Help Kickstart this Waiguoren Love Story Beijing Being, It's A "No" From Tee Feat. Tamara Montgomery, Jackie Chan's Dragon Blade

Kipp Whittaker | Jun 20, 2014 4:00 pm | Add a comment | 3050 reads

Check out this Kickstarter campaign for Em Jaay's Beijing Being. You may have seen her kicking around Gulou in the past year, shooting at various locations like Mas, Houhai, Modernista, and Jessica Rapp’s house. Well, this is the result.

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Beijing Being is essentially a love story, or as she puts it a "a different take on life as a foreigner in Beijing ... Sophie struggles to complete her cabaret alone as a visa crackdown intensifies." Wow, only in Beijing I guess.

As you can see it's a pretty slick project that Em Jaay and her production team have put together. However it needs your help, so she set up a Kickstarter to raise funds in order to shine it up for the festival circuit. Her goal is AUD 12,000, and she needs this by July 20. Em Jaay will use the money for audio mastering, music rights, graphics, subtitles, and festival submission fees. Money doesn't grow on trees, but it can be sent with the click of a button. 

Let's put our karmic rewards in motion and show this lady our support by donating whatever we can to help produce this feature film. 

Comedy Club China Showcase: It's A "No" From Tee

Beijing's favorite Canadian Tamara Montgomery will soon be ending her stint here in Beijing. Before she is sent out to pasture (Oops, I meant "off to greener pastures"), Tamara has one last night to be unexpectedly impolite in her final headlining show It's a "No" from Tee on Saturday, June 21 at 8pm. Come to The Hutong in Beixinqiao to see host Riley Hageman present an outrageously funny lineup including Josh Malina, Paul Creasy and David Fertitta. Tickets are RMB 100 on the door and RMB 80 for Hutong members. Make the comedy even funnier by enjoying the free-flow Tiger Beer while it lasts.

Jackie Chan is joining forces with Hollywood heavyweights John Cusack and Adrien Brody for the most expensive film ever to be made in China, costing over USD 65 million.

The film, titled Dragon Blade, is being directed by Daniel Lee (Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon), and is semi-historically based on ancient Roman artifacts and architectural ruins found in the Gansu region, dating back to the Han Dynasty.

Cusack will play Lucius, a Roman general on the run with his legion of soldiers from the vicious power hungry Tiberius, played by Adrien Brody. Jackie Chan will play the military leader, Hua An, who will team up with Cusack to battle Tiberious’ 100,000 men, and defend the ancient capital against the foreign invaders.

Though the plot seems to be following the standard format of historical epic, with lots of hair raising action and legions of soldiers with CGI chiseled abs. We can probably expect it to end up being the 300 of China. “Tonight we dine, in Chang'an!”

I don’t want to salt the fields, because I love John Cusack, but who would have thought 20 years ago that this guy would be leading a Roman army into China to fight back to back with Jackie Chan?

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