Donnie Yan wrote thousand words of "Heartache" in his blog

"Ip Man II" has very good ticket sale in the box office since its release in cinema, but leading artist Donnie Yan has a lot of negative publicity around his personality clashes with other artists. There have been rumors that he doesn't get along with Sammo Hung and Ip Chun, son of Ip Man. Donnie wrote a thousand words in his "blog" called "Heartache" the other day, expressing his thoughts about his role he played in the movie. He revealed that he was under tremendous pressure trying to be "Ip Man". His wife asked him one day if he has gone mad. He was happy of the success of "Ip Man", but to go with the success comes along all kind of rumors.

Talking about the report that Sammo and Chun don't get along with him, Donnie said they had cleared up the misunderstandings between them. It was all "made up" by the media. He stressed that the success of "Ip Man" does not go to one person. The frontline cast and the back stage crew have all contributed to this movie, making it a success. The producer and the director decide who plays which role in the movie and he is hoping that the movie industry and the martial art group can all work together. That way, there will be less gossips from the media to create rumors.

Source: MingPao
Translator: R.E.D @ http://www.asianvn.com

Donnie Yen: Going Home Is More Important Than Box Office

Donnie Yen's character from "Yip Man" is now available in a wax figure in HK Madame Tssauds wax museum. Yesterday he attended to the opening ceremony. Wife Cecilia Wang came to support with her parents, sister, and cousin. Donnie felt the eyes resembled the best.

Donnie's "Yip Man 2" has a box office of 3,720,000HKD (opening day) and is so far his best selling film in one day. He is very satisfied with the box office. First installment has box office around one million in its opening day, this time is the triple.

He said since it has a good box office, he will definitely invite others to dinner. He also hope it will exceed 40 million and boss Raymond Wong will pay everyone a trip to Japan. He stressed earlier that he won't film a 3rd installment, now the sequel has a good outcome, will he reconsider? He expressed he won't because there's not much new elements he can add to the character. Also too many people portray the same character, like "Wong Fei Hung" before, which turned out pretty bad in the end. He won't be like other people. Foreign film "Iron Man 2" will open today and asked is he confident in beating "IM2?" Donnie said it's hard to say, "YM2" has good word-of-mouth, Mainland viewers said it surpassed the first one. He said: "Decide who will win or go home, which one is more important? Of course I'll pick the latter one."

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: Kay's Entertainment