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http://ecentral.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/6/20/movies/8917622&sec=movies
Hot spotBy SETO KIT YAN
Three made-in-Malaysia Chinese movies in the pipeline.
IT’S only mid-year but Malaysia is already off to a good start churning out Chinese movies and becoming a popular location for Chinese filmmakers, with movies like James Lee’s Petaling Street Warrior (shot in Ipoh), Adrian Teh’s The Wedding Diary (Penang), Bjarne Wong’s 3D thriller The Hunter (Sibu) and Dante Lam’s Viral Factor (or Against War) that is still shooting in Kuala Lumpur.
Now we have another three made-in-Malaysia Chinese movies that feature an international cast from Hong Kong, mainland China and Singapore, apart from local stars. Two are Mandarin movies by Double Visiov
n Pictures titled Paper Moon and Ghost Buddies and another is Cantonese film Start’s Good End’s Good by Nusantara Edaran Filem. Production is slated to wrap later this year for all three movies.
Ghost Buddies
Friends: Main cast of new Chinese movie Ghost Buddies (from left) Mark Lee Kok Huang, Wee Kheng Ming, Maggie Shiu Mei Kei, Vivian Tok and Lim Ching Miau.
We have another horror-comedy from Singaporean funnyman Mark Lee who now joins forces with Hong Kong’s Maggie Shiu Mei Kei to form a deadly, gut-busting comedic team. Ghost Buddies is said to be an atmospheric flick combining ghostly special effects with ghastly humour set in a funeral parlour.
Joining local cast members Vivian Tok, Lim Ching Miau and Wee Kheng Ming at a press conference to launch the movie, Shiu sportingly entertained the local media with her heavily Cantonese-accented Mandarin while Lee liberally cracked jokes at her expense. Together, the two seasoned entertainers had the media members in stitches.
“I have to thank all those Hong Kong directors who came and filmed in our region. I have picked up their Cantonese-accented Mandarin,” quipped Lee. “This time, I portray a man who is simple yet not stupid, has a low IQ yet is no idiot, because he still knows how to fall in love with a woman,” said Lee, with well-timed pauses to demonstrate his comedic timing.
“One day, while we were filming overnight, there were two families conducting funerals on either side of us. Luckily, they all just went about their business and weren’t concerned that we were making a funny movie. They were very understanding and never complained about us disturbing their peace during their moment of bereavement,” Lee continued in a serious tone.
Expressing surprise at being cast in a horror-comedy for her first film project in Malaysia, Shiu shared: “I was rather taken aback when I first heard about it. I asked the director why he picked me because I hardly do comedy. Although I was concerned initially, I later found it to be really funny and enjoyable. But I feel that a good comedy that can make the audience laugh is not easy to make.”
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