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Danny Boyle meets Tang Lijun in Shanghai

Reports from Shanghai film fest

Coverage of the 12th annual Shanghai International Film Festival, which runs June 13-21. More

Alipay to overtake PayPal

China's No. 1 online payment firm Alipay is expected to top eBay Inc.'s unit, PayPal, by transaction value in two years, to become the world's leading e-payment service, Alipay's president on Tuesday. More

Planning board approves Disney

China's economic planning agency has formally approved a plan to build a Disney theme park in Shanghai, ensuring the city will have a new showcase attraction after next year's World Expo has wound down. More

Yee looks for hit with 'Triple Tap'

Director Derek Yee plays with guns in “Triple Tap," a cops-and-robbers thriller with a twist co-invested by Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures and China’s PolyBona International, and co-produced by Hong Kong Sil-Metropol Organization. More

Asian film preps for world market

On his just-completed swing through some of the Confucian parts of Asia -- China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea -- President Obama faced issues with which the film industry in this part of the world already is familiar. More

Screen empress Liu returns in '37'

Once the most celebrated actress in China, award-winning Chinese screen legend Liu Xiaoqing will return to film in Hong Kong director Dennis Chen’s drama “37," in a role that rendered her unrecognizable, Liu told the Hollywood Reporter. More

'Twilight' falls in China

Vampire movies will get a trial run in China with the Nov. 25 opening of "Twilight," as local censors and audiences gauge their thirst for blood in this superstition-wary market. More

CCTV ad auction up 18.5% for 2010

China's equivalent of the U.S. networks' "upfront" ads sales drew record bids of 11 billion yuan ($1.6 billion), marking an 18.5% jump in the potential cost of 2010 prime time spots on China Central Television, the state's flagship broadcaster. More

Zhang considers next projects

Looking for a new project after finishing a comedy, Zhang Yimou is considering adaptations of novels set against China's Cultural Revolution and the Japanese invasion in World War II, his assistant said Wednesday. More

CJ CGV expands to Wuhan

CJ CGV, Korea’s largest multiplex chain, will open the company’s third branch in Wuhan, China’s seventh largest, on Thursday. More

'Chen Zhen' starts shooting

Production got underway Monday on "Chen Zhen," a martial arts actioner being directed by "Infernal Affairs" co-director Andrew Lau Wai-keung. More

GIC buys Shanda Games stake

GIC, Singapore's biggest sovereign wealth fund, has bought a 5.4% stake in Chinese videogames company Shanda Games, its second recent investment in a newly listed firm in the United States. More

Obama does town hall, webcast

Barack Obama extolled the merits of an uncensored Internet to about 500 Chinese university students gathered in a "town hall" meeting in Shanghai on Monday. More

Shanda enters $88 mil JV

Chinese media firm Shanda Interactive Entertainment said its unit will set up a joint venture with a Chinese television company with an investment of 600 million yuan ($88 million) to produce and distribute movies. More

Mirovision sells 'King Kong'

Mirovision reported late Sunday that it struck a major deal to transport “Lifting King Kong” into Hong Kong and China with Golden Harvest. More

'Bullets' women still secret

Director Jiang Wen and producer Emperor Motion Pictures revealed the rest of the male cast of "Let The Bullets Fly" ("Rang Zi Dan Fei"), but kept any female cast members under wraps. More

Huayi is game for 'Pigeon'

China's recently-listed film conglomerate Huayi Brothers has come on board Dante Lam's in-production crime thriller "Stool Pigeon." More

CineAsia to honor Zhou Xun

Chinese actress Zhou Xun will be honored as the "star of the year" at next month's CineAsia exhibition and distribution convention in Hong Kong. More

Cautious thumbs up at AFM

As the annual exodus of American Film Market attendees began Sunday, sellers who arrived with glossy slates and the hope things are getting rosier seemed satisfied with the level of activities. More

'Bodyguards' sells at AFM

Big-budget Chinese period thriller "Bodyguards and Assassins" has been sold by We Distribution to four territories at the beginning of the AFM. More

MDA funding 'Neon Sign'

The Media Development Authority of Singapore said Korean director Pil Gam-Sung's "Neon Sign" will be the first film out of the gate from its film fund launched in Cannes this year. More

Tang Wei returns in 'Manchu'

After a two-year ban, Tang Wei, the heroine from an espionage thriller “Lust, Caution,” will star in an ambitious English-language remake of Korean classic “Manchu” (working title) with the actor Hyun Bin ("I Am Happy"). More

Shanghai needs Mouse magic

China has finally given a green light for Disneyland to build a theme park in Shanghai. Negotiations that started when Bill Clinton was in the White House have concluded just before President Barack Obama is due to visit. The approval looks like a coup for Walt Disney Co., but it will take all of Mickey's magic to prevent the park from becoming another government-financed loss maker. More

'Simple' more funny than bloody

HONG KONG -- Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format. More

Zhang Ziyi on board for 'Flower'

Zhang Ziyi is set to star in "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," which she is also producing. More

Eros sells Asian syndication

Indian film giant Eros International has struck a string of package TV syndication deals with broadcasters around Asia. More

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