News Links - 7/20/07

[dleedlee]

Robert Lee, younger brother of martial art icon Bruce Lee, poses in front of the statue of Bruce on the waterfront of Hong Kong, marking the 33rd anniversary of Bruce's death, July 20, 2006. Robert Lee announced on Thursday the Lee family will make a movie on the life of Bruce, which is the first movie produced by his family focusing on Bruce's extraordinary life since his death in 1973.

Donnie Yen still in early talks with Weinstein about 'Seven Samurai' remake
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?fi ... ec=apworld

Cheerful Drama Break for Brooding Actor - Liu Ye
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 116512.htm
Amber shines again in Beijing
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpr ... 0917.shtml

Women in Love - Jasmine Women
http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/mm ... index_html

Veteran Mainland Actor in Bloody Brawl
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 116482.htm

Faye Wong to Make a Comeback in 2007?
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 116716.htm

Jaymee Ong on James Caan: ‘He’s lovely, sexy’
http://showbizandstyle.inq7.net/enterta ... e_id=10700

Flower Drum Song Film to Receive First DVD Release in Nov.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=11000

Bai Ling’s Impromptu Photoshoot at the Airport
http://www.bastardly.com/archives/2006/ ... he-airport

Stills for Anita Mui Biopic Unveils
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 116721.htm

Fan Bingbing's Rural Images
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 116689.htm

Jolin Tsai in Pepsi Ad Pictures
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 116727.htm

[dandan]

not movie news, but some inpressive work from the chinese military;

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_mystery/

[Brian Thibodeau]

That Anita Mui biopic is the TV movie, right? I assume that's Alice Chan in the pictures?


Those Google Earth shots are pretty cool. Not sure why, really...

[dleedlee]

That Anita Mui biopic is the TV movie, right? I assume that's Alice Chan in the pictures?

Must be, sure looks like Anita, huh?

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/do ... 537969.htm

[dleedlee]

Chinese city offers to swap fake DVDs for real
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060720/tc_ ... hvBHNlYwM-

[ewaffle]

Those Google Earth shots are pretty cool. Not sure why, really...

One thing it shows is that the PLA could be a set designer's dream.

They have supplied a lot of extras in at least one movie

http://imdb.com/company/co0050193/

but I am sure that I have seen credits for the Chinese Armed Forces at the end of the credit crawl in other movies as well.

[ewaffle]

Those Google Earth shots are pretty cool. Not sure why, really...

One thing it shows is that the PLA could be a set designer's dream.

They have supplied a lot of extras in at least one movie

http://imdb.com/company/co0050193/

but I am sure that I have seen credits for the Chinese Armed Forces at the end of the credit crawl in other movies as well.

[dleedlee]

The PLA operates their own film studio, August First Film.



Yesasia and others carry a slew of their 'classic' war films:
http://us.yesasia.com/en/Browse/Product ... 004075595/

[Brian Thibodeau]

I wonder if they've ever been credited—or used—as on-set "content advisors."

I've actually got a bunch of those classic "Red Movies" as they're called on the package. Some absolutely fascinating stuff, there. Stifling, but fascinating.

[dleedlee]

I have a few, too. I like Eight Women Die a Martyr. Talk about Girls With Guns. Even has some character development which a lot of them don't bother with.

[Brian Thibodeau]

I've heard some wild things about EIGHT WOMEN, which is in my stack. In fact, every time I watch one of the Red Movies, I'm that much more stoked to get my hands on some North Korean movies someday. Good ones too, the kind that wear their brainwashing on their immaculately tailored soldier sleeves. I can only hope good quality stuff starts to appear before I'm 90! But then again, I don't imagine too many North Koreans have DVD players. Or DVDs rental shops. Or DVDs. Well, one of them does, that's for sure, but I'm told he's rather fond of western cinema.

[Brian Thibodeau]

Apropos of nothing, I just watched a movie called PAULINE'S LIFE, a dull slog through the last crazy weeks in the life of Pauline Chan, who killed herself in 2002. In trying to find more info on this film (of which there is little), I came across an ATV series called LEGEND: A DREAM OF DESIRE, in which Alice Chan, who we were discussing above, played a beauty pageant loser named Pauline who is signed into Category III films by her mother (I think this series aired before Pauline's death, but I'm sure it didn't help her mental state any!). Interestingly, in the sequel to this series, LEGEND 2, Alice Chan plays....Anita Mui. So if the Anita Mui biopic is indeed a big screen affair, it looks like they've chosen an actress with some history in the part.

LEGEND: A DREAM NAMED DESIRE:
http://www.spcnet.tv/reviews/review.php?rID=421


LEGEND 2: A DREAM NAMED DESIRE:
http://www.hkatv.com/drama/05/dreamdesire2/