"The Midas Touch" (超級經理) starring Chapman To and Charlene Choi held a press conference yesterday at HK FILMART. "The Midas Touch" is set in the context of the Hong Kong show business, revealing many celebrities' back stories. Chapman To plays the role of a debt collector who takes over a modeling agency when it is nearing bankruptcy. As a rookie manager, he leads eight beautiful women into entering the show business. However, they are not taken seriously and he is forced into an uneasy alliance with an extremely harsh veteran talent manager played by Charlene Choi. Under her direction, the eight beautiful women quickly grow into all-round artists. Directed by Andrew Fung, the film is currently in post-production and set for a late August release.
Chapman is no stranger to playing the role of an artist manager. In last year's film "DIVA", he played an all-powerful manager and joked that he shaped the character based on Mani. At the press conference, Yumiko Cheng and Deep Ng helped Chapman and Charlene pick their capabilities for playing the role of managers. Yumiko believes that Chapman has "bad breath" but "wide connections," while Deep believes that Ah Sa has a "smart mouth" and is capable of reaching her goal by "using sex appeal" when needed.
The trailer for "The Midas Touch" was also shown during the event. In addition to the four actors present, others who appeared in the trailer include Gillian Chung, He Jiong, Gao Yun Xiang, Hins Cheung and other actors, forming a dazzling line-up of actors.
Mani exposes entertaining incidents
As Twins and Nicholas Tse's manager, Mani could not help but reveal bizarre incidents she has encountered. "A lingerie advertisement campaign approached Ah Sa, but I did not think it suited her." Sitting nearby, Ah Sa laughed at herself, "Was it children's undergarments?" She even added, "For these things, in general look for Chrissie Chau. You may lose money if you ask for me." Yet Mani said, "This was not even the strangest one. There was also a 'door' advertisement campaign that approached Nicholas Tse. When Nicholas heard this, he said, do they want me to stand by a door or do I pretend to be a door? I did not think this was good, so it was turned down." Ah Sa commented, "I actually rarely accept strange advertisements. But I feel that floor advertisements suit me rather well," causing reporters to burst out laughing.
Ah Sa to put all her effort to advance in the film industry
The day before yesterday, Chapman To revealed that he is starting his own movie company which will purely film Hong Kong productions. As part of his initial plan, he has asked Ah Sa to star in one of his productions. Chapman further expressed that he supports Ah Sa to win Best Actress. "I want to film a movie adaptation of the stage play <29+1> for her to display herself. It will be best if it can be filmed this year and released next year."
Yesterday, Ah Sa also said that Chapman has mentioned his plan for her star in the movie. When asked whether she charged less for the salary, Ah Sa said, "I did accept a smaller salary for filming a purely Hong Kong production. Reducing my salary is for supporting Hong Kong productions." When reporters asked how much she reduced her salary, Mani replied on her behalf, "It is 30 to 40% less, almost half her film salary." Charlene expressed that it is very hard for Hong Kong productions to find big investments, so actors take the initiative to ask for their salaries to be reduce. "I also have to thank him for giving me a good direction. There are many roles that I have not acted before." She explained that she really hoped to win an award. Since debuting for 12 years and acting in over 40 films, Ah Sa expressed that coming up she will be putting all her effort to advance in the film industry. As long as it is not a "Razzie Award" (award in recognition of the worst in film), a "Lifetime Achievement Award" will still be good, bringing much laughter among reporters who commented that it is still very early."
Source: XKB News, Oriental Daily
Translated by: mutts @ AsianFanatics Forum
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