YAHOO: Hollywood action star Chow Yun-fat, sporting a gray beard,
urged the people of his native Hong Kong to give charities more
than just their cash. "This city is really good at donating money,"
Hong Kong news reports Chow was quoted as saying. "How about keeping
that money in your pocket and donating some time? Maybe more can
be accomplished." The "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" star, in
Hong Kong to celebrate Mother's Day with his mum, made the appeal
at a Hong Kong Red Cross event over the weekend, news reports
said Tuesday. Chow has been overseas filming "Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man's Chest" _ the sequel to the 2003 hit, "Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl." He plays a famous Chinese
pirate, Cheung Po Tsai.
Source: HKSAR Top 10: 5/9/2005: Chow Yun Fat yesterday attended
a Hong Kong Red Cross event. Life in Hong Kong is busy and on
many occasions people will overlook people and events around them.
Chow Yun Fat felt that the phenomenon absolutely needed to be
improved. We should spend more time to help and care about those
around us. The avid photogrpaher earlier took a photo of fallen
leaves and the river and experienced life and death at the same
time. Chow Yun Fat also held the hand of a child with Mediterranean
anemia and studied the needle marks on his mark. Fat Jai later
praised the child's courage and passion for life even amidst a
serious illness.
Because his new film will not start production until mid June,
Chow Yun Fat has had even more time to make preparation like horseriding
and English. "I have always been afraid of riding horses.
Now after three lessons I am still a little frightened. My thighs
are very sore and my rear is numb. I have never had so much excitement
in my life. I have to study English too. Because my wife's English
has a Singaporean accent, I haven't asked her for help. I have
hired an instructor who sends me tapes for me to read along."
As for Mother's Day, Chow Yun Fat expressed that he has already
dined with her in advance to celebrate but did not prepare any
gift. He joked, "She and I don't know each other, we are
practically strangers. Dining with the old lady is fine, whatever!"
Thanks Shoto!
Images: Sina
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HONG KONG: Hollywood action star Chow Yun-fat, sporting a gray
beard, urged the people of his native Hong Kong to give charities
more than just their cash.
“This city is really good at donating money,'' Hong Kong news
reports quoted Chow as saying. “How about keeping that money in
your pocket and donating some time? Maybe more can be accomplished.''
The Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star, in Hong Kong to celebrate
Mother's Day with his mum, made the appeal at a Hong Kong Red
Cross event over the weekend, news reports said yesterday.
Chow has been overseas filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man's Chest – the sequel to the 2003 hit, Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl. He plays a famous Chinese pirate,
Cheung Po Tsai.
Photos courtesy of Sina and Yahoo News
Chow Signs For Deadly Deception
Asian star signs on for James Fargo action thriller
There are some things in life that just go perfectly together.
Cookies and milk, Lennon and McCartney, Chow Yun-Fat and the high-octane
action movie. With a history in such films, it comes as no great
surprise but good news that the Asian star has signed on for another
action thriller, Deadly Deception, which will be directed by James
Fargo.
Chow will play Hong Kong detective Philip Chase, who must travel
to Los Angeles (well, it was never gonna be Kentucky was it?)
to hunt down his sister’s killer. Once there, Philip faces a battle
of wits, and quite possibly gunplay, against criminal mastermind
Jonathan Beardsley (John Leguizamo). Roselyn Sanchez (Rush Hour
2) is also on-board as a ballsy LA cop who teams up with Chase.
Shooting for Deadly Deception will begin later this month in Hong
Kong and the film is due for release in 2006.
Director James Fargo, who also wrote the script, knows how to
handle hardened gunfighters like Chow – he started his career
as a director working with Clint Eastwood on The Enforcer and
Every Which Way But Loose. Since then, he's worked mainly in TV,
but has moved back into film in the last few years.
Meanwhile, Chow is also attached to Andrew Goth’s high-concept
Western-horror flick, The Wretched, in which he will be playing
Rellik, a gun-toting bounty hunter of zombie outlaws that roam
the Earth. That's right – zombies and cowboys and Chow Yun-Fat.
Deadly Deception will have its work cut out to match that concept.
Source: EMPIRE ONLINE
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to the right and you'll find the link to Deadly Deception)
Yun-Fat embroiled in a Deadly Deception
Chow Yun-Fat will star in the gritty action thriller Deadly Deception,
Production Weekly reports.
The movie, to be helmed by veteran director James Fargo (The Enforcer,
Every Which Way But Loose) follows Philip Chase (Yun-Fatt), a
highly skilled Hong Kong detective who finds himself in Los Angeles
while trying to solve his sister's murder. His investigations
lead him to the greedy, devious Jonathan Beardsley (John Leguizamo),
the mastermind behind a conspiracy much larger than Philip can
fathom.
Roselyn Sanchez (Rush Hour 2) will co-star as a tough Los Angeles
Police officer who teams up with Chase.
The US$20mil Deadly Deception is scheduled to begin shooting
mid-May in Hong Kong, Argentina and Los Angeles.
Yun-Fat is also headlining Andrew Goth's The Wretched, described
as "an original fusion of gothic western and classic horror".
In the movie, Yun-Fat will take on the role of Rellik, a bounty
hunter of zombies.
Source: ECENTRAL
Chow Yun-Fat in Deception & Wretched
Chow Yun-Fat will star in the gritty action thriller Deadly Deception,
reports Production Weekly. James Fargo (The Enforcer) wrote the
script and will also direct.
In the $20 million film, Yun-Fat plays Phillip Chase, a highly
skilled Hong Kong detective who travels to Los Angeles to solve
his sister's murder. Chase matches wits and trades punches with
the greedy and devious Jonathan Beardsley (John Leguizamo), who
is the mastermind behind a conspiracy much larger than Chase can
fathom.
Roselyn Sanchez (Rush Hour 2) plays a tough L.A. police officer
who teams up with Chase. Filming will being mid-May in Hong Kong,
Argentina and Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, Yun-Fat will also the lead in Andrew Goth's The Wretched,
an original fusion of gothic western and classic horror. Yun-Fat
plays Rellik, a bounty hunter of zombies, in the film which begins
production in New Mexico this June.
Jonathan Beardsley (John Leguizamo), who is the mastermind behind
a conspiracy much larger than Chase can fathom.
Roselyn Sanchez (Rush Hour 2) plays a tough L.A. police officer
who teams up with Chase. Filming will being mid-May in Hong Kong,
Argentina and Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, Yun-Fat will also the lead in Andrew Goth's The Wretched,
an original fusion of gothic western and classic horror. Yun-Fat
plays Rellik, a bounty hunter of zombies, in the film which begins
production in New Mexico this June.
Source: Production Weekly
