The Rooftop Updates

1. JVR released a very good trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yq6uEC-1U8E

I thought this one is the best so far; Jay was very reluctant to reveal too much in the trailer and it took lots of persuading on Will Liu and Yang Junrong's part to finally get him to show more interesting parts so as to entice more audiences. ;)

Wonder what he's holding in that pic below?

2. Special advance screening for Uni students in Taipei and Kaohsiung, where Will and Jay made an appearance to promote and answer questions about the movie. The response from the students about the movie was really good!

Link to a clip with the students' rave reviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NU4Y_5ehgSI


3. Beijing premiere on 1 July 2013

4. A nice interview from Sino-Us via WSJ:

http://www.sino-us.com/17/Jay-Chou-Forever-Young.html


5. Links to USA ticketing site and NYFF:

http://wellgousa.com/theatrical/the-rooftop

http://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/rooftop

"Closing the festival on July 15 is one of the oddest and yet most comfortingly familiar of this year’s entries. The Taiwanese musical “The Rooftop,” directed by and starring the pop singer Jay Chou (Kato in the 2011 Hollywood “Green Hornet”), combines a dreamy logic with a frantic pace. Pinballing from one fantastical scenario to another, it’s like a child-safe version of a John Waters movie.

Mr. Chou plays Wax, a resident of the bohemian enclave of the title who’s so cool that he uses a switchblade to smooth his pompadour. In the course of the film he romances a bashful actress and engages in kung fu battles with various thugs. (In a distinctly Asian twist, the main point of contention is a seat on the city housing authority.) The wonderful Eric Tsang plays an amiable charlatan who promotes his herbal medicines with a hip-hop floor show featuring women in mini-cheongsams and men in wheelchairs.

Mr. Chou never runs out of ideas: at one point a newspaper page reorients itself and becomes a nightclub stage for a production number about the dangers of the paparazzi. It’s a scene redolent of Busby Berkeley and Fred Astaire, and when was the last time an American movie made you think of them?"

See link below for the full story...but I just love that line:

"Mr Chou never runs out of ideas."

So true!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/movies/new-york-asian-film-festival-offers-sturdy-hollywood-themes.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&


6. Advance ticket sales have started in Singapore and I've booked mine for 11 July already, together with about another 12 friends.

http://www.cathaycineplexes.com.sg/movie_detail.aspx?status=coming&movie_id=1004#showtimes_section

Well, I entered a few contests to try and win gala premiere tickets....still waiting for results.
*fingers and toes crossed*


7. To end off, here are some truly DIAO pics of Jay and Xinai for more mags

And a fashion shoot clip....Xinai is really pretty and Jay is SOOOO HANDSOME AND SOOOOO HAWT!!!!

Jacky Wu must be eating his words BIG TIME now!!! :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L9iejjJto7g


Cheers all!