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| Charlene Choi's new Lunar New Year film is involved in "forced production". |
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| Louis Cheung practiced boxing for another new film and showed off his muscles.. courtesy of on.cc |
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| Tsui Tin Yau's wife posts a photo with the production walkie talkie and complains about the production team's forced entry for the shoot. |
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| Director Philip Yung has noticed that the production's unauthorized shoot in a skincare shop, criticizing the production company for putting profit first. courtesy of mingpao.com |
The Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin and Louis Cheung Kai Chung starred Lunar New Year in a low-key manner a few days ago, but an unpleasant incident occurred! Allegedly the team forcibly broke into a beauty salon at Central for production, and the owner later described the incident on the Internet for a public trial, describing it as if he was being forced!
Reportedly the film team has contacted the beauty salon that the skincare production brand Tsui Tin Yau's wife Olive opened on Kau U Fong at Central. The beauty salon replied that the rental fee was calculated on an hourly basis, and the borrower must be responsible for any damage. At the time the film company said, "The actors would just come in and do a few laps, they would leave very quickly." After the negotiation nothing came of it. Two nights ago in the afternoon of the day, the film team suddenly appeared outside the store and seemingly preparing to start filming. The clerk stated that they were not permitted to enter but the crew ignored it. They entered the store and put the walkie-talkie for filming by the door, then two actors entered the store and walked in circles. The walkie-talkie suddenly sounded loudly, instructing the actors to take their marks and deliver the dialogue. Because the beauty salon had clients under treatment at the time, the clerk could not react in time and could only document the situation with a mobile phone. Someone immediately loudly "complained" about being filmed.
The store owner later uploaded a photo of the time on social media platforms, saying that the whole process took about 10 minutes. "There is actually no difference between 10 minutes of 'doing it by force' and rape. We open the doors for business, paying high rent, salaries, water, electricity, gas everyday. When you hire extras you would at least give them lai see? Why can you be so excessive? So impolite? I don't want to name the actors, because actually they have nothing to do with it. The company is a local production company. With such a production team, it is no wonder that Hong Kong films are getting worse and worse!"
Although the post did not disclose any name, many industry insiders have already guessed that it is a new Lunar New Year film starring Ah Sa and Cheung Kai Chung. The reporter tried to contact the film's executive producer Ng Kin Hung and the two leads yesterday, but did not receive a reply before the deadline. After the incident was made public, many online supported the beauty salon, saying that "it's too much, in favor of naming names", "Actually if they don't have the money to rent it officially, don't choose this place this kind of place. How can they be like this? If you shoot at a hospital, restaurant, shopping center, will they be like this?" Some said that the shop should release the security camera footage, and some suggested issuing a legal letter to the film company to prohibit the footage shot inside the shop to to be released.
Director Philip Yung Tsz Kwong also took notice and posted, "Hong Kong film productions have always had limited budgets, which is understandable. In order to save money they have done a lot of shameful things. Perhaps it is for the sake of the film production, but certain film production companies in the name of making local productions save on production cost left and right. In the end someone put profit first, and fill their own pockets. Anyone with eyes can see that the production is embarrassingly ugly and simple......the Hong Kong film industry is in dire straits, hearts who work hard in order to make a good movie conceivably have conscience. As far as I know, I am touched that 90% of the people in the Hong Kong film industry has this bottom line, hopefully extremely few (or even just one) of this type of production units wouldn't affect the image of the Hong Kong film industry."
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