News Links - 3/18/08

[dleedlee]

Asian Film Awards Opens HK Entertainment Expo
http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=713
"Secret Sunshine" is AFA triple winner
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5710/1/
Secret Sunshine big winner at AFA awards
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 92669246be
Honorees at Asian Film Awards
Joan Chen

http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/03/18/1261@335141.htm

2nd Asian Film Awards 2007-08
Best film "Secret Sunshine"
Best director Lee Chang-dong "Secret Sunshine"
Best actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai "Lust, Caution"
Best actress Jeon Do-yeon "Secret Sunshine"
Best supporting actor Sun Honglei "Mongol"
Best supporting actress Joan Chen "The sun Also Rises"
Best screenwriter Au Kin-yee and Wai Ka-fai "Mad Detective"
Best cinematographer Liao Pen-jung "Help me Eros"
Best production designer Cao Jiu-ping and Zhang Jian-qun "The Sun Also Rises"
Best composer Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani "Om Shanti Om"
Best editor David Richardson "Eye in the sky"
Best visual effects Ng Yuen-fai "The Assembly"

Tony Leung defends blacklisted Chinese "Lust" actress
http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews ... 2420080318
Wang Xiaofeng: Why is SARFT so uptight?
http://www.danwei.org/media_regulation/ ... rft_so.php

Review: An Empress and the Warriors
Soundly wielded chivalric romance delivers undemanding entertainment.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 1211bcd61b

Storm Riders II will update with special effects, likened to '300'
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 0982d68fa3

Sabu plays up Hong Kong spirit
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 44c378db61

'Circus School' on PBS
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=833463



Chengtian/Golden Harvest plan Chinese cinema growth
'I Am Liu Yuejin' renamed 'Lost and Found'
http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyA ... &Category=
At Filmart, Chengtian is handling sales of two films: black comedy Lost And Found (previously named I Am Liu Yuejin) co-produced with China Film Group, and romance drama Life Today starring Xia Yu.

Chengtian has also announced five projects in development, including action comedy Thieves Of The Times with Wang Guangli, commercial director Li Weiran's directorial debut Sleeping Treasure, China-Japan co-production Mystery Of Monk Kugai, sci-fi comedy Worm Hole and adventure Amazons Of Family Tang.


Michelle Yeoh peddles China documentaries
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5711/1/

Vivian Chow Sets Off On Oxfam Mission
http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=712

Jackie Chan and Jet Li 'planning second movie'

http://media.npr.org/images/ap//AP_News_Wire:_Entertainment/2_Hong_Kong_Jackie_Chan_Jet_Li.sff.jpg
http://media.npr.org/images/ap//AP_News_Wire:_Entertainment/3_Hong_Kong_Jackie_Chan_Jet_Li.sff.jpg
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM ... gDVYO5pCrg
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=88455646

Joyce Cheng’s Rough Road of Growing Up Changes Her into Dae Jang Guem
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Just-Lik ... 15677.html

New Zhang Ziyi image in Vogue

http://i3.sinaimg.cn/ent/s/m/p/2008-03-17/U1326P28T3D1949945F326DT20080317080621.jpg
http://i0.sinaimg.cn/ent/s/m/p/2008-03-17/U1326P28T3D1949945F358DT20080317080621.jpg
http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/m/p/2008-03-17 ... 9945.shtml

Vivian Hsu at the Asian Film Awards

http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/p/2008-03-17 ... 1036.shtml

Olive9 Entertainment claims that Choi Ji Woo “flushed” face photo was doctored!

http://coolsmurf.wordpress.com/2008/03/ ... -doctored/

Volunteers for Olympic Sailing Competition in Training

http://english.cri.cn/3100/2008/03/18/1301@335302.htm

Same 'Facts', Two Conspiracy Theories - a Rashomon-like event
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/200803b.brief.htm#018

[dleedlee]

Chinese Game Maker Seeks To Conquer World With Ancient Myth
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20080314/bs ... IXZQ4jtBAF


Li Yang (Blind Shaft, Blind Mountain) keen to seek a wider audience
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5714/53/

Michelle Yeoh in Hanoi
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/03/773976/

[ewaffle]

Cool hats.

[Brian Thibodeau]

Oshawa teen arrested in Hong Kong
(Oshawa's a city on the outskirts of Toronto)
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/347186

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[dleedlee]

Oshawa teen arrested in Hong Kong
(Oshawa's a city on the outskirts of Toronto)
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/347186

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I blame Bai Ling for being a bad role model.

With so many teens going abroad on class trips, the teen's father has some advice: thoroughly warn them the rules are not the same.

"She obviously had no idea of the ramifications or she wouldn't have done it," he said. "It's like a capital offence. She's a teenager. She really is a good kid."

That's right, cultural norms are different. In the US, it would have been no problem.

[Brian Thibodeau]

I blame Bai Ling for being a bad role model.

"She obviously had no idea of the ramifications or she wouldn't have done it" Yeah, sure she wouldn't have, Pop . . .

I'm just bummed that these damned kids today get to take class trips to Hong Kong! When I was a boy, we were lucky if we got a class trip out to some farm to watch a cow get milked or maple syrup drip from a tree. Sure as hell wasn't much worth stealin' out there. Well, 'cept maybe some maple syrup.

Now, where'd I leave my teeth . . .


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[Fan]

"She obviously had no idea of the ramifications or she wouldn't have done it," he said. "It's like a capital offence. She's a teenager. She really is a good kid."[/i]

15-year-old is not old enough to tell whether shoplifting is right or wrong? Both the father and the daughter why not have a look at this:

http://www.info.gov.hk/isd/tvapi/theft/ ... gh_eng.htm

That's right, cultural norms are different. In the US, it would have been no problem.

Seems like US is a better place than HK at this point. Under Cap 226 Juvenile Offenders Ordinance s. 3 Age of criminal responsibility:

It shall be conclusively presumed that no child under the age of 10 years can be guilty of an offence.

I'm just bummed that these damned kids today get to take class trips to Hong Kong!

To compensate, you can join your children's class trips in future.