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Big names descend on Shanghai for cinematic celebrationThe 25th Shanghai International Film Festival celebrated its grand opening on Friday night with a star-studded Red Carpet ceremony and a gala performance at Shanghai Grand Theater.The festival will go on from June 9 to 18, when the Golden Goblet Awards will be announced in five categories: the main...
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HK superstar promotes his new film in ShanghaiHong Kong superstar Chow Yun-fat revealed that he accidentally suffered a head injury while shooting his new movie,One More Chance. He went to hospital for treatment, he said at a recent event in Shanghai, and the wound required five stitches.The event, organized by the Beijing-based Bona Film...
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Film duo team up again for heroic endeavorFour years after the suspense seriesThe Longest Day In Chang'anbecame a phenomenal hit, director Cao Dun and novelist-scriptwriter Ma Boyong announced they would team up again for the historic action movie,Heroes of Dunhuang.The movie was unveiled in a new lineup, which consist...
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Chinese classic film's charm never fadesChinese classicFarewell My Concubineis still a film favorite among audiences 30 years after its premiere. Directed by Chen Kaige and starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi, it tells the story of two Peking opera actors' lifelong friendship and social issues in 20th-century...
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Picture-book series launchedA picture-book series of the hit animated work,Yao — Chinese Folktales, was launched on Friday, the first day of the Shanghai International Film Festival.The collector's edition for adults and teenagers included all the eight stories presented in the animation, which combines traditional...
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Tales of history turn into stories with a modern twistBack in 2014, a chicken-pattern porcelain cup from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) was sold for a whopping HK$ 281.24 million ($36 million) at an auction in Hong Kong, making it one of the most expensive ceramic vessels of its time and attracting global media attention.Recently, this precious treasure...
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