Compiled by C. ARUNO, JUNAID IBRAHIM and R. ARAVINTHAN
HONG KONG superstar Andy Lau (pic) took a nearly 70% pay cut just to appear in Herman Yau’s crime-thriller A Gilded Game, reported China Press.
“I’m not afraid to reveal that all of us took just one-third of our usual salaries to allow most of the budget to be used in the completion of the film,” he told reporters.
According to Lau, investors were reluctant to pour money into a film about finance which does not have explosions or fast-paced action sequences.
Therefore, the budget for A Gilded Game was only 20% that of the previous films Yau had directed and starred Lau, he said.
“This film is an exception where I lowered my fees. I still get paid handsomely in other movies!” Lau added.
In A Gilded Game, Lau plays an equity analyst with unbending principles and a mentor to a new finance graduate who was presented with a moral dilemma halfway into the film.
> The daily also reported that a rehabilitation therapist in Chengdu, China, sparked a discussion online after she claimed that she earned more working part-time at a recycling station.
From 8.30am to 5.30pm, 26-year-old Xiong works as a rehabilitation therapist at a hospital in Chengdu, specialising in helping elderly patients.
After she finishes her shift, Xiong continues working at a recycling station her parents own, until 10pm.
At the station, Xiong is responsible for collecting and sorting scrap metal, adding that the physical labour gave her toned arms.
She added that she started helping her parents when she was in primary school and does not mind continuing as an adult.
“It earns money – why would I mind?
“My monthly salary at the hospital is 4,000 yuan (RM2,382). I earn more from recycling,” she said.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
