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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSentimental local drama film “Lighting Up the Stars” topped the mainland China cinema box office for a second weekend. Its haul was nearly 40% bigger than in its debut session.The film grossed RMB296 million ($44 million) between Friday and Sunday, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway, far ahead of second placed “Jurassic World: Dominion” which took RMB65.2 million ($9.7 million).

Murtada Elfadl “Night of Nights” throws the audience immediately into the action. A sick man in a wheelchair and his companion are stopped outside a hospital by a security guard. All three men are masked and speaking Chinese.

Sophia Sun Intern American-Taiwanese actor and director Peter Ho (“Wind and Cloud”) is at the 2023 Taiwan Creative Content Fest with in-development film project “Appetite for Desire.” The completed picture is intended to be a 120 minute film that tells the story of clout-chasing YouTubers Yong Cheng and Gao Wei who are introduced to a mysterious dish called Kappa meat by their high school classmate. The magic Kappa meat gives them temporary superpower which allows them to create more extreme video contents. However, as Yong Cheng and Gao Wei become more and more reliant on it, a darker secret about it is being revealed.

A species associated with the Loch Ness Monster gained long necks over a 'relatively' short space of time millions of years ago, researchers say. Some people believe Nessie is a plesiosaurs or a descendant of the ancient animal which had a small head and long neck and became extinct 65.5 million years ago.

A new investigation has claimed three Wuhan lab scientists researching Covid-19 were the first to test positive.

The Chinese economy is already struggling because of the nation’s “Zero-Covid” policy, which continues to enforce absolute shutdowns because of small Covid-19 outbreaks.

Drinking at least four cups of tea a day could cut chances of developing type 2 diabetes, according to new research.

EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm has signed Pasaca Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based media finance and production company behind the TIFF 2022 family drama, Prisoner’s Daughter.

Dr. Anthony Fauci did a media triathlon of sorts Tuesday morning, appearing on Fox News, CNN and NPR to talk about his announcement yesterday that he would retire in December as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and also Chief Medical Advisor to the president. He was also on MSNBC last night.

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Addie Morfoot Contributor“POV,” the longest-running series for independent documentaries on television, has unveiled the majority of its slate for the series’ 35th season, which launches on July 11 with Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan.”Neighborhood gentrification on Chicago’s south side, land defenders in the Philippines and the 2018 Zimbabwean general election are among the many topics that will be examined by the 14 feature docus in the upcoming season, which will run through Jan. 16.PBS has revealed 13 of the upcoming season’s “POV” films beyond “Wuhan Wuhan,” an observational documentary about the first wave of the COVID-19 lockdown, with one more entry slated to be unveiled in June.While celebrity driven docs are all the rage with streaming services, “POV” will stay true to its roots and program social issues films that delve into topics including environmental justice (“Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust,” July 18) immigration (“The Last Out,” Oct.

LIVE – Updated at 14:47Yes, it’s that time of year again – the 2022 Academy Awards are (nearly) finally upon us!The Oscars will take place on Sunday (27 March), with films including The Power of the Dog, West Side Story, Licorice Pizza and CODA battling it out in the big categories. Video: Sean Penn vows to destroy Academy Award if Zelensky isn't invited to speak at Oscars (CNN)'What are you so afraid of?': Amanpour to Kremlin spokesmanWhen it comes to BBQ, 'Texas does it best'See explosion and gunfire in Kherson amid peaceful protestVideo shows what happened to China Eastern airliner that crashedWhat is the path to peace in Ukraine conflict?China battles biggest surge in Covid cases since original Wuhan outbreakRussian army vehicles are being fixed up and reused by Ukrainian forcesRetired Gen.

Covid-19 may contribute to heart damage apparent in severely-ill sufferers, according to new research.

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) used a homophobic slur in an interview with former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon while supporting Newt Gingrich’s attack on Democrats.Gingrich promised Republicans will throw members of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack in jail, after a week of multiple bombshell revelations culminating with House investigators receiving a massive number of Trump White House documents the former president tried for months to block.“Newt’s right, we are going to take power,” said Gaetz, who reportedly is under DOJ investigation for alleged child sex trafficking, having sex with an under-aged teen, and obstruction of justice.“And when we do, it’s not going to be the days of Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy, where the Republicans go limp-wristed where they lose their backbone and fail to send a single subpoena,” the Florida Republican Congressman said, throwing in a homophobic slur that is used to depict weakness.“No, it’s going to be the days of Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene and you know what, we’re going to get answers, real answers about what happened in the election,” he said, before continuing to spin far right-wing conspiracy theories.“Answers about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and certainly answers about a Department of Justice and a national security apparatus that has gone totally off the rails,” he claimed.

coronavirus pandemic began.The documentary comes as China has renewed similar lockdowns in three other cities since mid-December to contain COVID-19 outbreaks. The number of people confined to their homes totaled some 20 million people in early January.The government's decision to commandeer Wuhan's hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients meant many people with other problems were turned away.The film begins with a woman in tears outside a hospital that wouldn't admit her husband for treatment of lung cancer.

As 2021 draws to a close, here’s our rundown of nine storylines likely to dominate the international film and TV business in the coming year.

EXCLUSIVE: Hongyu “Neo” Li has been tapped as a Development Executive & In-House Writer​ for Starlight Media, the production and finance company behind titles including Crazy Rich Asians, Maligant and Wuhan Wuhan.

Two years and four months after MTV launched a Documentary Films division headed by Sheila Nevins, former longtime President of HBO Documentary Films, the unit landed its first Emmy award with 76 Days.

How does someone document the onset of a pandemic? Director Nanfu Wang found herself tasked with that very question; her response is the Sundance 2021 selection “In The Same Breath.” The documentary is an unflinching look at Wuhan during the COVID pandemic’s earliest days. It’s a portrait of how one city confronted the unknown while also focusing on the human toll that is sometimes forgotten.

Rebecca Davis editor“Chinese Doctors” gave a shot in the arm to a sluggish weekend at the Chinese box office, coming in first with sales of $44.4 million, according to Maoyan data.The patriotic tear-jerked had little competition: only other patriotic films, children’s animations and youth-centric programming are currently in theaters.The Wuhan-set pandemic film from Bona Film is the most commercial of a slew of blockbusters intended to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party, and

Rebecca Davis editorThe tear-jerking, patriotic pandemic film “Chinese Doctors” locked down a $53.5 million China opening weekend, according to Maoyan, setting itself up to become the most commercially successful political tribute film so far this year.Such films have been helped along by a line-up cleared of competitors.

COVID-19 began in an accidental lab leak.Stewart voiced his comments on Stephen Colbert‘s Late Show on June 14, and has since come under fire.Colbert had asked Stewart for his thoughts on the “science” behind virus detection and prevention.“I think we owe a great deal of gratitude to science,” Stewart replied.To laughter from the audience, the comedian added: “Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of the pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science.”Watch the interview

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Actress Kirstie Alley is up in arms about the media and government after reports the United States learned that several Wuhan lab researchers fell ill with coronavirus symptoms before the COVID-19 outbreak. "Seriously??? ‘It might be possible that COVID began in the Wuhan lab?’ .....

After all the accusations, conspiracy theories and general misinformation regarding the origins of the coronavirus in China, the sensitive, humanistic Wuhan Wuhan does a fine job depoliticizing the topic. It shows how the Chinese response to the virus outbreak was very similar to those in hospitals around the world, though its interest for viewers, perhaps, lies in ferreting out some of the minor differences.

Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the region“In Lanarkshire we were co-ordinating several incident support teams to contact trace locally.“We went quite quickly from it feeling like something that was over in Wuhan, maybe a few cases in Scotland, issues in Italy and suddenly it became very real for us.“I sat down with each of my divisional leads to review in detail our existing resilience plans.“We went through them and

Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the region“In Lanarkshire we were coordinating several incident support teams to contact trace locally.“We went quite quickly from it feeling like something that was over in Wuhan, maybe a few cases in Scotland, issues in Italy and suddenly it became very real for us.“I sat down with each of my divisional leads to review in detail our existing resilience plans.

coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan — moments of fear and desperation as well as unity and resilience — are etched in the mind of artist Yang Qian.One year on, she is channeling those memories into artwork to preserve the memory of the central Chinese city’s 76-day lockdown that upturned the lives of some 11 million people.

Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionShe said: “I was quite new into that role.

Of all the original song contenders in the Academy’s long musical history, only one has required the creation of a PAC (Political Action Committee) for its solitary onscreen performance, a performance that saw angry and armed members of a right-wing militia storm the stage and force its singer to flee for safety. Naturally, the singer in question was Sacha Baron Cohen.

The Los Angeles Department of Public Health has confirmed two additional cases of the UK variant of COVID-19, totaling 14 total cases in LA County.

Borat sequel is on the shortlist to be nominated for Best Original Song at the next Academy Awards. The satirical song, which makes repeated reference to the “Wuhan flu” (an offensive term for the Covid-19 virus), is performed by Sacha Baron Cohen's character during a scene filmed at a real-life Washington gun rally.

Olivia Munn is speaking out about the dramatic spike in hate crimes against the Asian community in the U.S. over the past year.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm song ‘Wuhan Flu’ has made this year’s Oscars shortlist.The track, performed by Sacha Baron Cohen in last year’s sequel film, is in the running to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.‘Wuhan Flu’ is one of 15 original songs to be shortlisted this year, alongside tracks from Minari, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga and more.

This year’s Oscar Original Song shortlist has recognized a number of tunes from Black narrative or documentary films, however, the Academy has never ducked their heads when it comes to embracing a silly song; and we’re talking specifically about “Wuhan Flu” from Amazon’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and “Husavik” from Netflix’s Will Ferrell-Rachel McAdams comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.