DIARY OF A CANNES VIRGIN.Update from Cannes : Ocean's 13 Premiere

Semalam adalah hari yang amat menarik dan sibuk di Cannes kerana bintang-bintang hollywood terbesar dari filem OCEAN's 13 termasuk pengarahnya Steven Soderbergh telah menghadiri Majlis di Canes untuk membuat media Junket serta Premiere filem OCEAN'S 13 di Eropah. Nanti i story you some more. For now check out the photos.
ME dan Partner di dalam dewan Grand Lumiere, untuk menonton Ocean's 13 buat pertama kalinya. Saya mengaku ada macam jakun sikit perangai pasal amat excited.
Walaupun besar gila dewan ini, ianya penuh sampai tersendat, kerana tengok free! tapi masuk hanya kalau kita ada jemputan. DAN KITA ADA!
Cita-cita gua dan ramai pembikin filem dunia untuk diiktiraf di Cannes dengan menerima Palme D'or. Cita-cita biar tinggi, dapat tak dapat belakang kira.
Di luar panggung Du Monde yang dikhaskan untuk filem-filem tidak bertanding. Kebanyakan filem kali ini dari negara-negara Afrika.
Di Belakang Palais (tempat Marche Du Film di jalankan) ni pula ada tempat parking bot mewah dan ianya dihuni oleh orang-orang kaya yang khabarnya bersedia untuk mengeluarkan wang untuk projek-projek filem yang menarik.
Huru-hara manusia berebut nak cuba masuk ke dewan tayangan.
Transformers juga berada di Cannes dan Trailer terbarunya yang memang meletop juga dimainkan. Di depan hotel intercontinental ini sejarah berlaku bila Don Johnson dengan selamba lalu didepan gua. GUA MINAT DIA masa Miami Vice dulu la. haha.
On the rad carpet going into the grand lumiere.
Poster utama festival filem Cannes ke 60.
kawasan red carpet di mana press photocall di lakukan. Memang banyak sejarah di sini. Bila agaknya masa seorang Anak MAlaysia tak kiralah sesiapapun yang akan mengharumkan nama NEGARA apabila filemnya di mainkan in competition dan di yangkan di grand lumiere ini.
Impian tu amat berkuasa dan dengan izinNya apa saja mungkin kita capai. insya allah.
Power to the People
Afdlin Shauki

Mission to Introduce Sumolah to the World. Greetings from Juan Le Pins, Antibes, France. The 60th Cannes Film Festival is alive and well.

First of All before i begin i would like to make an announcement that we have just found out that SUMOlah has been accepted to the FUKUOKA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Yaay ! but that is not the point of the Sumolah exercise. We wanted Sumolah to be able to enter different markets and be chown in foreign cinemas , entertaining a whole new audience.
We are on our way. Itulah sebabnyagua di CANNES minggu ini, untuk memperkenalkan filem ini ke mata dunia. Tak kiralah kalau di CANNES orang tengik gua macam salesman, yang penting untuk gua capai harapan dan impian gua dan kengkawan gua.
Filem ini sudah bermain dalam minggu ke tiga di Malaysia. Sambutan untuknya masih ada walaupun tidak seperti dijangkakan. Kalau awak suka filem ini ataupun awak tak suka, tak pe. Filem ni bukan dibuat untuk menyedapkan hati semua orang. Tapi filem adalah simbol usaha saya untuk membawa filem kita keluar dari malaysia dan masuk ke panggung luar negara seperti di Eropah, Jepun, Australia, dll.

A big dream comes with big risk however, and with that i want to acknowledge the people who believed in this project and are still standing by its side. Insya allah kerja kita , jika berjaya akan di ingati ramai.

Salah satu dari beratus jetty di cannes, kesemua syarikat perfileman terbesar dan terkecil dunia (seperti syarikat saya vision works) berada di sana
Yang buat saya ketawa, poster filem Peranchis yang menciplak idea filem Jangan Pandang belakang, David Teo. "DOn't Look Back!" lakonan sophie Marceau dan Monicca Belucci
Kebanyakan hotel sepanjang riviera di saluti poster-poster filem-filem terbaru. Hotel Intercontinental ini di pajak oleh Warner Brothers sepanjang Minggu ini untuk artis-artis mereka seperti Brad Pitt, ANgelina Jolie. Tapi gua stim kodok dapat jumpa Don Johnson, Otai Miami Vice
Silver Surfer turut hadir di Cannes
Pemandangan di tepi pantai luar hotel gua di Juan Le Pins. Ada patung seorang gadis memandang ke laut.
Patung gadis itu.
It's skodeng time. Di selatan peranchis ni, kebanyakan wanita akan sunbathing topless. Wooooooooo! err.. i mean tsk! tsk! tsk!
Di High street di Cannes, mencari adapter untuk plug british kita.
Jalan Berhadapan riviera di tutup dan dipenuhi dengan beribu orang yang semuanya mempunyai impian dan harapan untuk menjadikan skrip/cerita mereka menjadi sebuah filem hollywood. CANNES MINGGU INI MENJADI THE CITY OF DREAMS.



POWER TO THE PEOPLE
AFDLIN SHAUKI

NOKOTTA, NOKOTTA, NOKOTTA!! Lawan Che Pah ... Lawan sama dia!!

Assalammualaikum, memula, terimakasih sekali kepada kengkawan yang menyokkong SUMOlah dan sedang berjuang untuk memastikan ianya terus di panggung. Kami pun sedang cuba mempertingkatkan iklan di tv melalui tv3 dan astro ria minggu ini.... Yang pentingnya kami akan berlawan habis-habisan untuk filem iini. We are fighting for those of you who believe in this movie sehingga hari terakhir ianya di pawagam.
Saya sekarang sedang berada di sabah untuk rangka promosi ke Kuching, Kota Kinabalu dan Bandar Seri Begawan dan pada kali ini kontingen besar pelakon-pelakon turun padang untuk mempromosikan filem ini..
ON A TANGENT - In a way gua bersyukur yang benda ni berlaku dan mengingatkan gua yang sometimes we have to fight for what we believe in. And i am 100% aware of what all the parties involved are or are not doing.

Don't stress kengkawan... we fight together and lets try turn dis baby around and make some history. I am not a huge fan of mediocrity. i hope you are not too. i hope all of us are trying to find ways to make ourselves better.

For those of you who care, i salute you..
for those of you who don't ... it's your choice..

POWER TO THE PEOPLE
AFDLIN SHAUKI

EMERGENCY! HELP NEEDED! AFDLIN MINTAK TOLONG!

Despite doing everything we could to make SUMOlah a success we have run into a brickwall. It seems that the cinemas are telling us that their collection is quite low for the movie Sumolah and GSC has even applied for sumolah to be taken off its programming just after four days being shown. This is so wierd for a movie which has received many amazing good reviews and has been marketed beyond months. I am really stumped. Before analyzing this any deeper, i would like to make an appeal first :

If you want to see Sumolah and haven't. I would like to make an appeal to all my friends and kodoks to please go and see it with your family and friends before they pull us off the cinema. if they do this then the consequences could be dire.

If you loved the movie please tell everyone you know and get them to watch it because personally i think it would be a waste that such a meaningful movie does not meet more people.

I've never asked for help before but, i am appealing to your budi baik to help support sumolah. Will keep you guys updated on what transpires next. Moving to thailand now looks like a serious option.


Power to the People
Afdlin Shauki

Kasi pecah panggung minggu ini!!

The Making off Sumolah Dates. Tell me what you felt about the movie gang!

Just to inform & confirm with you the airing of the making of Sumo-lah
on Astro Ria the following times :

SABTU / Saturday 12 May 6.30pm
SUNDAY / Sunday 13 May 11.30 am
MONDAY /Monday 14 onwards, 3 times daily

Guess what? i also found the SUMOlah trailer online!! if you haven't seen it, please check-out

http://tv.emedia.com.my/videoChangeABP?idvideo=v0047

officially from astro insider checkout http://bicaraskrip.blogspot.com

Channel:
Astro Ria (04)

Date:
Saturday, May 12, 2007

Time:
6:30:00 PM

Synopsis: Di Balik Tabir SUMOlah arahan Afdlin Shauki menampilkan Awie, Radhi Khalid, Gurmit Singh dan ramai lagi. Saksikan filem ini di pawagam berdekatan anda sekarang!

Also on this week:
13-May-2007~11:30:00 AM

So jangan lupa tengok!

Gambar eksklusif gua dengan bekas grand yokozuna tersohor yang kini dah bersara MUSASHI MARU. I am not worthy. Tapi nampak slim pulak gua. hee hee.

Also need your help guys, if you enjoyed the movie to tell your friends and get their bontots into the panggung. thank u daun keladi gang.

NOKOTTA! NOKKOTA! NOKOTTA!

Afdlin Shauki

SUMOlah Dibuka Hari Ini di serata Malaya termasuk Brunei! Yeahooo!!!! Kasi Peccaahhhhhhh laaa!

I'm on my bed listening to 'dewi' from dewa 19's kerajaan cinta - which i think is a great frakking song!! - sambil berblogging kepada anda semua. Gua terasa macam nak mencuci kepala hotak gua sikit pagi ni. Setelah bekerja tak berhenti selama lebih enam bulan, ianya sesuatu yang melegakan untuk akhir sekali berdepan dengan laptop gua. I get to do a brief brain purge. which i forgot was the reason i started blogging in the first place.

On a tangent - My two daughters are the cutest in the world. bar none.

Bagai menunggu anak pertama dilahirkan, akhirnya sumo berjaya memasuki pawagam dan mula mengorak langkahnya bertemu dengan semua penonton yang sudah lama menanti. After so much drama, i am finally feeling at peace after the initial screenings for the press and the gala night (which was not without incident but i always believe in the saYing "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger!!") which i think went rather well.

I can't really do a review of my own movie but i can give you a review of the reactions after the movie. Except for those people who chowed earlier either because they takut to tell me what they felt about the movie, the ones that were left behind were abuzz, there was an excitement in their voices as they voiced to me how they loved SUMOlah. I think the best comment i received on the night was that SUMOlah was the most honest movie that they've seen in years and they were into Ramlee's journey.

There were other flattering comments as well, but i tend to take things with a grain of salt because as we know people can say a lot of things , we wish that they were all true, but you are prepared for those who aren't.

Kepada all my fans and friends (and also curious onlookers) Thank you for being patient with us all this while and now we present to you our hard work, blood , tear, sweat and more sweat , our baby yang walaupun tidak sempurna, kerana kesempurnaan hanya berada pada tuhan, mempunyai satu misi besar dan saya jamin amat menghiburkan.
SUMOlah!

The fate of this movie is now in your hands.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT. TERIMA KASIH BEBANYAK ATAS SOKONGAN ANDA.

AFDLIN SHAUKI

E-mail dari pemenang kuiz SUMOlah!! WAZZZAP!!!!

Inilah email daripada pemenang kuiz gua for free gala night tickets to SUMOlah and i hope she or her husband really enjoyed the movie semalam.

Laydiefa Raiza Farzly
to me

Apr 19

Hi Afdlin,

PADA TAHUN BERAPAKAH GAMBAR INI DIAMBIL DAN APAKAH KATEGORI ANUGERAH2 YANG SAYA PEGANG DAN KENAPA SAYA MEMAKAI BAJU JAWA?

-Gambar diambil pada tahun 2005 (August)

-Anugerah-anugerah yang dipegang adalah untuk kategori
i. Best Screenplay (BULI)
ii. Best Actor (BULI)
iii. Best Director (BULI)

- Afdlin pakai baju jawa sebab you were attending a Malaysian Gas Association annual dinner which featured Inul (apparently bigger than Mawi hahahh i second that). So I guess the jawa attire was to match the theme of the night 'Dangdut Fiesta'.

you sure this contest tak payah include receipt ke aper kan?
so there.. trying my luck.

regards,
laydiefa
http://laydiefa.silent-echo.org

As for the kasut, please tell me wether you nak kasut for men or women and saiz dia apa kat my email.

And just managed to have a chat with some fellow bloggers yang tetiba aje dunia blogging ni pun berkemelut dengan politik jugak.!!!??!! bukan politik politik kerajaan yang saya maksudkan tapi irihati, tikam menikam... anonymous keparat dll lagi.

anyway gua nak declare yang gua ketika ini bebas politik dan mahukan keamanan sejagat dan hanya yang terbaik untuk sahabat handai dan keluarga... tak perlu semua ni. Life is too short gang. Macam ada orang putih cakap "Let the small minded people be small... as our place lie among the giants"...

Banyak sangat hal yang perlu di kendalikan untuk melancarkan dan memasarkan SUMOlah pada khamis ini yang mungkin ada perkara yang saya tak dapat kendali dengan sendiri dan jika ada apa-apa kekurangan yang terkena kepada sesiapa on behalf of my team i wanna apologize for this but our main focus currently is the success of SUMOlah so that we can continue to make better stuff.

i hope you guys get to experience my experience of the movie if you don't however i am confident that you are all going to have a blast!! ENJOY BEB!! SUMOlah sudah tiba....


On a tangent : Sedang gua duduk-duduk tadi gua terfikir... what if god took my vision away and made me blind?... how would i feel? boleh gua adjust ke tak atas kehilangan suatu benda yang gua take for granted almost daily.... WHat if he took away the sight and the hearing.... it would be like you are in prison and cannot communicate and see anything. that would be the true definition of being alone? kepada mereka yang terasa kesepian atau rasakan diri mereka keseorangan.... what would you do if it happened to you?... Scary thought but worth the time to reflect upon it.

Yes!!! for the kodoks lets do A FLASH MOB for SUMOLAH and discussion afterwards at the mamak like we did for buli balik and if there is interest in bloggers having a special screening please let me know, i'll see what i can arrange. kalau possible this coming monday. NOT CONFIRMED yet OK. interested email me direct at selambakodok@gmail.com.

POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE
Afdlin Shauki

10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI 2007. 10 MEI

ARE YOU READY TO ROCK WITH SUMOLAH.

COMPETITION TIME !

KALAU AWAK BOLEH BAGITAHU KEPADA SAYA MELALUI EMAIL SAYA, SELAMBAKODOK@GMAIL.COM, JAWAPAN BAGI SOALAN-SOALAN - PADA TAHUN BERAPAKAH GAMBAR INI DIAMBIL DAN APAKAH KATEGORI ANUGERAH2 YANG SAYA PEGANG DAN KENAPA SAYA MEMAKAI BAJU JAWA?

AWAK AKAN SAYA BERIKAN SEPASANG KASUT ADIDAS ORIGINALS (BOLEH PILIH KALE KALAU ADA) DAN 2 TIKET KE TAYANGAN PERDANA SUMOLAH DI GSC MIDVALLEY MEGAMALL PADA 7HB MAY.

APA LAGI JAWAB, JANGAN TAK JAWAB.

AFDLIN

10 MAY 2007 SUMOlah in CINEMAS all over MALAYSIA

Let's get ready to SUMO!!!

Sawadeekap from Bangkok, It's me after a blistering hot launching ceremony of BRAVE / BERANI near the world trade centre here.We have been shooting for almost three weeks and the tempreature here in bangkok is 40 degrees celcius consistent.
Mak aii berkuap telor eden ni haa (excuse the expression)!!! But the launch went really well All 7 television networks from thailand and all the press from here showed up and we are confident we are going to be famous here eventhough h sepatah haram of what they are saying kita tak faham!! they might be saying " if you see this people walking the streets of ratchada do not approach them because they are muslim terrorists" for all we know! hee hee.
Awie as a Pailang / gangster 'JOHN' dalam filem BRAVE tengah makeup menunggu scene beliau.
Gua mengangkat tong minyak dengan mudah aje selepas training mengangkat berat selama enam bulan.
Sharifah Sofia yang berlakon sebagai 'MEAW' tergamam dengan kekuatan gua.
Stunt double gua yang akan melakukan semua scene-scene yang terlalu bahaya. Nasib baik ada dia..

But yeah very excited about this movie but not as excited like the twin double excitement happening in my heart in anticipation of the release of SUMOLAH this may!!!...
Akhirnya... gua akan melahirkan jugak.....Sebelum di bangkok ni however, gua baru je balik daripada LOS ANGELES dimana gua dapat bersua muka dengan..... (cue music) Hugh Laurie from the hit series HOUSE, M.Night Syamalan, Wes Craven director of the SCREAM movies as well as the nightmare on elm street series, Mark Wahlberg talking about his latest movie Shooter, Seorang rapper bernama MIMS, Charlie Sheen of platoon,spin city and two and a half men and a few more minor celebrities.
Fuhhh gua rasa macam groupie siot... actually perangai gua pun exactly macam groupy. Me and a few friends whom i shall not name, just in case diorang tak bagitahu wife or girlfiend diorang yang kita pegi jalan kat malam di sana, manage to go to the Viper Room! a club owned by johnny Depp. Tapi yang amat meriah sekali bagi saya adalah dapat pergi ke Laugh factory untuk menyaksikan live stand-up comedy. Semasa di sana gua juga sempat perform accapella dengan group barbershop quartet ni kat california adventureland. that was quite exciting pasal bila habis nyani tepi jalan tu baru gua sedar berapa punya ramai orang tengah tengok gua and the cheers and applause buat macam gua nak buat concert kat sana pulak. tapi gua rasa pasal diorang ingat yang meyanyi tu tourist amatur aje... diorang tak tahu gua berguru dengan pengetua AF5 selama 6 tahun tanpa satu album dulu. But for ur viewing pleasure here is some photos of the trip... enjoy
The Bronson gate kat paramount pictures . mungkin satu hari gua akan melalui gate itu untuk menyain kontrak bagi mengarah sebuah filem hollywood.
Hasnul Rahmat dan Gua, posing didepan sebuah kedai runcit di san pedro. Nasib baik polis tak ingat kita orang ni hispanic yang nak rompak kedai tu.
Member barbershop quartet yang menyanyi dengan gua di tepi jalan di theme park, California Adventure park.
Jalan manakah nak dituju? katakan kepadaku... katakan padakuuu..
Bersama pemenang-pemenang anugerah skrin di pintu masuk Universal Studios.
Cover album baru gua. STEAM KODOK.
Hasnul dan Gua di backlot Warner brothers studio... itu set tu bukan rumah betul. Memang terror mat salleh ni menipu.
Dengan abang Jalil Hamid di depan Kodak Theatre.
Di Laugh Factory, standup comedy club bersama pelawak Godfrey dan Butch Bradley.
Amazing trip second time round. Thank you so much TV3. You guys rock!

power to the people
Afdlin Shauki

PS. LIVERPOOL AKAN MEMUSNAHKAN ARSENAL MALAM NI!!!!!

SUMO-lah vs Spiderman vs Pirates of the Carribean!

Ok check it out guys, i know a lot of you are going omigod! SUMOlah, open on the same month as Spidey and Pirates of the carribean!, possibly the two biggest film on planet earth this year but you know what guys, i have great belief that this year a simple malaysian film with a lot of heart like SUMOlah will be able to make us all proud and stand tall among the giants.
Sumolah di sumbatkan pada bulan may, tapi dengan sokongan awak semua kita boleh buat filem ini filem terbesar untuk Malaysia tahun ini, JIKA AWAK SUKA FILEM INI... BAGITAHU SEMUA RAKAN-RAKAN AWAK. Let everybody know. Tell them to go watch it in the cinemas. VCD atau DVD tu bonus.... cuba tengok di panggung.

We took a big risk investing greatly in this movie to prove that, people will appreciate it if filmmakers put the effort to up their production values and couple it with good story telling. We are ready to kasi pecah panggung bulan May ini, we hope you guys are too... It is the era of Malaysian movies my friends. Movies made for all Malaysians. The power IS IN YOUR HANDS.

SUPPORT US SO WE CAN KEEP MAKING GREAT MOVIES.

Here is a sneak peak of my new movie in thailand BRAVE / BERANI.


POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Afdlin Shauki

Apa sudah jadi dengan Afdlin Shauki??

Assalammualaikum, apa khabar kodok-kodok semua. Lama sepi menyeliputi blog ini.
sebab utamanya adalah saya telah melalui bermacam-macam jenis pengalaman dalam perjalanan saya untuk melahirkan Filem http://www.sumolah.com. Saya tak pernah menyangka yang the politics of the film industry went so deep. Having said that, i would like to announce on the blog today that the Launch of http://www.sumolah.com will be either the 10th or 17th of MAY. But MAY is confirmed. So bagitahu semua kodok-kodok semua. Thank you everyone for your support and love. Insya' allah http://www.sumolah.com will be worth the wait.
SUMOLAH BULAN MAY NI!!!! WOOO HOOO

Apa lagi nak cerita... Ohh bulan Januari dan Februari aktiviti gua di penuhi oleh penggambaran filem cuci. filem arahan Hans Isaac yang pertama dan kita mengharapkan yang terbaik buatnya. Pelik jugak bekerja dengan beliau sebagai pengarah kerana untuk empat filem sebelum ni gua direct dia, sekarang kena terima arahan dari beliau. Tapi kawan-kawan tetap memberi kepercayaan kepada hans kerana he's got his own way of doing things. Cuci adalah mengenai empat orang budak kampung yang suka mencuci dari kecil dan bercita-cita untuk satu hari mencuci KLCC. Pictures coming soon. tengah proses.

Gambaq-gambaq kat bawah ni however merupakan gambar still bagi projek terbaru gua di Thailand, BRAVE.
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Hingga ketemu lagi.... gua akan berblogging dari bangkok lepas ni.

power to the people.

afdlin shauki