iQIYI Joins the C-drama Abrupt Release Party with July 2nd Premiere of Xianxia C-drama Divine Destiny with Angelababy and Ma Tian Yu

The spring C-drama drought is over and of course its now the extreme with a full on flood. Today on July 2nd iQIYI released xianxia C-drama Divine Destiny with zero announcement and promotion. Starring Angelababy and Ma Tian Yu, the drama was filming in late 2020 so its another one of those long shelved likely meh efforts that seems to be dropping all the once right now. Angelababy is even competing against herself as there is modern drama Twilight over on Tencent with Allen Ren. Just making the public announcement for those interesting in checking this one out or maybe toggling between all the recently released C-dramas by FF’ing to only the good parts.

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C-drama Ice Fantasy with Feng Shao Feng and Victoria Song Drop Visually Entertaining Trailer

Consider me pleasantly surprised and not at all unhappy that the initial gloom and doom prognostications for upcoming otherwordly C-drama Ice Fantasy may not have been warranted. The first teaser trailer is out and does not look bad at all, … Continue reading

Star-studded Wuxia C-drama Ancient Sword Fantasy with Li Yi Feng and Yang Mi Premieres in Early July

Sometimes I wonder if SARFT releases decrees and suggestions and the Chinese networks give a collective shrug and go back to their regularly scheduled programming. A little over a month ago SARFT issued a suggestive letter that it wished all … Continue reading

Li Yi Feng and Yang Mi with the Sprawling C-cast of Ancient Sword Fantasy Release First Video Preview

I’ve been trying to retrain my brain to tolerate fantasy wuxia dramas, which to me is like the untalented sibling of the overachieving star of the family. It substitutes special effects for story, dumbing down characters because magic and make … Continue reading