[Coverage] “King of Mahjong” 麻雀王 Lensing Ceremony and Press Conference
(For
video coverage, please visit: http://loong-updates.blogspot.com/2014/08/video-coverage-king-of-mahjong-lensing.html )
4th August 2014, Kuala Lumpur
– A
few days ago, our team from wljack.com and
loong-updates.blogspot.com were able
to do a coverage on lensing ceremony of “King
of Mahjong”, an upcoming Cantonese movie which features artistes such as Chapman To 杜汶澤, Mark Lee 李国煌
, Lenna 林家冰and etc. It will be directed
by Adrian 郑建国.
Date: 2nd August
2014
Venue: Asia
Tropical Films Sdn.Bhd
Mahjong A Great Platform For Friends and
Families’ Interaction!
The main reason for the production team to feature Mahjong as the main theme is due to a few reasons. First, it is a well-loved game among the Chinese families. It is a fun game and an interesting topic to do on.
The main reason for the production team to feature Mahjong as the main theme is due to a few reasons. First, it is a well-loved game among the Chinese families. It is a fun game and an interesting topic to do on.
The
director, Adrian郑建国
said
that Mahjong can be treated as just
a game or can become a gambling tool if you wanted to. If you view it as just a
game, it can be a good platform to improve the interaction between people.
There are too many “低头族” (the
kind of people who looks at their mobile device all the time) during family and friends gathering
nowadays. If you are playing Mahjong with them, they won’t be looking at their
phones or etc that much and they will have more opportunity to interact with
each other.
Mahjong Is Well-Known All Over The
World!
Adrian
has also mentioned that Mahjong is a prominent game nowadays. In fact, the
recent Mahjong Championship was won by a foreigner who is not a Chinese.
Chapman To’s Character Won’t Be Wearing
That Much and He Likes It!
According
to Chapman, he and Mark will be playing characters who are learning how to play
Mahjong from Eric Tsang’s character. Mark will then become the Mahjong King
while he will be a retired Mahjong player who went on his life being a hawker.
He
said that he won’t be wearing too much, most probably just singlet and loose
clothes. On the other hand, Mark
will be wearing all the glittering costumes which suit his character very well.
Chapman’s To Main Challenge is to become
a Good Guy?
When
asked about Chapman’s main challenge in this film, Mark jokingly interrupted and said that it would be “to become a
good guy”. Chapman agreed on that because
his usual roles in the past films are all consisting of characters who might be
a little bit cheeky and sneaky. This time he will be playing a really good guy.
His
other challenge is to have a daughter in the film. This is a challenge for him
because personally, he doesn’t have any children. Inside this film, he will
have a daughter who is around 20 years old. He joked that it would be a dream
comes true if he could have a child who can suddenly become 20 years old
immediately after born. This can save him from the trouble in bringing up the
kid. (In a joking manner)
Mark Lee “Fell In Love” with Chapman
once he saw him on set!
It
is definitely a good combination for having both Chapman and Mark for the
movie. Mark said that when two “bad”
comes together, there will definitely be a lot of interesting stuffs that could
happen during the process of filming.
He
even said that he “fell in love” with Chapman when he saw him. This is because he
felt that there are a lot of similarities between both of them. Both of them have
had some controversial issues previously due to their straight forward personalities
in speaking.
Mark
said that his condition is better than Chapman because he doesn’t know how to
play Facebook like Chapman does. Chapman then joked that, “没脑不用紧,最重要是不要玩电脑!(It’s
okay to not have brain, but remember don’t play with computer!)”
In
addition, Mark will be playing a
villain in this film which is different from his usual roles as the good guy.
He said that he’s alright with the character but he regretted for his costumes.
What is so regretful about his costumes? I guess we need to watch the movie to
know more about it.
Lenna’s first try in Comedy Genre Movie!
As
all of us know, Lenna is the winner for Miss
Astro Chinese Pageant. This is a new attempt for her as she will be playing
a character which will be a little bit different from her usual image as a Miss
Astro. She will be acting as Mark’s
assistant.
She hopes that through this movie, she can learn from the other actors on how to act in comedy genre movies. She has also been learning how to play Mahjong.
The budget for the film “King Of Mahjong”
is 2 million SGD! It will be a star-studded movie featuring many well known
artistes. It is expected to be screened during first quarter of 2015!
More
info about the show:
Produced
by Zingshot Productions, Clover Films
Pte.Ltd and Asia Tropical Film Sdn
Bhd, “King of Mahjong”, is a
family comedy set in modern times illustrating friendship among kampong kakis
and love between family members underscore all ambitions and desire for power. Movie
viewers can expect the boisterous characters to generate loads of witty, well-timed
jokes and look forward to lots of lively repartee.
King of Mahjong
will be featuring a lot of veteran and prestigious comedian artistes such as Chapman To, Mark Lee, Michelle Ye (Ye Xuan)
as the main cast alongside with Eric
Tsang, Chu Mi Mi, Lu Hoi Pang, Siu Yam Yam, Yuen King Tan, Singapore’s own Liu Qian Yi and Chen Jian Bin.
Adrian Teh, well-known
with his masterpiece “The Wedding Diary
I & II” will be the director for this movie. It should be a
collaboration which everyone would anticipate of!
In
addition, two up and coming actresses Venus
Wong (王敏奕) and Cheronna Ng (吳嘉熙) who
starred in the Hong Kong hit television series “Never Dance Alone”, will be acting in supporting roles as the
daughters of Chapman and Mark, respectively.
King of Mahjong
will be filmed in a few locations, mainly at Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
Tentatively, the movie is expected to be screened in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong
Kong and Taiwan during first quarter of 2015! Golden Screen Cinema (GSC) Malaysia will be the distributor for
this movie!
Movie Synopsis:
Ah
Fatt and Ah Shun are both Ru Wu Chang’s apprentice, Ah Fatt sells Yong Taufu in
an old corner shop in Kuala Lumpur. The business is still acceptable due to the
support of some old customers. Ah Fatt’s wife ran away for years, abandoned
their daughter Si Xi, Si Xi is now a young teenage.
Ah Fatt
enjoy his usual life for the past ten years, until one day, an uninvited guest
appears and it changes everything. He is the one who won the World Series Championship for ten years
continuously, Huang Tian Ba. In
between their conversation, revealing his name is “Ah Shun” and he is Ah Fatt’s
senior. Ah Fatt could have been happy, but it turned out the other way when he
asked Ah Fatt to participate in a World Mahjong Series held in Singapore.
Both
of them seem like enemy. What has happened during their age of 20s?
Let’s
find out in the cinema during 2015!
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