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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChina announced further steps to control celebrity fan culture, which regulators say has become “chaotic.” The moves came as one of China’s most prominent stars Vicki Zhao Wei was scrubbed from the internet and another star, female actor Zheng Shuang was embroiled in a tax scandal.The Cyberspace Administration of China on Friday issued a pair of connected notices.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHollywood film franchises such as “xXx,” “Warcraft” and “Resident Evil” used to be largely sustained by their box office performance in China, which significantly exceeded their North American hauls and drove global grosses. Frequently, Hollywood titles would dominate the Chinese box office charts during most weeks.But in recent years, that tide has been turning.

Music Business Worldwide (MBW), the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that from October 1 any music that breaches a fresh set of government rules will be scrapped from karaoke bars.Among the contraventions include music that “violates the state’s religious policies or promotes cults and superstitions,” “insults or defames others” or “endangers national security or harms national honour or interests”.A Reddit user posted a direct translation of the new government rules in

Chris Willman Music Writer“We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert,” the Clive Davis-programmed concert in Central Park, was called off just past its halfway point Saturday due to lightning strikes occurring within a 10-mile radius of the Great Lawn.Barry Manilow was mid-medley at 8:37 p.m. — with more than two hours left to go in the five-hour concert — when he was interrupted by an announcer saying: “Attention.

Channing Tatum, 41, and Sandra Bullock, 57, will be best friends “for life” after filming Lost City Of D together, a source told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. Their comfort with each other seemed pretty obvious in the video that Channing shared on Instagram on Aug. 16, and now we know it’s because he thinks she’s “incredible”.

post a smoldering black-and-white mirror selfie for the last week on set, clearly glad to be done filming for a while.In the caption, the actor wrote, “Getting back to me before the next creative adventure into someone and somewhere else.”A post shared by Channing Tatum (@channingtatum)“The Lost City of D” stars the duo together in an action-packed rom-com, which Bullock is producing through her own company Fortis Films.

Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock have wrapped their latest project! The 41-year-old actor took to Instagram on Monday to show how he and his 57-year-old co-star celebrated the end of filming of .In the funny clip, Tatum is holding Bullock as someone off-camera announces that both of them have wrapped filming.

Sandra Lee, 55, has been spotted kissing her new beau Ben Youcef, 42, in Paris after the pair got engaged! Multiple sources confirmed the happy news to Page Six, after the couple were spotted looking so in love while strolling around Paris, showing off her huge ring — see the pics here. Sandra said ‘yes’ nearly two years after her split from Andrew Cuomo, and just days after the infamous New York governor resigned amid a sexual harassment scandal.

Many are excited to see Lady Gaga‘s return to acting with the Ridley Scott crime drama “House of Gucci,” seeing her star alongside Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto, and others. However, it looks like she had to drop out of another film to make it as Collider reports that she had a scheduling conflict and couldn’t make Brad Pitt‘s upcoming action film “Bullet Train” helmed by director David Leitch (“John Wick,” “Atomic Blonde,” “Hobbs & Shaw,” “Deadpool 2“).

Once a family, always a family. Lauren Graham, Mae Whitman and more of the Parenthood cast have kept a close bond since the beloved series came to an end.

Drag Race UK winner Lawrence Chaney is taking over Radio 1's airwaves with fellow Scot Arielle Free as part of the BBC station's Drag Day. Lawrence, who slayed the RuPaul show, will join others in the line up including Bimini Bon-Boulash and Tayce for the takeover on August 21.

The Mirror reports. BBC bosses have not indicated the source of the virus, with scores of professional dancers and crew involved in producing the group routines for the show.

Organizers of the Beijing International Film Festival have postponed the event due to increasing Covid cases in China.

Rebecca Davis editorChinese director Lu Chuan will be the lead director of the opening ceremony for the upcoming 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou city, an international sports spectacle taking place months after the Beijing Winter Olympics.Held every four years, the games will occur from Sept. 10 to 25 in the verdant capital of Zhejiang province, coinciding with the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHighly-anticipated mainland Chinese film “The Battle at Lake Changjin,” which was due to have been released later this month has been postponed to an unspecified date. The move, announced late on Thursday, was caused by a recent resurgence in COVID-19 cases in China.The film is a Korean War epic that is co-directed by Chen Kaige, Hark Tsui and Dante Lam and should have released on Aug.

Rebecca Davis editorChinese director Chen Kaige’s U.S.-born son Arthur Chen Feiyu has swapped his American citizenship out for a Chinese one, a change widely viewed locally as a savvy move to boost his burgeoning career in the mainland.The move comes as Chinese public opinion about celebrities has hinged upon questions of nationality.

Struggling at the box office past its opening weekend, Marvel’s “Black Widow” might not end up being released in China (this could change), and there is a good shot the film might end up becoming a flop. Or at least a theatrical one.

“I’ve learned more in the past two years about the word – you know, people say the word ‘love’ and what that means to love somebody,” Sandra Bullock said in a 2013 interview with Entertainment Tonight. “Maybe people spend too much time looking. I think we spend too much time looking for things that are more things that society wants us to look for and that we get from a magazine rather than that are really worth it.”