Chow Yun-Fat's movie Love in a Fallen City gets a stamp Hong Kong Film Top 10
(9/2/2005) To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Chinese film birth, Beijing Stamp Company on August 28 released the Chinese Film 100th year stamp collection as a salute to nearly 100 films that have contributed to the Chinese film development. Celestial Entertainment's Shaw Film Archive was honored to have 12 films in the collection. This stamp collection is a joint production and distribution of China Film Archive and Beijing City Stamp Company. Only 3,000 collections will be released globally.
The 9 Shaw's films honored were LOVE WITHOUT END (BUT LIU CHING), THE KINGDOM AND THE BEAUTY (GONG SAN MEI YUN), THE EMPRESS WU TSE-TIEN (MO JUK TIN), LOVE ETERNE (LEUNG SAN BAK YU JOOK YING TOI), COME DRINK WITH ME (DAI JUI HUP), ONE ARMED SWORDSMAN (DUK BEI DOH), KILLER CLANS (LAU SING WU DIP GIM), THE 36TH CHAMBERS OF SHAOLIN (SIU LUM 36 FONG), LOVE IN A FALLEN CITY (KING SING JI LUEN)G; also in the Classic Superstar Collection include Chow Yun Fat, Anita Mui Yim Fong and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk.
Celestial Entertainment CEO William Pfeiffer expressed, "This release of China Film 100th Year Stamp Collection has recognized Shaw's film's important position in Mainland film history development. Celestial will continue its effort to bring the best quality films to China; at the same time, Celestial will bring excellent Mainland produced films and television programs to the entire world and share with everyone the best of Chinese films."
In recent years Celestial has participated in Mainland film development. Aside from distributing Shaw's films it also through its parent company Astro financed PERHAPS LOVE (YU GOR OI) with the Mainland company. For this year's 100th anniversary of Chinese films, Celestial Entertainment will hold a variety of celebrations and memorial events in several cities and provinces. It will also donate some of its valuable Shaw's film material to the Chinese Film Museum that will open at the end of this year and to witness the glory days of Hong Kong films with the Mainland audience.
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