With several movies and a first album, 2012 is set to be a happy year for Yang Mi and fans.
Along with Yang Mi’s debut album came an adorable set of photos for her 2012 calendar. More pictures below and click on the pictures to see larger ones.
Happy New Year!
The cast of Beijing Love Story features experienced lead actors and a variety of guest stars.
Conceived in around 2007 (when the male leads were working on Soldiers Sortie) and having been in production since the end of 2010, Beijing Love Story 北京爱情故事 will finally air beginning on January 7, 2012 on Zhejiang TV. The drama features, as the name suggests, a series of love stories set in Beijing. For a profile on the lead characters of the drama, look under the cut. The drama is produced by Li Chen and written and directed by Chen Sicheng. Will Chen Sicheng achieve first-time scripting success like his Central Drama Academy shidi and fellow actor Wen Zhang?
A 17-minute trailer can be viewed below.
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Not satisfied with film and drama, Yang Mi goes into music, but will her songs maintain the cuteness of her looks?
After her successful breakthrough into films, actress Yang Mi tries out a new field with an upcoming album. Produced by Jane Zhang‘s Show City Times, Yang Mi’s new album “亲幂关系/ Close To Mi” revealed its first song and official MV, the fun 异想记 Yi Xiang Ji, recently. The song is quite perfect for Yang Mi, who doesn’t have the best vocals but does have a quite cute voice.
Watch the HD MV below from fountainpark723@YouTube:
Yang Mi makes her international fashion debut in flaming red.
Following her new burst of popularity earlier this year, actress Yang Mi made her entrances into both the fashion and music world this year. At this fall’s Milan Fashion Week, poor Yang Mi was mistaken for Fan Bingbing most of the time, but hey, at least it got her coverage, and the red outfit definitely seems like something Fan Bingbing would wear. Her outfits in the show really wants me to see her star in a modern fashion drama that’s not Symphony of Fate. If China ever did Gossip Girls, she would be the perfect Blair.
More pictures and outfits below the cut
Following the success of Palace Lockheart Jade, the sequel, Gong II/ “宫锁珠帘” (Palace Lock Pearl Curtain) will begin filming in August soon. The series brings back together the old cast(?) for a new adventure in, unfortunately, still the Qing. The plot synopsis for Gong II below.
The new Gong tells of a new love story set in the times of Yongzheng. Lian’er asked her father to let her into the palace so that she could meet the seventeenth prince, Yunli. The two fall in love and originally planned to marry. But, when Yunli’s teacher Alinga lands in trouble, Yunli has no choice but to marry Alinga’s daughter to save him. A heartbroken Lian’er does her best to protect herself in the palace, desperately dreaming of being able to leave the palace and live an ordinary life. She did not expect to become a piece in a power play, used by those with power and betrayed a girl she had once thought of as a sister. Alliances are made, debts are formed, and just as Lian’er is about to go under, she accidentally attracts the fancy of Yongzheng and becomes one of his consorts. Suddenly, everything becomes so complicated – if she stops now, she will be hurt; but she fears losing herself if she continues. She chooses to believe in the light, and to trust that her perseverance will see her through this storm.
The rain in the Jiangnan (that would be southern China) drizzles away; Yang Mi is adorable in her big straw hat.
Using fragrant tea plantations as the setting, new drama “Ruyi” is a Republican era piece starring Yang Mi and Hawick Lau. Hawick Lau will play Tan Mingkai, the young master of the Tan clan and the heir to its fortune. The title character, Ruyi (played by Yang Mi), is an ordinary worker on the tea plantations. A secret? Their lives are the result of a switcheroo – Mingkai’s real mother almost died giving birth to him; to save his wife, Mingkai’s birth father (a plantation worker) sold him to be Madam Tan’s son. Family conflict, former best friends become enemies, disaster and calamity…and of course, challenging it all, love.
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Would you believe that 24-year-old Yang Mi already has over twenty years of acting experience? When she was four years old, she appeared as a princess in the drama Tang Ming Huang. In two new photoshoots, Yang Mi shows off her princess-like beauty for Harper’s Bazaar and proves to Sohu that she is just as beautiful in torn jeans and casual shirts.
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Yang Mi returns to horror in her second film, this time on a deserted island.
While films have always been mainland’s strong point, genres of film have mostly been historical or realistic until recently. With increased budgets, the areas of scifi and fantasy have finally begun to emerge in recent years. Meanwhile, several smaller-budgeted films have recently begun to change the horror scene, also. These films casts young and rising stars in horror shots with clean scenes and a hint of romance. Two of those include Yang Mi’s “Fright on the Deserted Island (孤岛惊魂)” and Jiro Wang and Tong Liya’s Purple House.
Yang Mi (of popular drama series “Gong”) will be starring in upcoming film “Fright on the Deserted Island (孤岛惊魂)” as Yi Lin. Under the lead of a cameramen from a television station, Yi Lin, Jiang Pengfei (played by Jordan Chan), and six other youths head out to a deserted island, far from civilization. This is a survival game. All are strangers to one another, each harboring their own anxieties and plans, but all with the same goal- to win the one million yuan prize. A strange capsized boat, a shore heavily shrouded with fog, a forest covered in traps…With so many risks and foreboding omens, this is no game with only excitement. The danger is very real.
P.S. This is the first long post by the wonderfully efficient writer jjss08, who’s actually brave enough to write about horror. I think I had a heart attack just reading through this post. – idarklight
Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Zhao Wei meets newbie actors Yang Mi and Feng Shaofeng and director Wuershan.
The veteran trio of Zhou Xun, Chen Kun and Zhao Wei returns for Painted Skin “II,” this time meeting the young and hot couple of Yang Mi and Feng Shaofeng. The new film is now produced by Huayi Brothers, and features new director Wuershan . It’s uncertain how this will exactly relate to the original film, especially since its original director has another purported sequel filmed.
Feng Shaofeng is especially excited to work with his favorite actress Zhou Xun, saying that working with her has been a dream of his. He also said that this will be his strangest role so far (perhaps the mosquito-eating lizard?).
Which of the “Painted Skin” sequels are you looking forward to more? The original director Gordon Chan’s “Painted Mural” with real-life couple Sun Li, Deng Chao and Zheng Shuang … or the original leads’ “Painted Skin II?”
source: sina
P.S. Watch cute pictures and videos of baby Feng Shaofeng on YouTube here.
Character posters for the upcoming film White Vengeance, starring Leon Lai, Zhang Hanyun and Liu Yifei.
“I want to show why a freedom fighter would turn to out to be another dictator,” said Lu Chuan of his new film The Last Supper. “I chose the title, Wang De Sheng Yan, in Chinese, because I want to say something about betrayal. It’s not only betrayal of one friend. It’s also one man’s betrayal of his own original dream for his desires.
Both the Last Supper and White Vengeance will be focused on the intriguing tale of the Feast at Hong Gate, a term that now signifies betrayal and treachery hidden in festivity. The tale details the falling out of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, two rebels who united to defeat the Qin Emperor, and the two’s struggle to become the next emperor. This is interluded with two of the most famous woman in Chinese history, the brilliantly cold Lv Empress and the tragically loyal beauty Yu Ji.
The Last Supper will star Liu Ye, Daniel Wu, Chang Chen, Qin Lan and Yang Mi while White Vengeance goes for a mature cast, with Zhang Hanyun, Huang Qiusheng, Leon Lai and Liu Yifei.
“I want to show something to the audience that they can believe. … We spent a lot of money to show the real picture, that everything was so rough. People were chasing their dreams in green fields and forests and running for the goals in their heart. It was an age of life and energy and an age of freedom, actually,” Lu Chuan said in his usual eloquence to Hollywood Reporter.
source: sina ; Hollywood Reporter
Casting trailer for White Vengeance below (in English, too!). Which film do you think will be better? Although I really like Liu Yifei and dislike Lu Chuan, my bet is on Lu Chuan, who, despite the lack of moralities, is an amazing story teller.