News & Events
Sunday, June 15, 2008
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Zhang Ziyi attended the opening of the 11th annual Shanghai International Film Festival yesterday. She looked stunning as always. No surprise there. Big surprise, though, in that the organizers of the festival somehow forgot to include "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" for consideration. Some people!!!
Here are some pics of our favorite lady attending the event alongside a picture of a model wearing the same outfit as her:
Thursday, February 21, 2008
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Zhang Ziyi was recently accused of lip-syncing during the annual Spring Festival evening gala broadcast live recently in China. She has yet to release an official announcement regarding the accusations. Say it aint so Zhang! We all know what happened to Ashlee Simpson's career after the SNL debacle. It slid down so much that I just had to Google "Jessica Simpson's sister" in order to remember her name. Ouch.
In any event Zhang Ziyi looked stunning at the affair. That ought to count for something:
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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The good news: Zhang has signed on to star in a 30 million dollar action epic under the production banner that brought us "The Matrix" and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The bad news: It is inexplicably titled "Laundry Warrior." Yeah. Your guess is as good as mine. Here is a plot synopsis:
"STORY LINE: Yang, the World's Greatest Swordsman, leaves his clan and flees Asia with baby April, the last of the enemy bloodline. Hoping to make a new life for himself as a humble laundryman in America's Wild West, he comes to know and care about the people of Lode, a small, forgotten town filled with carnival players. While there, Yang finds a pupil/lover in Lin, (a beautiful Asian girl), but also makes new enemies with the Hell Riders, a marauding gang of vicious thugs. Reluctant to stand forward and defend the town, because it will mean revealing his identity, Yang is soon forced to pick up his sword and lead the "carnies" and townsfolk in to an incredible battle against the loathsome Hell Riders. At the pitched height of that battle, Yang's past, the Asian sword clan he left behind, ("The Sad Flutes"), attack raising the battle to an epic crescendo..."
That sounds kind of cool actually, more western than kung fu epic. But hell, laundry warrior?! I do laundry sometimes, quite often actually because I'm a slob, and at no point during that loathsome process do I feel anything close to a warrior. Laundry loser is more like it.
The film hasn't even raised it's entire budget yet so don't start looking for it until late 2009. You have plenty of time to separate your whites from your colors.
Here is a proposed costume design for her character that has been floating around the net:
Now here is a proposed costume design I came up with just now:
Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro have both signed on to star in "Deng Dai" which translates to "wait" or "waiting." Yeah, I've been using my Rosetta Stone software. It shows doesn't it? Anyway , this will be the first time the pair has worked together since "House of Flying Daggers."
The film chronicles eighteen years in the life of a doctor and nurse who develop and forbidden love for one another. They must wait for many years before being allowed to be together.
Ok I know Asia loves forbidden romance stories, but doctor and nurse? Is that really forbidden? It happens all of the time on "Grey's Anatomy." Next will be a movie about a coffee shop employee and customer who develop an intense love but are not allowed to act on it due to strict employee/customer codes of contact.
Peter Chan will be directing the film and it will be released sometime in 2009.
 
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
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Several Asia-centric entertainment sites have begun touting "Rush Hour 3" starlet Zhang Jingchu as "The next Zhang Ziyi". Don't believe the hype! Why? Because they are both Asian women making the rounds in American cinema. Actually, what Ziyi does can be considered cinema. "Rush Hour 3"?! The only thing sadder than "Rush Hour 3" would be a third installment in that Jackie Chan/Owen Wilson wild west franchise. Wait, there isn't a third one is there?
So why else then? The surname? I'm not buying it. Zhangs, but no Zhangs.
I heard she's dumb too. Somebody told me she thinks that's a real penguin:
I don't know when this photograph was taken, what the words say, or even what the point is. If it's an ad I want to buy whatever they are selling. If it's not, I'm buying anyways. Ah to go back in time and be born an Israeli venture capitalist who is worth many billions of dollars. Damn you fates! In the meantime, gotta hop in that cold, cold shower. You should do the same.
In China, Zhang Ziyi is so popular that people recently threw a big conference just to announce she had joined the cast of an upcoming biopic about the opera singer Mei Lanfang. Not even George Clooney commands that kind of respect here. Maybe Lindsay Lohan but that press conference would probably be for different reasons altogether.
Speaking of, once I thought friends and family were throwing me a press conference, you know, just because. Turns out it was an intervention. Booooo. I was ready for my close up too. Here is a photo of the lovely Ziyi at the event.
The movie is filming now for a release next year. And don't worry. I'm fine. Still ready for a close up though.
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