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Serious Sinkie Former Channel 8 Actor Was Executive Director To Top Chink Blockbuster Movie!

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SINGAPORE - Action flick Wolf Warrior II, the all-time top-grossing film in China with 4.5 billion yuan (S$919 million) earned thus far, has some Singaporean involvement - former Channel 8 actor Ix Shen, 46, was its executive director.

"My job was to present whatever you see on screen. If the car chase in this scene called for a jeep to be speeding down an alley with bullets flying around and two other vehicles chasing, my job was to execute all that," he told The Straits Times over the phone from Phuket, where he was taking a vacation.

The position of executive director, which he said is unique to the Chinese movie industry, is a cross between associate producer and assistant director.


Among his responsibilities was yelling "Action" and "Cut", which proved to be quite a challenge when they were shooting underwater. "There's no way I could give hand signals and speech was inaudible. I had to devise a way of using an aluminium pipe and hammer so I could do two clanks for 'action' and three for 'cut'."


Shen, the male champion of talent hunt Star Search 1995, ventured to China in 2009 to further his career and acted in some films and television series.

He said that Wu Jing, the star, writer and director of Wolf Warrior II, was looking for someone who could communicate in English, Mandarin and Cantonese as the cast was mainly from China, the crew included Africans and Europeans and one of the stunt directors was from Hong Kong.


Wolf Warriors 2 overtakes The Mermaid to become China's all-time box-office champion

Shen met the criteria but he was quick to emphasise: "Just because a fellow Singaporean can understand your English doesn't mean that a native English speaker can understand your English. Same goes for Mandarin."


The success of Wolf Warrior II has meant that offers have started coming in for him. Projects which have been talked about include a Wolf Warrior sequel, for which he helped with the trailer shot in Iceland. Hollywood has also approached Wu, who has kept Shen in the loop about his plans.

"We're all taking our vacation right now and will probably sit down for a meeting after," said Shen, who added that he intends to remain in China for the time being. "This is where the industry is really booming. If you're in the movie business, if you're not in Hollywood and you're not in Bollywood, you have to be in Beijing."

In Singapore alone, Wolf Warrior II has grossed more than $1 million since its release on July 28.

It is no wonder Shen said: "Everyone (involved with the movie) is feeling on top of the moon right now."

http://www.straitstimes.com/lifesty...xecutive-director-of-chinese-blockbuster-wolf
 

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He would be doomed if he stayed in Mediacorp, it's a place for the dead and zoe tay.
 

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Ix Shen was a wooden block acting wise.
I'm Glad this true blue sinkie found his calling.
You go boy!
 

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His acting can best be described as painful to watch.
 

tanwahtiu

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Who he voted for?

Sure not PAP.
 

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He would be doomed if he stayed in Mediacorp, it's a place for the dead and zoe tay.


Agree..here you will be stifled and there is always a lid on to control you...be it your career, enterprise, education.. Yale university pulled out and hence this is no place for academia. Only the discarded will come here.

In DOJ summary report on Amos Yee asylum application dated 24/3/2107 (page 6 ), it was outlined that the government uses a range of tools to control its population, INCLUDING HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT

To date, no minster has come out to rebut this statement.

Congrats..Ix Shen..you will do well if you are not in Singapore.
 

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Not bad, Ix Shen make it to 国军少将(BG) in the picture above.
 

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Wolf warrior 2 top grossing ? Take it with a pinch of salt. The last time Ip Man 3 was also lauded as top grossing in china and shortly after there was a scandal of kelong and many went to prison because of that.

By the way is Ix is still with that buck tooth chick ? Very bonkable.
 

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Good on Ix. He was very stiff as an actor, just not cut out for it.

Wish him every success in his new calling. Singapore is not the place to be in if you have real talent, especially in the arts and entertainment field.
 

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Self-boasting from our national propaganda newspaper.

Shen is just one of the small fly "executive director". Title sounds great but he is just a "one-leg-kick" guy who handle all the small matters.

If not, why wasn't his name in the front credit as the director? The official director is Wu Jing himself. Executive director is just one of the a small fly. Straits Times make it sounds like he has an important role in that film making.
 

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Singapore is not the place to be in if you have real talent, especially in the arts and entertainment field.
Not trying to be a wet blanket but Ix is hardly someone whom we can call a "real talent". But it's heartening to hear that a fellow sinkie has humbled himself and persisting In this tough industry overseas. Hope he gets more breakout roles like Chin Han
 

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Not trying to be a wet blanket but Ix is hardly someone whom we can call a "real talent". But it's heartening to hear that a fellow sinkie has humbled himself and persisting In this tough industry overseas. Hope he gets more breakout roles like Chin Han

Chin han has found some success in Hollywood as an actor (wish him well!) But ix shen is taking a different route in Beijing. If things work out for him, he could be directing his own blockbuster.

Wish them both success in their endeavours.

Too bad Kumar never made it to Bollywood
 

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I notice that in the local acting scene, actors don't have much future. Mediacorp, and its predecessors prefer to groom and invest in their actresses. It's the reverse compared to film industry anywhere else, where actors usually have more opportunities. It is just hard to fathom why sinkies are so obsessed with zoe tay and fann wong.
 

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good for him. overseas opportunities always better than stagnant sinkapoor.
 

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If you mean this buck tooth chick, her wedding to someone else was announced in this forum in 2015. :biggrin:

https://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?198256-erica-lee-married

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Wolf warrior 2 top grossing ? Take it with a pinch of salt. The last time Ip Man 3 was also lauded as top grossing in china and shortly after there was a scandal of kelong and many went to prison because of that.

By the way is Ix is still with that buck tooth chick ? Very bonkable.
 

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Good on Ix. He was very stiff as an actor, just not cut out for it.

Wish him every success in his new calling. Singapore is not the place to be in if you have real talent, especially in the arts and entertainment field.

Everything that PAP has full control over, a dragon can become a worm.
 
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