October 21 - 23, 2009

Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) and China Film Corporation will be cooperating in remaking the film, The New Shaolin Temple. Today we went to the Shaolin Temple at Mount Song and attended a press conference. Many actors attended the event such as Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Jacky Wu Jing, Fan Bing Bing, director Benny Chan, and action director Corey Yuen. All the actors attended the press conference event.:

The next day, we traveled up the mountain together and made our way towards Shaolin Temple.

 On the way to the temple, I saw some Shaolin monks practicing kung fu. Overall, Shaolin has over 60,000 students and a history spanning over 1,600 years:

As we got closer to the temple, the sight became even more shocking as people pushed and shoved to get closer. 

 Apart from seeing a lot of people’s heads throughout the entire journey, I wasn’t able to see anything else.

We finally arrived for the film authorization ceremony:

China is starting to bring in the “copyright law” when making films in the country and you have to have authorization before you can start filming here:

 Here is the director with the actors.

After the press release conference, I quickly rushed back to Hangzhou. I ate a very simple meal on the plane.

I completed the remaining work I had in hand for Original Leaf Tea with Jaycee:

[Jackie is spraying Jaycee in the face with a mist of purified water. This is something Jackie loves to do; the water is refreshing and good for the skin.]

I hadn’t seen Jaycee in quite a while and it’s not very often that we get this kind of opportunity together so we spent some time and caught up with each other.

 The thing that upset me the most during this event was all the confetti that showered out from the paper canons. Not only is terrible for the environment, it also creates a lot of rubbish on the floor. 

I hope that people will stop doing this in the future. After attending this event, Jaycee and I had to go our separate ways again. He had to go back to Hong Kong to record his songs; I had to go back to Beijing and hold a script meeting for a new movie called Twelve Zodiacs.

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英皇集團和中影合作，一起重拍「新少林寺」我們呢天就在松山少林寺記者招待會，演員方面，除了以外，還有劉德華，謝庭鋒，吳京，李冰冰，陳木勝導演，元奎武術指導。所有演員都有出席這招待會。

第二天我們一起上山去少林寺，沿途看到那些少僧在練武，整個少林寺總數有６０,０００個弟子，共有１,６００年歷史。但越走情況就越來越震撼了，整個路程，除了人頭以外，什麼也看不見了。

終於到了授權儀，現在在中國拍電影也開始有所謂「版權法」，有了授權才可以開拍，我們的導演跟演員。

做完發佈會，匆匆趕上去杭州了，在機艙內吃一個簡便的午餐。

接下來就是跟小房子一起完成手頭上跟原葉的協議工作。我也很久沒有跟小房小見面了，難得有這個機會，大家聚聚。這個項目最令我不開心的就是那些紙炮發射出來的顏色碎紙，除了不環保以外，又弄到滿地都是垃圾。希望以後大家都不要這樣做。做完這個節目，我跟小房子又各走各的路，他趕著回香港錄音，我就趕回北京為新片「１２生肖」開劇本會。