‘Pirates,’ ‘Life’ Get China Official Release Dates
(CFI) Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales will sail into the Middle Kingdom on Tuesday, May 30, four days after it opens in North America — not a day-and-date release, as reported...
View ArticleBeijing Film Festival closes, bestowing "Luka" Best Film
(China Plus) The 7th Beijing International Film Festival closed on Sunday, with winners of 10 Tiantan Awards released.Chinese film "Mr. No Problem," an adaptation based on a 1943 novel by Lao She, won...
View ArticleAustralia Announces 14-Film, $302 Million Co-Production Slate with China
(CFI) A Li Bingbing action film is at the head of a 14-film slate worth AU$400 million (US$302 million) announced last week in Beijing, a significant expansion of production under Australia’s 2006...
View ArticleNetflix Signs Licensing Deal With China's iQiyi
(THR) The streaming giant has been attempting to negotiate greater accesss to the huge Chinese market for several years. Blocked by regulators from setting up shop within China's massive entertainment...
View ArticlePosters from Fan Bing Bing’s historical drama Win The World
Fan Bing Bing‘s historical drama, Win The World is based on the story of a Qin Dynasty widow who was named the most successful and richest entrepreneur of the time, Widow Qing. After her husband’s...
View ArticleAlibaba's Youku to Produce Chinese Version of 'Saturday Night Live'
(THR) "Live from Beijing, it's Saturday night!" NBCUniversal on Wednesday unveiled a partnership with Chinese streaming video platform Youku, a unit of Alibaba Digital Media & Entertainment Group,...
View Article‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ to Hold World Premiere in...
(Variety) Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” will hold its world premiere at the Shanghai Disney Resort in China on May 11.Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Javier...
View ArticleStars present suspense film Battle of Memories
(Toggle) At the presentation of suspense movie Battle of Memories, director Leste Chen showed up with his major cast members Xu Jinglei, Duan Yihong, Yang Zishan, Tiffany Hsu and Wang Zhen, to share...
View ArticleFan Bingbing joins Cannes film festival jury
Chinese actress and producer Fan Bingbing will sit on the Cannes jury when the festival kicks off next month, organizers said.Organizers announced on Tuesday that the eight jury members will serve...
View ArticleVietnam Int'l Fashion Week kicks off in Ho Chi Minh City
A model presents a creation of Vietnamese designer Chung Thanh Phong on the first day of the Vietnam International Fashion Week 2017 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on April 25, 2017. Vietnam...
View ArticleFive-country coproduction to open BRICS film festival
(China Daily) Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has teamed up with four established directors from Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa to make a movie.Where Has the Time Gone is a feature-length...
View ArticleFilm review: Love Off the Cuff – Shawn Yue, Miriam Yeung return in romantic...
(SCMP) When writer-director Pang Ho-cheung poured the vibrant flavour of contemporary Hong Kong life into his 2010 rom-com Love in a Puff– which recounted a seven-day affair between cosmetics salesgirl...
View ArticleCarman Lee linked with the cemetery again in her new movie
(China Plus) Hong Kong actress Carman Lee recently returned to the big screen with a new movie "Butterfly Cemetery", or Hu Die Gong Mu in Chinese.Carman Lee is best known for her role as Xiao Longnv in...
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