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Opening This
Week: February 14 - 20, 2009
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February 20, 2009 |
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My Internship Life |
Love Connected |
Give Love |
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Images: Youth Film Studio of Beijing Film Academy, Singing Bird Film
and TV Planning Co., Ltd., Gold Label Entertainment, Big Pictures,
Southern Media Channel Operation Co. Ltd., Hua Cheng Advertising Co.,
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Valentine is over, but new movies for this week are still about
romance.
My internship Life , tells
a college girl falling in love with a freelance musical producer.
Love Connected
is about five romantic stories happen on the same Valentine's Day.
Give Love
tells what happens when a young woman lives in her ex-husband's
house along with her ex's young brother.
Other movies released this week in the
following regions:
China -
Irreversi
(Hong Kong / China),
The Luckiest Man (Hong
Kong);
Hong Kong -
Changeling
(USA),
Entre les Murs
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The Class
(France),
Milk
(USA),
My Bloody Valentine 3D
(USA);
Taiwan -
Storm Rider: Clash of Evils
(Hong Kong / China),
Doubt
(USA),
The Duchess
(UK / Italy / France),
Entre les Murs
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The Class
(France),
The International
(USA / Germany / UK),
Marley & Me
(USA),
Milk
(USA),
The Wrestler
(USA / France).
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Opening This
Week: February 7 - 13, 2009
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February 13, 2009 |
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Lemonade |
Claustrophobia |
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(Images: Changchun Film Studio, Irresistible Films, Edko Films.) |
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Valentine means love films for this week.
Lemonade , released in
China, tells a late-night radio host receives a call, which brings
back his old memory from the college years, when he befriended two
girls.
Claustrophobia
is a Hong Kong-made film about a young woman having a love affair
with her married boss. This is the directorial debut of Ivy Ho, who
wrote many made-in-Hong Kong classic films such as
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
and
July Rhapsody. Release in the mainland China has been
delayed because, reported, members of the censorship committee are
having difficulty of approving the film's subject - affairs outside
marriage.
Imported movies released this week in the
following regions:
China -
Give Love
(Hong Kong / China),
Transporter 3
(France);
Hong Kong -
New in Town
(USA),
Revolutionary Road
(USA / UK),
Valkyrie
(USA / Germany);
Taiwan -
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(USA),
Frost / Nixon
(USA / UK / France),
He's Just Nt That Into You
(USA / Germany),
Valkyrie
(USA / Germany).
Click here for detail
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The 28th Hong
Kong Film Awards Nomination
(MonkeyPeaches
Exclusive) |
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February 13, 2009 |
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Best Film |
Best Director |
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The Way We Are |
Ann HUI (The Way We Are) |
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Red Cliff |
Johnny TO (Sparrow) |
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CJ7 |
John WOO (Red Cliff) |
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Painted Skin |
Benny CHAN (Connected) |
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Ip Man |
Wilson YIP (Ip Man) |
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Best Screenplay |
Best Actor |
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Susan CHAN, Sylvia CHANG, Mathias WOO (Run Papa Run) |
Louis KOO (Run Papa Run) |
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LUI Yau-wah (The Way We Are) |
Simon YAM (Sparrow) |
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Gordon CHAN, LAU Ho-Leung, Abe KWONG (Painted Skin) |
LEUNG Chiu-Wai (Red Cliff) |
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NG Wai-Lun, Dante LAM (The Beast Stalker) |
Nick CHEUNG (The Beast Stalker) |
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Ivy HO (Claustraphobia) |
Donnie YEN (Ip Man) |
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Best Actress |
Best Supporting Actor |
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PAW Hee-Ching (The Way We Are) |
ZHANG Fengyi (Red Cliff) |
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LAU Mei-Guan (True Women for Sale) |
Stephen CHOW (CJ7) |
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Barbie HSU (Connected) |
LIU Kai-Chi (The Beast Stalker) |
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ZHOU Xun (Painted Skin) |
LAM Ka-Tung (Ip Man) |
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LAM Kar-Yan (Claustraphobia) |
FAN Siu-Wong (Ip Man) |
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Best Supporting Actress |
Best New Actor |
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Nora MIAO (Run Papa Run) |
Monica MOK (Ocean Flame) |
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CHAN Lai-wun (The Way We Are) |
ZHANG Yuqi (All about Women) |
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ZHAO Wei (Red Cliff) |
LEUNG Chun-lung (The Way We Are) |
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Race WONG (True Women for Sale) |
LIN Chiling (Red Cliff) |
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SUN Li (Painted Skin) |
XU Jiao (CJ7) |
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Best Cinematography |
Best Editing |
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CHUENG Tung-Leung (The Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon) |
David RICHARDSON (Sparrow) |
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CHENG Siu-keung (Sparrow) |
Angie LAM, Robert A. FERRETTI, YANG Hongyu (Red Cliff) |
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LÜ Yue, ZHANG Li (Red Cliff) |
YAU Chi-Wai (Connected) |
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Arthur WONG (Painted Skin) |
CHAN Ki-hop (The Beast Stalker) |
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O Sing-Pui (Ip Man) |
CHEUNG Ka-Fai (Ip Man) |
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Best Art Direction |
Best Costume and Makeup Design |
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Daniel LEE, MA Gwong-Wing (The Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the
Dragon) |
Thomas CHONG, WONG Ming-Ha (The Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the
Dragon) |
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YEE Chung-Man, LAU Man-Hung (An Empress and the Warriors) |
William CHANG (All about Women) |
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Tim YIP (Red Cliff) |
YEE Chung-Man, Dora NG (An Empress and the Warriors) |
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Bill LIU (Painted Skin) |
Tim YIP (Red Cliff) |
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Kenneth MAK (Ip Man) |
NG Po-Ling (Painted Skin) |
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Best Action Direction |
Best Sound Effect |
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Sammo HUNG (The Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon) |
WU Jiang, Roger SAVAGE (Red Cliff) |
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Corey YUEN (Red Cliff) |
Chris GOODES, WANG Lei (Connected) |
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LI Chi-Chung (Connected) |
Kinson TSANG, LAI Chi-Hong (Painted Skin) |
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TUNG Wai (Painted Skin) |
CHENG Wing-Yuen, NIP Kei-Wing, WONG Tai-Wai (The Beast Stalker) |
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Sammo HUNG, LEUNG Siu-Hung (Ip Man) |
Kinson TSANG (Ip Man) |
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Best Visual Effect |
Best Original Film Score |
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Heather ABELS (Red Cliff) |
Henry LAI (The Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon) |
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Eddy WONG, Victor WONG, Ken LAW (CJ7) |
Fred AVRIL, Xavier JAMAUX (Sparrow) |
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HO Siu-lun (Missing) |
Tarô IWASHIRO (Red Cliff) |
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NG Yuen-Fai, CHAU Chi-Shing, TAM Kai-Kwan (Painted Skin) |
Fujiwara IKURO (Painted Skin) |
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Henri WONG (Ip Man) |
Kawai KENJI (Ip Man) |
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Best Original Film Song |
Best New Director |
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"Follow Your Dream" (An Empress and the Warrior) |
KWOK Chi-kin (The Moss) |
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"Fan Sau Yiu Han" (L for Love, L for Lie ) |
Heiward MAK (High Noon) |
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"Heart . Battle (literal)" (Red Cliff) |
IVY Ho (Claustraphobia) |
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"Prologue for Ten Thousand Years (literal)" (Missing) |
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"Painted Heart (literal)" (Painted Skin) |
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Best Asian Film |
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If You Are the One (China / Hong Kong) |
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Cape No. 7 (Taiwan) |
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Suspect X (Japan) |
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Forever Enthralled (China / Hong Kong) |
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Assembly (China / Hong Kong) |
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Opening This
Week: January 31 - February 6, 2009
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February 9, 2009 |
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Gao Xing |
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(Image: Filmko Pictures, Golden Coast Films.) |
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Only one new film becomes available during this post-Chinese New
Year week.
Gao Xing
(Happy) is a comedy tells a trash collector's dream of flying on top
of the city with the plane he built.
Imported movies released this week in the
following regions:
China -
La Doublure
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The Valet
(France / Italy / Belgium),
Mid Road Gang
(Thailand),
Zwartboek
/
Black Book
(Netherlands / Germany / Belgium);
Hong Kong -
Blindness
(Canada / Brazil / Japan),
Bride War
(USA),
Doubt
(USA),
Go Fast
(France),
Seven Pounds
(USA);
Taiwan -
100 Feet
(USA),
Man on Wire
(UK / USA),
Revolutionary Road
(USA / UK),
Rusalka
/
Mermaid
(Russia),
Seven Pounds
(USA).
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Jackie
Chan's JUNIOR SOLDIERS (aka. BIG SOLDIER, SMALL GENERAL) in Production
Already
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February 5, 2009 |
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First location: a roadside dirt inn in a dirt forest. (Image: New
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Shooting for Jackie Chan's new movie Junior Soldiers has
already begun two days ago at a popular tourist site called "Dirt
Forest" located in Yunnan Province of southern China, according to
several local newspapers. Junior Soldiers is just an
English working title and the original Chinese title is Da Bing
Xiao Jiang, which literally means Big Soldier, Small General.
It will
be a kind of road movie with a story set in Qin Dynasty (221 BC -
206 BC). The main characters are two guys, a girl
and a
horse. Chan will play the general and Rochester-born Wang Lee-Hom
(second male lead in Lust, Caution) will play the soldier. The
actress playing the girl is currently unknown.
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Jackie Chan (Image: Spring City Evening Post.) |
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A
reporter sneaked into the set and wrote a short report about what he
saw. The set is a roadside inn built with bricks and dirt. The
opening ceremony started in 8 am and Chan led the cast and crew to
pray for good luck. He also asked everyone to protect the
environment while working - cut down smoking and no cigarette butt
on the ground. In the first scene, Jackie Chan dressed in body
armors, got drunk (drunken master again?) and smashed a log
out of rage. Many extras wearing military uniforms were standing by
for unknown scenes. The second lead Wang Lee-Hom has also arrived
yesterday. The cast also include Chan's new disciples, called the
New Seven Lucky Stars (Jackie Chan is a member of the original Seven
Lucky Stars) and Korean singer Yoo Seung-Jun as rumored.
More
spy photos:
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Stephen Chow Will Team up Black and Hathaway in a New
Hollywood Project?
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February 4, 2009 |
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Chow: Just tell me, what should I do next?
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According to the Chinese press, Stephen Chow will
produce, write, direct and lead a new untitled Hollywood sci-fi
project, with the cast also include Jack Black and Anne Hathaway.
The report says the character setup for the story will be very
similar to that of Kung Fu Hustle, i.e., Chow playing the
lead, Black playing his sidekick (and Hathaway playing the female
lead. In Kung Fu Hustle, Chow’s character has an
over-weighted sidekick and a deaf girl as his lover. Sony Pictures
is behind the project, which also financed The Green Hornet
and a Chow's several previous Chinese projects. The story
claims Chow has spent his entire Chinese New Year holiday at home,
working on the script. Production is expect to happen by the mid of
2009. An earlier report says Chow and his men will do a Journey
to the West adaptation, but the project is still in the script
writing stage.
As for The Green
Hornet, Chow is still officially attached to play Kato but rumor
suggests he quit already, as the result of disagreement with Seth
Rogen, who wrote the script and is playing the lead.
Not sure how accurate the rumor really is. Even
it is true, nothing is evidently settled. If the barrier between
Chow and Rogen is just too great to overcome, it would be a good
idea for Chow returning to his own territory and letting Rogen find
another, maybe less known, actor to play Kato.
Just to be honest, Chow's own territory is really
Hong Kong, not Hollywood! Take Jackie Chan for example. His
financial improved tremendously by taking Hollywood projects. The
trade-off are half and sometimes more than half of the screen time
was given to his American co-stars and his trademark actions and
gags were trimmed to fit Hollywood standard. A Stephen Chow’s
Hollywood project might turn out to be a hit but the real fans of
his works would very likely be disappointed, somehow. Hollywood is a
great opportunity and a greater burden, as Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-Fat
and Jet Li have already experienced in the past decade. I am not
just talking about the so-called language issue.
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Opening This
Week: January 24 - 30, 2009
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February 2, 2009 |
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Carnival of the Animals |
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The Chinese New Year is over, so there are not many new movies
released this week.
Carnival of the Animals
is a Chinese homemade 3D animation telling the story of a bear, a
kangaroo and a donkey, who leave their parents and start a journey
to bring back the Heart of the Forest, which was destroyed by the
evil wind.
Imported movies released this week in the
following regions:
China – Hong Kong romantic comedy
Look for a Star, fantasy
dram
Bridge to Terabithia, and
Australia..
Hong Kong – Japanese anime
Naruto Shippūden 2: Bonds,
Yes, Man.
Taiwan – none.
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Opening This
Week: January 17 - 23, 2009 - More
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February 2, 2009 |
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Naughty Boy Ma Xiaotiao |
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Left out from last week's report:
Naughty Boy Ma Xiaotiao is a China made animation telling a story of
a boy called Ma Xiaotiao, who can jump sky high, especially when he
is very mad.
Other movie opened last week in China are: made-in-Hong Kong holiday
comedy
All's Well, End's Well 2009,
Japanese family drama
10 Promises to my Dog
and musical drama
August Rush.
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