‘Tiny Times’ Creator Guo Jingming Teases Pair of ‘Yin-Yang Master’ Titles (EXCLUSIVE)

Every month, Billboard asks readers to vote for the best collab released during the month. Fans have voted and crowned Los Dos Carnales as the best Latin collaboration of June with their single “El Fue Arturo” featuring El Fantasma.

Rebecca Davis editorHong Kong “Mulan” star Donnie Yen this week reiterated his political loyalty to mainland China as he teased work on the upcoming theatrical adaptation of popular video game “Sleeping Dogs” and announced “Golden Empire,” a new China-backed crime thriller.His hometown is currently roiling under the impact of a controversial new national security law imposed by Beijing that strips Hong Kong of many of its former freedoms, which came into effect July 1 — the anniversary of

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Chinese megastar Donnie Yen is set to star in and produce crime thriller Golden Empire, in which he will play a notorious drug kingpin who hits the top of the most wanted list for both the U.S. and Mexican governments.Yen will also produce the movie alongside Peter Luo, CEO at Starlight Media, which is lead financing alongside SA Inc.

Rebecca Davis editorThe Shanghai International Film Festival is planning to take place in-person later this month, likely from July 18-27, according to Chinese and Iranian reports.Other large, in-person entertainment industry events such as the Shanghai TV Festival and the ChinaJoy gaming industry conference are also set to occur in-person soon, reports said, as the country opens further in the wake of COVID-19 despite recent outbreaks in Beijing and Hebei province.Chinese cinemas have been

Rebecca Davis editorLeading Hollywood visualization studio The Third Floor (TTF) has opened its first Beijing office. It seeks to create a hub in China on par with its other main outposts in Los Angeles and London that will cater primarily to local projects.

second season, but fear not, fans! Your favorite Peach Pit gang has something else in the works.«We wished it had gone on longer,» tells of the satirical Fox show that reunited most of the original cast last year to play exaggerated versions of themselves launching a fictional reboot show. «I don't see that part going on, but October is actually the 30-year reunion of the day the show first premiered.»«We have to do something,» she teased.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has taken North American theatrical and home ent rights to feature documentary Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President.The film chronicles the role of popular music in propelling the relatively unknown candidate from Georgia to the White House, and the significant role music has played in Carter’s life and work.

Peter White Television EditorÉric Rochant, the creator of breakout French spy drama The Bureau, is prepping his U.S.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentÉric Rochant, super-producer and creator behind the hit French spy drama “The Bureau,” is set to team with Tomorrow Studios (“Snowpiercer,” “Cowboy Bebop”) on his U.S. television debut.Rochant will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the untitled espionnage series, which will center on the lives of intelligence officers from different countries (U.S., China, Russia, U.K.

Rebecca Davis editorDirector Lu Yang’s “Assassins in Red” is set to debut next lunar new year, a holiday release window that will likely be one of China’s most competitive ever, as 2020 blockbusters pushed back by the coronavirus prepare to jostle with new titles during the country’s biggest movie-going week of the year. But Lu gently laughs off the question of whether the pressure is already a bit unbearable.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Ip Man: Kung Fu Master,” the latest in a long line of Ip Man movies from Hong Kong and mainland China, has found its way to the virtual Cannes Market, where it is being represented by Hong Kong- and Paris-based All Rights Entertainment.Directed by Li Liming and produced by Kai Pictures, it stars Dennis To in his third go at the role of Ip Man, the martial artist who famously tutored Bruce Lee, and whose life has spawned two competing biopic franchises.To

Rebecca Davis editorRelaxed yet armed with a steely ambition, up-and-coming Chinese helmer Wei Shujun is thrilled to be back at Cannes this year in the First Feature section with his road trip film “Striding Into the Wind,” after his short “On the Border” won the Special Jury Distinction award in 2018.“Cannes has been my school, my teacher,” he told Variety, saying that he’s carefully watched and studied the festival’s selections from the past four years.

Zhang Yimou is one of the most acclaimed Chinese filmmakers working today.

Ed Meza @edmezavarThe global COVID-19 lockdown may have struck down this year’s international box office, but it has led to new opportunities for classic movie catalogues and, of course, streamers, according to film distribution execs taking part in a Cannes virtual market conference on Wednesday.While cinemas in mainland China remain shuttered for the foreseeable future, they have stayed open in Taiwan, where the pandemic has been much less severe, and reopened in Hong Kong, where they had

The early moments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China are set to get the big-screen treatment in Wuhan!, Wuhan!, a feature documentary that has been set up as a U.S.-China co-production, with Hong Kong martial arts star Donnie Yen (Ip Man, Rogue One, Mulan) and Oscar winner Donna Gigliotti (Shakespeare in Love, Silver Linings Playbook) signed on as producers.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterA feature documentary is in the works, Wuhan! Wuhan!, which promises to offer a uniquely comprehensive insight into the Chinese city that was the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.Peter Luo, CEO of Starlight Media which has backed Crazy Rich Asians and Midway, is putting together the U.S.-China co-production with Oscar-winning producer Donna Gigliotti (Hidden Figures, Shakespeare in Love), superstar actor Donnie Yen, alongside Peter Luo and Huan Li (Road

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefMartial arts superstar Donnie Yen is set as executive producer of cinema-verite style documentary “Wuhan! Wuhan,” which chronicles a day-and-a-half in the life of the Chinese city where the earliest proven cases of COVID-19 were found.The film is produced by Donna Gigliotti (“Hidden Figures,” “Silver Linings Playbook”) alongside Peter Luo of financier Starlight Media, and Huan Li (“Road of Millennium Bodhi,” “Changing China”).It is co-directed by renowned Chinese