After starring in the Asian Film Awards 2016 Best Film nominee “Mr. Six,” Li Yifeng, 28, will star in the upcoming Chinese drama series “Sparrow.” He will play one of the lead roles in the spy drama series, which will be aired on Hunan TV.
With a Chinese title “Zhu Xian: Qingyun Zhi,” “The Legend of Chusen: Qingyun Zhi” is an upcoming Chinese drama series adapted from the online martial arts novel titled “Zhu Xian” by Xiao Ding. Known as one of the best martial arts novels since Jin Yong’s era, the novel has a game version titled “Jade Dynasty.”
South Korean actress Shin Se-kyung, 25, is apparently not taking malicious rumors about her lightly. Recently, she went to the police in Gangnam, Seoul, to report around 20 people she accused of spreading defamatory comments about her on the internet.
Hong Kong actor and philanthropist Jackie Chan has just bought a new midsize business jet. Along with the jet’s fly-by-wire technology and Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics is a 6-foot flat-floor cabin that can accommodate eight passengers.
SM Entertainment has just announced that they will introduce a new K-pop boy band called NCT, which is an abbreviation of Neo Culture Technology. The talent agency is home to successful K-pop groups Super Junior, Girls' Generation and f(x).
Best known for his record-breaking hit song “Gangnam Style,” South Korean rapper Park Jae-sang, 38, who is professionally known as Psy, is set to perform in China for the lunar New Year. Among his fellow performers is South Korean actor and singer Jung Ji-hoon, 33, who is professionally known as Rain.
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” star Chow Yun-Fat, 60, still looks so great that his fellow Hong Kong superstar and “From Vegas to Macau III” co-star Andy Lau, 54, envy him. On Jan. 31, Sunday, Lau talked about how great Chow looked like at the gala premiere of their new action comedy film at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Chinese actor and martial artist Jet Li, Indian actress and model Deepika Padukone and Thai actor and martial artist Tony Jaa are the three Asians in the main cast of the upcoming action thriller film “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.”
Set to be released in 2017, “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage” is directed by D.J. Caruso and written by F. Scott Frazier, Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato based on the characters created by Rich Wilkes. It features “Fast & Furious” star Vin Diesel reprising the title role.
Elvis Han, 24, also known as Han Dongjun, and Gülnezer Bextiyar, 23, who is professionally known as Guli Nazha, will play the lead roles in “Chinese Paladin 5.” The Chinese title of the upcoming Chinese period drama series is “Yun Zi Fan.”
