Tong Liya in her film debut with Jiro Wang.
TV
The Secret History of Empress Wu, starring Siqin Gaowa, Liu Xiaoqing, Gillian Chung and Zheng Shuang begun filming this month. Learn more about the drama on its thread here.
SinaPremium has uploaded several more legally streaming dramas on YouTube. Those include the Hai Yan Love of Life and Death Trilogy’s How do I save you, my love 拿什么拯救你我的爱人, sit-com iPartment 爱情公寓 2, the drama version of Painted Skin 画皮 starring Fiona Sit, GuiGui and Ling Xiaosu, and the drama version of The Message 风声传奇.
ALi Yifeng and Fiona Sit pair together in a new remake of idol drama White Lies 白色谎言 opposite Fiona Sit. In it, Li Yifeng plays a socially challenged patient who falls in love his nurse, played by Fiona Sit.
Meteor Shower star Zhang Han stars in a minidrama for a video game. There isn’t much of a plot, but you get to see a lot of his gorgeous smile. Watch the first two episodes here.
Film
Branko Lustig, producer of Schindler’s List and the Gladiator and an Auschwitz survivor, announced plans for a new Chinese-American co-production. Based on the book of the same name, Milani Violin (米拉尼小提琴) tells the tale of a Jewish refugee who had escaped to Shanghai from the Holocaust.
