Yang Yang and Li Wei release MV for “Promise”

January 9, 2012 | Posted in Mainland China,Music,Television, Tagged , ,

Yang Yang and Li Wei sing for Phoenix Totem

The end of the earth occurred too often,
and forever came too soon
Slice a beam of light, through the makeup of the sky,
and it can’t shine through the facade of lies,
are you like me, once promised, unable to forget?

-Promise by Li Wei and Yang Yang

A graceful ballad of love, “Promise” is a classic ancient drama theme from two young stars – singers Yang Yang and Li Wei. Produced by Yan Danchen (Meteor Shower, Bu Bu Jing Xin) for the Phoenix Totem OST, the song is definitely one of my favorites from 2011. Watch the recently released MV below from @YouTube.

Chen Xiang Confesses in “Hide” MV

December 23, 2011 | Posted in Mainland China,Music, Tagged , , ,

In “Hide,” his second single from Confession, singer-actor Chen Xiang tells a story of first love, in which a bookstore worker meets a mysterious girl whose initial impression of him is “pervert.” Played by singer Yang Yang, the girl greets him with a slap on the face, a scene that had to be filmed several times due to continuous NGs. Poor Chen Xiang, but at least he and the MV both look pretty gorgeous.

Watch the MV for his self-composition below, thanks to yunn524@YouTube. A short BTS segment can also be seen here.

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eeMedia artists sing theme songs for Phoenix Totem

Phoenix Totem - Zhang Han and Zheng Shuang

Meteor Shower's Zhang Han and Zheng Shuang travel to the Tang for a brother-sister relationship in their first ancient drama together.

One of the best things about a music company producing dramas is their wonderful OST’s, and this year’s major production Phoenix Totem 凰图腾 for eeMedia is no different. Produced by Yan Yidan (Meteor Shower, Bu Bu Jing Xin, etc.), the three theme songs for Phoenix Totem are sung by Li Wei, Yang Yang, Wu Yi and Huang Ying.

Starring Meteor Shower leads Zhang Han and Zheng Shuang, The Myth’s Bai Bing, and Zhang Mo, and directed by the director of the 1983 Legend of Condor Heroes,  the series tells of

Although Huang YIng is my favorite singer of the four, I must admit the other two songs are much better. What do you think?

The end of the earth occurred too often,
and forever came too soon
Slice a beam of light, through the makeup of the sky,
and it can’t shine through the facade of lies,
are you like me, once promised, unable to forget?

-Promise by Li Wei and Yang Yang


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Hua Kai Ban Xia blossoms in half as production begins

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A love half blossomed, a pair never matched, Yang Yang and Li Qin seems to always play one-sided loves, both in Dream of Red Chambers and in here.

Idol drama Hua Kai Ban Xia held its press conference a hour ago.  Starring Dream of Red Chamber’s Li Qin, Yang Yang, and Kan Qingzi as well as Dreams Link’s Zhang Jiani, the drama is directed by the master Li Shaohong (Da Ming Gong Ci, Dream of Red Chambers) and produced by Hunan TV’s Mango Films.  Three of the five leads are born after 1990.

The “pure love” story, based on the popular book of the same name, tells of two orphaned child who grow up to love each other, but gets unfortunately involved in a dangerous gang.  Plot/character intros below the cut.

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Yang Yang and Jiang Mengjie in Valentine’s Day photoshoot

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New Dream of Red Chambers couple Yang Yang and Jiang Mengjie another wonderful photoshoot together, this time for Valentine’s Day. The two’s new drama, Melody of Youth that co-stars Leo Ku, Eva Huang and Zhou Mi and Heechul of Super Junior, is currently airing on some stations, and will be available legally on youku.com on March 10th.

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Sohu tribute photoshoot series releases extras video

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Finally finished releasing its twelve photoshoots (minus the missing Liu Yifei as Arwen one) with rising artists posing as famous characters, Sohu released a short extras videos from the photoshoot, with the second half the video being the actors and actresses in varying degrees of super cuteness.My favorite moments are Zhang Han and Zheng Shuang at 0:53, Yang Yang smiling, and Shawn Dou being completely in character the entire time.

Yang Yang as L in Death Note

January 25, 2011 | Posted in Mainland China,Photoshoot, Tagged ,


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Continuing Sohu’s awesome series of promoting new artists with an amazing photography team that pays tribute other popular characters such as Captain Sparrow and Edward Scissorhand, New Dream of Red Chambers star Yang Yang is next up. The PLA Art Academy dancer-actor posed as L from the Death Note series, and even did a dance move in the silent film below.

Dream of the Red Chamber Cast for Sohu’s ‘New Face’ Series

September 9, 2010 | Posted in Mainland China,Photoshoot, Tagged , , , , ,

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The cast members of the Dream of the Red Chamber did yet another photoshoot, this time separately as part of Sohu’s “NEW FACE” series, which does mini-photoshoots and introductions to new actors. Yang Yang (pictured above) who plays older Jia Baoyu was photographed last of the four principle cast members. The photoshoots included simple objects like wands, giant heart-shaped glasses, masks and of course the Sohu fox mascot plushie lending the series a much more innocent feel than the previous Esquire “pillow fight” photoshoot.

Source (to be added when I find the link again)

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Super Junior Members collaborate with stars from Dream of the Red Chamber

Upper L clockwise: Jiang Mengjie, Heechul, Yang Yang and Zhou Mi

Upper L clockwise: Jiang Mengjie, Heechul, Yang Yang and Zhou Mi

Starring Leo Ku (古巨基), Dream of Red Chamber leads Jiang Mengjie ( 蒋梦婕) and Yang Yang (杨洋) and Super Junior/SJM members Heechul (金希澈) and Zhou Mi (周觅), drama “Melody of Youth” held its press conference on the 9th.

Melody tells of a group of recent college graduates and their first steps into the real world. Leading the drama is Leo Ku, an unconventional older student with a mind for business; Jiang Mengjie plays the female lead, a headstrong tomboy who earns her own livings and is a pro at video games; Heechul plays a professional video gamer who begins to woo Jiang Mengjie; Zhou Mi plays a humorous rich boy who seeks to prove himself worth more than just his parents’ money.; As for Yang Yang, cfensi forum’s shared new love after his gorgeous smile at Happy Camp appearance last week? He plays a sweet boy whose true calling lies in nail painting.

Fan picture of Heechul (L) and  Yang Yang (R)

Fan picture of Heechul (L) and Yang Yang (R)

The New Dream of the Red Chamber Trailer and Photoshoot

Li Qin (Young Xue Baochai), Jiang Mengjie (Lin Daiyu), and Yang Yang (Older Jia Baoyu) in InStyle

Even though there have been many trailers already for The New Dream of the Red Chamber, the previous ones tried to only convey an moody ambiance. This new trailer actually had dialogue, and shows off the beautiful camerawork and sets. The total costs of production for the 50-episode  series reached 118 million yuan (for comparison, even the elaborate sets of  The Message cost around 50 million yuan), but the producer, sounding much more confident than in previous reports, said that the costs should be definitely recoverable.

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Vid thanks to fountainpark723.

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