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Recently Jay Chou has been busy with his world tour, but in recent days a Taiwanese cinematographer Kiven revealed on his blog the plans of Jay Chou's new movie "Secret 2", the female lead has been exposed early, according to cinematographer Kiven: "After Jay Chou is finished with his concert next year, he'll film the sequel to Secret, at present the script is already being planned, this time it's going to be a bit more sci-fi, and also bits of it will be in 3D."
When Jay Chou was filming "Secret" he already had ideas for "Secret 2", it was just because he was busy with other things afterwards that nothing came of it, the script for the new movie has already been in the works since the start of last year, it's been confirmed now that they will start filming in September next year, earlier Jay Chou revealed to the media, besides the background crew for the movie not changing, the majority of the male cast will also be the same, but for the female cast he wants to "change things", he's worried that the audience have too deep of an impression of Guai Lun Mei and Alice Tzeng, so with a newcomer it will give the movie a different feeling. And about other details of the movie, Jay Chou has been unwilling to reveal any information.
But cinematographer Kiven leaked quite a lot of Jay Chou's "secrets" on his blog, just like last time "Secret 2" will be about time travelling, it's just that this time there'll be more creative scenes and stories, in Director Chou's new album "The Era" he has been plugging the "time travelling" songs, this time's "Secret 2" female lead, Man Qi, was recommended to Jay Chou by a good friend, the female lead is pretty and pure, her sweet temperament is in line with the style of people Jay Chou uses. The different thing to "Secret" is that this time in "Secret 2", it will be about "time travel" between now and the future, due to the fact the male and female leads are from different eras and have different technologies, a lot of exciting stories arise from it. The male lead is a high school student, the female lead is from the technology-advanced future, very sci-fi, for this time Jay Chou will use 3D in the movie and make a music love story with the "Hollywood" style grand feeling.
Reporters asked for further confirmation about the details revealed by Kiven about "Secret", reporters got into contact with JVR staff, staff member Mr Wang did not deny plans about "Secret 2", about the details he declined to comment.
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Source: Chinatimes
It was still a full house on the 12th for Jay Chou's "The Era" world tour concert, his good friend Eason Chan came to listen, he gave him a surprise by singing and playing "Where's the Promised Happiness", then halfway through he suddenly started singing "Eliminated" which he wrote for Eason Chan. But, last year he beat Eason Chan to claim the King of Gold Songs, this year Eason Chan is again nominated, the Golden Melody Awards are just around the corner on the 26th, with him singing "Eliminated", carelessly he's touched a bit of bad luck!
Yesterday was the second night of the concert, his mood was relaxed, he sang with more feeling. When he went onstage wearing an ancient Chinese classical lace prince costume, he started off playing "Mario bros." to amuse the crowd, he then turned into a white prince and sang a love song, when he was halfway through singing "Where's the Promised Happiness?", he suddenly started singing "Eliminated", Eason Chan was so happy he gestured to the camera, saying he wanted Jay Chou's autograph. This article is translated by http://www.jaychoustudio.com
Jay Chou suddenly stopped to keep the suspense: "You thought I'd sing your song?" Then he started singing "Chinese Flower Pot", seeing Eason Chan's disappointed expression, he suddenly started singing "Eliminated" again, Eason Chan got high once again, he kept kissing Jay Chou's album, the crowd laughed.
According to reports, he was most nervous on the first night of the concert on the 11th, he had a meeting with the workers after the concert, he also went back to the office to watch the tapes, he only went home after 1 in the morning. The guests at his concert were label mates, yesterday night The Drifters often looked ever-green to dumbstruck, they held the mic in both hands, he encouraged his label mates saying: "Not bad! Their stage presence is already very stable! It's completely different to the first time I was on stage, I knew they were actually a bit nervous, I hope they can relax!" Yesterday when he saw Lara he said: "Not bad! Hot babe."
The mapping effect for the concert (all new image effect techniques) amazed people, when he was singing "Love's Flight Diary", it was as if he was in the milky way, boundless. The first day sales of the merchandise at the concert was 4 million yuan, it's estimated after 3 days it can break the 10 million mark.
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Source: Oeeee
On the 9th Jay Chou premiered MV for the Flower Expo song "Long Time No See" at the Taipei Arena, it is rumoured that he wrote this song for Jolin Tsai, the lyrics "Long time no see, how have you been, has your dog grown up...hurry up and come back
to my side", people online indicate this is his feeling of wanting to get back with Jolin Tsai! He said: "People online think too much."
In order to film the MV, he ran around the whole of Taipei getting famous locations, yesterday he was awarded "the key to the city", Taipei mayor Hao Long Bin said that he can now film anywhere he wants in Taipei without restriction, he even welcomed Jay Chou to get shots at his house, the condition being that he or his son has to be extras.
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He invited the Flower Expo robot which cost TW$12 million to make to be in his MV, but the robot got temperamental with him, he said: "When it's rainy he goes on strike, I have to listen to him even if I'm the director." It's so rare for him to dance in the MV. He said, dancing is not his strong point, but he's working hard to learn a new dance for his concert on the 11th.
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Source: Huaxia
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On the 19th Jay Chou went on UFO Radio to promote his new album "The Era", the presenter Joseph Wang asked: "What kind of girl does your mother like?" He thought about it and said: "I guess someone who is filial and can do housework." Joseph Wang concluded: "So outward appearance is not important?" He laughed shouting: "I think it's important!" The mother and son are close, but their view on girls is very different.
Jay Chou wants everything to be diao, but he has a side when he returns to his family, Nicholas Tse has given him some food for thought, "In the past I went to Hong Kong often, I bumped into him when he was still unmarried, but after I bumped into him later, he was already a father, I talked to him about being a father, it was pretty special." Tse is 30 this year, Jay Chou is a year older, seeing him already a father of two, he's not in a hurry but his attitude is rather contradictory.
"If I had kids, I can take them out to play, go on shows, but once I go abroad, what will I do since I can't accompany them?" He said, once he gets married, there's no way he'll get divorced, "So I'll carefully choose (my other half)."
Recently he's had a lot of run-ins with girls, "Game Female Wu Kong" Honey Chen was said to have been to his room, he helplessly said: "My mother is very conservative, she believes the media very easily. She even asked me, 'When did your room have so many stars?' It's not like my room is the UFO Radio office, plus I'm not that romantic."
Besides this, Mainland China Beijing are holding the competition for musical "In Love With Teresa Teng", the producer Li Dun has already invited Jay Chou and Leehom Wang to produce the music for this musical, Li Dun revealed: "Jay Chou's company is very interested in this." Yesterday Jay Chou said about this: "I'm not clear about it, everything will be arranged by the company."
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Source: Sina
The press conference for Jay Chou's latest album "The Era" was held in Taipei yesterday, in the press conference it was revealed that there are already over 40 nights planned for Jay Chou's new tour "The Era Concert" in different cities around the world, it's been confirmed that it's surpassed the last tour's 42. This article is translated by http://www.jaychoustudio.com
Yesterday's press conference was opened by the music of "The Era" combined with a thousand "damaru drums", it was a spectacle. Vincent Fang offer congratulations on the success of Jay Chou's new album and the concert with "Music crosses time and is boundless" and "Even across four oceans, still transcending eras". JVR Music's general manager Yang Jun Rong announced the surprising results of Jay Chou's world tour concert.
After the originally planned two nights for Taipei were announced for "Jay Chou's The Era Concert", it sold out in two days, they added a third day which also sold out in two days, before the first night in Taipei has even begun, it was confirmed that Jay Chou will be playing at over 40 nights in different cities around the world for his new tour, it's been confirmed that it has surpassed his last tour's 42, a confirmation of breaking the concert record.
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Source: Sina
According to Hong Kong media reports, today (18th of May) Jay Chou's new album "The Era" was released in the whole of Asia, the pre-orders in Hong Kong have already reached 70,000, breaking the sales record of the previous album.
In the MV and on the cover of the new album, Jay Chou appeared as a vampire prince, he built three sets and even especially had a mechanical looking piano made, costing over 620,000 yuan, setting a record for an individual. In the MV for another song "It Rains All Night", Jay Chou continued to travel through time, turning into an ancient Chinese person playing the erhu, the most unique thing was that the MV unexpectedly facilitated something happy, a pair of cast who were originally lovers, during the filming the guy suddenly proposed to the girl, the girl was surprised and happy, the whole thing was filmed.
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As for the new album, just the pre-orders in Hong Kong have already reached a record of 70,000. And in order to achieve a visual effect, the cover of the special tin version has a 3D image on the cover, he really went for broke.
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Source: Chinatimes
Jay Chou directed and starred in the MV for his new song "It Rains All Night", but he's only playing the role of the story teller, he's given the male lead role to Darren from The Drifters, to star in a love story in this life and the past life, but he didn't let his buddy taste the "sweetness", the intimate scene with the female lead was completed by using the angles.
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In Jay Chou's new song, from the lyrics, the melody to the scenes in the MV, he goes from the present to the 20s and 30s, he went from playing the cello to playing the erhu wearing a gown, the big crew went to 100 year old Taipei Guest House to get shots, his singing went from R&B to the singing found in Beijing Opera, he subtly joins together the love from the past to the present.
In the MV Darren sees his beloved female lead marry someone else, he couldn't stop crying, it was his first time filming a crying scene, he cried very miserably, he couldn't stop crying after Jay Chou shouted "cut", Jay Chou said: "He really knows how to act, a man crying for love, it really moves me!" His singing and signing session for his album "The Era" will be in Gaoxiong, Taichung on the 22nd, and on the 23rd he'll be at Shimen in Taipei.
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Source: Chinatimes
It has been rumoured that the Hong family were planning to invite Jay Chou to participate in the Hong Yi Feng legend movie, yesterday Jay Chou said, 10 years ago Hong Jing Rao helped him arrange a song, he also really respects Hong Yi Feng, he hopes to have a chance to do covers of his songs, if the Hong family want to film a movie, he hopes to be the director.
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Hong Jing Rao yesterday said, Jay Chou has a musical foundation, his mother is also a Christian, if there was a sponsor and they invited Jay Chou to be the director, it would of course be great if they could complete this dream together. But, yesterday Jay Chou changed his mind, he said he would write a song to commemorate Hong Yi Feng, this year he is focussing on his album and concert, there's an obstacle of time if he was to direct it.
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Source: Chinatimes
It has been rumoured that the Hong family were planning to invite Jay Chou to participate in the Hong Yi Feng legend movie, yesterday Jay Chou said, 10 years ago Hong Jing Rao helped him arrange a song, he also really respects Hong Yi Feng, he hopes to have a chance to do covers of his songs, if the Hong family want to film a movie, he hopes to be the director.
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Hong Jing Rao yesterday said, Jay Chou has a musical foundation, his mother is also a Christian, if there was a sponsor and they invited Jay Chou to be the director, it would of course be great if they could complete this dream together. But, yesterday Jay Chou changed his mind, he said he would write a song to commemorate Hong Yi Feng, this year he is focussing on his album and concert, there's an obstacle of time if he was to direct it.
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Source: Liberty Times
National treasure King of Songs Hong Yi Feng has passed away, the Hong family have been preparing a music event and a movie about his legend, the main star of the movie has been followed closely by the outside world, "Director Chou" Jay Chou once suggested he could play Hong Rong Hong and Hong Rong Hong could play his father Hong Yi Feng! This article is translated by http://www.jaychoustudio.com
Hong Yi Feng was very strict about music practise on Hong Rong Hong, Hong Rong Hong spent most of his childhood practising the piano and vocals, Jay Chou, who started learning the piano at 4, was also strictly taught by his mother and only has the success he has today because of that, and so because of this similarity of memories, it's made Jay Chou feel a bit more interested in the Hong family's story.
Hong Yi Feng's other son Hong Jing Rao is a good friend of Jay Chou's, it turns out 3, 4 years ago, Jay Chou already had the intention of filming the story of the "four heroes" of the Hong family into a movie, he even planned to play Hong Rong Hong himself, Hong Rong Hong would play Hong Yi Feng, together he would take Hong Yi Feng's story onto the silver screen.
Besides a collaboration in a movie, Hong Jing Rao also mentioned to Jay Chou once, that he hoped that through his creative talent, they could copy the same style as when Jay Chou and Fei Yu Qing performed "Beyond A Thousand Miles" and have Jay Chou and Hong Yi Feng do a classic duet, Jay Chou promised he would do his utmost to help, he hoped he could bring Hong Yi Feng's music to everyone using a more youthful way.
To the news that the idea of a movie about the Hong family being done by Jay Chou, Jay Chou's JVR Music PR manager Zhang Lan Yun expressed, before teacher Hong Jing Rao did indeed mention to Jay Chou about releasing a new album version of Hong Yi Feng's music, Jay also admired Hong Yi Feng's work, and so he promised he would combine Hong Yi Feng's work with his own and make a melody to give to them; as to the part about the movie, the company have not received any news regarding this, but because Jay already has his album and concert scheduled for this year, so filming a movie this year would be a bit difficult in terms of time.
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Source: Sdchina
In the last few days, during a match between artists, one celebrity named Devin Wu was getting a lot of attention, because Devin Wu confessed for the first time that she dated Jay Chou 12 years ago, not just this but she gave her first time to Jay Chou when she was 16, but afterwards the two broke up because of a third party. This article is translated by http://www.jaychoustudio.com
Since entering the industry Jay Chou's rumours have been endless just like this talent, he has at least 10 rumoured girlfriends, but what people didn't know was that in fact the first J Girl was the rather unknown Devin Wu. Devin Wu was once part of the group "One Fifth", she has released an album before, but due to the record not selling she had mixed days in the entertainment industry, neither popular or unpopular. Devin Wu reminisced about her and Jay Chou's relationship 12 years ago, at the time, Devin Wu and Jay Chou both were signed by Jacky Wu, after the two started dating, originally their relationship was good, but afterwards another person entered, at the end they were forced to break up.
According to what Devin Wu says, at the time she was singing at Jacky Wu's restaurant, it just so happens Jay Chou had just gotten hurt by a girl, he came to the restaurant to eat, he told her everything, afterwards he even hugged her looking for comfort. When Devin Wu and Jay Chou were going out they once exchanged rings, and they've both met each other's parents, but they split up at the end.
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Source: Chinatimes
Tastes between the two shores are different, in Mainland China the TV series "Pandamen" was labelled as retarded by people online, its airing time was even switched by the TV channel, but when it was broadcasted on CTS, it got good ratings of 0.77.
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Jay Chou wrote, directed and starred in the TV series "Pandamen", when it was shown in Mainland China, people online criticized it for being retarded; a few days ago, the uncut version was shown on CTS, it received ratings of 0.77, producing the best ratings that CTS have had in this time slot for a year. Jay Chou brags that "Pandamen" can match America's "Batman", it promised, he'll come back to promote it after February.
The sci-fi idol drama "Pandamen" took a year to make, the total budget was over NT$1.1 hundred million. The series is being shown in Taiwan but Jay Chou has not returned to promote it, this has dissatisfied fans; a few days ago Jay Chou clarified at the Shanghai premiere: "How can I possibly not promote it! I'll be busy again, I'll definitely be back in Taiwan in February to participate in public welfare meetings!"
Jay Chou expressed that he's been a fan of "Batman" since young, he's always fantasized about being a hero in the future, "Pandamen is a start, I hope he can become the representative of a hero in the modern East!"
Why did he choose a panda to be the star? Jay Chou said: "Panda's are very cute, plus it's very easy to make the colours of the East prominent with them, at present foreign cartoon heroes are all based on "insect-like" (Spiderman, Batman), I've made a pledge to film the first modern hero representative of the Eastern world!"
It is his first idol drama to be shown in Taiwan, Jay Chou is used to doing everything himself, he even personally edited it, he revealed, "I can't cut any of my scenes, I fought so hard and handsomely, how I can cut it!" Jay Chou strongly pushed it, the "Pandamen" shown on CTS is definitely the "most complete version edited personally by Jay Chou".
The core of "Pandamen" is the fights, the fight scenes by Nan Quan Mama's Devon and Yuhao include street dance moves, Jay Chou admitted the hardest part of film were the action scenes, "There needs to be a gun fight, then you have to design some moves, there also has to be running on walls, it can't be too out there, this series is very real, but you have to add in some sci-fi, I think when you do this kind of directing you'll really go crazy fast."
"Pandamen" is about a story that happened in 2030, "Two boys full of righteousness and challenge become "Super Pandaman" and "Pandaman", they use power worthy of Batman to battle with the evil corporation, they protect Bright City's safety." The main stars "Super Pandaman" and "Pandaman" are played by Nan Quan Mama's Yuhao and Devon, Jay Chou plays a police inspector "Li Ao". Besides them, Jay Chou's rumoured girlfriend Jessie Chiang, Eric Tseng, Jerry Yan, Wilber Pan, Shawn Yu and more all guest star.
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Source: Apple Daily
Yesterday night Jay Chou held his 31st birthday party at Zhongshan, it was very lively, the media crowded outside the venue, besides appearing to the media on the way there, unexpectedly the party went on from 8pm to 2am, due to the fact there are no toilets in the venue, he didn't go to the toilet for 6 hours, he certainly can hold it in.
Yesterday night at Jay Chou's party, apart from his mother Ye Hui Mei and grandmother, his friends including Vincent Fang, Devon, Will Liu all attended, Vincent Fang wore ancient Chinese clothes and danced with Devon, Xiao Zhong performed magic to please Jay Chou.
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A few days ago Jay Chou met up with his old love Jolin Tsai who he hasn't been with for 5 years, when rehearsing Xiao Zhong laughed saying he would give Jay Chou a bowling ball, onstage he jeered: "Jay, we haven't seen each other for 5 years, I like bowling too, why didn't you ask me." Jay Chou could only grimace after hearing it.
Nearing 12pm, the staff pushed out a 3 layered cake, Jay Chou wished for everyone to be healthy and for his career to go smoothly. The party ended at 2am, Jay Chou usually likes to do magic, as usual he made himself disappear, while his mother and grandmother were leaving, he slipped out by the staircase.
Vincent Fang was asked if he knew Double J had got back together? He said embarrassingly: "I don't know, don't ask me." Jaycee Fong was also at the party, he was asked what he gave Jay Chou? He said: "He doesn't lack anything, I'm just simply bringing my best wishes and congratulations."
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Source: 022net
Patty Hou just got engaged and now Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai have been spotted bowling, there are suspicions that the "Double J relationship" is announcing a reunion. But, Jay Chou, who has always hated the paparazzi, still didn't put on a good complexion when faced with the questions from the media, they nearly started a fight.
Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai have been apart for 5 years, on the 15th they both appeared at a bowling centre, according to media reports, both brought along 7, 8 friends as cover, Jolin Tsai wore a blue top with a scarf, she arrived first with her friends, not long after Jay Chou also arrived, but he wore a mouth mask, looks like he was intent on hiding his identity. This article is translated by http://www.jaychoustudio.com
Perhaps they didn't want to be too high profile, Jolin Tsai didn't interact much, they chatted through their friends. After the media arrived, Jolin's friends surrounded her, blocking photos from being taken; Jay Chou's group left first, Jay Chou has always been very protective of his personal life, at the end he couldn't help but get mad, he nearly got into a fight with the reporters there. Jay Chou's 31st birthday is on the 18th, whether or not the Double J relationship announces a reunion, the outside world is paying a lot of attention.
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Source: Chinanews
A few years ago, Vincent Fang was basically a youth no one knew about, the turning point was when he was hired by Jacky Wu to work in the same company as Jay Chou. Afterwards, Jay Chou became popular really quickly, "benefiting" Vincent Fang, he's now living the life many people envy, "more of a star than normal people", "more relaxed than stars". Vincent Fang set up JVR Music with Jay Chou, from an angle, Jay Chou is his "redeemer". On another side, the two are so close they wear the same pair of pants. So whenever someone suspects or accuses Jay Chou, Vincent Fang would seek justice for Jay Chou. Yesterday, Vincent Fang accepted an interview. This article is translated by http://www.jaychoustudio.com
In recent times the music market has fallen, even Jay Chou, being the leader in the music industry, has had a year when he hasn't released a new album. Towards Jay Chou's movement towards movies and what Jay Chou and Vincent Fang plan after "Chinese style", perhaps it was because he had been asked so many times recently, Vincent Fang was sensitive to the issue and took it as a questioning of Jay Chou, he replied with fluctuating feelings. "A rock artist, all 10 songs in the album are rock. He's released 4 albums and they are all rock, why don't you say to him 'you should sing a folk song or jazz and blues'? A female artist, will definitely have an album where every song is related to love, why don't you say to her 'you should sing more songs about society, anti war songs'? If you count from the first album Jay Chou has at least 5 songs not related to love out of 10, he's trying his best to do different styles, to give everyone a fresh feeling. The result is everyone keeps on asking him to do new things, add more variation. This is too severe! This is perhaps "love well, whip well". It's good to have expectations of Jay, but you also have to reference the zero progress of other artists. This is like Wulin, there's plenty of sides, you can't just ask Shaolin to improve. Jay and I haven't thrown away the collaboration on the new album, because he's been filming in America recently, the new album should be delayed until March."
Jay Chou has already successfully stepped into the movie world, he's fulfilled his dreams outside filming too. It turns out Vincent Fang's dream was movies before his got into the music industry, writing songs was just a jump board into the world of movies at the start. Recently, because he wrote 2 songs for Sun Nan, Vincent Fang was asked to direct the MV for one of the songs "Jolly". This is the first time he has directed by himself, before he had directed together with Jay Chou on the music videos for "Lan Ting Preface" and "Coral Sea".
Vincent Fang expressed that when he writes lyrics he focuses on what you picture, so directing an MV is the same thing for him, using a different style to show the same contents. He revealed he will be filming a music movie he has written himself this year, "Even though it's a bit on the artsy side, but I still found an investor." People are probably paying more attention on how Jay Chou will help out. "Jay and I are close but not as you'd imagine. Do you know? The clothes I'm wearing today are actually his, because he gets so much stuff being a spokesperson, he just can't use it all. It's because we are close, I'll definitely get him to help, I'm not afraid of people saying I'm using him for PR, it's because we're close, I'll only consider the needs of the movie, I won't forcefully make new content just for him. Maybe he doesn't even need to be in the shot, he can just do the movie soundtrack."
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