Yang Mi’s Comedic Mystery C-movie Nothing Can’t Be Undone by a Hotpot Gets Abysmal Ticket Sales and Pulled from Theaters After 5 Days

Well, C-ent is calling this strike 2 for C-actress Yang Mi, and going so far as to say that if her upcoming big budget xianxia C-drama Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red Moon Pact is a flop then she will officially be stricken from the top four drama flowers perch. Strike 1 was the mediocre ratings and acting criticism last month in the spy period drama In the Name of the Brother, and now she’s facing an even bigger flop on a bigger stage. May 1 is a big holiday in China being their Labor Day with many people off and going out and to the movies. So a lot of movies was released on or around May 1 and the comedy mystery movie Nothing Can’t be Undone by a Hotpot starring Yang Mi was released then. It’s gotten such low box office sales that on May 5th the production officially announced that it was pulling the movie from theaters, claiming external circumstances that were not optimal led to the poor showing and would re-release the movie at a later time. In 5 days it’s made USD $7M which is woefully, and compared to the number 1 movie in theaters in China right now Formed Police Unit which has made $51M USD in the same amount of days.

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Top C-actress Zhang Zi Yi and Director Peter Chan Grace the Cover and Pages of GQ China in Anticipation of Period Revenge Movie She Has No Name

It’s off to the 2024 Cannes Film Festival next month in May for HK director Peter Chan and top C-actress Zhang Zi Yi in their highly anticipated and award fodder movie She Has No Name (酱园弄). It’s a movie depicting … Continue reading

First Preview for Netflix K-movie Wonderland with Top Star Cast of Jung Yumi, Tang Wei, Choi Woo Shik, Park Bo Gum, Suzy with Special Appearance by Gong Yoo

It’s been a good streak of drama and movie successes for so many of my faves – Song Joong Ki with Vincenzo then Reborn Rich, Lee Do Hyun in The Glory, The Good Bad Mother, and now Exhuma, and of … Continue reading

Tian Xi Wei and Yu Shi Look the Part of Sophie and Howl Voicing the Characters for the First Ever China Theater Release of Howl’s Moving Castle

It only took twenty years lol. I did not release that Studio Ghibli movies were not released in Mainland China when it came out but the studio has been playing catch up with releasing the movies now. The Boy and … Continue reading

Fighting Continues in High Profile C-movie The Murderer Starring Zhang Zi Yi Between Supporting Leads Yang Mi and Zhao Li Ying Over Who Gets Second Billing

The very highly anticipated C-movie The Murderer starring Zhang Zi Yi and directed by award winning and commercially popular HK-director Peter Chan wrapped filming last month in February 2024. The movie is based on a true story in 1940’s Shanghai … Continue reading

Wang Yibo’s Agency Trying to Land Him in a Role in the High Profile HK-star Stephen Chow’s Long Awaited Next Movie Shaolin Women’s Soccer

So C-actor Wang Yibo remains focused on his movie career but there is a wide swatch of types of movies from small budget to arthouse to local blockbusters to international hits. A lot of it is luck if you ask … Continue reading

Occult Horror Movie Exhuma Hits 2 Million Tickets in Premiere Weekend as Biggest Domestic Film Opening in Two Years Amid Rave Reviews

The doldrums of the South Korean box office was happily shattered this past weekend with what is now the biggest domestic Korean movie opening in more than two years since The Roundup: No Way Out in 2022. The occult supernatural … Continue reading

Excitement Builds for Horror Thriller K-movie Exhuma with Top Cast Choi Min Sik, Yoo Hae Jin, Kim Go Eun, and Lee Do Hyun

So I love good K-horror whether movies or dramas like The Guest and The Wailing and this one looks to join the list. The grave horror film Exhuma is getting ready for premiere towards the end of February and viewers … Continue reading