Hello, and good Monday, everyone! Hope you’re all having a good day so far. To start off, we have a few new H&N photos from the set of the third Mummy movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer. Michelle Yeoh’s dress in this picture is so silky and gorgeous looking. Wouldn’t it be awesome to walk around your house all glammed up like that? Except she’s in some kind of weird tomb/cave situation, which is a little creepier.
Variety reported last week that Laundry Warrior, the epic wash and dry session hero movie starring Korean hallyu megamachine Jang Dong Gun and little miss Lois Lane Kate Bosworth, was to start shooting in New Zealand on November 12. Korean newspaper outfit Chosun Ilbo says this Friday. Tomato, tomahto, the production is getting ready to roll.
The movie, which is written and directed by Sngmoo Lee, is produced by Lord of the Rings heavyweight Barrie Osbourne, and also stars Geoffrey Rush and Thomas Haden Church, is about an “Asian warrior” who’s in the American badlands and encounters some other warrior/fighter types.
The most important part of this item is that Jang Dong Gun is slowly moving his way into Hollywood, and possibly more international acclaim. He could be the big one for Korea, which so far hasn’t had any movie crossover stars (Yunjin Kim kinda counts, but she’s TV). He is ultra hot, and deserves to be known worldwide, despite the fact that he can sometimes have extremely nerdy hair. Check out some other photos of him, plus a supposed sketch of his Laundry Warrior costume. (I really don’t get the laundry part. Still. What is that about, really.)
So this silly animated Panda movie, Kung Fu Panda, is going to get a theme song by Korean pop idol Rain, who’s now in the U.S. recording for it. I have mixed feelings about Rain and producer JYP’s plans to take over the U.S. market, but lots of people around the world seem to find him sexy, so we’ll see. I hope his English has improved since his duet with Omarion! Oh, and check out one of Rain’s music videos.
I don’t know what compelled me to watch the trailer for Step Up 2 the Streets, the sequel to the 2006 dancemance Step Up, but I did, and I discovered a couple of things: the random H&N ballet dancer (extra?), the male lead that has to be the brother of last year’s American Idol runner up Blake Lewis, and the movie’s director, H&N Jon M. Chu. He’s got only a few titles under his belt, so I hope this is just a stepping stone to bigger (better) things. This movie just reeks of Save the Last Dance 2. Shake that stench off quick, Mr. Chu!
I went to the movies last night and saw Dan in Real Life, the new Steve Carell rom-com about an advice columnist who goes to an extended family gathering and falls in love. Steve Carell is a white dude, his family’s white. Makes sense. But then, this little Asian child pops up out of nowhere, and she’s someone in that family’s daughter, “Bella Wilson.” Whaaa?
I looked the little actress up. Her name is Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman, and there isn’t much else about her on the internet, unfortunately (the only place I conduct my research). All I know is, she does a really cute chihuahua impression. Check out one other photo of her from the movie, plus a shot of Masi Oka at the premiere~…
Yunjin Kim is currently in Korea promoting her new movie, Seven Days. Two things — what is she wearing, and why does she look so old in these pictures? Anyway, according to a brief item in Variety, Seven Days is a crime thriller in which Kim plays a ruthless lawyer. Her daughter gets kidnapped and she has to represent a prisoner on death row. This is Kim’s first Korean movie in two years, which is a big deal, since she was a huge star in Korea before crossing over to do Lost. Read more about the movie here.
I saw this picture, and I was like, waaaait.
The man on the left is Mike Myers, in a shot for his upcoming movie, The Love Guru, “which hits screens June 20. The film, which also stars Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake and Ben Kingsley, features Myers as Pitka, an American left as a child at the gates of an ashram in India. Pitka becomes a self-help guru who tries to smooth the marital rift of a hockey star and his wife.
Myers, a native of Ontario, says he wrote the film because of his interests in Eastern philosophy and hockey.”
Read the rest of the story at USA Today.
Jet Li is going to be in the new Mummy movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer, which is filming now, and the director Rob Cohen posted a blog item on his website. Rob says,
Today, I shot Jet Li on his black stallion riding into battle in his jade armor. He looked nothing short of an Emperor. He has been totally professional and warm to me and the entire crew, like the prince he truly is.
Michelle Yeoh is also in the movie as a wizard. They’ve dyed her hair gray (see photo). Here’s the plot synopsis from imdb:
In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo Rick (Fraser) and Alex O’Connell (Ford) unearth the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin (Li) — a shape-shifting entity who was cursed by a wizard (Yeoh) centuries ago.
Variety has put out a feature on the 10 Actors to Watch in Hollywood now. Two H&N ladies made the list — Summer Bishil and Tang Wei. Tang Wei is familiar to us here, even though she’s just getting started. Hopefully we’ll see more of her in the future. Summer Bishil is a newer face, though she’s done some TV work. Her big breakthrough is going to happen in an upcoming Alan Ball film called Nothing is Private, which is based on the novel Towelhead, by Alicia Erian. Congratulations to Summer and Tang!
Hey, guys. I was having trouble uploading to WordPress yesterday. It’s somewhat better now… So yay, back! But pardon the blips…
Here’s a chipper photo of the Elizabeth: The Golden Age cast with their director Shekhar Kapur. They are still twirling around the world to promote their movie, which is getting quite the mixed reaction from people.
I was checking out his Wiki page, and was amused to see that his parents discouraged him from getting into entertainment, so Kapur went into accountancy for a while instead. But he couldn’t quiet the voice inside, I guess. I also found out that he blogs, in some sort of connection with Deepak Chopra.
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