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Jazz Boon
Jazz Boon is a Hong Kong television producer, director, and writer. His professional TV career started in the early 1990s, when he was hired by TVB as a production assistant. His first drama as director was the 1995 police procedural ''Invincible Vanguard''. He was promoted to producer in 2012. Boon's television dramas have received commercial and critical acclaim. His credits include '' Bounty Lady'', the '' Line Walker'' series, and ''A Fist Within Four Walls ''A Fist Within Four Walls'' () is a 2016 Hong Kong martial arts action television drama produced by Jazz Boon and TVB. It premiered on TVB Jade in Hong Kong, Astro On Demand in Malaysia and TVB First in Singapore on 1 August 2016. The final epi ...''. Filmography Drama series Theatrical releases References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Boon, Jazz Hong Kong film directors Hong Kong screenwriters TVB producers Living people Hong Kong people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resumed afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVB Star Award For Favourite Drama
This is a list of the TVB Star Awards Malaysia winners and nominees for My Favourite TVB Drama Series. It was first introduced in 2005 at the inaugural 2004 Astro Wah Lai Toi Drama Awards The 2004 Astro Wah Lai Toi Drama Awards (), presented by Astro in Malaysia, was an awards ceremony that recognises the best Hong Kong television programmes that had aired on Malaysia's Astro Wah Lai Toi in 2004. The ceremony took place on 8 Janua .... The awards ceremony was renamed TVB Star Awards Malaysia in 2013. Winners and nominees 2000s 2010s References {{reflist TVB Star Award for Favourite Drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line Walker (film)
''Line Walker'' is a 2016 action thriller film adapted from the 2014 TVB series of the same name. Directed by Jazz Boon and starring Nick Cheung, Louis Koo, Francis Ng; Charmaine Sheh, Benz Hui and Au Siu-wai reprised their roles from the original drama. It was released in Hong Kong and Mainland China on 11 August 2016. Plot Inspector Q ( Francis Ng) and agent Ding Siu-ka ( Charmaine Sheh) are top members of CIB Department, they are after a drug racket that is taking over the city. Unexpectedly, they receive a mystery message from a missing undercover agent "Blackjack". CIB tries to locate and process Blackjack before it's too late. The paranoid drug mafia leader Tung Pak-ho (Li Guangjie) plays his own troop on each other's throats, suspecting a mole. Meanwhile, boss Blue ( Nick Cheung) and his right-hand man Shiu Chi-long ( Louis Koo) participate in an internal struggle to become the top dogs irrespective of their strong friendship. After surviving and shooting their wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unholy Alliance (TV Series)
''The Unholy Alliance'' (; literally "Alliance") is an action crime-thriller television drama created by Jazz Boon and TVB. Principal photography began in Hong Kong in September 2016, and continued in Taiwan in December 2016. It premiered on TVB Jade on 7 August 2017, and for MediaCorp's Channel U in July 2019, and ran for 28 episodes. Boon has described ''The Unholy Alliance'' as a '' Mission: Impossible''-style action thriller that features modern martial arts, including MMA, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Krav Maga and gun fu. It stars Nina Paw, Ruco Chan, Nancy Wu, Joel Chan, Elaine Yiu, Kwok Fung, Jimmy Au, KK Cheung, and Elena Kong. ''The Unholy Alliance'' follows a modern Hong Kong crime family, led by the matriarch Ling Hung (Paw). Synopsis Surfer Ko Tsz-kit and his adoptive mother Mei run a B&B in Taiwan. Yuen Ching Yan who appeared as an agile backpacker meets Tsz Kit while biking on the same lane and then when she is supposedly harassed by drug addicts at the beach, where Ts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Wong
Grace Wong Kwan-hing (born 5 May 1986) is a Hong Kong television actress and singer formerly contracted to TVB. She is best known for her role as Fa Man in the martial arts television drama '' A Fist Within Four Walls''. Early life Grace Wong was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of four. She grew up in Brooklyn and Queens in New York City. She attended Babson College and went to Hong Kong for an exchange program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Career In 2007, Grace Wong's career began by winning in beauty pageants. On 21 July 2007, Wong returned to Hong Kong from New York City, New York (state), U.S. and entered in the 35th Miss Hong Kong pageant as contestant No. 9. Wong was the first runner up at the Miss Hong Kong 2007 beauty pageant as well as winning the Miss Photogenic and Miss International Goodwill awards. At the Miss International 2007 pageant, Wong also made top 15 at the pageant, as well as Miss Friendship. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Yuen
Benjamin Yuen Wai-ho (Simplified Chinese: 袁伟豪; Traditional Chinese: 袁偉豪, born May 11, 1981) is a Hong Kong actor and singer contracted to TVB and Shaw Brothers Pictures. Yuen’s career started when he became the winner of Hong Kong's Mr. Hong Kong beauty contest in 2007. Yuen was the first winner from Hong Kong as the previous two winners, Matthew Ko and Francois Huynh came from Canada and France respectively. In 2016, Yuen won Most Popular Male Character award at the TVB Anniversary Awards with his role in the critical acclaimed martial drama '' A Fist Within Four Walls''. In 2018, he won the Favourite Actor awards in both Malaysia and Singapore with his role in '' Stealing Seconds''. Entertainment career Benjamin Yuen started his career when he won the Yes! Magazine's School Grass Contest (校草選舉) in 1997. He was later reached with a contact by model agencies and officially became a model. This opened many other opportunities as Benjamin went on to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Wu
Nancy may refer to: Places France * Nancy, France, a city in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and formerly the capital of the duchy of Lorraine ** Arrondissement of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy ** École de Nancy, the spearhead of the Art Nouveau in France ** Musée de l'École de Nancy, a museum * Nancy-sur-Cluses, Haute-Savoie United States * Nancy, Kentucky * Mount Nancy, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire * Nancy, Virginia People * Nancy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Nancy (singer) (born Nancy Jewel McDonie), member of Momoland * Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021), French philosopher * Nazmun Munira Nancy, Bangladeshi singer Vessels * * ''Nancy'' (1803 ship), a sloop wrecked near Jervis Bay in 1805 * ''Nancy'' (1789 ship), a schooner built in Detroit in 1789, best known for play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruco Chan
Ruco Chan Chin-pang (; born 14 January 1977) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. Chan is the first TVB actor to win My Favourite TVB Actor at the StarHub TVB Awards for three consecutive years (2014, 2015, 2016), and is also the first actor to make two consecutive wins for Favourite TVB Actor at the TVB Star Awards Malaysia (2015, 2016). In 2016, Chan won the TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor with his performance in the action drama ''A Fist Within Four Walls''. Early life Chan was born in Hong Kong with ancestral roots from Xiamen, Fujian. His father was a firefighter and his mother was a tailor. Influenced by his father at a young age, Chan developed a love for table tennis and joined the Hong Kong Table Tennis team after receiving rigorous training at the Jubilee Sports Academy when he was thirteen. He was the youngest player to represent Hong Kong in overseas competitions at the time. After five years of committing to the sport, Chan left the team upon finishing his high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come With Me (TV Series)
''Come with Me'' (; literally "Have Sexual Feelings") is a 2016 Hong Kong comedy web drama produced by Jazz Boon for TVB, starring Eddie Cheung, Sharon Chan, Elena Kong, Louis Yuen, Benz Hui, May Chan, Sammy Sum and Grace Wong as the main cast. It premiered on Hong Kong's TVB web streaming site "myTV SUPER" on June 4, 2016, with five episodes released each Saturday at 12:00 am. The series concluded on June 25, 2016 with a total of 20 episodes. Overseas, the drama aired from May 29 to June 17, 2017 in the 9:30 time slot as a result of TVB Jade airing a remastered version of Phoenix Rising. An 18-episode cut version of the drama would later air in 2017 on TVB Jade. ''Come with Me'' was shelved for a year and a half. The sex theme topic of the drama was deemed inappropriate to be aired during network television prime time. Only when TVB's new online streaming platform "myTV SUPER" was launched in 2016, the drama was able to be aired online as it was able to bypass Hong Kong's stri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Lam
Raymond Lam (; Jyutping: lam4 fung1; born 8 December 1979) is a Hong Kong actor and singer who is best known for roles in the television dramas '' A Step into the Past'', '' Twin of Brothers'', '' Moonlight Resonance'', '' Highs and Lows'' and '' Line Walker'' and was dubbed the King of Chok after his role in '' The Mysteries of Love''. Early years Raymond Lam was born in Xiamen, China, on 8 December 1979, but moved to Hong Kong at the age of 2. His father, Lam Kwok-Wah (林國華), is a real-estate property developer in the mainland referred to as "Xiamen's Li Ka-shing" (廈門李嘉誠; ) who sits on the board of seven real estate and construction companies. While his first languages are Cantonese and Hokkien, Lam studied in Kiangsu and Chekiang Primary School, a primarily Mandarin-speaking primary school in pre- Handover Hong Kong and is thus also fluent in Mandarin and English. Raymond Lam's childhood dream was to become a professional singer and dancer. He studied in St. Pau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huading Awards
The Huading Awards are a set of entertainment awards in China. The awards were set up by Tianxia Yingcai Cultural Media Co., LTD () in 2007 in Beijing and are held more than once each year across multiple entertainment media from Chinese television shows to international films and music. History The 1st Huading Awards poll was held on December 17, 2007. The name Huading, Hua comes from '' The Biography of Book of Documents'', it also means the Chinese nation; Ding comes from ''Records of the Grand Historian'', it means word carries weight. On October 7, 2013, the 10th Huading Awards ceremony was held in Macao. On June 1, 2014, the 12th Huading Awards ceremony was held at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood. On December 15, 2017, the 21st Huading Awards were held at the Ace Hotel Los Angeles Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles, originally built as the California Petroleum Corporation Building and later known as the Texaco Building, is a , 13-story highrise hotel and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
StarHub TVB Awards
The StarHub TVB Awards () is an awards ceremony held every year to recognise the achievements by Hong Kong television dramas and artists in Singapore. The awards are presented by StarHub, VV Drama, and E City, and are given for TVB productions and performances. The inaugural StarHub TVB Awards were held on 29 January 2010. The nominations for StarHub TVB Awards are jointly determined by StarHub and TVB for TVB programmes shown on VV Drama, E City, TVBJ and TVB First on Demand throughout the designated year. The final results are decided by online voting (70%) and a panel of professional judges (30%). 2010 The StarHub TVB Awards 2010 were held on 29 January 2010 at The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore. Singaporean radio presenter Wenhong Huang and 2001 Miss Hong Kong Pageant second runner-up Heidi Chu hosted the awards ceremony, presenting a total of 18 awards.. The ceremony aired on VV Drama on 14 February 2010. 2011 The StarHub TVB Awards 2011 were held on 16 July 2011 at M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
