Jiang Wen has high hopes of follow-up film

Jiang Wen, who directs and stars in Let the Bullets Fly, the highest-grossing domestic film, is confident about his new flick.

He jokes that The Lost Bladesman, a kungfu drama also starring Donnie Yen, will gross 1.5 billion yuan ($220 million) because Bullets earned 700 million yuan last year, and Yen's three films in the same year earned 800 million yuan.

In the film Jiang plays warlord Cao Cao, ruler of one of the Three Kingdoms (AD 220-280), while Yen is the renowned general Guan Yu.

Jiang is also preparing for a sequel to Bullets, the hit film of 2010. His producer Ma Ke told reporters in an earlier interview that filming might start this year. The Lost Bladesman will premiere on April 28.

China's most beautiful women line up for crown

China's most beautiful women will battle it out in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, in August, to be a finalist at the 61st Miss World.

Aspiring hopefuls can now apply to enter the contest. After a four-month preliminary selection the top winner in the China pageant, honored as Miss World China, will take part in the global final.

Organizers will offer winners of the China pageant scholarships at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology.

Zhang Zilin won the top honor of the global event as Miss World in 2007.

Launched in 1951, Miss World is one of the world's most watched annual events, with a worldwi

e viewing audience of over 1 billion.