Jackie Chan

(China Daily) As one of the most celebrity-studded events during the ongoing 24th Shanghai International Film Festival, which will end on June 20, the 2021 Weibo Movie Awards Ceremony -- an influential event jointly organized by Sina Weibo and China Movie Channel -- recently gathered around 100 filmmakers and A-list stars.Jackie…

(Variety) The Shanghai International Film Festival (SHIFF) will kick off this year with the Chinese propaganda film “1921” as its opening night gala. The announcement was made late Tuesday evening local time with just three days to go before the premiere.This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of China’s…

| Published: Saturday, May 29, 2021, 12:56 Vidyut Jammwal recently took to Instagram and shared a proud moment with his fans. The actor revealed that he has been named among the top martial artists in the world along with legendary fighters and actors like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. He…

Our collective inability to grapple with race and identity could not be more clear than it’s been this week, when President Joe Biden signed an anti-Asian hate crime bill while Vice President Kamala Harris was weirdly snubbed as not being Asian American enough—all while Congress failed to pass the George…

The world is a sad and terrifying place a lot of the time. But every now and then, there are moments of brightness among the gloom. Yesterday Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee provided us with one of those bright moments. From the official @BruceLee Twitter account Lee shared a heart-warming…

John Cho, Constance Wu and Jimmy Wong voice characters in the new animated fantasy film, Wish Dragon. As Entertainment Weekly reports, the movie was released theatrically in China earlier this year. It makes its Netflix debut on June 11th. The Chris Appelhans-directed film follows a similar arc to Aladdin, where…

(THR) Holdover romantic drama A Little Red Flower topped a quiet weekend at China's box office, earning $11.7 million for a local total of $182.8 million.Fellow holdover Shock Wave 2, a crime thriller starring Andy Lau, scored second, adding $7.8 million for a four-weekend haul of $163.2 million, according to…

(china org) Five cinematographers have shared how they went to Wuhan to record the reality of the city's COVID-19 outbreak at its height amid fear for their lives.Set in the central Chinese city, once ravaged by the epidemic, the documentary film "Days and Nights in Wuhan" builds its storyline around the…

Imagine that someone asked you to come up with a sequence of five words. In any other year, some idiosyncratic combination would likely come to mind. This year, though, one five-word sequence that has been etched into the memories of many Americans, and many worldwide, stands out—“person, woman, man, camera,…

(Variety) Few stars have worked harder to give audiences pleasure over a long haul than Jackie Chan. But lately, his screen appearances have been those of the elder statesman still trotted out to nominally preside over expensive but flavorless official diplomatic functions you doubt even he relishes. The newest case in…