Chinese Film Director Feng Xiaogang to Be Immortalized at TCL Chinese Theater

Below is a press release from O'Malley International Associates:

On Friday, November 1, 2013, 11 a.m., at the TCL Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, the most popular film director in China, Feng Xiaogang, will be immortalized in cement during a Handprint Ceremony. 

Beijing-born Feng Xiaogang is a highly successful and visionary Chinese film director whose comedic films have consistently topped box office charts in China over the last 20 years.  He recently broke that mold by making drama or period drama films such as the well-regarded Back to 1942, which will be shown at the TCL Chinese Theatre during the Beijing Film Panorama in America festival, Nov. 1–Nov. 3.

Feng Xiaogang is the first Chinese film director to be immortalized in cement at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre. Formerly Grumman’s Chinese Theatre and Mann's Chinese Theatre, the theatre has been home to many movie premieres, since 1927 as well as Academy Awards ceremonies. Among the theater's most distinctive features are the concrete blocks set in the forecourt, which bear the signatures, footprints, and handprints of popular motion picture personalities from the 1920s to the present day.

Feng Xiaogang will be joined by Chinese film luminaries Xu Fan, Zhang Guoli, Deng Jive, Tang Gouging, and many other famous Chinese movie stars. This celebratory event is hosted by the Film Bureau of the General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio, Film and Television. The handprint ceremony and film screenings were organized by Beauty Media, Inc., ICN TV Network, and TCL Chinese Theatre, and co-organized by Huayi Brothers Media Group.