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New Moon Gets Blind Sided, Recovers

11/29/2009 12:07:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

It looks like New Moon has broken $200 million at the domestic box office. No thanks at all to Sandra Bullock.

Bullock's The Blind Side was the upset winner in the Thanksgiving Day standings, per estimates as reported by Box Office Mojo, edging New Moon with $9.5 million to the latter's $9.2 million.

On Black Friday, New Moon rose from the dead—well, second place—and reclaimed the top spot with a fat $17.9 million, enough to put the Twilight sequel over the $200 million mark and ahead of The Blind Side ($16.2 million).

For those keeping score at home, New Moon surpassed $200 million—and Twilight's entire domestic theatrical run—in only eight days.

2009 Golden Horse Award Winners

11/29/2009 12:06:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments

Taiwanese director Leon Dai's low budget family drama on Saturday swept the Golden Horse Film Awards, considered the Chinese-language "Oscars," bagging the best picture and best director gongs.


"I want to thank my parents, my mentor Edward Yang and the actors of the film," an emotional Dai told the audience in Taipei.

His "No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti," based on the true story of a diver's desperate fight for custody of his daughter, was the first local movie in seven years to win best picture.

"The film was nurtured by Taiwan and it absorbed full energy from this land," he said earlier while picking up a special outstanding Taiwanese film of the year award for the movie, which has a Spanish title meaning "I Can't Live Without You."

Dai beat more acclaimed rivals -- including Malaysian art-house director Tsai Ming-liang and Hong Kong's Clara Law as well as China's Guan Hu.

The independent film, which also brought a best original screenplay prize for Dai, was shot in black and white and cost only six million Taiwan dollars (187,500 US dollars) to produce.

However, the night's biggest surprise came when the best actor gong went to two people -- a split unprecedented in the Golden Horse awards' 46-year history.

Huang Bo from the critically-acclaimed Chinese black comedy "Cow" and Hong Konger Nick Cheung from the action flick "The Beast Stalker" shared the top honour.

Chinese actress Li Bingbing outshone strong rival Zhou Xun, both nominated for the espionage thriller "The Message," to be crowned best actress.

"I didn't expect to be recognised and I didn't think about what I would say.... I feel really lucky to be here," said a tearful Li.

China's Wang Xueqi won best supporting actor prize for "Forever Enthralled," a biopic of legendary Peking opera singer Mei Lanfang, while Yu Shaoqun took best new performer for playing the teenage Mei.

Art-house director Tsai's "Face" ("Visage"), the first of a new series of works produced by The Louvre, won best art direction as well as best make-up and costume for French designer Christian Lacroix.

The film's veteran lighting designer Lee Lung-yue, meanwhile, was recognised with the outstanding Taiwanese film-maker of the year accolade.

Law, nominated four times for best director, again walked away empty-handed as her art-house romance "Like A Dream" won no prizes despite leading the race with nine nods.

Other Hong Kongers were luckier, with Wai Ying-hung winning best supporting actress ("At the End of Daybreak") and documentary maker Cheung King-wai taking best documentary and two technical awards for "KJ: music and life."

Hong Kong action star Sammo Hung scooped the best action choreography prize for the blockbuster "Ip Man" on the life of the mentor of kung fu icon Bruce Lee.

The Golden Horse Awards, broadcast by Chinese-language channels as far away as Canada, are styled on the US Academy Awards but are decided by a jury along the lines of the Cannes film festival.

The following is a list of winners of the Golden Horse Film Awards.

Best Picture: No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti
Best Director: Leon Dai (No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti)
Best Leading Actor: Nick Cheung (The Beast Stalker)/ Huang Bo (Cow)
Best Leading Actress: Li Bingbing (The Message)
Best Supporting Actor: Wang Xueqi (Forever Enthralled)
Best Supporting Actress: Wai Ying-hung (At the End of Daybreak)
Best New Performer: Yu Shaoqun (Forever Enthralled)
Best Original Screenplay: Leon Dai, Chen Wen-pin (No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti)
Best Screenplay Adaptation: Guan Hu (Cow)
Best Cinematography: Cao Yu (City of Life and Death)
Best Visual Effects: Wang Jianxiong, Jimmy Chen, Li Liping (Crazy Racer)
Best Art Direction: Lee Tian-jue, Patrick Dechesne, Alain-Pascal Housiaux (Face)
Best Make-up/Costume Design: Christian Lacroix, Wang Chia-hui, Anne Dunsford (Face)
Best Action Choreography: Sammo Hung, Tony Leung Siu-hung (Ip Man)
Best Original Film Score: Dou Wei, Bi Xiaodi (The Equation of Love and Death)
Best Original Film Song: For My Heart (Death Dowry)
Best Film Editing: Cheung King-wai (KJ: music and life)
Best Sound Effects: Cheung King-wai (KJ: music and life)
Best Documentary: (KJ: music and life)
Best Short Film: (Sleeping With Her)
Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year: (No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti)
Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year: Lee Lung-yue
Lifetime Achievement Award: Ming Ji
Special Contribution Award: George Wang

It’s Not Easy Being Popular. 77 Percent Of Facebook Fan Pages Have Under 1,000 Fans

11/29/2009 12:05:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

In this age of instant Internet celebrity, anyone can become famous for 15 seconds (to rework Andy Warhol’s oft-quoted maxim). But what does famous mean exactly when anyone can have a Facebook fan page—those public pages on Facebook set up by brands, media outlets, celebs, and wanna-be celebs. As it turns out, being popular is not as easy as it looks. A full 77 percent of Facebook fan pages have less than 1,000 fans, according to an upcoming report by Sysomos, a social media monitoring and analytics firm.


Once a fan page is set up (here’s ours), anyone on Facebook can become your “fan,” which is like following someone on Twitter in that it doesn’t require a reciprocal friendship. Sysomos analyzed 600,000 fan pages on Facebook and came up with the distribution curve in the chart above. The vast bulk of fan pages have between 10 and 1,000 fans. Only 4 percent have more than 10,000 fans, and less than 1/20th of a percent have more than a million fans. It breaks down as follows:

* 95% of pages have more than 10 fans
* 65% of pages have more than 100 fans
* 23% of pages have more than 1,000 fans
* 4% of pages have more than 10,000 fans
* 0.76% of pages have more than 100,000 fans
* 0.047% of pages have more than one million fans (297 in total).

The Internet has long been defining celebrity down, and now we know by how much (if you accept that Facebook, the world’s fourth most popular Website with more than 300 million members, is as good a proxy as there is for the Web as a whole). To be Facebook famous, all you need is a moderately popular fan page, with the biggest chunk of those pages (42 percent) having between 100 and 1,000 fans. Another 30 percent have between 10 and 100 fans.

The categories Facebook fan pages fall into are remarkably evenly distributed. Celebrities, products, stores, restaurants, bars and clubs, websites, music, organizations, and non profits each make up between 6.9 percent and 7.5 percent of fan pages by category.



So-called celebrities only make up 7 percent of all fan pages. Of course, there are also some real celebrities (both dead and alive) who attract massive followings to their Facebook fan pages. Okay, there’s only 297 of them. For instance, Michael Jackson has the biggest fan page with 10.4 million fans, and that’s not counting the probably-overlapping 4.7 million who are fans of R.I.P. Michael Jackson (We Miss You). The action movie star Vin Diesel clocks in at 7 million fans, which is more than Barack Obama (6.9 million) or Megan Fox (5 million). Yes, people on Facebook are idiots (Megan Fox is much hotter than Vin Diesel). In contrast, the most popular person on Twitter, Ashton Kutcher, has 4 million followers, and Obama’s Twitter account only has 2.75 million—although that’s without even trying.

The biggest product page is Facebook’s own page, with 5.8 million fans (hey, is this rigged?), followed by Starbucks with 5.1 million (the page is filled with wall comments such as, “MMMMM Pumpkin Spice Latte!”). Sysomos drilled down further, looked at the 297 pages with more than one million fans, and properly categorized them—or at least tried. It turns out many of them (39.2 percent) are uncharacterizable such as “Nights Out With Friends.” But the rest can be broken down into music (16.7 percent), celebrities 16.0 (percent), products (11.9 percent), TV shows (8.5 percent), films (3.4 percent), and games (1.4 percent).

And that’s just like it is in the real world. If you have more than a million fans, chances are you are either a rock star or an actor.



And unlike on Twitter, where popularity is correlated with how many times you Tweet, Facebook fan pages tend to be updated only once every 16 days. And that’s really the big difference between Facebook fans and Twitter followers. On Twitter, you follow someone because you want to hear what they have to say. On Facebook, you fan them just to show your support of affinity. Too often, it’s a throwaway gesture. But then, fame is fleeting.

Cruella de Lil: Lily Allen parades a black and white wig and a showstopping dress

11/29/2009 01:30:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

A favourite of Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld and regularly featured in glossy style pages, it is fair to say Lily Allen continues to be the UK's fashion icon of the moment.


And her latest daring style will no doubt be copied far and wide by fans trying to get the Lily look - although this time it seems to have been unexpectedly inspired by an Disney character.

For wearing a shoulder-length black and white choppy wig at her sell-out south London gig last night, the star was reminiscent of 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil.

However, looking confident and healthy in a belted sparkly mini-dress, the 24-year-old pulled the look off with aplomb.

Supported by up-and-coming act Professor Green, the singer urged the crowd to back British troops in Afghanistan, revealing her bodyguard has three soldier sons posted in the country.



One was able to attend the gig and wore a wristband displaying his regiment.

But despite the serious message, the popstar was all smiles throughout the performance.

And it's no surprise bearing in mind she revealed earlier this month when questioned about boyfriend Sam Cooper: 'I am really in love. I am really happy'.

On fine vocal form, Lily had also donned her latest favourite trend for the performance - patterned tights in the style of suspenders.



The Smile star first championed the style in October and many thought she had stepped out in racy suspenders.

However, she later revealed it was hosiery designed to look like over-the-knee boots.

The singer's hairstyle will have been no surprise to the hundreds of fans who gathered at Brixton's O2 Academy to see her perform.

Singer's penchant for wigs have seen her sport a spectrum of multi-coloured locks from purple to platinum blond.

Netizens want to see drama couple Park ShinHye and Jang GeunSeok date in real life!

11/29/2009 01:30:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Netizens have chosen Jang Geun Seok and Park Shin Hye, cast of recent drama ‘You’re Beautiful’ as the drama couples they want to see date in real life.


According to a staff of community site DCInside recently, a survey was done from 17th till 24th November asking netizens to choose the drama couples they wish to see date each other in real life. And 5,579 netizens participated in the poll.

The results showed Jang GeunSeok-Park ShinHye at #1, and at #3 is another couple from drama ‘You’re Beautiful’ which is Jung YoungHwa-Park ShinHye.

At #2 is Lee MinJung-Jung KyungHo of SBS drama ‘Smile, You’.

c: StarNews

Thanks to JingYin for the headups!

Cheer up for those missing the drama alr ㅠ

Jay Chou's 'Pandamen' confirmed to air on January 22nd on CTS next year

11/29/2009 01:30:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

It seems that CTS wants to heat up Friday nights. After Zai Zai’s ‘Black & White’ received good ratings, they will now pass the baton to Jay Chou’s self-directed, self-produced & guest starring ‘Pandamen’. Not only does it star Jerry Yan, Wilber Pan, Shawn Yue & Will Liu, his rumoured girlfriend Jessie Chiang is also one of the female leads. It seems that Jay Chou wants to prove that not only does he support his best friends, he also cares for his girlfriend.

Currently during the 10 pm slot on Friday nights, besides CTV’s ‘One Million Star’, FTV, SETTV & CTS are all broadcasting television series. CTS broadcasted Golden Bell favourite ‘Black & White’ and the ratings remained high. And after CTS bought the broadcasting rights of Jay Chou’s big work ‘Pandamen’, there were outside rumours saying that it was impossible for it to air on the known ‘cold’ Friday nights. However after careful assessment, they decided to keep to their decision, and it is now confirmed that the drama will air on the 22nd of January next year.

Jay Chou previously said that ‘Pandamen’ is a television series filmed like a movie. The production fees are estimated to surpass $100 million. In the drama, Jay plays a valiant police detective, but his scenes are much less than Nan Quan Mama’s Yu Hao & Devon (Dan Tou) who are the main leads. But Jay says loyally: “If I have a lot of scenes, then what are they supposed to do?”

In the drama, Jay’s rumoured girlfriend Jessie Chiang plays ‘JVR Music’ teacher but she doesn’t have many scenes with Jay. Rather she plays a couple with Yu Hao, but there are not many intimate scenes between them, seeming to show Jay’s ‘over-protectiveness’.

Because ‘Pandamen’ has many scenes filmed in the zoo, CTS is planning on organizing a charity event with the city zoo.

Ariel Lin dances on stage, embarrassed over stripping to change clothes

11/29/2009 01:30:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Ariel Lin mostly plays silly, naive young girls in idol dramas, but she’s thrown off this image in the stage play “Man and Woman: War and Peace.” Taking on the challenge of playing a devil, an angel, a matchmaker and many other characters, she had to go through a lot of style changes during the play and had a taste of being stripped quickly to change.

“M&W” recently premiered in Hong Kong, and Ariel had the rare opportunity to show off her comic skills. She appeared on stage dancing to the tune of the Korean pop group Wonder Girls’ “Nobody” and Super Junior’s “Sorry, Sorry.”

Ariel remembered the steps and was very uninhibited, however, “dancing on heels was really painful,” she said. “You have to stay balanced, and yet still look classy and elegant. After doing six performances, I’ve 24 bruises on my feet.”

Because of the different characters she had to play, Ariel had to undergo eight style changes. Sometimes she had little time to change in between scenes, so she had to quickly change on the side of the stage. “Our costume fitter would rush to help me remove my clothes, take off my pants. It was quite embarrassing.”

At the premiere, Ariel’s mom was even more nervous that she was and kept saying: “It’s like when I accompanied you to your joint college entrance examinations.” Ariel said: “Comparing TV drama series and stage plays, the latter is more exciting. Although the pay isn’t much, I’ve learned a lot, and it’s worth it.”

LG IQ (Monaco) demoed on video, coming to Telus 'this holiday season'

11/29/2009 01:29:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments



Clocking in at 1:48, this glimpse at LG's IQ (a.k.a. Monaco) is indeed very brief and not much is said. It's got a fingerprint sensor lock, S-class UI (which we knew), and that backing is definitely Windows Mobile 6.5, but for everything else we'll have to refer to the previous specs we've seen leaked. As noted twice by the voice behind the on-screen hand, it's coming "this holiday season" and will be exclusive to Telus, so all the fine print should be revealed soon. Video after the break.

Xiao Xiao Bin the matchmaker? Ady An feels like a mum & Vanness Wu wants to be a dad

11/29/2009 01:29:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

SETTV idol drama ‘Autumn’s Concerto’ yesterday held a ‘Taipei-Beijing cross-strait netizens fan meet’ and main leads Vanness Wu, Ady An, Chris Wu & Xiao Xiao Bin all attended. Earlier, Chris promised that if ratings broke 6, he would jump off Bi Tan. Last week, ratings reached a new high of 5.05, and this made Ady An say happily: “I’ve already helped him pick out swimming trunks from online!”


‘Mu Cheng’s home’ in ‘Autumn’s Concerto’ is located in The Three Gorges, and was built specifically by Taipei government for the drama. They are also making an exception for the first time and opening it for visitors, making fans very excited. Some fans of Vanness even flew especially from Hong Kong to participate. Other than this, even Chinese netizens are very interested in the story development, and they acted as reporters asking Vanness: “Which one was harder; filming bed scene with Ady or filming with Xiao Xiao Bin?” And this made Vanness reply shyly: “The 2 each have its own difficulty, but the degree of challenge in filming the bed scene was higher.”

The storyline has moved on to 6 years later at Hua Tian Village and Xiao Xiao Bin, Lin Mei Xiu, Chang Qing & Chen Wei Min have joined in the drama. Facing all these good actors, Vanness said: “In the beginning, I did feel a bit of pressure, because everyone was so good at acting, and I learnt a lot from them, even Xiao Xiao Bin would sometimes help be my prompter!”

After the cute Xiao Xiao Bin joined in the cast, he also made the drama crew atmosphere much happier. Ady said: “I really feel like I’ve become a mum, and Xiao Xiao Bin is my child. Whenever he sees that I’m tired, he would run over and give me a massage, really very caring.” Even the usually cool Vanness agreed saying he himself wants a child too!

Other than this, when asked Chris Wu whether he is looking forward to fulfilling his promise of jumping off Bi Tan, he laughed: “Because Bi Tan has a rule that nobody is allowed to jump, so hopefully netizens can provide some suggestions and see if there are any suitable methods or locations. As long as ratings break 6, I will definitely fulfill my promise!”

Wilber Pan's concert has 5 Cue Prompter On Stand-By; Worried that he'll forget lyrics

11/29/2009 01:28:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Wilber Pan might look strong and healthy but he actually has injuries all over, and he can't remember his song lyrics, not even the ones that he wrote himself. It seems like he's going to be able to challenge senior Emil Chau Wakin (Zhou Hua Jian) for the title of "King of Forgetting Lyrics"! Emil Chau set a highest record of needing 6 cue prompters for his concert and its been confirmed that Wilber, who is 20 years younger than him will be requiring 5 cue prompters for his concert at Taipei Arena. One of them will be set up on the 2nd floor to prevent him from forgetting his lyrics when he moves up on stage.

Wilber claims that he has a pretty good memory normally. He can clearly remember which year he had which love rumors but memorizing lyrics is his greatest problem. "Dance For Two (雙人舞) filmed the MV in Korea and I had to repeat the lyrics twenty to thirty times. For public performances I've sang it around twenty times too. But I still can't remember the lyrics till now." When going on shows in Hong Kong and singing this song, he had to mumble over a few lines even and when he himself saw the shows, he couldn't help exclaiming "Its ridiculous"!

The lyrics for "Happy Idol (快樂崇拜)" was written by him and he has sang that song for many years. Yet he has never sang it right before. "I'll keep memorizing the song backstage and I'll be able to sing. Once I step on stage though, I would have forgotten them all."
Seeing how forgetful Wilber is, the music company has already given up on getting him to memorize the lyrics and has encouraged him to stock up on Gingko which is good for the brain. They automatically prepared 5 cue prompters to use and the big screen at the performance venue will also have the song lyrics shown. Wilber laughed and say "There's so many cue prompters. I'm not afraid of forgetting lyrics anymore."

As his left knee injury is still not healed till now, he has been drinking a lot of chinese medicinal soup to help heal. The doctors have advised him to stop dancing but he can't do it and has stopped visiting them. He terms himseflt as the entertainment circle's version of NBA star Allen Iverson who still continued to passionately play basketball after his injury. Wilber even claimed that his "Metal Pan" who isn't scared of injuries.

How Will GACKT Spend Christmas?

11/29/2009 01:28:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

GACKT, now the President of the School Council of 'Kamui Gakuen', lately has lots of things on his mind. [Kamui Gakuen (神威楽園)' is the name of an imaginary school and a series of fan club events being held by GACKT. Fans participating in the events must come wearing school uniforms.] Fellow students (fans) will probably like to know what he's been thinking about. Let's take a look at his blog! [For the following entry GACKT wrote as the 'President'. The 'President' refers to GACKT in third person.]

President: "What? You want to know what I'm doing right now? I'm in my car mulling over plans for December. I have just been thinking that spending Christmas with you 'students'...might be a good idea."

Christmas is the final big event before New Year's Day, and now there's a chance the fans will be able to spend it with GACKT!
Also, the President had one more thing to say.

President: "By the way...GACKT's new song '雪月花 -The end of silence- / Setsugetsuka -The end of silence-' is a masterpiece! Every time I listen to it, I'm moved to tears..."

Judging from what the President said the new GACKT single is well worth checking out. It will go on sale on December 9th!

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