Two of China’s box office queens, Fan Bingbing and Zhang Ziyi, lead the country’s two entries in the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff). Fan Bingbing (One Night Surprise, Buddha Mountain, X-Men: Days of Future Past) shakes things up as Li Xuelian, a woman from a small town who was wronged by her ex-husband in this adaptation of I Am Not Madame Bovary, a novel by Mao Dun Literature Prize winner Liu Zhenyu. Here, Li Xuelian embarks on a long legal journey—from her small town all the way to the capital—just to clear her name after her husband accused her of adultery.
Fan Bingbing in I Am Not Madame Bovary
On the other hand, Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Hero) stars in The Wasted Times, an edgy film noir set during the Sino-Japanese war in the 1930s. The movie’s twists and...
Fan Bingbing in I Am Not Madame Bovary
On the other hand, Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Hero) stars in The Wasted Times, an edgy film noir set during the Sino-Japanese war in the 1930s. The movie’s twists and...
- 8/6/2016
- by Kat Meneses
- AsianMoviePulse
Xin Cheng Jiang’s sci-fi love story wins at Beijing Film Market.
Sci-fi love story The Gate, a film about a tour guide who finds himself in a virtual gaming world, has won the Mpa Grand Prize in Beijing. The film’s writer/director, Xin Cheng Jiang, is known as an influential commercial TV director.
The award was presented at the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) - Beijing Film Market (Bfm) Film Workshop, held during the Beijing International Film Festival (Biff).
The prize includes sending Xin Cheng Jiang on “a week long film immersion course in Los Angeles”.
Mike Ellis, president and MD for the Mpa Asia Pacific, also awarded a President’s Special Recognition Prize to director Yang Jin for the project Instant Love - a comedic love story set in Tokyo about a Chinese man who will do anything to win the heart of a Japanese girl.
The prize will see Yang Jin attend the Asia...
Sci-fi love story The Gate, a film about a tour guide who finds himself in a virtual gaming world, has won the Mpa Grand Prize in Beijing. The film’s writer/director, Xin Cheng Jiang, is known as an influential commercial TV director.
The award was presented at the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) - Beijing Film Market (Bfm) Film Workshop, held during the Beijing International Film Festival (Biff).
The prize includes sending Xin Cheng Jiang on “a week long film immersion course in Los Angeles”.
Mike Ellis, president and MD for the Mpa Asia Pacific, also awarded a President’s Special Recognition Prize to director Yang Jin for the project Instant Love - a comedic love story set in Tokyo about a Chinese man who will do anything to win the heart of a Japanese girl.
The prize will see Yang Jin attend the Asia...
- 4/22/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Romantic comedies continue to prove popular in mainstream Chinese cinemas, glossy tales of modern urban relationships consistently ranking amongst the biggest domestic box office achievers. The 2009 Zhang Ziyi starring “Sophie’s Revenge” was one of the first runaway successes of this recent trend, and so it’s not much of a shock that director Eva Jin now returns with more of the same in “One Night Surprise”, revolving around a thirty something woman who falls pregnant to an unknown suitor after a drunken office party. Boosted by a Pan-Asian cast of big name attractive stars led by top actress Fan Bingbing and a host of suitably handsome actors, the film was another box office smash, emerging as one of the highest earning genre outings of 2013. Fan Bingbing plays Mi Xue, a creative director at a prestigious advertising firm, who has dedicated most of her life to her career and who...
- 1/13/2014
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Guillermo del Toro's giant monster-mecha mash survives a spirited assault from locally produced girly drama Tiny Times 2 to stay top of the Chinese box office for the second week running. Rank Title Origin 5/8-11/8 (Us$M) Total (Us$M) Screening days 1 Pacific Rim USA $33.63 $79.52 12 2 Tiny Times 2 China $26.91 $26.91 4 3 Fast & Furious 6 USA $8.04 $63.09 17 4 One Night Surprise China/Hong Kong $7.34 $7.34 3 5 I Love Wolffy 2 China $3.47 $10.43 11 6 Crimes of Passion China $2.23 $2.23 4 7 Young Style China $2.11 $4.72 10 8 White House Down USA $1.61 $27.96 21 9 Kunta China $0.84 $1.95 10 10 Bunshinsaba 2 China $0.18 $13.14 27 Novelist-turned-filmmaker Guo Jingming scores a second consecutive...
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- 8/14/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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