The Golden Rock - November 6th, 2007 Edition

- It's Japanese drama ratings time! Galileo saw another small decline in its 3rd week, though it's still very strong at 21.3 rating (yes, I realize that the 4th week has already been shown, and we'll look at that next week). Fuji's 3rd Saturday 11pm drama SP premiered to a fairly strong 14.5 rating, which makes it the strongest premiere ratings for that time slot (Liar Game premiered at 12.3 and Life premiered at a 11 rating.). The challenge now is whether word-of-mouth will carry like the previous two dramas have.

Meanwhile, Iryu 2 rebounded slightly to a 15.8 for the 4th week, Hatachi No Koibito dipped all the way to a 7.4 rating, Joshi Deka continues its fall to an 8.4 rating for its 3rd week, but Takashi Sorimachi's Dream Again does manage to rebound slightly to a 10.0 rating in its 4th week.

All Japanese drama information on Tokyograph

- In American Film Market news, both buyers and sellers are complaining about the slow start. This is, of course, due to the constant stream of film markets happening not only in Asia, but also in Rome.

Meanwhile, since I'm a Hong Kong blogger, why would I not include a link about a panel on Hong Kong? Of course, it's going to be about lots and lots of co-productions.

- Then in your daily Andrew Lau news, the Weinstein Company decides to give Lau another Hollywood movie to work on, even though his first Hollywood movie hasn't even been released in Hong Kong.

Sorry this is a truncated version of the usual posts, despite having lots of news out there. We'll try to do things more normally tomorrow.