A splashy 3-D mix of martial arts and romance aims to draw a record audience at theaters this weekend, Wang Kaihao reports.
British actor David Suchet has spent a quarter-century bringing to life a certain fussy Belgian sleuth with a mustache as impeccable as his intellect and crime-solving skills.
They are called the "super boys" and "super girls", as descriptions of achievers among China's post-1990 generation. However, a section is often tagged with stereotypes of vanity, shallowness and selfishness.
Scarlett Johansson's portrayal as an accidental psychokinetic took in $44million in North American movie theaters recently. The Associated Press reports from Los Angeles.
Don't worry about me. The Sharknado Evacuation map supplied by Syfy network places me, as a resident of Lower Manhattan, smack in the zone most in peril this sharknado season. But I'll be ready.
The placement of Chinese products in Hollywood blockbusters is a growing business, Liu Wei and Wong Lok Yee meet the woman who is putting brands on the silver screen.
With horror flick after road movie, China's domestic filmmaking seems to have found new inspiration for its box-office rivalry with Hollywood.
At first Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer thought she was seeing early concert footage of James Brown but then was told it was a screen test by Chadwick Boseman to play the "Godfather of Soul" in the new biopic Get On Up.
Li Yang, a college student in Wuhan, Hubei province, has loved writing poetry since childhood, and he always wanted to publish his works.
Carrie La Seur's finely crafted debut chronicles a woman's complicated relationship with her hometown of Billings, Montana, her relatives who stayed behind and her ancestral history. La Seur's graceful prose in The Home Place complements her incisive character studies of a family that has managed to keep most of its problems behind closed doors.
Soon after the Wenchuan earthquake in May 2008, An Xuerong and some of her colleagues went to a quake-hit town in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, to bring some 80 mentally ill patients to their hospital - Chengdu No 4 Hospital, one of the largest hospitals for people suffering from mental illnesses in Southwest China.
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