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Celestial Movies Starhub TV Channel 868 this May 2011
By InCinemas / 06 May 2011 (Friday)
Dear InC-Fans, Happy Cooling-Off Day! Hope you have been well in the
month of May! With lots of on-going events and rallys for the past one
week, we thought of introducing Starhub Celestial Channel where you may be
interested in some of the movies they have for you! Below shows a few of the movies they will be screening during the month of May. If you're interested, feel free to visit their Celestial Movies website!
THE CHILD'S EYE
Genre: Horror
Director: Pang Brothers
Cast: Rainie Yang, Gordon Lam ,Jo Koo, Elanne Kwong, Shawn Yue
| Premiere | : | Sun, 1 May, 9PM |
| Other Time | : | Thu, 5 May, 9PM
Tue, 17 May, 10:40PM |
Language: Mandarin
Sub-title: Chinese, English
[Selling Points] The Pang Brothers outdo themselves with The Child's Eye, the first ever Hong Kong film shot completely in digital 3D. This time, the directors bring their groundbreaking horror cinematic style to the 3D format, bringing the terror closer to their audiences than ever before.
[Synopsis] Rainie (Rainie Yang) and friends take a trip to Thailand, but as they arrive, folks are held up by a political crisis tickled by Thai military, leading to blockades of international airport and the main road to their hotel. Having no choice, the whole group has to stay at a remote motel. Until then... A strange journey is about to start at this bizarre Thai hotel... where they come across some kids who act weirdly and a dog which is able to see ghost! Even worse, Rainie confronts unexplainable and mysterious matters, and later the girls get into an underworld full of paper offering for the dead. The secret of all the mysteries is actually hidden in that underworld....
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LIKE A DREAM
Genre: Romance
Director: Clara Law
Cast: Daniel Wu, Yolanda Yuan
| Premiere | : | Sun, 8 May, 9PM |
| Other Time | : | Tue, 10 May, 10:40PM
Thu, 26 May, 6:55PM |
Language: Mandarin
Sub-title: Chinese, English
[Selling Points] Australia-based director Clara Law (The Goddess of 1967) returns to the Chinese film world with Like a Dream. The film immediately made a splash, earning nine nominations at the 2009 Golden Horse Awards, including Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Leading Actor, Best Leading Actress, and Best Original Screenplay. It was also designated the opening film of the 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival. Exploring themes of dream and reality, the suspenseful tale stars popular Hong Kong actor Daniel Wu opposite charming Mainland singer/actress Yolanda Yuan Quan as two unrelated persons brought together by a dream.
[Synopsis] Young Chinese-American Max (Daniel Wu) has suffered from depression ever since the death of his mother, leading him to stay shut inside his New York residence all the time. One day, he dreams of himself being high-spirited and speaking fluent Mandarin. In the dream, he meets a Chinese girl named Ailing (Yolanda Yuan) in an anonymous city, where they witness the suicide of her boyfriend and later fall in love with each other. The dream makes the waking hours without Ailing almost unbearable, so Max sets off for Shanghai to find his dream lover, only to meet a girl who looks identical to Ailing but has the opposite personality. Is it fate... or is it fake?
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ACCIDENT
Genre: Action
Director: Soi Cheang
Cast: Richie Jen, Louis Koo, Michelle Yip
| Show Time | : | Sun, 15 May, 9PM
Thu, 19 May, 10:40PM |
Language: Mandarin
Sub-title: Chinese, English
[Selling Points] Accident is a suspense thriller produced by the famous Johnnie To and directed by Soi Cheang (Shamo). It is screened in competition at the 66th Venice Film Festival and represented Hong Kong in Asian Film Festival. The film features various renowned actors, including Louis Koo (Overheard) as a paranoid professional killer, Richie Jen (Exiled) as another leading actor and co-stars Michelle Yip, Lam Suet, and veteran Stanley Fung. Michelle Yip also won The 29th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Supporting Actress.
[Synopsis] Brain (Louis Koo) is a special professional assassin who painstakingly designs perfect 'accidents' in which his targets are killed and seems like they die from misfortune. He bears enormous psychological stress everyday and worries about he may die in accident too, so he carries out each assassination with extreme caution. However, in a well-crafted 'accident', his mission fails due to an unexpected traffic accident and one of his teammate passes away. Is it a real accident? Brian is for sure that there is a mastermind behind the accident in order to kill him. This secret man is an insurance agent Fong (Richie Jen) who also happened to be on the scene of the accident. Brain is determined to get rid of him...
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The Founding Of A Republic
Genre: Drama
Director: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
Cast: Chen Kun, Zhao Wei, Donnie Yen, Hu Jun, Jackie Chan, Feng Xiao Gang, Ge You, Leon Lai, Andy Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jet Li, Liu Ye, Zhang Zi Yi
| Show Time | : | Sun, 22 May, 9PM
Tue, 31 May, 6:40PM |
Language: Mandarin
Sub-title: Chinese, English
[Selling Points] 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and among a host of films The Founding of a Republic is the undisputed centerpiece to commemorate the occasion. Produced under the state-run China Film Group and its director Han San-ping, the ambitious project is helmed by Fifth-Generation director Huang Jian-xin (Gimme Kudos) from a script by Wang Xing-dong (The One Man Olympics). Over a hundred big-name Chinese showbiz personalities get starring roles in the event film, including Vivian Wu, Aloys Chen, and Wang Xue-qi. In supporting parts there are Zhang Zi-yi, Vicki Zhao, Huang Xiao-ming, Ge You, Zhang Han-yu, Eva Huang, Chen Dao-ming, Jiang Wen, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Leon Lai, Donnie Yen…and the stargazing still doesn't end there - even A-list directors Chen Kaige and Feng Xiaogang are onboard taking rare turns in front of the camera!The film opened in Mainland on the October 1st National Day, the unstoppable box office has raked in over RMB300 million.
[Synopsis] In 1945 after the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Mao Zedong (Tang Guo-qiang), and members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) traveled to Chongqing for a meeting with Chiang Kai-shek (Zhang Guo-li) and the Kuomintang (KMT). With help from the China Democratic League, the Double Tenth Agreement was signed between the KMT and CCP, with both sides agreeing to stop the civil war and to establish a multi-party government in China. The following year, Chiang Kai-shek called for a National Assembly in Nanjing and was elected as President of the Republic of China (ROC). The peace negotiations failed and the civil war continued. In May 1948, the CCP declared the opening of a "War of Liberation" against Chiang's ROC government, with many other political parties responding to the call and taking the CCP's side. On 1 October 1949, Mao Ze-dong proclaimed the People's Republic of China with its capital at Beijing, marking the start of a new era for China.
天映频道 (Celestial Movies) TV Ch. 868