China apparently now has the third largest film industry in the world and lots of Western movies are starting to film over there. Ewan, Nicole Kidman, and Edward Norton are going to be filming in Beijing sometime this year...I gotta get my ass over there! Maybe my East Asian Languages and Cultures (Literature and Film discipline) major won't be such a hindrance if I wanna work in the film industry after all! Woot.

And on a kinda related note, I haven't seen the trailers for Pirates of the Caribbean sequels yet but apparently Chow Yun fat aka Ken Watanabe look-alike is playing the villain in them? That's pretty awesome.

*EDIT* This is HILAAAAARIOUS. http://junk-feud.com/archives/2005/09/page/9/
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