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Philip Yung’s Port Of Call to close the festival.

Sylvia Chang’s Murmur Of The Hearts will open this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff, March 23-April 6), while Philip Yung’s Port Of Call will close the event.

Chang was previously named as the Filmmaker in Focus at this year’s Hkiff, which will screen 14 of her films. Murmur Of The Hearts, in which she goes back to her Taiwanese roots, stars Isabella Leong, Joseph Chang, Lawrence Ko and Lee Sinje.

Yung’s Port Of Call is a crime drama starring Aaron Kwok.

Other Hong Kong films receiving their world premiere at Hkiff include Lau Ho-Leung’s Two Thumbs Up, starring Francis Ng, Simon Yam and Leo Ku, and Fruit Chan’s documentary My City about well-known local writer Xi Xi.

Hkiff has also collaborated once again with Youku on an omnibus film, which will receive its receive its world premiere at the...

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This is part 1 for upcoming movies in 2015 to watch out for, if you feel a movie deserves to make part 2, please comment at bottom of the page.

Dragon Blade

Cast: Jackie Chan, Adrien Brody, John Cusack, Choi Siwon, Lin Peng

Director: Daniel Lee

The Bodyguard

Cast: Sammo Hung, Andy Lau, Deng Chao, Wang Xuebing, Tian Liang

Director: Sammo Hung

Sha Po Lang 2

Cast: Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Simon Yam, Zhang Jin, Louis Koo

Director: Cheang Pou-soi

The Challenge Letter

Cast: Robert Chen, Nobuaki Shimamoto, Ingrid Yin Hu

Director: Robert Chen, Nathan Colquhoun

Skintrade

Cast: Tony Jaa, Dolph Lundgren, Michael Jai White, Ron Perlman

Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham

Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island

Cast: Kim Myung Min,...

Produced by Soi Cheang (Motorway, The Monkey King) and directed by Lau Ho Leung, writer of numerous Hong Kong movies including Painted Skin and The Great Magician, Two Thumbs Up is an action comedy starring Francis Ng and Simon Yam as members of a tight knit group of criminals who transform a public minibus into a Police van as part of a robbery.Currently in post-production, the film from Emperor Motion Pictures co-stars Leo Ku, Patrick Tam, Mark Cheng and Christie Chen and from this first teaser, looks very promising indeed. We can expect to see it arrive in Hong Kong at the end of the year.Official synopsis (possible spoilers):Lucifer and his gangsters dress their minibus to resemble a police vehicle, and pose as policemen for...

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Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) is launching sales on Soi Cheang-produced comedy drama Two Thumbs Up at Filmart

Currently in post-production, the film tells the story of a band of aspiring gangsters who impersonate policemen in order to commit a robbery, but end up working with the police to catch a gang of more dangerous criminals.

The film’s ensemble cast includes Francis Ng, Simon Yam, Leo Ku, Patrick Tam, Mark Cheng and Christie Chen.

It marks the directorial debut of scriptwriter Lau Ho Leung, whose credits include Emp’s The Great Magician and Triple Tap. He was also a co-writer on Painted Skin and Emp’s upcoming Kung-fu Jungle, starring Donnie Yen.

Soi Cheang recently directed Chinese New Year smash hit The Monkey King.

Emp has also added two romantic dramas – Chen Sicheng’s Beijing Love Story and Snow Zou’s With Or Without – to its Filmart slate.

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Hong Kong — Almost 2 million origami made by fans in memory of singer-actor Leslie Cheung are being displayed in Hong Kong at an exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of his death.

The "Miss You Much Leslie Exhibition" at the Times Square shopping mall is one of many memorial events in his hometown.

Many fans discovered Cheung after his passing. "I really miss him, and I regret that I did not get to know him until 2009," said Kang Lizhen, a mainland Chinese who was born in 1990.

Those who discovered him after his death feel like they lost a friend, said one such fan, Marie A. Jost. "There will be no new works, no new events, no news of Leslie ... It really does feel that we've lost a dear, dear friend," said Jost.

Cheung killed himself by jumping off the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in central Hong Kong on April 1, 2003. His death came at...