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China’s box office is primed for a sparkling Lunar New Year frame as new titles start rollout on Friday. As we noted this past Sunday, pre-sales had alread begun to pop, with threequel Detective Chinatown 3 in the lead. The film from Chen Sicheng as of 11:30PM local time on Thursday had hit over RMB 673M ($104M) in advance tickets for opening day Friday and more than RMB 950M ($147M) for the first week, according to Maoyan.

China's comedy tentpole Detective Chinatown 3 is already doing gangbusters business ahead of its release on Friday, the first day of the lucrative Lunar New Year holiday in the country. The wildly anticipated franchise sequel has earned $85 million (RMB 548 million) in advance ticket sales, according to Artisan Gateway, which means Avengers: Endgame's all-time China presales sales record of $95.5 million (RMB 615.3 million) is well within striking distance.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Boonie Bears: The Wild Life,” the latest feature-length instalment in a long-running Chinese film and TV franchise, is set to open in Japan and Australia.

Disney/Pixar’s Soul continues to shine overseas with a $96.2M cume after seven frames. In 11 markets this session, the Pete Docter-helmed original added $6.9M to its international box office kitty with No. 1s again in Russia and Korea. In China, it has surpassed Incredibles 2 to become the market’s 2nd highest-grossing Pixar title ever.

While police are still looking for the suspect who assaulted an eldery man, Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu are stepping up and offering a reward “for information leading to the arrest and conviction of this man and his accomplices.”

Know of one we've missed? Shout about it in the comments below. This Chinatown stalwart can be found on Princess Street - not to be confused with Little Yang Sing, on neighbouring George Street, although that’s worth a visit too.They’re both run by members of the same family (Yang Sing owner Harry Yeung’s cousin Warren runs the smaller site) but are completely separate operations.While both sites are closed for now, the team have put together an excellent selection of take-home offerings for

The FBI is now offering a $30,000 reward for information leading to the capture of a Boston quintuple murder suspect who investigators say was "known to like flashy cars, spending money, and sipping cognac."  Hung Tien Pham has eluded authorities for decades after he allegedly entered a social club in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan.

Ben Affleck is maybe working more now than ever before. Not only does he have two films expected to come out in 2021 (“The Last Duel” and “Deep Water”), but he’s also supposed to act in the upcoming Robert Rodriguez film, “Hypnotic,” and maybe direct a film about the making of “Chinatown.” But that’s not all.

Date night! Zac Efron and girlfriend Vanessa Valladares were spotted holding hands as they stepped out for dinner with friends in Sydney on Friday, January 8.

Bleachers have shared another performance video from New York’s Electric Lady Studios – watch Jack Antonoff and co cover The Waterboys‘ ‘The Whole Of The Moon’ below.Last month, the band shared a performance of recent Bruce Springsteen collaboration ‘Chinatown’ performed on the studio’s roof with the Boss himself.Presumably recorded in the same session as the ‘Chinatown’ performance, watch Bleachers play 1985’s ‘The Whole Of The Moon’ on the Electric Lady roof below.Last year, Antonoff tweeted

according to his son, Mick.Born in 1935 in Los Angeles as Ronald Michael Fenton, Fenton joined Paramount as a casting director in 1963 after working as an agent at the Ashley-Steiner Agency and, before then, in the mailroom of the Music Corporation of America.

Bleachers have teamed up with recent collaborator Bruce Springsteen to perform their song ‘Chinatown’ together.Jack Antonoff and co. filmed the full-band performance on the roof of Electric Lady Studios in New York City.Watch the band and Springsteen play ‘Chinatown’ below:Bleachers and Springsteen released the collaborative single last month.

Bella Hadid is stocking up on some big plants for her apartment!

Even more set photos have been revealed from the upcoming Marvel series Hawkeye and these ones give us a better look at Lucky the Pizza Dog!

NEW YORK -- Charles Yu's satirical, cinematic novel “Interior Chinatown” has won the National Book Award for fiction.Tamara Payne and her father the late Les Payne's Malcolm X biography, “The Dead Are Arising,” was cited for nonfiction and Kacen Callender's “King and the Dragonflies” for young people's literature.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBleachers frontman and hit producer Jack Antonoff has always worn his New Jersey affiliation and Bruce Springsteen influence proudly, and today he brings it all home: Bleachers have dropped two new tracks, giving fans a sneak peek of new music a forthcoming album due next year — and one of them, “Chinatown,” features none other than Springsteen himself.

devastating impact much closer to home.Almost overnight, trade in Chinatown plummeted.Shoppers and diners deserted the city centre district - with some members of the community also reporting a disturbing rise in racism and discrimination.And now, as the England enters another nationwide lockdown, many businesses face a fight for survival.Bonnie Yeung runs Yang Sing, one of Chinatown's oldest businesses, and its biggest employer.The Princess Street restaurant is staying open for takeaways, but

Rebecca Davis editorFox Entertainment streaming service Tubi announced a partnership with China’s Wanda Pictures on Monday, saying it will now stream at least two of the latter’s films in both Chinese-language and English-dubbed versions.The headlining film in the deal is Wanda’s “Detective Chinatown 2,” which currently reigns as China’s sixth-highest grossing movie of all time thanks to $541 million in local receipts. The title grossed a mere $2 million in North America.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorTubi has begun a content relationship with Chinese film and television studio Wanda Pictures, with two titles coming to the Fox-owned free streaming outlet.Original and exclusive English-dubbed versions of Detective Chinatown 2, which is No. 6 on China’s all-time box office chart, will be on Tubi soon in the U.S.

Will Thorne Staff WriterCharles Yu’s latest novel “Interior Chinatown” is getting the TV treatment.Hulu is developing a series based on the novel, with Yu in place to adapt his own work, Variety has learned exclusively.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDrive-ins are coming to Hollywood.Post 43, the historic American Legion memorial clubhouse on Highland Avenue, is launching a drive-in screening series in its parking lot on Oct. 3 with “E.T.

Naman Ramachandran British perfume company Jo Malone has apologized to “Star Wars” actor John Boyega after editing him out of the Chinese version of an award-winning commercial that he originally conceived, directed and starred in.The recast and reshot Chinese version replaced Boyega with local actor Liu Haoran (The “Detective Chinatown” franchise). The original commercial, titled “London Gent,” featured Boyega walking around London’s Peckham neighbourhood and featured a multicultural cast.

An early script from seminal Hollywood film The Godfather and a painting from Impressionist Pierre-August Renoir are among the items going under the hammer as part of an auction of famed movie producer Robert Evans’ estate.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAs the coronavirus pandemic forces more audiences into socially-distant gatherings, a new drive-in series in Los Angeles is launching to support local businesses and showcase diverse content.Dubbed Cinemauto, the event series will be held in L.A.’s Chinatown district.

Roman Polanski is not being reinstated to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Participant has boarded Abacus, the drama that Justin Lin will direct based on a script by Kenneth Lin (Star Trek: Discovery, House of Cards) and James Schamus (Indignation, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Participant joins as financier, and producer alongside Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment.

hereHe said both were 'ok' and were isolating at home.Mr Wong said he had records of 444 diners who visited the restaurant last week and he said he would be calling all of them to let them know about the outbreak and urge them to get tested."My job is now ringing them up to tell them we had a virus outbreak in the restaurant with two staff members.

Lost actor Daniel Dae Kim (nearly £40,000) towards a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for prolific Asian-American actor James Hong.Hong, now 91, has appeared in well over 600 credited roles in a career spanning nearly 70 years.Most famously, he's starred in movies like Chinatown, Big Trouble In Little China, Blade Runner and Airplane!He's also had prominent voice roles in the likes of the Kung Fu Panda movies (playing Po's father Mr.

The making of iconic Hollywood movie Chinatown is getting the movie treatment from Ben Affleck and Parmaount. Affleck will write the script and is set to direct The Big Goodbye, an adaptation of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by author Sam Wasson.

Chinatown.According to Deadline, Affleck is adapting the behind-the-scenes non-fiction book The Big Goodbye about Chinatown into a revealing new documentary.The original film was released in 1974 and starred Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. It was written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne and produced by Robert ‘The Kid’ Evans.

British Beer and Pub Association published a report that said more than a third of British pubs cannot break even since opening post-lockdown. Patrick thinks this figure is actually quite conservative - especially for wet-led pubs like the Seven Oaks.He said: "The recent reduction in VAT is of no real benefit to us, neither is the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.

In the age of pop culture idolatry, Fitzgerald’s “there are no second acts in American lives,” feels more and more mistaken than it already does. Even cancel culture never really cancels anyone permanently (see Mel Gibson), and there’s something in American culture where we’re always rooting and ready to embrace a comeback (within reason.

Ben Affleck is back in the director’s chair with “The Big Goodbye”.

EXCLUSIVE: After earning some of the best reviews of his acting career for “The Way Back,” Ben Affleck is ready to make his return behind the camera, and he looks to have zeroed in on his next directing job. We are hearing that Affleck has signed on to direct “The Big Goodbye” for Paramount, an adaptation of the Sam Wasson book “The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood.”Affleck also would write the script.

Ben Affleck has signed on to write and direct the upcoming movie The Big Goodbye, which will follow the behind-the-scenes story of the making of the classic film Chinatown.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaForget it, Ben. It’s Chinatown.Ben Affleck will dig deep into Hollywood history with an upcoming adaptation of “The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood,” an inside look at the making of the film noir classic.