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Anyone who is following the current drama over Hunter Biden may be familiar with Lude. He’s the Chinese dissident that is currently working with former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani to leak information from a laptop that Hunter Biden left at a computer shop for repair. Hunter abandoned the laptop, and the laptop contents eventually found its way to Rudy and Lude. Lude is in the process of dumping the contents of the laptop on his Parler account and at GTV. You can also watch Lude on his YouTube Channel. One of the recent dumps states that Mulan star Liu Yifei...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The remake of “Mulan” struck all the right chords to be a hit in the key Chinese market. Disney cast beloved actor Liu Yifei as Mulan and removed a dragon sidekick popular in the animated original to cater to Chinese tastes.Still, the movie drew decidedly mixed reviews after its coronavirus-delayed release in China last week, with thousands panning it online. The movie was rated 4.9 out of 10 by more than 165,000 people on Douban, a leading website for film, book and music ratings. Negative comments and jokes about the film outnumbered positive reactions on...

Disney’s newest live-action movie, “Mulan,” was released Friday. So far, reviews have ranged from mostly positive to absolutely glowing: “an exciting, well-crafted action movie,” a “robust” and “family-friendly, live-action Disney fantasy,” and an “epic-scale tribute to female empowerment.”However, the feedback on Mulan has chilled considerably after reports that Disney filmed substantial portions of the movie in China’s Xinjiang province, with the blessing and cooperation of the Chinese Communist government.Xinjiang is the home province of some 12 million Muslim Uighurs. According to the U. S. State Department, over one million of them have been moved to concentration camps where “they are...

Just in time for Labor Day weekend, Disney released its live-action version of “Mulan” through Disney Plus. Watching the film costs $30 plus the $6.99 monthly subscription fee. I didn’t take the bait, and I hope you will boycott the movie as well.I have no objection to the historical origin of “Mulan,” a story about a young Chinese heroine who poses as a man to fight a war on behalf of her ailing father. As a little girl from China, my mother told me the story many times. I even give partial credit to Mulan’s story for inspiring me...

<p>Another corporation continuing its fealty to the communist regime is seen in this new release.</p> <p>There has been much conversation surrounding the release of the new Disney live-action motion picture. Following its Vault Classics formula of adapting titles from its animation catalog, ‘’Mulan’’ was set to be the studio’s big summer release. COVID changed all of that, and as it now has made its way to streaming, we are seeing some of the small ways it has bowed to the Chinese Communists.</p>

Disney is slashing the age-old theatrical window to ribbons: The much-anticipated live-action remake of Mulan is skipping theaters in the U.S. and debuting on Disney+ on Friday, Sept. 4… for an additional $29.99 fee, that is. The news was announced during Disney’s earnings call on Tuesday, our sister site Variety reports. Mulan — based on the 1998 animated film and starring Liu Yifei as the titular girl who poses as a boy to take her father’s place in China’s imperial army — was originally slated to be released in theaters back in March, but was delayed due to the global...

Disney is no longer releasing Mulan on Aug. 21 and is unsetting the movie for the time being. Oy, just when AMC was looking to turn the lights back on with a big movie in pockets of the country. [snip] Disney is also not revealing their playbook, i.e. whether Mulan will debut abroad first before domestic, even though logic would dictate that. Earlier this week, exhibitors and distributors were betting Mulan would stay put; the notion being that the Niki Caro-directed feature adaptation of the 1998 toon would be on Disney+ by at least Christmas. “Over the last few months,...

“Mulan” star Tzi Ma is frequently recognized for his many film and television roles, including in last year’s indie hit “The Farewell” and the “Rush Hour” films. But it was an encounter weeks ago that has stayed with him. Ma had visited a Whole Foods grocery store in Pasadena, Calif., when a car approached him as he made his way to the entrance. “He rolls down the window and goes, ‘You should be quarantined,’ and then he took off,” Ma told Variety. He said he stood, speechless, before unleashing screams at the verbal assaulter, who was by then long gone....

Who knew the Walt Disney Company would be pulled into the protests in Hong Kong? The controversy involves a member of the Disney Princesses franchise, or at least an actress set to play a live-action version of Disney’s beloved character Mulan. Chinese-American actress Liu Yifei is in hot water over a show of support for the Hong Kong police.Since March, millions have taken to the streets in Hong Kong in pro-democracy demonstrations. Sunday it was reported that 1.7 million marched in heavy rain as the threats from China’s military continue. What began as protests against legislation which would have...

Chinese-American actress Liu Yifei has attracted support and brickbats online after voicing support for the Hong Kong police on social media this week amid the city’s anti-government protests. There were calls to boycott Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan , in which she has the title role. The hashtag #BoycottMulan was trending on Twitter on Friday, featuring in more than 21,000 posts. Liu’ s name featured in more than 16,000 posts. On Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, where she has 65.6 million followers, Liu shared a post by People’s Daily, the official newspaper of China’s Communist Party, with the quote “I...