Update 7/22: Lady Castle has underwent a name change and is now My Fair Lady. The posters for the drama are up too, check them out here. Yoon Eun-hye looks really good...
Yoon Eun-Hye, the sweet, lovable star of popular Korean dramas like Goong and Coffee Prince finally has a new Korean drama in the works - Lady Castle! Yup, the long wait for her new drama is at last coming to a close!
Lady Castle is about three very rich sisters who live in a huge mansion and their romantic entanglements with a poor but scheming male housekeeper who wants to make their inheritance his own.
And it has just been announced that the male lead (i.e. the scheming housekeeper) is going to be played by Yoon Sang-Hyun, whose heartthrob status has risen considerably after starring in Queen of Housewives so much so that he has even been termed the Goo Jun-Pyo (Boys Over Flowers heartthrob) for the thirty-something crowd.
Based on the little info that I have about the plot, Yun Eun-hye's character is the extremely beautiful middle sister who is unfortunately also haughty, self-centered and stubborn. But at heart, she is actually a poor little rich girl who is lonely and longs for romantic love. She gets involved in a love-triangle with the housekeeper and a rich suitor. And I just found out that this rich suitor could be played by Jung Il-Woo who starred as Iljimae in The Return Of Iljimae although it's not confirmed as yet. But I still have not found any news on who will be playing the other two sisters...
The series will begin filming in July and is scheduled to air on Korean TV channel KBS in August this year.
Source: http://www.dramabeans.com/2009/06/yoon-sang-hyun-storms-the-lady-castle/, http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Lady_Castle, http://www.hancinema.net/chanmi-s-drama-news-new-drama-starring-yoon-eun-hye--20010.html, http://www.allkpop.com/index.php/full_story/jung_il_woo_joining_lady_castle/
Picts from http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Yoon_Sang_Hyun, http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Yoon_Eun_Hye
Tags: Lady Castle, Yoon Eun Hye, Yun Eun Hye, Yoon Sang Hyun, Korean drama series.
Yoon Eun-Hye's New Drama - Lady Castle
Chinese Movie News From The Shanghai Film Festival
There has been a flurry of news on upcoming Chinese movies at the just concluded Shanghai Film Festival.
1. The creators of the upcoming big-budget Chinese film Bodyguards and Assassins unveiled their huge HK$50 million film set to the press. The film set is a replica of 1905 Hong Kong and is as big as 10 football fields. Part of the star-studded cast including Donnie Yen, Eric Tsang and Fan Bing Bing attended this so-called "opening of the city" ceremony. You can see more scenes of this replica of old Hong Kong city in this new promotional trailer below:
2. Stars of the upcoming period movie Mulan including Vick Zhao (who stars as wartime heroine Hua Mulan), Hu Jun, Xu Jiao (young Mulan) and director Jingle Ma went on a promotional blitz at the festival, including organizing a special "Mulan Night" dinner party. Here is a trailer of Mulan than I found on Youtube.
3. Chinese film The Search won the Grand Jury Prize and Hong Kong star Aaron Kwok's new period movie Empire of Silver won the Jury Prize at the SIFF. Empire Of Silver is about a powerful banking family at the end of the 19th century whilst The Search is a film about a director's search for a missing man. Aaron Kwok will also be in the new Hong Kong movie The Murderer which will also be out in theatres in Hong Kong in July.
Empire of Silver trailer. Looks pretty good...
4. New trailer of upcoming sci-fi comedy Kungfu Cyborg which is scheduled to be released in August. This is definitely one of the campiest trailers I have ever seen... ;-P
5. Feng Xiaogang's highly anticipated upcoming US$18 million disaster movie Aftershock will be the first Chinese film to be in IMAX format. Aftershock is about the life of a girl who survived the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. The film is set to begin filming next month and will be released in IMAX theatres in China and other Asian territories in July 2010. Box-office expectations for this movie is sky-high as director Feng Xiaogang previously helmed such massive box-office hits like If You Are The One, Assembly and The Banquet.
6. Ip Man 2 will start filming in August and Ip Man's disciple Bruce Lee will also make an appearance in the film. Donnie Yen will be reprising his role as Ip Man, but there is still no news yet on who will be playing Bruce Lee. There is another biopic of Ip Man that is also in the works - The Grand Master which will be directed by Wong Kar Wai and stars Lust, Caution star Tony Leung Chiu Wai.
Tags: Shanghai film festival, Chinese movies, Bodyguards and Assassins, Empire Of Silver, Mulan, The Search, Ip Man 2, Kungfu Cyborg, Aftershock, Feng Xiaogang, Aaron Kwok, Donnie Yen.
