I'm pretty sure the Dream Concert performers would win, because if you just combined the Big Bang + Super Junior + SHINee + SNSD fanbase, it's already pretty crazy even without the others thrown in. Besides, there's the weird thing about Rain being somehow less popular in his own country than you would expect, given that his face was on Korea Airlines and he's supposed to be the most well-known K-entertainment export, officially anyway.

I've heard good things about Ninja Assassin and the trailer is interesting, although the title still makes me want to cry. By definition, 'ninja' covers the role of 'assassin' so... Anyway, the storyline reminds me of Lian Hearn's Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori) with the whole idea of the ruthless secret society training orphans in espionage and assassination. I'd recommend the book if you're interested in that kind of thing :)

Actually, I guess you can just wait until the movie comes out. Apparently film rights were sold before the first book was published to Universal Studios and the script is in development.

That pic looks more like ninja vs wolverine

@jerjonji - 

Well, I tried to go see a Rain concert and the hype was all there - they even put him on the front cover of the L.A. Times' Calendar - and of course, we all know that that one got canceled :( I doubt they scheduled the concerts on the same day on purpose, but I'm pretty sure the Dream Concert schedulers weren't all that concerned, given that SO MANY people go to the Dream Concert. The weird thing is that on the official website, they have TVXQ listed and are using their pictures in the promos...despite the whole lawsuit business. I would've thought they would be promoting Big Bang or something to avoid giving the wrong impression, but I guess they're trying to draw a more international market.

I can't believe they're calling Rain the "next Jet Li." Or, I can believe it, but it's a horrified belief, because I'm so incredibly sick of how everything outside of the U.S. has to be "the next" or "the -insert ethnicity- -insert American celebrity name-" You know, the way Rain is the Korean Usher, SE7EN is the Korean Justin Timberlake, BoA is the Korean Britney, Lim Jeong Hee is Beyonce/Alicia Keys, and to top it off, 2 PM just became "the Korean Jonas Brothers." (No kidding. That last one just absolutely killed me.) I could go on and on...and the sad thing is, the Korean media and the entertainment companies buy into it to some extent too and adopt it for promotion purposes. I just hope that what happened to Se7en doesn't happen to Rain. I had a bad feeling when I saw that they completely "remade" Se7en with the new wannabe gangster look, hair cut, etc. like they were trying to Americanize him. Now his career's in limbo and even if he were to go back to Korea, the next generation has started to take over.

I can see why they might think the "Jet Li" brand is a good marketing strategy - did you know that for Hero, they originally were going to title it "Jet Li's Hero" just because they were afraid it wouldn't sell without his name up front - but the comparison here is even worse than usual. Jet Li trained and competed for years and, let's face it, that's how he got respect when he started transitioning to Hollywood and had horrible Engrish. Not quite on Rain's "I control my mind with chicken breasts" level, but people were even less forgiving back them. You can't just drop someone into a movie role, have them train for hours and hours, and expect them to ride on someone else's fame. Worse of all, even if he becomes "the next Jet Li" like they want him to be, he'll just be typecast as a martial arts actor, which I guess is kind of the point in terms of marketing since Jet Li's not intending to make any more martial arts epics.

Just dropping in to say hello. Will go if the movie comes anywhere near me, but I'll probably be seeing it on DVD.

Are you drooling?

I'm not sure if we are scheduled for this movie yet... I saw the preview a while back and meant to ask if you knew about it or not. I think it looks pretty cool... better than another Edison movie!