News Links - 5/5/07

[dleedlee]

$10-million Chinese-Canadian co-production - Iron Road
Stars include Peter O’Toole, Sam Neill, Tony Leung and Ka Fai (!)
http://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/portals ... 7503&more=


Maggie banks on millions
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... r=20070504

Coming up with good Japanese titles for foreign-language films a tricky art
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/ar ... Y17003.htm

SCARY spells sweet SUCCESS
Malaysian film-makers are spooking audiences with their modern revival of an old genre
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story ... 05,00.html

Jolin Tsai Apologizes for Refusing to Sing with Fans
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/05/05/1301@223642.htm

`China rule' rescue bid for Queen's Pier falters
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... r=20070503

[ewaffle]

Maggie banks on millions
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... r=20070504

Hong Kong's Maggie Cheung Man- yuk is a very bankable star, reportedly earning an annual salary of US$13.75 million (HK$107.25 million), which makes her the second highest paid Chinese actress after the mainland's Zhang Ziyi, who earns a cool US$15 million a year.

The chances of this being accurate are pretty low--everyone in front of the camera and almost everyone behind it on a set are essentially freelancers who are paid by the picture, they don't get a yearly salary.

But if it were true and given that Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk doesn't make movies anymore--Sausalito, In the Mood for Love, Hero, Clean between 2000 and 2004, nothing since 2004--it would be fitting and appropriate.

Because it would mean that she was getting paid a startling amount of money by no one in particular for simply being Maggie Cheung.

[ewaffle]

Stars include Peter O’Toole, Sam Neill, Tony Leung and Ka Fai (!)

Odd how one never sees a picture of them together--almost as if they were the same person...

or

It's a good deal for the producers--they get both of them for just one salary....

or

Don't you think it is time for Tony to stop depending so much on Ka Fai...

[Brian Thibodeau]

$10-million Chinese-Canadian co-production - Iron Road
Stars include Peter O’Toole, Sam Neill, Tony Leung and Ka Fai (!)

Well, Kamloops IS a comparitively small city, so one has to be somewhat forgiving of their local newshacks!

Otherwise, I guess we now know who really made Tony famous:
http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng




(of course, the paper I work for, in a city double the size of Kamloops and basically a suburb of Toronto, ran a gigantic headline banner across the top of the front page stating "RAMI delivers in Spider-man 3" or some such silliness. )