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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cats might be colour-blind, but they can see incredibly well in dim light and have a wider visual field than humans, thanks to the many ‘rod cells’ in their retinas. For investors in Maoyan Entertainment’s initial public offering in Hong ...
Last August, South Korean K-pop sensation BTS broke Taylor Swift’s record for the biggest YouTube video debut, racking up 45 million views for video Idol in just 24 hours. In October, the seven-member band completed the North American leg of ...