Li Bingbing covers Harper’s Bazaar October issue celebrating their 24th anniversary, with a photoshoot that alternates between two different images, leaving one alternating between hot and cold. Her upcoming movie, the Tsui Hark-directed Detective Dee will be in theaters nationwide in China this October, but it’s already getting a lot of favorable buzz at the Venice Film Festival where it is the only Chinese film this year in competition. The winner will be announced Sept 11th. Her Detective Dee costars Andy Lau and Deng Chao both cover the October issue of Harper’s Bazaar: Men’s Style for October as well, whose . The HQ versions of their spread will be posted here as soon as they are available.
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Having finished promotions for his new movie Stool Pigeon, actor Lu Yi and wife Bao Lei left for a romantic getaway in Shangri-La. Well, as much of a romantic getaway as you can get with a magazine crew accompanying you. Well-known travel magazine Voyage made the trip with them too, giving us pictures of not only the couple’s love for each other but also the simple customs of Shangri-La.
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Poor GQ. While it does have the likes of Chang Chen, Ethan Ruan and Han Han, it has to compete with Esquire’s September issue, featuring the female cast of Li Shaohong’s Dream of the Red Chamber, pillow fighting. The girls in the photoshoot are Jiang Mengjie, Li Qin, Gao Yang, Li Yan, and Ma Xiaocan. After a 3 years in production, Dream of the Red Chamber finally will air this September. Whether it will be successful remains to be seen, but it’s likely that it will give the majority of its large cast, including these girls, an unparalleled boost in stardom, ushering a new wave of young actors.
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Four reasons to love GQ: Chang Chen. Wearing a bowtie! On Bicycle! With a little bell!
Although just an inauspicious, unannounced guest at “shi mei” Huang Ling’s fanmeet, Han Han has been receiving much recognition elsewhere lately. Earlier this year, he was included in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential List. Now he’s featured in GQ’s issue of Men of the Year. The difference between the two magazines? GQ has nicer pictures. He’s joined in the featured spread by the ranks the likes of Taiwanese film actors, Chang Chen (Parking), newbie but promising film actor Ethan Ruan (Monga), esteemed director Jiang Wen (Let the Bullets Fly), Lin Dan, badminton star, and others. Together they represent model men of this generation. Selected pictures below the cut.
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Not that she’s actually sleeping in these photos, but seeing this photoshoot of Fan Bingbing makes me want to sleep in a nice pretty bed and get the suggested nine hours of sleep. I doubt she’s getting much sleep these days, though; her movie schedule for this year seems pretty hectic, with one movie already in theaters (Future X-Cops, in which she guest-starred) and three more movies lined up for release (Chongqing Blues sometime in September, and both New Shaolin Temple and Zhao Shi Gu Er in December). Still, she makes time to look gorgeous in these photoshoots, like always.
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Described as "a Japanese Anime," "the Golden Compass" and the"Lord of the Rings," Guo Jingming's "Mark of the Cavalier" is criticized for its lack of "Chineseness"
Some English articles on Chinese entertainment news written in ways that I can only wish I could:
The articles include a fascinationg discussion on Guo Jingming’s new fantasy novel and its debut in literary typhoon Ba Jin’s Harvest, a CNN interview with Huayi CEO Wang Zhongjun and actor Daniel Wu, critiques on Fan Bingbing’s fashion at Cannes and translations of Han Han’s blog posts.
A fantasy novel in a serious literary magazine: Guo Jingming in Harvest
Guo Jingming (郭敬明), the magazine editor and writer of phenomenally-popular YA fiction, has a novel coming out in the summer supplement to Harvest (收获), one of China’s most respected literary magazines.
In Harvest’s case, readers who see the magazine as a bastion of serious literature have accused it of betraying its standards to take advantage of Guo’s popularity. Making matters worse is the subject matter of Guo’s new book: Mark of the Cavalier (爵迹) is the first volume of a new epic fantasy series. Is Harvest repositioning itself to compete with the pulps?
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Actress Fan Bingbing further proves that she is such a workaholic with two gorgeous photoshoots. See more here and here.
Meteor Shower’s second female lead Peng Yang dances and eats with a tiger in a cute Beijing TimeOut photoshoot here.
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The one photoshoot Laure Shang doesn’t look creepy in heavy makeup and Elle doesn’t fail. And if you still haven’t seen it enough already – ixiedin and viceofvirtues subbed her MV What? What!, where she unfortunately doesn’t look so classy in the makeup but sounds gorgeous anyways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFfTAXxmgyM
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I couldn’t decide between the two pictures
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Zhang Jiani and Blue Lan posed for Xingrui for their upcoming Hunan TV- drama Si Si Xin Dong. Si Si Xin Dong will air in March, probably following the Ugly Wudi Finale.
The series tells of Zhang Xiaorou (Zhang Jiani), a Qingdao girl who goes to Shanghai to work for a TV station. There, her beautiful hair (be ready for Meteor Shower-esque shampoo commercials) catches the eye of Ouyang Chen (Blue Lan), a romantic and sweet cafe owner. While drama occurs in the TV station, where Xiaorou’s talents brings her to the front of the camera and brought her the love of her boss and jealousy of another host, trouble occurs at home as Hou Qisheng (Super Boy Lu Hu) secretly rents out Ouyang Chen’s apartment to Zhang Xiaorou.
And all this trouble could’ve been avoided if only she had tried out for Hunan station instead of a Shanghai one.
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