Category Archives: Film

The Chinese media market is “absolutely open”

Posted on 2006-04-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

GAPP sets the record straight From a Reuters story on the Washington Post, China defends latest controls on media freedom: The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television reissued notices restricting local broadcasters’ use of foreign news footage and the … Continue reading →

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Chen Guanzhong online

Posted on 2006-03-24 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Writer, publisher and film producer John Chan Koon Chung (陳冠中) has started a blog.

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Wacky Nuns Come to Beijing

Posted on 2005-06-17 by Joel Martinsen

Another entry for the list of things that should never have been remade: Whoopi Goldberg’s Sister Act, adapted for the stage by Taiwan’s Godot Theater Company as Running Angel 《跑路救天使》, is coming to Beijing and Shanghai in September. Cai Qin, … Continue reading →

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Where have you gone, Little Swallow?

Posted on 2005-06-16 by Joel Martinsen

Chinese audiences may have forgiven Vicky Zhao for her traitorous sense of fashion, but that doesn’t mean they’ll watch her movies. She has been labelled “box office poison” after the lackluster performance of her latest movie, A Time to Love … Continue reading →

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Kung-Fu Pedagogy

Posted on 2005-06-13 by admin

Under the headline “成龙希望老外娶上海太太” (“Jackie Chan Wants Foreigners To Marry Shanghainese Wives”), the Shenzhen Evening News reports: “Speaking at a forum on ‘Chinese Kung-Fu Movies’ yesterday about how the Chinese film industry could continue to attract foreign interest, Jackie Chan … Continue reading →

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A Century of Chinese Cinema

Posted on 2005-06-13 by Joel Martinsen

China’s first domestically-produced movie, 《定军山》 Mount Dingjun, was filmed in 1905, making this year the centennial of China’s film industry. To mark the occasion, a new version is being readied for screening at the end of the year. This new … Continue reading →

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WETA to do SFX for ‘Wolf Totem’

Posted on 2005-06-07 by Joel Martinsen

New Zealand’s WETA Digital, the company behind the effects in Lord of the Rings, will collaborate with Beijing’s Forbidden City Films on an adaptation of Wolf Totem, the best-seller from 2004 that everyone has been reading on their subway commutes … Continue reading →

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AP reporters get ripped off by pirate DVD vendors

Posted on 2005-05-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Jonas Chau writes: Associated Press reporters are fuming that they can buy a DVD copy of Star Wars 3 in Beijing 3 days after the cinema release. I would be fuming too if I was offered it for RMB 20 … Continue reading →

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First Reactions to “Sith”

Posted on 2005-05-21 by Joel Martinsen

While I have not heard of anyone here waiting for weeks in a ticket line, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is nevertheless an event movie in China. Major newspapers have run special Star Wars inserts detailing the mythology and … Continue reading →

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Actress Bai Ling poses for Playboy, wants threesome with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Posted on 2005-05-16 by Jeremy Goldkorn

US-resident actress Bai Ling who played opposite Richard Gere in Red Corner was recently removed from the cast of the latest Star Wars episode, because she agreed to appear in the June issue of Playboy as Playmate of the Month. … Continue reading →

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