Andy Lau Invests In Firestorm To Get Paid

Andy Lau Tak Wa as the film FIRESTORM (FUNG BO)'s boss, producer and actor attended an event in Beijing. The film will be released for the holidays in the Mainland and Hong Kong in December as the first Chinese 3D police film.

Lau Tak Wa's investments GALLANTS (DA LUI TOI) and A SIMPLE LIFE (TOH JEH) both won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Picture. The Bill Kong Chi Keung invested COLD WAR (HONG JIN) was a box office champion. The Chinese film FINDING MR. RIGHT made 500 million yuan in the Mainland. He joked that Lau Tak Wa swindled him into invest in FIRESTORM together. Lau Tak Ha humorously replied, "In order for him to pay my salary, I was willing to play the lead and be the executive producer."

Some said that Chinese film is at a changing of the guards, but they disagreed. This year several new comer directed film performed well at the box office, truly reflecting that the audience was growing younger and could accept more realistic subjects. Lau Tak Wa said, "The relationship between new directors and veteran directors is like a romance. Some people may because of a new girlfriend feel the new ones are always better than old ones, but you still need time for them to settle."

Source: Mingpao

Translated by: hktopten 

Andy’s charisma won over Typhoon Usagi, concert tickets sold out within 2 hours

ALways Andy Lau Concert World Tour 2013 will be held at Taipei Arena on 28 and 29 December 2013, the tickets were on sale on 21 September’s morning at 10am at FamilyMart stores, despite the bad weather, the heavenly king’s charisma still won over the danger of Typhoon Usagi, minus the 1000 tickets for advance credit card bookings, a total of 20,4000 tickets for the two shows were sold out within 83 minutes, thus tickets were sold out at 11:23am, Internet sales were supposed to start at 12pm but due to the tickets sold out, Internet sales was called off which made those waiting to purchase their tickets off the Internet shocked.

Those who did not managed to buy any ticket were hopeful of additional shows, but Andy’s management company in Taiwan expressed: “No plans for additional shows.” With regards to this, the NT$4800 tickets were put on sale to a price as high as NT$7500.

It has since 5 years that Andy came to Taiwan for a concert, thus many wanted to buy the concert tickets. It was earlier alleged that fans brought NT$100,000 in cash to buy tickets, followed by a commission of NT$1500 offered for each ticket bought on their behalf.

However, fans still complained that who was first in the queue whom managed to select the ticket at 10:03am found out that the NT$5500 good seats ticket for the 28 December show was already being sold out. The organizer explained: “Most importantly tickets went on sale at 10am, all ticket booths opened at the same time with thousands queued number 1, every one could purchase 4 tickets, thus sold out fast.”

Severe Typhoon Usagi barrelled towards Hong Kong, it was announced that flights will be stopped at 6pm, thus artistes going overseas to work took an earlier flight to leave Hong Kong. Thus, it was a star stubbed at the airport with Andy Lau, Cherie Chung, Raymond Wong and Chrissie Chau spotted at the airport.

When Andy appeared at the airport to fly to Beijing, around 20 fans were there to send him off resulting a small commotion. When asked if he’s worried that the typhoon would affect his work schedule, Andy did not answer instead he urged them to be careful on their way home as the typhoon was coming. Several tourists managed to recognize him and approached him for autographs and photographs.

When leaving, Andy accommodate the custom officers instruction as he took off his sunglasses.

Source: Apple Daily News, China Times, udn.com, Macao Daily, Headline Daily, Ming Pao
Translated by: AndyLauSounds

Andy Lau's new movie to be released in 2014

After nearly a year in production, it was revealed that Andy Lau's police thriller, "Firestorm", will be released early next year.

As reported on QQ website, the production team for the movie, which also stars Gordon Lam, Yao Chen and Hu Jun, has kept a tight lid on the movie's details since filming concluded on Lunar New Year this year.

Directed by screenwriter Alan Yuen, who wrote the story for "Rob-B-Hood", "Firestorm" stars Andy Lau as a cynical police inspector named Lu Mingzhe who wants to arrest Cao Nan (Hu Jun), the infamous ringleader of a criminal gang and put him behind bars by any means necessary.

He employs former convict and childhood friend, Tao, as an informant, after agreeing to give Tao a chance to start fresh with his ex-girlfriend (Yao Chen), but the two men soon realise that they are entangled in a chaotic mess that cannot be faced alone.

Aside from the brief summary, other known details about the movie are that it is executively produced by Andy and EDKO Films' Bill Kong, as well as a few photos of the movie's sets taken by netizens.

Source: Yahoo! Entertainment