is not getting along with her mother-in-law
Supposedly clashing over cooking and child care
http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/2/3/1/301496/1.html

Zhao Wei releasing new album on digital platform via China Mobile (a la Karen Mok) in August
Rumor: Zhao Wei has registered for marriage in Singapore to a businessman
She was spotted with a wealthy merchant outside a marriage registration office in Singapore. To register in Singapore one must be a Singaporean or a permanent resident of Singapore.
If so, can a change in citizenship be far behind?
http://www.businesstimes.com.hk/a-20090730-24326/zhaowei12
http://news.sina.com.tw/article/20090730/1976875.html

Liu Ye promoting auto brand
First public appearance since marriage

Pace Wu

Pace Wu in Taipei promoting cosmetics - gallery

Paris Hilton dons a Hello Kitty dress

Group wants to stub out film smoke
Chinese anti-smoking group call for a ban on smoking scenes

Hong Kong gang convicted for piracy
Leader sentenced to 74 months; $1.1 mil in assets seized

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July 24, 2009

Filed under: News — Tags: Bodyguards and Assassins, Cecilia Cheung, Danny Lee, Donnie Yen, Faye Wong, Gillian Chung, Jackie Chan, Karen Mok, Kelly Chen, Let the Bullets Fly, McDull Wudang, Michelle Reis, Oppai Volleyball, Overheard, Plastic City, Red Cliff, Ronald Cheng, SARFT, Shanzhai, Yasmin Ahmad, Zhao Wei — dleedlee @ 10:30 am

New Film Guarantees Laughs and More - On His Majesty’s Secret Service

Donnie Yen gets in shape for 14 Blades

Jiang Wen’s Let The Bullets Fly photos - more
[Looks like an Abercrombie and Fitch advert!]

Surprise!
Bodyguards and Assassins publicity director denies Cecilia Cheung cameo
Also denied that Faye Wong will sing the theme song. However, he revealed that Michelle Reis will appear!

Never a McDull moment

Overheard - Tapping into the craze for stocks

Should Kato be played by a woman in the new ‘Green Hornet’ movie?

Red Cliff - the short version

China tells TV to get history right
Online commentators were critical of Tian’s performance and costumes and of the show’s use of “Matrix”-like fight scenes and rap music stylings in songs sung by actors playing gods

Yasmin Ahmad suffers stroke
Yasmin’s condition being closely monitored
Film Director Yasmin Ahmad Admitted In ICU

Plastic City - This city sinks

Variety: ‘Forbidden Door’ nabs PiFan prize
Dante Lam wins best director in Puchon

Taipei Times: Film review
An attractive young teacher hits on a novel way to motivate a group of nerdy junior high students in ‘Oppai Volleyball’
The world of modern art gets a roasting in Takeshi Kitano’s morbidly funny ‘Achilles and the Tortoise’

Jackie Chan to Donate All Property after Death

Agent Denies Zhao Wei’s Hiatus Rumor
Update: Zhao Wei to marry boyfriend

Taipei Times: Pop Stop
Don’t skip the story on Xiao S!

Faye Wong denies National Day concert comeback rumors
Not joining Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung

The latest rumor concerning Kelly Chen’s baby
In this version, according to netizens, the baby is actually the illegitimate offspring of Kelly’s brother and a model. Because Kelly and her husband cannot have a baby of their own, they have agreed to accept her brother’s child as their own. The surrogate mother story becomes a handy smoke screen in this scenario.
Update: English version - Kelly Chen faked pregnancy?

Ronald Cheng and Gillian Chung’s fathers spotted by press leading to marriage speculation

Li Xiaolu magazine photos

Karen Mok shoots an MV to promote environmental awareness
Supports Hong Kong’s new plastic bag fee

Shanzhai Lin Chi-Ling Chen Si Xuan
Shanzhai Lin Chi-Ling denies any plastic surgery

SCMP: Take the Hong Kong Entertainment Quiz

SCMP: Vitasoy chairman Winston Lo drinks to healthy future

Grilled fish dish a worthy catch at Danny Lee’s new restaurant

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June 10, 2009

Filed under: News — Tags: Big Soldier, Chapman To, Confucius, Fist of Dragon, Ge You, Gillian Chung, Ho Meng-Hua, Jiang Wen, John Woo, Let the Bullets Fly, Searching For Jackie Chan, Sek Kin — dleedlee @ 10:36 am

Big Soldier (Little General)
The Big Soldier poster

Searching for Jackie Chan opens July 4

HO MENG-HUA 何夢華 (1929-2009): TRIBUTE TO A MASTER OF CINEMA - R.I.P.
(Thanks to David Wells and the Mobius Forum)

‘Bullets Fly’ with Ge You
As well as Ge You, “Let the Bullets Fly” will also star Jiang Wen himself and another “internationally acclaimed big-name”, according to a source close to Jiang Wen. Tabloids speculate it’s likely to be “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” star Chow Yun-Fat.
http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2009-06-10/08192556539.shtml

Confucius Descendant Likes Chow’s Portrayal

John Woo: interview

The Locarno Film Festival has selected 12 projects for its Open Doors co-production lab which this year is devoted to Greater China.

Malaysian filmmaker Michael Chuah Ghiap Hun will direct and star in Fist Of Dragon
Chapman To
The Human Comedy modeled after The Assembly
Costars Chiu Tien-You ,Wong Cho-Nam

Anthony Wong
Joe Odagiri
Plastic City stills

One Night in Supermarket (lit. Night Shop) features Xu Zheng, Li Xiaolu

Sek Kin Enter the Dragon action figure hot item online, selling for hundreds of dollars

Gillian Chung: Edison’s apology came too late

Isabella Leong moving to Singapore with baby

Acid attacks
Man injured in Ho Man Tin acid attack
Cold-blooded and evil
Shoppers keep their distance
Tsang hits acid attackers as ‘dregs of society’
Mong Kok CCTV cameras fail to identify acid thrower

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May 21, 2009

Filed under: News — Tags: 14 Blades, Cannes, Confucius, Detective Dee, Dream Home, East Wind, Faye Wong, I spy, Iron Road, Jiang Wen, Josie Ho, Korean Film, Let the Bullets Fly, Michelle Reis, Mother, Prince of Tears, Shu Qi, Spring Fever, Tracing Shadow, Vengeance, Yonfan, Zhang Ziyi — dleedlee @ 9:01 am

Poster for Tracing Shadow

Posters for new Jiang Wen film Let the Bullets Fly released at Cannes
Jiang Wen Will “Let the Bullets Fly”

D is for Detective and Dee

Zhou Xun Wang Ban Chow Yun-Fat
Ren Quan Director Hu Mei
Confucius photo gallery
Decipher Confucius’ Alleged Romance
http://news.xinhuanet.com/ent/2009-05/21/content_11410367.htm

Fan Bingbing

East Wind and Rain photo gallery

Anthony Wong
Director To poses with cast members at film “Vengeance” at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival

Michelle Ye, Anthony Wong Simon Yam, Johnny Hallyday
Michelle Yeoh Shu Qi
Vengeance premiere
Tony Leung Chiu-Wei
Vengeance red carpet photo gallery

Donnie Yen Longs for Romance in New Film
Donnie Yen says his new film “14 Blades” will compensate for his unrequited love for Zhao Wei in a previous film.

Screen Daily: Like You Know It All (South Korea)
Screen Daily: Air Doll (Japan)
Variety: Air Doll
Screen Daily: A Brand New Life (Une Vie Toute Neuve)(France-South Korea)
Korea Times: Bong’s ‘Mother’ Highlights Maternal Love
Confucius Chow

Director given French honour
Johnnie To, whose latest movie ‘Vengeance’ is competing for the Cannes festival’s Palme d’Or, on Monday was made an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters.

Two Johnnies bid for Cannes glory

Variety: China central to Hong Kong’s film future
Mainland’s size, potential lure island producers

Tony Leung Ka-Fai in Hong Kong crime thriller
Award-winning actor Tony Leung Ka Fai has the distinction of being picked to play Hong Kong’s notorious Chief Inspector Lee Rock in the 1960s.

Basketball-Playing ‘Bodyguard’

Zhang’s Turandot Fervor a Riddle for Critics

‘Red Cliff’ to Hit North America

Screen Daily: Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights outside China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan to Prince Of Tears from acclaimed filmmaker Yonfan and has already sold it to Ocean Films for France.

Hollywood Reporter: Art house pic ‘Prince of Tears’ finds home

Variety: Hong Kong cinema timeline
Hong Kong Cinema at 100
Variety: Spotlight: Hong Kong talent

Hollywood Reporter: Cannes’ red carpet is blood-soaked
Gore quotient giving even festival veterans pause

Josie Ho slashes conventions in new film, Dream Home

Sun Li, Tony Leung Ka-Fai
Iron Road (Gold Mountain) with Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Sun Li, Peter O’Toole - Shanghai International Film Festival