Beijing-based LeVision Pictures has announced that singer and director Gao Xiaosong has joined the company’s stable of filmmakers, which also includes Zhang Yimou, Lu Chuan and Tsui Hark.
Gao’s first project for LeVision is The Roommate Who Sleeps In My Upper Bunk, inspired by Gao’s song of the same title.
The project will initially be produced as an online drama series for letv.com, and then the ending of the series will be made into a feature-length movie, incorporating the viewers’ input into the storyline.
LeVision’s Superphone will also be a key broadcasting and promotional platform for the drama series and movie. In addition, LeVision’s sister company Le Music will launch a competition for composers across 200 universities and the winner’s music will be featured in the film.
Best-known producing campus ballad music, Gao has directed films such as My Kingdom, Rainbow and Where Have All the Flowers Gone.
The Roommate...
Gao’s first project for LeVision is The Roommate Who Sleeps In My Upper Bunk, inspired by Gao’s song of the same title.
The project will initially be produced as an online drama series for letv.com, and then the ending of the series will be made into a feature-length movie, incorporating the viewers’ input into the storyline.
LeVision’s Superphone will also be a key broadcasting and promotional platform for the drama series and movie. In addition, LeVision’s sister company Le Music will launch a competition for composers across 200 universities and the winner’s music will be featured in the film.
Best-known producing campus ballad music, Gao has directed films such as My Kingdom, Rainbow and Where Have All the Flowers Gone.
The Roommate...
- 5/20/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The previously posted teasers didn’t reveal too much, but I’ve gotta say that the latest trailer for director Zhang Qi’s “The Devil Inside Me” certainly paints a more vivid picture. And while I’ve haven’t been able to locate a proper synopsis for the film — if you know of one, feel free to let me know — the aforementioned clip should give you enough information to form a formidable amount of excitement. Assuming, of course, you enjoy the work of Tony Leung Ka-Fai, which I most certainly do.The film, which also stars Kelly Lin, Anya, Victor Huang, and Ying Da, is scheduled to hit Hong Kong later this year. Source: Film Smash function getVideo() { var so = new SWFObject("http://cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com/storage/xplayer/yo033.swf?pid=byhw013&siteId=243&videoId=313683&autostart=false&file=http://cms.springboard.gorillanation.com/xml_feeds_advanced/index/243/3/313683/&pageUrl="+escape(document.
- 6/23/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
The Devil Inside Me
Directed by Zhang Qi
China, 2011
The Devil Inside Me is either one of the all-time, comically bad attempts at a dramatic thriller, or one of the best tongue-in-cheek B-melodrama this side of John Waters. Unfortunately for director Zhang Qi, all signs, including the serious way that the subject matter is handled, point to the former.
The plot would make William Castle proud. Unstable doctor Jiang Mu (Tony Leung) has performed a heart transplant on Lin Yan (Kelly Lin). Little does she know that Jiang has also performed a “memory transplant” giving her the memories and emotions of the donor. As she investigates the cause of her donor’s death, Lin meets Ma Benke (Victor Huang), the deceased’s boyfriend. As both Ma and Jiang fall for Lin her visions of another life become increasing violent and troubling.
The melodramatic twists and turns pile needlessly on top...
Directed by Zhang Qi
China, 2011
The Devil Inside Me is either one of the all-time, comically bad attempts at a dramatic thriller, or one of the best tongue-in-cheek B-melodrama this side of John Waters. Unfortunately for director Zhang Qi, all signs, including the serious way that the subject matter is handled, point to the former.
The plot would make William Castle proud. Unstable doctor Jiang Mu (Tony Leung) has performed a heart transplant on Lin Yan (Kelly Lin). Little does she know that Jiang has also performed a “memory transplant” giving her the memories and emotions of the donor. As she investigates the cause of her donor’s death, Lin meets Ma Benke (Victor Huang), the deceased’s boyfriend. As both Ma and Jiang fall for Lin her visions of another life become increasing violent and troubling.
The melodramatic twists and turns pile needlessly on top...
- 6/23/2011
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
Getty Images Ashok Amritraj
The inaugural ScreenSingapore, a seven-day film event on Sentosa Island, launched Sunday with a screening of Zhang Qi’s action film “The Devil Inside Me.” With international markets making up the bulk of worldwide box office — and growth in the Asia-Pacific region particularly strong — the hybrid film market/business fair/film festival is drawing its fair share of attention from Hollywood, with screenings of “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” “Super 8″ and “Larry Crowne” planned to unspool at the fest.
The inaugural ScreenSingapore, a seven-day film event on Sentosa Island, launched Sunday with a screening of Zhang Qi’s action film “The Devil Inside Me.” With international markets making up the bulk of worldwide box office — and growth in the Asia-Pacific region particularly strong — the hybrid film market/business fair/film festival is drawing its fair share of attention from Hollywood, with screenings of “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” “Super 8″ and “Larry Crowne” planned to unspool at the fest.
- 6/7/2011
- by Michelle Kung
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Its official, Chinese horror film "The Devil Inside Me," starring Kelly Lin and Leung Ka-fai, has announced that it will hit theatres in late June. The film depicts a doctor (Leung) whose bizarre and dysfunctional personal relationships lead him to more and more violent extremes. Devil was directed by young director Zhang Qi as a follow-up to his 2007 first thriller ‘Help,’ and is set to be the opening film at this years screen Singapore film festival. Check out a very promising teaser trailer via the link. Devil Inside Me trailer...
- 5/26/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Chicago – “Any guess what’s going on?” asks Zhang Qi, the befuddled leader of the Tri-Nation gang, as he observes a nearby train erupting into utter chaos. This line earns the first big laugh in Kim Ji-woon’s breathlessly entertaining “The Good, The Bad, The Weird,” precisely because it mirrors the thoughts of audience members during the film’s delirious opening sequence.
After inventively working within the genres of horror (“A Tale of Two Sisters”) and the noir thriller (“A Bittersweet Life”), director Kim now turns his attention to the “oriental western” with technically impressive though decidedly mixed results. Kim is a major talent, and his exuberance is intoxicating, but he often gets so focused so exploring a given style that he forgets to tell a coherent story. That curtain-raising scene aboard a train is so confusingly staged and frantically edited that it’s difficult to tell who’s good,...
Chicago – “Any guess what’s going on?” asks Zhang Qi, the befuddled leader of the Tri-Nation gang, as he observes a nearby train erupting into utter chaos. This line earns the first big laugh in Kim Ji-woon’s breathlessly entertaining “The Good, The Bad, The Weird,” precisely because it mirrors the thoughts of audience members during the film’s delirious opening sequence.
After inventively working within the genres of horror (“A Tale of Two Sisters”) and the noir thriller (“A Bittersweet Life”), director Kim now turns his attention to the “oriental western” with technically impressive though decidedly mixed results. Kim is a major talent, and his exuberance is intoxicating, but he often gets so focused so exploring a given style that he forgets to tell a coherent story. That curtain-raising scene aboard a train is so confusingly staged and frantically edited that it’s difficult to tell who’s good,...
- 5/6/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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