Weekly Kpop Exes post - What are Krishantao up to? Kris and Jia gearing up for solo debuts!

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

This is a weekly update post on how our favorite Chinese ex-Kpop idols are doing! Info and image heavy so get comfortable and click below!

Kris Wu
Upcoming movie/music projects: Solo album and concert, xXx soundtrack, xXx: Return of Xander Cage (with Vin Diesel), Valerian (with Luc Besson), Journey to the West: Demon Chapter (with Tsui Hark), Europe Raiders (with Tony Leung)

Kris has been plenty busy!

Kris is the new Burberry global ambassador!

#KrisWu in @Burberry. A new collaboration. A new ambassador. November 2016. pic.twitter.com/K6EqjJODCC

— Burberry (@Burberry) October 13, 2016

He is the first non-British AND first Asian ambassador of the illustrious fashion house. Here he is interacting with his Valerian co-star who was a Burberry campaign star in the past:

Valerian and the City of the Thousand Planets is directed by Luc Besson and stars Cara, Dane DeHaan, Rihanna, Clive Owen, etc.

Kris is releasing his first album at his birthday concert!

Kris recorded a song for the soundtrack of his first Hollywood movie, xXx: Return of Xander Cage!

#KrisWu in studio where #MichaelJackson recorded #BAD. His new track is insane and will make noise. #xxx #xandercagereturns pic.twitter.com/t5cNwdd9sX

— D.j. Caruso (@Deejaycar) October 12, 2016

The movie also stars Vin Diesel, Deepika Padukone, Samuel L. Jackson, Tony Jaa, Donnie Yen, Nina Dobrev, Ruby Rose, Rory McCann, Toni Collete, etc

Trailer for the movie:

Kris is the creative director of fashion conglomerate, I.T. Hongkong!

I.T has invited Kris Wu to be their creative director!🌟

He even modeled for the first collection of I.T label UNDER GARDEN's Lookbook!✨ pic.twitter.com/jCsjLOuMqE

— becca (@wu_yi_fan) October 6, 2016

Kris is on the cover of 5 magazines this month!

Vogue Me

GQ

Here are some of my favorite excerpts from his GQ interview:

“What I’m most afraid of, is that my life will be totally consumed by work, afraid that I will continue to exist but not know my reason to live. So that’s why right now, I have an increasing desire to regain what I felt when I started out at the beginning, the feeling of playing basketball with friends, gaming together, traveling together."

"These young children knew who Kris Wu was, thus making the shooting process harder, and more complicated – While waiting, the kids lined up in a row, standing at the viewing section on the second floor, shouting clearly in their childlike voices, totally not shy in the slightest, to Kris Wu who was in the court. “Kris Wu, throw your ball up here!”

While the lighting was being fixed, the children all “clung” onto him, some grabbing his ears, holding onto his clothes. Like a parent, Kris Wu constantly kept on a coddling smile, and during the break, wore loose fitting trousers and played basketball with the little boys."

“What do you think of fans leaving you?”

“It’s a fast food era now, even more so for the entertainment industry. Today you like someone, tomorrow you’ll like another person, this is really common. Especially when the person you like is someone very far away, actually you have a protective layer, and you are in control of this situation. There will always be fans who leave, and there will also always be regular people who turn into fans. People are constantly changing in various degrees, and I will never be able to suit everyone."

"Then will you be afraid that there will be a day when you are not popular anymore?” The question was posed suddenly.

“Why should I be afraid that there will be a day when I am no longer popular?” The reply came equally fast.

In his eyes, in his own life, he has already once experienced missing the peak of his basketball career, which he regards as his highest achievement personally. “Upon losing something, there is nothing more to it but two emotions. "I previously had it, how could I have lost it”, or, “It’s gone, this is very normal”… I would be willing to choose to be the latter.“

"10 years later, I would be 36 years old. My fans would also be 10 years older than they are now, and would  get married and settle down, have children. At that time – Would they even do the things they do now? Perhaps, the answer may be no. Therefore, even if one day I am no longer popular, I will still be living, and will be living for myself.”

FULL INTERVIEW

YOHO! Girl



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T Mag

His latest movie (L.O.R.D.) is screening right now in China, USA, Canada, U.K., Singapore and Thailand! Here's the trailer:

Luhan
Upcoming movie/music/variety projects: More music, Hurry Up Brother Season 5, Off To School Season 2, Great Wall (with Matt Damon, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal), Fighter of the Destiny (in 2017)

Luhan has also been busy so let's check what he's been doing lately!

Luhan is one of the BOF 500 along with several international celebrities!

[INFO] 161004 BoF update: #LuHan is one of the nine cover stars of the #BoF500 directory,which is part of our latest special print edition. pic.twitter.com/MxewoTkFWx

— LuHan International (@luking0420) October 4, 2016

You can read his biography on the BOF website here.

An excerpt:

Lu Han is one of China’s most promising stars in the eyes of international brands. With 22 million followers on Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter, his social media influence is undeniable. Every single post on Lu’s Weibo feed receives over 200,000 reposts and comments and over a million “likes”. A former member of the popular South Korean boy band EXO-M, Lu landed the cover of the first issue of Vogue Me, a sister publication of Vogue China, targeting a younger generation. Lu “with his personality and unique point of view, is an authentic post-nineties generation representative,” says the title’s editor-in-chief Angelica Cheung .

Over the past 12 months alone, he has covered a string of fashion glossies including GQ China, Harper’s Bazaar China, Elle China, Marie Claire China and Vogue Me. Major fashion and beauty brands have been eager to harness the young star’s influence. He has appeared in campaigns for Cartier, Balmain, Gap, L’Oreal and Lancome. Lu and Angelica Cheung co-hosted a dinner for Olivier Rousteing earlier this year during the Balmain creative director’s visit to China.

Lu’s first solo album Reloaded, released last year with remarkable sales that went  IFPI-certificated Platinum, the very first in mainland China. A cast member on multiple domestic reality shows, Lu has been involved in movie-making, too, including The Great Wall directed by the renowned Zhang Yimou and starring Matt Damon and Willem Dafoe.

Luhan is on the cover of L'Officiel Hommes!

Luhan just finished filming his drama "Fighter of the Destiny"!

Here's the trailer!

His Hollywood movie The Great Wall (starring Matt Damon) also released a new trailer!

Z.Tao
Upcoming movie/music/variety projects: More music, Edge of Innocence, Railroad Tigers (with Jackie Chan, Darren Wang), The Game Changer (with Peter Ho), A Chinese Odyssey Drama (with Jeffrey Lau)

These three are definitely busy bees!

Tao is the new endorser for Beats by Dre!

Tao is joining season 2 of "It Takes A Real Man"!

Tao as a pilot!




Tao is the endorser for livestreaming platform Yizhibo!

[INFO] Yizhibo's advertisement vid featuring #ZTAO will be played in the cinemas & buildings in China within 3 months from Oct #黄子韬 #타오 #タオ pic.twitter.com/KAuQfEgCtz

— BaiduPreciousZTaoBar (@BaiduTaoBar) October 13, 2016

Tao is playing Monkey King in a drama adaptation of "A Chinese Odyssey"!

Here are some pics on set:

[PIC] 161002 A Chinese Odyssey drama's cast member 管羽 Weibo Update #ZTAO #黄子韬 #타오 #タオ pic.twitter.com/fkVRT4kQlb

— BaiduPreciousZTaoBar (@BaiduTaoBar) October 3, 2016

Tao's movie with Jackie Chan will be released on Dec. 30!

[PIC] 160927 "Railroad Tigers" still cuts and poster update
🎬 Movie will be released on Dec. 30#ZTAO #黄子韬 #タオ #타오 pic.twitter.com/v2irgUkdvr

— BaiduPreciousZTaoBar (@BaiduTaoBar) September 27, 2016

Here's the trailer!

Jia
Upcoming music projects: Solo comeback

I admittedly do not follow her activities so I'm just going to post what I've seen from her Instagram!

She's been preparing for a solo comeback!

Zhou Mi and Fei are with her to cheer her on!

Sources: Burberry, The Dreamer, Deejaycar, Paramount, Wu_Yi_Fan, Vogue Me Weibo, GQ China Weibo, T Mag Weibo, LuKing0420, Business of Fashion, fyeah!Luhan, Legendary, Beats by Dre Weibo, BaiduTaoBar, Jia Instagram, Zhou Mi Instagram

Post more updates in the comments if I missed some!



Note: Shanny approved the idea and it's experimental as of now! Please accept this mods!

Comments

[belintuchiha.livejournal.com]

This is so great cause I have no intentions of checking different sites to update myself of the whereabouts of my ex exo m babies. So yay for this post!!! I love it, thank you so much, OP.

So glad the chinaline is doing good and even better ♥

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

And I'm so proud of them too!

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

Omg thank you OP!!! This is awesome. Perfect way too keep in touch with ex-members without flooding Omona. Hopefully people who follow other ex-members can help you next time - abot Jia especially! It's cute to see her friends supporting her. Really looking forward to hear her solo songs.
Kris' photoshoot with kids is so cute. Also I still can't believe he landed a role in Valerian, I read the comics as a child and having them meeting kpop still blows my mind. Do you know how far they are in the process?
Tao as monkey king XD

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

Also it looks like some of the spoilers/cuts doesn't work well, the preview for the post is really long on the front page (with Kris and Luhan's updates)

[tsuyoi-hikari.livejournal.com]

My goodness, what's up with Chinese productions and CGI? Is it really the big thing right now?

The Matt Damon's movie trailer looks kind of embarrassing? But I will be watching it for sure. :P

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of issues with that movie tbh!

[jyouzebin.livejournal.com]

Wow Luhan, Pedro Pascal (my man crush) and Andy Lau (my daddy) in one movie? Sounds like a must watch even though the plot is meh to me

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

Lucky you, haha! It comes out next year. Be sure to check it out!

[yixingsforehead.livejournal.com]

happy about this format.
i hope people don't mind it if it's a weekly thing... i'm lazy to keep up with the separate communities, so good to see everything in one place, even though it's not korean focused...

kris x burberry reminds me i need a tao x gucci sunglasses line or something

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hopefully people will be okay with the idea! It's definitely more convenient to have all the news in one place!

I wonder if Tao still likes Gucci, lol.

[maknaeroli.livejournal.com]

YESSS THANK YOU MODS FOR ACCEPTING THIS IDEA!!

Op your post is super organized! I had no idea about Kris's stuff lately at least when it comes to album stuff so I'm very interested!' I still listen to time boils the rain like once a day lol!!

There's talk about luhan releasing new music this month too at least with drama filming complete~!! 134 days of filming orz

THANK YOU OP!! I'd put a gif here but I'm on mobile and have to run lol

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

I'm optimistic about Kris' album! He was in the studio with Travis Scott and he's working with producers who worked on Kendrick's album, some songs from Purpose, and "All Night" from Lemonade.

I haven't heard about new music from Luhan! That's great!

You're welcome :)

[greywonderland.livejournal.com]

I wonder what han will do now that fighter of destiny finished filming.. there has been only a little updates about him lately, hopefully he starts some new variety show or smth, I truly miss back to school..
+ he has reddish brown hair now (if that pic on his IG isn't some old picture because lulu loooves to post old pics)

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised they aren't airing Running Man? They usually come out around this time!

I thought his hair looked pink tbh but I didn't get a good look, haha!

[misspoirot.livejournal.com]

I love kris so so much at one point in my life and im soo glad hes doing great. So proud of my bby

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

I'm glad all his hard work is paying off <3 Hopefully he takes a break after releasing music.

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I hope so too!

It's not a big role but I'm so glad he got to be in the movie. Everything sounds cool so far and it's going to be visually gorgeous!

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

Definitely glad to hear what all of them are doing. There seems to be a false perception on certain international KPOP sites that the Chinese members who left are not successful. I follow a Kris tumblr but I still missed some of these Magazine photo shoots.

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

He does a lot of photoshoots and he has at least two more covers coming out next month so it's really hard to keep track lol. I completely understand.

Do you follow fyifan? They're pretty thorough with posting updates.

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

I just think of the money going to SM as charity and will hopefully go to some of the new idols because those are the ones who need cash. Hopefully they're better paid now.

I wish his hair wasn't so fried.

[cafetin99.livejournal.com]

This is c-kpop/ent news. I thought that Omona was only for k-pop/ent. I guess things have changed (?)

Anyway, I hope this does not automatically label me as a hater by their fans...

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

Things haven't exactly changed but the admin of Omona allowed for a weekly update post about those celebrities who were once in Kpop but aren't anymore :)

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

I approve of this post! Great idea, OP!

I wish kris would smile more often, his smile is so cute.
Luhan will forever look like a baby to me. I was blown away when i learned hes a 90er.

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

He's very insecure of his gummy smile lol but I agree! His smile is cute and he should smile more.

Luhan is actually interesting in that sometimes he looks really, really young and sometimes he looks old lol.

[suggestivepeach.livejournal.com]

Yesssss!! I am 100% on board with these posts. I loved Chinaline so much back when I stanned EXO but I was also too lazy to keep up with their schedules after they left. I'm happy to see everyone doing so well post-kpop. Still not over Jia leaving Miss A though.

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

Glad you're on board! :D

[torontok.livejournal.com]

This is an awesome idea and kudos to you OP, this post must've been a monster to make and source.

They're all being quite busy lately. I'm really excited for Tao's movies to come out.Edge of Innocence has had so many delays

I'm so hyped for Kris' album, he's been blessing us with so much this year, he's had so many covers and movies come out. (PSA: Watch Sweet Sixteen, it'll break your heart but it's sooo good.)Adn yes at my king being Burberry's first Asian ambassador.

I miss Luhan, it's weird to have him be so low-key. I thought the new season of Running Man China would've started by now.
I also need more cat updates from him.

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

I feel like it would be wiser for them to wait a bit because the festivals are already done and if they want EOI to join film festivals (and I feel like they would, considering who the director is) then they should wait until next year!

I love love love Sweet Sixteen. I would post a link but I don't think it's allowed here. I love his acting in that movie! Really tugs at your heartstrings.

Luhan will probably film some stuff? Or release more music. I don't think he'll stay low for long.

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

the pics of kris with the kids are adorable

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

They are! Kris x kids is my ultimate weakness.

[dio-elaclaire.livejournal.com]

yay! tbh i only care about tao but i'm glad they're all doing well

[words-by-ash.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I miss Exo M.

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I miss them too.

[cosmicjam.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm so happy this idea was approved, thanks op!!

Damn Tao is getting that beats endorsement money(not that he needs it lol). I wonder when he's going to have new music, cuz he always has straight up jams.

I don't think I'll ever not be shocked at how fast and how huge kris has become, he has a lot of hustle

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

He'll probably have more music soon. I wouldn't be surprised if he released a song specifically for his Beats endorsement.

[hozrien.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love this post, it makes it way easier to keep up with them and know what they're up to.

Thanks OP!

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

OP if you're interested for next time I'll try to gather what Jiyoung (ex-Kara) has been doing, I don't think a lot of people know that she has already release three solo songs and is supposed to release a debut album in Japan soon! (and dramas)

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

I can definitely add those! Although I think that for her you don't have to put them under this feature because she's Korean and she can have her own post? Not sure though tbh! But I can do it if you give me the updates! :)

[bloodtaki2.livejournal.com]

Glad to see a post about these three. I hope we'll keep having those regularly.

Also, good job op, the sourcing must have been such a hassle.

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

I hope so too!

It was lol but it's okay especially since this is only a weekly thing and the next post won't be as info-heavy because we already had this first post.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

This just got me wondering: Anyone know what the Tasty Twins are up to?

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

The last time I saw them was accidental - they were in that show Kris and Jessica appeared in, Day Day Up. Aside from that I have no idea what they're up to. I tried to find fansites on twitter but failed.

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

I think that she, Fei and Zhou Mi will always be inseparable.

[jrt131n.livejournal.com]

I so want to see that L.O.R.D

Movie that Kris is in. It looks amazing. I'm proud of luhan for getting a role along side Andy Lau, still not happy about Matt whitesplaining Damon had to be in it too. Maybe I'll catch it on tv, but won't be wasting my money to check it out.

[ohmontauk.livejournal.com]

I loved L.O.R.D. It was fun and entertaining.

Yeah I hated the way Matt Damon addressed the white savior issue. He just doesn't get why there's a problem.