"Bodyguards and Assassins" sweeps big screen

2009-12-24 00:18:59 GMT Xinhua English BEIJING, Dec. 24 -- From "Perhaps Love", "The Warlords", to "Bodyguards and Assassins", Peter Chan has become the only Hong Kong director to compete with mainland heavyweights like Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yimou.

Christmas movie wrap-up

2009-12-23 02:05:46 GMT Xinhua English BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- The time slot between November and February has long been a golden time to release films in China. The season is studded with festivals and holidays such as Christmas, New Year, Chinese Spring Festival and Valentine's Day.

"Hero" director targets youth with noodles

2009-12-10 02:59:42 GMT Global Times BEIJING, Dec. 10 -- Internationally renowned director Zhang Yimou has changed his mode of operation in his latest film a bid to capture a dwindling cinema market – young people. Zhang has taken a completely different tack by adding rap, fresh dialogue and controversial stars to his latest work A Simple Noodle Story that opens across the country today.

Donnie Yen heads ‘Bodyguards and Assassins’

2009-12-09 09:49:21 GMT SINA.com Start-up production house Cinema Popular has announced their debut feature, a $23 million historical epic with an all-star cast led by Donnie Yen. BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS, previously known as DARK OCTOBER, has been in development for ten years by director Teddy Chan and is now ready to begin shooting in April with a powerhouse line-up of actors.

'Princess and the Frog' bounds to No. 1 with $24M

2009-12-15 04:04:16 GMT SINA.com LOS ANGELES – The animated musical "The Princess and the Frog" jumped to No. 1 at the box office with $24.2 million in its first weekend of nationwide release.

Colin Firth turns in gay role in "A Single Man"

2009-12-09 08:59:31 GMT Reuters Actor Colin Firth poses for Reuters in Beverly Hills in this November 5, 2009 file photo. Firth, 49, whose past roles include the awkward but alluring Mark Darcy in "Bridget Jones's Diary" and the diffident Jamie Bennett in "Love Actually", turns in what critics say is an Oscar-worthy role of a lifetime in "A Single Man" as a gay, 1960s British professor grieving over the loss of his lover. Picture taken November 5, 2009.

Premiere of movie "The Lovely Bones"

2009-12-08 10:52:08 GMT Xinhua English Cast members arrive for the premiere of the film "The Lovely Bones" in Hollywood, California December 7, 2009.

"Up In The Air" premiere with George Clooney

2009-12-02 01:22:39 GMT SINA.com Actor George Clooney, star of the film "Up In The Air" , poses with his mother Nina Clooney at the film's premiere in Los Angeles, California November 30, 2009.

Zhang just wants to have fun

2009-12-15 02:22:57 GMT Global Times When I first heard that Zhang Yimou, China's leading director most well-known for Hero in the West, was remaking the Coen Brothers' first film, Blood Simple, a question immediately sprung to my mind: Would A Simple Noodle Story be directed by the good Zhang Yimou or the bad Zhang Yimou? The answer: neither.

Capsule reviews: `Invictus' and others

2009-12-09 09:56:37 GMT SINA.com Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

Review: `Lovely Bones' trades soul for spectacle

2009-12-09 09:54:48 GMT SINA.com Odd as it sounds, Peter Jackson needed to come down to Earth a bit more in "The Lovely Bones," his adaptation of Alice Sebold's best-seller about a murdered girl looking back on her life from beyond.

NBR names `Up in the Air' best film of the year

2009-12-04 02:46:17 GMT SINA.com NEW YORK – "Up in the Air" was named best picture from the National Board of Review and won a total of four awards.

'Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever' trailer

2009-12-11 05:44:13 GMT SINA.com

MV of Mulan theme song 'Beneath the Glory', by Vitas

2009-12-08 08:03:20 GMT SINA.com

'Brooklyn's Finest' trailer

2009-12-04 10:31:52 GMT SINA.com

James McAvoy's "The Last Station" trailer

2009-12-01 02:56:49 GMT SINA.com