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Celine returns to Paris with its Spring 2026 collection, reaffirming its timeless vision of style, elegance, and lasting emotion.

On Sunday, 6 July 2025, Celine presented its Spring 2026 collection at the iconic 16 rue Vivienne, marking a deeply symbolic return both for the maison and its creative community. In a transformed world, this return to Paris was not merely geographical but also emotional. The collection became a silent manifesto of what Celine represents: quality, timelessness, and authentic style.

Alanis Morissette Naomi Watts Shishi Liu Theodore Pellerin V-bts Courtesy of Celine

Michael Rider clearly expressed the significance of this moment, describing it as a “complete joy” and a reaffirmation of values that are difficult to define but even harder to preserve. The collection offers not only a new wardrobe but also an attitude. It is a way of dressing that merges with the wearer’s life, capturing the moment without losing sight of the continuity of gestures,...

Peter Ho-sun Chan received the Asia Star Awards’ ‘Special Achievement Award’ in recognition of his contribution to the Asian film industry at the Busan International Film Festival on October 4.

Korea’s Choi Min Sik was named Actor of the Year at the ceremony, while Asia Star Awards were also given to Kim Soo Hyun and Cecilia Liu.

Chan’s latest directorial title Dearest recently played at the Venice, Toronto and Rio film festivals, and is also screening at Busan, London and the Hawaii International Film Festival. It opened in China on September 26 and grossed $32.5m (RMB200m) in its first week.

Hong Kong’s We Distribution has sold the film to a slew of Asian territories including Hong Kong (Edko Films), Korea (b.o.m.), Singapore, Malaysia & Brunei (Clover Films) and Japan (Happinet). Versatile Films is handling international sales outside Asia.

3rd Update, Monday, 1.45 Pm and 3:15 Pm: All major titles are updated, including opener Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which has tallied $94.5M worldwide, Guardians of the Galaxy (now at $313M ww), openers Into the Storm, Step Up All In, and holdovers Hercules, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Lucy, Boyhood, Neighbors, The Purge: Anarchy, The Fault in Our Stars, How Train Your Dragon 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno, Blended, and Transformers: Age of Extinction. Just received Sony’s final numbers on Sex Tape and 22 Jump Street a little after 3 p.m.

2nd Update, Sunday 2:00 Pm: We’ve added openers Into the Storm and about 15 more titles from Universal, Fox, Warner Bros. and others, including Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which opened in Germany as No. 1 in the marketplace. It has yet to bow in China and has already passed the lifetime...

Brotherhood of Blades is an upcoming period movie directed by Lu Yang (The Spectacular Theatre) and will star Cecilia Liu and Chang Chen. Set in the late Ming Dynasty, the movie tells the story of three people who serve in there kingdom as Jinyiwei guards. They have to go after Wei Zhongxian (Jin Shijie), who is on the run and must be caught at all costs (But is it all a strange conspiracy?).

The movie is set for release on the 7th August 2014. The teaser trailer looks good, lots of action which i am a fan off and will pick this up after it’s release for a review.

Stars: Jet Li, Zhang Wen, Shishi Liu, Michelle Chen, Yan Liu, Collin Chou, Stephen Fung, Raymond Lam, Ka-Yan Leung, Siu-Lung Leung, Yili Ma | Written by Tan Cheung | Directed by Tsz Ming Wong

Jet Li, star of countless classic martial arts movies, teams up with the producer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kung Fu Hustle for Badge of Fury (aka Badges of Fury) a crime drama caper that is more caper than crime… Even though, at least on paper this would seem like a perfect Hong Kong action flick:

When a spate of murders erupt across Hong Kong, two kick-ass cops are assigned to the case. Chaos soon escalates when they reach a dead end and the detectives must play a deadly game to lure the killer out.

You see from that synopsis I was expecting something special, along the lines of New Police Story or (an undoubtedly sub-par) Infernal Affairs,...