At a time when most movie producers seem to trust only celebrities to pull in box-office bucks, Hong Kong director Derek Yee has made a big-budget movie with, and about, a relatively unknown cast.
China's annual Film Critics' Choice Awards have been given to five films instead of 10, Han Bingbin reports.
The political satire Gone With the Bullets has won the Dirty Ashtray Award for being the smokiest film of the past year. Xu Fan reports.
An online talkshow hosted by China's most renowned antique collector, Ma Weidu, has become a surprise hit, with young audiences showing a keen interest in Ma's discussions about culture, history and social events.
"It takes lonely days, sleepless nights and an inevitably self-centered eye to create a great artwork, whether it's a movie or a piece of music," says Chinese singer-songwriter Shang Wenjie, referring to Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai's latest movie, Red Amnesia.
The latest Avengers may be selling tickets well here in China but the translation of the subtitles have left moviegoers confused and disappointed.
A Chinese narrative musical tradition is being kept alive by Gao Bowen, who believes modernizing it will help popularize it among youngsters.
For the actors in the upcoming wartime thriller Brothers, the biggest challenge was to perform against a green screen, imagining it was, in fact, a battlefield.
Top Asian filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun is to direct and produce a biopic on tennis star Li Na.
Chinese director Xu Zheng is to direct "Lost in India", after the commercial success of comedy "Lost in Thailand" and upcoming film "Lost in Hong Kong".
Mike Tyson, who is reinventing himself as an actor, was nursing a fractured finger in Shanghai on Friday courtesy of some heavy sparring with lead star Donnie Yen on the set of Ip Man 3.
A growing number of Hollywood actors are trying to increase their presence in the world's second-largest movie market, with Dave Batista and Sienna Guillory the latest stars to film in China.