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Opening This
Week: September 20 - 26
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Released
in Hong Kong and the mainland China,
Connected, a remake of
Hollywood thriller Cellular
and a Hong Kong-mainland China co-production, is about a
guy receives a distress call from a random lady who is deliberately
kidnapped by some brutal gangsters.
Painted
Skin , a mainland
China-Hong Kong-Singapore pointedly produced period actioner is also
released in China,
Foreign language movies released in Hong Kong this week include:
Japanese teen drama
Twentieth Century Boy,
South Korean crime drama
The Chaser, Hollywood's
Disaster Movie, and
Hollywood thriller
Eagle Eye.
New movies coming out this week in Taiwan are: Hollywood sci-fi
actioner
Babylon A.D., Coen
brothers'
Burn after Reading, UK
drama
Genova, documentary
Maradona by Kusturica,
Hollywood love story
Nights in Rodanthe,
Spanish comedy
Queens, and Hollywood
horror flick
Rogue.
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Opening This
Week: September 13 - 19
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September 22, 2008 |
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The Equation of Love & Death |
The Forbidden Legend:
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Released
this week in the mainland China, The
Equation of Love & Death
tells how several people's fate is suddenly changed by a mysterious
murder.
The Forbidden Legend: Sex and Chopsticks ,
becomes available in Hong Kong this Thursday, is latest adaptation
of
17th Century classic Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei, which is more
famous for its large amount of bold sexual descriptions than its
achievement in literature.
UK- South Africa-Canada jointly made disaster movie
Flood is
another new movie released in week in the mainland.
Foreign movies opened this week in Hong Kong include: US indie
comedy
Bottle Shock,
Hollywood comedy
You Don't Mess with the Zohan,
and Francis Ford Coppola's
Youth Without Youth.
New movies released in week in Taiwan are: Japanese drama
Always 2,
French horror flick
Melody's Smile,
Israeli love story
The Bubble,
US indie comedy
Henry Poole Is Here,
Serbia-Germany-Austria-Slovenia joint production
Love & other Crimes,
and Thai drama
The Love of Siam.
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Opening This
Week: September 6 - 12
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September 22, 2008 |
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A Chinese
Fairy Tale ,
released this Tuesday in the mainland China, tells how 2000 total
strangers come together to fabricate a lie to make a dying blind
girl's last wish come true.
Ocean
Flame
tells a story of a
very bad man and a very innocent girl both begin losing their ways
and losing themselves while being together. Released this Thursday
in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong made film is based on Beijing-born
writer Wang Shuo's controversial novel "One Half is Sea Waster, and
One Half Is Flame", written in the 1980s. It is directed by another
Beijinger, screen writer turns director Liu Fendou and the two
leads are also from the mainland China, even though the story has
been moved from Beijing to Hong Kong. The film is given a Category
III rating in Hong Kong due to sexual and violent materials in the
film.
Nothing
opens this week in the mainland China, which is pretty normal.
Other
titles starts shown in Hong Kong are: Thai horror flick
4 Bia, Japanese
doggie drama
10 Promises to My Dog,
musical
Mamma Mia!,
Hollywood sci-fi comedy
Meet Dave, and
Mexican-US drama
Under the Same Moon.
New
movies coming to Taiwan theaters this week include:
10 Promises to My Dog,
French children's story
The Fox and the Child
and Japanese sci-fi teen flick
Cyborg Girl.
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Opening This
Week: August 30 - September 5
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Rule Number One |
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A Decade of Love |
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This week three made-in-Hong Kong films are released at once in
local theaters.
Rule Number One,
a Singapore-Hong Kong joint production, tells two HKPD officers,
whose duty is handling and covering up supernatural events, are
threatened by something which should not exist according to their
department's rule number one.
The Luckiest Man
tells
a mahjong house tycoon is troubled because he has too many wives and
too many sons to inherit the family business.
A Decade
of Love
shows ten Hong Kong love stories told by ten directors.
Released
in Taiwan this Friday,
Orz Boyz
is a growing up story of two "troubled" school boys.
In the
mainland China, the only new movie is a slightly censored version of
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
Imported movies released this week in Hong Kong are: the Pang
brothers' first Hollywood project,
Bangkok Dangerous, a
remake of a film they shot years ago, UK comedy
Happy-Go-Lucky, and
Hollywood thriller
The Strangers.
Foreign titles become available this week in Taiwan are: UK drama
Hallam Feo,
UK-Australia co-production
Death Defying Acts, Oscar
winning Austrian-German Holocaust drama
Die Fälscher, Canadian
film
Emotional Arithmetic,
Hollywood satire
War, Inc., and Mexico-US
crime drama
The Air I Breathe.
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Opening This
Week: August 23 - 29
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A Chinese Fairy Tale |
Forgive and Forget |
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A Chinese
Fairy Tale ,
released this Tuesday in the mainland China, tells how 2000 total
strangers come together to fabricate a lie to make a dying blind
girl's last wish come true.
Forgive
and Forget ,
opened this Thursday in Hong Kong, is about a story of a young woman
begin seeing her dead ex-boyfriend in real life.
Other
titles starts showing in Hong Kong this week are Japanese teen drama
Boys Over Flowers: Final,
Japanese teen sports flick
Catch a Wave,
UK drama
The Edge of Love,
Hollywood comedy
Made of Honor,
and Spanish horror movie
[Rec].
New
movies coming out this week in Taiwan include
Boys Over Flowers: Final,
UK-Belgium comedy
In Bruges,
and Hollywood comedy
You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
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Opening This
Week: August 16 - 22
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Cape No.
7 , a Taiwan made drama has
been released in the island this week. Story starts with
a band formed with ordinary small town residents, as the warm-up for
a Japanese super star's beach concert.
In the
mainland China, Hong Kong director Johnnie To's thriller
Sparrow is released while
The Incredible Hulk
begins smashing.
In Hong
Kong, new movies for this week are Japanese romantic Sci-Fi comedy
Cyborg Girl, Japanese court
room drama
I Just Didn't Do It, singer Bo
Dylan's life story
I'm Not There, and George
Lucas' animation
Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Other
movies open this week in Taiwan include Japanese sports drama
Dive, musical
Mamma Mia!,
Star Wars: The Clone Wars and
Hollywood horror flick
The Strangers.
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Opening This
Week: August 9 - 15
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September 18, 2008 |
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The Deserted Inn |
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The
Deserted Inn , a Chinese made
horror flick, is released this Friday in the mainland China. The
story starts with a
composer visiting a haunted inn in an ancient village to look for
inspiration and you may guess the rest.
Opened
this week in Taiwan,
Drifting Flowers, by Taiwanese
woman director Zero Chou, is a 3-part story of women who are only
loving other women.
Also released in Taiwan, mainland
Chinese director Lou Ye's
Summer Palace
tells a decade long love story of two young Chinese. This film is
banned in the mainland.
This
week. Hollywood production Speed Racer starts running in the
mainland China.
In Hong
Kong, new titles become available this week are:
The One Man Olympics, Chinese
made drama about the true story of China's first Olympic athlete,
Kureyon Shin-chan: Chô Arashi Wo Yobu Kinpoko No Yûsha,
the latest installment of Japanese anime series Crayon Shin-chan,
two Hollywood actioners,
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D
and
Hellboy II: The Golden Army,
as well as Brazilian drama
Tropa de Elite.
Movie
starts showing in Taiwanese theaters include: Polish drama
Katyn, Hollywood comedy
Meet Dave, and Mexico drama
El Violin.
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Opening This
Week: August 2
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September 17, 2008 |
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La Lingerie
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No new
tiles are opened this week in the mainland China because everybody
is going to watch the Olympic opening ceremony.
While in Hong Kong,
La Lingerie, a local light
comedy is released this Friday. It is about several
girls, who are having their own passions for lingerie, are looking
for their true loves.
Foreign movies released in the city include: Japanese anime
Doraemon: Nobita No Shinmakai Daibôken Shichinin No Mahôtsukai,
Hollywood comedy
Get Smart, and French made
children's story
Le Renard et l'enfant.
In Taiwan, The Mummy:
Tomb of the Dragon Emperor begins invading
the island, and only Japanese drama
Kabei dares to challenge
the Hollywood mummy.
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Opening This Week: July 26
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September 17, 2008 |
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Shi Quan Jiu Mei
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This week
in China,
Shi Quan Jiu Mei (literal
title: Almost Perfect), a domestic made comedy set in the ancient
time is released theatrically. It tells the
crown prince, who is only interested in becoming a cabinetmaker,
runs away from the palace to look for a "cursed" book left by a
legendary
cabinetmaker
and only ends up as a wanted fugitive for stealing the map of
the imperial mausoleum.
Another new movie is two year old Hollywood teen drama
Step Up.
In Hong Kong, two moves open this Thursday,
Horny, a mainland Chinese
drama with a Hong Kong director (John Hau), and Hong Kong stars (Ray
Lui, Cecilia Yip), and Hollywood movie
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
Three new
titles become available this week in Taiwan are all from Hollywood.
They are
Mad Money,
My Mom's New Boyfriend and
The X Files: I Want to Believe.
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