Post by uptowndragon on Jan 14, 2013 20:29:30 GMT 7
Taxi Taxi Movie Promo Tour ft Mark Lee, Gurmit Singh, Kelvin Sng & Dr Jia Jia (16 & 17/1/13)
S'PORE FUNNY MEN MARK LEE & GURMIT SINGH IN TOWN TO PROMOTE TAXI! TAXI!
ALSO INTRODUCING SINGAPORE YOUTUBE SENSATION DR. JIA JIA.
News Release: RAM Entertainment
After nearly a decade, Singapore funnymen Mark Lee and Gurmit Singh got back working together in a new movie after their last movie together, One Leg Kicking 11 years ago. The two reteam this time around for the movie Taxi! Taxi!, a co-production between Singapore and Malaysia. The movie inspired by the true story, ‘Diary of a Taxi Driver’ of famed blogger, Dr Cai Mingjie who turned to driving a taxi when he was being laid off after working for 16 years as a researcher, the movie follows the character that Lee and Singh respectively play a veteran streetwise taxi driver and a former PhD researcher whom was retrenched and now has to learn a new career, as a taxi driver.
The movie assembled casts from both Singapore and Malaysia includes Malaysia veteran actress Aunty Lai Meng, Malaysia Radio Announcer and actress Gan Mei Yan, former Singapore actress and Mediacorp Star Search runner-up Jazreel Low and newcomer Royston Ong. To round up the castings in the movie is the youngest person in the movie 7 years old Singapore YouTube sensation, Chua Jin Sen aka Dr. Jia Jia.
Dr Jia Jia together with his older brother Chua Jin Chou aka Big Brother are the stars of a series of ‘Singlish’ videos that has gone viral, amassing over 16,000 facebook followers and over 3 million views. The videos have made both brothers especially Dr. Jia Jia so popular in Singapore until Dr. Jia Jia’s crinkly-lopsided smiling face and his signature phrase Kee Chiew!" (Raise your hand) move has become a pop-culture on the streets of Singapore.
In the movie Taxi! Taxi!, not only it is Dr. Jia Jia’s first big screen debut in a feature movie but he is also one of the singer of the movie’s theme song, Taxi! Taxi! together with Mark Lee and Gurmit Singh.
Watch the Taxi! Taxi! Trailer
Malaysians will get to know this energetic YouTube phenomenon when Dr. Jia Jia together with Mark Lee, Gurmit Singh and Director Kelvin Sng will be in Malaysia on 16 & 17 January 2013 to promote the movie. The Singapore stars will be joined by local Malaysia casts Gan Mei Yan and Aunty Lai Meng for the promotional events.
The 2-days Malaysia Promotional Tour will include a Press Conference, Meet The Fans, Premiere Screening, Live Interviews on MYFM, MelodyFm and 8TV as well as college sharing session. Details of the Malaysia Promotion Tour as below:
Promo Tour Schedule
16 January 2013 (Wednesday)
3.00pm Press Conference at Empire Hotel Subang
6.30pm EMPIRE HOTEL - TAXI! TAXI! Private Dinner & Fans Gathering at Empire Hotel Subang
7.45pm DRINHO - TAXI! TAXI! Meet The Fans at Sunway Pyramid LG Concourse
8.45pm TAXI! TAXI! Premiere Screening at TGV Sunway
17 January 2013 (Thursday)
9.00am MYFM Live Interview
10.00am MelodyFM Live Interview
12.00pm TAXI! TAXI! TAR College Sharing Session
4.30pm 8TV Live Interview
Besides the events during the Promotional Tour, Malaysia audience can also participate in the special Cinema Promotion, where there are exclusive Taxi!Taxi! standee with a cut out of a taxi. This standee allows the audience to have a bit of fun and create a memorable moment, an opportunity for you to take a photo with your family in the taxi. You may stand a chance to win holiday trips for the whole family including to Universal Studio Singapore and other prizes.
TAXI! TAXI! is a family comedy with a message never to give up and the strength of family unity, an inspiring movie to usher in the New Year. On board to promote the movie is Main Presenter DRINHO, a brand synonymous as the top choice drinks during the festivity with their signature Chrysanthemum, Lychee and Soya Bean packet drinks. DRINHO has kicked started their promotion at hypermarket promotions with Taxi! Taxi! movie display and God of Fortune to give away exclusive Taxi! Taxi! CNY spring couplets. There are even special Taxi! Taxi! casts CNY greetings going out on radio and TV soon.
To enhance the campaign, other partners including Official Hotel Empire Hotel Subang - the exclusive boutique hotel offering modern lifestyle, luxury and prestige for private and business needs is also the venue sponsor for press conference and the host for the exclusive private dinner & hotel stay for some selected winners. The casts from Singapore are treated to their hospitality during their stay in Malaysia.
Other partners like Official Taxi, Sunlight Taxi & Unicab jump on the chance to be part of this wholesome family movie by wrapping selected Sunlight Taxi with Taxi! Taxi! movie visual to further promote the movie. Sunlight and Unicab will also like to take this opportunity to introduce their new smart phone app (Unicablink App) to book your Sunlight Taxi for a safe and speedy journery.
RAM Entertainment together with PMP Entertainment will like to thank all sponsors and partners; Main Presenter - DRINHO, Official Hotel - Empire Hotel Subang, Official Taxi, -Sunlight Taxi & Unicablink, Promotional Partner - Travel For All, Supporting Partners - MYFM and MELODY FM as well as venue partner - Sunway Pyramid and TGV Cinemas for all their support.
TAXI! TAXI! will be driving into Malaysia cinemas on 24 January 2013. For more information about this movie, log on to www.ram-ent.com.my or follow us on twitter@RAMent_movies and www.facebook.com/RamEntertainmentMovie.
About Taxi! Taxi!
Inspired by famed blogger Dr Cai Mingjie’s real life accounts as a taxi driver in his bestseller “Diary of a Taxi Driver: True Stories From Singapore's Most Educated Cabdriver”, the movie follows the trials and tribulations of a retrenched microbiology scientist, Professor Chua, as he turns to taxi driving after several failed job attempts.
Along the way, he befriends (although they didn’t quite start off as friends from the get-go) a veteran taxi driver, Ah Tau. The two men, who appear to be polar opposites of each other in every aspect from educational levels, personalities, attitudes toward life and even the languages that they speak, eventually find themselves interdependent and influencing each other in ways that they probably had never imagined possible.
A fish out of water, Professor Chua gradually learns to move out of his comfort zone and sheltered life in the research lab, and adapt to the real world on the streets of Singapore. Yet, his biggest challenge of all, has to be: breaking the truth about his change of profession to his uninformed family – his social-conscious mother-in-law, his elitist son who idolizes his career as a scientist, and his wife whom he vowed to never let her have to worry about the bread and butter issues throughout their marriage. Can he hide it from them forever? And will they still respect him as head of the house if he reveals it to them?
Ah Tau, on the other hand, has problems of a different nature. His son, Jia Jia, believes that his absent mother is on a trip around the world, and he has to continuously find ingenious ways to keep the boy’s belief alive, so as not to shatter his hope of seeing her again. Also, badly influenced by his own street Singlish that he uses to communicate with his passengers, Jia Jia spouts Singlish like a typical taxi driver whenever he speaks, and his kindergarten teacher who promotes “Good English” is surely not impressed. A loving father but whose means are limited by his capabilities, can Ah Tau provide what’s best for his son?
Bugged by their own individual troubles and initial aversion to each other, the two unlikely buddies soon discover that they can actually help one another out, and show the other what he has never seen from his usual position all along. They finally realize that life’s dead ends can actually turn to passable roads, if you just approach them from a different angle and with a different attitude!
Gurmit Singh and Mark Lee play Professor Chua and Ah Tau respectively in this inspiring comedy about the choices, hope and friendship that one might encounter along the journey in life.
Watch the Taxi! Taxi! Trailer
S'PORE FUNNY MEN MARK LEE & GURMIT SINGH IN TOWN TO PROMOTE TAXI! TAXI!
ALSO INTRODUCING SINGAPORE YOUTUBE SENSATION DR. JIA JIA.
News Release: RAM Entertainment
After nearly a decade, Singapore funnymen Mark Lee and Gurmit Singh got back working together in a new movie after their last movie together, One Leg Kicking 11 years ago. The two reteam this time around for the movie Taxi! Taxi!, a co-production between Singapore and Malaysia. The movie inspired by the true story, ‘Diary of a Taxi Driver’ of famed blogger, Dr Cai Mingjie who turned to driving a taxi when he was being laid off after working for 16 years as a researcher, the movie follows the character that Lee and Singh respectively play a veteran streetwise taxi driver and a former PhD researcher whom was retrenched and now has to learn a new career, as a taxi driver.
The movie assembled casts from both Singapore and Malaysia includes Malaysia veteran actress Aunty Lai Meng, Malaysia Radio Announcer and actress Gan Mei Yan, former Singapore actress and Mediacorp Star Search runner-up Jazreel Low and newcomer Royston Ong. To round up the castings in the movie is the youngest person in the movie 7 years old Singapore YouTube sensation, Chua Jin Sen aka Dr. Jia Jia.
Dr Jia Jia together with his older brother Chua Jin Chou aka Big Brother are the stars of a series of ‘Singlish’ videos that has gone viral, amassing over 16,000 facebook followers and over 3 million views. The videos have made both brothers especially Dr. Jia Jia so popular in Singapore until Dr. Jia Jia’s crinkly-lopsided smiling face and his signature phrase Kee Chiew!" (Raise your hand) move has become a pop-culture on the streets of Singapore.
In the movie Taxi! Taxi!, not only it is Dr. Jia Jia’s first big screen debut in a feature movie but he is also one of the singer of the movie’s theme song, Taxi! Taxi! together with Mark Lee and Gurmit Singh.
Watch the Taxi! Taxi! Trailer
Malaysians will get to know this energetic YouTube phenomenon when Dr. Jia Jia together with Mark Lee, Gurmit Singh and Director Kelvin Sng will be in Malaysia on 16 & 17 January 2013 to promote the movie. The Singapore stars will be joined by local Malaysia casts Gan Mei Yan and Aunty Lai Meng for the promotional events.
The 2-days Malaysia Promotional Tour will include a Press Conference, Meet The Fans, Premiere Screening, Live Interviews on MYFM, MelodyFm and 8TV as well as college sharing session. Details of the Malaysia Promotion Tour as below:
Promo Tour Schedule
16 January 2013 (Wednesday)
3.00pm Press Conference at Empire Hotel Subang
6.30pm EMPIRE HOTEL - TAXI! TAXI! Private Dinner & Fans Gathering at Empire Hotel Subang
7.45pm DRINHO - TAXI! TAXI! Meet The Fans at Sunway Pyramid LG Concourse
8.45pm TAXI! TAXI! Premiere Screening at TGV Sunway
17 January 2013 (Thursday)
9.00am MYFM Live Interview
10.00am MelodyFM Live Interview
12.00pm TAXI! TAXI! TAR College Sharing Session
4.30pm 8TV Live Interview
Besides the events during the Promotional Tour, Malaysia audience can also participate in the special Cinema Promotion, where there are exclusive Taxi!Taxi! standee with a cut out of a taxi. This standee allows the audience to have a bit of fun and create a memorable moment, an opportunity for you to take a photo with your family in the taxi. You may stand a chance to win holiday trips for the whole family including to Universal Studio Singapore and other prizes.
TAXI! TAXI! is a family comedy with a message never to give up and the strength of family unity, an inspiring movie to usher in the New Year. On board to promote the movie is Main Presenter DRINHO, a brand synonymous as the top choice drinks during the festivity with their signature Chrysanthemum, Lychee and Soya Bean packet drinks. DRINHO has kicked started their promotion at hypermarket promotions with Taxi! Taxi! movie display and God of Fortune to give away exclusive Taxi! Taxi! CNY spring couplets. There are even special Taxi! Taxi! casts CNY greetings going out on radio and TV soon.
To enhance the campaign, other partners including Official Hotel Empire Hotel Subang - the exclusive boutique hotel offering modern lifestyle, luxury and prestige for private and business needs is also the venue sponsor for press conference and the host for the exclusive private dinner & hotel stay for some selected winners. The casts from Singapore are treated to their hospitality during their stay in Malaysia.
Other partners like Official Taxi, Sunlight Taxi & Unicab jump on the chance to be part of this wholesome family movie by wrapping selected Sunlight Taxi with Taxi! Taxi! movie visual to further promote the movie. Sunlight and Unicab will also like to take this opportunity to introduce their new smart phone app (Unicablink App) to book your Sunlight Taxi for a safe and speedy journery.
RAM Entertainment together with PMP Entertainment will like to thank all sponsors and partners; Main Presenter - DRINHO, Official Hotel - Empire Hotel Subang, Official Taxi, -Sunlight Taxi & Unicablink, Promotional Partner - Travel For All, Supporting Partners - MYFM and MELODY FM as well as venue partner - Sunway Pyramid and TGV Cinemas for all their support.
TAXI! TAXI! will be driving into Malaysia cinemas on 24 January 2013. For more information about this movie, log on to www.ram-ent.com.my or follow us on twitter@RAMent_movies and www.facebook.com/RamEntertainmentMovie.
About Taxi! Taxi!
Inspired by famed blogger Dr Cai Mingjie’s real life accounts as a taxi driver in his bestseller “Diary of a Taxi Driver: True Stories From Singapore's Most Educated Cabdriver”, the movie follows the trials and tribulations of a retrenched microbiology scientist, Professor Chua, as he turns to taxi driving after several failed job attempts.
Along the way, he befriends (although they didn’t quite start off as friends from the get-go) a veteran taxi driver, Ah Tau. The two men, who appear to be polar opposites of each other in every aspect from educational levels, personalities, attitudes toward life and even the languages that they speak, eventually find themselves interdependent and influencing each other in ways that they probably had never imagined possible.
A fish out of water, Professor Chua gradually learns to move out of his comfort zone and sheltered life in the research lab, and adapt to the real world on the streets of Singapore. Yet, his biggest challenge of all, has to be: breaking the truth about his change of profession to his uninformed family – his social-conscious mother-in-law, his elitist son who idolizes his career as a scientist, and his wife whom he vowed to never let her have to worry about the bread and butter issues throughout their marriage. Can he hide it from them forever? And will they still respect him as head of the house if he reveals it to them?
Ah Tau, on the other hand, has problems of a different nature. His son, Jia Jia, believes that his absent mother is on a trip around the world, and he has to continuously find ingenious ways to keep the boy’s belief alive, so as not to shatter his hope of seeing her again. Also, badly influenced by his own street Singlish that he uses to communicate with his passengers, Jia Jia spouts Singlish like a typical taxi driver whenever he speaks, and his kindergarten teacher who promotes “Good English” is surely not impressed. A loving father but whose means are limited by his capabilities, can Ah Tau provide what’s best for his son?
Bugged by their own individual troubles and initial aversion to each other, the two unlikely buddies soon discover that they can actually help one another out, and show the other what he has never seen from his usual position all along. They finally realize that life’s dead ends can actually turn to passable roads, if you just approach them from a different angle and with a different attitude!
Gurmit Singh and Mark Lee play Professor Chua and Ah Tau respectively in this inspiring comedy about the choices, hope and friendship that one might encounter along the journey in life.
Watch the Taxi! Taxi! Trailer
