Dear Enemy release new poster and theme song

December 6, 2011 | Posted in Mainland China,Movies, Tagged , ,

Lovers? Enemies? Xu Jinglei and Stanley Huang pair off together again in Dear Enemy.

Director – actress Xu Jinglei is back again with Dear Enemy 亲密敌人, the major modern film of this holiday season.  Up against major blockbusters The Flowers of War and Flying Swords of the Dragon Gates, Xu Jingelei says that she won’t move her film’s release date despite it going against the two major films.   She’s especially confident that her cosmopolitan film is unique amongst the December releases.

Watch her costar Stanley Huang‘s MV for the film below from fountainpark723@YouTube.

Xu Jinglei and Stanley Huang become “Dear Enemies” in new film

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Following the success of Go! Lala, Go!, Xu Jinglei directs another business romance where business ambitions and true love find each other.

Following her become the only female director to have a box office exceeding  100 million RMB after Go! Lala, Go!,   director/actress Xu Jinglei is back again with business romance “Dear Enemy 亲密敌人.”  In addition to starring Stanley Huang and herself, the film also features Gigi Leung, Aarif Lee and Zhao Baogang, the director who first brought Xu Jinglei to film.  The movie is shot in Hong Kong, Chengdu, England, Australia and South Africa, and will air December 23rd.

Watch the black and white trailer below:

Stanley Huang to star in Xu Jinglei’s next film

March 29, 2011 | Posted in Mainland China,Movies, Tagged , ,
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After the huge success of Go! Lala, Go!, Stanley Huang and Xu Jinglei teams up for a new film.

After costarring in the inspirational romantic comedy Go! Lala, Go! film that made Xu Jinglei the female Chinese director with the single most profitable film, the two will costar in Xu Jinglei’s next directorial pursuit, Close Enemies 亲密敌人. Labeled an upgraded version of Go, Lala Go!,  亲密敌人 will be a tale of business-building woven with romance .  Xu Jinglei also said this will be the last movie where she will both direct and act.

source: sohu

Internet ventures into film and drama productions

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Zhou Xun plays a nail-clip eater in the first of four high-budget mini-movies released on sina

Internet series and movies are often synonymous with low-budget and poor-quality, but two new releases this month shows how Chinese internet companies are making big budget productions just for the computer screen.

This month, Tudou (China’s number one streaming site and the world’s most trafficked streaming site per day) released the first of three internet dramas it sponsored -  欢迎爱光临 That love comes starring Joe Cheng,  Li Fei’er and model Pei Bei. Though the plot is slow and cliched, the high budget is shown in the choice of the actors and the cinematography.  Meanwhile, Sina released the first of four short films by director Peng Haoxiang. The first film, titled 指甲刀人魔 nail clipper monster, stars Zhou Xun, and the second film, 假戏真作, stars Stanley Huang.

English trailers for 欢迎爱光临 That love comes:

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“Lala” is One of Four Female-Directed Movies Out in Theaters This April

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Xu Jinglei’s new self-directed and self-acted, metropolitan romance movie “Go Lala Go!” with Pace Wu, Stanley Huang, and Karen Mok will shown in major theaters in mainland China on April 15th.  The story tells of a college graduate who works her way up the corporate ladder and romances her boss along the way. Xu Jinglei, who in real life can be considered one of the most successful Chinese actresses, having directed award-winning films, having the number 1 blog on technorati, and her own web-magazine for women, had originally felt she was too old to star in her own movie but to do financial and other reasons ended up playing the part and hand-picked Stanley Xu for the role of Wang Wei, her boss in the film.

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Stanley Huang Leaves Warner, Becomes Independent

February 4, 2010 | Posted in Music,Taiwan, Tagged

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Stanley Huang wishes to be more creative rather than supported by his record company. He left and terminated his contract with Warner Bros early; The end of their cooperation can indeed be summed up as “We all lay down in the end” (the title of his latest, 7th album, this is similar to a Chinese idiom meaning there’s nothing to do but to separate as a compromise)

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Patricia Field becomes Stylist Consultant for "Du Lala's Promotion"

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China’s film market growing in size means that you now have enough money to hire famous crew. While I normally would rather these jobs go to rising Chinese artists, so that the industry can actually build up talent, who can say no to Patricia Field? She’s the stylist for Sex and the City, Devil Wears Prada, etc. She flew from New York to Beijing in order to be a consultant for the movie, Du Lala’s Promotion, an adaptation of a very popular novel in China, and the much publicized directorial comeback of actress-director-screenwriter Xu Jinglei.

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