As mentioned yesterday, The Air I Breathe premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. Starring an all star cast of stars including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Forest Whitaker, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Kelly Hu, Emile Hirsch and Kevin Bacon, first time writer/ director Jieho Lee showed up with his wife on the red carpet.
Early indications are positive with strong interest from distribution outfits including The Weinstein Company. Read an early review from the festival after the jump and hear what Jieho has to say about the making of The Air I Breathe in Mexico City.
If you were lacking in friends before, get ready to get connected to over one billion Chinese people. That’s right, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is bringing MySpace.com to China.
MySpace.com is entering China at a time when social networking sites, online games and entertainment sites are already wildly popular.
The group, headed by News Corp, has invested heavily into MySpace China. The strategy and partnership were partly devised with the help of Wendi Deng, Mr. Murdoch’s Chinese-born wife, according to people involved in the deal. Ms. Deng is not an officer of the News Corporation, but she has been named to the board of MySpace China.
DaDump is curious to see who the Chinese Tila Tequila is going to be…
Taking a page out of Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Sean CombsDiddy’s Instruction Manual on how best to re-invent yourself and confuse your fan base, Taiwan boy band F4 have changed their names to JVKV, a combination of the first letters from each member’s English name.
Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Ken Chu and Vanness Wu became popular in Asia in 2001, following the release of the TV series “Meteor Garden,” in which the four young heartthrobs play a group called the Flower Four or F4… get it?
So the Japanese publisher the comic book the drama was based on let them use the moniker… til now. Let’s see how audiences will cope to chanting their name now with two extra syllables. It ain’t easy being a boy band fan these days…
Because DaDump has seen this film grow like a child since its infancy… because the writer, director Jieho Lee was a former classmate, invaluable wingman, and trusted confidante… because the film has a kick-ass cast including Academy Award winner, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emile Hirsch, Kelly Hu, John Cho to name a few… because DaDump read the script years ago and was floored… because it’s Jieho’s first feature film and it’s debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival this week… because it will be worth your time and money and you will thank DaDump profusely afterwards… and because you’re now in the know so impress your friends with your newfound knowledge on this sleeper hit; you’ll be the coolest kid on the block when this film gets released…
Writer/ Director Jieho Lee
The Air I Breathe is based on a Chinese proverb with four interwoven stories that are based on the four emotional cornerstones of life: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. Think Crash meets Pulp Fiction meets nothing you’ve ever seen before so get ready to get blown away.
If you’re in New York this week, then this is the schedule for the Film Festival:
Elizabeth Hurley, 41, is putting on a happy face amid the drama surrounding her wedding in India to businessman Arun Nayar.
Hurley and Nayar, 42, were married last month in a lavish and traditional Hindu ceremony in Jodhpur which ticked off Hindu religious activist, who filed a complaint saying it had mocked Hindu customs.
Meanwhile, tabloids in England and India carried reports that Nayar’s father, Vinod Nayar, severed ties with his son after he was thrown out of the wedding on Hurley’s urging.
When asked how this has affected the couple, Hurley said that it has made her “incredibly grateful for the nice people” in her life. “We’re so lucky for the good things that we kind of turn a blind eye to the bad things,” said Hurley, who called her family “fantastic.”
If only DaDump had known that the Suzuki method of playing the violin woulda paid off these sorts of dividends, he would’ve never traded his instrument in for that Atari game system!
The Sunday Times Young Musicians Rich List recently listed the highest paid musicians in Europe and the under-30s list was topped by classical violinist Vanessa-Mae Nicholson, 28, who has amassed a staggering fortune of £32m! She’s come a long way from her days as an underage prodigy frolicking in wet clothing on a beach playing her violin.
Other big risers included James Blunt, Joss Stone, Katie Melua and Will Young.
Check out the below video. Somehow can’t imagine Beethoven, Chopin or Bach doin’ this… nor would I really want to.
Here’s your first peek look at the movie poster for Lucy Liu’s upcoming Vamp Chick Flic, Rise.
In Rise, Lucy plays an investigative journalist named Sadie whose encounter with a vicious cult lands her in the morgue… where she wakes up. No longer living and not quite dead, she goes on a hunt for those responsible, which brings her across the path of renegade cop, who is seeking retribution on the same gang of villainous vampires.
Rise was shot in 30 days with a modest seven-figure budget.
Vienna Teng going on tour this year, called the Green Caravan Tour. Not only is she working with Habitat For Humanity, but the tour itself aims to be carbon neutral. They sell eco-friendly merchandise, offset all flights with Native Energy, buy local organic food, and bike instead of driving. Vienna, who admits to having been influenced by An Inconvenient Truth, has this to say about her interest in working for the environment:
I’ve always wanted to do more than just play shows and promote myself on tour; music can feel like a dangerously self-important endeavor, given the myriad other ways a person with a college education can be useful to the world. If I’m going to crisscross the country year after year, burning fuel and accepting people’s money and goodwill, I figure I should give back more than just songs. [Ecorazzi]
For more info and to check out this amazing artist’s songs, go to www.viennateng.com and tell her DaDump sent ya!
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