Jackie Chan forced to let his Beijing apartments go up for auction due to ownership dispute

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThere’s a new sign the Chinese government is leaning toward spiking the deal to transfer control of TikTok from ByteDance to U.S. owners, including Oracle and Walmart.An editorial Wednesday in China Daily, the state-run newspaper of the Beijing regime, called the agreement to form TikTok Global — which was forced by an executive order by President Trump under the guise of protecting U.S.

Vivienne Chow Chinese sci-fi blockbuster “The Wandering Earth” was named film of the year by the China Film Directors Guild at its annual awards ceremony on Saturday night in Beijing, local media reported.The award ceremony, which took place coincided with the further re-opening of cinemas in China as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, also presented director of the year award (Hong Kong and Taiwan) to Derek Tsang for his 2019 youth drama “Better Days.” It was the second time that Tsang won the

Lady Gaga is an otherworldly goddess in the Valentino Voce Viva fragrance campaign — and Us Weekly got an exclusive behind-the-scenes look!On Thursday, September 17, the design house dropped the stunning campaign video, which features the Oscar winner appearing radiant and stunning in a red gown from Valentino’s Beijing couture show in 2019 designed by artistic director Pierpaolo Piccioli.“I felt strong and alive, hearing myself echo through the forest as I was singing in this dress,” she said

report the news. It’s unclear which U.S.

“trusted technology provider” in the U.S.If the deal gets the green light from the feds, Mnuchin told CNBC it would lead to a new wing of the company dubbed “TikTok Global.” (TikTok is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance.) The deal would also lead to about 20,000 new American jobs, Mnuchin said, which could grease the wheels even more when it comes to getting the blessing of President Trump.The president — who signed an executive order last month giving Bytedance 50 days to offload TikTok’s U.S.

There are still idealistic young writers out there aiming to transform the world, at least in China, and the newsroom drama The Best Is Yet to Come (Bu zhi bu xiu) catches the viewer up in the fast-paced story of an untutored youth from the provinces who breaks a scoop on hepatitis B.

in a statement. “We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests.”TheWrap has reached out to ByteDance, Oracle and Microsoft for comment.Microsoft, which is worth about $1.6 trillion, is looking to buy TikTok from its Beijing-based parent company Bytedance for $50 billion, Reuters reported in July.

Disney's Mulan is off to a low-key start at China's theatrical box office, a market where it was once expected to be a sure-fire blockbuster. Mulan had pulled in just $4.4 million (30 million RMB) as of 5 p.m., Beijing time, Friday, according to data from local box office tracker Artisan Gateway.

Mining the well-worn tropes of the crusading journalist, Jing Wang’s “The Best is Yet to Come” is an investigatory look at Beijing in the aftermath of the SARS epidemic.

Disney's big-budget remake of Mulan, already the subject of apro-democracy boycott, has come under additional fire for filming scenes in China's Xinjiang Province, where Beijing is accused of perpetrating human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims on a massive scale. Not only did Disney shoot in the region, but the studio appears to have offered its gratitude to Chinese government agencies involved in alleged abuses.

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.

Yifei Liu — the star of Disney’s new live-action Mulan remake of the beloved 1998 film opened up about sharing some similarities with her on-screen character, having experienced a divided upbringing of her own: Born in central China, Liu spent some of her formative years with her mother in New York City before returning to Beijing for acting school. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Yifei spoke candidly about her character.

For years, box office analysts have been predicting when China would surpass North America as the world’s largest theatrical film market. In 2015, when movie ticket sales in the Middle Kingdom grew an astonishing 49 percent, the country's ascendance was thought to be just one or two years away.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTwo apartments in Beijing that are home to movie star Jackie Chan are being forcibly put up for auction. The reason appears to be an ownership dispute.The adjacent apartments in a residential compound in the capital city’s Dongzhimen district are where Chan and his family have lived since 2007.