Former Better Together spin doctor joins PR team to 'relaunch' Hong Kong following years of protests

Mulan” is facing renewed boycott calls from Asian activists.Thai and Taiwanese activists have joined Hong Kong protestors fighting for democratic reform who first raised the call for boycotts of the film last year, after its Chinese-born star sided with the Hong Kong police and their crackdown of pro-democracy militants.“I support the Hong Kong Police,” said Liu Yifei, who is also an American citizen, sharing a post from the Beijing People’s Daily on Weibo, a Chinese blog site in August 2019.

Disney film’s online release yesterday (September 4).After the film’s initial March release date in cinemas, which was curtailed due to the coronavirus outbreak, the film finally arrived on the Disney+ streaming service this week.Fans have been calling for a boycott of the film due to star Liu Yifei’s reported support of Hong Kong police during ongoing clashes in the country.Posting on Chinese social media site Weibo (via The Los Angeles Times) last year, Liu shared a statement from reporter Fu

Influential Chinese video platform Bilibili has taken a 9.9 percent stake in Huanxi Media, the rising film and TV studio that counts blockbuster directors Xu Zheng, Zhang Yimou and Ning Hao as major shareholders. Bilibili agreed to invest $513 million Hong Kong dollars ($66 million) in Huanxi in exchange for almost 347 million shares in the studio, which is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

attacking passengers at the station during their arrest of suspected protesters.

Richard Leonard has hired a top spin doctor to help turn around his flagging fortunes.Andy Whitaker, who was head of strategic communications for former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, starts in post on Wednesday.Leonard has been in the job for nearly three years, but has suffered devastating defeats at the ballot box.Scottish Labour slumped to fifth at the European election and lost six of their seven seats at the general election.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your

Hong Kong actress/producer Josie Ho is set to collaborate with French director Luc Besson and American History X helmer Tony Kaye through the Hong Kong-based 852 Films, the production company she had founded with husband Conroy Chan in 2009. Ho will star in the entire slate, she and Chan will also take up producer duties for the films.

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Hong Kong's Filmart, Asia's largest film and television content market, on Wednesday kicked off its first-ever virtual edition amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In an auspicious sign for the local industry, the event's online panel discussions and virtual dealmaking sessions got underway in earnest just after news broke that Hong Kong's movie theaters would be allowed to reopen as the third wave of novel coronavirus infection was brought back under control.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCinemas in Hong Kong are to be allowed to reopen from Friday, as the coronavirus threat recedes once again.Early indications from ticketing app HK Movies shows booking for Korean zombie thriller “Peninsula” which had its release postponed, and for Hong Kong romance “Beyond the Dream,” which started its cinema run on July 2.

Vivienne Chow Solidly-established Hong Kong film director Soi Cheang (“Accident,” “SPL II,” “The Monkey King” series) returns to action with the new crime thriller “Limbo.” He says his ambition is to revive the former glory of the city’s action cinema by targeting international audiences outside China.Announced just ahead of the opening of Wednesday’s FilMart, which has been postponed from its usual March slot and changed to an online format due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, “Limbo” is

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Vivienne Chow The Hong Kong International Film Festival named Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s “The Cloud in Her Room” and “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection” by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese as winners of its Firebird Young Cinema competitions, despite the event having been canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.The festival was initially postponed from its usual spring slot to summer due to the coronavirus, and was eventually canceled.

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Tom Grater International Film ReporterPressing on with plans to hold its physical edition September 18-26, Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section, the competitive strand that does not mandate any style or length standards.There are 10 features and nine shorts present this year.

Coronation Street star married Australian-born digital analyst Ryan Clark in Las Vegas in 2013 after dating for two years.They have since had two children, Orla, aged six, and Rose, aged three, but have ended their relationship, revealing the separation is “completely amicable” in a statement from a spokesman.The spokesman said: “Katherine and Ryan have made the difficult decision to separate.“They see it as a positive move for both of them and the separation is completely amicable.“Their

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLeading online B2B licensing platform RightsTrade has been selected to provide the technological backbone for the upcoming FilMart in Hong Kong. Turning such a large and busy fair into a virtual market has been a long time coming.The film and TV market, a flagship event for the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, had been expected to operate as a face-to-face event in its usual slot in late March.

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