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- 1 They Promised Me an Award-Winning Film, So Why Am I Filming a Dark Invasion? 说好拿奖片，怎么拍黑暗侵袭 [Chinese Entertainment] [Stars] [Gossip] [Trash Talk] Zhang Chen wakes up one morning and finds himself back in 2004. Back then, the trend was to make art-house films, win awards, then return home and brag about it. Zhang Chen refuses to follow that path. He wants to make commercial movies. A Chinese remake of The Descent; a radically reworked version of The Raid, retitled The Walled City of Kowloon; a mecha-monster universe combining Pacific Rim with King Kong and Godzilla; a spy universe blend 0Votes21.1kRecs189kFans
- 2 This Actor Is Way Too Eager to Get Ahead 这个演员太想进步了 Reborn in the year 2000, on the day of the college entrance exams, he gets a System that mistakes him for Liu Tianxian. Everyone says the entertainment industry is a deep pool, and since he wants to see it for himself in this life, he decides to give it a try. 0Votes5.3kRecs29.9kFans
- 3 Chinese Showbiz 2005: Our Sci-Fi Cinematic Universe 华娱05，我们的科幻电影宇宙 Who says China has no science fiction films? Wang Hao, who had just finished watching The Wandering Earth 2, was reborn and, in the blink of an eye, found himself in 2005 as a soon-to-graduate directing student at the Beijing Film Academy. He resolved to build a film industry system of China’s own. Countless films and novels were given new faces, remixed, and radically reworked. Dreams and virtual reality from Source Code and Inception laid the foundation, Wolf Warrior brought the firepower, Det 0Votes39.6kRecs116kFans
- 4 This Director Has No Vision 这个导演没有格局 (A veteran author of Chinese entertainment novels, with several acclaimed works. This book has already achieved great success and is now aiming for ten thousand paid subscribers!) Reborn in 2009, Jiang Yifeng stirs up a storm in the entertainment industry. Yet people are always saying he lacks perspective. “Director Jiang, people say you made Old Boys to capitalize on the attention surrounding Michael Jackson’s death. Do you admit it?” “That’s true.” “Others say you criticized Wolf Totem and too 0Votes143kRecs275.3kFans
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Chinese Showbiz: I Was Reborn, Yet They Still Make Me Play the Bad Boy 华娱：重生了，还逼我做渣男啊
(In two years, this went from 300 to an average of 10,000 subscriptions. A very slow-burn, serious story about an actor. The scumbag stuff is all just a joke :) A stunning internet celebrity with tens of millions of fans is reborn in 2004. Good news: He’s twenty years younger. Bad news: There’s no System. Good news: He’s just started his final year of high school. Bad news: He scored 351 on the placement exam. Good news: His family is pretty rich. Bad news: A financial crisis is coming. So…
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- 6 Chinese Showbiz: From 2009 to the Winter of Film and Television 华娱：从2009到影视寒冬 (From just over a hundred first-month subscribers to a premium hit with over ten thousand peak subscribers. Read with confidence.) In my previous life, the entertainment industry ruthlessly cast me aside. Now that I've returned to 2009, I want to see what this industry is really all about! Living a second life, Chen Ling watched Yang Mi get talked into things by Zeng Jia and couldn't help offering her a little advice. What? The Heavenly Immortal has been treated so terribly by Huayi these past t 32Votes23.2kRecs178.9kFans
- 7 Chinese Showbiz: The Top-Tier Star Won’t Let Me Take It Easy 华娱：女顶流不让我摆烂 Chen Chaoyuan is reborn into the 2004 production of The Return of the Condor Heroes. In his previous life, he was an all-around movie emperor who achieved success later in life. Just when he had finally made it, fate kicked him right back to the starting line. Exhausting! This time around, he’s going to take it easy: act in a few scenes on set with his cousin Xiaoming, coast through life, and enjoy himself. Top-tier star Yang is reborn into the 2004 production of The Return of the Condor He 1Votes7.7kRecs28kFans
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