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When I first started covering director Tony Tang’s 2011 romantic sports flick “Beach Spike”, I thought the premise was unbearably hokey, akin to those sleazy direct-to-video “National Lampoon’s” movies that seem to worm their way to surface every year or so. However, as my interest grew, I began to suspect that “Beach Spike” was more a teen-oriented actioner than something intentionally geared towards those who spend too much time festering in their soiled underwear during daylight hours. Imagine my complete and utter surprise when the movie turned out to be something genuinely enjoyable from start to finish. Yes, it features an abundance of scantily-clad women, and, yes, the film spends too much time rumbling around with romance than it does volleyball, but that’s precisely why it’s a hell of a lot of fun. The story is something straight out of 80′s American cinema: When the residents of...

And I’m sure there’s a touching story about overcoming obstacles and obtaining personal goals buried in there somewhere, but who cares? Tony Tang’s upcoming Hong Kong volleyball outing “Beach Spike” feels like something that would play extremely well to the MTV crowd here in the States, particularly those who enjoy watching lithe Chinese girls play in the sand. Then again, who doesn’t enjoy watching lithe Chinese girls play in the sand? If you said no, you’re probably lying. Chances are you’ll come around once you take a gander at the embedded English-subtitled trailer. Trust me on this one. To whet your appetite, read this synopsis: Hong Kong’s Paradise Cove is like Venice Beach on the South China Sea, a haven of tanned bikini-clad Asian babes, bronzed bodybuilder types, artists, surfers, musicians, beach bums? Chrissie (Chrissie Chau) and Kim (Theresa Fu) are two of Paradise’s sunniest spirits,...

The pipeline is bursting with them – the potential blockbuster co-productions with their eyes on the Chinese box office that is nowadays counted in hundreds of millions of yuan.

Emperor Motion Picture's 200 million yuan-costing December 2010 release Shaolin, starring Andy Lau and Jackie Chan, Media Asia's biopic Bruce Lee My Brother, due for end of this month, Peter Chan's Us$20 million directorial outing Wu Xia, featuring Donnie Yen and Takeshi Kaneshiro in the leads (for late 2011), or the 400-million-yuan 3D fantasy The Monkey King and the remake of A Chinese Odyssey, Filmko and Stephen Chow's different takes on the Chinese literary classic Journey to the West, These are among some of the eyeball-drawing upcoming titles that serves as examples of what is now called "Greater China films."

However, in Hong Kong, new investors are surfacing and trying to capitalize on the atmosphere of diversity in the local marketplace, bringing with...

Oh, Bey. That's just not fair. With The Blood Bond - the debut feature from Bey Logan's start up production house B&E Productions - now in post production, the label has announced the rest of their upcoming production slate.

And what do you think is going to attract all the attention?  Will it be animated feature Little Gobie? Michael Wong's Rogue Option? Or, perhaps, could it be Choy Li Fut, a period action film to be co-produced by and star the iconic Gordon Liu?

Nope. Not when the next film to go into production is beach volleyball themed action comedy Beach Spike, starring Chrissie Chau - pictured above - and The Blood Bond's Phoenix Chou. Let's be honest. This could be horrible and still make a big bag of money.

Find details on the entire slate below:

The debut B&E Productions project, 'The Blood Bond',...