Hongkong Entertainment 2012/10/29

  • Athena Chu



  • Kelvin Kwan becomes Hot Film Property

    Kelvin Kwan Chor Yiu and Shiga Lin yesterday attended their micro movie premiere and a TeaWood opening ceremony. Director For For was also on hand.
    Kelvin revealed that this was his first micro movie. Shiga revealed that they have already shot two endings for the micro movie online vote. She said, "We shot a happy and an unhappy ending. I even had to shed tears due to the story." Kelvin mentioned that when he was in school he worked as a bartender in a Taiwanese restaurant in Canada. He said, "At the time I had to make bubble tea everyday." Did it make meeting girls easier? He laughed and said, "It was all right." He declined to comment on how many girls he got and stressed that at the time he just drank bubble tea like mad.
    In addition, Kelvin after making LAN KWAI FONG (HEI OI YEH PO) had nonstop film offers. He thanked many directors and producers for giving him opportunities. "At the end of the year I will have to make two movies." As for their genres and casts, he only stated that they were comedy films. Shiga revealed that she was in negotiation for a movie but nothing has been confirmed. As for a raise, she said that she has not asked the company about it and did not know how much she was paid. She joked that work was the most important.
    Source: Takungpao, Mingpao
    Translated by: hktopten
  • Ethan Juan feels guilty about slapping Co-Star

    The Peter Chan Ho Sun produced, Andrew Lau Wai Keung directed action film THE GUILLOTINES (HUET DIK JI) will be released on December 27. THE GUILLOTINES is the ancient version of YOUNG AND DANGEROUS (GOO WAT JAI) that Lau Wai Keung successfully created. A "Qing style YOUNG AND DANGEROUS" character poster was even created in the Mainland.
    "The Guillotine Heavenly Team" even issued a slogan, "Hot blooded youth, scars as proof". During the shoot each one of the young actors was injured, but they did not mind at all. They even felt that the scars were the proof of youth. Ethan Juan (Yuen King Tin) had the cutest scar as he scratched up his rear from horse riding; Shawn Yue Man Lok fell off the horse several times and suffered bruises; Chris Lee Yuchun suffered burns from sparks during a night scene; Jing Boran's injuries were more minor, as he only scratched and bloodied his palm on the door; Purba Rgyal (Po Ba Gap) suffered a severe injury on his leg and was "crippled" for two weeks.
    Yet the greatest mental "youth proof" was left with Huang Xiaoming. His leg was already injured to start with before 1,500 catties of explosives were triggered behind him without his knowledge. During the shoot he could not react too much, afterward he finally said, "I was completely blasted silly!" Yuen King Tin due to the story had to slap Jing Boran viciously. Before this scene the gentle Siu Tin struggled for two days. "I have never slapped anyone before. It was particularly hard to take, not to mention when Jing Bo is the one!" Finally he had to slap seven times before a take was accepted, leaving marks and traces of blood on Jing Boran's smooth face. As soon as Siu Tin saw them his eyes got teary, but Jing Boran instead comforted him. "I deserved to get hit, but you are more heart broken than I am. What's going on?" Later, Siu Tin treated Jing Boran to hot pot casserole and gave all the snacks in his room to him to make himself feel better.
    Source: Takungpao, Mingpao
    Translated by! : hktopten
  • Money hurts friendship for William Chan

    Yesterday William Chan Wai Ting appeared on a radio program to promote his film TRIAD (JAT JIK) and its theme song (RETURNS WHAT IS BORROWED). Speaking of friends borrowing money but not returning it, he revealed that he loaned a sum of five figures to a good friend, who used it to court a girl. He said, "Now I have an idea. We can still be friends, but I won't lend any money!" He said that after getting into the business he ran into financial troubles but he chose to grind his teeth than asking for his family and friends for money.
    In addition, William revealed that he will have to promote his film TRIAD. He said that he had certain confidence about the box office. The theme song and the film trailer had decent response online. He said, "The film company wants to try a gimmick and ask me to lead extras to Temple Street. I am very scared!"
    Source: Singtao, on.cc
    Translated by: hktopten
  • Shawn Yue is afraid of working up north

    Zhou Xun, Shawn Yue Man Lok, Jennifer Tse Ting Ting, Hilary Tsui Ho Ying and others two nights ago attended an event. Yue Man Lok will soon fully promote his new film THE GUILLOTINES (HUET DIK JI). With Ethan Juan (Yuen King Tin) currently in military service, the promotion will fall to him and Huang Xiaoming. Next month Lok Jai will start a new film in Hong Kong. He said that in recent years he has been working on movies in the Mainland, working away from home has been very tough. Was he missing his Hong Kong girlfriend? He said, "I don't have a girlfriend in Hong Kong. (Then are you avoiding your Mainland girlfriend?) Ha, avoiding trouble, that's great" Two days ago was Aaron Kwok Fu Sing's birthday, Lok Jai said that earlier they already celebrated. Did they save the actual day for Sing Sing to spend with Lynn Xiong (Hung Doi Lam)? He said, "I don't know! Who is that?"
    Source: Mingpao, Singtao, on.cc
    Translated by: hktopten
  • Law Chung Him steals the spotlight

    busy with both film and television, Law Chung Him two nights ago worked on his new film on Ships Street, Wan Chai. Also on hand were Jacqueline Chong Si Man, Oscar Leung Lit Wai and Mainland actress Michelle Hu Ran. Him Jai wore a leather jacket and gel in his hair as he held on to a barricade, smoked and acted with Hu Ran. Soon the neutrally dressed Chong Si Man and Leung Lit Wai met up with them as they chatted and smoked on the street.
    Playing a bisexual Chong Si Man's eyes lit up when she saw Hu Ran and took the initiative to greet him. They huddled up, talked and laughed. Him Jai kept his pose and could rival "chok king" Raymond Lam Fung!
    Source: on.cc
    Translated by: hktopten
  • [2012.10.28] LAW CHUNG HIM STEALS THE SPOTLIGHT
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    busy with both film and television, Law Chung Him two nights ago worked on his new film on Ships Street, Wan Chai. Also on hand were Jacqueline Chong Si Man, Oscar Leung Lit Wai and Mainland actress Michelle Hu Ran. Him Jai wore a leather jacket and gel in his hair as he held on to a barricade, smoked and acted with Hu Ran. Soon the neutrally dressed Chong Si Man and Leung Lit Wai met up with them as they chatted and smoked on the street.

    Playing a bisexual Chong Si Man's eyes lit up when she saw Hu Ran and took the initiative to greet him. They huddled up, talked and laughed. Him Jai kept his pose and could rival "chok king" Raymond Lam Fung!
  • [2012.10.28] SHAWN YUE IS AFRAID OF WORKING UP NORTH
    Zhou Xun is excited about her two month vacation after her film promotion
    Wyman Wong, Zhou Xun, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Tse, Hilary Tsui, Shawn Yue
    Hilary Tsui
    Fruit Chan, Zhou Xun
    Ankie Beilke
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courtesy of singtao.com
Zhou Xun is very happy about receiving Tom Hanks' praise for her CLOUD ATLAS work
Jennifer Tse says that the Tse family is very healthy despite her brother Nicholas Tse's cancer scare
courtesy of mingpao.com

Zhou Xun, Shawn Yue Man Lok, Jennifer Tse Ting Ting, Hilary Tsui Ho Ying and others two nights ago attended an event. Yue Man Lok will soon fully promote his new film THE GUILLOTINES (HUET DIK JI). With Ethan Juan (Yuen King Tin) currently in military service, the promotion will fall to him and Huang Xiaoming. Next month Lok Jai will start a new film in Hong Kong. He said that in recent years he has been working on movies in the Mainland, working away from home has been very tough. Was he missing his Hong Kong girlfriend? He said, "I don't have! a girlfr! iend in Hong Kong. (Then are you avoiding your Mainland girlfriend?) Ha, avoiding trouble, that's great" Two days ago was Aaron Kwok Fu Sing's birthday, Lok Jai said that earlier they already celebrated. Did they save the actual day for Sing Sing to spend with Lynn Xiong (Hung Doi Lam)? He said, "I don't know! Who is that?"


  • Linda Chung @ Yes Magazine Vol.1127

    Linda's drama series has normally been followed by one after another, but with none at present she is still making appearances on our television screens. Linda is currently focusing on her singing career at the moment, working hard on music recordings and making special guest appearances on music programs, promoting her new song "You're my other half".
    Earlier in the year, Linda promised she'll be releasing an album, and her fans were worrying when this will actually happen as the year comes to an end. Fans need not to worry as Linda has just finished recording all her songs, confirming the release date of her new album to be on the 23rd November, highlighting that love will be the main theme.
    Whether or not we have heard her songs, I'm sure we will all be infatuated with Linda personally singing!
    MV in uniform
    Recently Linda was shooting her music video for the song "You're my other half", which revolves around the story of a nurse (played by her) and her patient whose a member of the triads (played by a Japanese model). His occurring injuries and their time seeing each other eventually develops into a love story.
    In the MV, a male Japanese model is involved with Linda saying, "I've waited so long for this opportunity. My previous MV's have mainly been just me, now there's a male model and it's the first time I've collaborated with a Japanese guy, so really excited! When I initially started shooting, I wanted to get Bosco Wong as the patient due to the similarities when we were both in "Witness Insecurity". In the drama series I was waiting for him so felt this too would be similar. But Bosco is currently busy, so I'll find him next time when he's free!"
    If Linda and Bosco will really shoot an MV together in the future, "Witness Insecurity" fans will definitely be delighted!
    Young Sailor Moon
    Linda's new look, dressed up like a tender angel clothed in white clotes, is a new and int! eresting area for her to explore.
    "Having starred in a lot of drama series, I have never acted as a nurse. This time I can actually have a feel of trying on a nurse's uniform. My childhood dream was actually to become a nurse, but as I got older I felt scared, feel sick and could not breathe whenever I see blood or operations. In the end I pursued something else; I really loved children so I wanted to become a teacher instead.
    Linda also confessed whilst she has never worn any uniform, she loved playing dress up when she was young; "I dressed up and posed as Sailor moon and would steal mum's clothes to play!".
    Actually Sailor moon is a type of uniform, so maybe Linda did wear uniforms before!
    Album singing "Love, Love, Love"
    Linda has said for a long time she'll be releasing an album, which will finally be released on the 23rd November with the countdown already beginning!
    It was announced earlier that she had finished recording the last song, and she can now focus on advertising and promoting her new album. The new album "Love, Love, Love", with love as the central theme, focuses on different aspects of love so there will be plenty of slow songs.
    "There are currently 11 songs, including the recently released 'Vaccine' and 'You're my other half', there will also be my newly created song 'Simple Friendship'. Plenty of stress involved whilst working on this album; these included a lack of sleep and bad skin complexion.
    Regarding pictures for the album, previous pictures revolved around the feeling of "hurt", but this time happiness will be the main focus, hoping it'll leave a positive and happy impression.
    Always looking to improve
    Linda's performances so far have been eye catching, at the same time as an artist, this comes along with the associated pressure of singing. "I have jumped from the tv screen to the music industry, afraid of people thinking that I am not taking it seriousl! y. So eve! ry time I perform, I do my best and set myself high expectations".
    "There's still a long road ahead with plenty to learn, so I hope to sing with different styles. Audiences tend to think of me as good and obedient, don't know a lot of things, don't know how to dance etc. But I want to change people's perceptions. I want to try out new things every year, to progress step by step, to change people's views that I can only sing slow, love songs to singing fast and wild songs".
    Besides releasing a new album, Linda has also started shooting a new drama series! "I have just started shooting "Big Wheel", recently been doing research on different films, drama series, new acting techniques and new ideas. This time I'll be collaborating with Ruco Chan, Edwin Siu and Louis Yuen, hoping to create good chemistry between us!
    Wow...shooting and promoting the album at the same time, Linda is indeed very hard working!
    Source: Linda Garden
    Translated by: Jwan @ Linda Chung Thoughts
  • TVB to implement 'One Vote Per Person' method to choose TV King/Queen; Spokesperson won't rule out possibility that 'loopholes' exist
    Despite the fiasco created by the voting failure at the Miss Hong Kong pageant earlier this year, TVB is still very much interested in continuing to utilize the 'One Vote Per Person' (OVPP) method for future programs. On October 25th, via a phone interview, our reporter was able to obtain confirmation that TVB will once again be utilizing the 'One Vote Per Person' method at this year's TVB Anniversary Awards to choose the winners in 3 categories: Best Actor (TV King), Best Actress (TV Queen), and Best Series.
    Earlier, when TVB utilized the OVPP method for the Miss Hong Kong pageant, the process failed due to 'technical problems', resulting in severe criticism from the general public. Even with the 'technical problems' seemingly resolved now, new questions surrounding the OVPP process have arisen – including the biggest question of all: "If the audiences vote to determine TV King and Queen, what happens to the 'professional' aspect of the awards?"
    Audiences vote for 'the Best', rest of the awards don't change
    Heading into anniversary season, the yearly TVB Anniversary Awards has become a hot topic of discussion as usual. A few days ago, TVB released the results of the investigation into the Miss HK voting failure – the report stated that the voting outage had nothing to do with hackers [as previously suspected], but rather resulted from 'technical' problems. [TN: according to the official report, users attempted to vote multiple times in order to increase their chances of winning the car, resulting in a high volume of transactions that exceeded a predefined limit for the specific time frame and thereby crashing the system.] With the investigation complete, TVB has plans to continue utilizing this method in future events.
    On October 25th, our reporter called up TVB's director of external affairs Tsang Sing Ming (曾醒明). He expressed that TVB has already confirmed that they will utilize the 'One Vote Per Person'! method to determine the winners of the Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Series awards at this year's ceremony, however the method for determining the rest of the awards won't change for now. Mr. Tsang also revealed that the anniversary awards ceremony itself will likely go through a process change this year – the 'other' awards will be determined more in advance so that the last 3 days leading up to the ceremony will be reserved for audiences to vote on the 3 'main' awards: "By giving audiences 3 days to vote, we can avoid the issue we had during Miss HK where too many people voting at the same time paralyzed the system."
    Mr. Tsang continues: "Nowadays, many younger audiences prefer using the Internet rather than television -- the HK television industry is considering a better way to attract these younger audiences to participate. The 'One Vote Per Person' method can be conducted over the Internet, which is more convenient compared to the 'old' way of having to fill out a form." From the Miss HK pageant to the Anniversary Awards, it seems that TVB has become especially fond of the 'audience vote' method – Mr. Tsang explains that this will become a 'trend' in the future of HK television.
    The ones with most fans win, lacks credibility
    In the eyes of many industry insiders, the method of OVPP becoming a more formalistic 'trend' in the industry is definitely cause for concern. TV Series Magazine's《電視劇》Editor Sui Chak (水澤) [specializes in writing about TVB series and artists] expressed that he does not see a good future for the OVPP method.
    Sui Chak states that a bit of 'controversy' already existed in the previous method of choosing the winners for TV King / Queen [TN: previous method was a combination of audience, TVB producers, and TVB executives votes], but at least the "underlying basis for determining the winners was based on acting -- plus in the past few year! s, non-ma! nagement contract artists, such as Sheren Tang (鄧萃雯) for example, were able to win, which is proof that things were getting better. Applying the OVPP method would cause the awards to become 'popularity' awards instead where the artist who has the most fans wins – this lacks credibility and is unfair to the older, 'talent-path' veterans who may not have such a large fanbase. In terms of Best Series, many audiences don't consider whether the series is truly good or not – most of the time, audiences will support a series merely because of their idols. Fans will likely vote for a series because their idols star in them, but do they really think that the series is good? Probably not." According to Sui Chak's analysis, if TVB utilizes the OVPP method, the winner of the TV King award will "without a doubt be Raymond Lam because when it comes to popularity, no other artist can surpass him."
    Sui Chak continues: "The 'One Vote Per Person' method should actually be used for the 'Favorite Male / Female Character' awards – there would be no problems with 100% audience vote with these 2 awards because by virtue, these are 'popularity'-based awards anyway. As for the other awards, those should be determined by the management team and producers – the 'professional' versus 'popularity' awards should remain separate." Sui Chak feels that by implementing the OVPP method [for the Anniversary Awards], TVB seems to be going in the wrong direction.
    Q & A with Tsang Sing Ming
    The 'concern' over the OVPP situation seems to have divided on-line fans of TVB series into 2 groups: while some netizens / fans feel that using the OVPP method can reduce the 'cannon fodder' resulting from TVB's notorious 'party politics', an even larger group of netizens / fans are worried about the 'fairness' factor [TN: artists winning based purely on number of fans rather than performance]. The concerns of these netizens can be summarized ! into 4 ma! in questions, which our reporter took the opportunity to ask TVB's spokesperson Tsang Sing Ming over the phone (see below). Mr. Tsang admits "that 'loopholes' definitely do exist in the process, however we won't know [how it'll turn out] until we try it."
    Question 1: Certain artists have large fanbases, so naturally they will receive the most number of votes. However, wouldn't this be unfair to those artists who truly perform [act] well but don't have as many fans?
    Tsang's response: We cannot deny the fact that artists with large fanbases have more of an advantage. However if these artists were truly able to gain so much support and 'influence' so many people to rally behind them in the first place, then it proves that the artist must already have a certain solid foundation – in that case, winning the award is understandable.
    Question 2: Prior to this, there were already 2 'popularity' awards chosen mostly by audience votes – the 'Favorite Male Character' and 'Favorite Female Character' awards. Now that the TV King and Queen awards will be decided by audience vote as well, then wouldn't the 2 awards essentially mean the same thing?
    Tsang's response: For the 'Favorite Male / Female Character' awards, we will be utilizing a combined audience vote + professional judges method to determine the winners, which will help differentiate them from the TV King / Queen awards. As to the specific criteria that the judges will utilize, we will continue to study it and hopefully come up with the most suitable solution.
    Question 3: What about the possibility of overzealous fans voting repeatedly for their idols, thereby creating duplicate votes?
    Tsang's response: We will be using the same system that we did for the Miss HK voting earlier – each person must register using their HK identification card number and each ID number will only! be allow! ed to vote once. This will be able to prevent people from voting multiple times.
    Question 4: For the 'Best Series' award, won't the series that air closest to the anniversary period have the greatest advantage, since these series will still be fresh in audience's minds? So this means that series such as The Hippocratic Crush 《OnCall36小時》, which aired close to 6 months ago, won't have much of a chance, since audiences have likely forgotten about those series already?
    Tsang's response: That's why we arrange for certain grand production 'anniversary series' to air around anniversary time. Anniversary series do have a little more advantage, since audiences usually pay more attention to them. True, other series might possibly be affected a bit, but if the series are truly 'good series', we believe that audiences will still have a deep impression of them.
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    Producer Chong Wai Kin responds: "It's only a 'program'!"
    Compared to the many 'concerns' that netizens have, people within TVB seem to have a more 'relaxed' attitude toward the OVPP issue.
    This year, producer Chong Wai Kin (莊偉建) has anniversary series Silver Spoon, Sterling Shackles《名媛望族》in the running – the series just started airing and already, it has received much acclaim from the general public. However, in the face of the new 'One Vote Per Person' method this year, whether the series will be able to hold its own against the series manned by the younger, popular idols remains to be seen. Towards this, Chong Wai Kin candidly states that it doesn't matter to him: "We have to give it a try in order to know if it's going to work!" The way he sees it, the purpose for implementing this type of method is to attract more audiences: "After all, the previous method was used for too long already – audiences are tired of it." As for netizens' concern that using OVPP will cause the award! s to beco! me 'popularity' awards, Chong Wai Kin admits that he is not too concerned with it: "Actually, whether a series is good or not, everyone already has their own 'conclusion' about it. Therefore, the way I see it, this awards thing is merely a 'program'!" [TN: My interpretation of Chong Wai Kin's last comment: 'people are making a big fuss over this unnecessarily…']
    Source: Sina News
    Translated by: llwy12 @ AsianFanatics
  • Kenneth Ma's Wave in "Silver Spoon, Sterling Shackles" Dependent on Clips

    Kenneth Ma is temporarily not as eye-catching as his promiscuous father, Damian Lau, in "Silver Spoon, Sterling Shackles"; however, Kenneth's hairstyle is very eye-catching. Yesterday, a netizen posted a picture of him before his hair was set. Actually very cute...used three big hair clips to create a wave...like a young lady. Afterward, someone put Kenneth's wave and added two variation versions--one was Kazuhiko Hanawa, while the other was Astro Boy. All three having this hairstyle...definitely full of cuteness.
    According to an expert, Kenneth's hairstyle is called a 'finger wave'...a traditional hairstyle, which is a basic skill that must be learned by those learning how to set hairstyles. Tang Wei also had this in "Lust, Caution".
    Source: appledaily
    Translated by: hyn5 @ 幸而城 Fortunate City
  • Bosco Wong's "Feminine Man" Charm Defeats Kate Tsui

    Yesterday Bosco Wong and Kate Tsui attended the ELLE Style Awards 2012 opening ceremony. The two TVB Siu Sang and FaDans were pressuring the group of Mainland celebrities at the event. Kate was dressed in a strapped black evening dress, showing off her shoulders and Bosco had on a pink leather jacket accompanied by a fringe handbag, selling "feminine man" charisma and made the Mainland fans scream loudly.
    When asked if Bosco had confidence to become TV King? He said: "Didn't think about it. Everyone is so good! Moses Chan and Raymond Lam are strong opponents." He also supported ex-lover Myolie Wu's performance in Ghetto Justice II. Also, yesterday Kate took part in a car race in Shanghai, where she drove as fast as 100km and became the winner in the female group.
    Source: Oriental Daily
    Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU Forum
  • TVB 2013 Calendar Illegally Leaked Online, Seeks Legal Assistance

    Yesterday TVB's 2013 Calendar was leaked online illegally, which had greatly shocked the company. TVB immediately went to seek legal assistance, requesting websites and Weibo users to delete the photos. Each year, TVB gathers all of their popular artists to be part of the calendar and then give the copies to their clients. Earlier, the artists secretly went through the photo shoot, but yesterday morning the entire calendar was spreading around on Weibo.
    Yesterday morning, a Netizen posted the entire TVB 2013 Calendar on Weibo, including the cover with the big group picture and the back page of the calendar with credits and list of production staff. The photos were marked to have been supplied by TVB. Many artists including Dodo Cheng, Tracy Ip and Samantha Ko were part of the reposting and spreading of the calendar photos. They praised the photos were beautiful, but their Weibo posts were later deleted. However, it was too late, the calendar was already madly spreading online.
    TVB Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Tsang Sing Ming, expressed it was confirmed that the release yesterday was illegal and it was theft. The legal department is currently investigating. The outsourced company that produced the TVB 2013 Calendar wants to investigate to the source of the leakage. Mr. Tsang expressed the calendar is currently under post-production and has not reach competition of the final version yet.
    Yesterday after the leakage, TVB quickly seeks legal assistance and issued letters out to Weibo and websites to delete the photos and stop spreading them. As this is illegal activity, TVB will get to the bottom of this and may seek assistance from the police.
    Photoshopped Too Much & Weird Poses
    The calendar is the index for favored artists, TV King and Queen hot favorites Raymond Lam and Kate Tsui took the lead, joining Bosco Wong, Aimee Chan and Linda Chung on the month of January; Myolie Wu's status was clearly implied as she was grouped with three TV Kings, Moses! Chan, Wayne Lai and Kevin Cheng on November; Kate's greatest TV Queen competitor Tavia Yeung was paired with Fala Chen on February. However, the calendar appeared to have been photoshopped too much, which made the artists look somewhat "plastic" and unnatural! In addition, the artists had strange poses, like on January, Linda Chung was standing away from the group. Wonder if its because she's afraid of rumors with Raymond Lam again? Eliza Sam, Samantha Ko and Natalie Tong showed off their legs, but that did not compare to Fala Chen and Suki Tsui in the 2009 calendar, where they were dressed in bathing suits and showing off their legs.
    Source: Mingpao
    Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU Forum
  • Wayne Lai Doesn't Dare to Compete for TV King again: "I'll Get Kick Out of TVB"

    Wayne Lai accepted an interview on Timothy Cheng's RTHK radio program. He expressed he has confidence on his upcoming new series The Confidant and reveals TVB is making it a grand occasion. On October 31st, The Confidant premiere will be held at Elements HK Shopping Mall, where the first episode will be shown in advance. Recently Damian Lau has been very well-received by the audience for his performance in Silver Spoon Sterling Shackles, Wayne said: "Yes! I have also noticed that glamorous dancing scene of his." Wayne thinks it is a good thing that both anniversary series get good feedback. If he could defeat a strong opponent, then he'll be even happier.
    Silver Spoon is doing well in the TV ratings, but Wayne believed The Confidant will also match the ratings. A magazine reported, in this series he's going to be a 'dog' again? Wayne clarified: "I'm not a dog. In the series, I start off as an eunuch and climb up from there. When I first entered the palace, I was bullied, which is similar to Chai Gau (Rosy Business) because he starts from the bottom and then works his way up to success." He joked and said The Confidant certainly doesn't have a "strong aftertaste" as Silver Spoon because there won't be any glamorous dancing scenes, but he does have a bed scene with Nancy Wu.
    Would he want a sequel if there are high ratings? Wayne said: "Yes, because we didn't touch on Lee Lin Ying's later years in the series. If we have support from the audience, I hope to shoot a sequel and tell a story about Lee Lin Ying's later years where there is some violation between him and Empress Dowager, there will be great changes then." Reporter suggested he could depend on this sequel to fight for the TV King title next year? Wayne laughed: "Again? That's enough! It's hard to survive in TVB if get the award too many times, I will get kicked out the door!"
    Source: Mingpao
    Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU Forum
  • [2012.10.27] MONEY HURTS FRIENDSHIP FOR WILLIAM CHAN
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    Yesterday William Chan Wai Ting appeared on a radio program to promote his film TRIAD (JAT JIK) and its theme song (RETURNS WHAT IS BORROWED). Speaking of friends borrowing money but not returning it, he revealed that he loaned a sum of five figures to a good friend, who used it to court a girl. He said, "Now I have an idea. We can still be friends, but I won't lend any money!" He said that after getting into the business he ran into financial troubles but he chose to grind his teeth than asking for his family and friends for money.

    In addition, William revealed that he will have to promote his film TRIAD. He said that he had certain confidence about the box office. The theme song and the film trailer had decent response online. He said, "The film company wants to try a gimmick and ask me to lead extras to Temple Street. I am very scared!"
  • [2012.10.27] ETHAN JUAN FEELS GUILTY ABOUT SLAPPING CO-STAR
    YOUNG AND DANGEROUS
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    The Peter Chan Ho Sun produced, Andrew Lau Wai Keung directed action film THE GUILLOTINES (HUET DIK JI) will be released on December 27. THE GUILLOTINES is the ancient version of YOUNG AND DANGEROUS (GOO WAT JAI) that Lau Wai Keung successfully created. A "Qing style YOUNG AND DANGEROUS" character poster was even created in the Mainland.

    "The Guillotine Heavenly Team" even issued a slogan, "Hot blooded youth, scars as proof". During the shoot each one of the young actors was injured, but they did not mind at all. They even felt that the scars were the proof of youth. Ethan Juan (Yuen King Tin) had the cutest scar as he scratched up his rear from horse riding; Shawn Yue Man Lok fell off the horse several times and suffered bruises; Chris Lee Yuchun suffered burns from sparks during a night scene; Jing Boran's injuries were more minor, as he only scratched and bloodied his palm on the door; Purba Rgyal (Po Ba Gap) suffered a severe injury on his leg and was "crippled" for two weeks.

    Yet the greatest mental "youth proof" was left with Huang Xiaomi! ng. His leg was already injured to start with before 1,500 catties of explosives were triggered behind him without his knowledge. During the shoot he could not react too much, afterward he finally said, "I was completely blasted silly!" Yuen King Tin due to the story had to slap Jing Boran viciously. Before this scene the gentle Siu Tin struggled for two days. "I have never slapped anyone before. It was particularly hard to take, not to mention when Jing Bo is the one!" Finally he had to slap seven times before a take was accepted, leaving marks and traces of blood on Jing Boran's smooth face. As soon as Siu Tin saw them his eyes got teary, but Jing Boran instead comforted him. "I deserved to get hit, but you are more heart broken than I am. What's going on?" Later, Siu Tin treated Jing Boran to hot pot casserole and gave all the snacks in his room to him to make himself feel better.
  • [2012.10.27] KELVIN KWAN BECOMES HOT FILM PROPERTY
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    courtesy of takungpao.com

    Kelvin Kwan Chor Yiu and Shiga Lin yesterday attended their micro movie premiere and a TeaWood opening ceremony. Director For For was also on hand.

    Kelvin revealed that this was his first micro movie. Shiga revealed that they have already shot two endings for the micro movie online vote. She said, "We shot a happy and an unhappy ending. I even had to shed tears due to the story." Kelvin mentioned that when he was in school he worked as a bartender in a Taiwanese restaurant in Canada. He said, "At the time I had to make bubble tea everyday." Did it make meeting girls easier? He laughed and said, "It was all right." He declined to comment on how many girls he got and stressed that at the time he just drank bubble tea like mad.

    In addition, Kelvin after making LAN KWAI FONG (HEI OI YEH PO) had nonstop film offers. He thanked many directors and producers for giving him opportunities. "At the end of the year I will have to make two movies." As for their genres and casts, he only stated that they were comedy films. Shiga revealed that she was in negotiation for a movie but nothing has been confirmed. As for a raise, she said that she has not asked the company about it and did not know how much she was paid. She joked that work was the most important.





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