Fucked Up share new 22-minute song featuring Matt Berninger

Rebecca Davis editorChinese director Jia Zhangke has formally launched his new venture: a filmmaking school in his native Shanxi staffed by some of China’s top industry talent, including helmers Ning Hao and Bi Gan.The Shanxi Film Academy was inaugurated in a ceremony presided over by Communist party officials and attended by major firms seeking synergies between the school’s future crop of filmmakers and their own thirst for new talent and content.

Warner Bros. has dropped the first seven minutes of Mortal Kombat.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese streaming firm iQIYI is making moves to start operating in Australia and New Zealand.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNews over the weekend of a record breaking $2.8 billion fine for Chinese tech giant Alibaba produced a huge relief rally.

Nicky Shen.After suddenly returning home following a three-year detour in China, the heroine finds herself trying to mend her relationship with her family after abandoning them for monastery life in China.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefMainland China youth drama “The Day is Over” was named the best Chinese-language film in the Firebird Young Cinema competition at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChina is set to host the winter Olympics in February, but the extent of American involvement is on shaky ground. There’s plenty of precedent for Olympic-scale strife — in 1980 and 1984, the U.S.

SEVENTEEN member The8 has dropped the first teaser image for his upcoming solo single album.On April 8, Pledis Entertainment announced that The8 would be returning with a new single next week. Slated to release on April 13, the company released the first image teaser for ‘Side by Side’.The stylish new teaser features the Chinese K-pop idol dressed in an oversized navy blue suit, casually leaning against a sports car.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticGreg Berlanti’s domination of the CW continues with “Kung Fu” — and the new drama he executive produces is proof positive that the super-producer is using his powers for good. The show is a revival of a drama starring David Carradine that aired on ABC from 1972 to 1975.

YG‘s ‘My Krazy Life’ has returned to streaming services with altered lyrics after a track on the 2014 album faced a backlash for featuring lyrics about targeting “Chinese neighbourhoods” during burglaries.The track ‘Meet The Flockers’, which was removed earlier this week, now no longer contains the lyric “Chinese neighbourhoods” after it was accused of inciting violence.Last week it was also reported that employees at YouTube had called for the song’s removal from the site, although the request

Jon Burlingame Not content merely to conquer the film-music world, composer Hans Zimmer has now turned his attention to cell-phone ringtones.Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has unveiled its latest, the Find X3 Pro, which offers two Zimmer-created ringtones and “an orchestra of system sounds,” according to an announcement by the company.The new sounds include two warm ringtones, a gentle alarm and a phone activation sound as well as “a range of energizing text and notification alerts.” The intent,

My Krazy Life, the 2014 debut album from YG, has returned to music streaming platforms after a brief disappearance on Monday, as Pitchfork reports. The project's song "Meet The Flockers" has been newly edited to remove a lyric about burglarizing "Chinese neighborhoods" — lyrics that came under scrutiny once more this month following a wave of anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States.

Netflix has picked up international streaming rights to Chinese filmSuper Me, a high-concept fantasy feature combining elements of comedy, romance and thriller. Super Me is set for a wide theatrical release in China on Friday.

YG’s 2014 debut album ‘My Krazy Life’ has been removed from streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and iTunes.While the official reason for its removal has yet to be confirmed, it comes weeks after the album track ‘Meet The Flockers’ faced a backlash for featuring lyrics about targeting “Chinese neighbourhoods” during burglaries.“First, you find a house and scope it out / Find a Chinese neighbourhood, cause they don’t believe in bank accounts,” YG raps on the track.Last week it was

Rebecca Davis editorChina’s Huace Pictures this week unveiled its upcoming film lineup, which includes a new project from young arthouse filmmaker Bi Gan (“Kaili Blues”) and sequels to its Chinese New Year hit “A Writer’s Odyssey.”Founded in 2014, Huace Pictures is the newer outgrowth of Shenzhen-listed, Hangzhou-headquartered Zhejiang Huace Film and TV, founded in 2005.

Ubisoft has announced that the second DLC for Immortals Fenyx Rising, Myths of the Eastern Realm, is currently available to download.Three post-launch DLC‘s (downloadable content) was confirmed for Immortals Fenyx Rising in November last year. The first being A New God, which is already available to play.The latest Myths of the Eastern Realm DLC follows a new hero named Ku who embarks on a journey inspired by a popular Chinese myth, Nuwa Mends The Heavens.