Entertainment

Reality show on celebs and their agents makes waves
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

On 27 March 1941, a day before she committed suicide, Virginia Woolf wrote to her publisher requesting he defer the release of Between the Acts because it was “too silly and trivial”. Similar to many other experimental works of ...

Job cuts at Alibaba’s video streaming unit as new boss makes changes
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447)

Alibaba has pinned part of its future on its so-called ‘2H strategy’: health and happiness. The first plank is Big Health, or the market for general health and wellness (see WiC397). But to make people happier, the Chinese internet giant also ...

The critics don’t like it, but a Taiwanese tearjerker wins over female fans
Mar 29, 2019 (WiC 446)

Many of the best love stories end with heartbreak. From Romeo and Juliet to Titanic or the more recent A Star is Born, the timeless tale of lovers who come to a deadly end is a Hollywood staple. Another story of ...

The most talked about TV show in China is about bad parenting
Mar 22, 2019 (WiC 445)

While it is hardly news that parents will go to great lengths to give their children the best education possible, a major scandal at some of the leading universities in the United States has exposed helicopter parenting at a whole new ...

Vogue’s choice of Chinese superstar needles netizens
Mar 22, 2019 (WiC 445)

Last week American Vogue unveiled its two April covers, featuring a total of seven “superstars” from around the world, including Scarlett Johansson, Deepika Padukone from India and South Korea’s Doona Bae. Yang Ying, who goes by the ...

As Captain Marvel soars, a formerly high-flying Marvel partner struggles
Mar 15, 2019 (WiC 444)

Captain Marvel, which stars actresses Brie Larson and Gemma Chan in the latest Marvel franchise, has opened to a strong reception in China. The Disney blockbuster took well over Rmb550 million ($81.91 million) in its first three days, ...

Why Zhang Ziyi has chosen to take part in a reality television series
Mar 8, 2019 (WiC 443)

Zhang Ziyi shot to stardom when director Lee Ang cast her in his unconventional martial arts-cum-love story Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. After starring in the Oscar winner, Zhang won more roles in Hollywood. In 2005 she played the ...

Tencent’s latest hit TV show sees its girl band go on world endurance trek
Mar 1, 2019 (WiC 442)

Back in 2017, E!, the cable network owned by NBCUniversal, inked a three-year contract with the Kardashian-Jenner family to keep the world’s most famous reality show going for five more seasons. The deal for Keeping Up With the ...

Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan blockbusters prove lunar new year flops
Feb 22, 2019 (WiC 441)

The notion of he sui pian, or a Chinese New Year Film, first came about in 1997 when filmmaker Feng Xiaogang’s Party A, Party B set a box office record over the holiday period. The movie made Rmb36 million ($4 million) in ...

Chinese New Year astronaut blockbuster set to break the box office record
Feb 8, 2019 (WiC 440)

Last year, Chinese cinemas took in Rmb5.8 billion ($913 million) in ticket sales during the first seven days of the Chinese New Year holiday – the most ever in a single week. This year promises to be no different. Two of the frontrunners for ...

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