Wong Kar-wai Sets ‘Blossoms Shanghai’ as His First TV Series

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorAfter pulling in $33.5M across five days of previews at the Chinese box office, local war epic The Eight Hundred overwhelmingly stormed theaters today, its first official day of release. Adding roughly $20M across the country on Friday — the biggest single-day box office since cinemas resumed operations — the Middle Kingdom cume is now north of $53M.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNext week’s virtual FilMart will mark the market debut for newly-launched Blossoms Entertainment, a film sales agency based in mainland China. Among its available titles, the new outfit will be representing partial rights to Chinese blockbuster “The Eight Hundred.”Blossoms is owned and headed by Vicky Ding, an executive with sales and distribution experience at Beijing Culture and the now-defunct Hollywood sales and finance group IM Global.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTom Hanks-starring drama “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” will join a thickening crowd of local and international films heading for Chinese movie theaters in the next six weeks.The film, about beloved U.S. TV host Mr.

Graham “Kermit” Williamson.Armed police attended the Shanghai Teahouse restaurant in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, after the terrifying gang attack on Friday night.Three days later Graham, 26, known as Kermit, was shot dead at his home in Caithness Street, Blantyre, two miles away.Now detectives have revealed that they are probing a possible link between the two violent incidents.In a video obtained by the Daily Record, a man – not the murder victim – is seen being barricaded into the Chinese

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle continue to share previews of their new $14.7 million property in Santa Barbara — California’s Montecito neighborhood! Harry unveiled the couple’s white walls in the background of a video call on August 15. The Duke of Sussex, 25, dropped in to catch up with Team Invictus via video, following the successful completion of their At Home Superhero Tri.

Harry Potter is enjoying a new from the top.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterChinese entertainment giant Maoyan, the country’s leading online ticketing provider, has posted its interim financials for the first half of a pandemic-disrupted 2020, with the company swinging to a loss of RMB 430.7M ($62M), compared with a profit of RMB 257.4M ($37M) in the same period last year.Revenue took a drastic tumble from RMB 1,984.6M ($285.9M) in the first half of 2019 to RMB203.1M ($29.3M) January-June this year, largely due to the closure of

Rebecca Davis editorLocal content is proving more of a draw than Hollywood films as China’s cinemas get back on their feet.

Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai (“In The Mood For Love”) moves secretly and at his own pace, often taking several years between projects. And per usual, the road to his latest film has been circuitous and perhaps filled with twists and turns and misinformation—perhaps some of it lost in translation or some of it warped from the notoriously controlling Chinese government, who knows.

Wiz Khalifa has shared a new song called ‘Top Down’ – listen to it below.Taken from his upcoming mixtape ‘Big Pimpin’, Wiz teams up with New York producer Harry Fraud – known for his work with French Montana and Curren$y – for the roll-your-windows-down, laid back track.It follows a string of records the Taylor Gang rapper has put out as of late, including ‘Flight to China’, taken from the recently released ‘Road To Fast 9’ mixtape; ’90 IROC-Z’, where he teamed up with Curren$y; and ‘Gah Damn

Manori Ravindran International EditorVenice Golden Lion contender “Miss Marx,” starring Romola Garai as the spirited daughter of philosopher Karl Marx, has secured its first tranche of international deals ahead of the September fest. (Watch the film’s exclusive trailer above.)Written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli (“Nico, 1988,” “Cosmonaut”), with Celluloid Dreams serving as international sales agent, the film has been picked up by DDDreams in China and B-Team in Spain.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerPresident Trump has thrown the New York Yankees a curve ball, saying he’s decided not to throw out a first pitch at a game next month.Trump left the door open on possibly doing it later in the season.“Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the @Yankees on August 15th.

Rebecca Davis editorRobert Downey Jr.’s family film “Dolittle” and Sony’s thriller “Bloodshot” led China’s first opening weekend at the box office since the coronavirus outbreak, a sign that new titles sell better than re-runs of beloved classics. Five out of the top 10 films this weekend were Hollywood titles.China began reopening theaters in regions deemed at low risk for COVID-19 on Monday.