Caught in the Web was written by Kaige and Danian Tang and stars Yuanyuan Gao, Chen Yao, Mark Chao, Hong Chen and Xueqi Wang. Kaige’s previous films include the Palme d’Or winner and Oscar nominated Farewell My Concubine. levelFILM plans to release the film first in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto in late October, and then expand to 15-20 major markets at a later date. « more »

China Lion announced today that it has acquired and will release the film My Lucky Star on September 20th in North America day-and-date with Mainland China. The film stars Ziyi Zhang and Wang Leehom and follows the continuing comedic adventures of Sophie (Zhang) as she finds herself caught up in an international diamond heist that draws her towards a sexy spy (Wang) trying to save the world. The film serves as a standalone production with a contained storyline rather than a sequel to the film Sophie’s Revenge. « more »

The Grandmaster is a Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts drama film based on the life story of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man.The film was directed and written by Wong Kar-wai and starred Tony Leung as Ip Man. « more »

According to the Pacific Asia Travel Association, foreign tourists visiting Taiwan increased more than 20% in 2012. According to the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan on July 21, as many as 3.16 million foreign tourists visited Taiwan in the first five months of this year, an annual increase of 6.17%, including a 4% increase of tourists from Malaysia and an increase of more than 12% of tourists respectively from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Singapore. Supporting the government’s tourism promotion policy while continuing the hotel group’s success experience in its working holiday program in 2011, L’Hotel de Chine now offers “Buongiorno! Travel Taiwan with L’Hotel de Chine” in order to help even more categories of tourists explore Taiwan. In particular, the event for this year welcomes bloggers from around the world to propose the themes of their Taiwan tours, why they want to visit Taiwan, and their travel plans in order to win complimentary accommodation at 10 L’Hotel de Chine hotels throughout Taiwan. « more »