Production of actor director Jiang Wen’s Taiyang Shengqi De Difang (literal title: Where the Sun Rises), previously known as The Sun Rises Again, will begin early next month in Shangri-La County and the surrounding area of China’s Yunnan Province, according to local newspaper Yunnan Information. Starring Jaycee Chan, Zhou Yu and Anthony Wong, Where the Sun Rises tells a group of total strangers meet on an ancient road, recalling the stories occurred on the road. The film is based on Ye Mi’s short story Velvet.

Snapshots: The set  A boat will be involved in the production

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According to various sources, Chen Kaige's mega budget fantasy epic The Promise / Wu Ji, Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love and Tsai Ming-Liang's erotic musical The Wayward Cloud will represent China (the mainland), Hong Kong and Taiwan to bid for the Best Foreign Language Film of the coming Academy Awards. The Promise / Wu Ji won the privilege by beating such films like the highly appraised Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, Cannes winner Shanghai Dreams, Silver Berlin Bear winner Peacock and Letters from an Unknown Woman. In Hong Kong, Perhaps Love is favored over  Jackie Chan's latest action The Myth and Stanley Kwan's Everlasting Regret, and in Taiwan, The Wayward Cloud wins without competitors.

The Weinstein Company has acquired the North American, English, Australian and South African rights to The Promise / Wu Ji along with IDG New Media Fund. However, it is unknown whether the Weinstein brothers will support its Oscar quest. Three years ago, when Zhang Yimou's Hero was making the Oscar bid, MiramAxe, under the Weinstein brothers' control back them, did absolutely nothing even thought the studio had already acquired the rights to the film for major English speaking countries several months before.

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A news conference of the comic adapted Dragon and Tiger Gate will be held the coming Thursday in Shanghai, according to DonnieYen.net. Director and action director Donnie Yen and the major cast member, Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue and Li Xiaoran will attend. Dragon and Tiger Gate will feature a group of youngsters battling the gangs in Hong Kong.

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Based on the Wang Anyi's book, Chang Hen Ge (Song of Everlasting Sorrow), and helmed by Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan, Everlasting Regret tells Shanghai woman Wang Qiyao's sad tale from the 1940s to the 1980s.

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