Today’s Movie Links
- A Chinese movie about an Olympic sprinter who escaped from the Japanese to take part in the 1932 Olympics will be released in May.
- The Independent interviews Zhang Ziyi (章子怡)about her thing for Eminem and wanting more than to just kick ass.
- NPR interviews Jackie Chan about his new movie The Forbidden Kingdom while CNN goes behind the scenes in Jackie Chan’s den.
- Wong Kar-wai takes over the head of the jury position for this year’s Shanghai International Film Festiva after British director Anthony Minghella passed away.
- Sue Williams’ documentary Young and Restless in China is getting a limited theatrical release in the Los Angeles area.
- Wang Xiaoshuai’s In Love We Trust 《左右》 did not do too well at the box office, and the Shanghai Daily tells us why.
- Da Vinci color enhancement systems are being used to work on an “enormous, multi-year project that will salvage, repair, clean, and protect some 5,000 films significant to the 102-year history of Chinese cinema.”
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