After Party picture: MIC and Top Combine with He Jiong
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Groups: iMe, MIC, Top Combine, 8090, August
Female Soloists: Jane Zhang, Jiang Yingrong, Li Yuchun, Angela Chang, Tan Weiwei, Karen Mok, Sammi Cheng and Vicki Zhao Wei
Male Soloists: A Yue-chang, Han Geng, Wei Chen, and Zhang Jie
Other: Meteor Shower Cast, Happy Camp hosts, and Superboys 2010′s Wu Yi, Chen Xiang, and Li Wei
The anticipated “Afraid of You” MV by HIT-5, guest starring Girl’s Day’s Min-ah and directed by BoA’s brother, has finally been released. Like their first album’s single, Wu Suo Bu Ai, leader Guo Ziyu wrote the rap.
HIT-5′s CD has been doing well, with 3552 sold at their first signing in Beijing alone. They will be going to other cities Guangzhou, Guangxi, Zhu Hai, and Sanya for their fanmeet tour, hoping to meet their fans, called Diamonds.
Although they’re from new company Starlight Up, Up Girls has had training and music produced by top producer Xiao Ke (Bejing Welcomes You). They’re company also has many connections, and they will soon be on several major variety shows. Its members, too, have considerable talent. Listen to lead vocalist Caicai sing Beyonce’s Listen @13:40 here. Their first MV, subbed by BESTofASIAN@YouTube, also stars Aftershocks star Li Chen.
An Yixuan plays three reincarnations of a girl who falls into a forbidden love.
Chen Chusheng and Ady An Yixuan sung a soulful duet of If You Are the One 2 that was extremely well arranged. The song is composed and written by Chen Chusheng, and marks the nth movie theme song he’s sung this year, including for Zhang Yimou’s “Love of the Hawthorn Tree” and Hark Hsu’s “Detective Dee.”
Meanwhile, Ady An can be seen recently in various other major productions in addition to If You Are the One 2, cementing her place as one of the leading ladies of Huayi. Her presence is visible in both of the major current adaptations of the Four Classical Novels, first as the number one beauty of the “Outlaw of the Marshes – Liu Shishi, and then as the White Boned Queen in The Journey to the West. She will also star in CCTV’s major drama Modern Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior. In it, she challenges Gong Li’s role of a modern girl who accidentally wakens a terracotta warrior that have been in love with her for thousands of years.
Yumiti's face.
Following Happy Beginning 快乐出发 last year, Top Combine’s Ma Xueyang again composed a cheerful New Year’s song for the eeMedia family. Gelivable Youth uses various internet slangs, such as gelivable, to capture eeMedia’s youthful energy. The MV is especially thoughtful in including the injured Yu Haoming at the end, using a cartoon figure to indicate that he is not forgotten.
Yu Haoming in short film Fireworks that
On Christmas Eve, Yu Haoming tweeted a message to his fans through sina weibo, translated by Eilynne@cfensi
61 days ago, having full treatment with the Ruijin medical team, I passed through the dangerous 72 hours. Until now I have successfully completed the first phase of treatment. On Christmas eve I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Ruijin hospital’s medical team, Hunan tv, eemedia and I have a date spring crew’s care. And the love and support from my close friends, friends in the media, and fans, thank you God! So far everything is fine, i’m still in the process of recovering and treatment. I hope Selina will recover as soon as possible, Ren dad and Ren mom (Selina’s parents) wish you guys’ good health. lets fight together!Merry Christmas!!!
Although Yu Haoming was seriously injured in October, his presence is still all around. His new drama, “8090向前冲” with famous director You Xiaogang (The History of Concubine Yang), will air in February of next year on Hunan TV, and the new eeMedia family MV included a cartoon figure of him. At Top Combine’s concert, his good friend Zhang Yuan also sung of blessings for him and Amu.
Claire Kuo and Huang Yaliprove their friendship by having the same haircut.
Composed by JJ Lin and penned by Claire Kuo, “Wants you to smile” is a sweet and cute song fitting for Huang Yali. The recently released MV features Claire Kuo and Huang Yali entertaining passerbys with their Friendship Puppet Theater. “Wants you to smile” is the first released MV for Huang Yali’s second album with Linfair Records – “Ex-girlfriend 前任女友.” The new album does a so much better job of showing off her clear and youthful voice than that of her previous one. Although all the tracks are really good, my favoite is “Same city 同城,” which was by the composer of Angela Zhang’s Invisible Wings.
Girlgroup iMe diverged from their honey-sweet image recently as they cross-dressed and performed a dance to Jang Woo Hyuk’s Mr. Jackson on a variety show. In return, a group of boys, including Dream of Red Chambers Yu Xiaotong, dressed up as girls and performed iMe’s Aiyiya dance, which you can see here.
iMe performing Michael Jackson, cut by dehlefebvre@cfensi:
“Christian Bale will star in Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s new project about 13 young prostitutes who help save compatriots from Japanese troops rampaging Nanjing, the latest film exploring a World War II-era atrocity that stirs nationalism in China.
Bale, currently co-starring in the boxing drama “The Fighter,” will portray an American priest in the movie, which is expected to start filming in Nanjing on Jan. 10, the Chinese director told reporters Wednesday.”
The film is based on Yan Geling’s short novel “The 13 beauties of Jinling,” and focuses on the story of a group of prostitutes, a group of wounded soldiers, 46 convent girls and a Catholic priest hidden in a Catholic church in the midst of the Nanking Massacre. When the Japanese army finally knocks on the church’s doors to “invite” the convent girls to sing for them in their camp, the prostitutes chose to dress up as convent girls and go in their place.
While there have been several films on the Nanking Massacre made in the recent years, none of them have been up to par in quality. Hopefully, with his nuanced storytelling and skilled depiction of emotions, Zhang can finally produce a film as major as the event itself.
