Showing posts with label Fortune Buddies. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

8.11.2011 - News

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ScreenDaily: Celestial steps into online gaming with My Kingdom Game
Earlier this year Celestial announced to hold a screenplay contest in to select new Chinese filmmakers for Shaw Brothers movie remakes. So far, the top six stories have been selected and developed into full-length scripts. [1.18.2011]

Another comic heartwarmer from the team behind Woohoo!, but mellower and more didactic.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Hong Kong's Hui brothers found success with comedies which focused on working-class folk and their hare-brained get-rich-quick schemes.
Fortune Buddies employs that same formula, but without success. Actor-hosts Louis Yuen, Wong Cho Lam and Johnson Lee share an easy chemistry and have that will-do-anything-for-a-laugh spirit.
Despite this, Buddies is only intermittently amusing. The Mandarin dub of the original Cantonese dialogue probably did not help, either.
From the recent Hong Kong premiere
Eric Tsang

Johnson Lee Sze-Chit Wong Chau-Nam, Louis Yuen

Samantha Ko Hoi-Ning

Set in today's modern society, the 2011 version is neither a remake nor a sequel of the original, instead claiming that it simply borrows the comedy spirit from the 1993 classic.

"Hey*Shop", a horror comedy wraps up with a Beijing press conference. Director Ji Zhaoxin could not attend. The film is being readied for a Halloween release.
Cheung Tat-Ming

Athena Chu

Li Fei-er

Athena Chu, Cheung Tat-Ming, Liao Jian
Athena Chu choks


Lin Chi-ling has been maligned for her attempts at acting and singing, but the supermodel may have finally established herself as a bona fide thespian by appearing in a theatrical adaptation of Red Cliff in Tokyo.
Plus, the usual weddings, birthdays, and divorces.
Lin Chi-Ling on Tokyo stage 



A few days ago, Taiwanese singer A-Mei turned 39 years old.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

7.19.2011 - News

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Hey, isn't that Wendi Deng Murdoch seated behind James and Rupert Murdoch testifying before a parlimentary committee? She, literally, leapt to her husband's defense when a demonstrator attempted to hit Murdoch with a foam pie. Wendi jumped out of her seat and swung her arms to protect her man. 
Wendi Deng, left (Yahoo)
Who is Wendi Deng?
And a very informative profile, here.

FBA: Love For Life review
China's first AIDS drama jumps the rails when it becomes a star-driven tragic romance.

CRI: Tony Leung Fights to Win in 'The Grandmasters'
Check out the first trailer for Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited film, "The Grandmasters", starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai as the martial-arts legend Yip Man.



Lucas Tse and Ekin Cheng in Treasure Hunt
Lucas' cameo appearance in Wong Jing has drawn lots of attention and is featured in the trailer (Sina)

Beijing press conference for The Sorcerer and the White Snake (aka It's Love)
Huang Shengyi

Jet Li, Huang Shengyi

Director Tony Ching Siu-Tung

Yang Zi (producer), Tony Ching Siu-Tung, Huang Shengyi, Sarah Choi (producer), Jet Li

Beijing press conference for Daniel Lee's White Vengeance
Liu Yifei, Feng Shaofeng

Qin Jing 

Song Guangcheng, Daniel Lee, Liu Yifei, Feng Shaofeng


Fortune Buddies, which opens Aug. 11, features veteran actors like Pauline Wong who has been retired since the 1990's.
Pauline Wong Siu-Fung

Eric Tsang, Pauline Wong

Pauline Wong, Siu Yam-Yam, Richard Ng


Anita Mui's mother took to the streets to protest the court judgement against her in battle to claim Anita Mui's estate




Takes her case to reporters


Her son arrived later to take her away