Wu Zun's $500 Million Porsche Strongly Wins Jerry

Thursday November 21, 2007 Taiwan



Source: http://1-apple.com.tw/
Translated by Cmiley

GTV's (Fire Basketball) yesterday was at the Taipei Nangang Sports Center for the screen showing, Wu Zun with the fewest scenes actually had the most pots of flowers, with 120 three times more than Jerry Yan, and even comparing cars had a $500 million Porsche Cayenne SUV, clearly displaying better than Jerry riding in the Japanese Nissan Cefiro (about 70 million in the market), so it's "Brunei Prince" stepping over "Raptor", leading to a first win over popularity!

Seen Indisputable Competing Secretly
Idol drama (Fire Basketball)'s cast is strong, but the most people are interested in is the comparison of Jerry and Wu Zun, even though both are tall, both 181, but Jerry was 4 cm taller wearing boots, and Wu Zun 2 cm taller wearing shoes.

Ocean of flowers show momentum
But Wu Zun quickly wins back over with 3/4 of the ocean of flower displays, and Legislative Speaker Head Wang Jin-pyng and Legislator Wu Cheng, Kinmen natives and manufacturers sent victory over flowers for Wu Zun; Jerry although had only 40 pots, but they were from all over the world, much more international than Wu Zun, loosing honourably.
After comparing flowers now comparing fans, Wu Zun's fan was really considerate, one that didn't arrive at the scene yet from Hong Kong, gave 150 self made jerseys, showing a crowd of yellow, Jerry's fans all wore blue (Star Jerry) tops, holding basket ball ballons was also very eye-catching.

Personally are basketball buddies
Jerry、 Wu Zun, Show Luo (Xiao Zhu) personally are basketball buddies, Jerry disclosed, when playing ball with WuZun and there was a female friend present, he plays more desperately, Wu Zun immediately was asked what kind of friend? He said: "just the regular female friend
The threes idol is Michael Jordon, Wu Zun not only has a tatoo of Jordan on his leg, he also once went to the US to watch a game in the VIP section, Xiao Zhu talks back: "Jordan patted my butt when he walked by me the last time he came to Taiwan." Wu Zun says again: "Are you trying to PK?" The two back and forth setting a very sizzling atmosphere.


Wu Zun & Jerry's cars parked in the same area.

“Basketball of Fire” Begins Filming, “Fan Support” Competition

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Taiwan

The country’s 3 biggest male idols, Jerry Yan, Show Luo, and Wu Zun are filming a new drama “Basketball of Fire.” Today, November 21st, they held an open press conference, which not only attracted tons of fans, but ever since the preparation of filming, there has been a constant “battle” of pay, rank, and role. It was thought that during the press conference, they’d officially talk about this “battle,” but it turned out that none of the three actors had any sort of resentment towards each other, “no smell of gun powder.” Turns out that Jerry and Wu Zun had known each other before, and had been good friends with Show, so the three just expressed that the ranking “battle” is all works of the media, and that they hope everyone will put their focus on the drama performances. At the press conference, they officially announced the commencement of the filming of “Basketball of Fire.”

This is unlike any other drama, “Basketball of Fire” has very high production cost. They plan to film 90 minute episodes, 13 in total, $60 Million TWD. They’re planning to release this drama in the summer of 2008 in complement with the Olympics fever. And at the end of next year, overseas countries that include: Japan, Korean, South Eastern Asia, Hong Kong, and more will also begin to air the drama. This will definitely trigger an unprecedented wave in the Asia.

In the drama, Coco Chiang (Jiang Yi) will be playing the role of a basketball coach; she also attended the press conference as well. Since, “Angel Lover,” she will re-enter idol drama acting. This time she will not only have to keep her picturesque image on screen, but she will have to study basketball moves and reinforce the character’s personality. This is going to be a breakthrough for Coco.

Show Luo’s Love for basketball is renowned in the entertainment industry. The role he’ll be playing, “Yuan Da Ying,” made a big impression on him. He [Yuan Da Ying] has an extremely friendly personality, agility and potential unbounded, with a basketball dream to acheieve; he’ll be a vibrant character in Basketball of Fire. As for Jerry, he’ll be playing the role of the wealthy, basketball prodigy star, Dong Fang Xiang. Not only did he [Dong Fang Xiang] establish an undefeated record, he’s also a very welcomed basketball player. For this drama, Jerry had specially made time to film it, in hopes that everyone will be able to see a different him. Wu Zun’s character “Wu Ji Zun,” is on the enemy team against Jerry and Show, he [Wu Ji Zun] has held 3 consecutive high school records as MVP, and has been imaginary enemy of many basketball players. In the drama, there will be amazing basketball sequences between Dong Fang Xiang and Yuan Da Ying and Wu Ji Zun.

At the press conference, there was absolutely no sign of rivalry amongst the three actors, but the fans off stage were fighting amongst themselves. They all really cared about their favorite idols’ ranking and roles - the scene it was like a competition between fans of the actors. This drama, “Basketball of Fire” with the collaboration of 3 big idols will definitely break a record of idol drama TV ratings.

Source: Sooostar.com
Translated by o_ost1nao_o

Jerry Yan leans to be criticized in Basketball of Fire as similar to a pirated version

Saturday October 20, 2007 Taiwan

Source: China Times
http://showbiz.chinatimes.com/Chinatimes/E...2000414,00.html

summary by Jerry's Kingdom

Showbiz recently joined in and took the Basketball fever. Besides Jay Chou filming the basketball movie "Shoot the Goal", SETTV and TTV's "Fight or Must" and GTV's "Basketball of Fire" all use basketball as their themes, also with such big differences. Formerly, when Director Chou filmed "Shoot the Goal," he wore a wig. Yesterday, when "Fight or Must" was previewed, Hebe used a plastic ball. However, with the just-announced "Basketball of Fire" with Jerry Yan, there are rumors that the drama's plot is very similar to the Japanese manga "Slam Dunk", is suspected to be a pirated version, that the Japanese film company opposed to.

Jerry Yan who is soon-to-be deeply plowing the Japanese market, has announced he would join the cast of "Basketball of Fire" and rumors immediately spread that a Japanese film company opposed to it. It's because he will play the role in "basketball of Fire," this Japanese company became highly interested. However, after confirming with the TV channel, the film company believed that the drama and the Japanese manga "Slam Dunk" had very distinct similarities, In the past, "Slam Dunk" persisted not to sell its rights to Japanese TV channels. With a little plagiarism felt in "Basketball of Fire." the Japanese film company felt inconceivable and instead advised Jerry to have self-respect.

Yesterday, GTV's Project Planning Department Deputy Head Cai Fei Quiao said that feedbacks show that "Basketball of Fire" indeed appears similar to "Slam Dunk." However, she said, " If we say it can only be similar to the basketball games thing, 'Basketball of Fire' will focus more on the human nature and its narrative side." Jerry Yan's agent Matt Cheng also said, "Slam Dunk and Basketball of Fire" both speak of a basketball story. However, their bridge segments are really different."