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Ady An Celebrates Birthday on “If You Are The One 2″ Set; Next ‘Hua Yi’ Leading Lady?

October 2, 2010 | Posted in Mainland China,Movies,Taiwan, Tagged Ady An Yixuan, Chen Kun, Feng Xiaogang, If You Are the One 2, Wang Zhonglei, Zhou Xun

l_R Wang Zhonglei, Ady An, and Feng Xiaogang

Two days ago was actress Ady An Yixuan‘s birthday, and also the last day for filming on the set of her new movie, “If You Are the One 2″, the sequel to the Feng Xiaogang-directed 2008 blockbuster. Having heard she had not celebrated with her birthday on a film/drama set for 6 years, the cast and crew specially prepared a cake for her. Also celebrating with her was Wang Zhonglei, the CEO of Hua Yi, her management company and Feng Xiaogang, the director, a longtime friend of Ady’s.

With the news of Hua Yi’s top actress Zhou Xun leaving just a week before, many questions were raised. One was if Zhou Xun‘s reason for leaving also had something to due with best friend Chen Kun amiably leaving his own company of many years (headed by Li Shaohong). It was rumored that the two might start their own company together. The other question posed was who would fill the vacancy left in Hua Yi as one of their top actresses. Ady has been recently tackling film roles, and while in “If You Are the One 2″ she only plays a supporting character next to Shu Qi‘s leading lady, it is one of her most high profile film roles to date and suggests that the importance of her future roles in film may steadily increase.

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After shocks (Tangshan Earthquake) Trailer released

April 16, 2010 | Posted in Mainland China,Movies, Tagged Feng Xiaogang, Tangshan Earthquake

Surviving is only the beginning...

On the eve of another earthquake that hit Qinghai Province two days ago, with at least 791 dead (another 294 missing) and about 10,000 injured, the first film depiction of the deadliest earthquake in the 20th century – the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake – released its trailers.

After shocks (唐山大地震) is directed by Feng Xiaogang and stars Zhang Jingchu, Chen Daoming, Chen Jin, Xu Fan, Lu Yi, Li Chen and Pan Hong. The poignant trailer depicts a young girl waking up in the aftermath of the Tangshan Earthquake. She is surrounded by fallen bodies, and wanders in the streets until a soldier finds her and takes in.

The movie tells of two twins crushed in the earthquake that changed their lives. In those 23 seconds, their father died, and their mother chose the weaker boy to save. The girl miraculously lived and was rescued and adopted by a soldier. 32 years later, their lives are still affected by the catastrophe years ago.

A behind the scenes talk is also available here, thanks to fountainpark723.

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Chen Kun Becomes "Dark Horse" of "The Founding of a Republic"

September 30, 2009 | Posted in Mainland China,Movies,Taiwan, Tagged Chen Kun, Feng Xiaogang, Great Cause of Founding a Nation, Han Sanping, Jian Guo Da Ye

Chen Kun has been singled out in praise for his acting in the film Jian Guo Da Ye, commemorating the PRC’s 60th anniversary (today in China time), not an easy feat when the entire film consists of stars. He was chosen to act in the film as Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek’s son, Chiang Ching-kuo, future president of Taiwan, because he had a youthful air about him, as well a brooding pensive quality. He ended up playing it so well, that he was given more screentime while others were cut.

Here he sings red song Yin Shan Hong at the premiere ceremony a few weeks ago. He’s no Huang Ying, but I think he did a good job anyway.

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I normally hate to talk politics in general, but since I am posting about this movie, I’d like to clear up a few things about the political aspect.

Most people have a knee-jerk reaction to this movie, because it’s “propaganda”. Perhaps, but not like you think. Due to closer cross-straight relations, and a celebratory nature of the movie in general, this will probably show the Nationalist side of the civil war as very sympathetic, which will in turn cause many Chinese youth to wonder what exactly the communists were fighting for in 1949 . And as much as the Mao-led government sucked afterward, the status quo before the civil war gave every reason for revolution. Frankly, this movie will definitely be much more balanced and less one-sided than The Patriot was to the British. (more…)

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IMAX Will Co-Produce with Hua Yi Feng Xiaogang's New Movie

June 16, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized, Tagged Feng Xiaogang, Tangshan Earthquake

IMAX Corporation CEO Richard L. Gelfond in Shanghai for "Tangshan Earthquake/Hua Yi" Press Conference

IMAX and Hua Yi had a press conference the other day stating that the two companies were going to be co-producing three Chinese IMAX films. The first fo these would be Feng Xiaogang’s Tangshan Earthquake. It is expected to premiere July 10th 2010 in China, and will be shown in IMAX locations in major cities in North America, as well as the 25-30 IMAX theaters in China.

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Feng Xiaogang's Tangshan Earthquake

May 31, 2009 | Posted in Mainland China,Movies, Tagged Feng Xiaogang, Tangshan Earthquake

At the press conference for Jia You! Eastern Angels (the female version of My Hero) Wang Zhonglei, the Hua Yi president revealed the details of director Feng Xiaogang‘s newest film, Tangshan Earthquake.

The Tangshan Earthquake occurred in 1976 and was the most destructive earthquake of the 20th century by death toll, with numbers in the hundreds of thousands, in contrast to the devastating The Sichuan Earthquake with a death toll around 70,000.

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Feng Xiaogang and John Woo on the future of Chinese Cinema

April 12, 2009 | Posted in Hong Kong,Mainland China,Movies, Tagged Feng Xiaogang, If you Are the One, John Woo, Red Cliff

The above posters are for two Chinese movie that set new precedents in China this year. The one the left is Feng Xiaogang’s If You Are The One, which according to Variety, finally took away the title of “highest-grossing movie in China” from Titanic, and brought it back home. The on the right, John Woo’s Red Cliff didn’t do too shabby either, becoming the 43rd highest grossing movie world-wide of 2008, only second to Ponyo on the Cliff (Hayao Miyazaki’s latest) in terms of Asian films.

Both gave thoughts on the future of Chinese cinema. Actually while John Woo talked about presenting Chinese culture with Hollywood production values, Feng Xiaogang, who doesn’t have a career in Hollywood to worry about, was far less diplomatic, and flat out said, “We don’t need a foreign market at all, and in five years, our market will be too big to be overlooked” and then gave lots of statistics for support on how China is gaining on Hollywood.

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High School Musical still sings for BOBO; Lu Yi joins the brotherhood

February 25, 2009 | Posted in Events,Mainland China,Movies,Music,Non-Chinese, Tagged Annie Yi, BOBO, Feng Xiaogang, H.Y. Brothers, High School Musical, Huayi Brothers, Jane Zhang, Kappa, Lu Yi, Shanghai Media Group, Tian Liang, Zhang Jizhong

Huayi's Jane Zhang and BOBO at the recent Baidu Awards, where they took away a combined number of five awards

Huayi's Jane Zhang and BOBO at the recent Baidu Awards, where the three took away five awards

Once upon upon a June night, news first surfaced about a High School Musical starring BOBO. After months of inactivity, when almost everyone forgot about the movie, today, in an interview during Huayi’s 2009 Plans Press Conference, BOBO mentioned the movie again.

BOBO’s “Always Ready” to climb the ladder of success
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Also during the press conference, it was revealed that Huayi Brothers brought management company Long-D, which means that former Long-D stars like Lu Yi, Tian Liang, Jessey Meng and Annie Yi will now belong to Huayi. It also announced its partnership with the Italian sportswear company Kappa.
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Kwai Lun-mei Rocks It; Feng Xiaogang Evaluates Peers

December 27, 2008 | Posted in Hong Kong,Mainland China,Movies,Music,Photoshoot,Taiwan, Tagged All About Women, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang, Guey Lun-Mei, If you Are the One, Mei Lanfang, Tsui Hark

The girl with the name that I will never know how to romanize properly but still love, is dabbling in singing with her quirky song “Hello Microphone”, theme song to quirky movie “Not All Women Are Bad”, in which she plays a quirky singer. I use the word quirky a lot because I don’t know any other adjectives for the movie. I wish I could call it good, but If You Are the One‘s director Feng Xiaogang has apparently monopolized that adjective for the season. But can he write lyrics??

Gui Lun-mei – Hello Microphone (lyrics by movie’s director Tsui Hark)

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"If You Are The One" Dominates the Box Office

December 24, 2008 | Posted in Mainland China,Movies, Tagged Feng Xiaogang, If you Are the One

Well, we all knew it would, despite the lack of too much promotion (boring posters and trailers that don’t say much) because it’s a Feng Xiaogang movie and that man has the midas touch when it comes to box office power. However, with a 100 million yuan intake for the first six days it’s been out, its already almost double the already good take for “Mei Lan Fang”.

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