Post by wanzhen on Jun 5, 2007 17:00:29 GMT 8
Wu Zun, Angela Chang Battles for Money, "Princess" with $6 Million Deficit
GTV's latest production, "Romantic Princess" lost close to $6 million of productions costs because WU ZUN (of Fahrenheit) and ZHANG SHAO HAN (Angela Chang) were busy with overseas promotions. Filming for the drama was on hold for a month.
Compares to Who's Busier
According to recent reports, "RP" began filming this early May. The production is also GTV's most highly anticipated annual drama, and uses the extremely popular Fahrenheit member Wu Zun and Golden Bell nominated best actress Angela Chang to lead the drama. However, after scenes of Angela with CHEN YI RU (Calvin Chen of Fahrenheit) playing in the streets and of her in a dog costume, filming was put on hold for nearly a month. The reason behind it is because the crew needs to allow time for Wu Zun and Angela to do overseas promotions.
Angela first flew to Singapore to promote her new album and then flew to Mainland China. It has been nearly a month where she is not in Taiwan; Wu Zun went to Malaysia last month for the promotion of "Hanazakarino Kimitachihe". He then flew to his hometown, Brunei, and stayed their for a week. Accordingly both Angela and Wu Zun will be back in Taiwan to film today.
Big Vacation for the Crew, $200,000 a Day
A crew faculty of the production revealed secretly that the average cost of a drama per filming day is around $150,000 to $200,000. The costs includes the directing, camera & lights, stage props, renting of outdoor scenes, etc. as well as salary for the crew. Because Wu Zun and Angela stopped filming for a month, "RP" lost close to $6,000,000. Yesterday, the producer of the drama, Ken, explained that it is hard to estimate the exact cost of the production and how much they had lost while the two leads were away, but he insisted that before filming began, Angela's schedule were discussed and they had agreed on it.
Angela's agent said that the schedule for "RP" was already confirmed before Angela received the script. Right now they have already postponed all of Angela's future projects in order to rush through the rest of the production; Wu Zun's agent replied that the crew of "RP" already agreed to allow Wu Zun to go to Malaysia to promote "HK". And when the promotion of "HK" completed, Wu Zun immediately flew back to Taiwan to continue filming, but because Angela is still busy to return to filming, Wu Zun was released to fly back to Brunei where he rested for a week. Production for "RP" should be completed by August.
GTV's latest production, "Romantic Princess" lost close to $6 million of productions costs because WU ZUN (of Fahrenheit) and ZHANG SHAO HAN (Angela Chang) were busy with overseas promotions. Filming for the drama was on hold for a month.
Compares to Who's Busier
According to recent reports, "RP" began filming this early May. The production is also GTV's most highly anticipated annual drama, and uses the extremely popular Fahrenheit member Wu Zun and Golden Bell nominated best actress Angela Chang to lead the drama. However, after scenes of Angela with CHEN YI RU (Calvin Chen of Fahrenheit) playing in the streets and of her in a dog costume, filming was put on hold for nearly a month. The reason behind it is because the crew needs to allow time for Wu Zun and Angela to do overseas promotions.
Angela first flew to Singapore to promote her new album and then flew to Mainland China. It has been nearly a month where she is not in Taiwan; Wu Zun went to Malaysia last month for the promotion of "Hanazakarino Kimitachihe". He then flew to his hometown, Brunei, and stayed their for a week. Accordingly both Angela and Wu Zun will be back in Taiwan to film today.
Big Vacation for the Crew, $200,000 a Day
A crew faculty of the production revealed secretly that the average cost of a drama per filming day is around $150,000 to $200,000. The costs includes the directing, camera & lights, stage props, renting of outdoor scenes, etc. as well as salary for the crew. Because Wu Zun and Angela stopped filming for a month, "RP" lost close to $6,000,000. Yesterday, the producer of the drama, Ken, explained that it is hard to estimate the exact cost of the production and how much they had lost while the two leads were away, but he insisted that before filming began, Angela's schedule were discussed and they had agreed on it.
Angela's agent said that the schedule for "RP" was already confirmed before Angela received the script. Right now they have already postponed all of Angela's future projects in order to rush through the rest of the production; Wu Zun's agent replied that the crew of "RP" already agreed to allow Wu Zun to go to Malaysia to promote "HK". And when the promotion of "HK" completed, Wu Zun immediately flew back to Taiwan to continue filming, but because Angela is still busy to return to filming, Wu Zun was released to fly back to Brunei where he rested for a week. Production for "RP" should be completed by August.
