Red Cliff II Posters Unveiled

Red Cliff II Posters Unveiled
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The posters of the second installment of director John Woo's epic movie "Red Cliff" have been published in Taiwan.

Reported to be the most expensive film so far in Asia, the first part of the grand production raked in more than 300 million yuan in its first month of screening in July, making it the highest-earning Chinese film ever.

Based on the Chinese literature classic "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", whose characters are household heroic names among Chinese, the flick rallied the shiniest stars on the Chinese silver screen, including award-winning Hong Kong actor Tony Leung, mainland actress Zhao Wei and Taiwan actor Chang Chen.

The sequel, which is said to re-present the best known historical battles in 208 AD in China's Three Kingdoms period, will premiere in cinemas on Jan. 15 during the busiest year-end season.

Shin performs magic to thank Jessie Chiang for guesting at his concert

source: epochtimes
translated by: Sarah @ http://asianfanatics.net

To thank Jessie Chiang for guesting at his concert, Shin specially showed off a magic performance, and this made Jessie happily laugh!

Is Shin becoming a magician? Earlier, Shin performed some magic to Jessie. He held a thin branch in his hands, and as he walked up to Jessie, he shook his left hand, and suddenly a rose appeared. Because Shin did not know what to give, he ended up making many interesting things appear. He said seriously: “I initially was planning on a big bouquet of flowers, but then I realized my skill is not great enough.”

Jessie was quite shocked at Shin’s magic skills and she said: “I’ve seen other peoples’ magic before la! But Shin’s performance was very good, this will definitely win the hearts of many girls.” She also added: “I’m very happy that Shin invited me to guest at his concert, my first time, and it’s with him, I feel very happy.”

Shin also expressed that he will definitely support Jessie in the future: “I think she has a lot of potential, hopefully not too long after, she will also hold a very big concert, and I will definitely agree to be her guest too. Maybe I can even show off some magic.”

Shin, who is always overseas will not spend Christmas in Taiwan this year. He hopes that through this concert, he can let everyone celebrate an early Christmas, and he wishes everyone to have a merry Christmas and happy new year.

Fans forced Yoga Lin and Ashin to sing together

Fans forced Yoga Lin and Ashin to sing together
Source: udn
Translated by catalie @ http://asianfanatics.net/
On the second day of Mayday's concerts, Yoga Lin was invited as a guest. As a diehard fan, he especially chose to sing "A Future With You", admitting that at one time, Mayday was a necessity to him - he couldn't be without them. Having heard this, fans shouted "come together with Ashin"!

Even though Ashin has been in the entertainment industry for 9 years, he still feels very nervous before each performance. He didn't expect his agent to mention that when the concert concluded, some of the audience said, "Mayday have suffered a lot to earn their money." This confirmation moved him and he even said mockingly, "We don't suffer to earn money, we don't earn money! We want to earn the emotions of fans."

Last night Mayday performed the never-before released "Big, golden coloured street". As they had become aquainted with each other in secondary high, they also especially found 50 students from that school's guitar club to sing "Simple-minded Person" (憨人), encouraging fans to make the most of their youth and pursue their dreams with courage. "Perhaps the next Mayday is already here (in the crowd)."

Perceptual Ashin said, "If we are an idol group, perhaps we would have disappeared long ago. I hope that in 8 years time, Mayday can have a concert here again!" then asked fans to hold hands and toss their colourful victory ribbons together. At once, a magnificent ocean of blue was created. The scene was spectacular, the atmosphere was touching.

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credits: 五月幻夏 at yokou.com

Jay Chou gives up his first time being an audience member to Aaron Kwok

Source: Apple

Jay Chou has been out for 9 years, he's held countless concerts, yesterday night was the first time he went to watch someone else's concert in Taiwan, he went to support Aaron Kwok. A few days ago Jay Chou just finished filming the movie "Beggar So" in Beijing, while he had some free time before going to Toronto in Canada and Connecticut in America to hold concerts he went to Aaron Kwok's concert in the Taipei Arena.
This article is translated by http://www.jaychoustudio.com
In fact Jay Chou and Aaron Kwok have quite a friendship, before he wrote the song "Love" for him, last year Aaron Kwok was a guest performer at Jay Chou's Hong Kong Coliseum concert, the two heavenly kings danced "Love For You Never Ends", it was unforgettable for fans. Afterwards Aaron Kwok came to Taiwan and Jay Chou took him around the town in his 38 million yuan sports car, he wanted to show off to his idol, yet he wasn't aware that Aaron had a 50 million collectible car, afterwards he felt a bit silly. Jay Chou arrived at the concert at the very last minute, this was his first time "watching" a concert, what attracted him? He said smiling: "Because he's heavenly king Kwok!" As to which part he wanted to watch the most, he said: "Of course it's the Guinness World Records (referring to the 450 degrees rotating stage)!"

Aaron Kwok shows off his abs in Taiwan concert; Earns 6.5 million

Aaron Kwok shows off his abs in Taiwan concert; Earns 6.5 million
Source: Sina
Date: Monday December 15, 2008
Translated by Initial E @ http://asianfanatics.net
On the 13th and 14th of December, Arron Kwok (郭富城) held his 'Da Show Reel' concert in Taipei's 'Little Giant Egg' Stadium. Even though Arron is only holding two concerts this time, his ability to earn money is still strong, successfully earning TWD26 million (about 6.5 million RMB)

In the concert, other than dancing and singing, he engaged the audience and intensified the atmosphere. He shouted out to the Taiwanese fans: "We must surely beat the record in this stadium, as our voices are the loudest." All the fans present gathered together and their shouts almost shattered the stadium. Arron also played the piano, but as he wasn't skilled in playing the piano he often made mistakes. He made the entire audience laugh by saying: "Please give me another chance. I am not Jay Chou (周杰伦). The piano is so difficult to play." However Jay Chou, who was also present, praised Arron saying that his skills were already not bad.

Other than making mistakes when playing the piano, Arron also mispronounced the words 'Xiao Xin' (be careful) as 'Xiao Qi' (little seven). His spoken mandarin is getting worse and he mocked himself, saying: "My spoken mandarin is like what it was 18 years ago when I first debuted, how bad!"

Yesterday night, Jolin Tsai (蔡依林), Elva Hsiao (萧亚轩), Ella, Hebe and Faith Yang (杨乃文) came to attend the concert. The outside world is guessing that she deliberately tried to avoid Jay Chou, but she expressed that she completely did not know that Jay was coming, saying that the only thing she heard was that Arron had trained a set of very impressive abs and she didn't want to miss that. Her mother is also a big fan of Arron, and she revealed that many years ago she also brought Jolin to watched Arron's concert.

This is his first concert in Taiwan in 12 years, and after it ended, Arron had insomnia and could only fall asleep at 7 in the morning. He even asked for a massage for him to relax. He said that he is suppressing all his excited feelings just to let his second night be more exciting and he would perform with abandon.

Arron is leaving Taiwan today afternoon by Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Flight KA481.

Lollipop and The Flowers Member Film New Movie

Source: Sina
Translation: http://cfensi.wordpress.com/

Filming began on the 14th for the movie Re Xue Tong Meng, starring Flowers member Da Zhang Wei, Lollipop member Aoquan, and Teresa Fu, with a guest appearance by Lollipop’s Ah Wei.

The movie will be about a group of teenagers who became friends due to their common interest in martial arts. Ao Quan will play a rich and rebellious martial arts kid. Da Zhang Wei (Zhang=Last name, Wei=First name, Da=Suffix aka Big) will play someone similar to himself in real life- a lively goofball.

Da Zhang Wei, "Our movie is a combination of family, fighting, romance, and shock. I'm in charge of shock, and Teresa's in charge of family."

Aoquan says that practicing martials for this drama is way of releasing all the pressure from the day's work.

Show Luo holds fan meet & forgets lyrics; pushes blame on Aaron Kwok

source: chinatimes
translated by: Sarah @ http://asianfanatics.net

Show Luo held a fan meet in Ximen yesterday, and he sung his new song ‘Strong Reasons’. His dancing had full momentum, but halfway through the song, he suddenly forgot the lyrics. Show hastened to yell stop, and requested to sing it again. Afterwards, he clarified: “The night before yesterday, I went to Aaron Kwok’s concert, and now my brain is still full of flashing images of him, that’s why I forgot the lyrics,” pushing the responsibility to Aaron!

Yesterday, member of national Taekwando team Yang Shu Jun made a guest appearance, and she revealed that 5 years ago, she went on ‘Youth Corps’ that was back then hosted by Show. She said that when they were playing a game, Show would grab her leg, and not let go, and this almost resulted in her suffering spinal injuries. After hearing this, Show was extremely shocked. He did not realize that a little fun game, could have resulted in damaging her career.