Jay Chou gives another 1 million, hopes he can support the disaster area more

After donating 500,000 yuan before, yesterday Jay Chou gave another 1 million at the Chongqing Olympics Centre to the disaster area of Sichuan.

According to Hong Kong's Ming Pao, after the earthquake in Sichuan, Jay Chou already immediately donated 500,000 yuan. Yesterday, he held the "Jay Chou charity relief fundraising concert" at the Olympics Centre in Chongqing, he donated 1 million yuan in his own name. Due to the fact he was still feeling low, yesterday night when he arrived in Chongqing he had a heavy mood, he didn't have much of a smile. The usual celebration party after the concert was cancelled, they hope to raise as much money as possible to help more people at the disaster area and to help rebuild after the disaster.

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Jay-Chou-gives-another-1-million-hopes-he-can-support-the-disaster-area-more-talk544167.html

Jerry Yan in "Kung Fu Dunk 2", main male lead over Jay Chou?

After signing Jay Chou for the sequel to "Kung Fu Dunk 2" for 15 million a few days ago, in the last few days they are going make a big move to sign Jerry Yan, yesterday investor boss Wu Dun admitted that he had just about finalised the details with him, as to the outside world's guesses to which one of the two idols will be the main star and which one the supporting actor? Wu Dun said: "The two will both be the first male leads, in the movie they will be partners combining to fight crime."

Jerry Yan once played the male supporting role in "Magic Kitchen", but he still shone under the likes of male and female leads Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng, in these 4 years national movies have withered, he's put his strength into TV series, letting Jay Chou come from behind, and film "Initial D", "Secret", "Kung Fu Dunk", etc...Not only did he get the affirmation of winning the "Best Newcomer" from the Golden Horse Awards, these movies grossed over 50 million yuan at the box office in Taiwan, Jay Chou has also taken on the role of movie director, his results have been brilliant. To this Wu Dun yesterday expressed, Jerry Yan knows that not only will there be no pressure working with Jay Chou but he's very much looking forward to the fireworks between them.

Yesterday Wu Dun expressed that after the confirmation of "Kung Fu Dunk", the other collaborating companies from Mainland China and Korea suggested they find another Chinese or Korean actor, he once considered the pairing of Andy Lau and Jay Chou, but at the end he thought why go breaking the bank for a foreign star when you can support Taiwanese artists, and so he looked down, in the Taiwan movie industry Jerry Yan was the most famous, he's still young, he's had box office success abroad.

Jay Chou and Jerry Yan are both idols who love playing basketball, for their first collaboration on the silver screen, not only will they be comparing who is more popular but also basketball skills, the topics of discussion will be beat that of the first one. The sequel to "Kung Fu Dunk" is going to start filming in Shanghai between March and June next year, it will come out at the Spring Festival of 2010, it's got a budget of over TW$200 million.

Not only is Jerry Yan fighting it out with Jay Chou in movies, but the funny thing is his performance agent will be given to Jay Chou's JVR, who will be the main male in JVR in the future, the boss Jay Chou or Jerry Yan? Yesterday JVR general manager Yang Jun Rong, who was busy with Jay Chou's charity concert in Chongqing, said: "We spoke very happily with Jerry Yan before, I'm not ruling out a future collaboration."

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Jerry-Yan-in-Kung-Fu-Dunk-2-main-male-lead-over-Jay-Chou--talk543919.html

Jimmy Lin and Ruby Lin appeared together on Anhui Red Cross fund-raising show

Jimmy Lin, Ruby Lin and 26 other celebs appeared on Auhui Red Cross fund-raising show on Friday, May 23, 2008 for the quake victims. Jimmy sang Dui Wang from My Lucky Star. They both helped answer incoming calls on the donation lines.



Jimmy will go to the disaster area in Sichuan on May 25 with 19 other celebs to hand-deliver relief goods and money to the victims.

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Jimmy-Lin-and-Ruby-Lin-appeared-together-on-Anhui-Red-Cross-fund-raising-show-talk543763.html

Jay sends wishes to quake victims, encouraging them to be strong and keep going on.

There is a 17 year old Beichuan student known as ‘Zheng Hai Yang’ lost both of his legs in the earthquake and according to ‘Chongqing wan bao’, it was discovered that Zheng loves to listen to Jay’s songs, the press contact Jay immediately, hoping to grant the boy a wish. Jay reached Chongqing last night and after knowing the news, he had sent his regards to the boy.

The amputated boy wants to meet Jay.

　　After a professor had given Zheng some consultation before he agrees to dissect his legs, when they asked what he had always wanted, Zheng told the professor that he wants to listen to Jay’s songs, and wanted Jay’s autograph.

Zheng is a year one Beichuan student who was a quake victim of an very unfortunate and severe condition, and from what we know is that he was the lucky few who survived in his class.

　　
Jay writes his wishes and includes his photo.

Contacting Jay’s concert organizers in a flash, they managed to speak to Jay himself after the person in charge was aware of the situation. Jay, who was in Hong Kong airport at that time, send his good wishes and encouraging words to the boy. Jay reached Chongqing last night and the first thing he did was to write his wishes for the boy, and includes a photo of himself ad used gold marker to write Zheng’s name on it. 　　

The person in charge of the organizing company revealed that Jay long to meet Zheng personally, but because the flight was at night, and was afraid that he would disturb the resting time of other patients, so he had decided to include his picture instead.
　　
The boy reveals a smile that last for a long while.
　　
Last night at about 10pm, when the reporters sent Jay’s wishes to Zheng, and the wishes says, “Must be strong! Must move on! Must take care of your health! I will be waiting for you to come and watch my Chengdu’s concert!” Although it’s a simple one-liner, Zheng smiles for a long time. His doctor claimed that its his happiest day during his hospital stay. Zheng’s father was in tear and smiled, quietly looking at his son. 　　

Tonight, Jay’s quake relief concert will be held in Chongqing’s stadium. Jay will be singing ‘Snail’ together with 30 students from Ba Shu primary school, and expressed his wishes to encourage the quake victims to move on to new beginnings.

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Jay-sends-wishes-to-quake-victims-encouraging-them-to-be-strong-and-keep-going-on-talk543741.html

"Bull Fighting" Mike and Hebe Hong Kong Promotion

Mike He and Hebe Tian yesterday went to Hong Kong to promote Bull Fighting. Hebe herself, has not made a public appearance in Hong Kong for almost 1 year. Thus, when the two arrived at Hong Kong airport, they were immediately surrounded by screaming fans. It took almost half an hour for them to get from the airport to their awaiting car, proving their high popularity.

Idol drama “Bull Fighting” with the high popularity of Mike, Hebe and Lee Wei has successfully attracted attention in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Australia etc, and the broadcasting network earned a massive TW$40,000,000 from overseas. From the 19th , “Bull Fighting” is airing every Saturday in Hong Kong. Hence, TVB invited the two leads to Hong Kong for 3 days and 2 nights to participate in 15 promotional activities. Promising a high standard of hospitality, Hebe and Mike’s entourage, make-up artist and manager alone were given 6 people to look after them. TVB also booked the entire hotel to prevent outsiders from entering, reflecting the importance of the two.

When Mike and Hebe emerged from the airport, they were immediately surrounded by awaiting fans. The two had 10 body guards to protect them, and it took them more than 20 minutes to get to their car. Hebe smiled and said: “The fans in Hong Kong are like the weather, very passionate.”

In order to participate in this promotional trip, Mike and Hebe had to get up extremely early in the morning; due to an allergy reaction on Mike’s face, he did not put on any make-up. Mike said: “I don’t know why but a few days earlier, I got an allergy reaction, my make-up artist wishes for my skin to rest so she insists I do not put make-up on.” However the high status him, even when he goes to the toilet, there are swarms of female fans waiting outside the toilet for him!

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Bull-Fighting-Mike-and-Hebe-Hong-Kong-Promotion-talk543467.html

Jay receives 8 nominations for Golden Melody Awards

The 19th annual Golden Melody Awards (GMA) announced this year's nominations yesterday. Jay Chou (President Chou) received nominations for his work in 'On the Run' and 'Secret.' His two albums were nominated for popularity awards as well as performance awards, for a total of 6 individual nominations. Jay is really the big winner!

Last year, President Chou received 4 nominations, winning only 'Best Producer for a Single.' But only getting stronger with defeat, this time around he has put out two things in one breath: his newest album 'On the Run' and the original soundtrack (OST) for his movie 'Secret'. His works have been gloriously nominated for the following categories: 'Song of the Year', 'Best Mandarin Album', 'Best Composition', 'Best Album in the Performance Category', 'Best Producer', and 'Best Composer'. Aside from these 6 personal nominations, his song 'Blue & White Porcelain' has earned Vincent Fang a nomination for 'Best Lyricist' and Zhong Yu Min a nomination for 'Best Arrangement'. Altogether, Jay has 8 nominations under his name, a comeback from last year.

Yesterday, after Jay heard the news, he happily expressed, "Getting nominated for 8 categories, I haven't disappointed the hopes of my fans! The judges' taste is not bad!" He is especially happy that his first attempt at a movie OST has received recognition and approval. In addition, this year, his good partner Vincent Fang has created a record of being nominated for 'Best Lyricist' eight years in a row. Today he will be flying to Chongqing to prepare for the charity concert tomorrow.

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Jay-receives-8-nominations-for-Golden-Melody-Awards-talk543311.html

Nicholas Teo trading "goody-two-shoes" for dancing shoes

Disco, waltz and chair dancing, you probably won’t connect them to singer Nicholas Teo... at least not till his upcoming concert.

Popularly known as Zhang Dong Liang, the 26-year-old Malaysian singer isn’t planning a change in his profession, just a change in his repertoire and maybe image, as well.

The singer many call a “goody-two-shoes” will be putting on some dancing shoes when he takes to the stage for his maiden concert “From Now On Live in Singapore” to be held on 31st May.

Since stepping onto the entertainment scene after winning a talent quest in 2002, the “Prince of Ballad” has been noted for his singing abilities rather than dancing.

But he is eager to give his fans something different when they turn up at the Suntec Convention Hall.

“I want my Singaporean fans to know that there can be another side of me which can be fun. So I had a discussion with the management and we decided to include these acts,” Nicholas enthusiastically announced to the media when in Singapore recently.

Although the singer has had no prior dancing background and is still nursing an injury sustained during a concert in Indonesia, he is determined not to let anything get into the way of his performance.

“The initial stages were hard as I had to start from scratch to master the basic moves. Even after getting the steps right, my instructor commented that I looked dead-panned when dancing”, he laughed.

Will all the training pay off? It seems most likely, especially for Nicholas’ female fans.

“I will drench myself and then remove my shirt,” he cheekily teased the media when pressed for details of his show.

But as expected, the entertainer best loved for being the-boy-next-door, quickly added that there won’t be too much for parents to worry about since he has taken into account the negative feedback from his concert in Taiwan where his sexy routine with a female dancer wasn’t entirely well-received.

After all, Nicholas may have his heart set somewhere else, such as with Taiwanese singer Cyndi Wang, his co-star in the idol drama Smiling Pasta.

But surprisingly, the young lady whom he’s been romantically linked to isn’t the special guest on his show, as widely rumoured.

Nicholas revealed that Faye Zhan, vocalist of popular Taiwanese pop-rock band Fairyland in Reality (F.I.R.), will instead be making an appearance.

“Many friends offered to help out for this concert. However, due to clash of schedules and other unforeseen circumstances, I was able to get Faye as my special guest. I am sure many fans will be surprised with this unique combination” explained Nicholas.

Hmmm... so maybe the rumours about Cyndi Wang were true after all, except plans by Nicholas' special lady-friend to appear alongside him fell through.

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Nicholas-Teo-trading-goody-two-shoes-for-dancing-shoes-talk543286.html