Donnie Yen is the 2010 Box Office King

Donnie Yen proves he is the "strongest in the universe" this year.

The Hong Kong actor has three films out this year---"Ip Man 2," "Legend of the Fist the Return of Chen Zhen," and "14 Blades"---and they rocked the box office in Chinese-speaking areas. All three films hit more than 100 million at the box office in Mainland. The "Ip Man" sequel is even the box office winner in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore.

With a combined box office of nearly 485 million, Donnie is very satisfied and he hopes Chinese films will continue to do well in all areas.

"Everyone's acknowledgment encouraged me to do better. I'll not disappoint you guys," says the actor.

Not only his films are popular in Asia, American viewers also paid attention to Donnie's films. In an IMDB poll "Top 25 User-Rated Movies of 2010," his "Ip Man 2" beat popular action movie "Iron 2" and took 12th place as one of the top user-rated movies of 2010.

"You will be blown away by the fights," a user writes, "carefully thought out, excuted, and filmed as a true form of art."

Source: Singtao / By: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Chow Yun-fat, Donnie Yen, Aaron Kwok in New 3D Film

Filmko's new 3D film <大鬧天宮> finally started filming in Beijing recently. The cast for this film is always keep as top secret and had only revealed Donnie Yen is playing Monkey King. Now as the film started filming, more actors are confirmed to make an appearance, including A-list star Chow Yun Fat.

Everyone knows it's hard to ask Chow to star in a film. It's known Filmko spent 9 months to negotiate. Fortunately, Chow looks highly on 3D films, plus he wants to collaborate with Donnie, he finally decided to act. He will play the Jade Emperor in the film.

Heavenly king Aaron Kwok to play Buffalo Demon King, who starts a war with heaven in order to bring his beloved wife Princess Iron Fan (play by Taiwanese idol drama queen Joe Chen Qiao En) and child Red Boy to heaven. Taiwanese idol Peter Ho will play the 3-eyed general Erlang Shen.

Source: Oriental Daily / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Donnie Yen: Going Home Is More Important Than Box Office

Donnie Yen's character from "Yip Man" is now available in a wax figure in HK Madame Tssauds wax museum. Yesterday he attended to the opening ceremony. Wife Cecilia Wang came to support with her parents, sister, and cousin. Donnie felt the eyes resembled the best.

Donnie's "Yip Man 2" has a box office of 3,720,000HKD (opening day) and is so far his best selling film in one day. He is very satisfied with the box office. First installment has box office around one million in its opening day, this time is the triple.

He said since it has a good box office, he will definitely invite others to dinner. He also hope it will exceed 40 million and boss Raymond Wong will pay everyone a trip to Japan. He stressed earlier that he won't film a 3rd installment, now the sequel has a good outcome, will he reconsider? He expressed he won't because there's not much new elements he can add to the character. Also too many people portray the same character, like "Wong Fei Hung" before, which turned out pretty bad in the end. He won't be like other people. Foreign film "Iron Man 2" will open today and asked is he confident in beating "IM2?" Donnie said it's hard to say, "YM2" has good word-of-mouth, Mainland viewers said it surpassed the first one. He said: "Decide who will win or go home, which one is more important? Of course I'll pick the latter one."

Source: Mingpao / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Donnie Yen Is Willing to Buy Sanitary Napkins For Wife

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: KAY

 Donnie Yen attended to a press conference for "Yip Man 2" in Taiwan. He said: "You're supposed to love and care about women. Because she's my life-long partner, of course I'll have to treat her well 100%." Donnie even disclosed generously that if his wife is in need, he will go to the pharmacy and buy sanitary napkins for her. He said with laughs: "Although it might be a little embarrassing, but still have to buy it." His caring words touched host of the press conference and she said: "Companies should consider asking this Yip Man to endorse female hygiene products, it will be 'Yuet Man.'"

Talked about his two year old son, Donnie said his son hasn't watch any of his films yet. He didn't teach his son kung-fu neither. But he can play a set of kungfu quite professionally, making Donnie feel that his son inherited his good genes.

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Donnie Yen: I'm The King Of Kungfu On Bed

Donnie Yen appeared in Taiwan lately to promote new movie, "14 Blades" (錦衣衛). Haven't seen each other for three weeks, Donnie's wife Cecilia Wang flied to Taiwan to support her husband. They kissed each other in front of everyone passionately when they met at the airport.

Host Tao Ching Yin then asked Cecilia her satisfactory of Donnie when he is on bed. Donnie replied, "I'm the king of kungfu on bed." This made Cecilia blushed and she said shyly, "I couldn't complain." Everyone in the audience laughed and Donnie said, "So in front of all the other beauties, I'll be fine because my wife is the best. If a woman came to knock my door at midnight, I'm afraid I'll treat her as a ghost."

Source: UDN / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment  

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Kate Tsui shows off body in new movie

In the movie, "Blades" (錦衣衛), Kate Tsui won't just let Wu Zun and Donnie Yen to show off their waist (in an assistant costume) and chest muscle. She shows off body wearing her low cut costume. One of her looks in the movie is similar to a veiled Arabian woman. Wearing low-cut clothing and taking off her coat standing straight, she seemed confident in her body.

(a pic of Wu Zun's "pirate look")

Source: Mingpao / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment 

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