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www.timeoutbeijing.com — The director talks about his latest film Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, in cinemas from Friday 24 June

Wayne Wang is the Chinese-American director best known for a film about Chinese-American culture, 1993’s The Joy Luck Club, yet the 62-year-old has spent much of his career trying to maneouvre out of that cultural pigeonhole.

www.guardian.co.uk — It is being billed as the world's first 3D porn film, a movie so salacious that Chinese audiences are reportedly flocking from the mainland to more permissive Hong Kong for the chance to see an uncut version.

www.nydailynews.com — Get those 3D glasses ready. A group of Hong Kong filmmakers claim to be shooting the first ever 3D porno film, according to the AFP. The working title of the $3.2 million project is "3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy" and it stars Japanese adult actresses Yukiko Suo and Saori Harais, according to the Sunday Morning Post.

blogs.forbes.com — Quite a bit of ink has been spilled in both the U.S. and China over the remake of the 1980's so-bad-it's-good thriller "Red Dawn," which now casts the Chinese as the villain in place of the Soviets. But has the Red Menace struck even before the opening credits had a chance to roll? I can see the headline now: China buys "Red Dawn," suggests script changes.

www.chinahush.com — Avatar ticket prices will go up next week in China because the demand is so great, which means the ticket prices for the movie in IMAX-3D will be the highest in the world! Chinese netizens are complaining that, people in China, where the average income is 20 times lower than the U.S., have to pay three times as much as the people in the U. S for the same ticket.