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Not to be confused with Harpoon: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (which incidentally is still the greatest film title ever), China has its own special breed of Harpoon killer looking to slash his way into your hearts via a trident of all things!

That's right, kids! A trident! Don't think we've seen that before, but holy shit, does it have us intrigued.

Harpoon is directed by Zhou Yaowu and stars Monica Mok (To Live And Die In Mongkok), Hu Bing (It Had To Be You), Li Lingyu, and Shuangbao Wang. The flick will be opening in China sometime this December.

Plot details are scant, but the trailer below pretty much speaks for itself. Dig it!

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Mao’s Last Dancer, starring Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan and Shuangbao Wang, will be coming to DVD and Blu-ray on March 29, 2011 from 20th Century Fox. Director Bruce Beresford was noted on USA Network’s Character Approved Blog for his work in bringing the true story of dancer Li Cunxin to life.

Mao’s Last Dancer is a drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

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Chicago – In our latest drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 35 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Mao’s Last Dancer”! The film stars Bruce Greenwood from the director of “Driving Miss Daisy”.

“Mao’s Last Dancer” also stars Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao, Amanda Schull, Shuangbao Wang, Aden Young, Madeleine Eastoe and Suzie Steen from director Bruce Beresford and writers Jan Sardi and Cunxin Li.

To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Mao’s Last Dancer” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The movie poster for “Mao’s Last Dancer” with Bruce Greenwood.

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BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Bangkok International Film Festival was won over by the French-Canadian film The Barbarian Invasions, which walked away with the Golden Kinnaree for best film. Director Denys Arcand's Barbarian was one of 13 films in competition. One of the entries -- Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation -- got lost in transportation, never making it to the screen at the festival. The festival came to a close Sunday evening with the world premiere screening of David Mamet's Spartan. Other winners included three Chinese actors in Blind Shaft sharing the best actor Golden Kinnaree. Yi Xiang Li, Shuangbao Wang and Baoqiang Wang won in the Chinese movie directed by Yang Li. Giovanna Mezzogiorno walked away with the Golden Kinnaree for best actress for her role in Ferzan Ozpetek's Facing Window, made in Italy, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Portugal.