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【Movie】
Posters for the Shanghai TV Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival at a Shanghai subway station
Unconsciously, the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival is coming to an end, and the "Golden Goblet Award" ceremony will be held at the Shanghai Grand Theater on the evening of June 21. After that, it will enter the Shanghai TV Festival, and the 30th Shanghai TV Festival will be held from June 23 to June 27.
→ 2025 Shanghai International Film and Television Festival Special
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Directed by Peter Chan and starring Zhang Ziyi, "The Mystery of Jiangyuan Lane" will be officially released on June 21, but it has been screened since it was unveiled as the opening film of the Shanghai International Film Festival on June 14. As of 3 pm on June 20, its preview box office has accumulated more than 30 million yuan, and with pre-sales, the total box office has accumulated more than 50 million yuan.
The total box office of previews and pre-sales of "The Mystery of Jiangyuan Lane" exceeded 50 million yuan.
The top three box office movies this week were "The Sauce Garden Mystery", "How to Train Your Dragon" and "The Good, Bad and the Ugly". However, in today's single-day box office, "Mission: Impossible 8", which has been released for 22 days, surpassed "The Good, Bad and the Ugly" which has been released for a week and ranked third.
Other new films released this weekend include the animated film "Art Academy 1994" directed by Liu Jian and the French film "The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan".
→ Premiere｜"Art Academy 1994" pays tribute to "the courage and vitality of growing freely"
【TV drama】
New drama news
On June 16, the urban romance drama "Fly to My Heart" started filming and officially announced the starring lineup - Wei Zheming and Liu Xening, and was broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV. The drama is adapted from Qiao Yao's novel "Landing on My Heart", and the heroine wants to become a pilot.
On June 18, the anti-drug criminal investigation drama "The Game" officially announced its starring lineup - Wang Qianyuan and Jiang Xin; it will be exclusively broadcast on iQiyi.
On June 19, the costume drama "A Thousand Miles of Moonlight" starring Bao Shangen and Wang Hongyi was announced to be completed. Quan Yilun, Ma Qiuyuan and Yang Shize also starred in it. The drama was adapted from Luo Qingmei's novel of the same name.
New drama starts
Directed by Guo Hu, written by Ren Zhuangliu and Charlotte, and starring Li Yitong and Liu Yuning , "A Dream in the Book" will premiere on iQiyi on June 26. The play tells the story of Song Xiaoyu (played by Li Yitong), a 180-line actress, who accidentally travels into the world of the script and becomes the heroine Song Yimeng. This journey of changing the fate of the paper man who fights against the predetermined fate also slowly begins.
On June 20, the preview of "Lychees in Chang'an" starring Lei Jiayin and Yue Yunpeng came to an end. The results of the lychee transfer will be announced soon. Did Li Shande stick to his original intention and successfully reunite with his family? It will be announced at 19:30 today.
In addition, "Linjiangxian" starring Bai Lu and Zeng Shunxi will be updated on June 21, leading directly to the finale.
The Quenching Age
Adapted from the novel by Noon Sunshine + A Nai, this business war-themed film, starring Zhang Xincheng + Song Zuer, tells the story of Liu Jun (played by Zhang Xincheng), who returned to his hometown of Donghai after studying in Germany in the late 1990s. In line with the development of the times, he is determined to transform his father's old machinery manufacturing plant into a technologically advanced modern manufacturing plant.
Poster of "Quenching Age"
The author enjoyed watching the process of Liu Jun's confrontation with various people inside and outside the factory. Although the first two episodes were a bit bland in explaining the relationship between the characters and the background of the times, in the third to sixth episodes, many supporting characters in the play gradually showed their vivid side. Faced with the difficulties of reform, everyone stood from their own perspectives, and also had their own persistence and difficulties. The delicate brushstrokes and lines made each character come alive in the group portrait.
On June 19, the peak Kuyun ratings (seconds) of the drama reached 2.2290%, ranking first among all TV dramas on all channels, with both peak and average values increasing.
"Huan Yu"
The drama, starring Zhang Jingyi and Zhou Yiran, is adapted from the novel of the same name by Qiang Yu. It tells the story of 16-year-old transfer student Qiao Qingyu (played by Zhang Jingyi) who, with the help of the rebellious school idol Mingsheng (played by Zhou Yiran), searches for the cause of her sister's death, and gradually unravels the truth that her sister was "murdered" by the entire village six years ago. The two redeem each other in the process and grow together.
There is a beautiful sister above and a naughty brother below. The child caught in the middle is always a "troublemaker" who is not happy with both sides. Zhang Jingyi plays this role well overall and deserves to be a regular player in the track of "youth pain literature". The plot settings of favoring boys over girls and school bullying also make female audiences empathize. Her relationship with Zhou Yiran also sprouted in the process of pursuing the truth again and again. Mingsheng, who also has the dilemma of his original family, is not as prosperous as he seems on the surface. The process of two-way redemption is also a major highlight of this drama.
→ Episode 1｜In the era of tempering, facing challenges head-on and reborn
With the opening of the Shanghai TV Festival, six major channels including Shanghai Radio and Television Station Dragon TV have created the "Magnolia Award-winning Works Retrospective" and the "Magnolia Fragrance" Shanghai TV Festival program show and audio-visual feast. "Golden Wedding", "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru", "Pride and Prejudice" and other excellent domestic and foreign film and television works have been broadcasted recently.
The "Revisit Classics" channel is broadcasting classic works such as "The Legend of Zhen Huan", "The Young Emperor", "I Love My Family", "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky", "Red Sorghum", and "Little Dragon Man" from June 19 to 25.
【Variety Show】
Chart-topping singer Michael Bublé will compete in two rounds
Hunan Satellite TV's music variety show "Singer 2025" sixth episode song list: Zhao Muyang's "Xia Ke Xing" (Zhe Lai Nu), John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (Mickey), Zhang Huimei's "Dancing Alone" (Shan Yichun), A Yueyue's "Clouds and Seas" (Ma Jiaqi), Faye Wong's "As Wish" (Grace), Nicholas Tse's "Yellow Man" (GAI), Luo Dayou's "Master of the Future" (Chen Chusheng). This issue's singer Michael Buble announced two songs - "Home" and "Feeling Good". After the song list was released, netizens left messages: "Put Faye Wong and Nicholas Tse's songs together", "Zhang Huimei, Faye Wong, Nicholas Tse, Luo Dayou, I'm looking forward to this episode". The live broadcast will start at 19:45 today (June 20).
The youth partner business experience program "Chinese Restaurant·Africa Entrepreneurship Season" produced by Hunan Satellite TV's Wang Tian Studio Liu Lihui team will be broadcasted simultaneously on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV every Friday at 22:00 starting from June 20. Partners Huang Xiaoming, Jiang Yan, Ding Yuxi, Shen Yue, Zhai Xiaowen, Yin Haoyu, and Lin Shuwei will start a business together.
Continuing the original intention of "using food as a bridge to promote cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries", this season of "Chinese Restaurant" was located in Tangier, Morocco, the hub of the "Maritime Silk Road", opening a new chapter in cultural exchanges between China and Africa.
Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV's self-produced healing variety show "Our Dormitory" will start airing the pilot episode at 12 noon on June 23, and will be broadcast every Tuesday at 12 noon starting from the 24th. The program invites the artist guests who participated in the recording of "Hello Saturday" to record the real and interesting dormitory stories between friends after work, show the rich youth life and spiritual world of young people today, and enjoy a "recharge-style" "after-work party" with the audience.
"Our Dormitory" "Rotating Butler" Wang Hedi
