Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX looking at chinese dramaland in the past week
for the past week. It was chinese New year, the biggest holiday of the year.
It would be a very sad thing if a lot of people are still working.
Still, we have a couple of things, so let's go through them one by one, first
As i'm recording this video on the 27th, a drama should have just gone live on Hunan television and Mango TV
called Jin Sheng Ye Shi Di Yi Ci, For the First Time of My Life
It is led by Wang Ziwen, Tang Yixin, Hu Xinger
This is a contemporary drama focused on three female roles who are born in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
They are all giving birth to babies,
three different moms' story of becoming mother for the first time in their life at different age.
Let's see how well that drama is gonna perform.
I would try my best to check on it, no promises yet.
Then we have some news on a few different dramas at different stages of production.
First, there is an Iqiyi Light On, Mi Wu Ju Chang suspense crime thriller drama
that is likely to go live very soon.
It is called Hui Xiang, English title Echo Song Jia, Wang Yang
anybody who's watched A Lifelong Journey, they are a couple in that drama
part of the drama ok not the whole drama, but some part of the drama
and I really dig their coupling, they look so good together
and I like both actor actress a lot.
So when this drama airs whenever that is i'll definitely check it out.
Our female lead played by Song Jia is a policewoman and and there's
murder this kind of serial killer, fingers crossed it's gonna air very soon.
The other thing about this drama is it's directed by Feng Xiaogang
the film director who hasn't really done very well when
he ventured into television series, that drama he did,
which was a pretty big failure, so this time it's a thriller.
Let's see if that works.
Also during this week a drama has wrapped or pretty much
it's like right before chinese new year so that the crew managed to
actually go home and have a holiday.
Good for them, which is the drama contemporary one
Wo Men de Fan Yi Guan, Our Interpreter
I have talked about this before.
It's led by Song Qian and Chen Xingxu and the title is pretty
much the spoiler you know exactly what you're going in for.
I cannot wait to see Chen Xingxu in a contemporary drama in suits,
he looks really good based on production shots.
And he's at the low point of his body weight, i'd say in his career,
he's one of those people who unfortunately has to stay skinny to look good on camera.
Since it's a contemporary drama, it probably will come out even like within the first half of the year.
Let's hope for that
also during the chinese new year break or pretty much like right before it,
the drama that has started shooting very recently December,
that i've talked about 199 Ai, Stories of Youth and Love
love the Yang Zi and Fan Chengcehng lead a group of people growing up in the same place
and then focusing on their high school and then many years later,
as they become adults story that features a lot of different people
that drama has officially released its first
within the drama production shots and posters to give you an idea of
what it would look like, the vibe.
Then during this week, even though it's holiday,
we still have 1 piece of news about a drama that has announced
that the project is a go, they're gonna start making it very soon,
a period drama based on existing novel as most of the dramas these days are
Song Zuer and Liu Yuning, Zhe Yao, English title The Prisoner of Beauty
and the synopsis is about kind of two families at odds with each other.
And the girl from one family has to marry into the guy's family for political alliance,
but they're not really seeing eye to eye, to each other the families.
So it's the type of mary first and fall in love later.
And then that actually solves the problem for the two families,
but also helping that city and that stronghold and everyone to to have a better life.
That type of story, very typical let's say novel land story
Song Zuer is even smaller in size, say, like visually, right
when you think about her and Zhao Lusi
So when Zhao Lusi was pairing with Liu Yuming in that Dilraba drama
Huge contrast of size is like a huge thing that people dig.
So for Song Zuer to be paired up with Liu Yuning that's gonna be a even bigger difference,
very very big guy and very very small girl.
Let's hope that pairing will work out some kind of magical chemistry.
Liu yuning is so busy, he literally just finished filming the drama with
Liu Shishi, and now he's in another period drama.
I wonder you know like who is the PR and agency person responsible
to get him all those roles ,that person or that team is like really
on steroids.
Then during chinese new year's break,
the good news comes to the drama Knockout that is still airing and
]will very soon finish airing right on the first day of February, If I haven't remembered wrong
on iqiyi it has finally climbed to the top heat, popularity, level drama of all times
ever since iqiyi started to implement this scale system of how popular drama is.
Calculating the view count, peak time performance, comments all that into consideration.
Last year the top drama was Cang Lan Jue and this drama is higher than that.
And just as I was like sitting down making this video,
the new number comes out,
it has broken record of 11,000 officially putting Knockout
onto the first position of dramas ever aired on this platform.
Congratulations. All I can say is that and also because it's chinese new year
and it's right at the beginning of a new year,
they really picked the right one to throw out at the this time and performed as well,
I guess, like the people who are responsible for this drama and
also within iqiyi's drama department are having champagnes it.
It's a really good drama. I will talk about it probably after it has finished airing
since it's gonna finish airing very soon.
So the ideal thing would be once it finishes airing, talk about it.
Then to wrap up today's video,
let's end it with film since it's still chinese spring festival film slot
and not even bloodbath. It's like nuclear war is going on in chinese cinema.
I will talk about that a little bit,
but first because of the like the fight that's going on between films,
that is so fierce, Zhong Guo Ping Pang, chinese ping pong, chinese table tennis, that film,
that's Yu baimei, Deng Chao, and also led by Deng Chao and Sun Li, decided to quit,
they retreated, and it's like we do not wanna get into this fight
because we're not gonna get any money out of this.
Clearly, it's a fight between that that that film, no position for us.
So they pulled their phone off on the third day, I think of the chinese new year and announced
they're gonna go into the Valentine slot, which is february 17 ish.
That's when they're gonna release this film.
Chinese ping pong ran away. That sounds so funny for some reason.
I mean I totally understand.
Commercially business-wise, a very wise decision,
so what's going on in chinese Spring Festival film slot right now is
after about 3 days leading into chinese new year,
it became clear that this time the fight for the first position in the box office performance
is gonna be between Zhang Yimou's Man Jiang Hong, Full River Red
the period setting spy, murder, thriller film
and Wangdering Earth 2, Liu Lang Di QIu
Right now, Man Jiang Hong is on top
but this is only the first week of chinese spring festival.
Tomorrow everybody's gonna go back to work.
and so yhat's gonna change how all the screens scheduled film
also prices, also who would go where and watching it in what way.
So usually for chinese spring festival slot, if you look at it,
you'll think about it as the first part and the second part
the first leg is the holiday when everybody is off.
The second part is holiday's ending, but the films usually stay in cinema
for half a month to a month time.
So something may still change
during this week, a lot of like rather ugly things have been going on in chinese Cinema
mostly actually not to do with the film itself or even the filmmakers,
but the promotion. because promotion is huge for films
usually it can take up like 30 to 40% of your entire budget,
but certain promotional tactics of certain film is something that is so really low class.
I haven't seeing that to that extent and to that level ever in chinese cinema,
but this year we're seeing it, not gonna point out the name,
but if you do the research, you're gonna find out,m it's pretty despicable.
Certain films are doing that.
A lot of people are complaining and you see a lot of content creators
jumping out and just like in most sarcastic ways, talking about certain films tactics
of like ruthlessly shamelessly trying to grab money from people
and then whatever using whatever connections they have ~~
to just make the competition unfair.
But anyway, we are not gonna talk too much about that.
It's weird you know for my channel like I speak in english and i'm mostly
facing international audience and then talk about these things
that like no chinese domestic people will really care about
in terms of like they wouldn't come and watch my videos and see how I talk about it.
So it's kind of like irrelevant what I say.
And also you don't need to know these things. It's very negative.
Basically the energy surrounding it is just so nasty and like
yeah i'd rather look at pretty or nicer things and cats and bunnies
and cute animals than these type of crappy things during chinese new year.
So if you just like got super confused about what I just ranted about,
ignore that, ignore that.
Sometimes I just~~~ and can't control~~~ what goes on between my brain and mouth,
although it's only that bit of a distance, but sometimes it's the furthest distance
on planet earth or even in the universe, ahwhatever
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I promise i'll look much more normal okay in my next video
when I actually talk about a specific drama,
also like since my channel passed like 100k
i'm just wondering what Youtube is gonna do because
supposedly people are gonna get those little things, right?
Like when you pass 100 k or 1 million subscribers,
you're gonna get those things from youtube.
I don't know if they still send them,
because I haven't got contacted by anybody yet.
If it doesn't happen, it doesn't matter.I'm just curious.
I just remembered bnefore I woke up this morning, I was like,
oh did anybody contact me about like sending me that thing?
Not yet, um okay whatever.
Maybe they're also having chinese new year.
Please take care. I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.