Friday, September 4, 2009

Shing Fui-On Funeral

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Shing's eldest son
Bat Leung Kam
Simon Yam bids farewell (Sina.com)

Venice Calling

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Huang Xiaoming
Huang Xiaoming appears in the September issue of "Men's Style", the Harper's Bazaar fashion magazine, in a photo shoot and article about his new spy film The Message.



Carina Lau (Xinhuanet.com)
Carina avoids commenting on Andy Lau



Oceane Zhu Xuan, Joseph Chang Hsiao-Chuan






Terri Kwan Wing, Yonfan, Oceane Zhu

Louis Koo



Michelle Ye Xuan



Richie Ren



Bosco Wong and Charlene Choi



Bosco Wong



Zhang Ziy Special Olympics Ambassador



Rock of Love









Jane Zhang


Thursday, September 3, 2009

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Biopic of Confucius to screen during Spring Festival
Vancouver festival lines up Asia sidebar



Taipei Times - Short Takes
First Snow
If you crave a mixture of squeaky-clean inter-ethnic teen romance and family drama, there’s no beating First Snow (also known as, ahem, Virgin Snow). Korean immigrant Lee Jun-ki bumps into incredibly sweet Aoi Miyazaki a couple of times and they fall in love. The real drama of the flick comes from the latter’s wretched home life, which leads to the question: Why do aberrant movie families always produce daughters who are as pure as the driven snow? Set in Kyoto, which doesn’t hurt.

Overheard (竊聽風雲)
Infernal Affairs (無間道) co-writer-director Alan Mak (麥兆輝) and co-writer Felix Chong (莊文強) return with another tale of crime and compromise. Stalwart leading man Sean Lau (劉青雲) joins Louis Koo (古天樂) and Daniel Wu (吳彥祖) as intel agents who cross to the dark side, but their plan to make a quick profit leads to a nightmare of cover-ups and murder. This flick is notable for securing a release in China without having its ethical gray zone excised. More importantly, the public and critical response in Hong Kong was very positive. Koo also stars in the other, much more lowbrow Hong Kong release of the week, namely ...

On His Majesty’s Secret Service (大內密探靈靈狗)
The Chinese title suggests a follow-up to the 1996 Hong Kong costume court comedy Forbidden City Cop (大內密探零零發, retitled 鹿鼎大帝 for its Taiwan release) featuring superstar Steven Chow (周星馳) at the beginning of his directorial career and the delightful Carina Lau (劉嘉玲). Sadly, critics said this Wong Jing (王晶) production lacks star power and momentum and could do with more technical smarts. Louis Koo is an imperial guard who gets caught up in a competition to marry off the emperor’s daughter; farce follows. For the faithful there are movie references, anachronistic and gay panic gags, silly stunts and clunky props. The cast includes Taiwan’s Barbie Hsu (徐熙媛, better known as 大S) in the Carina Lau role.

The Code
A Japanese nightclub singer in Shanghai has a tattoo that contains the code to a stash of treasure left behind by the Japanese during the war, and the heroic Detective Office 5 and its debonair staff must recover the treasure, led by enterprising Detective 507 (Kikunosuke Onoe, Kaidan). Handsome to watch, but Variety moaned about unnecessary complexity and sobriety, while IMDb lists no less than seven directors.

Taipei Times: Pop Stop
Jacky Cheung, the most sincere Heavenly King
A tearful Andy apologises for his lies



George Lam and fan
George Lam invited a fan up onstage to sing with him
Later asked where his wife, Sally Yip was, Lam replied that she had an important badminton match. (!?)
Gillian Chung
Gillian said she hopes to sing with Charlene again

Kelly Chen back to work
Eight weeks after giving birth Kelly is back promoting mooncakes
http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/2/1/1/327132/1.html
A-Mei
During dress rehearsals A-mei flew 100 feet above the ground. from a tower to the track and field while singing the theme song. The flight which lasted one and a half minutes left A-mei shaking and in tears.


SCMP videos


Friends say goodbye to Shing Fui-On

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Shing Fui-On's casket
Teddy Robin
Ken Lo
Tommy Wong
Roy Cheung
Chin Kar-Lok

Maria Cordero
Danny Lee

Prudence Liew
Friends pay last respects to Shing Fui-On's at memorial hall
Others mourners include Eric Tsang, Nat Chan, Alan Tam, Law Kar-Ying, Alex Fong, Herman Yau, et al. Flowers were sent by John Woo's wife, HKFA. Shing's greates regret was to leave behind his 6 year-old son. Friends hope to establish a fund for his welfare.
http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/p/2009-09-03/18162682644.shtml
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Chow Yun-Fat has high praise for Confucius costar Zhou Xun at Beijing press conference.
Zhang Ziyi was interviewed on TV recently. After 10 years in the movie industry, she would prefer to wait for a good movie, star in a good supporting role, but not star in a bad role. Independence is Zhang's only ambition.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/ent/2009-09/03/content_11987380.htm

New spy film, Qiu Xi - Happy Autumn/Autumn Love(?) in October 14. Features Guo Xiaodong, Sun Chun, Jiang Yiyan and Qin Hailu. Directed by Sun Zhou, the story takes place in 1949 on the eve of the liberation of Guangzhou.
http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2009-09-02/22462681128.shtml


Ghost Film "Eternal Beloved" Hits Cinemas
Actress Yu Feihong's directorial debut "Eternal Beloved" hits cinemas across China on September 3.


66th Venice Film Festival Opens

Vietnamese tale of tangled love to get rare Venice screening

'Chinese Restaurants' documentary film screening in LA
"Chinese Restaurants" was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival in 2006.  It was produced by Hong Kong-born, Toronto-based director Cheuk Kwan and Cinematographer Kwoi Gin.


Sword-fighting epic revived
Director Wong Kar-Wai’s 1994 Wu Xia Classic Ashes Of Time Returns Enhanced To Cinemas 15 years On

Andy Lau tears as he apologises for lying

Edison Chen making a comeback in Taiwan

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Hey, remember me, Edison Chen?

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In July, Edison Chen shot a Levi's ad in Taiwan. In September, he'll be back to shoot two magazine ads. The theme, 'Persist, never give up', is similar to Gillian Chung's TOUGH jeans ad, 'Never give up, never compromise'. In a magazine interview, Edison said he spends 90 minutes a day working out and studying film production. He admires Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai and hopes to collaborate with them some day.
.http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/2/1/1/326490/1.html
Edison Chen making a comeback in Taiwan

Yu Ke-Hsin plans to auction old gifts from Andy Lau, such as toys and dolls, to benefit Typhoon Morakot victims.
http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/2/1/1/326491/1.html

Gaile Lok pregnant? A little belly bump, flat shoes and that's cause for suspicion.
http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/2/1/1/326468/1.html

More marriage certificatess found in Las Vegas. But are they the stars' or just similar names? In 1998, Gigi Leung would have been only 22. Maggie Cheung Ho-Yee, Race Wong, Kathy Chow, Jennifer Tse, William So were also found.
http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/h/p/2009-09-03/07522681816.shtml
Wu Chien-Lien was married two years ago in Las Vegas to her boyfriend in the pharmaceutical industry.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/ent/2009-09/03/content_11987562.htm

HKMDB Update - It's back!

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