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Beijing based tabloid BigStar has posted three official production stills from  director Zhang Yimou's Qian Li Zou Dan Ji:

Takakura Ken (L) and Jiang Wen

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Jiang Wen

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Jackie Chan just announced a new untitled project in Cambodia a few days during a charity tour. At least part of the movie will be made in the country. He said, "the movie will contain four elements - a story, some action, some explosion and some educational meaning. I think it won't be just an an action movie but a movie with some impact." He said he had already come out a storyline and his next task would be writing and casting

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The film will be released in Hong Kong May 12 under the Chinese title - The Immortal Dog.

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A reporter form the Beijing Morning Post snuck into the set at Shanghai Film Studios' production facility in the town of Chedun. He entered the set of Huo family compound and an arena where the young Huo Yuanjia had a match with someone.

Top-left: The tent
Top-right: A statement signed by Huo Yuan Jia before the match, showing his understanding of the risks involved
Lower-left: An arena inside the tent
Lower-right: Antique furniture borrowed for the production

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(Century Hero)

According to Beijing Youth Daily, a spoiling plot description for director Chen Kaige's fantasy epic  Wu Ji  (literally title: Infinity, English title: The Promise) was printed on a catalogue distributed by China Film Group:

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Favored by the Goddess of Fortune a young woman became the most beautiful royal concubine (Cecilia Cheung) in the world. Spoiled by The King, she lived a life of extreme luxury. But fate cursed her never to enjoy true love until the time flows backwards and the dead come back to life. Then a slave (Jang Dong-kun), sincerely in love with her, determined to lift the curse with his own life as the price. He used his extraordinary close to light speed run broke the shackle fate put on her. She returned to the beginning of her life and obtained the right to choose again.

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Sixe character designs of the online game. (?)

Director Chen Kaige just announced yesterday that an online game based on his upcoming fantasy epic Wu Ji  (literally title: Infinity, English title: The Promise) would be jointly developed with Ubisoft.

Video: press conference for Wu Ji / The Promise's Online Game

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The English version of the official site has yet opened and a guide might be helpful for fans do not read Chinese:

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According to Chinese media, master animator Hayao Miyazaki will make a film version of children's story I Lost My Little Boy by 21 year old Chinese writer Yi Shu. The story is about a young boy named Mimi, who was born with heart defect. One day he walks into a restaurant called The Orchid, where he meets the the Grandpa who owns the restaurant and a fairy girl. As a fan of Hayao Miyazaki, Yi Shu admitted that his story was somewhat influenced by the master director's works and while writing the story he even fantasized what it would be if it was a Hayao Miyazaki's movie. Yi Shu said he was contacted by Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli last October and the pre-production would take a year to complete. He also denied the rumor suggesting Hayao Miyazaki would retire after this project.

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Left: teaser poster showing "Qin", the name of the kingdom unified China over tow thousand years ago. It was written in an ancient Chinese calligraphic style called "Xiao Zhuan",