Noodle Cart: Chinese Edition [Sep 2020]

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Hello again fellow MDL'ers. Today we shall introduce a new country to the Noodle Cart Series. Let's Welcome the Chinese Edition :)

• China's Changchun plans to build a new Film Studio Mega Complex (CEN)
• Beijing Music Festival to kick off with online and offline events (CEN)
• Jackie Chan's two apartments have been seized and put up for auction (CEN)
• Bilibili is purchasing 10% of Huanxi Media's Shares (CEN)
• Sisheng Fans of Ren Jia Lun enter his van on the set of 'Forever and Ever' (DP)
• Wu Lei's Flight Miles has been hacked (JS)
• Netflix says it does not agree with Chinese author's views on Uighur Muslims (CEN)
• Chinese culture ministry announces strengthened regulation of talk show and rap reality competition show content (CEN)
• iQIYI project bridges film, scripts and literature works (CEN)
• Over 100 works commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC to be released in 2021 (CEN)
• Bringing art to life: Actors recreate famous Chinese paintings (AO)
• The driver who killed Tan Song Yun’s mother gets six years in prison (JS)
• Fan Bing Bing to make film comeback after her tax evasion scandal in 2018 (JS)
• Raymond Lam (40) and Carina Zhang (30) welcome their new born baby (38JJ)
• Huang Zi Tao's father, Huang Zhong Dong, passes away at 52 from an illness (38JJ) 

• Creators of Game of Thrones to adapt Chinese sci-fi trilogy, The Three Body Problem by Liu Ci Xin, for Netflix (CEN, Cf)
• William Feng and Peng Xiao Ran to lead 'Novoland: The Princess from Plateau' (JS)
• Sun Li and Mark Chao cast in 'The Ideal City' (JS)
• 'Forever and Ever' starts filming with Ren Jia Lun and Bai Lu as reincarnated lovers (DP)
• 'The Bond' reveals the actors and actresses playing the five Qiao siblings (DP) 
• 'The Psychologist' starring Yang Zi and Jing Bo Ran starts filming (JS)
• Hu Ge begins filming 'Blossoms Shanghai' (Cf)
• Xiao Yang, Zhao Li Ying and Dong Zi Jian cast in 'Light on Series: Who is Murderer' (Cf)
• 'Royal Nirvana' released a 12 episode special ("Royal Nirvana Special") on September 22, 2020 (Cf)
• Zanilia Zhao, Luo Jin, and Liu Wei begin filming 'The Story of Xing Fu' (Cf)
• CCTV premieres 14 episode drama about China’s COVID-19 response, 'Heroes In Harm's Way' (Cf)
• 'You are My Glory' starring Yang Yang and Dilraba Dilmurat commences filming (JS)
• 'Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace' and 'Story of Yanxi Palace' removed from Chinese streaming platforms due to further restrictions implemented by NRTA (JS)

• China Box Office: 'The Eight Hundred' beats Western Film 'Tenet' within it's three day debut (CEN)
• Christopher Nolan presents 'Tenet' to Chinese audiences (CEN)
• Liu Yi Fei and Jet Li will be dubbing Mulan (2020) (CEN)
• Gong Li's new hit 'leaps' to top China's box-office charts, after it opened to $8.2 million in China on its release day (CEN, CEN)
• Zhang Yi Mou’s ‘One Second’ finally passes Chinese censorship (CEN)
• New Wong Kar Wai project ‘Chungking Express 2020’, a loose continuation of 'Chungking Express' [1994], has been registered and approved by China (CEN)
• Ron Howard is set to direct Lang Lang biopic (CEN)
• "Folding Beijing," a Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novelette by Hao Jing Fang, will be adapted into a film, 'Folding City', with its release expected between 2021 and 2022 (CEN)
• China's first documentary, 'The Blue Defensive Line' , about its overseas peacekeeping forces debuted on Friday, September 18, 2020 (CEN)
• Chinese viewers pan Disney’s new ‘Mulan’ as inauthentic (CEN)
• '76 Days', which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 14th,  examines the human cost of the corona virus outbreak in Wuhan, China (CEN)
• Epic war drama 'The Eight Hundred', with a total China box office nearing 3 billion yuan (about $442 million) to date, has become one of the highest-grossing films of all time in China (CEN)
• Korean War epic, 'Jin Gang Chuan', co-directed by three different directors, Guan Hu, Frant Gwo, and Lu Yang, is set for speedy October release (CEN)

• Hit Chinese reality show 'Sisters Who Make Waves' (2020) fails to live up to feminist goals (CEN)

• 15th Changchun Film Festival: Director Yang Lina wins two Golden Deer awards for her 'Spring Tide' (2019) film - Best Director and the Jury Grand prize (CEN)
• 35th Hundred Flowers Awards: Best Actor - Huang Xiao Ming ("The Bravest" 2019); Best Actress - Zhou Dong Yu ("Better Days" 2019); Best Picture - "My People, My Country" (CEN, CEN, CEN)
• China Film Directors Guild: Film of the Year - "The Wandering Earth" ; Director of the year - Derek Tsang ("Better Days" 2019) ; Actress of the Year - Zhou Dong Yu ("Better Days" 2019) ; Actor of the year -  Wang Jing Chun ("So Long, My Son" 2019) ; Young director of the year - Meng Huo (“Crossing the Border — Zhao Guan” 2019) ; Scriptwriter of the year - Dao Yi Nan ("The Wild Goose Lake" 2019) ; Special honor for the contribution to the industry - Li Shao Hong. (CEN)
• 77th Venice Film Festival: Chinese female director, Chloe Zhao, takes home Golden Lion with 'Nomadland' (CEN)

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^{Editors: Aya97 (1st editor)}