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Who comes to mind when we mention the Most Influential Personality?
President Obama? Bill Gates? Steve Jobs? Yao Ming?
How about entertainers Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai?
A recent poll by Taiwanese publication TVBS Weekly placed Jay and Jolin at the 7th and 12th spots respectively.
Over 1,734 members of the public were polled and the top two spots for Most Influential Personalities went to President Ma Ying-jeou and tycoon Terry Gou Tai-ming.
Jay and Jolin are the highest ranked celebrities in the poll
The rumoured couple ranked higher among the younger set – pollsters aged 15 to 29 years old – putting the two at 4th and 7th.
Popular hosts Dee Hsu (popularly known as Xiao S) and Matilda Tao were ranked at 13th and 19th by the 19 to 25-year-olds but they dropped out of the top 20 in terms of the general public.
source : http://entertainment.xin.msn.com/

Recently Jay Chou has been busy with his world tour, but in recent days a Taiwanese cinematographer Kiven revealed on his blog the plans of Jay Chou’s new movie “Secret 2″, the female lead has been exposed early. According to cinematographer Kiven: “After Jay Chou is finished with his concert next year, he’ll film the sequel to Secret. At present the script is already being planned, this time it’s going to be a bit more sci-fi, and also bits of it will be in 3D.”
When Jay Chou was filming “Secret” he already had ideas for “Secret 2″, it was just because he was busy with other things afterwards that nothing came of it. The script for the new movie has already been in the works since the start of last year, it’s been confirmed now that they will start filming in September next year. Earlier Jay Chou revealed to the media, besides the background crew for the movie not changing, the majority of the male cast will also be the same, but for the female cast he wants to “change things”. He’s worried that the audience have too deep of an impression of Guai Lun Mei and Alice Tzeng, so with a newcomer it will give the movie a different feeling. And about other details of the movie, Jay Chou has been unwilling to reveal any information.
Upcoming Hollywood action flick ‘The Green Hornet’ starring Seth Rogan, Cameron Diaz & Jay Chou released its official trailer today. In the film, Jay plays Kato, a smart tech genius who develops bizarre high-tech weapons. The film is slated to release in the U.S in January next year, and will be released in Hong Kong in early February.
The trailer is two and a half minutes long and shows many exciting scenes. Jay appears many times, evidently displaying the importance of his character. From the trailer, we can see Jay’s usual ‘cool’ style in Kato. Something also worth mentioning is his English pronunciations; it seems like a lot of hard work went into practicing English for this film.
After an absence of 3 years, heavenly king Jay Chou is once again making a move, Jay Chou’s 2010 new tour concert is revealed, the first stop is in Shanghai on the 25th of June at the Shanghai Stadium! We’ll be there tasting the original “Jay music style” and feeling the most incomparable, the one that sweeps everything else aside and is multi-talented, Jay Chou.
The concert is getting upgraded, the excitement level is higher than in the past, a brand new music theme, brand new outrageous looks, brand new stage, brand new Jay Chou, the most genuine and perfect Jay style will be offered. The 10 years of change in Jay Chou’s music, a review, an outlook, all there to be seen, besides the musical classics of Jay Chou’s 10 years, at the concert Jay Chou will continue to play his Jay style tricks. He’ll give the fans a never before visual and audio feast.
BEIJING, May 29 — Jay Chou, Taiwan’s pop king, will sing the theme song for Jet Li’s new movie “Ocean Heaven.” It will be their second collaboration since Chou sang for Li’s 2006 movie “Fearless.” Guey Lunmei, Taiwan’s star and leading actress in the movie will also sing for the movie.
Dubbed as Jet Li’s first non-action work in his career, the movie tells a touching story between a father and his only son. When the father finds out that he is terminally ill, he decides to teach his only son, who is autistic, to live on his own.
Jay Chou’s new album was released across Asia today, and Hong Kong sales have already surpassed 70,000 copies, smashing his previous album sales record. In the MV for his second title track ‘The Era’, Jay turns into a handsome vampire and it also features a special custom-made piano that cost $620,000rmb, again smashing his personal record for the most amount of money spent on an MV. And for his third title track ‘Raining All Night’, Jay continues to travel through time, and transforms into a traditional Chinese man, playing er hu. The most special thing about this MV is that it actually led to a very happy event. During filming, one of the male actors suddenly proposed to his girlfriend, who was also one of the female actors, making her very surprised but happy. And this whole process was also recorded.
Jay Chou directed and starred in the MV for his new song “It Rains All Night”, but he’s only playing the role of the story teller. He’s given the male lead role to Darren from The Drifters, to star in a love story in this life and the past life. However, he didn’t let his buddy taste the “sweetness”, the intimate scene with the female lead was completed by using angles.
According to Hong Kong media reports, the movie version of “The Green Hornet” which Stephen Chow resigned from starring and directing is going to start filming soon, rumoured to be playing the receptionist of The Green Hornet, played by Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz a few days ago confirmed the news, she also expressed her excitement about working with director Michel Gondry. Cameron Diaz revealed she has met with Jay Chou and they get along well.