After Daniel Wu, Terence Yin, Andrew Lin and Conroy Chan were rumored with disagreements, there has also been other rumors about them using this propaganda. Last night Daniel attened a private party with the other three arriving later.

After two hours, Daniel have left. He expressed that he did see the other Alive members at the party but did not talk to them. An hour later, Conroy and Andrew left and Terence admits that there is 'no chance' to talk with Daniel. Not long after, Terence also left, but on the other hand, some said that they did have close talks with each other.

Moreover, Daniel has been secretly taken pictures of him and his girlfriend Lisa S at his residence. Lisa S expressed that her manager has reminded her that she could be the next paparazzi victim like Lok kai Yi.

By: asianfanatics.net

Daniel respond about that on Alive's blogg:

 http://www.alivenotdead.com/node/1241

According to a Chinese newspaper, Zhang Ziyi's only two action scenes may be included in the the international print, but many not show up in the domestic Chinese print.

The first scene is the Empress (Zhang Ziyi) and the Crown Prince (Daniel Wu) practicing swords with movements they learnt from the previous emperor. I suspect a few second of the scene is included in the latest teaser trailer. The second scenes is the Empress playing polo with the current Emperor (Ge You). Ge You suggested to limit the weight of Zhang Ziyi's action in the film because she had already done that so many times and director Feng Xiaogang agreed. He said Zhang Ziyi's performance was so good that no action was needed to strengthen her role. Feng would cut these scenes because he believes they were not closely related to the main storyline. Feng said he would avoid showing lavish fight scenes with a weak story.

Loosely Inspired by William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Zhang Ziyi plays a young Empress, who was forced to marry the current Emperor, played by Ge You, who took the throne after murdered the previous Emperor, his own brother. Daniel Wu plays the exiled Crown Prince, son of the previous Emperor and was once in love with the Empress. He returned to the imperial palace after survived an assassination attempt ordered by his uncle.

The Banquet will be released in China this September, by which it will be qualified for the Best Foreign Language Film Award of next year's Oscar. Reportedly, this film has been selling very well internationally. Media Asia, co-producer of the film, will release it in Hong Kong. Gaga Communications Inc. acquired the Japanese rights with US$ 5 million. The unidentified Korean distributor is now pushing for a simultaneous in the country. Release in Southeast Asia is also being secured. Rights in seven European countries have already been sold and a deal for UK release will be signed soon. Distribution in France and Germany are currently in negotiation. Several US distributors, including Paramount, WB and Miramax, have shown their interests on the film, after a 15 minute featurette was shown at American Film Market last november.

By: asianfanatics.net

YES I hope this movie it been released in France!!!!!!!! 

With recognized fame from his seven hit New Year comedies in the past, director Feng Xiaogang is whetting people's appetites once again with his latest work, The Banquet that marks a dramatic breakaway from his modern comedy style to tell a tragic story of ancient times.

Despite growing interest in the film following its completion on January 8 in Beijing, the director remains patiently low-key giving little away as to the content. "All that I can tell you is that the director is busy with the post production phase in Canada right now. Any thing else, like the publicity activities and realease date have not yet been decided", said Wang Yang of the production compagny, Huayi Brothers.

What is known is that the film is set in the time of the Five Dynasties that ruled the Yellow River Basin and neighboring regions from 907 to 960. Wars were frequent among the nations and scrambles for power occurred between the emperor and his ministers and even the royal families were rife.

In such a setting, tragic conflicts were inevitable as the emperor dies in his boots while his brother, played by Ge You, takes the throne and captures the beautiful young empress (Zhang Ziyi) and her son (Daniel Wu). Consequently, the princess becomes determined to avenge her father.

The plot is fairly simple and often seen in similar court-themed productions. With his prevailing influence, Feng also managed a few famous names in front of his camera, and, of course, his long time partner Ge You, who helped establish Feng's comedy style by starring in all of the director's New Year comedies. In addition, Chinese American composed Tan don't, who won an oscar for the music in Ang Lee' Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon also jumped on board to create the music for the movie.

 For audiences, finding out what Feng will deliver is the mojor concern as they wonder to what extent he can repeat his previous success with comedies. With a budget of US$ 20 million, the rebellious director is also looking to present a piece of work that will prove his directorial worth.

"Since society has a prejudice against commercial movies, I wanted to shoot one that belongs to the so-called high-grade film school", said Feng.

The Banquet is likely to be released in September on the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and the Southeast Asian regions simultaneously.

 by: asianfanatics.net

Mc Dull the alumni it's a weird movie, it's no sense movie, I don't like it. Ok you can see a lot of famous actors, Eric Tsang, Anthony Wong, Gigi leung, Ronald Cheng, Kelly Chen ect...., but the history it's not good. You can see the Alive band only 10 seconde.

I had finally watch Everlasting regret, I am very busy so I doesn't have time to watch it sooner. In this movie he's is one of Sammi Cheng's lover. It is a good movie but it's very hard to related Wang Qiyao (Sammi Cheng) life in a so short time. I don't like mustache is not beautiful, this movie is in mandarin, the story is Shanghai but Daniel had a cantonese accent so it is very difficult to hidden that, so a other guy do his voice, it is weird because he's lips speak mandarin but it's not he's real voice.