News Links - 9/1/07

[dleedlee]

Johnnie To's Next Project Is a Trilogy Thriller

Johnnie To and Li Bingbing
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/31/63@268562.htm
http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/p/2007-08-31 ... 7053.shtml

Chinese Film Exhibition Opens in Tokyo

Masahiro Motoki and Vicki Zhao
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/09/01/63@268791.htm

Wen rises with 'Sun'
Chinese director's five year ban over
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797 ... =2520&cs=1
'Also Rises' not a Hemingway film
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797 ... =2526&cs=1
"Lust, Caution" Gives Way to "Sun" in National Day Holiday
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/09/01/63@268779.htm

Twins attend premier of Gillian's Naraka 19 (19th Level of Hell)

http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/p/2007-09-01 ... 8735.shtml
Naraka 19, a horror movie about university students embroiled in the mobile phone game from hell!
http://hk.bcmagazine.net/hk.bcmagazine. ... ehell.html

Taiwan - Eternal Summer
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailfea ... T03&irec=2

Cecilia Cheung Will Be Back in November
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/09/01/63@268752.htm

Patrick Tse shows pic of new grandson Lucas*
http://ent.xicn.net/item/2007/09/01/447734.html


Any Story is Better if Set in Space - Sunshine
http://www.thehoot.net/?module=displays ... ormat=html

'Manufactured Landscapes' says little but speaks volumes
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepubli ... 0831a.html

Chow Yun-Fat attends funeral of Cherie Chung's husband*
http://ent.xicn.net/item/2007/09/01/447736.html
http://ent.xicn.net/item/2007/08/31/447516.html

Chinese Singer Jane Zhang Up Close with Baggio
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/30/1261@268122.htm

Specially trained dogs sniff out counterfeit DVDs in New York
http://canadianpress.google.com/article ... bD_S4ukdaA
Fresh Off Malaysian Triumph, DVD-Sniffing Dogs Tackle New York
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/ ... w-york/?hp

Going through motions with kiwifruit
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... r=20070831

[dleedlee]

Johnnie To's Next Project Is a Trilogy Thriller

Internet celebrity Xiao Pang or Little Fatty also appeared at the event. The Shanghai boy was previously rumored will land a leading role in the story, though this hasn't been confirmed by the director yet.

Regular readers might remember him from these pics:




http://hkmdb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t= ... light=egao

http://hkmdb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t= ... light=egao

http://hkmdb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t= ... light=egao

http://hkmdb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t= ... ight=fatty

[Brian Thibodeau]

Any Story is Better if Set in Space - Sunshine
http://www.thehoot.net/?module=displays ... ormat=html

This guy's whole argument is negated by the fact that every movie ever made has it's lovers, haters and inbetweeners. So many words to basically say that he's hurt more people didn't like it the way he did.

(I saw it. I was an inbetweener.)