Some recent pictures of Chinese actress Tang Wei…
Tang Wei is probably the fastest rising Asian stars in 2007. Her performance in Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution” has won the heart of the critics… and her sex scenes with co-actor Tony Leung has created lots of discussions for months.
A Japanese magazine has published a special column for Chinese movie “Red Cliff” (credits to 163.com) with interviews and some latest photos from the movie set.
Red Cliff is the highest budgeted Chinese movie ever produced; it is directed by renowned director John Woo and featured a strong cast of Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung, Vicki Zhao, Lin Zhi Ling etc.
Actor Joe Cheng said that he would like to kiss Hong Kong star Fiona Sit; while actress Ariel Lin would like to have a romantic moment with award winning actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai.
The Taiwanese duo were in Hong Kong 3 weeks ago to promote their drama “It Started with a Kiss”… and was asked about their most wanted-to-kiss person.
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Stars from China and Hong Kong had gathered together at a gala event in Beijing on Monday (June 25) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the administration of mainland China.
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi…
The director and cast of movie “Battle of Red Cliff” held their first official press conference on Thursday (May 10) in Beijing, China.
The filming of big budget movie “The Battle of Red Cliff” suffered a mini-crisis when one of the leading actors Chow Yun Fat ‘resigned’ from the movie last weekend.
Surprisingly, the other actor that quit earlier last month, Tony Leung has decided to join the production again. According to some news source, Tony and the producers have already agreed on terms, and it’s pending on official signings only.
Well, who would have thought of these dramatic incidents; it’s better than the movie itself… perhaps someone should write a script and make it into a movie lo.
Since that Tony’s role is already taken by Takeshi Kaneshiro, if he is really coming back, he is likely to take Chow’s original role instead; but I strongly felt that Tony should take back his original role and Takeshi take on Chow’s role instead.
Besides, Tony is a couple inches shorter than Chow Yun Fat and his ‘wife’ Lin Zhi Ling… Takeshi seemed like a better-matched couple with Lin.
Hong Kong actor Chow Yun Fat confirmed that he has quit the cast of “The Battle of Red Cliff.” He made the ‘resignation’ last Friday (April 13), but the news has just been discovered by the press on Sunday (April 15).
Some reports were speculating that that Chow was ‘fired’ because of his unreasonable demands; but according to Chow, he quits the production because he felt that he can’t play the role well with the short amount of time for preparation.
The movie requires the cast to speak in Mandarin, and it is not Chow’s mother tongue. Chow said that he had requested the script to be provided earlier so that he could have more time to prepare for his character; but he only managed to get his script a week ago, and he felt that he was short of time to do the preparation.
It is another setback for director John Woo; a month ago actor Tony Leung quitted the movie for personal reason, and now it’s Chow… meaning that he lost both of his original candidate for the 2 most important characters in the movie.
A few candidates have been rumored to replace Chow’s role, which include Daniel Wu, Jay Chou and Chang Chen.
26th Hong Kong Film Awards, the red carpet.
Aaron Kwok (nominated for best actor; what a hair lol) and Gouw Ian Iskandar (winner of best supporting actor and best newcomer)…
The best leading actors and actresses nominees for the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards had posed for a photoshot to promote the event.
Pretty nice photo, doesn’t seem like a clean shot though, more like a computer edited image instead…
From left to right… Chow Yun Fat, Isabella Leong, Aaron Kwok, Angelica Lee, Tony Leung, Rene Liu, Sean Lau, Jet Li and Teresa Mo (Gong Li who is also nominated was not available).
The award presentation night is on April 15, 2007.
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Hong Kong actor Tony Leung has quit the cast of “The Battle of Red Cliff.”
Tony explained that he’s exhausted from his current filming of “Lust, Caution” (directed by Oscar winner Ang Lee), and was afraid that he could not perform well in his role for Red Cliff.
The Battle of Red Cliff, directed by renowned director John Woo, is scheduled to start filming by end of March. John had personally stated his understanding for Tony’s decision. Currently it’s said that heartthrob Takeshi Kaneshiro will fill Tony’s role.
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