The latest poster for sci-fi disaster film The Wandering Earth.
Posters, stills, photoshoots, and random photos that caught my eye this week.
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Original Sin releases final trailer and new stills
Zhai Tianlin and Yin Zheng looking to hop on that lucrative and popular BL ship train of late.
Zhai Tianlin and Yin Zheng’s detective series Original Sin 原生之罪 released its final trailer recently, with plans to come out maybe this month but maybe not. The two play archenemies turned allies in a super shippy drama.
Casting call: Another My Fair Princess adaptation
The third adaptation of My Fair Princess / Huan Zhu Ge Ge 还珠格格 is being made through a collaboration of Tencent (Ever Night, An Oriental Odyssey) and author Qiong Yao.
They’re looking for actors across the world ages 18+ for every role. Should be able to have basic acting skills and line-reading in Chinese. Interested parties should e-mail xhuanzhu@163.com or call at (+86) -0731-84802648.
Live-action meets animated series Dramaholic is also a Peking Opera rap musical and a sci-fi
Dramaholic combines 2D backgrounds, 3D animation, live-action, a 2D world, our world, an Internet world, Peking opera, rap, rock, and martial arts.
Not only does Dramahoic combine Peking opera animation with live-action humor, it turns out that it is also a Peking opera and rap musical and has a cyber dimension.
When an animated Peking Opera character goes through mid-show identity crisis, he escapes to the live-action human world. The rest of the opera troupe, each one representing a type of Peking opera character, must now enter our world to bring him back. They take a “dimension increase” pill and enter our world. In our world, they must avoid cameras since they turn into animation whenever they’re photographed. Once a day, they can also go into stage mode to fight. Based on the trailer, at some point they also all enter the Internet.
Dramaholic 戏隐江湖 airs two episodes on iQiyi here every Wednesday and Thursay starting on the 12th behind Never Ever Expected (万万没想到).
I’ve seen the first two episodes and the music is actually pretty good. The songs so far are one Peking Opera + rap mix, one Peking opera, and one xiaoqu (?).
Here’s the new trailer:
The Story of Yanxi Palace is the most googled show of the year on Earth
All hail the Emperor.
Despite a large portion its audience using Baidu, The Story of Yanxi Palace 延禧攻略 is the most googled show of the year all over the globe. The tv series was the only Chinese name to make it on any of the lists on Google’s Top Searches of the Year released today.
The show has shot to fame its stars Wu Jinyan and Xu Kai, and re-launched the careers of Nie Yuan, Qin Lan, Charmaine Sheh, and most importantly producer Yu Zheng. After a successful online run, it received successful runs on TV in the mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. You can watch the hit show English subbed on Viki and Chinese subbed on Youtube.
Ma Sichun, Jiang Wenli, Chen Ran repping Anhui
Ma Sichun and her baby ducklings (cc: her otp Zhou Dongyu aka little yellow duckling) .
Aunt-niece pair Jiang Wenli and Ma Sichun reps theirs home of Anhui province with model-actress Chen Ran. Jiang Wenli and Ma Sichun return to their hometown of Bengbu, a city known for its freshwater products, while Chen Ran goes home to Xiaoxian, known for its traditional Chinese paintings.
The Forbidden Palace launches their own makeup line
The Forbidden Palace Museum store transacted over 1 billion RMB last year, and yet it’s still coming up with new ways to take all my money
After fans repeatedly asking for an original makeup line, The Forbidden Palace Museum has finally delivered with two beautiful makeup sets and two single items with both packaging and colors by the Forbidden Palace itself and the museum’s collections. Each piece costs between 66 – 160 RMB and can be brought on their taobao store (which now takes foreign credit cards and ships abroad).
P.S. I know it’s not Sunday but this news was too exciting to wait.
Song Yiren, Yan Yuhao sign up for love in Time Teaches Me To Love
Both leads are Chinese-Canadian and Beijing Film Academy alums.
Song Yiren is capitalizing on her newly-found fame as the adorable Sangsang in EverNight with the release of her new idol drama, Time Teaches Me To Love 时光教会我爱你, on December 10th. She’ll co-star with Jerry Yan Yuhao (not to be confused with THE Jerry Yan) in a pretty standard plot of a contract marriage to deal with demanding parents.
Li Yuchun by Xu Chuang
Singer Li Yuchun looks like a superhero/supervillain in this photoshoot by Trunk Xu.
The art of movie posters by Huang Hai
Movie posters designed by artist Huang Hai, including for The Sun Also Rises, Big Fish & Begonia Shoplifters, Dying to Survive, Tai-Chi 0, The Ghouls, My Neighbor Totoro, Ashe is the Purest White Shadow, Hidden Man, The Golden Era, and Massters in the Forbidden City.
