The comic film “Crossed Lines” premiered in Beijing on Sunday, raising the curtain on the New Year movie season.

The film features* a collection of comedic talents and is not the work of one single director — it has five directors, and one of them is the popular talk-show host Liu Yiwei.

The film is a light-hearted combination of four independent stories. The only similarity is that each story revolves* around a mobile phone.

A dozen well-known actors were featured in the movie.

Among them are Fan Bingbing, Xu Fan and Ge You, the bald comedian who has appeared in almost every New Year film by Feng Xiaogang, the father of the movie genre* in China.

The film is expected to hit domestic theaters on November 30.

More films, including Hong Kong actor-director Stephen Chow’s “A Hope,” Hong Kong director Peter Chan’s “The Warlords,” and Feng’s “The Assembly,” are set to grace the big screen during the New Year holiday period.