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College movies can have such a diverse and vast audience. We watch these movies as teens, dreaming about college life to happen sooner. We watch them at college, to see people like us represented in the cinema. We watch them later in life whenever we feel nostalgic about those young years. Hence, a good college movie can be a true treasure for many people of different ages and experiences. In our list, we have collected 7 must-watch Asian movies about college life. Get some popcorn, and pick the one that speaks to you tonight.

1. You are the Apple of My Eye (2011)

A classical story of a good girl falling for a bad boy. Somehow these types of stories never get out of style. This time the movie is set back in the 1990s. A bright girl Shen Chia-Yi is the best student at school. Though, a lot is yet to change...

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...

Prominent Chinese actress Zhao Wei (aka Vicki Zhao) has been banned for five years from holding senior positions in any listed company in China. The ruling was made by the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Tuesday.

The punishment relates to the failed 2016 takeover bid announced by Tibet Longwei, a company controlled by Zhao and her husband, Huang Youlong, for 29% of Zhejiang Wanija. The pair were found to have “disrupted market order” and to have benefited from a “celebrity effect” when they announced their bid, but did not have the financial resources to go through with it.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission had previously punished the pair with a five-year ban from trading on the Shanghai market and a $170,000 (RMB1.2 million) fine for the same offense. The latest, additional penalty reflects their release of false information during the bid.

Zhao made her name with 1990s TV series “My Fair Princess.” She has...

The Chinese box office has been shrinking for the past several weeks.

The Chinese box office, which has been shrinking for the past several weeks, continued the downward spiral in the period of Jun 4-10 by about 35% week-on-week, making it the quietest week since September in 2016.

With the lack of strong contenders, local fantasy comedy How Long Will I Love U scored a hat trick for the weekly No.1 with $18.7m. Standing at $136.9m for 24 days, it has become the fifth highest grossing local film in 2018 as well as the second highest grossing local film by a woman director, surpassing...

Aamir Khan’s coming-of-age musical retains no.1 spot ahead of Maze Runner: The Death Cure.

Source: Amir Khan Productions

‘Secret Superstar’

In the lull before Chinese New Year which starts on Feb 16 this year, the week of Jan 29-Feb 4 became the quietest since last November. The new releases failed to make much of an impression, leaving holdovers Secret Superstar and Maze Runner: The Death Cure in lead positions.

Aamir Khan’s coming-of-age musical retained the No.1 spot for two straight weeks, adding $26m for a 17-day total of $95.9m, which was almost half of Dangal’s final gross. It’s now the top grossing foreign film in 2018, ahead of Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, Maze Runner: The Death Cure and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Fox’s young adult adventure Maze Runner: The Death Cure ranked second with $16.2m for $40.5m after 10 days. This third installment has surpassed its previous two predecessors, breaking a new record...

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave to open festival; director Peter Greenaway to receive Visionary Award.Scroll down for full line-up

Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.

It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.

Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.

McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.

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The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.

As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...

The 4th New York Chinese Film Festival is set to present the best in Chinese cinema in the heart of Manhattan from November 5-7. Presented by the Chinese American Arts Council and the Chinese movie channel CCTV-6, the festival will screen 7 films from Hong Kong & China throughout the 3-day event and will additionally feature renowned filmmakers and performers Vicky Zhao Wei, Miriam Yeung, Xiubo Wu and Donnie Yen. Zhao Wei's directorial debut "So Young" will feature as the festival's opening night film at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Film screenings will take place Empire 25 followed by a closing night awards ceremony at Capitale. Check out the full 3-day festival highlights and schedule below: 4th New York Chinese Film Festival Films: So Young (Opening Night Presentation at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, 8:00pm) – Directed by Vicky Zhao Wei. So Young is the debut directorial effort of the renowned Chinese actress Vicky Zhao Wei.

Madonna Shocks the world in this highly personal and daring interview where she really holds nothing back in a special essay that she penned for the magazine. From the challenges she faced to the boundaries she broke and the constant struggles she endured, you won’t believe what she had to say!

Before there was Lady Gaga, we had one of the most controversial artists of pop music — Madonna. In Harper’s Bazaar magazine, the icon herself penned an essay revealing her struggles of making it in the harsh music business and the criticism that is still surrounding the artist. Dressed in black leather designs and bondage-like ensembles, all we can ever say is — ‘it’s Madonna!’

Madonna Raped At Knifepoint:

In the mag, (on newsstands on Oct. 22), Madonna paints a harsh, (but fiercely real), picture of her first time in the’big city’ alone. “This wasn’t anything I prepared for in Rochester,...

“So Young” sees Chinese actress Zhao Wei stepping behind the camera to make her directorial debut, backed by veteran producer Stanley Kwan (“Rouge”, “Centre Stage”). For her first outing as helmer, the popular “Red Cliff” and “Painted Skin: The Resurrection” star chose to adapt a novel by Xin Yiwu, which follows a collection of friends as they experience love and loss at college and then again in later life. A surprise smash hit at the domestic box office (and recently having been chosen to screen at the 2013 London Film Festival), the film has a top ensemble cast of appropriately youthful talent, headed by Yang Zishan (“In Case of Love”), Mark Chao (“Caught in the Web”) and singer Han Geng (“My Kingdom”). The film begins in the mid-1990s, with Yang Zishan as Zheng Wei, a small town girl who heads to a big city university with hopes of reuniting with...

Hot Toys have revealed the third figure from their Man of Steel line and he’s none other than General Zod. The Kryptonian costume design for Mos was nothing short of brilliant, fusing medieval armor with a highly advanced alien technology created an imposing threat equaling the power of Zod and his army. Since Superman was first revealed I’ve been eagerly anticipating the reveal of Zod, and even though I was a bit disappointed when Jor-El was revealed first sans his armor, I am happy to say that the wait for Zod was more than worth it. Not to mention it’s very nice to see Hot Toys exploring other armored characters not named Iron Man. Retailing between $230-$240 Zod isn’t cheap, but that seems to be the new standard for Hot Toys releases. Good or bad, these figures keep rising and rising in price. As always Sideshow...

Cinema do Brasil’s Distribution Award will grant up to $25,000 to 19 distributors from 18 countries to be invested in the launch of Brazilian films in their territories.

Brazil’s support body increased its allocation amount in 2013 to $290,000 to accommodate a larger number of proposals.

There were 37 in all and the winners are Jonathas’ Forest (Germany), Amazon (France), Bruna Surfer Girl (Slovenia-Croatia/Serbia-Bosnia-Montenegro-Kosovo), Buddies (Chile), Colors (France-Japan), Once Upon A Time Was I, Verônica (Poland), Reaching For The Moon (Germany-Austria-Switzerland), Today (Chile), My Sweet Orange Tree (France), The Moving Creatures (France), Who Cares (Germany), Southwest (Portugal), Tabu (Japan), Tropicália (Portugal) and Xingu (Us-Spain).

“The number of proposals from distributors submitted in the last two editions of the award – more than twice the number received in previous editions – demonstrates the significant increase in the interest on the distribution of Brazilian films by international companies, as well as a mature Brazilian production,” said Cinema do Brasil CEO André Sturm.

Amazon will represent...

Getting a nice tan while maintaing healthy skin could get tricky! We spoke with New York based dermatologists, Dr. Whitney Bowe, all about skin health and the best ways to achieve a summer time glow while keeping your skin in tip-top shape! Keep reading for the expert advice!

Ever wonder how Kate Moss always seems to have the most perfect healthy looking glow? New York dermatologist Dr. Bowe answered all of our questions about tanning and skin health. Read below for the expert scoop on how you can get a healthy tan, just like Kate’s!

Get Kate Moss’ Tan The Healthy Way – Sunburns, Tanning, & Skin Health Questions Answered

With the overwhelming amount of face moisturizers containing Spf these days, it seems impossible to achieve even the slightest tan. We asked Dr. Bowe how we can achieve a tan without compromising our skin’s health.

There’s no such thing...

Tsui Hark's first Detetive Dee film, 2010's Mystery of the Phantom Flame proved a surprisingly effective combination of period martial arts, Sherlock Holmes-esque sleuthing and fantasy adventure. Three years later the Hong Kong veteran is back with a 3D prequel, the rather comically titled Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon. Andy Lau has handed over the mantle of the titular snoop to Taiwanese hearthrob Mark Chao (Monga, So Young) and is joined by Angelababy and Feng Shao Feng. We've seen plenty of stills, but precious little of the film itself so far, and this new teaser expands only slightly on the last, boasting ominous underwater growling, fairly dodgy CGI galleons and still no sign of Detective Dee himself. The film opens in Hong Kong...

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We're big proponents of natural beauty over here, but sometimes, even the best need a little help to get by.  In the case of Patti Stanger, she admits that she didn't discover her personal best until she went under the knife. That's right, the Millionaire Matchmaker star is opening up about the numerous plastic surgery operations that she says boosted her self-confidence and eventually led her to meet current mortgage banker boyfriend David Krause, 42, on an online dating site. The star tells Life & Style, "'I had my first breast reduction and lift five years ago. Then I had another one. I felt skinny and young again!" So young, in fact, that she says Krause...

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With The World's End out this week, Edgar Wright talks to us about Spaced, Hot Fuzz, Shaun Of The Dead, and ending the Cornetto trilogy...

Over the last decade, Edgar Wright has gone from being the kind of geek who obsessed about other people's movies, to the kind of geek whose movies other people obsess about. You all know the story by now: Spaced begat Shaun Of The Dead begat Hot Fuzz, establishing him as one of filmmaking's hottest directing talents, with an astonishing eye for visual flair and attention to detail.

Having stepped away from his regular collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to make kinetic 2010 comics adaptation Scott Pilgrim Vs The World – not to mention the long-in-gestation Ant Man project for Marvel – Wright has now re-teamed with his partners in crime for The World's End, the final chapter in their so-called...

Called one of the “most influential entertainers in China,” Han Geng joins fellow Chinese star Li Bingbing and the star studded cast list of Transformers 4. Here’s the press release from Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures.

Michael Bay And Paramount Pictures Announce The Casting Of Chinese Entertainer Han Geng In ‘Transformers 4’

Hollywood, CA – (July 14, 2013) – Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures jointly announced today that Chinese entertainer Han Geng has been cast in “Transformers 4.” Among Asia’s top stars, Han Geng has conquered the worlds of music, television and feature film to become one of the most influential entertainers in China.

He joins Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Sophia Myles, Tj Miller and Chinese actress Li Bingbing in the fourth installment in the hit series of movies based on the best-selling Hasbro toyline. Paramount Pictures will release the film on June 27th, 2014.

“Han Geng...

Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures jointly announced today that Chinese entertainer Han Geng has been cast in “Transformers 4.” Among Asia’s top stars, Han Geng has conquered the worlds of music, television and feature film to become one of the most influential entertainers in China.

He joins Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Sophia Myles, Tj Miller and Chinese actress Li Bingbing in the fourth installment in the hit series of movies based on the best-selling Hasbro toyline. Paramount Pictures will release the film on June 27th, 2014.

Michael Bay said:

“Han Geng has been a sensation in China and we are happy to have him in our movie.”

Making his debut in 2005 as a member of the hugely popular group Super Junior, Han Geng later turned to a solo career, releasing his first album “Geng Xin” in 2010, which went on to sell over a million copies.

Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures jointly announced today that Chinese entertainer Han Geng has been cast in Transformers 4. Among Asia’s top stars, Han Geng has conquered the worlds of music, television and feature film to become one of the most influential entertainers in China.

He joins Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Sophia Myles, Tj Miller and Chinese actress Li Bingbing in the fourth installment in the hit series of movies based on the best-selling Hasbro toyline. Paramount Pictures will release the film on June 27th, 2014.

“Han Geng has been a sensation in China and we are happy to have him in our movie,” said Michael Bay.

Making his debut in 2005 as a member of the hugely popular group Super Junior, Han Geng later turned to a solo career, releasing his first album “Geng Xin” in 2010, which went on to sell over a million copies.

Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures jointly announced today that Chinese entertainer Han Geng has been cast in Transformers 4. Among Asia's top stars, Han Geng has conquered the worlds of music, television and feature film to become one of the most influential entertainers in China.

He joins Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Sophia Myles, T.J. Miller and Chinese actress Bingbing Li in the fourth installment in the hit series of movies based on the best-selling Hasbro toyline. Paramount Pictures will release the film on June 27th, 2014.

Here's what Michael Bay had to say in a brief statement.

"Han Geng has been a sensation in China and we are happy to have him in our movie."

Making his debut in 2005 as a member of the hugely popular group Super Junior, Han Geng later turned to a solo career, releasing his first album "Geng Xin" in 2010, which...

While one giant robot movie is rounding out a disappointing opening weekend, another continues to announce cast members a year ahead of its own release. This morning, Michael Bay welcomed Asian superstar Han Geng into the fold of Transformers 4, in which he’ll join a cast consisting of Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Nicola Peltz, Kelsey Grammar, Sophia Myles and fellow China-based actress Li Bingbing. Han is a singer and actor who can be seen heading up his country’s second highest-grossing domestic release of 2013, So Young (it’s neck and neck with top-grossing Hollywood import, Iron Man 3, and both are now in the top ten of all time there). To give you an idea of how popular he is, just peruse YouTube’s many abridged yet still lengthy versions of the college drama featuring only Han’s scenes. Before becoming a movie star, Han got his start as a member of the South Korean boy...

Paramount is working closely with China in a production deal they set up for Transformers 4, meaning they'll be filming over in the country and it will play some role in the film's story. With filming currently underway for the film, we got word earlier that Han Geng has been added to the cast. Come inside for all the details.

Paramount sent us word just a bit ago that Han Geng, and Asian superstar, has been added to the cast of Transformers 4, though they haven't specified what role he'll be playing, nor how major his character might be. So far, there's not been much in the way of information on the actual plot of the film (crazy considering, this franchise hasn't been known for it's veil of secrecy). Read on for the full press release:

Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures jointly announced today that Chinese entertainer Han Geng has been cast in “Transformers 4.

News of Glee actor Cory Monteith’s unexpected and tragic death rocked Hollywood late Saturday night, with many of the 31-year-old actor’s co-stars and fellow television actors conveying their sadness on Twitter.

Monteith, best known for playing Finn Hudson on Fox’s Glee, was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room Saturday afternoon.

At this time, please send nothing but love and light. This tragic news still doesn't seem real to me. I love you Cory.— Harry Shum Jr (@iharryshum) July 14, 2013

I Have No Words! My Heart Is Broken Cory Was Not Only A Hell Of A Friend He...

Glee star Cory Monteith was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room Saturday afternoon. He was 31.

The cause of death was not immediately known, but foul play was not suspected. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.

According to reports, staff at Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel discovered his body after he missed his check-out time.

“We are deeply saddened by this tragic news,” read a statement from Glee producers, Fox and 20th Century Fox Television. “Cory was an exceptional talent and an even more exceptional person. He was a true joy to work with and we will all miss him tremendously.

All eyes were on Madonna at the screening for the Mdna Tour Documentary in New York City, when she showed up in a 1930′s getup! Madonna has never held back when it comes to expressing herself and we are totally in love with her latest look!

On June 18, Madonna, 54, went to the premiere of her Mdna Tour Documentary in NYC and looked fabulous in a black and white women’s tuxedo, in honor of her idol, the popular actress Marlene Dietrich. Madonna completed the classic look with a top hat and a white bow tie. Her hair is curled and pinned up at just above shoulder length. Madonna’s makeup artist Sammy H. Mourabit helped her achieve this glamorous look, inspired by Marlene’s iconic role in the 1930′s movie Morocco. Madonna’s look may have been inspired by Marlene, but we’re inspired by Madonna’s bold choice! Here...

For her directorial debut, mainland actress Zhao Wei employs a vivacious cast of mostly unknown youngsters for a spirited adaptation of Xin Yiwu's best-selling novel. The resulting film has proved a box office sensation in China, despite major dramatic missteps in its final act.For a solid ninety minutes, Zhao Wei's first feature film as a director, So Young, is an endearingly nostalgic tale of romance and rite-of-passage played out against the backdrop of university life in the 1990s. Based on Xin Yiwu's popular novel To Our Youth That Is Fading Away (which the film uses as its Chinese title), Zhao uses Li Qiang's script as a jumping off point to reminisce about her own adolescence, turning a work of popular fiction into a personal exploration...

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