Huang Xiaoming Postpones Filming to Plant Trees and Raise Environmental Protection Awareness

April 1, 2010 | Posted in Mainland China, Tagged , , ,

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On March 28th, many stars went to  a press conference for a “Low-Carbon” awareness concert and planted trees at Olympic Park. Included in the group was  Huang Xiaoming,  who was recently Chen Kaige’s newest film, “Zhao’s Orphan”. In fact he was supposed to be filming at the time.  Director Feng Xiaogang, also one of the tree planters that day, revealed  in order to personally be on-site to support environmental protection, Huang Xiaoming constantly kept in contact with him, and in the end the “Zhao Orphan” production team finally postponed the shoot, allowing Huang Xiaoming to rush to participate in this planting trees and promoting environmental protection event.

Huang Xiaoming, who has always been actively engaged in charity work, was chosen as one of the “Ten Big Charitable Celebrities” for three consecutive years. Regardless of whether it is a snow-related disaster, an earthquake, or flooding in Taiwan, he always donates money to the relief effort at the first opportunity. On that day, he made a donation on-the-spot of 200,000 RMB to the drought-stricken area.

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Popularity by the numbers

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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Kwai Lun-mei Rocks It; Feng Xiaogang Evaluates Peers

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The girl with the name that I will never know how to romanize properly but still love, is dabbling in singing with her quirky song “Hello Microphone”, theme song to quirky movie “Not All Women Are Bad”, in which she plays a quirky singer. I use the word quirky a lot because I don’t know any other adjectives for the movie. I wish I could call it good, but If You Are the One‘s director Feng Xiaogang has apparently monopolized that adjective for the season. But can he write lyrics??

Gui Lun-mei – Hello Microphone (lyrics by movie’s director Tsui Hark)

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Ten Most Anticipated Chinese Movies for Holiday Season

Just because China is a largely agnostic country doesn’t mean it doesn’t like its winter holidays, and while I doubt China celebrates Thanksgiving, around this time the streets in China are starting to get lined with Christmas decorations and it becomes a busy time for movies. This was actually a very weird year for the Chinese movie industry because of the Olympics, and much of the production activity was halted for China so I’m not sure how these movies would have been affected, but hopefully some of them will surprise me and hopefully some of them will live up to hype. Some of you may be wondering, am I actually on hiatus? I don’t know. I have a few more posts lined up though, so maybe not. :P

kimi

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It's Official: Gillian Cheung cut from Mei Lan Fang

November 4, 2008 | Posted in Hong Kong,Mainland China,Movies, Tagged , ,

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There was a lot of talk earlier that Gillian may be cut out of the movie, after her sex scandal with Edison Chen, and that Mei Lan Fang’s family did not want her associated with it any more. This movie had quite a cast, with Leon Lai, Zhang Ziyi, Sun Honglei and Masanobu Andou, and Gillian only had a small part. One that was easily removed, and now is.

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