娱乐英语资讯：Maggie Q, Chow Yun-Fat vying for box office_娱乐

娱乐英语资讯：Maggie Q, Chow Yun-Fat vying for box office

BEIJING, April 12 -- Two epic films hit China's screen in the past week. Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, which opened on April 3, tells the story of warrior Zhao Yun, who lived during the Three Kingdoms period from 220-265 AD. The film is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of China's four major classical literary works. The hotly anticipated film stars Andy Lau and Maggie Q. An actress who has collaborated with Tom Cruise, Q said her biggest challenge was speaking Chinese and playing pipa, a plucked Chinese string instrument, at the same time.

Nanking massacre drama The Children of Huang Shi also hit theaters on April 3. The heroic blockbuster, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Chow Yun-Fat, is a Chinese-Australian co-production.

Maggie Q in her latest movie "Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon."

However, the Chinese commander role, played by Chow, has aroused controversy according to media reports.

Chow's commander, some audience members complained, is different from a typical 1930s Chinese soldier for he has stylish hair, a romance with a nurse and speaks fluent English.

The $40 million project was directed by Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies) and took more than two years to complete.

Spottiswoode says that his ambition was to explore compassion in the war and to promote humanitarianism.

The movie tells a story of a young British journalist who saves a group of orphaned Chinese children with the help of an Australian nurse in late 1930s.