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The Wedding Game
''The Wedding Game'' is a 2009 romantic comedy film directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham, co-produced by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures (Singapore), Scorpio East Pictures (Singapore), Double Vision (Malaysia) and Speedy Productions (Malaysia) starring real life couple Fann Wong and Christopher Lee.The film centers on actors Jack Fang (Christopher) and Vikki Tse (Fann) who orchestrate a faux engagement to boost their showbiz careers. Plot Jack Fang (Christopher Lee) publicly proposes to Vikki Tse (Fann Wong) during the live telecast of a regional awards show. Surprised but happy, Vikki accepts. What the public doesn't know is that the entire love affair of these two famous celebrities, Jack and Vikki, is an elaborate and meticulously planned ruse designed by their ambitious managers, May (Alice Lau) and Tom (Blackie Chen), to trick the public into believing that they are getting married. In reality, Jack has disliked Vikki from the first day they met and vice versa. Yet for fame and money fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekachai Uekrongtham
Ekachai Uekrongtham ( th, เอกชัย เอื้อครองธรรม; ; zh, 吕翼谋) is a Thai theatre and film director. Based in Singapore, Ekachai is the founding artistic director of ACTION Theatre, a Singapore professional theatre company. Among his stage works is '' Chang & Eng'', a musical based on Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese twins". His other stage works include ''Corporate Animals - The Musical'', ''Ka-Ra-you-OK?'', ''Viva Viagra!'', ''Autumn Tomyam'', ''Mail Order Brides & Other Oriental Takeaways'' and ''Confessions of Three Unmarried Women''. He made his debut as a feature-film director in 2003 with ''Beautiful Boxer'', a biographical drama about transsexual professional Muay Thai boxer, Nong Thoom. His second film, '' Pleasure Factory'', about sex workers and their customers in Singapore's Geylang red-light district, was an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. His third film, ''The Coffin'', starring Ananda Everi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackie Chen
Charles "Blackie" Chen or Chen Chien-chou (born 2 May 1977 in Kaohsiung) is a Taiwanese television host, actor, basketball manager, entrepreneur, and a former basketball player. He is also the founder and current chief executive officer of the Taiwanese professional basketball league P. League+. Career Basketball Chen Chien-chou made the Chinese Taipei junior national team when he was 18 and played in the 1995 ABC Under-18 Championship, where they finished 5th. Although only 190 cm (short for even Taiwanese basketball player standards), Chen played in the paint. He modeled his game after Charles Barkley, also an undersized big man (hence his English name of "Charles Chen"). In 1999, after missing the cut for the Chinese Taipei national basketball team, he played for the B national team at the William Jones Cup. Later, playing for a club in the Singaporean league (where he led the league in scoring and rebounding), he tore his anterior cruciate ligament for the second t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Romantic Comedy Films
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Films
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards). Evaluation of the year Film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' said that 2009 "began with the usual flurry of serious major movies given late December screenings in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. They're now forgotten or vaguely regarded as semi-classics: ''The Reader'', '' Che'', ''Slumdog Millionaire'', '' Frost/Nixon'', '' Revolutionary Road'', ''The Wrestler'', ''Gran Torino'', '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. It soon became apparent that horror movies would be the dominant genre once again, with vampires the pre-eminent sub-species, the most profitable inevitably being '' New Moon'', the latest in Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'' saga, the best the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tao Li
Tao Li (; born 10 January 1990) is a Chinese-born Singaporean competitive swimmer who specializes in the backstroke and butterfly. Tao has represented Singapore at the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games), the Asian Games, World Championship, Commonwealth Games and Olympics. She holds several national records and is the only female Singapore swimmer who qualified for an Olympic Final. At the 2005 SEA Games in the Philippines, at just 15, she won 4 golds and a bronze. She reached the finals of the women's 50 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres butterfly events at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne though she did not win any medal. In December 2006, Tao won gold at the 50 metres butterfly in Doha's 2006 Asian Games, beating China's multi-gold medallist Xu Yanwei and breaking her own national record in the process. She was Singapore's most medalled athlete at the 2007 SEA Games in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Thailand, winning four gold medals. Earlier in the ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kendrick Lee
Kendrick Lee Yen Hui (; born 8 October 1984) is a Singaporean former badminton player. Lee was ranked fourteen, his highest ranking, in 2007. He was a two-time national champion. Career Lee was a two-time men's singles national champion of 2000 and 2005. He was the youngest to ever win the title when he won his first, at the age of 15. Lee was the silver medalists at the 2002 World Junior Championships, became the first Singaporean to reach the World Junior finals. He competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, and was part of the team that clinched the silver medal. In 2003, he finished as the semi-finalists at the Polish International and Malaysia Satellite tournament. Lee won his first senior international title at the 2004 Mauritius International in the mixed doubles event partnered with Li Yujia. After that, he won the singles event at the Smiling Fish and Cheers Asian Satellite tournament. In 2006, he competed at the Commonwealth and Asian Games. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jing Jun Hong
Jing Junhong, also stylized as Jing Jun Hong (; born October 13, 1968), is a Chinese-born Singaporean former professional table tennis player. Born in Shanghai, she was a highly ranked player in China before she moved to Singapore with her husband, Singaporean table tennis player Loy Soo Han, whom she married in 1992. She represented Singapore in sporting events starting in the 1990s, and was naturalized as a Singaporean citizen in 1994. After retiring as a player, she served as deputy head coach, then as head coach, of the women's national table tennis team, before being reassigned to leading the country's table tennis youth development program in late 2015. Early life Jing Junhong was born in Shanghai, China on 13 October 1968, the child of a teacher and an engineer. Jing was trained in table tennis in China after being spotted at the age of eight, and by 1988 she had become the nation's third ranked women's table tennis player. That year, she met Singaporean table tennis play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saiful Apek
Muhammad Saiful Azam bin Mohamed Yusoff (born 12 May 1969) or better known as Saiful Apek is a comedian of Malaysia. He was once called "Malaysia's No.1 Comedian" during his heyday and also the title of "Sifu" by comedians today. Until today, his aura and credibility as a comedian are unparalleled and unmatched. He is known as an intellectual comedian who is knowledgeable in every word and manners while entertaining. Apart from comedy, he is known as a Malaysian actor, director, singer, host and performer. He is also an actor who has starred in the most films in Malaysia from the past to the present until he broke the tradition as the comedian who holds the most main characters in each of his acting films. Earlier, he was a former member of the group Senario and left the group a few years later. However, he is now back with the group with the original members and rebranding themselves as Senariounion. He was once named the Most Popular Star, Berita Harian Most Popular Star Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lai Meng
Datuk Lai Kwai Yoon (; 29 September 1928 - 6 May 2018), known professionally as Lai Meng (), was a Malaysian actress. She appeared in many Malaysian and Singaporean films and TV shows, notably ''Empat Sekawan'', ''Ah Long Pte Ltd'', ''Money No Enough 2'', ''Taxi! Taxi!'' and '' Supermum''. Early life Lai was born in Benut, Pontian District, Johor, Malaysia on 29 September 1928, her full name was Lai Kwai Yoon. With a passion for singing, Lai joined Malacca Meng Seng Charitable Association's choir and occasionally held performances with the choir. After catching a performance of Lai by chance, an established singer, Hoi Yong struck a friendship with her and would later spark her interest in becoming a singer later on. However due to Lai's godfather's prior experiences while working in gambling dens, he dissuaded Lai from becoming one until when she was 21 in 1949. Career In 1949, Lai started performing on stage in Kuala Lumpur as a getai singer with the stage name, Lai Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MediaCorp Raintree Pictures
Mediacorp Raintree Pictures () was a film production company based in Singapore. The company, a division of Mediacorp Group, was established on 1 August 1998. It produced the Singaporean comedy, '' Liang Po Po: The Movie'' featuring the cross-dressing Jack Neo. It financed ''The Truth About Jane and Sam'', produced by Hong Kong's Film Unlimited and directed by Derek Yee. This film garnered a Best New Performer nomination at the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards for its lead actress, Fann Wong from Singapore. Since then, Raintree Pictures has co-produced many films with other countries, including '' The Eye'', ''The Eye 2'' and ''Infernal Affairs II''. Many of its films have won awards, such as the Golden Horse Awards from Taiwan, where child actress Megan Zheng won the Best Newcomer Award for her performance in ''Homerun''. In 2002, Singaporean satirical film ''I Not Stupid'' held the top position at the weekend box office chart in Singapore. It was later released in other countries such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Chew
Dennis Chew Chong Kheng (born 15 August 1973), also known as Zhou Chongqing, is a Singaporean radio deejay, actor, variety show host and singer. Chew is known for playing Aunty Lucy, a character which requires him to cross-dress as a middle-aged woman in the variety show ''Paris and Milan''. Early life and education Chew studied at the former Pearl's Hill Primary School and Tuan Mong High School (predecessor of Ngee Ann Secondary School). At 13, Chew performed in the musical and children's television programme 《成语50》(Chinese Idioms 50). At 14, he was talent scouted for a commercial for Yakult because of his cute looks. He was part of the first batch of students in the teen acting classes organised by the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation during the late 1980s. In 1991, he played a substantial role in the TV drama ''The Future is Mine'' (锦绣前程). After serving his National Service, Chew went on to Shatec to get a Diploma in Hotel Management as he realised during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime Malaysia–Thailand border, border with Thailand and Maritime boundary, maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia, and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital, the country's largest city, and the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, legislative branch of the Government of Malaysia, federal government. The nearby Planned community#Planned capitals, planned capital of Putrajaya is the administrative capital, which represents the seat of both the Government of Malaysia#Executive, executive branch (the Cabine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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