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Actor Ronan Pak, who gained a lot of attention for his small role as Samantha Ko's rapist in TVB series, "Friendly Fire", is showcasing his musical talent by releasing a single.

As reported on Groove Asia website, the actor recently collaborated with 2013's newcomer, singer Dickson Chan and came out with a single, "Don't Bother", to be released on Valentine's Day.

Ronan, who is also an alumnus of the HK Academy for Performing Arts majoring in musical, revealed, "I've been active in musicals in the past, and have always had this one idea to release a single on every holiday. Finally my wish came true this year on Valentine's Day."

The actor continued, "I was able to invite Sanchez Lam to compose the song and it's a duet with Dickson Chan. His debut album is releasing in March."

Asked if he's not worried that two men singing a duet on Valentine's Day will cause a misunderstanding, the actor replied, "Actually this song is about my feelings of being single for several years. Dickson is also single and we're used to being single. We hope all the other singles out there can feel the resonance after listening to this song."

Source: Yahoo! Entertainment

Actor Raymond Lam may have been constantly denying his rumoured relationship with 19-year-old actress, Karena Ng. However, the "Highs and Lows" actor seemed to stumble and stammer his words when asked about his flash wedding rumour recently.

According to Asianpopnews website, the 33-year-old actor-singer was bombarded with questions at a radio station regarding the wedding rumours when promoting his new album. However, to the surprise of many, Raymond was not offended by the questions and even smiled sweetly during the interrogation.

When the actor was congratulated on the rumour of his flash wedding, he answered, "I only knew it when someone sent a text message to me. This is so hilarious! It is getting more atrocious. Why has it turned out this way? Please do not drag me into the picture upon seeing Ekin and Yoyo's wedding!"

The actor was also unable to keep himself from smiling when being asked about his "BB", but tried adamantly to dismiss the conversation about his relationship.

Asked to explain if they are indeed dating, the actor only covered his face and answered, "I don't know. You're driving me up the wall! I don't understand why there is a series of this interesting news. One moment, it says I am quitting and now it says I am getting married."

Meanwhile, TVB Executive, Ms Virginia Lok reportedly was furious that Raymond is planning a wedding with Karena.

Asked about the wedding, Ms. Lok dismissed the rumours and said, "I did not read the news at all. I am so busy lately. I did not contact Raymond too. He did not say anything about a wedding. There is no such thing at all. It is not possible and it's not necessary for me to clarify with him".

Source: Yahoo! Entertainment

Myolie Wu has not just one, but two pursuers trying to win her heart, as it was revealed by Hong Kong tabloids recently.

As reported on Asianpopnews, tabloids claimed that while Myolie Wu revealed her pursuer to be a man not from the entertainment industry, it was alleged that the actress also attracted the attention of one mainland actor named Mao Zijun.

Rumour has it that Mao Zijun, who starred in "Schemes Of A Beauty" alongside the actress in 2010, was reported to be exceptionally attentive to her during filming and that they were often seen dining together.

The 27 year-old actor was also revealed to be learning Cantonese in order to communicate easily with Myolie.

Responding to her rumours with Mao Zijun, Myolie laughed and clarified, "I am still single and he is so much younger than me. We are also not that familiar with each other. The supposedly 'dining together' photo was taken by a crew when we were filming at a red wine specialty house".

Meanwhile, it was revealed that the other man, a non-celebrity was introduced to Myolie by her friend. The mysterious pursuer reportedly had just returned from overseas and is particularly pro-active in asking the actress out, even flew to Shenzhen where the actress was filming in order to be with her.

Source: Yahoo! Entertainment

Fed up with reports of his supposed loneliness after his breakup with girlfriend of eight years, Myolie Wu, TVB actor, Bosco Wong assured everybody that he is fine and that his work is not an excuse to be around people.

According to Jayne Stars, the actor recently stressed, "Don't take it the wrong way! My birthday was two months ago, and many reporters kept asking if I felt miserable because I didn't have a girlfriend to spend it with. I definitely did not feel miserable."

The actor revealed that he had always been spending his birthdays working because most Chinese New Year movies and shows are filmed right at the same time.

Revealing that he had spent most of his birthdays with Eric Tsang, Wilson Chin, Stanley Fung, Kate Tsui, and Joyce Cheng on filming locations, the actor stated, "Honestly, ever since I joined the industry, I even rarely spent my birthdays with my [ex] girlfriend. At most, we would go out for dinner. Sometimes, my mum would join us. That's why I don't have much romantic memories of our relationship!"

The actor also admitted that he is not the best boyfriend there is, saying that he is neither very romantic nor gentle.

The actor expressed, "Maybe it's because I really am very intolerable. I always look angry and I am very quiet when I'm at home, so it was difficult [for my girlfriend] to communicate with me. I also like to be very organised and obsessive compulsive."

Upon hearing the rumours that his ex Myolie Wu is currently in a budding relationship with a new man, the actor congratulated her and wished her the best.

Source: Yahoo! Entertainment

Wai Ying Hung as the Emperor Motion Picture elder met with Jonathan Wong Chi Hin, Bonnie Xian (Sin Sik Lai) and Lai Tinki for Lunar New Year hot pot casserole. Siu Hung not only shared with her junior colleagues her acting experience but also gave them lai see to wish them a smooth New Year.

Siu Hung said that in the Year of the Snake she will be busy with work but has already allocated 5 figures for lai see for family and the crew. She will also prepare for new challenges in film, as she will work on the new film that AT THE END OF DAYBREAK (SUM MOR) director Ho Yuhang spent two years to write the script for. She even stated that this film will be her final action film, thus it will be the movie with the most powerful fights for her. After this film she probably would not dare to make another action film. She revealed that in the film she will fight Korean style and have torture scenes. Thus before the shot she will spend a month on weight training to prepare.

Last year the passing of Siu Hung's brother Austin Wai Tin Chi was the most heartbreaking, she admitted that after that her state of mind has completely changed and her point of view on everything was no longer the same. "I used to risk everything at work, then I saw Brother who kept working in the Mainland in recent years without returning to Hong Kong. He worked alone everyday away from home, made money but didn't have time to spend it, got sick but didn't know about it. He passed just like that without probably enjoying it. Thinking back I was working for over 11 months a year, sometimes I too felt lonely and pitiful outside. So what if I had money? Now I realized that I had little aches and pain, I might as well relax and rest a little. At home with mother I am not as lonely, it's better than living alone at the hotel. Now I started to feel the importance of having a home."

Siu Hung gave special advice to her junior colleagues, saying the most important thing for an actor to have was wider field of vision. There is no acting to speak of because all acting comes from life experience. The more they see and encounter, the more will come out when they need it. However some were truly too nice. Thus she often told the younger generation to be a little bad and not to be introverted at all. They could not learn acting just from watching television and movies. They had to have their own life experience. Thus many actors acted better as they aged.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: hktopten

GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD, HOTEL DELUXE (BAK SING JAU DIM), JOURNEY TO THE WEST (SAI YAU GONG MOR PIN), I LOVE HONG KONG 2013 (2013 NGOR OI HK GUNG HEI FAT CHOI) opened to welcome the Lunar New Year two days ago. The 3 Hong Kong comedies were no match for Bruce Willis, as GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD defeated them at the opening day box office and the cumulative box office with the late shows and advanced screenings. GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD accumulated HK$1.76 million, JOURNEY made 1.72 million and lost by a nose.

In the past comedies ruled the Lunar New Year slot. Few action films were released because they were considered unlucky. However the Bruce Willis starred GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD chose to face 3 Hong Kong films at the Lunar New Year slot. The opponents included the box office guarantee Stephen Chow Sing Chi's JOURNEY TO THE WEST, comedy actor ensemble Ronald Cheng Chung Kei, Sandra Ng Kwan Yu, Teresa Mo Shun Kwan, Chapman To Man Jat, Jim Chim Shui Man and Raymond Wong Pak Ming's HOTEL DELUXE, and the comeback of Veronica Yip Yuk Hing with Alan Tam Wing Lun and Eric Tsang Chi Wai, I LOVE HONG KONG 2013. Perhaps viewers have grown tired of the ensemble comedies as HOTEL DELUXE and I LOVE HONG KONG 2013 only had average box office. The former opened with 720,000 while the latter only had 340,000. However, HOTEL DELUXE opened in the Mainland on February 1 and already made over 44 million yuan RMB over 7 days.

Perhaps because Sing Yeh only directed and not starred, JOURNEY TO THE WEST opened with only 990,000. With the late shows and advanced screenings the cumulative box office was 1.72 million. It was unable to match his previous film CJ7's over 3 million opening. With the Lunar New Year holiday on the way, we shall see if Sing Yeh will be able to overtake the foreign competition. JOURNEY will open nationwide tomorrow. Some estimated that its Mainland box office will head for 1 billion yuan RMB.

Source: Mingpao, Singtao, on.cc
Translated by: hktopten

THE GRANDMASTERS (YUT DOI JUNG SI) became the 63rd Berlin Film Festival opening film. Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Zhang Ziyi walked the red carpet hand in hand as they were welcomed with cheers and applause. Although Wai Jai was a international film festival frequent guest, actually this was his first time at the Berlin Film Festival. At the opening ceremony, the host compared Wong Kar Wai's movies to women who made people fall for them unknowingly. She even jokingly asked Wong Kar Wai, "If THE GRANDMASTERS is a woman too, would you get intimate with her or vanish with her?" Wong Kar Wai humorously said, "Both feel pretty exciting."

The film premiered in Berlin and received a 10 minute applause after the show. Wong Kar Wai cut a special "Berlin version" with 20 differences from the China and Hong Kong version. The film was about 10 minutes shorter. Because some foreign media did not understand the historical backdrop, some reviews said that it "cannot surpass IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (FA YEUNG NIN WA)".

The Berlin Film Festival version of THE GRANDMASTERS mainly added 3 important scenes and some subtitles that explained the historical background. Some of the subplots with unclear relationship to the main plot were removed or replaced. The most primary addition that was not in the China and Hong Kong version was how Chang Chen's Yi Xiantian and Zhang Ziyi's Gong Er met and their relationship. After Gong Er saved Yi Xiantian on the train, they later ran into each other at a Hong Kong restaurant named Old Muslim but did not acknowledge each other. Their reunion gave Yi Xiantian the motivation to stay in Hong Kong, which was easier to comprehend for the audience.

Another addition was the rainy night fight scene at the opening with Ip Man and Yi Xiantian. The story became more intense and made people's blood boiled. This scene caught Gong Yutian's eyes. He praised Ip Man's kung fu abilities and after asking others he learned that the fighter was the Invincible in Foshan Ip Man. Other addition scenes included a young Bruce Lee staring at Ip Man from the school, IP Man teaching Bruce Lee martial arts and Ip man's ferocious fight with Cung Le. Ip Man's challenge in Hong Kong to Ding Lianshan (Zhao Benshan) was removed.

Leung Chiu Wai did not feel that his scenes were removed, the most important was for the audience to accept the pace of the story. "I don't mind the changes in the different versions, the most important is for the story to make sense." Although Wong Kar Wai earlier was busy with THE GRANDMASTERS promotion, in a short month he was able to make even better changes. The mastery of his craft truly left people speechless.

Source: Mingpao, Singtao, on.cc
Translated by: hktopten

Lately, the popular TVB series Inbound Troubles has got the entire cast on a popularity rise. It was announced the series is going to have a sequel and a film edition. As one of the female leads, "Cousin Ching Ching" Ivana Wong expressed she temporarily will not be shooting TV series, instead she will concentrate 100% on being a singer. She wants to focus on the launch of her new album. In June, she'll be participating in a musical. Seems like it's going to be unlikely to have the original cast in the sequel, Wong Cho Lam will really have to spend more time trying to persuade her to come back to the team.

Ivana expressed: "I will temporarily not be shooting TV series because I have a musical in June, Little Hong Kong Season 4 to work on. It's another comedy as well. I discovered I really like watching comedies, after watching Inbound Troubles, the series was actually really funny. I didn't realize how funny it was while we were filming. (Consider being part of the sequel?) Didn't think about that. We, artists, have a discussion forum and often joke about having many seasons to this series, just like American series Friends, which had like over 10 seasons. (Apparently there is going to be a Qing dynasty version and a film edition of the series?) I don't know, the was an artist on the discussion forum mentioning about Food for Slaves, but I want to concentrate on music first, unless there really is a sequel. The film edition, I know they have this idea, but I don't know if it will actually happen. Just leave it to Wong Cho Lam to handle everything, he started the whole thing. I don't currently have any thoughts, just remember to watch Inbound Troubles. One night, I had to go out on a business trip and couldn't go on tvb.com, so I asked a colleague to record the episode for me. I'm afraid of missing out on what's happening."

Surprised by the power of TV Series

Ivana was surprised by the power of TV series, when she first heard her colleagues mention it, she didn't really believe it. Ivana said: "It is all true, my colleagues said before once the series broadcasts, everyone will call me 'Ching Ching'. Earlier when I was at the airport, someone came up to me and said: 'Ching Ching, you came back to HK!' That moment, I didn't know if I should have used my own voice or Ching Ching's voice to respond to her. I really felt the closeness, suddenly felt the distance between me and HK audience had been pulled closer. It's like we became a big family. The power of Inbound Troubles covers all of HK. (Did you get any extra jobs?) I asked my company before, but perhaps I'll just wait for Wong Cho Lam to lead us for a Oh Baby - Classic Song Remembrance Night."

'Brother Song' Actually Dedicated to Ivana's Actual Brother

Actually, Ivana continued to collaborate with the Inbound Troubles cast, such as in her latest album released on Feb. 7th, she recorded a song with 'Chiu Chiu' Louis Cheung entitled Flower of Life (生命之花). Ivana expressed: "When we were filming the series, I listened to Louis' first composed work, coincidentally he was 'Chiu Chiu' and I was 'Ching Ching', the feeling from the song was so romantic and the melody was moving. I suggested that I should be the female lead in his MV. He then changed the arrangement of the song into a duet version. (Will the songs from Inbound Troubles be released?) My first song in the series Brother Song (哥歌) was written for Roger Kwok to sing, but in reality the song was written for my real brother. I will be coming up with new lyrics and record a new version for my Mandarin album. Love will be the new theme. I also know Netizens have praised that the 2 minute Cantonese version was really good. I hope to release a full version when the finale airs, so everyone can enjoy it."

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU Forum

Yesterday Him Law, Toby Leung, Kenneth Ma, Ron Ng, Kate Tsui and the rest of the cast of TVB new series Season of Love held the promotional event at the mall. Him and Toby had to be in the same hooley hoop for the games, they were constantly swinging their hips trying to do the hooley hoop. Toby got so high during the game kept slapping Him's 42-inch chest. Then Him ate the cotton candy using his mouth off of Toby's mouth. Ron had to kneel down and propose to Kate; Kenneth had to embrace and pretend to kiss James Ng, the two were asked to do the famous horse-riding dance as well.

Him reveals he already went to pay an early New Year's call ("bai lin") to his relatives. When asked if his seniors rushed him to get married? He said: "Nope, we all understand it depends on fate. I will prepare 5 figures for red envelopes to give out. (Give out double red envelopes?) Just single ones first." Ron Ng revealed because he had pretty good income in 2012, he will also prepare 5 figures for red envelopes. When asked about his earlier rumor with Mainland actress Tang Yan, he said: "Just laugh it off. She already has a boyfriend. (Fight her back?) I don't do that stuff. She's a pretty and optimistic girl, but not my cup of tea."

As for good friend Raymond Lam announcing his relationship with Karena Ng? Ron laughed: "He is ridiculous, didn't even introduce her to me. I don't know who is BB, but I wonder if he'll take her out? Congrats to him. (When will you announce?) If I have one, I will. We're not young anymore, it's normal for us to be dating." Kate is also happy for Raymond. It was rumored she is competing for more screen time with Kathy Chow in new series Sniper Attack 2013? Kate denied: "Every time I start a new series, there will always be questions on how much screen time I get. I'm already really happy to have the opportunity to collaborate with Kathy, I would even be an Extra if I had to. It's such a rare opportunity. She's always giving me pointers too, a very good senior."

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU Forum

Kenneth Ma, who won 'My Favourite TV Male Character' last year, has been busy since the beginning of the new year. In the romance series "Season of Love", he and Myolie Wu play a pair. The last time they played a couple was 2006's "To Grow with Love"! In the previous series, he was unsuccessful in pursuing Myolie...finally successful this time: "In the series, I play a private investigator. Myolie studies historical relics. We meet when investigating. We haven't played a couple for many years...did not expect to be finally pursue her after so many years!"

Immersing in Filming of New Series

He will be immersed in the filming of the new series "The Hippocratic Crush II" soon. He will be enduring the reversed day and night life again. Sometimes, only able to sleep two or three hours every day, causing the skin to be very poor. Like many guys, he hasn't known much about skincare since young, so he would get a face whenever he has the time: "I almost go every week...try my best to get one at least every week. Can lie there very comfortable and let them do it...very relaxing!" In "Hippocratic", he will be collaborating with veteran Lawrence Ng. He actually has always been his fan...love to watch his representative work, "Healing Hands", the most, praising the character 'Ching Chi Mei' as being memorable.

Source: the-sun
Translated by: hyn5 @ 幸而城 Fortunate City

Veronica Yip Yuk Hing in her "comeback" Lunar New Year film I LOVE HONG KONG 2013 (2013 NGOR OI HK GUNG HEI FAT CHOI) played Alan Tam Wing Lung's wife. She would run into "fairy" Eric Tsang Chi Wai and cook up a lot of comedy. Off screen the trio also has comedy galore. Chi Wai revealed that Alan at first asked to kiss Hing Hing and roll around in a very narrow space, but in the end the scene was changed; Hing Hing danced with Gill Mohindepaul Singh (Kiu Bo Bo) while Alan and Ma Tai Lo embraced.

As for intimate scenes, Hing Hing said, "No kissing. Although Alan and I play a couple, all the bedroom scenes were removed. I didn't ask for that before hand, the story didn't call for it. We had all family ensemble scenes and no love scene. Why would anyone who works for Alan have to have an intimate scene?" Alan joked, "This time I lose out! Chi Wai kept fooling me and said that we had an intimate scene! Actually everyone felt there would be an intimate scene because in my past music videos I definitely would kiss the female lead. At that time TVB was very dark, the director would project the story and fantasy onto me and assign me to kiss someone. I had a very tough time making them!"

Tsang Chi Wai played a fairy. He joked, "In the film everyone is human, only I am not. The costume looked like BORAT. Before the shoot we suggested what Hong Kong needed and thought that Hong Kong needed a fairy to come to its rescue, because it had too many grievances."

Hing Hing thought that she did not have enough screen time this time and was unable to thoroughly relieve her acting bug. However she did not want to fight for more screen time, only that since she rarely returned to Hong Kong to make a movie she wanted the audience to see more. Would she keep on making movies? Hing Hing said, "If I didn't have children, I would without any consideration; but now with a family I would have to think it through first. I of course have an acting bug and said that I wanted to make a series. However if I would have to work night and day I would want to die." Has she thought about who her series co-stars would be? Hing Hing said, "(Tony) Leung Ka Fai would be a pretty good co-star, we worked on a movie A ROOF WITH A VIEW (TIN TOI DIK YUET GUONG). Even though earlier Hubby already told me not to act anymore......"

Hing Hing admitted that the production process was very pleasant and she was even able to visit her mother. She felt the entire matter was very fulfilling. "On the night that Mommy left I had a funny scene to make. I wanted to visit her after the night shoot. Originally I remembered the lines very smoothly, but suddenly I had over ten bad takes and felt some uneasiness. The next day I planned to take a nap before visiting her, my sister called and said that Mommy has stopped breathing but her heart was still breathing. Mommy's passing was considered as happy mourning, but this time I came back to make a happy comedy. I didn't want anyone to know, the best was to pretend nothing happened so my husband would know that I really was working and my daughter would experience how not to mix life and work. If I could go back and change something, I would ask to stop the production temporarily." Chi Wai praised Hing Hing as a strong woman. "At the time no one knew what happened, I admired her very much for being able to continue to make a comedy."

Source: On.cc, Singtao
Translated by: hktopten

The 32nd Hong Kong Film Award due to "Best New Performer" nominee Lam Siu Ha (LOVE IN THE BUFF) was discovered to have previously competed for the award and thus was disqualified. Yesterday the event announced that LAN KWAI FONG 2's Sammy Sum Chun Hin will take her place and compete with COLD WAR's Alex Tsui Ka Kit, THE LAST TYCOON (DAI SEUNG HOI)'s Joyce Feng Wenjuan, TAI CHI's Yuan Xiaochao and CZ12's Zhang Lanxin.

Sum Chun Hin happily stated that he did not expect to be nominated. When someone saw his hard work he already profited. He would remain calm, if he won he would treat it as a surprise return; in 2013 he will still focus on developing in film.

Source: On.cc, Singtao, Mingpao
Translated by: hktopten

Rose Chan Ka Wun and Philip Ng Won Lung yesterday promoted their new film THE PRINCESS AND THE SEVEN KUNG FU MASTERS (SIU GUNG JUN MO LUM) on Metro Radio. Once linked to Raymond Lam Fung in rumors, was Chan Ka Wun surprised that the always low key Lam Fung took the responsibility like a man and revealed his romance with Karena Ng Chin Yu to the media? Chan Ka Wun felt that dating was a happy thing and a good thing,. However when she was linked to Lam Fung she avoided the subject? She hesitated and said, "Today let's talk about the movie. In the film Ng Won Lung and I are a public couple. I take the initiative to get close to him. Finally he is responsible for being with me."

She avoided talking about Lam Fung, did she want to draw the line between them? Chan Ka Wun denied that and said that because it was between them; back then she and Lam Fung were rumored due to everyone's choice of word. It was not real. Since it happened so long ago, she hoped that no one would mention it again. Ng Won Lung played dumb and said that he had no idea what the media or Chan Ka Wun was saying, so he had no comment.

Source: On.cc
Translated by: hktopten 

The 63rd Berlin Film Festival officially opened yesterday. Although among the 19 films that compete for the highest honor Golden Bear prize, none is Chinese film; luckily the Wong Kar wai directed, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Zhang Ziyi starred THE GRANDMASTERS (YUT DOI JUNG SI) is the opening film. Big Director Wong is even the jury chair. Yesterday morning he led American actor Tim Robbins and the jury to meet the media. In the afternoon he host THE GRANDMASTERS press conference.

Although THE GRANDMASTERS has been in release in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for a long time and its Mainland box office even exceeded 290 million yuan RMB for a new Wong Kar Wai personal record, to Berlin film viewers it is still full of mystery. The premiere ticket was hard to come by, the remaining 3 shows have already sold out in 1 hour.

In order to take care of the overseas (especially European) market needs, Wong Kar Wai earlier stayed in the Bangkok editing room to remove 13 minutes from THE GRANDMASTERS' original 130 minutes to the less than 2 hour International Version. Reportedly the story structure also was adjusted slightly. "The pace is even more intense and the feeling is even more mature."

Actually, Wong Kar Wai has a deep relationship with the Berlin Film Festival. The 1991 DAYS OF BEING WILD (AH FEI JING JUEN) and the 1996 FALLEN ANGELS (DOR LOK TIN SI) both participated in the festival and won European and American film critic word of mouth. This year he is invited to be the jury chair. Yesterday on the eve of the opening ceremony Wong Kar Wai led 6 jury members including 1942's star Tim Robbins, Oscar Best Foreign Film IN A BETTER WORLD's Danish director Susanne Beir, Venice Silver Lion prize winning Iranian director Shirin Neshat and others to meet the media and kicked off the 11 day long film festival.

Another with a Berlin connection was Zhang Ziyi. Her films THE ROAD HOME, HERO and FOREVER ENTHRALLED appeared there. Two days ago THE GRANDMASTERS just completed its Paris promotion and headed to Berlin at night. Tomorrow will be Zhang Ziyi's 34th birthday. 4 years ago she celebrated her birthday in Berlin.

The international film festival frequent guest Tony Leung Chiu Wai was ailing when he met up with Zhang Ziyi in Paris, then they walked the red carpet in Berlin. Luckily his mother tag along, even though he was overseas for this Lunar New Year he would not feel too bad.

Source: On.cc, Mingpao
Translated by: hktopten

After 6 years, Nicholas Tse Ting Fung and Shawn Yue Man Lok again worked together on the Derek Kwok Chi Kin directed Emperor Motion Picture SPECIAL RESCUE HEROES (DUT JUNG GAU WOON YING HUNG, tentative title). After almost two months in production, the film was finally completed. Twi nights ago Emperor had a celebration for the cast and the crew. Because the film was about fire fighters, Ting Fung and Ah Lok during the shoot were very in character. Director Kwok Chi Kin said that they were tortured for almost two months, finally they could breathe a sigh of relief. Boss Albert Yeung Sau Sing and president Albert Lee also gave lai see to the team in advance for the Lunar New year.

The Kwok Chi Kin directed, Tse Ting Fung, Yue Man Lok, Simon Yam Tat Wa, Hu Jun, Andy Tien (On Chi Kit), William Chan Wai Ting, Bai Bing and others starred SPECIAL RESCUE HEROES after more than two months in production finally wrapped two nights ago. Emperor Motion Pictures had a 15 table wrap banquet for the cast and the crew. Ting Fung, Ah Lok, Brother Wah and other key actors attended. Emperor Group chair Yeung Sau Sing even personally attended to show his support. Kwon Chi Kin said that after two months of tough production, everyone was willing to "be tortured". He truly appreciated everyone's support. He said, "This movie has truly been hard on Ting Fung and Lok Jai. In addition, only Brother Wa could play his character with that charm. Many people said to me that they wanted to be Brother Wa's subordinate." Later the director continued to thank each and every worker. To show his support, boss Yeung Sau Sing and president Albert Lee even gave the team lai see in advance for an early Lunar New Year.

During the shoot, Lok Jai and others posted photos online to share with everyone the production results during their free time. He earlier posted a photo with Ting Fung and said, "After 5 or 6 years without working together, in 2013 we are together again, are you looking forward to it?" Jaycee Chan (Fong Cho Ming) jealously said, "Why doesn't Mr. Yue mention me?" Earlier they met for dinner and Ting Fung's father Patrick Tse Yin also attended.

Source: On.cc, Singtao
Translated by: hktopten 

Sandra Ng Kwan Yu and Raymond Wong Pak Ming have worked together on many Lunar New Year films. This year they again teamed up on the Lunar New Year film HOTEL DELUXE (BAK SING JAU DIM) with Chapman To Man Jat, Ronald Cheng Chung Kei, Eric Kot Man Fai, Fiona Sit Hoi Kei and others. Kwan Yu in the 1992 ALL'S WELL ENDS WELL (GA YAU HEI SI) played Wong Pak Ming's wife memorably, but in the Lunar New Year films afterward he "changed". "(Mini) Yang Mi caught his eye, in ALL'S WELL ENDS WELL 2012 (BAK SING PO HEI) he wanted to play a couple with Yang Mi. They weren't able to become a couple, so he went for playing father and daughter. Now he finally learns how good I am, this year no matter what he wants me back, haha!"

This time Kwan Yu played a hotel maid and was not a pair with Wong Pak Ming. She said, "Actually Boss Wong gave me character choices, but I liked characters that others bullied. The audience wouldn't laugh until we are being tortured." After years of working together, Kwan Yu pointed out that the salary was reasonable. "I grew up working with him, we have a relationship so I wouldn't ask for too much. I didn't expect for him to shake my hand at my opening price, I really regret that I didn't open with a higher price!"

Kwan Yu has reigned among the Lunar New Year actresses for years to become the highest grossing Lunar New Year female star. She said, "Wong Pak Ming's ALL'S WELL ENDS WELL film series was too memorable. For several years film was not doing well and no Lunar New Year film was made, then after ALL'S WELL ENDS WELL 2009 he asked me to work together until now. I rely completely on Wong Pak Ming's confidence on Lunar New year films."

This year Stephen Chow Sing Chi joined the Lunar New Year fray, which was good for viewers. Kwan Yu said, "They have pretty girl Shu Qi, we have (Karena) Ng Chin Yu, Sit Hoi Kei and me, pretty girl of every age group are in it. We even have all the top Hong Kong comedy actors so we are very confident." Wong Pak Ming said that thriving Chinese films was good for everyone. "Chow Sing Chi is only working behind the camera, I am not worried about splitting the box office. Every year we have an audience and box office base."

Source: On.cc
Translated by: hktopten 

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU Forum