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Opening This
Week: May 23 - 29, 2009
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May 29,
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Ashes of Time |
New Boy Jiali |
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Za Ji Xiao Jing Ling |
Jing Ling Nü Hai Xiao Zhuo Ma |
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Image: Shanghai Media Group, Shanghai Television Media Co., Ltd.,
Guangzhou Military Region, Long Ji Film and TV Entertainment
Distribution Co., Ltd., Shanghai Film Group Corp., Hongtu Animation
Company, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Jet Tone Production, Beijing
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In China, three made-for-kids movies are released at the dawn of the
June 1 Children's Day, while in Hong Kong, a re-cut, re-colored and
re-mixed version of Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time is open in selected
theaters.
Story of
Ashes of Time
centers around a middle man for contracting swordsmen, lives a
lone in a desert house, where he meet so many interesting
individuals…
New Boy Jiali , tells the
story of Jiali, the newly elected deputy monitor of his junior
middle school class.
Za Ji Xiao Jing Ling
is about a group of kids at a acrobatic troupe.
Jing Ling Nü Hai Xiao Zhuo Ma
tells a little girl called Zhuo Ma is protecting Tibetan antelope
from the harm of the evil.
Other new releases:
China:
Fly Me to the Moon (Belgium)
Hong Kong:
Terminator Salvation (USA / Germany / UK / Italy)
Taiwan:
Amal (Canada)
Enfin Veuve (France)
Terminator Salvation (USA / Germany / UK / Italy)
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Opening This
Week: May 16 - 22, 2009
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May 22,
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The First 7th Night |
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Image: East Act Entertainment, Phaedra Pictures. |
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A man who drives a truck asks a taxi driver to lead him to a
remotely located restaurant has being abandoned for 33 years. On the
way to the restaurant, they are surprised that they both know
something about what happened at the restaurant over three decades
ago. When they arrive, the man offers the taxi driver the cargo on
the truck as payment and the cargo is...
The First 7th Night , a low
budget horror flick is released this week in Hong Kong.
Other new releases:
China:
none
Hong Kong:
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (USA / Canada)
Outlander (USA / Germany)
Taiwan:
True Women for Sale (Hong Kong)
Happy Flight (Japan)
The Last House on the Left (USA)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (USA / Canada)
The Puzzle of God (Japan)
Twenty Century Boys: Chapter Two - The Last Hope (Japan)
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Opening This
Week: May 9 - 15, 2009
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May 15,
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Coweb |
Night and Fog |
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(Images: Zhongqi Culture Media Co., Ltd., Charm Enterprise Limited,
Hong Kong Film Development Fund, Class Limited, Mega-Vision Pictures
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Released in China this week, Coweb
is the first movie directed by China born martial art actor
choreographer Xiong Xinxin. It tells a teenage girl bodyguard
attempts to rescue her kidnapped client and is forced to join an
underground fight ring.
In 2004 a Hong Kong man living in poverty killed his young wife and
two daughters and committed suicide. The tragedy shocked the city
and stirred a public discussion on why the government and welfare
organizations failed to prevent it from happening.
Night and Fog, helmed by
acclaimed woman director Ann Hui, is a movie based on the tragic
story,
Other new releases:
China:
Star Trek (USA / Germany)
Hong Kong:
Angels & Demons (USA)
Frozen Flower (South Korea)
Taiwan:
Angels & Demons (USA)
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Iran)
The Haunting in Connecticut (USA)
Revanche (Austria / Germany / Russia)
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Opening This
Week: May 2 - 8, 2009
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May 8,
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Trail of the Panda |
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(Image: Ying Dong Media, Castle Hero Pictures..) |
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An orphan boy discovers a panda cub, separated from the mother panda
and chased by scientists. He decides to send his panda friend
home...
Trailer of the Panda
is the second Chinese movie financed by Disney,
Trail of the Panda
was shot in the mountains in Sichuan, right before the earth quake
stroke the Chinese province last May.
Other new releases:
China:
Ticket (Hong Kong)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (USA)
Hong Kong:
City of Life and Death (China / Hong Kong)
Trail of the Panda (China / Hong Kong)
Taiwan:
Kung Fu Chefs (Hong Kong)
Trail of the Panda (China / Hong Kong)
The Accidental Husband (UK / USA)
La Gran Final / The Great Match (Spain / Germany)
Grave of the Fireflies (Japan)
Geliebte Clara / Clara (Germany / France / Hungary)
Love N' Dancing (USA)
Money Not Enough 2 (Singapore)
Running the Sahara (USA)
Star Trek (USA / Germany)
Wir sagen Du! Schatz / Family Rules (Germany)
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Opening This
Week: April 25 - May 1, 2009
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May 1, 2009 |
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Iron Man |
I Corrupt All Cops |
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(Images: J Movie, Forbidden City Films, Shanghai Film Group Corp.,
Mega-Vision Pictures (MVP), Sil-Metropole Organization, Poly-bona Film
Publishing Company.) |
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An oil worker's memory is reopened by a shrink. It turns out his
father was the colleague of the Iron Man, a hero oil worker in the
1960s.
Iron Man tells the true story of Wang Jinxi, an oil worker the
1960s.
Hong Kong police force,
one of the world's cleanest, was once very corrupted back in the
1960s and 1970s. When the people could no longer stand, ICAC, an
independent anti-corruption unit was formed to turn the tide around.
I Corrupt All Cops ,
written and directed by Wong Jing, today's most productive Hong Kong
filmmaker, is loosely based on the story of ICAC defeating the
corrupted cops. This movie is simultaneously released in Hong Kong
and the mainland China.
John Rabe, a
German-Chinese-French joint production is also released in the
mainland China this week. With majority of the cast and crew coming
from Germany, this film tells a true story of how John Rabe, a Nazi
member, played a key role in protecting the lives of hundreds of
thousands people from the beasty Japanese force, which took the
Chinese capital city of Nanking (Nanjing) in 1937.
Other new releases:
China:
none
Hong Kong:
17 Again (USA)
Coraline (USA)
Handsome Suit (Japan)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(USA)
Taiwan:
17 Again (USA)
Tamagotchi Doki Doki! Uchu no Maigotchi!? (Japan)
La Masseria Delle Allodole / The Lark Farm (Italy / France /
Bulgaria / Spain / UK)
Shin Kyuseishu Densetsu
Hokuto no Ken ZERO Kenshiro-den (Japan)
Two Lovers (USA)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(USA)
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