We caught up with Lau recently in Hong Kong and he proved to be just one of the nicest guys ever! So be sure to check out the next issue of Jade Screen for an exclusive interview with the main himself.

Tuition will be for 5 months and cost $98,000. Guest lecturers will include Jackie Chan, Gordon Chan, Eric Tsang and action choreographers Yuen Tak, Won Bin and others. The best students will be offered roles in Tong’s two TV and two film productions. Partner Eric Tsang stated the training policy, “Training as short as possible, to work the sooner the better.”

The action-packed series centres on a spy and assassin (Maggie Q) for a top secret U.S. government agency, who rebels against the system that created her and will stop at nothing to bring their powerful operation to an end. Shane West and Lyndsy Fonseca co-star!

Lucky Stateside readers can look out for Nikita which premieres on Thursday (September 9th) @ 9PM ET/PT on The CW (right after Vampire Diaries). No news about screenings outside of the US yet…

Recently, residents in Hong Kong’s Yau Ma Tei and Mongkok have been finding porn discs with Gillian’s photos on the cover in between pages of magazines bought from nearby convenience stores.

After receiving complaints, police investigated and nabbed a 43-year-old man responsible for slipping the porn videos into the magazines.

The man proclaims himself as a fan of Gillian, but his love for the star turned into hate when the scandal involving Gillian and Edison Chen erupted two years ago.

Back in 2008, photos of Gillian and Edison committing lewd acts in the privacy of their bedroom were leaked over the internet.

The scandal rocked showbiz and Gillian tried to redeem herself by accepting public interviews in which she cried and tried to gain sympathy. The move backfired and she was forced to lay low for a period of time.

When asked for comments regarding the sabotage attempt, Gillian asked for fans to avoid resorting to extreme means to get attention.

“I will let the police handle this.”

According to reports, the couple went for a vacation at Saint Tropez in France after Michelle wrapped up filming for the John Woo’s Reign of Assassins.

Hugging, holding hands, whispering into each other’s ears, the lovebirds could hardly keep their hands off each other as they walked the streets of Saint Tropez, impervious to the envious glance of onlookers.

Michelle met Todt through her ex-beau six years ago. The couple reportedly got engaged after dating for just three months, but their relationship only went public two years ago.

Michelle once told reporters that Todt is a romantic and asks her to marry him every day.

Her reply to this romantic gesture?

“I’ll tell you tomorrow.”

Shooting will commence next month in Shanghai and various others parts of Asia.

The comedy about lesbian single parents stars Vivian Chow and Sandra Ng, with William Chan and Cheung Siu-fai. The film is scheduled to open in Hong Kong cinemas in late August.

Other Asian films in the selection include South Korea’s Castaway on the Moon, Japan’s The Seaside Motel, India’s My Name Is Khan and Taiwan’s Pinoy Sunday.

There are tributes to the recent films of Japan’s Yamada Yoji and three restored digital prints produced by Taiwan’s Central Motion Pictures that recently premiered at the Taipei Film Festival.

Two special presentations of three films each are dedicated to Connie Field’s Have You Heard From Johannesburg Programmes 1-3, and to Turkish auteur Semih Kaplanoglu. His ‘Yusuf trilogy’ Egg, Milk and Berlin Golden Bear-winner Honey play out.

From other parts of the world, the selection includes Catherine Corsini’s Leaving (Partir), Constantin Costa-Gavras’ Eden Is West and 2009 Golden Bear winner The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada).

Film Synopsis:
Young writer Guo (Shawn Yue) wrote about a titular curse in his book, “The Deserted Village”. It began 500 years ago in the Ming Dynasty, when one of the villagers died of terminal illness. The widow Yanzi vowed to stay with her husband forever but when the man suddenly returned to life. The horrified neighbours believed that he was a monster. They burned him to death and torched his mansion. The devastated Yanzi upheld her vow and threw herself into the fire. Since then, the village was cursed and the mansion subsequent inhabitant dies mysteriously. Some say only couples who share true love can survive in that village. Those who are unfaithful will come to their demise. To the world, the book was pure fiction. Only Guo and his ex-girlfriend Zhi (Kitty Zhang) had lived through the horror to know its existence. When four college students decided to explore the village themselves, the trip led them to an ancient well in Yanzi’s mansion, where the curse was unleashed once again.

The film opens across Hong Kong and the mainland next month.

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Synopsis:

Hae-won (Ji Sung-won) is a beautiful single woman in her thirties who works at a bank in the Seoul city. She leads a busy life until she becomes a witness to an attempted murder case, and at the same time, things get complicated at work. When things get out of hand she is forced to take a vacation so she heads for ‘Moodo’, a small undeveloped island, where she had once visited to see her grandparents. And where she had befriended a girl named Bok-nam (Seo Young-hee) who stills writes to Hae-won asking her to visit despite the fact that Hae-won never bothered to reply.

Upon arriving at the island, Hae-won is shocked to see everyone treating Bok-nam like a slave. As practically the only young woman on the island, she is a plaything for all the men and a free laborer for the women. Sick of all the inhumane treatment, Bok-nam had tried to escape the island several times in the past but had failed each time. She begs Hae-won to help her escape the place, but Hae-won remains indifferent not wanting to be involved in complicated situations. When Bok-nam realizes that her own daughter will follow her footsteps, she tries to escape the island with her daughter. But her daughter gets killed in the process. And when she loses the only thing that had kept her going because of Hae-won’s negligence, Bok-nam takes a sickle in her hand for revenge.