KUNG FU TAI CHI 25TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL - May 19-21, 2017 - San Jose, CA

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Chinese news coverage

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The United States Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of a grand celebration, scheduled for May 19, 2017 at 7:00 pm in San Jose’s historic California theater (California Theater, 345 S. First St., San Jose “Grand launch” martial arts teacher performance - Grandmasters’ LIVE! ". Performing masters are from around the world on behalf of the Chinese martial arts factions of the top masters, from 1992 to 2017 during the 25 years of the world’s most influential representatives of the martial arts, and therefore invited to the United States Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine Cover: They are the founder of different boxing or martial art, the head of the Chinese martial arts sector, the highest segment of the nine masters, Kung Fu movie stars or their high school, world martial arts and tai chi champion. To participate in the performance of the boxing boxing Shaolin, Wudang, Tai Chi, Emei, Wing Chun, eagle claw, Cai Lifo, Qingcheng, 99 magic, Hualin Temple, Zhou, Xiajia, Ma, Yang martial arts, The There are wonderful group performances rare: including by the North California Bay District 16 Shaolin school principals and coaches featuring performances “Shaolin Temple mountain” (according to Shaolin Temple rules, but also down the mountain must win over 18 copper people that call Mountain gate), the international Wushu Sutra Union Canada delegation, previous WildAid Tiger Pants elite champion. This will be a collection of Chinese martial arts factions of the highest level of performance, a pure Chinese traditional culture feast, you can witness the master style and celebrity style of the golden opportunity! Show tickets for $ 40 dollars. VIP tickets $ 100 (including VIP seats and one hour before the show with the master photo and signature opportunities). Tickets are limited, please order early, missed opportunities.

** program is wonderful, rare to see the martial arts tai chi master master who really kung fu performances! Attached to the program table, rich in content, California theater advanced stage equipment, sound and sound sound high quality, spacious and comfortable seat, top enjoyment.

Latest News: Superstar Wu Yanzu will attend the “Grandmasters’ LIVE!” On Friday night, will interact with the audience. Wu Sheng in California Berkeley, from the small martial arts, for the Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine February 2016 cover characters. 1994 When he was studying at the University of Oregon, he set up the martial arts club and served as a coach.

Media Contact: Gigi Oh, Publisher of Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine & www.Kungfumagazine.com (Tel # 408-209-8150, gigitcmedia@hotmail.com)

On-line: http://www.kungfumagazine.com/info/tournament/KFTC25Live.html;

** More than 10 discounts, $ 35 one: Call Gigi at 510-656-5100 x 141, Jeff Lin @ 408-668-8868

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WWD is this Saturday!

This changes everything (at least for Saturday at KFTC25 AF)

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My final article on Season 2

Daniel Wu will be a special guest for Grandmasters LIVE! This Friday May at the California Theater in San Jose, CA.

Read INTO THE BADLANDS: Daniel Wu on the Sunny Side of Life by Gene Ching.

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TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE HERE.

This is my final installment of my INTO THE BADLANDS coverage - the Season 2 Finale immediately follows KFTC25 AF and the MAY+JUNE issue comes off newsstands soon after.

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Competition Schedule

The Competition Schedule for the 2017 Tiger Claw Elite KungFuMagazine.com Championships is now available. Registration is closed.

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China, Cannes and KFTC25 AF

Juggling Cannes news and KFTC25 AF is making for an amusing hump day morning. :stuck_out_tongue:

Chinese Companies Return to Cannes – But Will They Bring Their Checkbooks?
CannesWrap magazine: A flat Chinese box office and investment restrictions could loom over Cannes, but the sale of rights to individual movies may not be affected much
Matt Pressberg | May 16, 2017 @ 3:56 PM

This story first appeared in the Cannes issue of TheWrap Magazine.

Tinseltown has a long tradition of extracting healthy sums of money from flashy foreign financiers who can’t stay away from the world’s most glamorous industry. Most recently, much of that cash has come from China. But after a two-year run in which seemingly every major and minor studio inked a coproduction deal with Chinese financial partners and Chinese companies agreed to a series of increasingly eye-popping acquisitions, including Dalian Wanda Group’s $3.5 billion purchase of Legendary Entertainment in 2016, the firehose of Middle Kingdom funding abruptly dried up.

The Chinese government’s State Council instituted strict capital controls limiting Chinese investment in overseas companies; along with other tightened regulations, the restrictions killed off several major cross-border deals, including Dalian Wanda Group’s planned $1 billion acquisition of Dick Clark Productions.

Furthermore, a combination of a disappointing slate of Chinese films and the reduction of generous online-ticketing subsidies left the country’s box office essentially flat last year after surging nearly 50 percent in 2015. All of that could loom over Cannes, where plenty of heavy hitters on the harbor’s mega-yachts are likely to be talking about what’s happening in waters much further east.

However, even though Chinese acquisitions have ground to a halt, sales of rights to individual movies shouldn’t be affected much, Schuyler Moore, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan who has worked on numerous deals involving Chinese film companies, told TheWrap. “They’re still able to do presales of content,” Moore said. “I don’t expect it to be a change as far as purchase of content for Chinese distributors.”

But those distributors might have a tougher time getting deals done — or, at least, done with terms as favorable as they’ve obtained in recent years — according to John Burke, a partner at Akin Gump who leads the firm’s entertainment group. “I can imagine that the restrictions might disadvantage Chinese distributors looking to buy Chinese rights,” Burke told TheWrap. “If you’re a seller, you’re going to be concerned with their ability to access U.S. dollars to make payments.”

Burke said that individual film deals aren’t subject to the same restrictions, because they are investments in projects rather than companies. But the fact that cross-border China-Hollywood deals haven’t been consummated in months could force Chinese buyers into less favorable terms as they try to acquire movies from sellers that may not be convinced about their ability to deliver on the deal. “To protect against uncertainty, sellers may require [Chinese buyers] to pay up front or back it up with a letter of credit payable when the picture gets delivered,” Burke said.

Kylin Pictures, a China-based firm that was a co-financier on Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge,” is going to Cannes as a seller this year. The production company is looking to sell international rights to action-adventure fantasy “The King’s Daughter” through its international distribution partner Good Universe, Kylin CEO Leo Shi Young told TheWrap.

While Young will be on the other side of the table, he said he expects there will still be plenty of Chinese buyers heading to Cannes looking for good films to buy to help feed the country’s constantly expanding appetite for movies, as it continues to build movie theaters by the dozen.

And just as Amazon and Netflix have changed the landscape at Sundance, China’s burgeoning streaming services, including Baidu’s iQiyi and Alibaba’s Youku Tudou, could also step up their dealmaking. They have the added advantage of less regulatory scrutiny than theatrical releases, which must be cleared by the country’s strict censors, who often require substantial edits. “Online they also have a lot of markets, so they can sell to those,” Young said. “For those channels, the regulations or censorship will probably be easier and looser.”

China’s regulators protect local fare through a quota system and blackout period, but Chinese films still haven’t really registered beyond the country’s borders, even though some of them have reeled in hundreds of millions of dollars at home. But for the second year in a row, no Chinese films were announced as part of the festival’s official selection. However, there is a second annual China Co-Production Day, Bridging the Dragon, which will take place May 19 as part of the Cannes film market, the Marché du Film, which runs concurrent with the film festival.

And the country’s moviegoing audience isn’t satisfied with a homegrown diet alone, Young said, which is why distributors come to Cannes looking to buy. “The Chinese film market is expanding a lot — they need content,” he said. “They need good films.” At the beginning of last year, it seemed like only a matter of time until deep-pocketed Chinese buyers dominated the film industry. But it wouldn’t be Hollywood without a twist. How will it play out at Cannes? Stay tuned. “Last year, as crowded as it was, it seemed like the Chinese were overrunning Cannes,” Burke said. “It will be interesting to see if that changes when we get there this year.”

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The Bamboo Ceiling

Daniel Wu Breaks The Bamboo Ceiling
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Pictures by Sarah Dunn; words by Farhan Shah; grooming by Garen Tolkin for exclusive artists using V76 by Vaughn & Bare Escentuals, assisted by Nick Tooman, Jonathan Folds, Jimmy Fikes & Justin Schaefers.

It’s five minutes to eight in the morning and I’m sitting in the conference room at the office, waiting for the phone to ring. Just the night before, I had binged on dozens of YouTube clips until my eyebags had their own eyebags. But it was all for work, of course. I was getting up to speed on Daniel Wu’s latest project, a martial arts television series called Into the Badlands. It’s visceral, bloody and very much in your face, so I don’t imagine it’s going to be aired in (currently on AXN) without first getting its guts and heart ripped out by our country’s rather zealous censorship board, but it makes for interesting viewing.

The phone rings exactly at 8am. Surprising punctuality from a star, I muse while picking it up. Daniel Wu is on the other end of the line. He’s back home in Oakland, residence of the Golden State Warriors basketball team of which Wu is a massive fan. We exchange pleasantries. He seems fresh, even happy to be talking to me. I look at my list of questions and scratch out the one about Steph Curry and gang failing spectacularly at the 2016 NBA Finals. I couldn’t bear to do it to Wu.

“Why are you back home?” I ask instead.

“Oh, just in the middle of doing all the press interviews for Into the Badlands. I’m heading off in about a week to finish the filming of Tomb Raider. We have about a month more of filming to go for that.”

Wu is experiencing an acting Renaissance of sorts in Hollywood. Besides Tomb Raider, which is expected to be out in 2018, Wu also has a small but critical role in Geostorm, playing a scientist who discovers the reason why the satellites are destroying Earth. “That film is interesting because I’m playing a character that is totally different from anything that most people know me for."

“I am a nerdy guy, not the one kicking ass,” Wu laughs.


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THE MOST HARDWORKING MAN IN HOLLYWOOD

“Kicking ass” is what Wu has been doing for close to two decades. He’s starred in over 60 films, two television series and multiple commercials. That’s a lot of work. But he admits that, as he grows older, the way he selects projects has changed as well.

“In the past I used to be more ambitious about wanting to choose award-winning roles. But I slowly realised that as an actor, you’re very passive to the whole process. You cannot control what happens in the end. A lot of times, you put a lot of hopes and dreams into one project and it doesn’t turn out the way you think it would. It’s disheartening,” the 43-year-old shares.

Now, the American-Chinese actor chooses to fit the filming schedule around his family’s needs. The project must be extremely compelling for him to want to do it. For Tomb Raider, it was because he wanted to work alongside Alicia Vikander. “I fell in love with her in Ex Machina. I thought she was great and I was telling myself that I really want to work with this girl.”

Into the Badlands was another kind of opportunity. Wu saw a chance to fill a void on the small screen. He wanted to translate the big-budget fighting sequences you typically saw in cinemas into the medium of television. There are two reasons why no one has done it. One was the money. Secondly, the tight filming schedule typical of a television series meant that fight choreography had to be short and snappy.

Wu’s solution was simple and solved both problemsbring in his own team from Hong Kong, who is used to working on a smaller budget and on a short timeline.

The show’s first season was a great hit. Viewers loved the action. What Wu didn’t anticipate were the huge cultural waves the show made. There was the fact that an Asian male, Wu himself, was the lead. More importantly, Wu had a legitimate romantic interest. And even made out with her.


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THE RISE OF THE ASIAN MALE

It is startlingly rare for an Asian character to be seen romancing another character in the American entertainment universe. The New York Times op-ed, funnyman Aziz Ansari could only come up with two instances that an Asian man kissed someone in television and filmSteven Yuen in The Walking Dead and Daniel Dae Kim in Lost.

“For many years, the Asian male has been emasculated in American culture. Roles like mine help to change that. When the show came out, we had support from all over Americablack Americans, Asian Americans, even Hispanic Americans. I was proud of it, especially since the last time you saw an Asian man and a black woman on television together was in Romeo Must Die with Jet Li and the late Aaliyah. But they only hugged in the end, and that was it,” says Wu, laughing.

“Daniel Dae Kim once told me the true test of whether Asians have made it in Hollywood is when an Asian is the lead actor in a successful rom-com,” I put forward. The reasoning behind this is simple. If the film is financially successful, it means that the audience is comfortable and willing to pay to watch an Asian protagonist win the heart of his female co-star.

“Absolutely,” Wu agrees. I can practically see him nodding his head somewhere in Oakland. “It’s a role most people don’t think of for an Asian male simply because it’s not in the American psyche. As the audience, we must create that demand because honestly, Hollywood just goes where the money is. And right now, the Asian American audience is very vocal.”

He pauses.

“Truthfully, they might be a bit too vocal, a little over the top,” he says, half-jokingly. “I think cultural appropriation is a bullsh*t thing to call out because it’s like saying that only Asians can do martial arts or only black people can play basketball and rap.”

Wu proposes that diversity in entertainment is inevitable as the world becomes more globalised, and it makes sense. The older head honchos are handing over the reins to a younger generation who grew up in more diverse environments. These are people who have travelled, interacted with different people and realised that the world isn’t just shades of white.

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ACTOR, ARCHITECT, ASIAN DAD

Wu and I have been chatting for close to 30 minutes now, talking at length about Hollywood and its foibles, his preference for the Hong Kong film industry and the reasons behind it, his disdain for generic superhero films, and even his love for design.

For the record, Wu studied architecture for five yearshe graduated in the top 10% of his classbefore becoming a thespian. He still loves the world of design and was devastated when Zaha Hadid passed away. But he remains private about his creative side for one reason: Kanye West.

“I could be a multi-hyphenate but I don’t want to because people have associated that with Kanye West. He’s ruined it for everybody,” Wu says, laughing boisterously. “Sure, he does some cool things design-wise but he’s not a genius. He’s no Marc Newson.” A beat.

“Or even Marc Jacobs.” Chuckles.

But what I really want to know about is how he is like with his family behind closed doors. We generally put celebrities like Wu on pedestals and hold them to a higher standard, as though they are impervious to any of life’s curveballs.

Wu, I find, is not much unlike you and I. He has his insecurities. He peppers his speech with curse words. He is trying hard to cut sugar out of his diet but loves iced lemon tea too much. He hates plain water. He works out four days a week. And he wants to be the best possible father he can be to his four-year-old daughter, Raven.

“I’m beginning to be like my own father. The stuff I hated hearing from my dad, I’m now saying to Raven,” Wu says. “There are many aspects of my upbringing that made me who I am today so I am trying to transfer that to my daughter. You should be physically and mentally present. I don’t want to be that dad at the playground looking at crap on his phone while his daughter is playing. I see those fathers all the time.”

Wu tells me about an episode in Malaysia. He was at the mall with Raven and his wife Lisa S when he saw a family of fourmother, father and two kidsat a restaurant. The dishes were on the table. But only the father was eating. The remaining three were on their phones, “God knows doing what”. There was no conversation, only the swish of thumbs on digital keypads and the occasional clanking of the father’s fork against his plate.

He nudged Lisa and pointed at the family. “I told her, ‘We will never end up like that family.’ We make a conscious effort to engage and be with each other.”

That includes limiting the amount of screen time Raven is exposed to. Wu only occasionally takes the iPad out of cold storage for Raven on long-haul flights or as a reward. “I think the iPad is an easy way out. The problem is that parenting now seems to be about shoving something in front of a child’s face to entertain them or keep them busy. Kids should be playing outside to foster their creative minds instead of staying indoors and staring at a screen all the time.”

THE FIRST CHINESE AMERICAN PRESIDENT

And then we veer off on another tangent, this time about Wu’s mother. I suppose that’s how a creative mind works, in zigs and zags, with no purpose in sight, merely the pleasure the journey afforded.

Apparently, the late Madam Wu was slightly sad that Raven was born in Hong Kong instead of the US. “She thought that meant Raven couldn’t be the president of the United States until she found out that that you’re still an American citizen even if you were born overseas as long as you have an American parent.”

It was a long-running joke that started with Wu, the first member of the clan to be born on American soil. His mum used to tell him that he could be the first Chinese president of the United States and for the first decade of his life, he thought he could.

Now, he would never wish the crown upon his daughter’s head. “Look at Barack Obama. Do you remember how he looked like before he became the most powerful man on Earth? His whole head is grey now. Nobody in that position ever has a good time,” Wu laughs.

It’s hard to imagine but Obama is only a decade older than Wu. Perhaps it’s the Asian genes or perhaps it’s his disdain for taking on the presidential role, but Wu looks no different than when he first started out in 1998 in the film Bishonen after being casted on the strength of a clothing advertisement.

Sure, the eyes have gained the thousand-yard stare one acquires from experience and the hairline might have crept up a little higher but those dreamy eyes and strong jawline from his youth are still there.

And the hair remains as black as ever.

Get a copy of August Man Malaysia, May 2017 for the complete spread.

Great article from Augustman on Into The Badlands star Daniel Wu. He’ll be our special guest at Grandmasters LIVE!, our cover masters demo for KFTC25 AF.

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We just had our press conference

L-R: Leon Zhang, Chen Bing, Tu Jin-Sheng, Gigi Oh, Xiao Jiaze, Gene Ching

See our Kung Fu Tai Chi 25th Anniversary Festival facebook album.

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Tomorrow night!

Grandmasters Live: Friday May 19, 2017

The Kung Fu Tai Chi 25th Anniversary Festival Grandmasters LIVE! will be a gathering of the world’s best Kung Fu masters and grandmasters. This theatrical performance will be staged in San Jose’s historic California Theater. Seldom is such a powerful congregation of top Kung Fu masters assembled together under one roof.
General tickets are $40, but a limited number of VIP tickets for $100 each.
These VIP passes grant access to VIP Section for Kung Fu Tai Chi 25th Anniversary Festival Grandmasters LIVE! plus a private VIP reception prior to the performance.
To purchase tickets call Jeff Lin (408) 219-0921 or Gigi Oh (408) 209-8150

Click here to purchase tickets

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Forever grateful

Thank you to everyone who supported the Kung Fu Tai Chi 25th Anniversary Festival, May 19-21, 2017, San Jose, CA. It was an overwhelming success. A full report plus a FREE EXCLUSIVE DVD for subscribers will be in our SEPTEMBER+OCTOBER 2017 issue.

Watch our official website, official facebook page and YouTube Channel for more coverage.

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First facebook album

Grandmasters LIVE! KFTC 25 Anniversary Festival photos - Kevin Ho

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Dated but let’s include it anyway

Meant to post this earlier when it came out, but didn’t have time to find it.

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The United States Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine 25th anniversary, 19 to 21 held in San Jose a series of celebrations. Left for Xiao Jiaye, Regards, Tu Jin Sheng and Chen Bing. (Reporter Lin Yaxin / photography)

In Taiwan, founded nine nine magic power King Jinsheng on-site demonstration Shock chain qigong moves. (Reporter Lin Yaxin / photography)

The 25th anniversary of the creation of the American Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine, held a series of celebrations in San Jose from 19 to 21, including the Martial Arts Taiji Famous Performing Party, the Tiger International Championships, the awards dinner and the Kung Fu Taiji Day. And from China and Southern California to the “Three Kingdoms” Xiaojia Ze, Chen Taiji on behalf of the characters Chen Bing and nine founding father Tu Jin Sheng and many other martial arts representatives, the scene demonstration.

Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine founder Jane Qi said that the activities not only gathered in North America, a number of martial arts elite groups, but also invited 30 martial arts Taiji cover the master alone show, she pointed out: "In addition to the master demo, will join the explanation, let the public understand Tai Chi, gossip, Shaolin and other different martial arts factions, but also hope that the essence of martial arts can spread to Western society. "21 Kung Fu Tai Chi Day is also one of the key activities, the day is expected to have more than 500 Tai Chi enthusiasts to participate in the collective Tai Chi performance 24 activity.

Press conference scene, Xiao Jiaze, Chen Bing and Tu Jinsheng also demonstrated the cliff Eagle boxing, Chen Taiji and Qigong boxing. Xiao Jiaze said he was nine years old martial arts, had contact with Emei, Wudang, shape meaning, gossip, tai chi and other martial arts, and the Chinese painting, medicine, martial arts are dabbled, so called “Mr. Three Kingdoms”, he said: Cliffs and eagles are different, smaller but more sensitive and vicious, this set of boxing is intended to show cliffs fierce agility.

In Taiwan, the founder of the nine gold power of the King Jin Sheng to “hanging crotch” known around the world, in California Palm Springs flight museum under the body pull million pounds of aircraft, due to site restrictions, Tu Jin Sheng on-site demonstration of split iron, shattered chain Qigong moves, he said, “the martial arts have different characteristics, so there is a saying is a small training Shaolin, in the practice of meaning, sophisticated Tai Chi, and Qigong is through it, is the way of health.”

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25th Anniversary Videos are Coming

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58 pics yesterday, 47 today

Just posted on facebook: KFTC25 Tiger Claw Elite KungFuMagazine.com Championship

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Next Year

It official you’re on my Calender for 2018

Respect.

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Grandmasters LIVE! KFTC 25 Anniversary Festival

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25th Anniversary Celebration Movies Coming Soon

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KFTC25 Tiger Claw Elite KungFuMagazine.com Championship

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yet another teaser

We shall post complete videos next week. :wink:

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2017 GM Live: Highlights

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