News Links - 12/6/07

[dleedlee]

Lost in Beijing gets the green light in mainland China after heavy censorship
Hong Kong gets uncensored version
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story ... sec=movies

"King and the Clown" Coming as Musical
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/06/1261@301980.htm

Ang Lee leads pack for Taiwan's Golden Horse awards
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsAr ... ived=False

Johnnie To's "Linger" Promoted
Li Bingbing

http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/06/1261@301974.htm

Andy Lau Tied to East Asia Music
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/06/1261@301867.htm

Andy Lau, The Chinese man for Western women
Wong Kar-wai was picked as the second least handsome for always sporting sunglasses and having a cigarette in his hand
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_t ... 297599.htm

Undoing review
Forget It, Jake, It’s Koreatown
Answering the question, What ever happened to Russell Wong ?
Kelly Hu

http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/mo ... 087%0A&em&

"I Wish" (Taiwan) review
I Wish is a commendable effort of Taiwan's film industry to break out of the art house and establish a relationship with the mainstream movie-going public
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar ... 2003390591

"Breath" (South Korea) review
Kim Ki-duk goes for something less disturbing with his latest and 14th feature Breath
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar ... 2003390592

Yao Ming Brings Wife into TV Commercial, directed by Feng Xiaogang

http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/06/1221@302060.htm

Fresh Chinese Filmmaker Honored in Singapore
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/06/1261@301971.htm

China sets ban on Hollywood films
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5101/1/
China bans Hollywood movies for 3 months
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/International ... fault.aspx

[Brian Thibodeau]

China sets ban on Hollywood films
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5101/1/

Like kids in a sandbox, man! Fascinating piece. I'm can imagine Hollywood types aren't happy about the lost revenue (well, lost profits on most films, really; they'll still make back their money from all the other markets), but I'm sure the Chinese distributors and theatres will feel it a lot harder in the long run when the force-fed "approved" fare starts impacting the bottom line . . .

This was amusing:

When contacted by Daily Variety, China Film was circumspect and denied the existence of a ban. "There's no such thing. We've never heard anything about this," a spokesman said.

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[Bearserk]

http://atvs.vg.no/player/?id=13167 <--- Jackie Chan to teach Chinese about safe sex, mostly in Norwegian, but some might find it interesting

[dleedlee]

Cool, thanks Bearserk.