The Admiral: Roaring Currents, a South Korean war epic that's likely to hit Chinese theaters on Dec 12, is an ambitious project aimed at making South Korean movies more appealing to Chinese moviegoers following a decade of slump in performance.
Veteran stage and film actor Ian McKellen says children want to say "hello" to him in the street because he plays the wizard Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, but he knows they know he's not the real thing.
Chinese online giant Tencent Video's recent deal with HBO, to exclusively stream about 10 of the network's TV productions starting next year, has provoked mixed feelings in China's online world, where expectations of watching US TV serials had fallen.
Kathy Griffin will be terrorizing the fashion crowd as the new host of Fashion Police, replacing the late Joan Rivers when the show returns to E! in January.
The boy who refused to grow up: It sounds like men today in this youth-obsessed culture. But nearly a century before his name found its way into pop psychology, Peter Pan was born as the high-flying hero of a play by Scottish writer James M Barrie.
With the rise in popularity of smartphones and tablets, Chinese are reading more on their palms.
In the Chinese world of online literature, "god" and "goddess" are mortals - Chinese readers use these terms for their beloved online writers to show their respect for an ability to create many imaginary worlds for the enjoyment of readers.
The song Imagine was penned by one of the 20th century's most celebrated songwriters, John Lennon. Celebrated as a working-class hero, Lennon formed one of the Western world's most successful pop groups, the Beatles.
If you haven't communed with your socks lately, thanked your shoes for their hard work or bowed (at least mentally) to your home in appreciation, maybe it's time to consider it.
As the West nervously watches a newly assertive Russia, many commentators are trying to figure out what Vladimir Putin is thinking. But Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia reminds us of another important question: What are the Russian people thinking?
Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg is known for turning her signature wrap dress into a fashion empire and in her memoir, The Woman I Wanted to Be, she describes how she did it.
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