$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

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.

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...

$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. )