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Heyi Pictures
Heyi Pictures is a Chinese film production company owned by Youku Tudou Youku Tudou Inc. (formerly Youku Inc.), doing business as Youku (), is a video hosting service based in Beijing, China. It operates as a subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Limited. Youku has its headquarters in the Sinosteel Plaza in Haid .... Filmography References Alibaba Group Film production companies of China {{Film-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Industry
The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution, and actors. Though the expense involved in making films almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies, advances in affordable filmmaking equipment, as well as an expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed independent film production to evolve. In 2019, the global box office was worth . When including box office and home entertainment revenue, the global film industry was worth in 2018. Hollywood is the world's oldest national film industry, and largest in terms of box office gross revenue. Indian cinema is the largest national film industry in terms of the number of film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forever Young (2015 Film)
''Forever Young'' () is a 2015 Chinese coming-of-age film directed by He Jiong and starring Li Yifeng and Zhang Huiwen. The film was released on July 10, 2015. Plot Set in an arts performing college, the story revolves around Yan Xi and Xu Nuo, a couple who is envied by many in school. The two work hard to achieve their dreams — Xu Nuo wants to eventually get sign on with a music label with his band and Yan Xi wants to go to Paris for ballet school. However, when Yan Xi finds out that she wasn't accepted into the prestigious program, and that her friends had started making alternate plans, she breaks into a tantrum and starts to distance herself. Before she could make amends, her friends died in a car accident. Full of remorse, Yan Xi has a month to come up with a replacement for the Dance of the Cygnets that the four girls were going to perform at the university's Dream Night Graduation Party. However, before she could think of a solution, Yan Xi falls and injures her leg. Xu N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleeding Steel
''Bleeding Steel'' is a 2017 Chinese Science fiction film, science fiction cyberpunk action film directed and written by Leo Zhang and stars Jackie Chan. ''Bleeding Steel'' was released in China on 22 December 2017. In the US, Lionsgate Premiere released the film in theaters and on Video on demand, VOD on 6 July 2018. The film received mixed reviews and it grossed US$48.8 million and was a box office bomb. Plot While racing to the hospital to see his daughter Xixi, who has leukemia and whose condition has become critical, Hong Kong Special Agent Lin Dong is informed by his colleague Xiao Su that Dr. James, an important witness, is in danger. Lin stops right outside the hospital, hesitates, and drives off to meet up with Xiao Su and their unit. Before the unit arrives, Dr. James injects himself with a chemical substance and brings along a mechanical heart with him. As the unit escorts him away, they are ambushed by a squad of men in exotic black armor and high-tech weaponry led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chongqing Hot Pot
''Chongqing Hot Pot'' () is a 2016 Chinese caper screwball comedy film written and directed by Yang Qing and starring Chen Kun, Bai Baihe, Qin Hao and Yu Entai. The film had its world premiere in March 2016 at the 2016 Hong Kong International Film Festival and was released in China by Wuzhou Film Distribution on April 1, 2016. Plot From director Yang Qing (One Night at the Supermarket) comes Chongqing Hot Pot, the official opening night film at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. When three friends open a hot pot restaurant in a former bomb shelter, they discover it’s linked by a single wall to the bank vault next door. While deciding to take the easy money or go to the police, they find out one of the bank’s employees is a former classmate and look to enlist her in deciding their future. The movie ended on a happy note with the four friends eating together loosely discussing their future on the roof of the hospital where Liu Bo is admitted. Cast * Chen Kun as Liu Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rise Of A Tomboy
''The Rise of a Tomboy'' () is a 2016 Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Guo Dalei and starring Zhao Liying and Hans Zhang. It was released in China by Wanda Media and Wuzhou Film Distribution on March 18, 2016. Plot This is a story about a university student who believed love has a formula to success and tried to prove it in a month. Her mom left her when she was young and she learn to be independent and strong. She eventually fell in love but to prove her formula works she follows her mind instead of her heart, but only to realize in the end that true love is about being able to feel the heartbeat of the other person. Cast *Zhao Liying *Hans Zhang *Jung Il-woo *Alan Dawa Dolma Alan Dawa Dolma (; ; born on 25 July 1987), known professionally as Alan, is a Tibetan singer and she is known for her signature "Tibetan wail", often incorporated into her music. She is a graduate of the PLA Academy of Art, majoring in vocal m ... Reception The film opened in third place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Master (2015 Film)
''The Master'' (released internationally as ''The Final Master'') is a 2015 Chinese martial arts film written, co-produced, and directed by Xu Haofeng, about the last Wing Chun master’s quest to pass down his art in pre-WWII China. The film stars Liao Fan, Jiang Wenli, Chin Shih-chieh, Song Jia and Song Yang. Plot Grandmaster Chen, the last surviving practitioner of the Wing Chun style of martial arts, arrives in Tianjin with the desire to open a martial-arts school. Upon defeating all of Grandmaster Zheng's disciples, Chen receives an offer from Zheng to establish a school jointly, which Chen declines. Zheng then threatens to expel Chen from the city. He gives Chen another offer: if Chen can train a disciple to defeat the eight schools of Tianjin, then Chen will be allowed to open his school. Zheng reveals that he plans to defeat the disciple after the eight schools are defeated, thus enhancing his own reputation. Meanwhile, Chen decides that he should marry a local woman, and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coffin In The Mountain
''The Coffin in the Mountain'' (), also known as ''Deep in the Heart'', is a 2014 Chinese suspense crime drama black comedy film directed by Xin Yukun. The film was released on October 16, 2015. Plot The film progresses on a non-linear timeline and ties together the contemporaneous stories of several protagonists who are from the same rural village in a mountainous region. In the first story, Xiao Zongyao, the son of the strict and exemplary village chief, Xiao Weiguo, is informed by his girlfriend, Huang Huan, that she is pregnant during their clandestine meeting in the forest. They are overheard by the village ne’er-do-well, Bai Hu, who tries to blackmail Zongyao. In the ensuing scuffle between the two men, Bai Hu falls and dies. Zongyao and Huan cover the body with dry branches and flee together to the nearest city. Zongyao frantically searches for a commendation medal he had stolen from his father before he left home that evening, worried that he may have dropped the medal nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Tale Of Three Cities
''A Tale of Three Cities'' () is a 2015 Chinese-Hong Kong war romance film directed by Mabel Cheung. The film is about the real love story of two people (Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, parents of Jackie Chan) who met in Wuhu during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, separated in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War in the 1940s, and finally reunited in Hong Kong in the 1950s while their children from previous marriages were left behind in mainland China (whom they would not see again until 38 years later). Jackie Chan reportedly "cried and cried, until the end of the film" when he watched the film by himself. Cast * Sean Lau as Charles and Lee-Lee Chan#Charles's biography, Fang Daolong * Tang Wei as Charles and Lee-Lee Chan#Lee-Lee's biography, Chen Yuerong * Qin Hailu as Sister Qiu * Jing Boran as Shou Maihua * Huang Jue as Master Zhou * Elaine Jin as Yuerong's mother * Li Jianyi as grandfather * Jiao Gang * Philip Chan (actor), Philip Chan See also *''Traces of a Dragon'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cities In Love
''Cities in Love'' () is a 2015 Chinese romance anthology film directed by Muye Wen, Runnian Dong, Yi Han, Fu Tien-yu and Jiatong Yi. It was released on August 20, 2015. The film features five love stories (each by a different director) set in five cities (Shanghai, Prague, Florence, Paris, Hokkaido.) Cast *Yang Mi as *Kai-Yuan Zheng as Pi Te *Jiang Shuying as Jiang *Meng Li *Hyun-Jae Lee *Sandrine Pinna as Fan Li Sha Zhang *Huang Xuan as Liu Chang *Jiang Yiyan *Joseph Chang *Bai Baihe *Ethan Juan Reception The film earned at the Chinese box office. See also *''Run for Love ''Run for Love'' is a 2016 Chinese romance anthology film directed by Zhang Yibai, Guan Hu, Zhang Meng, Teng Huatao, and Gao Qunshu, featuring five love stories respectively in Japan, United States, Norway, Turkey and Saipan. It was released i ...'' (2016), Chinese film with similar premise References External links * 2015 romance films Chinese romance films Chinese anthology films Heyi Picture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Holiday (2015 Film)
''Paris Holiday'' () is a 2015 Chinese-Hong Kong romantic comedy film directed by James Yuen (阮世生). The film was released in Hong Kong on July 23 and in China on July 31, 2015. Plot Two broken-hearted person met as roommate and they learn to let go of the past and set out to find their soulmate in the beautiful romantic city, Paris. Cast *Louis Koo *Amber Kuo *Jeremy Tsui *Candy Liu * Alex Fong *Jing Hu * Janice Man * Anthony Chan *Simon Lui *Michelle Wai Michelle Wai (; born on November 24, 1984) is a Hong Kong actress. She was a part-time model before entering the entertainment industry. Now she is an actress under the Emperor Motion Pictures Emperor Group is a diversified group of compan ... * Carl Ng *Carlos Chan Reception The film earned at the Chinese box office. References 2015 romantic comedy films Chinese romantic comedy films 2010s English-language films Hong Kong romantic comedy films 2010s Mandarin-language films Heyi Pictures films Films dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only You (2015 Film)
''Only You'' () is a 2015 Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Zhang Hao and starring Tang Wei and Liao Fan. The film is a remake of 1994's '' Only You'' that starred Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey, Jr. The film was released on July 24, 2015. Cast * Tang Wei as Fang Yuan * Liao Fan as Feng Dali * Su Yan as Li Xiaotang * Fang Fang * Liu Tao * Xie Dongshen Reception Critical response On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 17% approval rating, based on 6 reviews, with an average rating In ordinary language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a list of numbers, usually the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are in the list (the arithmetic mean). For example, the average of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 7 ... of 4.2/10. Box office On the first weekend, the first grossed RMB47.5 million (US$7.64 million). References External links * 2015 films 2015 romantic comedy films Chinese romantic comedy films Chinese remakes of fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster Hunt
''Monster Hunt'' () is a 2015 mainland Chinese-Hong Kong 3D fantasy action comedy adventure film directed by Raman Hui (in his feature directorial debut). The film was released in China on 16 July 2015 in 3D and IMAX 3D. Upon release, it became a huge commercial success, breaking numerous box office records, including as the highest-grossing film in China, before '' The Mermaid'' took the crown in 2016. It opened in North America on January 22, 2016 in 2D and 3D by FilmRise. A sequel, ''Monster Hunt 2'', was released in China in 2018. Plot The film takes place in ancient China, where the Humans existed alongside the Monsters. They once shared the world in peace and harmony until the Humans drove the Monsters out from their home, for they sought total dominion over their lands. Recently, a civil war took place in the Monster Realm which resulted in the usurpation of the Monster King's throne from a treacherous minister, who later sought the Monster Queen and her unborn baby, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
