At The Threshold of an ERA
continues...
Source: HK Entertainment in Review
Pictures courtesy Oriental Daily
The TVB one hundred episode series CHONG SAI GEI aka At The
Threshold of an Era continues shooting. A sequence in which Roger Kwok
Jun-On saves Sunny Chan Kam-Hung from a burning car was shot recently.
Chan has his fears when filming scenes involving fire, "years ago when I
made JUSTICE PAO my face was burned and I had to be hospitalized. I'm afraid of fire." However, except a small cut on his upper
lip from when the plastic glass exploded, Chan emerged from the shoot
unscathed. Chan revealed, "it didn't turn out to be much. I've shot many
dangerously scenes for this series and I haven't been hurt yet. It proves
I'm on a lucky streak."
Roger Kwok Jun-On wasn't so lucky. He bruised his right arm
when he smashed the car window "to save" Sunny Chan.
Source: HK Entertainment in Review
(4/10/99)
Sunny Chan Kam-Hung and Gallen Lo Ka-Leung (left) were all
smiles on the set of TVB's one hundred episode series AT THE THRESHOLD OF
AN ERA (CHONG SAI GEI) but the smiles disappeared once they had to shoot a
scene involving fire (right).
The EpicDrama bears Great
Responsibility...
Source: MingPao Daily
Translation’s courtesy of
Dale - Kenix
Forum.
TVB's Millennium series would be showing on next Monday.
During its anniversary ever year, TVB would release an Anniversary Drama.
This time, the millennium series bears great responsibility because this
year is the last Anniversary of this century plus recently, TVB series had
faced fierce competition from ATV and the viewerships dropped
tremendously. TVB hopes to regain its momentum and reputation through this
series.
Bearing this 'mission', this series becomes meaningful. TVB
really didn't 'lower its guard', we can see that TVB treats series
importantly from its great casts and material resources TVB put into this
series. It has the most outdoor shots in overseas countries and has
invited the most outsiders (part-time contract artistes) to take roles in
this series. Overall, this series has broken many TVB usual records.
However, because of all this pressure, TVB fear and is
conscious about the outcome. They have only finished the first 50
episodes. As for the next 50, the department in charge is still working on
the heading design and its editing of the film. They are gathering
comments from others and trying their best to make this series the best it
could be. The greatest wish of TVB is when this series launches, it would
arouse everyone to talk about it, at the same time, people would want to
chase after the storyline. Therefore, the first 10 episodes are very
important.
TVB dare not release all its 100 chapters at one go, fearing
that if there is any mistake, they would be trapped in an unfavourable
situation. Therefore, they would only arrange to release the first 50
episodes to test market before they continue what to do for the next 50
chapters.
The storyline revolves around the last 10 years of this
century. Especially concentrating on the last 5 years where many people
struck rich and became 'Hero' in Real Estates and Stock Markets. However,
the sudden economy crisis 'beat' them back to normal.
When we look back at this history, it saddens us but since
everything is already in the past, we have to face this reality positively
and hope for an optimistic future. This series could try to guide the
audience to have a positive mind for the future. The reporter questions
whether TVB has considered this point into this series.
Sunny & Kenix will grace the
closing episode of Kindred Spirit.
Sudden Weekly reported that Sunny & Kenix will be back
in the grand finale of Kindred Spirit that is scheduled to release on
November 13th, 99. It will be a one hour show with 30 minutes alloted to
live performance by all artistes involved in this series.
Source: AppleDaily
Entertainment
Summarized by: Angela
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