News Links - 4/16/08

[dleedlee]

Court battle on Anita Mui's will
Mother fights for control

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... con_type=3

Weinsteins set 'Shanghai,' 'Seven Samurai'
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798 ... 1&nid=2562

Zhang Ziyi Speaks Out
My heart is with the Olympic flame!
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/200804b.brief.htm#012

Miriam Yeung Chosen As Olympic Torch Bearer
http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=788

Chinese Film from 1916 is a rare gem
Video clip
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio ... id=6083840

Jackie Chan: The reluctant Hollywood hero
http://www.canada.com/globaltv/globalsh ... ccbc1e72e7
Jackie Chan is one tough sell
If the box office is good, the next one will be Forbidden Drunken Master.
http://www.craveonline.com/articles/fil ... _sell.html
Rob Minkhoff on The Forbidden Kingdom
http://www.canmag.com/nw/10967-forbidde ... b-minkhoff

Liu Yifei and Li Bingbing at Beijing premiere of Forbidden Kingdom

http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/p/2008-04-16 ... 9306.shtml

Andy Lau ordered to pay $170,000 for damaged Taiwan chopper in 10 year old lawsuit
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hD1 ... LAag9UO1xg

Guo Xiaodong - Village boy on international red carpet
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpr ... 3952.shtml

http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/m/p/2008-04-16 ... 9636.shtml

Orlando Bloom eyed for role in Johnnie To's "Red Circle"
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... c87b93d7ee

Joyce's 'Boyfriend' Is Called Mark, Mr Mark
http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=792

Jay Chou: I Give Mum All My Money
http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=791

Gigi Lai at promotion

http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/h/p/2008-04-16 ... 9391.shtml

Joey Yung and Lee Jun-ki Together in Ads
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/04/16/902@346590.htm

Tea, wild or not, enriches Chinese province
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/15/asia/tea.php

[Brian Thibodeau]

Weinsteins set 'Shanghai,' 'Seven Samurai'
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798 ... 1&nid=2562

"Seven Samurai" will start shooting in the fourth quarter for release in 2009. The cast will feature American, European and Asian stars, and a director is in advanced talks with TWC.

Oh, this smells bad . . .



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[cal42]

Weinsteins set 'Shanghai,' 'Seven Samurai'
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798 ... 1&nid=2562

"Seven Samurai" will start shooting in the fourth quarter for release in 2009. The cast will feature American, European and Asian stars, and a director is in advanced talks with TWC.

Oh, this smells bad . . .



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I couldn't read the article - the sound of a Japanese director turning in his grave kept distracting me .