Hi, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
Did you miss me?
as usual, in the orders of things closest to us.
First let's talk about dramas that have gone live
on the 27th a drama pretty much air dropped on iqiyi
Mi Hang Kun Lun Xu, We've talked about this drama
a couple of times before
Lost in the Kunlun Mountains
led by Xu Kai and Zhong Chuxi
A Min Guo time setting drama based on the novel,
written by Tian Xia Ba Chang
who is also the author of Candle in Tomb series
So you know this is that type of drama
to do with that type of plot and theme.
I've checked out the firs half of the first episode,
the night time jumping on the roof, chasing scene
looking very much like they haven't done the green screen well
the lighting on the people and the background lighting of the night,
they just don't go together.
okay If you watched that part,
you probably know what I mean.
I shall see if I can get time to check out more episodes.
As i'm recording this video on friday,
a drama has just gone live also without announcing, air dropped.
On mango television,
a 34 episode drama Bei Yi Wang de Shi Guang
Time Seems to Have Forgoteen
It's a contemporary drama led by Lan Yingying and Fan Chengcheng
Lan Ying Ying, Fan Cheng Cheng
Although Lan Yingying's name is not double character.
it sounds the same.
And the story is pretty interesting and fantastical.
Basically, there's a pawn shop you can go to
where you would pawn a love affair.
Your memory of it of your life.
Once you pawned it, you can get the whatever you want
such as fame, money, success,
but you will forget about that part of the life experience you had,
and everybody who knows it would also forget that type of thing.
So you're trading that.
If you ever want to go back on that,
first is what you've gotten.
will have to be returned to the pawn shop,
you'll lose it and then you will have to pay extra.
That's a story set up and our two leads who are
a couple went in and then traded up for something,
but then they wanna go back on their words.
And looking quite interesting,
I haven't had time to check out this drama at all.
I just looked at the trailer and I know it's on air.
I would definitely go and take a look at it.
Then there is a drama that has just announced they're gonna go life on
the first day of August on both satellite television and web called
Di Er Ci Yong Bao
Literally mean in the second embrace or second time of embracing
English title official is My Way
Okay, and it's a contemporary drama that's about four couples.
If you look at the poster, you'll see eight actors playing the four couples.
The leading one should be Du Chun and Chen Shu
Then during this week,
as I predicted,
the second part of love like galaxy aired right after the first part
before this week's episodes aired,
because Tencent didn't announce what's the plan for
the second part of the drama and part one ends at 27,
which would be on the second day of this week's airing the first episode.
The dramas fans were screaming on internet, were like Tencent,
what are you doing?
Are you gonna tell us what's your schedule?
Or you know do we have to wait?
And if you don't air it on time
we're gonna all kill you and blah, blah, blah, blah,
and The grass mower joins in.
Hello,
how are you
and on the day when it was supposed to air
the last episode of the first half 27
it just literally aired the next one as well
and i'm like
Tencent you're just so good at playing people's
play the fans around its finger.
So the drama continues on airing and as it stands for now,
it should finish airing for all the vip subscribers of Tencent
pretty much last day like 30th of August
marathon.
We still have a whole long month to go.
then Let's talk about a couple of other dramas
at different stages of production.
Number one,
there's a drama that has wrapped during this week
and that is the Zheng Wu Yang Guang, high profile
destined to air around this year's china's national day
which would be in October, Xian Wei Da Yuan, A Very
Shan Hai Qing-ish drama that's led by Hu Ge
and then directed by the best directors from ZWYG
Kong Sheng,
also featuring Wu Yue, also featuring Zhang Xincheg as the main leads
and then a lot of familiar actors actresses
two whole months of post production
and then october this drama is gonna come out.
So for all the Hu Ge fans who haven't seen him
in a contemporary drama for a long time,
we have about 60/70 days to go before we can see him on screen
also a drama wrapped during this week.
We've talked about previously call Zui Yao Yuan de Ju Li,
The Furthest Distance
contemporary drama led by Zhang Yunlong and Zhong Chuxi
A doctor and a designer I also heard I think
the final casting list of the Hu Yao drama,
the fox demon one that I thought would feature Gong Jun
Wei Zheming, Zhang Yunlong in same drama now is changed
to Gong Jun, Wei Zheming and Mao Zijun, is shooting
But definitely not gonna see it this year
also during this week,
the next big project of Zhao Li Ying, Yu Feng Xing,
The Legend of Shen Li
another drama titled with her character's name has
released its first set of posters for the two leads
Zhao Liying and Li Gengxin
Look at that.
You can get a feel about what this drama may look like.
We will get more stuff as time goes on for sure.
Then there are two dramas that have started shooting during this week.
One is a project i've mentioned not so long ago,
The Imperfect Victim they already started production,
and the two female leads would be Zhou Xun and Lin Yun
One is a lawyer who is only defendant's side
and then Lin Yun plays the victim.
I can't imagine actually how interesting the face off scenes
would look like between Lin Yun and Zhou Xun, and i'll
definitely keep an eye on this production and its progression.
Hopefully it turns out to be a good drama.
The other one has started shooting is a
contemporary drama that's set in the time of
the 1990s.
So think about these couple of dramas.
If you've watched them,
that's the same time period setting called
Na Xie Hui Bu Qu de Shao NIan Shi Guang
Stand By Me, English Title,
Led by Zhao Jinmai and Bai Yufan
They were in Reset.
But Bai Yufan in that drama was only a guest guest, super guest star.
Both of them are very good actors.
So acting wise,
not worried about that.
Hopefully they can recreate that atmosphere of 1990s in china,
which is a very interesting time.
And I definitely have clear memory of.
Also during this week,
a film actually should have just gone live
officially in chinese theaters called Du Xing Yue Qiu, Moon Man
a comedy that's done by the Kai Xin Ma Hua team,
which is a well known comedy team that mainly features Sheng Teng
Ma Li, these people.
It's released in theater now
It has already got a couple of premier in different places and i'm already
seeing film criticism, reviews on internet in china about this project.
Clearly I cannot see it where I am now
I have to wait for the internet release
which would be in a couple of months time
it's a comedy about somebody who got trapped on moon.
With a kangaroo.
I really want to see the kangaroo actually don't care about
the human story and all the ridiculous scenarios they have,
but there's that really musclely kangaroo who would be beat up
the male lead in this film on the moon
then to wrap up today's video,
not anything specific,
but Youku during this week have kind of announced
that they have plans for a couple of dramas
to for sure go live for the next part of this year.
So from August to December,
they're planning to throw out at least these couple of dramas,
the Chi Dao contemporary drama about athletes and sportsmen
led by Wang Anyu and Jin Chen
An Le Zhuan, You know what it is, right?
Period drama led by Gong Jun and Dilraba
that has all the elements of torturing period dramas,
revenge and palaces and ~~~all the~~
like you can imagine
that drama is also aiming at airing before the end of the year,
but probably closer to the last quarter,
so not yet
Xing Luo Ning Cheng Tang, the kind of period fantasy drama
led by Chen Xingxu and Li Landi
the genre I definitely have outgrown,
but i'm just curious to just take a look at how
they gonna put Li Landi and Chen Xingxu together.
I don't know somehow in my brain, right?
What I think about CXX and period drama I just
think of Goodbye Princess and when I think about Li Landi
I can only imagine her pretty much only in contemporary dramas
so it will be cool to see how that's gonna look
and then the contemporary drama
Da Huo Ji Yu Gong Zhu Qun
Chen Feiyu and Zhang Jingyi
That one is also aimed at airing before the end of the year.
I don't know I have a weird feeling about that drama.
I feel like it's either a black horse, black sheep,
or it's gonna die quietly.
We should just look at Chen Feiyu's chart and see if
his luck is gonna turn towards the end of this year,
because he's been really unlucky.
Think about the couple projects he's involved in previously.
The first, obviously,
the Immortality thing
that when it was filming was so big and so popular
everybody was looking at it and then BANG
BL kind of getcompletely in china
Crown prince is still tearing of his calendars and not
knowing when that drama's gonna come
earlier this year the Gold Panning thing that
although has a pretty good production quality,
didn't make a splash in any sense.
And the only thing that made him kind of a bit noticed during
this year was that variety show where he joined in his parents
at that staged dinner that was
so awkward,
one of the most awkward moment in variety show history.
So he needs a drama and I can't wait to see him leading,
let's say a broader audience base possibility drama
such as this one the lighter which is a bg
which is a contemporary drama where
he looks good
like not muddied up digging gold and covered in dust and
losing his fingers and toes and the type of thing
that should be the end of this video.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
i'll go back to my work mode.
Let's see how long it's gonna take this time
for me to take the next break.
Please take care.
I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy.
Drama watching.