Godfrey Gao, the Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor, has died at the age of 35 after collapsing on the set of a reality TV program.
Gao, whose credits include 2013 fantasy thriller The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, was appearing on Chase Me, a show that sees contestants compete to win a race. According to wide reports, the shows producers said he fell and lost consciousness while running in a team event and died at hospital.
Chinese outlet Tencent News reported that an audience member heard Gao shout, “I can’t carry on,” before falling to the ground. He was initially resuscitated and taken to a nearby hospital, but doctors were unable to save him.
Gao’s manager JetStar Entertainment confirmed his death on its Weibo page.
The news has sparked criticism of Chase Me, with many calling for the series to be cancelled. On Chinese social media site Weibo, the hashtag #StopFilming...
Gao, whose credits include 2013 fantasy thriller The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, was appearing on Chase Me, a show that sees contestants compete to win a race. According to wide reports, the shows producers said he fell and lost consciousness while running in a team event and died at hospital.
Chinese outlet Tencent News reported that an audience member heard Gao shout, “I can’t carry on,” before falling to the ground. He was initially resuscitated and taken to a nearby hospital, but doctors were unable to save him.
Gao’s manager JetStar Entertainment confirmed his death on its Weibo page.
The news has sparked criticism of Chase Me, with many calling for the series to be cancelled. On Chinese social media site Weibo, the hashtag #StopFilming...
- 11/27/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Taiwanese-Canadian actor Godfrey Gao died Wednesday of sudden cardiac arrest after he collapsed while shooting a Chinese sports reality show in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, the show’s official social media account said. He was 35.
Gao was in the middle of a late-night shoot for Zhejiang TV’s reality show “Chase Me,” which puts contestants head-to-head in a series of athletic competitions, primarily by running through cities late at night. He was taken to the hospital but died hours later. Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating and usually leads to death if not treated within minutes.
“I am deeply saddened by the news,” said Andrew Ooi, his friend and former manager at Echelon Talent. “Godfrey was not only a client at one point but, more importantly, a friend. We will miss him dearly, and our hearts go out to his family, especially his parents.”
On Wednesday,...
Gao was in the middle of a late-night shoot for Zhejiang TV’s reality show “Chase Me,” which puts contestants head-to-head in a series of athletic competitions, primarily by running through cities late at night. He was taken to the hospital but died hours later. Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating and usually leads to death if not treated within minutes.
“I am deeply saddened by the news,” said Andrew Ooi, his friend and former manager at Echelon Talent. “Godfrey was not only a client at one point but, more importantly, a friend. We will miss him dearly, and our hearts go out to his family, especially his parents.”
On Wednesday,...
- 11/27/2019
- by Patrick Frater and Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Actor and model Godfrey Gao tragically died early Wednesday morning after collapsing on set. He was 35.
The Taiwanese-Canadian actor, best known for his role in the 2013 fantasy drama The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, was filming a game show called Chase Me when he suddenly fainted on the show’s set in China, Wwd reports.
In a statement to the outlet, Gao’s management team Jetsta said first responders attempted to save his life for three hours but were sadly unsuccessful and that they are struggling to come to terms with the devastating news.
“In the early hours of Nov.
The Taiwanese-Canadian actor, best known for his role in the 2013 fantasy drama The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, was filming a game show called Chase Me when he suddenly fainted on the show’s set in China, Wwd reports.
In a statement to the outlet, Gao’s management team Jetsta said first responders attempted to save his life for three hours but were sadly unsuccessful and that they are struggling to come to terms with the devastating news.
“In the early hours of Nov.
- 11/27/2019
- by Joelle Goldstein
- PEOPLE.com
Shanghai Fortress, the most recent big-budget science-fiction film to come out from China has now officially crashed at the box office. The flopping of this movie is a big blow to the Chinese film industry which has been trying to ramp up its production values to compete with the heavy blockbusters of Hollywood.
The colossal success that ‘The Wandering Earth’ achieved earlier this year, earning in the vicinity of $ 700 million as well as rave reviews from different parts of the world, everyone had high hopes from ‘Shanghai Fortress’ to deliver the next big breakthrough for the Chinese sci-fi genre. With over 2 million people planning to visit Area 51 for alien spotting, it cannot be denied that there is heavy demand for such alien-themed films in all parts of the world, but not every movie can deliver.
Terrible performance at box office
Shanghai Fortress costed close to $ 57 million and was produced over 5 years’ time period.
The colossal success that ‘The Wandering Earth’ achieved earlier this year, earning in the vicinity of $ 700 million as well as rave reviews from different parts of the world, everyone had high hopes from ‘Shanghai Fortress’ to deliver the next big breakthrough for the Chinese sci-fi genre. With over 2 million people planning to visit Area 51 for alien spotting, it cannot be denied that there is heavy demand for such alien-themed films in all parts of the world, but not every movie can deliver.
Terrible performance at box office
Shanghai Fortress costed close to $ 57 million and was produced over 5 years’ time period.
- 10/28/2019
- by AMP Training
- AsianMoviePulse
Chinese animation “Nezha” continues its meteoric ascent to become one of China’s top-performing titles of all time, leading the weekend box office for the third week in a row thanks to a $66.5 million haul — still more than double that of its closest competitor, despite already having been in theaters for 18 days.
Its success has been boosted by a serious lack of other contenders: Every film below the top four grossers earned less than $700,000 this weekend, not even 1% of “Nezha’s” takings. The uneven performance highlights the struggles facing China’s box office this summer, as the pipeline of popular local titles dries up because of regulatory changes and a highly sensitive political anniversary coming up in October that has sent censors into overdrive.
With a total gross so far of $503 million (RMB3.55 billion), “Nezha” is already the fifth-highest-grossing title in Chinese film history, falling just behind last year’s “Operation Red Sea,...
Its success has been boosted by a serious lack of other contenders: Every film below the top four grossers earned less than $700,000 this weekend, not even 1% of “Nezha’s” takings. The uneven performance highlights the struggles facing China’s box office this summer, as the pipeline of popular local titles dries up because of regulatory changes and a highly sensitive political anniversary coming up in October that has sent censors into overdrive.
With a total gross so far of $503 million (RMB3.55 billion), “Nezha” is already the fifth-highest-grossing title in Chinese film history, falling just behind last year’s “Operation Red Sea,...
- 8/12/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw has secured an August 23 release date in China. Fast & Furious is a huge property in the market where Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham also both excel individually. The last F&f movie, The Fate Of The Furious, did about $393M in the Middle Kingdom in 2017 and remains the No. 8 film ever there, and the 2nd best Hollywood offering. In 2015, Furious 7 was the No. 1 movie of the year with $391M.
Bucking a mini-trend this summer, Hobbs & Shaw will go to China three weeks after domestic and the rest of international rollout begins.
It also will see the Fast & Furious spinoff as possibly the last Hollywood film before China cordons off screens for local movies in September, ahead of the October 1 celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.
This summer has been flipped upside down in...
Bucking a mini-trend this summer, Hobbs & Shaw will go to China three weeks after domestic and the rest of international rollout begins.
It also will see the Fast & Furious spinoff as possibly the last Hollywood film before China cordons off screens for local movies in September, ahead of the October 1 celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.
This summer has been flipped upside down in...
- 7/5/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Local productions were hit hardest, grossing a combined $2.15bn (RMB14.8bn), for a 47.5% market share.
China’s box office decreased by 2.7% to $4.5bn (RMB31.17bn) in the first half of 2019, according to figures from Chinese industry website Mtime, as a range of issues, including tightening censorship and the recent tax clampdown, started to take their toll on an unpredictable market.
The decline marks the first time since 2011 in which box office has not shown positive growth in the first half of the year, a period that includes the most lucrative box office season, Chinese New Year (late January or early...
China’s box office decreased by 2.7% to $4.5bn (RMB31.17bn) in the first half of 2019, according to figures from Chinese industry website Mtime, as a range of issues, including tightening censorship and the recent tax clampdown, started to take their toll on an unpredictable market.
The decline marks the first time since 2011 in which box office has not shown positive growth in the first half of the year, a period that includes the most lucrative box office season, Chinese New Year (late January or early...
- 7/5/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
China’s total box office fell 2.8% to $4.53 billion (RMB31.1 billion) in the first half of 2019. That was the the first such decline since 2011, Chinese media said.
Reports noted the dip with alarm and dismay. “Although the decline is not large, the situation does not look promising,” wrote Chinese industry website Mtime, while online news source The Paper wrote: “This year audiences could clearly feel that after Chinese New Year, there were no good films to watch, especially among domestic (Chinese) films.”
The slight fall in ticket sales also masks what The Paper called an even graver “hidden crisis”: a steep decrease in actual cinema-going. China’s total number of screenings has gone up, rising 7.98 million to 61.5 million in the first half of year, but at the same time, there has been a more than 10% drop in actual trips to the theater. Only 806 million tickets were sold in the past six months,...
Reports noted the dip with alarm and dismay. “Although the decline is not large, the situation does not look promising,” wrote Chinese industry website Mtime, while online news source The Paper wrote: “This year audiences could clearly feel that after Chinese New Year, there were no good films to watch, especially among domestic (Chinese) films.”
The slight fall in ticket sales also masks what The Paper called an even graver “hidden crisis”: a steep decrease in actual cinema-going. China’s total number of screenings has gone up, rising 7.98 million to 61.5 million in the first half of year, but at the same time, there has been a more than 10% drop in actual trips to the theater. Only 806 million tickets were sold in the past six months,...
- 7/4/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Adapted from a popular sci-fi romantic novel by writer Jiang Nan, “Shanghai Fortress” stars Hong Kong actor Shu Qi and Chinese Singer-cum-actor Lu Han.
Filmmaker Teng Huatao, popular for Sky of Love, Romantic comedy Up in the Wind, would be directing the film. The futuristic visuals of the film is accomplished with the help of Hollywood VFX team.
Shu Qi
Synopsis
Set in the future, the city of Shanghai China battles to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has attacked that has laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in its quest to harvest hidden energy only found on earth.
Shanghai Fortress releases domestically on August 9, 2019.
Shanghai Fortress 2019 Trailer...
Filmmaker Teng Huatao, popular for Sky of Love, Romantic comedy Up in the Wind, would be directing the film. The futuristic visuals of the film is accomplished with the help of Hollywood VFX team.
Shu Qi
Synopsis
Set in the future, the city of Shanghai China battles to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has attacked that has laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in its quest to harvest hidden energy only found on earth.
Shanghai Fortress releases domestically on August 9, 2019.
Shanghai Fortress 2019 Trailer...
- 7/3/2019
- by tyriter
- AsianMoviePulse
Iconic Chinese and Hollywood directors Frant Gwo and Roland Emmerich did not take the stage together at the Shanghai International Film Festival, but on Monday they got the chance to praise each other’s movies and share insights into sci-fi.
“I totally understand why it did well,” said “Independence Day” director Emmerich of Gwo’s recent “Wandering Earth,” a film which earned more than $680 million at the Chinese box office and has launched a wave of interest in Chinese sci-fi projects.
“It has lots of effects. It is good quality. And it is very Chinese, in that it is the story of a group of people, not just about a single person,” said Emmerich speaking at a panel discussion about sci-fi and technology.
Earlier, at a panel on industrializing the Chinese industry, Gwo thanked Chinese audiences for being tolerant of the “many things wrong” with “Wandering Earth. He said that...
“I totally understand why it did well,” said “Independence Day” director Emmerich of Gwo’s recent “Wandering Earth,” a film which earned more than $680 million at the Chinese box office and has launched a wave of interest in Chinese sci-fi projects.
“It has lots of effects. It is good quality. And it is very Chinese, in that it is the story of a group of people, not just about a single person,” said Emmerich speaking at a panel discussion about sci-fi and technology.
Earlier, at a panel on industrializing the Chinese industry, Gwo thanked Chinese audiences for being tolerant of the “many things wrong” with “Wandering Earth. He said that...
- 6/17/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Chinese film industry may not yet have emerged from a “cold winter” production freeze, nor its box office kept pace with 2018. But but those inclement elements did not put a chill on the pageantry at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
The opening ceremony for the festival’s 22nd edition went ahead Saturday with the usual red carpet parade, and with the habitual speeches and formalities. But it did so without the scheduled world premiere screening of Guan Hu’s “The Eight Hundred.”
News that the historical war film had been cancelled “for technical reasons” was abruptly circulated just 24 hours earlier — too late for the festival to arrange another new film to take its place. The screening of the second opening film, Chinese drama “Beautiful Voyage,” went forward as planned.
The usual inclement seasonal weather, known locally as “plum rains” held off, permitting a red carpet parade that showcased mainland and Hong Kong stars,...
The opening ceremony for the festival’s 22nd edition went ahead Saturday with the usual red carpet parade, and with the habitual speeches and formalities. But it did so without the scheduled world premiere screening of Guan Hu’s “The Eight Hundred.”
News that the historical war film had been cancelled “for technical reasons” was abruptly circulated just 24 hours earlier — too late for the festival to arrange another new film to take its place. The screening of the second opening film, Chinese drama “Beautiful Voyage,” went forward as planned.
The usual inclement seasonal weather, known locally as “plum rains” held off, permitting a red carpet parade that showcased mainland and Hong Kong stars,...
- 6/15/2019
- by Patrick Frater and Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Chinese sales and distribution company Times Vision has brought two new titles to Cannes this year, including “Shanghai Fortress,” a big-budget summer sci-fi blockbuster that producers hope will replicate the success of “The Wandering Earth.” Its other film at the Marche is family drama “Looking Up.”
“Shanghai Fortress” stars Taiwanese actress Shu Qi and Chinese idol Lu Han, one of the country’s highest-paid celebrities, who rose to fame as a member of the South Korean boy band Exo. It is expected to debut in early August, with China Film Group as the primary distributor.
Adapted from a popular sci-fi novel by writer Jiang Nan, the futuristic romance was produced by Hs Entertainment Group Inc. The firm was behind the 2013 romantic comedy “So Young,” the directorial debut of actress Vicky Zhao Wei and the 2017 TV series “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” a palace drama.
“Looking Up” is a family drama starring...
“Shanghai Fortress” stars Taiwanese actress Shu Qi and Chinese idol Lu Han, one of the country’s highest-paid celebrities, who rose to fame as a member of the South Korean boy band Exo. It is expected to debut in early August, with China Film Group as the primary distributor.
Adapted from a popular sci-fi novel by writer Jiang Nan, the futuristic romance was produced by Hs Entertainment Group Inc. The firm was behind the 2013 romantic comedy “So Young,” the directorial debut of actress Vicky Zhao Wei and the 2017 TV series “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” a palace drama.
“Looking Up” is a family drama starring...
- 5/13/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
China’s first mainstream science-fiction film, “The Wandering Earth,” has surpassed “Operation Red Sea” to become the country’s second-highest-grossing movie of all time, with $679 million at the local box office and counting. “Crazy Alien,” another title released during last month’s competitive Chinese New Year period, has raked in $327 million domestically. Two more sci-fi movies are in the pipeline for release later this year.
Together, the films are charting a course for a previously nonexistent genre in the Middle Kingdom and are inspiring immense pride in rapt Chinese viewers. Although the country is home to a world-renowned sci-fi writer (Hugo Award winner Liu Cixin) and a burgeoning fan base, such domestically made sci-fi movies have exploded onto the scene only now that local production budgets and technical know-how can realize them.
Whether these blockbusters can blast off beyond China remains in doubt, however. Insiders say their popularity is more...
Together, the films are charting a course for a previously nonexistent genre in the Middle Kingdom and are inspiring immense pride in rapt Chinese viewers. Although the country is home to a world-renowned sci-fi writer (Hugo Award winner Liu Cixin) and a burgeoning fan base, such domestically made sci-fi movies have exploded onto the scene only now that local production budgets and technical know-how can realize them.
Whether these blockbusters can blast off beyond China remains in doubt, however. Insiders say their popularity is more...
- 3/14/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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