Chinese Actress Zhang Set for 'Geisha' Turn
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LOS ANGELES  - Zhang Ziyi, who  co-starred in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," is in final  negotiations to play the title character in the  long-in-the-works film adaptation of "Memoirs of a Geisha,"  while the Oscar-nominated Ken Watanabe has signed on to play  the male lead.
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Crouching Tiger actress signs up to the lead role in the forthcoming film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha.
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Lucy Liu is in negotiations to join Josh Hartnett in the noir gangster film "Lucky Number Slevin."
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Jackie Chan is in talks with famed Chinese director Zhang Yimou about a possible collaboration, his spokesman said Monday.
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China look set to surpass their gold-medal haul from last year&#39;s worlds as Yang Wei fired the 2008 Olympic hosts into pole position ahead of the Hiroyuki Tomita-inspired Japanese during men&#39;s qualifying at the world gymnastics championships on Monday.
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A few years back, Zhang Yimou was a bit miffed that fellow filmmaker Ang Lee was faster on the draw in elevating the martial-arts epic to serious cinema. But now that Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has broken the genre into the mainstream among Western audiences, Zhang is happy to follow his lead.
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Being female and Chinese in the classical music business are helpful in getting yourself noticed, but careers are built â and this one is building fast â on substance. Xian Zhang has it.
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Hollywood&#39;s famous Grauman&#39;s Chinese Theatre was transformed into a winter wonderland on Sunday for the premiere of &quot;The Polar Express.
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Top Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou  is tackling martial arts subjects these days with such  enthusiasm that one critic swears that knives, swords and  spears fly through his latest film with the force of "fatal  Frisbees."
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Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden&#39;s 1997 bestseller about a naïve Japanese girl turned big-city working girl, should have been a cineplex slam-dunk by now, but rotating directors and some Hollywood-sized grudges have kept the novel from ...
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Well, not new exactly, but a familiar pretty face is about to become a   permanent third-season fixture.
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Kim Chan, like many character actors, has a face that is more familiar than his name.
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TOKYO -- Thin and gorgeous in a slinky black dress, Mikimoto pearls and a low-slung diamond Tiffany pendant, 26-year-old Kazumi Yoshimura already has looks, cash, and accessories. There's only one more thing this single Japanese woman says she needs to find eternal bliss -- a Korean man.
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Zhang Yimou is bemused by the surprise response from American moviegoers to "Hero," which broke box-office records for an Asian film released in the United States.
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Columbia Pictures announced the cast for its feature film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha, which will be directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago).
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China unveiled plans to make a movie  about the 1937 Rape of Nanjing in an announcement on Monday, a  day before Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is  expected to visit a controversial shrine honoring war dead.
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Zhang Jianhuaâs temerity in representing Chinese coal miners through life-size sculpture has earned his work what might be called a soft ban.