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  • Jackie Chan’s son charged for drug offense

    Jackie Chan’s son charged for drug offense

    MUMBAI: The 32-year-old son of Hollywood actor Jackie Chan has been charged with a drug offense. Jaycee Chan was prosecuted in Beijing for allegedly providing a venue for drug users. The prosecution happened three months after he was arrested following a drugs bust at his residence in the capital. It is said that Chan could face up to three years in jail.

     

    Beijing police had detained Jaycee Chan and Taiwan movie star Ko Chen-tung for drug offenses earlier this year in August. Chan and Ko Chen-tung tested positive for marijuana and both admitted to taking the drug. Police seized more than 100 gm of marijuana at the junior Chan’s home. Ko Chen-tung was released 29 Aug after 14 days of administrative detention.

     

    Following Jaycee Chan’s detention, Jackie Chan released a statement on microblog Sina Weibo, saying he was “angered and shocked” by the news.

     

    Commenting further on the issue, Kung Fu star Jackie Chan said that he felt shamed by his son’s behaviour and hoped that he will behave in the future.

     

    “As Jaycee’s father, I feel ashamed and heartbroken. I hope that teenagers will draw lessons from Jaycee and stay away from drugs,” read the statement.

     

    He further added, “I hope that in the future, he could become an anti-drug spokesman and tell his experiences to young people.”

     

    Chan maintained that he never used any connections to help Jaycee Chan out.

     

  • Close Yang Yeo joins AdFest 2014 as jury president, Press Lotus

    Close Yang Yeo joins AdFest 2014 as jury president, Press Lotus

    MUMBAI: China chairman & north Asia ECD at JWT Shanghai, Yang Yeo, will be joining next year’s Adfest as jury president for Press Lotus category.

    “Adfest has always been the Asia Pacific region’s prestigious yet fun festival of creativity. A lot of the works that have won recognition here have gone on to inspire the world over. Thus it’s a huge honour being named the jury president for the press category,” said Yeo.

    Yeo has put Chinese advertising on the map by winning China’s first-ever Gold Lion at Cannes for the Adidas Beijing Olympics campaign in 2008. In 2009, JWT Shanghai also won ‘Agency of the Year’ at Adfest – yet another first for a China-based agency. “The theme ‘Co-Create the future’ is very relevant in this digital age that we live in. Consumers of the past were extremely passive, whilst the audience of today has become more active, having the ability to interact, comment, and share instantly. I look forward to entries that successfully use the marketplace as forums to create shared values between the brands and their audiences, so as to deepen their level of engagement, albeit much tougher for press category to do this,” said Yeo.

    On Yeo joining the prestigious jury list, Adfest president Jimmy Lam said, “Yang has a personality to match his huge talent as one of Asia’s most inspiring creatives. He is responsible for creating some of the world’s most awarded print campaigns, which makes him the ideal candidate to lead next year’s Press Lotus jury.”

  • John Woo’s ‘Chinese Titanic’ begins shooting in Beijing

    John Woo’s ‘Chinese Titanic’ begins shooting in Beijing

    MUMBAI: John Woo‘s return to directing after a four-year hiatus with The Crossing is now underway in Beijing, the production companies behind the project announced in a statement.

    The big-budget project is being dubbed as the Chinese Titanic by local Chinese media, and stars a bevy of local A-listers, including Zhang Ziyi, Huang Xiaoming, and Tong Dawei, along with South Korea‘s Song Hye Kyo; Japan‘s Masami Nagasawa; and Taiwan‘s Takeshi Kaneshiro.

    The film will be released in two parts – much like Woo‘s last project, historical epic, Red Cliff (2008), Red Cliff II (2009) – and tells the story of three couples cast aboard a ship in the South China Sea, fleeing China for Taiwan during the 1949 revolution. The screenplay is written by Wang Huiling, best known for co-writing Ang Lee‘s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and adapting Lust Caution.

    Originally titled 1949, and planned since 2009, the project was reportedly delayed due to challenges in getting the script approved because of political sensitivities in China surrounding any portrayal of the revolutionary era.

    The two-part film is budgeted at $40 million and jointly backed by Beijing Galloping Horse, China Film Group and Zhejiang Huace Film & TV, with Woo and Terence Chang‘s Lion Rock Productions banner attached.

    Woo already has his next film in the works, the long-planned World War II drama Flying Tigers, which is expected to go into production in 2014.

  • JWT premieres its final Portfolio Night video

    JWT premieres its final Portfolio Night video

    MUMBAI : With just a few days left for the much anticipated Portfolio Night 11, JWT India premiered their third and final Portfolio Night video. JWT India is hosting Portfolio Night 11 in Mumbai at its office on May 22, 2013.

    The last of the three part series, the latest ‘Eye-Opener’ film busts the myth of proficiency in English language being one of the prerequisites to becoming a creative. The film opens to a young creative cramming the right pronunciation to some of the English words and believing that the key to becoming a good creative is to master the English language. This however holds true only till he arrives at JWT-Portfolio Night 11, where he meets Prasoon Joshi, President South Asia, McCann Worldgroup, who speaks to him in chaste Hindi!!! The subtle sense of humor that is a characteristic of all the JWT-Portfolio Night films, make this is a must watch. The latest film can be viewed on JWT’s official Portfolio Night page, http://www.facebook.com/portfolionightmumbai11

    Advertising students were asked to tweet @pnmumbai11 on their thoughts on advertising. The wackiest of tweets are being selected to create posters and films. The 360 degree crowd-sourced campaign includes social media, posters, videos, hoardings and radio spots on Radio Mirchi all of which can be viewed on http://www.facebook.com/portfolionightmumbai11

    Portfolio Night 11 promises an evening with the country’s top creative directors* who, while interacting with young creatives, will also choose the ‘All Star’ of the evening. The Portfolio Night All-Star event is where the most talented young creative from each Portfolio Night event is selected and flown to New York to compete at Portfolio Night All-Stars competition in New York City in August 2013.

    Participants can register on their respective city’s page on the Portfolio Night website http://portfolionight.com/11/ and click on the “Buy Tickets” button for a registration. This will take them to that city’s online ticket purchasing system. An e-ticket will be issued to the participant as a permit to enter the event in Mumbai on May 22, 2013.

    Scheduled to take place simultaneously in over 20 cities on this date across the world, including Athens, Austin, Beijing, Boston, Costa Rica, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, Tokyo and Toronto amongst others, Portfolio Night is an annual property of ‘IHAVEANIDEA’, the creative founders and the world’s first and largest community of the international advertising industry.

    *Log on to http://portfolionight.com/11/mumbai to see the full list of creative director participating in JWT-Portfolio Night 11

  • China’s Tianjin city is creating $1.27 bn film & media hub

    China’s Tianjin city is creating $1.27 bn film & media hub

    MUMBAI: China-based Harvest Seven Stars Entertainment has tied up with the government of Tianjin city to build Chinawood, a $1.27 billion film and media hub that will be spread across a land admeasuring 8.6 million square feet.

    The base is aimed at US and other foreign productions and will provide a hub for co-productions that are exempt from Chinese import quotas. Some 35 per cent of the investment is earmarked for film financing,said the group in a statement.

    Among Chinawood‘s functions will be a co-production film financing platform, a co-production service centre with post facilities, a facility for 3D conversion and a distribution and marketing center.

    Off late, Seven Stars Entertainment has been busy building a rapport with Hollywood having linked up with Jake Eberts and Justin Lin on projects already this year and launched $800 million private equityfund Harvest Seven Stars Media Fund in February.

    Seven Stars Entertainment‘s Bruno Wu said, “It is crucial, as well as inevitable, that we offer the products and services to facilitate substantial cooperation between the two territories. This project is asignificant step towards closing that gap by providing expertise and facilities in all areas of financing, legal, co-production, distribution, marketing, sales and infrastructure.”

    Tianjin is a coastal city that takes around 30 minutes from Beijing by high-speed train. It has been growing in recent years by aggressively attracting high-tech industries to set up there.

  • ABU,Casbaa & Unicef invite entries for Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award 2006

    ABU,Casbaa & Unicef invite entries for Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award 2006

    MUMBAI: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), Cable and Satellite Broadcasters Association of Asia (Casbaa) and United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) are inviting Asia-Pacific broadcasters and producers to submit entries for the Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award 2006.

    The ABU-Casbaa-Unicef Child Rights Award, launched in 2001, is given each year in recognition of the best television programming on a child rights issue produced in the Asia-Pacific region. It recognises the efforts of broadcasters in pursuing both the production of top-quality children’s programming and news coverage of children’s issues.

    Programmes both for children and about children are eligible and can cover any child rights issue. Entries can include documentaries that detail the plight of children, dramas that help break down stereotypes and discrimination, or animation that teaches and entertains.

    Entries, which are free, must have been broadcast between August 2005 and July 2006, and must be received by 25 August 2006. The Award will be presented at the ABU Annual General Meeting in Beijing in November 2006.

    The past winners of the award are as follows:

    2005: Juvenile Injustice by Philippine broadcaster ABS – CBN Channel 2
    2004: Hong Kong Connection: Children In Need by Radio Television Hong Kong
    2003: Angels in Prison by Philippines’ GMA-7 Channel
    2002: Child Soldiers by Radio Television Hong Kong
    2001: Children Will Grow by Japan’s Mainichi Institute

  • CCTV set to launch business reality series ‘Win in China’

    CCTV set to launch business reality series ‘Win in China’

    MUMBAI: Looks like it is the season for business-oriented reality format shows. Soon after Zee TV launching Business Baazigar — a distant cousin of the popular business reality show The Apprentice — in India, China’s national television network CCTV has announced its plans to launch a reality series on the similar lines

    Set for a May 2006 launch, the series Win in China will offer would-be Chinese entrepreneurs from around the world a chance to become bosses of new businesses. According to its producers, participants in the eight-month show will face rigorous tests of their tenacity, business acumen and street savvy.

    About 110 competitors will gather in Beijing for the preliminary contest after being chosen from among 3,000. Twelve participants will enter the semi-final, adjudicated by judges including academic experts and successful entrepreneurs. One competitor will be eliminated in each episode until five remain.

    The winner will run a new business with a registered capital of no less than 10 million yuan (US$1.2 million); the runner-up, 7 million yuan (US$863,000); and other three, 5 million yuan (US$617,000).

  • CNN once again has its ‘Eye on China’

    CNN once again has its ‘Eye on China’

    MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN will once again dedicate its global resources to China for incisive debate, programming and insights next month. The network will have its second week-long Eye On China. A 20 member newsgathering team offers analysis, documenting the latest cultural, economic, and social developments in a country rapidly emerging as a pre-eminent global force.

    The week begins with CNN Connects – an hour long debate on The Price of Progress and continues with a blend of live reporting and features from Shanghai in the show CNN Today. Two editions of the talk show Talk Asia also go behind the headlines with China ‘s leading newsmakers.

    Following on from debates in Davos, Beirut , Mumbai, Beijing and New York CNN Connects visits Shanghai for an hour-long round table debate evaluating the issues in balancing double-digit economic growth and the environmental challenges this presents.

    Jim Clancy anchors The Price of Progress with a panel of environmental experts including Jim Harkness of the World Wide Fund for Nature, academics and specialists debating in front of a live audience including students from China’s prestigious and internationally respected Fudan University.

    Throughout the week, Kristie Lu Stout reports live from locations around Shanghai for CNN Today. In addition, Kristie and correspondents Stan Grant, Mike Chinoy and Tara Duffy bring a number of reports charting contemporary China in all its fascinating complexity. Topics cover a wide range of issues including Shanghai ‘s rise as a new business Mecca , preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the nation’s growing environmental challenges, the rise of the blogger and a look at China ‘s new sexual revolution. And, of course, Shanghainese food.

    With the Olympics just two years away, China ‘s political, environmental, and economic outlook is being scrutinised as never before. Eye On China reveals the drive behind modern China, assessing how its inhabitants are adapting to a more affluent economy while also examining efforts to balance modernisation with traditional values.