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FIRST TIME held a sweet girl love letter reading yesterday on Valentine's Day in Beijing.  Angelababy even daringly declared her "love" to male lead Mark Chao (Chiu Yau Ting) and made special chocolate love letter to him.

Angelababy talked about her first love, who was attracted to her due to her two ponytails.  "I asked my first boyfriend why he would notice me.  He said that in the courtyard he saw a girl with two ponytails and that's how he noticed me."  Everyone was very interested in what Angelababy's first boyfriend looked like, she joked that actually he did not look too much like Chiu Yau Ting.

Angelababy created chocolate love letters yesterday for Valentine's Day, but Chiu Yau Ting due to work did not attend.  Baby complained.  "Although he ditched us, I still lovingly prepared a gift for him."  When asked whether she received a lot of love letters, baby humbly said, "A few a few, actually our era text messages are more popularity, so more text than love letters."  Speaking of love letters, baby recalled that she mistook a love letter as a test answer.  "Once when the test was about to end, a guy threw a piece of tissue at me when I was handing in the test.  I thought it was the answers for me to cheat with, but actually it was filled with my name."

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The Vicki Zhao Wei, Shu Qi, Ethan Juan (Yuen King Tin), Mark Chao (Chiu Yau Ting), Eddie Peng Yu-Yen and Doze Niu Chen-Zer starred romance LOVE will not officially open in Hong Kong until the 23rd, but in Taiwan it opened on the 10th.  Its box office in two and a half days reached NT$37 million and created the highest box office record in Taiwan this year.

With the hot Taiwan opening LOVE yesterday opened in the Mainland at 14:00.  The time selection was due to its Putonghua euphony that meant "for a lifetime".  Hong Kong film distributors decided to hold advanced
screenings on Valentine's Day, the 18th and the 19th.

The cast earlier attended the Beijing premiere.  Zhao Wei and Shu Qi even kissed each other amidst the cheer of the media and the audience to create the most classic scene since SO CLOSE (JIK YEUNG TIN SI).  Viewers who have seen the film overwhelmingly voted for Shu Qi and Chiu Yau Ting's characters as the "most envious" and the "most fortunate" characters.  Shu Qi received the most female viewer envy because in the film she was under the take of tycoon Niu Chen-Zer and had time to have an affair with Chiu Yau Ting, finally she was even able to find true love like Yuen King Tin!  Chiu Yau Ting was the most fortunate because he had kiss scenes with Shu Qi and Zhao Wei; Chiu Yau Ting gleefully said, "When I kissed I felt the air around me freeze and time also stopped!"

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Shu Qi, Mark Chao (Chiu Yau Ting) and director Doze Niu Chen-Zer last night attended their new film LOVE's Hong Kong premiere.  The film's other actor Ethan Juan (Yuen King Tin) was absent due to military service.

Shu Qi and Wang Leehom (Wong Lik Won) have been linked in rumors for years.  At the end of last year they were caught visiting Indonesia.  Last night reporters congratulated Shu Qi.  She immediately changed the subject.  "Are you congratulating me on my Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nomination?  (Congratulation on you dating!)  When?  The news was written a week ago, I don't need to promote like this.  It has been rumored for ten years!"  Who would she spend Valentine's Day with?  She said that she would see Niu Chen-Zer and Chiu Yau Ting because today she will head to the Mainland to promote the new film in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other locations.  Was she not going to rest for half a year?  She said that she would not make a movie for half a year, she would still promote.  Who would she spend Valentine's Day with?  She said, "Check out my micro blog and you would know!  I have a date with the LOVE team.  (Do you long for love?)  OK, I am always working on romantic films with actors so I don't feel like I am not dating.  Like this movie, I have to kiss Chiu Yau Ting, Niu Chen-Zer takes care of me and have an innocent romance with Siu Tin.  I feel I have all the fun in life, I am pretty satisfied."

As for Shu Qi praising Niu Chen-Zer as handsome, she said that everyone had different flavor.  However Siu Tin was the most attractive to her because they played a couple that reminded her of simpler love during her school days.  Now would she pursue simple love?  She admitted that she truly wanted simple love.  Because she had many memorable and passionate love in movies, she felt very tired and ordinary was beautiful.  Stephen Fung Tak Lun who was also linked to rumor with Shu Qi last night came with good friend Daniel Wu (Ng Yin Cho).  He also chatted with Shu Qi.

Shu Qi was nominated for the Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress with A BEAUTIFUL LIFE.  Facing a strong opponent in Deanie Ip Tak Han, she admitted that she almost knew the result.  She was already very happy about the nomination because A BEAUTIFUL LIFE production was very tough.  Now with the Hong Kong Film Award recognition she had something to answer with.  Who was her biggest competition?  She said, "Everyone is great, I am great too.  I will attend the award ceremony, I won't be absent because I know I would lose.  (Maybe it will be a surprise?)  The surprise wouldn't be me, how tragic you guys are."

As for Best Actor, Shu Qi picked Lau Ching Wan but she did not know whether his two nominations would split his votes.  Among the nominated films she has only seen LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (DUET MING GUM), so she did not dare to comment.

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Angelababy and Mark Chao (Chiu Yau Ting)'s film FIRST TIME wrapped before the Lunar New Year.  They not only had a kiss scene in the film but also her first bed scene.  However Baby stressed that the kiss scene and the bed scene were all innocent.

Baby said, "Earlier I heard (Stephen) Fung Tak Lun said that once he was in a kiss scene with an actress and she actually stuck her tongue in.  Thus I was very curious whether a kiss needed to be tongue on tongue?  Yet this year with Chiu Yau Ting only our lips touched, it wasn't so passionate."  Could Baby accept tongue on tongue?  She said that would depend on the co-star and the script.  As for who she would be willing to perform with, she said that she never thought about it.  However, since she has not performed many kiss scenes, she did not know about proper oral hygiene before the shoot.  When she worked with Chiu Yau Ting she saw him brushing his teeth, then she realized that she overlooked it and felt that Chiu Yau Ting respected his co-star very much.  At first she thought Chiu Yau Ting was very serious, later after awhile together he actually was very easy going.  Once his father visited the set and she thought Father Chao was very handsome.

Did Baby inform her rumored boyfriend Huang Xiaoming in advance about the kiss scene?  She said that since both were in this business, when he had an intimate scene he would not notify her either.  They knew to keep work and life separate and understood each other.  In the Lunar New Year, her manager will try to shake off her pseudo model image.  She joked that she was no longer "young" anyway.  She will mainly focus on making movies in the upcoming year.  Last year she worked all year and only had ten days off, but at the same time it was a harvest year.  She even considered home ownership and purchased her current residence.  Of course she would like to buy a house in the end.

Baby also considered getting her driver's license for the convenience of her film productions, but she failed the written test earlier and had to try again.  Her manager suggested for her to try it in the U.S.

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The Doze Niu Chen-Zer directed new film LOVE will open next Friday.  The film company two days ago first released a book.  The director could not put the book down.  LOVE will participate in this year's Berlin Film Festival Panorama segment, the director's second film to participate other than MONGA.  Niu Chen-Zer expected to go to Berlin with the cast on the 15th.  So far only Mark Chao (Chiu Yau Ting) has been confirmed.  Ethan Juan due to military service could not attend.  Actresses Ivy Chen, Amber Kuo, Vicki Zhao Wei, Shu Qi and others were still in negotiation.  The director hoped for Zhao Wei and Shu Qi to be able to attend the most.

Yuen King Tin earlier finally reported for military service.  The director was very happy for him, but his heart also ached for all the pressure that Siu Tin had to endure during this period.  Siu Tin was accused of "dodging service", the director again clarified for Siu Tin and said that Siu Tin had no way to decide his reporting date.

Siu Tin earlier said that his girlfriend Tiffany Hsu due to work could not see him off, but later reportedly his girlfriend was waiting in the car in advance and they went to Taichung together.  Some even said that Siu Tin's car drove straight into the military camp and he was again under suspicion of special privilege.  Later the military said that everything was applied for according to rules, the arrangement was made only because the military did not want Yuen King Tin to be the target of the media.  In addition, all reporting men must leave their vehicles at the gate, have their temperature take to confirm that they did not have a fever before they walked into the camp.  Siu Tin however did not do so; the military reiterated that Yuen King Tin's car occupants were already confirmed in the camp, the car was permitted to enter to avoid a media circus.

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The Berlin Film Festival yesterday announced that the Doze Niu Chen-Zer directed romantic comedy LOVE has been selected to participate in this year's festival.  On February 16 Niu Chen-Zer will promote the film in Berlin with Mark Chao (Chiu Yau Ting).

Niu Chen-Zer was very surprised and pleased, as LOVE was proven to be without border or time restrictions and even exceeded language and cultural barriers.  He looked forward to going to Berlin again very much, to share his love experience with the world.  LOVE is about eight people in Taipei and Beijing's romantic struggles and reflects love in modern society.  The film cost 75 million RMB with influential actors and crew of both sides of the straits like Vicki Zhao Wei, Shu Qi, Ethan Juan (Yuen King Tin), Mark Chao, Eddie Peng Yu-Yan, Mark Lee Ping-Bin, Tu Du-Chih and others.  The film has already been scheduled for a Valentine's Day release.  With the Berlin Film Festival selection, the film's popularity will explode.

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Doze Niu Chen-Zer's new film after MONGA, LOVE, yesterday held its first Mainland media event in Beijing.  Huayi Brothers chief Wang Zhonglei, director Niu Chen-Zer, leads Vicki Zhao Wei and Mark Chao (Chiu Yau Ting) were interviewed.  Niu Chen-Zer said that the film was a snapshot that examined the complicated relationships in the modern city love.  He also added some of his own life experience into it.  He said, "In recent years I have more and more understanding about 'love'.  I want very much to share this experience with the world so I want to make a movie about love."

Zhao Wei this time played a mother on screen for the first time.  Her relationship with her son in the film was very touching.  She said that the character was very different from her past roles and could be a breakthrough for her acting wise.  In addition she was able to work with the director and a group of Taiwan hunks, which was the reason that she temporarily put down her daughter and took the role.  On his first visit to Beijing, Chiu Yau Ting praised the early Autumn Beijing atmosphere was very romantic; he also praised Zhao Wei for being very charming on and off camera and a popular woman.  He also talked about the fun time he had while working with Ethan Juan (Yuen King Tin) and Eddie Peng Yu-Yan.  He also jokingly hoped to form with them the Taiwan "hunky trio" to bring even more handsome work to the audience.

Also at the event, the director presented "certificate of love" to the two leads.  To coordinate with his character, Chiu Yau Ting also received the "girl pick up" certificate.  Zhao Wei received the "best girlfriend" certificate.  After accepting their certificates, they gave the director a "marriage certificate" and publicly rushed him.  Zhao Wei said, "Because we feel the director looks carefree and wild but inside is someone who wants to get married very much, I hope he will be able to find a companion to spend the rest of his life with and forever extend love in marriage."

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