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Li Yifeng and Kris Wu co-starred in the 2015 blockbuster Mr. Six. With a catchy title Lao Pao’er, which translates as ‘old cannon’, the gangster movie propelled the duo towards superstardom. The film even won Li Best ...
In addition to tallying up their box office receipts, China’s film bosses have another habit of counting the days until their films make it onto the silver screen. Take Wang Zhonglei of Huayi Brothers’. At the premiere of the epic The ...
As Chinese netizens will point out, there has been no shortage of celebrities willing to massage their academic credentials. Taiwan singer Fan Wei-chi led people to believe that she had graduated from Harvard University, for instance. She was ...
When films perform poorly at the box office in China, it isn’t uncommon for producers and directors to go on media tours explaining how the project was a labour of love or how they struggled to get it financed. Some even claim to have mortgaged ...
Hailed as one of the best legal dramas on television, The Good Wife was broadcast on the US network CBS between 2009 and 2016. It followed the career of Alicia Florrick, the wife of a newly disgraced state attorney jailed for paying for ...
Hollywood filmmaker Michael Bay has long been known for action blockbusters like The Rock, Armageddon and most famously the Transformers franchise. His reputation for blowing things up and for overwhelming action sequences even ...
After six years Mando-pop icon Jay Chou finally released a new album last Friday. Greatest Work of Art has 12 tracks, including a piano intro, six new releases and five previously digitally published songs that come with new ...
For many young people in China, working in government departments has become fashionable again. The positions can be tough to get. Registration for the annual civil service exam last year saw a record high number of 2.1 million people competing ...
To prepare for her role as a pregnant peasant in Zhang Yimou’s 1992 movie The Story of Qiu Ju, Gong Li spent two months living in a small farming village. The film, which tells the story of a woman trudging through the courts in a bid ...
On Sunday, Tencent Video released the highly anticipated finale of China’s hottest TV series of 2022 A Dream of Splendour. For those who missed out on our earlier article: it’s a costume drama that stars actress Liu Yifei and actor ...
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