Showbiz: Moviegoers Want Me to Pay Them Back for Their Tickets!

In an era when bootleg discs were everywhere and movie theaters were few, Zhou Yuan was a household-name comedy filmmaker.

With "A Chinese Odyssey", he became the Supreme Treasure in countless people's hearts.

With "King of Comedy", he laid bare life's bittersweet ups and downs.

He was hailed as a film genius and the king of comedy.

But because of the times, even though he was famous across the country, his films earned pitifully little at the box office.

After more than a decade in film, he went from a box-office draw to a box-office disaster.

Disheartened, Zhou Yuan decided to reinvent himself as a director. When people heard the news, they mocked him, insisting his films could never do well at the box office.

But then Zhou Yuan's film took theaters nationwide by storm and broke box-office records.

People finally realized: the fans had come back to pay him back at the box office!

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