Okay, this is just a weird everything but news enough to report on the rumor. Chinese-speaking news is reporting that Taiwan is planning a drama remake of hit K-drama Goblin, two years after the popular series aired. The male leads will reportedly be Jerry Yan and Mike He, two of the OG male actors that grounded the Taiwan idol drama decade of 2000 to 2010. I think this male lead pairing is weird because it just doesn’t have the visual and personality symmetry and synergy that Gong Yoo and Lee Dong Wook projected. Not to mention Mike and Jerry are so different in vibe I can’t see them in the same scene much less having a bromance. Of course if this turns out to be true I’m so watching it until it goes off the rails lol. Continue reading
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I double checked my Meteor Garden encyclopedia and confirmed, yep there is a twenty year age difference and the two dramas aired 18 years apart. I’m talking about OG Taiwanese Meteor Garden and the latest C-version remake Meteor Garden 2018, … Continue reading
Maybe it’s the fall weather and the recent seismic shift in Asian drama viewing options but I’m in a nostalgic mood and one of the classic eras that passed naturally was the Taiwan idol dramas of the 2000s. Starting from … Continue reading
Take this with a grain of salt, but it’s a juicy grain and totally worth reporting just on the possibility alone. TW-entertainment news publications are all reporting that increasingly loud rumor that top model Lin Chi Ling and her currently … Continue reading
Taiwanese entertainment was due for some dating excitement this year after K-ent stole its thunder with 2017 filled with top K-star marriages and babies. This news is big enough to make up for a year of less exciting romance news … Continue reading
I’m inching towards celebrity wedding overload after successive Chinese and Taiwan huge stars have gotten married in the last two months alone, but I think I have it in me for one more celebratory post. TW-actor/singer Ken Zhu, most famously … Continue reading
Second time can be a charm and I certainly hope so for the upcoming C-movie adaptation of popular Chinese romance novel Summer’s Desire (The Bubble of Summer). The first go-around was the miscast and overwrought Chinese-Taiwanese drama of the same … Continue reading
Woah baby, thank you TW-ent for ending 2015 on the juiciest dating rumor from that industry all year. Tabloid King Next Magazine is claiming that top stars Ruby Lin and Jerry Yan are an item! Holy momma whut? The report follows … Continue reading
This past summer saw a homegrown Taiwan movie win the box office and the hearts the movie going audience. Coming of age romance Our Times starring Vivian Sung and Darren Wang exploded at the box office and did better than … Continue reading
Taiwan nostalgia high school movie Our Times (The Era of My Teen Girl Days) has finally arrived, premiering this Friday August 13th in domestic theaters in Taiwan. Even though it’ll be months before the movie is available on video, I’m … Continue reading
Better late than never is what went through my mind at this past weekend’s press conference for Jerry Yan‘s upcoming new drama My Best Ex-boyfriend. The feeling isn’t caused by Jerry coming back with a new drama but what he … Continue reading
I’m so happy that many folks enjoyed the sneak peeks at upcoming TW-movie Our Times, one of those coming-of-age movies set in more idyllic times that never gets old as long as it’s done right. The two young leads Vivian … Continue reading
I don’t know what magic casting wand the production waved but the upcoming C-version of We Got Married just got interesting thanks to totally random pairings. Just as the original MBC Korean WGM is undergoing a structure change and a … Continue reading