News Links - 6/12/08

[dleedlee]

Zhang Ziyi: no English, no problem!
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/0 ... oblem.html

Awards No Big Deal: Johnnie To
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/06/11/1261@368012.htm
To donates to HKFA
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/6266/1/

Angelica Lee - Playing the part
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story ... sec=movies

Missing charity premiere in Hong Kong
Angelica Lee, Tsui Hark

Guo Xiaodong


Tsui Hark with Johnnie To, Donnie Yen, Raymond Wong

http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/p/2008-06-12 ... 7323.shtml

Kung Fu Pop poster
Jordan Chan, Fan Bingbing, Hyeon Joon




http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2008-06-12/10212057317.shtml

Sword Butterfly almost finished filming
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Sword-Bu ... 49874.html
Cast in Beijing
Charlene Choi


Wu Zun

Xian Se Li

Jingle Ma

Ching Siu Tung

Hu Ge, Bonnie Xian Sik Lai/Xian Se Li

http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2008-06-12/01332056951.shtml
http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2008-06-12/08502057201.shtml


'Shaolin Girl' Disappoints
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/06/10/a ... sappoints/

Tai Seng Entertainment Has Partnered with EZTakes to Sell a Catalog of Asian Movies as DVD Downloads
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1016184.htm

Taiwan to Showcase New Wave Films in Seoul, Busan
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db ... p?idx=6722

Miriam Yeung in shock as a tree falls on her car

http://worldofhkentertainment.blogspot. ... ls-on.html
http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/h/p/2008-06-12 ... 7129.shtml

Tony Leung and Carina Lau to get married in October
http://worldofhkentertainment.blogspot. ... o-get.html

Quake-Relief Zhou Xun on the Move
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/06/11/1261@367952.htm

Bear Toys Give Kids Strength: Jolin
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/06/12/902@368192.htm
Jolin Tsoi supports relief to children of Sichuan

http://ent.sina.com.cn/y/p/2008-06-12/06392057097.shtml

Hong Kong airport a destination in itself
http://www.thestar.com/Travel/article/440581

Poultry traders hit by cull after virus found in 3 more markets
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... con_type=3

Dalai Lama baulks at Sharon Stone's 'karma' quake remark
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gky ... tyS3laNImw

Ai Kago confesses to smoking
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Ai-Kago- ... 49733.html

Mystery powder found on mainland plane
http://app2.rthk.org.hk/pda/news/content.php?id=497291

China holds funeral for panda killed by earthquake
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

[Brian Thibodeau]

Tai Seng Entertainment Has Partnered with EZTakes to Sell a Catalog of Asian Movies as DVD Downloads
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1016184.htm

For those who think downloading isn't the way of the future, this story might be a bit of an eye-opener. It's a start, that's for sure.

Don't know if anybody's checked out EZTakes' catalogue, but there's some okay stuff in there (ZEN OF SWORD, SWORDSMAN II, 13 COLD-BLOODED EAGLES, TAI CHI II etc.) amongst the expected lesser titles from the Tai Seng catalogue, and some of it can be streamed for FREE! Prices to download/burn are just a shade too high ($8-$10) for a lot of what Tai Seng has given them, especially considering Tai Seng's often compromised prints, etc. (something EZTakes acknowledges on some of the listings I've seen so far, which is kinda cool). There are a few listed at $3.99 to download/burn, which should probably be the price across the board. I'd imagine the more titles this site gets, that may one day be the case.
http://www.eztakes.com/store/genres/Mar ... Movies.jsp

Also noticed some of their listings feature links to the HKMDB. Somebody here working over there?
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[dleedlee]

I notice that some bonus features have been removed. Wonder if commentary tracks are also eliminated.

Note: Due to copyright restrictions, some Bonus Features on this DVD have been removed.

http://www.eztakes.com/store/movie/The- ... wnload.jsp

[Brian Thibodeau]

I notice that some bonus features have been removed. Wonder if commentary tracks are also eliminated.

Note: Due to copyright restrictions, some Bonus Features on this DVD have been removed.

http://www.eztakes.com/store/movie/The- ... wnload.jsp

I noticed that on a couple of titles after I posted above. For the most part, I can live with it, but I'd hate to see certain features, especially commentaries, disappear into the ether as more and more films become available for download and go out-of-print on DVD. Maybe we'll see a commentary-only site someday, where we'll have to download the commentary to go with our downloaded movies! I'll give this company credit, though, they're fairly upfront about stuff like this on some of their listings.