Young mainland actress Li Bingbing is to release her first album in May, featuring the theme song to Children of Huangshi (Huangshi de Haizi), a $40 million Chinese, German and Australian production starring British actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Asian superstar Chow Yun-fat and Michelle Yeoh.
Based on real events, the film revolves around a 23-year-old British journalist's adventure in 1930s war-torn China. George Hogg, played by Jonathan, saved 60 Chinese orphans from the chaos and escorted them to a safe town. Chow plays an officer who helped Hogg along the trek. This is also Chow and Yeoh's second cooperation after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wohu Canglong) in 2000. Roger Spottiswoode, a former James Bond film director, directs the film.
The film will premiere in China and some Southeast Asian countries on April 3, while viewers in North America will wait until May 23. The film will open in Europe at the end of April.
(China Daily March 5, 2008)