Archive for January, 2013


Source: http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1135933/what-karen-mok-did-next

One project that’s kept her in Asia is the film Man of Tai Chi, a co-production shot in Hong Kong and Beijing, which is slated for release later this year.

“That’s another dream project, to be able to work with someone like Keanu Reeves,” she says.

“And even better, it’s his debut as a director. For me, the fun thing is to work with different people and try out different things. I like to try new things. That’s just part of my character. Whenever there’s an opportunity to try something different, I just go for it.”

Mok plays a police officer in Man of Tai Chi. “A tough, Hong Kong, kick-ass cop,” she clarifies with a laugh. “I’m quite good at playing cops.”

Source: http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20130123-397275/3.html

Mok struck up a firm friendship with Reeves, 48, while working on the set. The Canadian actor even recorded a video clip that was aired at her press conference, congratulating her on the release of her new album.

“It was a wonderful experience to work with someone like Keanu, he’s an amazing guy, really, really nice,” said Mok.

She chuckled when asked if Reeves had helped her open more US doors. “It’s hard to tell whether I’ll actually end up in Hollywood after just one film. It’s anybody’s guess.

“I’m open to all sorts of options, as long as it’s fun. Having fun is important.” She added: “For 20 years, music has always been my hobby and the greatest love of my life; it’s never a job.”

Karen Mok new English Jazz Album: Somewhere I belong

Karen Mok English Album

During Karen’s press conference in Shanghai on January 15th, 2013 for the release of her new album ( http://m2.21cn.com/news/roll/2013/01/16/14408873.shtml ) Karen said that Jackie Chan, Lang Lang and Keanu Reeves recorded a video with their blessings. She was very surprised to receive a message from Keanu Reeves saying: ”very happy to know that you are going to release your debut English jazz album, I wish you big sales on your album!” and he threw her an enthusiastic kiss!

Karen Mok New Jazz Album release in Shanghai

Karen Mok New Jazz Album release in Shanghai_P2 Karen Mok New Jazz Album release in Shanghai_P3

Source: http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/entertainment/20130129/00470_006.html

Keanu Reeves appeared in Kwun Tong, he took the initiative to say hello to the reporters, and revealed that he will stay in Hong Kong for one week, if all goes well.

28_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong_P4

About half an hour later, Karen Mok appeared there too, she stayed for more than one hour.

28_01_2013_Karen Mok in Hong Kong_P1

Thanks to this article (http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/entertainment/20130128/00282_011.html ) Karen Mok appeared in Hong Kong yesterday January 28, 2013 and Keanu is supposed to stay there 7-10 days.

Cali

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves arriving in Hong Kong_P6

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves arriving in Hong Kong_P3

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves arriving in Hong Kong_P4

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves arriving in Hong Kong_P5

Source: http://news.on.cc/cnt/entertainment/20130127/bkn-20130127223344927-0127_00862_001.html

Video link: http://tv.on.cc/index.html?s=4&ss=&i=OEN130127-10828-105M-2233&d=1359379352

Arrival in Hong Kong Airport

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves arriving in Hong Kong

Simon Yam ready for the dubbing of Man of Tai Chi

27_01_2013_Simon Yam in Hong Kong

Arrival at his hotel

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong_P2

Source: http://ent.sina.com.hk/news/-1-927495/1.html?l=1081337

Keanu Reeves arrived at Hong Kong airport yesterday afternoon

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves arriving in Hong Kong_P1

Arrival in Hong Kong Hotel with a lot of luggage.

In my opinion he might stay in China for a long time …

Cali

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves arriving in Hong Kong_P2

Keanu going into the hotel, in Causeway Bay

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves arriving in Hong Kong Causeway Bay_P1

Keanu with his assistant leaving the hotel after a short break

27_01_2013_Keanu leaving the hotel with his assistant

Simon Yam joing Keanu at Kwun Tong for the dubbing

27_01_2013_Simon Yam in Hong Kong_P2

Source: Weibo -> http://photo.weibo.com/2200253570/talbum/detail/photo_id/3539486673770525?from=profile&profilephoto=&wvr=5

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong_P3

Source: http://weibo.com/m1chaelchan#1359409159065

Thanks Chen Tze Chun MichaelChan for sharing your picture. He said: “Just finished my voice acting session under the Keanu Reeves’ direction”.

28_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong

Source: Weibo -> http://photo.weibo.com/1729330773/talbum/detail/photo_id/3539484337589752?from=profile&profilephoto=&wvr=5

From Zheng Shaokang album

28_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong_P2

Keanu with fans in Hong Kong (Source: Weibo)

Source: http://photo.weibo.com/1699113825/talbum/detail/photo_id/3539200794589497?from=profile&profilephoto=&wvr=5

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong with a fan

Source: http://photo.weibo.com/2108313190/talbum/detail/photo_id/3539200110453455?from=profile&profilephoto=&wvr=5

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong with a fanP2

Soure: http://photo.weibo.com/2636507133/talbum/detail/photo_id/3539430209938146#3539430209938146

27_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong with a fanP3

Source: https://www.facebook.com/misterjishere/photos_stream#!/photo.php?fbid=486262828077798&set=pb.188935947810489.-2207520000.1359424227&type=3&theater

They said: “Great to work with Keanu today in the studio on his new upcoming movie “Man of Tai Chi” – coming out this summer.”

28_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong_P3

Source: http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10151425998160638&set=a.10151426053735638.530386.12036315637&type=1&theater&notif_t=photo_reply

Keanu with Candy Lo

28_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong with Candy Lo_P4

28_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong with Candy Lo_P5

Source: http://photo.weibo.com/1729241741/talbum/detail/photo_id/3539856347345023?from=profile&profilephoto=&wvr=5

28_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong_P5

 

Source: Chen Hu (http://www.weibo.com/u/1216469327#1359300185921)

Thanks to Chen Hu the Beijing recording is completed.  Thank you very much Chen for the info  <3 :-)

Cali.

23_1_2013_Keanu with Chen Hu and Hou Yousheng in China_B and W

Keanu is now working hard in Hong Kong (Source: https://twitter.com/Foodiewil/status/295434573129580544 - Thank you Ayako and Meyke for sharing the info)

26_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong

 

 

Source: Many thanks to Hou Yousheng for sharing his pictures on Weibo (link: http://photo.weibo.com/1628883385/talbum/detail/photo_id/3537602470539065 )

23_1_2013_Keanu with Chen Hu and Hou Yousheng in China

Some other pictures from Hou Yousheng album:

5_10_2012_Keanu in China 5_10_2012_Keanu in China_P2

Source: http://photo.weibo.com/1362607654/talbum/detail/photo_id/3536508353127597

Thank you MeyKe for the info.

Late dubbing work of the film “Man of Tai Chi” successfully completed! Will be released in July 2013.

18_1_2013_Keanu in China again

 

Source: http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffbelllightbox/2013/2440003365

http://torontoist.com/2013/01/ready-set-whoa/#more-228485

From high school headbanger to wave-catching fed, bomber-busting cop to futuristic saviour, come witness the remarkable range of  The One in this totally excellent, never bogus eleven-film tribute.

Here is the schedule:

Friday January 11 - 9:00 PM -  Youngblood

Friday January 25 – 9:45 PM -  River’s Edge

Friday February 1 – 9:00 PM – Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Friday February 8 – 9:45 PM – Point Break

Friday February 22 – 9:30 PM – My Own Private Idaho

Friday March 1 – 9:00 PM – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Friday March 8 – 9:00 PM – Speed

Friday March 22 – 9:00 PM – The Matrix

Friday March 29 – 9:15 PM – Constantine

Friday April 5 – 9:30 PM – A Scanner Darkly

Source: Weibo http://weibo.com/1671872565/zdI5qyeGQ

The girl who took the picture just confirmed that this picture was taken on November 9th, 2012 (and not on January 9th, 2013, which is the date she shared it on Weibo).

09_01_2013_Keanu Reeves in Beijing_P1

Source: http://www.digitalbiscuit.ie/

Digital Biscuit is a free public event open to all from 9am Fri 25th Jan to 6pm Sat 26th January.

Digital Biscuit will open on Thursday, 24 January, at the IFI, Dublin, with the Irish premiere of Side by Side, a new documentary produced by Keanu Reeves. The film takes an in-depth look at the revolution of digital cinema and the screening will be followed by a talk and, potentially, a lively debate.

The Digital Biscuit After Party at the Bernard Shaw Jan 25th! A night in celebration of all the attendees, speakers, workshop leaders and organisers at Digital Biscuit. -> http://digitalbiscuit.ie/?p=1121

The schedule of events continues until 26 January in the Science Gallery and a Young Animators Award and Short Filmmaker Award will be presented during the event. Submissions will be accepted up to 18 January and 20 January respectively.

Programme:

Thursday 24th January Side by Side Premiere Screening

In the Irish Film Centre. Cost €8.90
Book through IFI here (http://www.ifi.ie/film/side-by-side)

-> http://digitalbiscuit.ie/?page_id=250 and Chris Kenneally will be there for a Live Talk -> http://twitter.com/DigiBiscuit/status/289336265957068800  -> http://digitalbiscuit.ie/?page_id=33

Venue

Event

Speaker

Science Gallery Photo Press Launch With Birch Hamilton
IFI Irish Premiere of Side by Side in the Irish Film Institute  
IFI Live Talk: The Digital Direction With Christopher Kenneally

Friday 25th January Main Day Ticket for talks

Cost: €40/€20 for SDGI/Science Gallery Member or Student. Proof of membership required on check in. A limited number of tickets will be available on the door.
To see a full list of speakers click here

Workshops Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January

Ticketed and free of charge with voluntary donation of €5 per workshop. Two workshops maximum per person. New workshop tickets will be released every couple of days so continue to check here for new ticket releases.

Source: http://in.omg.yahoo.com/news/side-side-open-digital-film-festival-135805349.html and http://www.facebook.com/pages/0110idff/267934049976410 and http://www.0110idff.com/festival-schedule/ and http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/International-digital-film-festival-expands-to-Mumbai/articleshow/16953011.cms and http://www.celebrityballa.com/2013/01/58123/side-side-open-digital-film-festival#full_story

“New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) “Side by Side”, the Keanu Reeves produced and Christopher Kenneally directed documentary, will be the opening film at the 0110 International Digital Film Festival 2013 (IDDF 2013).

This was announced Monday by organisers of the festival, which is widely see as the destination for New Wave Cinema in India.

The organisers also announced an advisory panel including Sudhir Mishra, Anurag Kashyap, Q (Qaushik Mukherjee – director of “Gandu”), Roysten Able and renowned Hollywood producer Jason Kilot…”

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 400,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 7 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!

Crunchy numbers

In 2012, there were 224 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,256 posts.

The busiest day of the year was November 27th with 6,271 views. The most popular post that day was Camerimage 2012.

Some of your most popular posts were written before 2012. Your writing has staying power!

Where did the visits come from?

That’s 165 countries in all!  Most visitors came from The United States. Germany & The United Kingdom were not far behind.

USA: 91 644 hits – Canada: 19 461 hits  – Germany: 38 327 hits – UK: 27 104 hits – France: 19 277 hits – Belgium: 4 286 – The Netherlands: 3 952 hits – Italy: 16 669 hits – Spain: 7 241 hits – Poland: 18 768 – Russia: 6 265 hits – China: 4 hits (LOL) poor guys I know that they have restricted access to internet, let’s hope that Chinese government will understand that restricting liberty and not respecting human rights is not a good plan.

By publishing this report I want to thank all my followers and send a big kiss to Keanu Reeves and his fans.

Cali

Keanu sending a kiss

Click here to see the complete report.

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1335975/releaseinfo

47 Ronin new release dates:

Keanu might have heard me when I claimed that Belgium was not in the release date list (remember this? http://keanulover.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/keanu-reeves-47-ronin-release-dates/ - PS: my Chinese sign is Tiger, GRRRRRR ).  Did I scare you Mr Reeves? (ROFL). 

I just noticed that the list has been updated and BELGIUM is at the top, release date is December 18, 2013.   HOORAYYYY!  (I didn’t get it on my birthday in 2012 but I will get it on my next birthday, yesss!).

My Russian friends will be happy too, Russia is also in the list but unfortunately they will have to wait until January 2, 2014 to see this movie.  Long time to wait girls, be patient … sigh.

We never get independant movies in Belgium (except sometimes. Example: we had “A scanner Darkly” one evening, at 10 pm on a Thursday in Brussels, no other day, no other screening, no other city so I couldn’t see it).  Now I am wondering if we will get “Man of Tai Chi ”one day in Belgium??? 

As it worked once, it could work twice!  So here is my 2nd request: KEANU, DON’T FORGET BELGIUM !!!  I WANT ”MAN OF TAI CHI” OKEYYYYY !  lol

Cali

Country Date
Belgium 18 December 2013  
France 18 December 2013  
Netherlands 19 December 2013  
Germany 25 December 2013  
USA 25 December 2013  
Hong Kong 26 December 2013  
Hungary 26 December 2013  
Brazil 27 December 2013  
Bulgaria 27 December 2013  
Spain 27 December 2013  
Turkey 27 December 2013  
Russia 2 January 2014  
Sweden 3 January 2014  
Argentina 9 January 2014  
Australia 9 January 2014  
Denmark 9 January 2014  
Norway 10 January 2014

Source: Bruno Press and http://www.wtf.nl/spotlight/7498/wie-was-waar-fotoserie.html

4_01_2013 Keanu Reeves on his bike_P1

Source: http://twitter.com/egansmind/status/286966002833571840/photo/1 from Neil Egan ( https://twitter.com/egansmind )

1st day in LA had breakfast with Keanu Reeves at famous Chateau Marmont.

3_01_2013 Keanu Reeves on his bike_P2

2:43 PM – 3 Jan 13

 

Source: http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Keanu+Reeves/Keanu+Reeves+Leaves+Spago/3V_31pIJybu and

http://photos.extratv.warnerbros.com/galleries/january_2013_fresh_pix#530114 and http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Reeves,_Keanu/gallery/20121231-14/

Actor Keanu Reeves seen leaving from the Spago restaurant in Beverly Hills after dining with friends on December 30th, 2012.

Source: PacificCoastNews.com

30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P15

30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P14

30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P1 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P2 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P3 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P4 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P5 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P6 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P7 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P8 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P9 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P10 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P11 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P12 30_12_2012_Keanu Reeves out from Spago_P13

Thanks to KeanuWorld ( http://www.keanuworld.com/ and http://vk.com/keanuworld and https://www.facebook.com/KeanuWorld) for sharing the video

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 117 other followers

%d bloggers like this: