Aaron Kwok will marry Ip Man woman Lynn Xiong

Yesterday Aaron Kwok attended Sina Weibo's 1st Anniversary event, Michelle Reis who was also present announced her pregnancy, Aaron quickly congratulated her having a perfect life. Asked when Aaron plans to have a little Lynn or little Aaron? He said: "I believe I have plans on both marriage and having children, but now at this time. (Already planned to have children with Lynn?) I haven't had time to plan what I'm going to do in the future, if one day I do get marry, I will definitely announce it on Weibo. Even if I have plans, it could only happen if Lynn has the thought too, I can't just say it randomly now."

Asked if he reached consensus with Lynn? He stressed again that he does not have this plan yet. Asked again if he and Lynn talked about it before? He became stiff and said: "Can't. Even just saying it, I have to be responsible. I don't dare to, I don't dare to do this in my life, even if for the female friends around me, cannot just randomly say these things."

Reporters expressed that Lynn once said she loves children, Aaron expressed that he does not know, but said that he'll definitely be a good father. Asked if he'll have a baby first before marriage? He said: "I am personally quite traditional, hope can give 5 more years of time to me, I want to do a musical first. I am a person who cannot multitask, if I have a family and kids, then I can't do it."

Source: Oriental Daily
Translator: aZnangel@asianuniverse

Aaron Kwok and Zhang Ziyi in film The Era of Magic

Zhang Ziyi and Hong Kong actor Aaron Kwok will play a couple suffering from AIDS in director Gu Changwei's first-ever feature film tackling the issue, entitled "The Era of Magic."

Aaron Kwok was spotted on the set in Beijing Tuesday with a bearded and weary look, the Beijing News reports.

The film, adapted from a novel, tells a tragic love story between two AIDS-afflicted lovers. Kwok plays a primary school teacher who is sent from the city to teach in the countryside, but contracts AIDS and develops a crush on Zhang Ziyi's character, also an AIDS patient.

Director Gu Changwei insists Zhang Ziyi as the right actress for the lead, despite her recent embroilment in a slew of scandals about her personal life and alleged donation fraud.

Gu thinks the internationally famous Zhang will ensure a box office cache for the upcoming film.

Reportedly, award-winning actress Jiang Wenli, wife of director Gu, was cast in a supporting role.

Other big names joining the cast for very little pay include Pu Cunxin, Cai Guoqing, Li Xuejian and Li Danyang - all ambassadors of an anti-AIDS public campaign, the paper says, citing unnamed sources.

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Aaron Kwok takes a day off on his 44th birthday

Aaron Kwok will be 44 tomorrow, and he has a day off from the producer. He had made it clear earlier that he will not be celebrating his birthday with rumored girlfriend Lynn. In fact, Aaron already knew Lynn is not in Hong Kong.

Aaron was wearing a suit yesterday when he attended "Longines" new shop opening ceremony. Aaron is the spokesperson for Longines and he was there to celebrate their 120th anniversary. Aaron also wore the watch Retrograde worth 80,000 HKD given to him as a gift from the company. He revealed that he is interested to collect all limited brand watches, and the watch he is wearing has only got 120 in the world. Aaron told reporter he hasn't planned how to celebrate his birthday yet.

Aaron disclosed that he was invited as special guest in a tennis activity. He was than supposed to fly to Thailand to work on a new film "The detective" directed by Oxide Pang. However, the director knew it's his birthday, he gave him a day off work. Aaron said "If the lyric of "The Storm Warriors II" is ready, I will come back first to do the recording. It may record till the early hours, than we can have dinner with my colleagues." Reporter asked if he would celebrate his birthday with Lynn? Aaron said "No, I hear she is not in hong Kong. (You know where she is?) I only found out from the newspaper. (It's Mango Wong's birthday next month. Are you going to celebrate her birthday with her?) I have no comment."

Source: Wenweipo

Aaron Kwok pays a tribute to Michael Jackson, with his concert in August

Music legend, King of Pop Michael Jackson (MJ) suddenly passed away a few days ago, shocking the world. Although the life of the legend ends, but his music and signature dances are remembered in Fans' hearts forever. Hong Kong dance king Aaron Kwok truly respected MJ as the king of stage and a legend. He plans to open a concert in August to pay tributes to his idol. As to William Chan, he is MJ's biggest fan, last night he performed one of MJ's dances, "Billie Jean", in remembrance of the king.

Last night, "Jade Gold Solid" extended to an hour long, arranging famous artists Kay Tse, Hins Cheung and Mavis Fan to perform MJ's greatest hits including "You Are Not Alone", "I'll Be There", "We Are The World", and chatted for a while about their feelings for MJ. William Chan announced the other night that he has been trying hard to find a way to pay a tribute to his dance idol. He stayed up all night and did not sleep the other night to watch clips of MJ, to practice.

After hearing about Michael's death, William was very sad and cried while he rehearsed his dancing. He hopes to start a dance party to share with all MJ's Fans Michael's music and dance, remembering the superstar together.

As for Aaron Kwok, what does he think of Hong Kong calling him the "local MJ"? He said: "Every artist has their own style and success, no one can replace another person." He continues: "Liking someone, you do not care about their gossip news or what they do in their private lives, you like them for their talent."

TVB General Manager Stephen Chan was going to talk with the organizers to arrange Michael Jackson to hold his concert in Hong Kong as well, so HKers who want to enjoy his concert don't have to spend the airticket to fly to London to see it. However, now with this sad news, it can never be done.

Jennifer Tse, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Edmond Leung, George Lam and a group of friends were all fans of MJ and was going to see his concert as well, but not anymore.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU