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The Golden Rock - February 4th, 2008 Edition

- I’m sure everyone is very interested in how Stephen Chow’s CJ7 did at the Hong Kong box office. Expanding to 102 screens over the weekend, the sci-fi comedy made HK$4.2 million on Sunday for a 4-day weekend total of HK$15.82 million. Even though I expressed what seemed to be disappointment about the opening day not breaking records, I will never called a HK$15.82 million opening weekend a disappointment.

Meanwhile, the adults-only-in-Hong-Kong Hollywood musical Sweeney Todd did OK, making HK$837,000 from 35 screens on Sunday for a weekend total of HK$3 million. Of course, OK is because it’s category-III, and word probably got out quickly that it’s a full-blown musical.

- In Japanese cinema attendance, last week’s 2nd place film Flowers in the Shadow managed to hit the first place, while Yoji Yamada’s Kabei went up one place as well to 3rd place this past weekend. Meanwhile, American Gangster opens at 2nd place, Kids could only manage an opening at 6th place (what happened to that day-and-date release in Hong Kong anyway?), and the family film The Water Horse opened at 7th place. More when the numbers come out.

- The Japanese drama ratings this season are getting to be flat-out depressing, as 11 dramas managed to hit their season lows last week. Honey and Clover remains in single-digit category with a 9.5% rating, The Negotiator saw a small rebound, then drops even more into a 13.1% rating, Daisuki!! drops down to a 9.1% rating, Edison No Haha suffers the biggest drop down to a 9.1% rating after hitting its season high 12.1% rating the previous week, and the high-profile Sunday night drama Sasaki Fusai No Jingi Naki Tatakai fails to recover from its phenomenal drop and remains at a 11.6% rating in its 3rd week.

Also, the new Saturday night 11pm drama Lost Time Life opened with a 11.4% rating, which is higher than the premiere for Summer 2007 drama Life, but lower than the first drama in that time slot Liar Game.

- Edison Chen has officially released a statement apologizing for the now-infamous sex pictures scandal. He recorded a short video, speaking in English, and calling this whole incident “a strange ordeal,” as police has now narrowed down the cause to a computer repair shop who was fixing a computer that had hundreds of these images.

- Park Chan-Wook’s latest vampire flick needs a leading lady. While a director of his caliber usually wouldn’t have a problem, it is this time for him because the actresses keep turning him down due to the need for explicit sex scenes in the film. I sound shallow, but I hope Song Kang-Ho isn’t the one doing them.

- Feng Xiaogang publicly said in Hong Kong that his latest film The Assembly is supposed to be somewhat critical of the Chinese government, although he knew that he had to tone it down to avoid getting banned. Looks like that tact got him an appointment as an adviser at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Guess who else got appointed? Previously-banned director Zhang Yimou, though he was previously appointed as well.

- The Korean wave is slowing down, but it’s definitely not dead, as Japan’s Avex has picked up Lee Myung-Se’s M and Hur Jur-Ho’s Happiness. Hur Jin-Ho made the highest-grossing Korean film of all time in Japan with April Snow (though the film was a disappointment in its native land), which may explain the sale.

- Japanese pop star Koda Kumi has been suspended for a month just when her new album is being released because she actually joked that she wishes her manager’s new wife give birth before 35 because that’s when ” their amniotic fluid goes rotten.” Ha…..ha?

7 Responses to “The Golden Rock - February 4th, 2008 Edition”

  1. Max Says:

    “Let’s help the wounded heal their wounds”? Somehow I don’t feel an ounce of sympathy for Edison Chen, nor those stupid enough to hang out with him and allow him to take sexually explicit pictures.

  2. Munin Says:

    Sounds just like a president’s speech after 9/11. “Let’s help the wounded heal their wounds”. Hilarious. That and Edison’s expression. Made my day.

  3. eliza bennet Says:

    I actually happen to think that Song Kang Ho is very sexy and would love to see him doing intimate scenes :)

  4. MW Says:

    Sweeney Todd is a FULL-blown musical?? I guess I’ll still watch since it is a Depp/Burton but I’ll probably rent it.

    Edison should fire his publicist or lawyer or whoever wrote that statement. Then again, his performance in it wasn’t exactly convincing, making the whole video virtually uninformative and borderline useless. He should of just ruffed it out like in Dog Bite Dog, his best performance yet.

    1,300 pictures for 6 girls though?! Seems a bit overboard.

  5. GoldenRockProductions Says:

    Re: Apology video:

    Yes, it does sound like he’s trying to help the blizzard victims in China more than taking responsibility for the pictures. He was an ass for taking them, especially when the tabloids had him matched with these stars. You’re a public figure, caution is not optional with these things. However, whoever posted these pictures are not much better than Edison, or even the stars who consented to these pictures. Essentially, there are no winners in this incident…maybe except the police, because now they know information that the Hong Kong press would pay a lot to get.

    Hi, MW,

    Sweeney Todd is a musical from the very first dialogue, but I still thought it was quite good. Burton’s best since who-knows-when. Then again, I’m not a big fan of his.

    Hi, Eliza,

    We shall agree to disagree =P

  6. LT Says:

    I thought Sweeney Todd was excellent…but I quite like that dark, psychotic humor of Burton’s.

  7. justin Says:

    Koda Kumi should remember where she came from before making ridiculous statements like that. When stars think they are so big they tend to say stupid things
    http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/kumi-koda-before-she-became-a-big-star/

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