News Links - 3/13/07

[dleedlee]

Shooting Starts for Jay Chou's New Movie "Slam Dunk"
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/03/13/1301@204870.htm


Rainie Yang Nervous About Her Performance in Lesbian Movie "Spider Lilies"
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/03/13/60@205012.htm

Maggie Cheung Opens Chinese Film Festival in Edinburgh
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/03/13/60@205004.htm

Hong Kong Film Festival lures celebs, premieres
http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews ... 5020070313
H.K. int'l film fest kicks off with double feature
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... f4b8e5e41d

Leon Lai - Unholy Matrimony
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story ... sec=movies

Crime, Sociopaths and Revenge: Asian Film At Its Finest
http://desicritics.org/2007/03/13/013516.php

ASIAN POP - Silver Screen
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 3/apop.DTL

Tribeca Film Festival Announces Movie Selections
Still Life, Lost in Beijing, Tuya's Marriage, West 32nd
http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/ne ... elections_

[Brian Thibodeau]

Could Pandas be next year's Penguins?

Jackie Chan provides a voice to KUNG FU PANDA (plus Lucy Liu, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong, how original!). Apparently Steve Martin and Daniel Craig also lend their voices. In fact, the whole cast just screams overkill at this point, but y'never know.

http://www.kungfupanda.com/
http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0441773/Ss/0 ... ey=0441773

I'm not really up on all the latest CG toons, but I suppose this being an American film, it just had to be about anthropomorphic animals once again.