EXCLUSIVE: Chinese megastar Donnie Yen is set to star in and produce crime thriller Golden Empire, in which he will play a notorious drug kingpin who hits the top of the most wanted list for both the U.S. and Mexican governments.
Yen also will produce the movie alongside Peter Luo, CEO at Starlight Media, which is…
A feature documentary is in the works, Wuhan! Wuhan!, which promises to offer a uniquely comprehensive insight into the Chinese city that was the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.
Peter Luo, CEO of Starlight Media which has backed Crazy Rich Asians and Midway, is putting together the U.S.-China co-production with…
On Monday night, Disney had the world premiere of their forthcoming live-action version of the classic animated feature Mulanin Los Angeles and while some were expecting it to follow the lead of major festivals and events closing due to coronavirus fears, the premiere went on as planned and it was filled with red…
As the coronavirus continues its rapid spread, China continues to struggle with consequences of the disease on myriad levels. The updated count of confirmed cases has crossed 6,000 on the mainland, with 132 people dead.
Separately to the tragic human toll of the virus, the economic impact could exceed $40B on a global…
EXCLUSIVE: Who best to start a new IP for Neal Moritz’s Original Film (Fast and Furious) than the Ip Man himself? Martial artist Donnie Yen is set to star in a new feature from Moritz entitled Sleeping Dogs, which is based on the top-selling video game by Square Enix.
Yen, who recently co-starred in Rogue One: A Star W…
EXCLUSIVE:Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired rights to Chasing the Dragon and The Golden Monk, a pair of films from Hong Kong director Wong Jin. The Chasing the Dragon deal reunites the indie distributor with Donnie Yen, who most recently appeared in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and xXx: Return Of Xander Cage…
Riz Ahmed’s role in Nightcrawler was a breakthrough for the talented actor, who had, up until then, proved himself mostly at home in the UK, with the likes of Four Lions, Shifty and The Road to Guantanamo. With Hollywood unable to deny Ahmed's versatility and fastidiousness, 2016 has been a banner year. Kicking off…
Disney has dropped the Chinese trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and this newer version features additional footage, giving fans more of a glimpse at the film's big Chinese stars Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen. It also shows more scenes of a bombing mission involving Wen's assassin character Baze Malbus.
The…
In addition to Disney dropping the new trailer for Star Wars spinoff Rogue One, it also delivered a fresh set of images. Among those MIA in the new trailer are the characters played by Mads Mikkelsen and Riz Ahmed. Here’s a glance at who’s on deck.
International martial arts and Ip Man star Donnie Yen has another big studio job to follow Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He’ll square off against Vin Diesel in xXx 3: The Return Of Xander Cage at Paramount. Yen will play an alpha-warrior named Xiang, who battles the extreme sports-turned-secret agent Cage in a race…
UPDATE: I have just been informed that Ip Man 3 (see below) has had its release pushed back and is no longer coming out in December. There is currently no mainland date.
Point Break got in under the wire last Friday to become the final Hollywood movie of 2015 to release in the Middle Kingdom. Now that the December…
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