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White Snake Eva Huang and Raymond Lam duets a theme of Promise

September 1, 2011 | Posted in Mainland China,Movies, Tagged , , , ,

Jet Li battles Eva Huang in the Sorcerer and the White Snake

 

The two major fantasy films of the year both choose to air around the same time, and from the trailers, neither disappoints. Both The Sorcerer and the White Snake 白蛇传说 and Painted Mural have beautiful shots and realistic CG. The Sorcerer and the White Snake, featuring Jet Li, producer Eva Huang, Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi and Wen Zhang, released its MV recently. The MV is no doubt gorgeous, but I’m so far not sold on the strange duet. What do you think?

“The Sorcerer and the White Snake” releases trailer, Jet Li plays the head antagonist

July 24, 2011 | Posted in Mainland China,Movies, Tagged , , , , ,

Jet Li's "evil" monk takes over the male lead opposite White Snake Huang Shengyi in the new film about the Legend of the White Snake

The trailer for the upcoming film “The Sorcerer and the White Snake” was released not long ago. Although Jet Li was supposed to be a supporting character, he’s beginning to upstage the actual leads. Raymond Lam‘s Xu Xian appears a grand total of seven times in the trailer, while Jet Li’s role as the monk Fa Hai receives numerous close-ups and exciting action sequences. Watch him battle with Eva Huang‘s white snake spirit in the trailer below.
Fleshing out originally less developed characters seems to be more common these days, possibly to add something new into a old legend. There was something similar to this in A Chinese Ghost Story 倩女幽魂, where the demon hunter played by Louis Koo became the lead over Yu Shaoqun’s Ning Caishen. This new series further increases Fa Hai’s importance by giving him a kindhearted apprentice played by the handsome Wen Zhang.  Also in the cast are Charlene Choi and Vivian Hsu.

The 12th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) Opens

June 15, 2009 | Posted in Hong Kong,Mainland China,Movies,Taiwan, Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Cast of Sophie's Revenge working the red carpet.

This is one of the two A-List film festivals in Asia, the other being Tokyo. Despite starting late (1993), organizers have been working hard to make this as prestigious as possible, a subjective measure, and it does seem to be a step up from last year with Danny Boyle heading the jury, and various other stars walking the red carpet. I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of these pictures already, sorry for the lateness! I’ll post on the SIFF again later.

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Popularity by the numbers

February 28, 2009 | Posted in Hong Kong,Mainland China,Movies,Music,Taiwan,Television, Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

What’s the most fair way to count popularity?
Baidu, mainland’s biggest search engine, thinks it’s by search results.
On the 20th, Baidu held its 3rd annual Hunan TV-Baidu Search Awards at the Water Cube.
CFensi brings you some of the best performances and speeches from the H3O.

Vicki Zhao Wei – Most popular actress; upon viewing a video summary of her ten years as an actress:

My greatest reward is that I found the meaning to my life. I think living in this world, everyone has a purpose in their lives, be it the the feeling of parents to their child or a doctor to his patients. In these ten years, I found the value in my life. Although my purpose is not as amazing as that of a scientist, but I think my life was a worthwhile one.

Chen Kun – most popular male actor

Actually, I’m late to mature. I always thought that I should act in roles that I want to, like in Mei Lan Fang, but unfortuantely I missed it. I realized that in life, there are other roles we must act as. Thank you to everyone who has supported me to this day. Whether you’re a fan of my acting, singing, or you’re just someone who silently supports me, I hope you’ll continue to support me. I’ll do my best for you guys, because I learned to enjoy my profession now.

Vicki Zhao and Chen Kun’s acceptance speech, review of the past ten years, and meeting with four-generations of Vicki fans:

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Xue Zhiqian is the first to be nominated for all major awards of Chinese Pop Music Ceremony

December 20, 2008 | Posted in Events,Mainland China,Music, Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

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Xue Zhiqian is the first person to be nominated for all six of the major awards given by the Chinese Pop Music Ceremony in one year, including “best original composer,” “best album,” “best male singer,” “most popular singer,” “best album producer,” and “Golden song of the year” for both “Legend” and “Deeply in love with you,” which you can read about here and here.

Legend/Chuan Shuo, music and lyrics by Xue Zhiqian:

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Cfensi’s comment: I love that part@3:22!

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Charlene says "Twins will always exist!"

December 15, 2008 | Posted in Mainland China,Music,Television, Tagged , ,
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Charlene performing an Indian dance as a guest performer on Sunday's episode of "Just Shake it."

On the “Just Shake It” episode aired on the 14th, Charlene stated that “Twins is a spirit, an inextinquishable group, and will always exist!”

When the conversation went to Gillian, Charlene smiled, “Gillian’s taking a vacation right now…. she’s studing martial arts, singing and dancing on the side. She’s a very optimistic girl.”

Charlene also says that Gillian “isn’t as fragile as everyone thinks.”

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Chinese Celebrities When They Were Young

November 9, 2008 | Posted in Hong Kong,Mainland China,Singapore,Taiwan, Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I said I would do a special fun post in exchange for someone making my banner when site hit 10,000. Well, here it is as promised, although nobody ever made me a banner. :( This is still incomplete…I don’t have a few people in here, and I wanted to put an after pic of everyone, but I got way too tired of that so I only put some for some people I didn’t think people would know (like all the mainland guys apparently), but eventually I will update this and make it the most comprehensive Chinese celeb baby picture list ever.

Love or hate her, you’ve got to admit Liu Yifei was one of the most adorable children ever.

More of cute adorable children behind the cut. I think it’s really rare for Chinese people to do plastic surgery (as of now) so this won’t be one of those “spot the differences” posts. This took a lot of time and effort to put together, so PLEASE DO NOT COPY AND POST ANYWHERE ELSE, w/o permission.

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Fahrenheit Supports Wu Zun's New Movie

October 7, 2008 | Posted in Hong Kong,Movies,Taiwan, Tagged , , ,

They were at the Taiwan premiere of the movie, and got to watch Wu Zun feed Charlene. Calvin, as you can see, may have realized his hair is simply not acceptable in public and has begun wearing a hat.

Also the article I found this from had a very interesting comment, paraphrased here: “Recently in Taiwan there’s been a trend relating stripping to good ratings, and all want to see Zun strip however Zun firmly stated that he will not strip, and does not wish to follow this trend.”

I’m sure Charlene would look a lot happier in this publicity still if you had actually meant that.


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