The Rooftop

[GeneChing]

Coming soon from Jay Chou. Sorry, no subs on this version.
The Rooftop (天台) Official Trailer - Jay Chou Movie (2013)

Pacific Rim crushes The Rooftop in Taipei
By Stephen Cremin
Fri, 12 July 2013, 18:35 PM (HKT)
Box Office News


Guillermo DEL TORO 's Pacific Rim and Jay CHOU 周杰倫's The Rooftop 天台 went head-to-head in Taiwan's cinemas yesterday, with the former delivering the latter a crushing blow at the box office on home turf.

The action-packed science fiction film Rim made NT$7.94 million (US$266,000) on 23 screens, more than eight times the box office of kungfu-musical Rooftop which secured just NT$0.94 million (US$31,500) on 17 screens in Taipei.

Six years ago, actor-singer Chou's directorial debut, Secret 不能說的秘密 (2007) made NT$26 million (US$870,000) in Taipei, a figure that his new film may struggle to match as it loses screening slots to Pacific Rim.

Furthermore, a major typhoon is expected to reach Northern Taiwan late tonight, which may shutter cinemas this evening. Chou's film also faces new competition from US action-comedy The Heat which opened in Taipei cinemas today.

Rooftop also landed softly in China yesterday, taking RMB15.9 million (US$2.59 million). Including Wednesday night previews, the film has made RMB17.1 million (US$2.78 million). Today it also competes with new release After Earth .

In China, Chou broke the box office record for a debuting Chinese director with Secret which ends its run with RMB36.7 million (US$5,97 million), a record since taken by fellow actors WANG Lee-hom 王力宏 and XU Zheng 徐崢.

Rooftop also opened in Singapore and Malaysia yesterday through Cathay-Keris Films Pte Ltd 國泰克裡斯公司 and mm2 Entertainment Sdn Bhd ｍｍ２影視娛樂有限公司 respectively. It opens in Hong Kong next month.

My PR review is here

[GeneChing]

Too bad I can't make it to the Metreon this week.

Synopsis

Living on the rooftop, Gao and his friends are the happiest bunch in the city of Galilee. Though life can be tough in this bustling metropolis, that doesn’t stop them from churning out song and dance with a zest for life. However, when Gao meets his dream girl, Sian, fate takes him on a wild ride through romance, friendship, and gang rivalry, told in enchanting melodies and stunning dance numbers.

描述在繁華奇妙的加利利市中，有個集結中西方一切美好元素的地區叫天台。這裡住著一群看似平凡卻有著源源不 絕生命力的居民。主角浪子膏（周杰倫 飾）平時在波爺（曾志偉 飾）的中藥店工作負責搭唱叫賣，和哥們兒黑輪（柯有倫 飾）、蛋花和阿郎從小一起長大，以「帥」為人生終極目標。天台旁聳立一塊大型看板中的廣告天后 心艾（李心艾 飾）是浪子膏的夢中情人。在偶然情況下浪子膏見到自己朝思暮想的女神，並在哥們兒推波助瀾下對她展開追求。 就在兩人戀情逐漸加溫同時，黑輪卻陷入危機命在旦夕。不料這一切竟是因心艾而起！浪子膏無端捲入這場詭計中 ，面對友情與愛情他將該如何做出正確選擇？

Director:
Jay Chou (周杰倫 / 導演)
Cast:
Jay Chou (周杰倫), Eric Tsang (曾志偉), Wang Xueqi (王學圻), Xu Fan (徐帆), Alan Ko (柯有倫), Kenny Bee (鍾鎮濤), Li Xinai (李心艾)
Producer:
Haung Zhi Ming (黃志明 / 監製), Will Liu Geng Hong (劉畊宏 / 監製)
Genre:
Action & Adventure
Sub Genre:
Musical
Run Time:
120 min
Theatrical Date:
Jul 19, 2013
Original Language:
Mandarin
Dubbed Language:
N/A
Subtitle:
English, Mandarin

USA
Jul 19, 2013
NYC
AMC Empire 25
234 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036

AMC Loews Jersey Gardens 20
651 Kapkowski Road

Elizabeth, NJ 07201

LOS ANGELES / SAN DIEGO
AMC Atlantic Times Square 14
450 N Atlantic Blvd

Monterey Park, CA 91754

AMC Orange 30
20 City Blvd West, Suite E

Orange, CA 92868

AMC Fashion Valley 18
7037 Friars Road

San Diego, CA 92108

SAN FRANCISCO / BAY AREA
AMC Metreon 16
135 Fourth St, Suite 3000

San Francisco, CA 94103

DALLAS
AMC Stonebriar 24
2601 Preston Road Ste 300
Frisco, TX 75034

CHICAGO
AMC River East 21
322 East Illinois Street
Chicago, IL 60611

BOSTON
AMC Loews Methuen 20
90 Pleasant Valley Street
Methuen, MA 01844

HOUSTON
AMC Studio 30
2949 Dunvale
Houston, TX 77063

WASHINGTON, D.C.
AMC Hoffman Center 22
206 Swamp Fox Road
Alexandria, VA 22314

SEATTLE
AMC Loews Alderwood Mall 16
18733-33rd Ave. West


Lynwood, WA 98037

HAWAII
Pearlridge West 16
98-1005 Moanalua Rd
Aiea, HI 96701

Jul 26, 2013
LOS ANGELES / SAN DIEGO
AMC Puente Hills 20
1560 South Azusa Ave.
Rowland Heights, CA 91748

Canada
Jul 19, 2013
TORONTO
Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas Cinemas
10 Dundas Street East, Suite 402
Toronto, ON M5B 2G9

VANCOUVER
SilverCity Riverport Cinemas
14211 Entertainment Way
Richmond, BC V6W 1K4

[GeneChing]

A Chinese Kung Fu take on Bollywood. You'd think I'd like it. But no. Jay Chou is sometimes dubbed the Asian Justin Bieber. That's actually an insult to Beiber. ouch, right?

The film is like 2 hours and I had to watch it over several sittings because I kept getting interrupted by stuff. I don't know why I bothered to finish it - some vain hope that it would get better. There were some interesting scenes, but those could have been cut down to a 5-10 min trailer. The fights sucked - Chou has no impact when he hits. He hits like a girl, not a girl like Gina or Ronda, but a girl like Judy Garland. Jay's buddies wear a lot of tie-dye (one even refers to it as 'woodstock' fashion) which is an odd depiction of Asian hippies. The love interest, Li Xin'ai has a whiny nasally voice which might be cute in a Sanrio ad, but was unbearable here. Chou wrote, directed, composed, starred...hopefully this won't give the Biebs any ideas.

Only Bollywood can do Bollywood. Indian music has more rhythm than Chinese pop music. The Chinese colors were way too gaudy. China considered The Rooftop innovative, but anyone who has seen a real Bollywood flick can tell this is a major fail.

Even a swordfight, one that ended in Jay Chou getting stabbed multiple times in the face, could not have saved this.