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Visit Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, more Hong Kong stars along Avenue of Stars

By Kristofer Purnell | May 11, 2024 - 12:43pm

This waterfront location in Tsim Sha Tsui overlooking Victoria Harbor features a stretching promenade with icons...

Travel and Tourism

John Woo's 'The Killer' to get 3-D remake

February 7, 2011 - 2:42pm

A second John Woo gangster classic will be updated with South Korean talent.

John Woo joins Chinese propaganda blockbuster

July 30, 2010 - 12:00am

HONG KONG (AP) — Filmmaker John Woo (photo) is the first celebrity to join the cast of the second major film in the leading Chinese state film studio’s campaign to reform the propaganda genre with a heavy...

Entertainment

John Travolta talks about his son

February 6, 2010 - 12:00am

After a year of insur-mountable grief, John Travolta has returned to work. He took most of last year off to mourn the death of his 16-year-old son Jett, who died Jan. 2, 2009, of a seizure while vacationing in the...

Freeman Cebu Entertainment

Venice festival honors Woo with lifetime award

December 22, 2009 - 4:36pm

Organizers for the Venice Film Festival have honored John Woo with its lifetime achievement award, saying the veteran director transformed action movies both in his native Hong Kong and his current professional home...

Chinese propaganda films a hit with DVD pirates

September 29, 2009 - 1:26pm

BEIJING (AP) — Pirates are raining on China's big parade.

Nano Nano

By Jessica Zafra | August 9, 2009 - 12:00am

The toys and merchandising tie-ins used to come after the movie, but now the movies are based on toys.

Gadgets

Competition aims to make Bruce Lee home a museum

July 20, 2009 - 3:33pm

HONG KONG (AP) -- The former home of Bruce Lee is now a love motel, renting rooms by the hour. But officials on Monday launched a design competition to turn it into a Hong Kong museum for the kung fu icon.

John Woo gets first US release in 6 years

May 19, 2009 - 1:25pm

HONG KONG (AP) – John Woo's new Chinese-language historical epic will be shown in North American movie theaters later this year, marking the "Mission: Impossible II" director's first US release in...

Christmas cards that touch the heart

By Ricky Lo | December 25, 2007 - 12:00am

First, I want to wish one and all a Merry, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. (Reminder for New Year’s Eve revelers: As you count your blessings, make sure that you also count your fingers.

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