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Have you ever been on a train for 20+ hours? In China you’ll find, from little kids to 60-year-olds, everyone is using their smartphones. Surely, to kill time, content is king in China. During the Spring Festival, from February 15th to 21st, the number of app users in three segments—mobile games, photo app, and mobile video app—increased significantly, according to QuestMobile’s “2018 Spring Festival Entertainment Insights Report,” Chinese media The report pointed out that Chinese people have both online and offline ways to enjoy Spring Festival. Online was mobile games and video; offline was watching movies Spring Festival’s top 5 apps based on the number of daily active users were: Honour of Kings – 128 million Douyin short video – 61 million Huashan short video – 53 million Toutiao – 97 million Youku – 83 million  Top 20 apps that showed the biggest DAU increase during the Spring Festival included: Mini World that showed whopping 116% increase i...

OPERATION RED SEA (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 紅海行動 （電影原聲帶 ） Director Dante Lam   林超 贤 Original Music by Elliot Leung 梁皓 一   Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Operation Red Sea ( Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) on Itunes   It is an incredible honor to compose the score of "Operation Red Sea." Throughout the process, I was able to work very closely with Director Dante Lam. Combined with his fresh perspectives and the state-of-the-art visuals, I was able to draw forth my best creative juices to enhance the cinematic experience. The beginning of my composing thought sequences always began with how the team of 8 special forces members worked together, putting their own egos aside to accomplish the same goal. While both action and plot were stunning, this film was more about the being intrinsically human and the fulfilment of one's calling to me. Easy to say, I wholeheartedly loved every minute of working with Director Lam. See you guys in the cinema...

Dante Lam follows up his 2016 blockbuster ‘Operation Mekong’ with a Chinese rescue mission set in a fictional Arab country Dir: Dante Lam. China. 2018. 138 mins Subtlety is the first casualty of war in Operation Red Sea , which dispatches an elite division of China’s special forces to deal with a crisis situation in a fictionalised African country. A thematic sequel to director Dante Lam’s surprise box office smash Operation Mekong (2016), this is also the latest in a spate of Mainland China military pictures that deliver the blistering spectacle that is usually the domain of Hollywood blockbusters as a means of conveying resolutely patriotic messages and promoting military power. Lured to the Mainland industry by the promise of bigger budgets and limitless pyrotechnics, Hong Kong action specialist Lam goes all out in his effort to rival the sheer scale of Black Hawk Down (2001) while making sure to extoll the collective heroism of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). ...

Quand le jazz s’appelle Rhoda Scott : Energie, chaleur, douceur pourraient être les qualificatifs de cette musicienne hors-norme qui a tant apporté à l’image de l’orgue Hammond dans notre pays. Elle combine avec grâce blues, soul & churchy. La rencontre de cet univers avec celui de Christophe Monniot, onirique, poétique, énergétique, est un évènement inouï à découvrir absolument. Le swing neo-orleannais de Jeff Boudreaux viendra enfin nourrir et épicer cette inédite promesse. Un feu doux, et brûlant à la fois ! Christophe MONNIOT : saxophones, synthétiseur Rhoda SCOTT : orgue Hammond Jeff BOUDREAUX : batterie Événement CHRISTOPHE MONNIOT, JEFF BOUDREAUX, RHODA SCOTT 07/02/2018 - 20:30 à 23:30 Studio de l'Ermitage 8 rue de l'Ermitage 75020 Paris FRANCE http://www.studio-ermitage.com    https://www.weezevent.com/christophe-monniot-jeff-boudreaux-rhoda-scott     CHRISTOPHE MONNIOT – JEFF BOUDREAUX ...

Sony Music and Chinese giant Tencent are starting a label together. Liquid State has been launched in Hong Kong this week, with a core focus on EDM and electronic music across Asia. The label will also locally get involved in live touring and nightclub events. Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) is majority-owned by Chinese media giant Tencent Holdings, which currently has a market cap value in excess of US $500bn on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. TME itself is believed to be worth in the region of $10bn. In December, TME closed a stock swap deal whereby it acquired a 10% stake in Spotify. As part of the deal, Daniel Ek’s company also took ownership of a tenth of equity in TME. In other words, Sony has just launched a label with a company part-owned by Spotify. And like Universal, Warner and Merlin, Sony is itself a minority stake holder in Spotify. Sony Music Australia CEO and Chairman Denis Handlin of Liquid State’s launch: “These are exci...