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Jay Chou shows off his moves, Slam Dunk burns up another 30 million
by kelvin@multistars - 14th February 2007Jay Chou is eager to work on the movie "Slam Dunk", the action choreographer Cheng Xiao Dong has designed two fight scenes for him, it has been extended from 5 working days to 35 working days, that's a whole month more, the crew will burn another HK$7 million (about TW$30 million)!
The director Zhu Yan Ping expressed that even though they've added another month to the filming period, Jay Chou doesn't mind at all. The ending scene to finish off the filming will be filmed at the car park next to Shin-Kong Mitsukoshi in Taipei, just for one basketball match they need 7 days to film it, a day's rent is $200,000, for a week they will drop $1.4 million yuan for rent.
Yesterday "Slam Dunk" art director Xi Zhong Wen came to Taiwan to design the appearances for the actors, he expressed that Jay Chou was very cooperative, he will make Jay Chou turn from a peasant to a handsome guy wearing all branded clothes, he said that even though Jay Chou is not tall but his proportion is good and his face is small.
Jay Chou's appearance in "Slam Dunk" makes everyone curious, but the thing that makes people most curious is, how will Jay Chou show off his kung fu in the movie? The action choreographer Cheng Xiao Dong added, they originally set the fighting scenes to 5 days, afterwards it become two fighting scenes, one as 15 days and the other as 20 days, a total of 35 days. Director Zhu said: "It can't be helped, Jay Chou needs to make his moves, the whole of Asia will be watching."
The fight scenes of Jay Chou has caused the movie to be extended by 30 days, Alfa Music expressed that another month will not affect much, because the commercial contracts are all yearly, they can be changed to fit Jay Chou's schedule, if they clash they can delay.
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