Editor's note: There are a huge number of movies, TV series and variety shows broadcast every week. How do you choose? You might as well take a look at the recommendations of The Paper.
【Movie】
According to Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of press time, this week (June 2-8) the total movie box office revenue was 202 million yuan (including the last day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday), with Mission: Impossible 8: Reckoning, The Time Child, and Doraemon: Nobita's Painting Adventure ranking in the top three.
Stills from Mission: Impossible 8
After one week of release, the cumulative box office of "Mission: Impossible 8" has reached 272 million yuan. Tom Cruise has worked hard to win back many audiences for the movie in this era.
Watching this movie, old fans can simply flutter in the pile of "easter eggs", and Tom Cruise's time from "fresh meat" to "old tough guy" is recorded one by one in the movie. And new audiences, in this era where special effects are already enough to be indistinguishable from the real thing, can see what "real action" means.
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The runner-up of this week's box office list is "Children of Time". The film tells the audience a brand-new original story without any IP blessing - the superpower that can transcend time cannot transcend the fate of the character, and the girl who can stop and control time at any time can never catch up with the pace of her lover... Under the novel high-concept setting, the romantic love story shell is wrapped in a deep thinking and delicate interpretation of separation and regret.
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Several new action movies released this week each have their own selling points and are full of emotions.
The first spin-off film of the John Wick series, John Wick: Ballerinas, also rides on the global trend of women. Keanu Reeves plays a guest role, expanding the worldview of the "Hitman Universe", and the female assassin appears on the stage, combining gentleness and ruthlessness, ballet and fighting, and upgrading the violent aesthetics.
Stills from The Karate Kid: Fusion
Produced by Sony and starring Jackie Chan, The Karate Kid: Fusion is a long-lived Hollywood IP. It was a huge hit after its release in 1984, and significantly increased the influence of karate in the United States. Over the next decade, the series has had three consecutive sequels and has even been adapted into a game. The new version of The Karate Kid combines the Chinese Kung Fu setting of the old version of The Karate Kid with the karate world of the American TV series Cobra Dojo, and is still led by Jackie Chan, taking third place on the box office chart last weekend.
The 27th Shanghai International Film Festival officially opened for ticket sales on June 5. This year, the festival atmosphere of the "City of Film" is stronger than ever before, with 43 cinemas in the city planning to screen about 410 films.
This year's film festival will run from June 13 to June 22, and the screenings in the Yangtze River Delta will run from June 20 to June 27.
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【TV drama】
New drama starts
On June 1, the filming of the legendary Republican drama "Nine Gates", directed by Bo Shan and starring William Chan, Zeng Shunxi and Chen Yao, started.
The drama is the sequel to "The Mystic Nine", with the original author Nanpai Sanshu serving as the chief producer. It tells the story of Zhang Qishen, Wu Laogou, and Huo Xiangu joining hands to investigate the truth and embarking on a thrilling journey across Geshilou, Caopanshan and other places. In the process of jointly searching for the mysteriously missing 100-man army, they uncover the shocking secret that has been hidden for a hundred years.
On June 5, the fantasy adventure drama "Forty-Seven", directed by Cao Dun and Gao Xiang, written by Huang Moqi, Fu Yongqiang and Gong Jue, and starring Zhang Kangle, Zhou Jieqiong, Ren Dahua and Yan An, officially started filming.
The drama is set in the sewers of Wangcheng and tells the fantasy adventure story of the distressed man "Forty-Seven" (played by Zhang Kangle) who awakens his memory and uncovers the secrets of the past while helping his companions fight against the evil forces.
New drama starts
This week, many domestic dramas such as "The Legend of the Lost Tomb", "Youthful Love" and "Falling in Love" have come to an end, and friends can watch them all at once!
At the same time, all three platforms have new dramas with various types for you to choose from——
June 6: "Linjiangxian" (starring Bai Lu and Zeng Shunxi, iQiyi)
June 7: "Lychees in Chang'an" (starring Lei Jiayin and Yue Yunpeng, CCTV-8, Tencent Video)
June 8: "Seven Heart Letters" (starring Liu Haocun and Song Weilong, Youku)
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Xiao Zhan and Zhang Jingyi: The Legend of the Sea 7.1 (380,000 people rated)
Zhao Liying and Yin Fang: In the World 6.7 (60,000 people rated)
The Legend of the Tibetan Sea
Stills from The Legend of the Hidden Sea
On June 6, "The Legend of Zang Hai" officially came to an end on CCTV Channel 8. The finale started from the childhood experiences of Zang Hai's three major enemies and fulfilled many foreshadowings buried in the previous drama.
Hallucinations can bewitch people, and words can kill people, but what really engulfed the third person was the greed, desire, and obsession in his deepest heart.
On the contrary, there is the control group - Cang Hai - who has spent many years learning how to manipulate people's hearts and is willing to devote himself to the game. However, after completing his mission of revenge, he will not be greedy for power and can withdraw at any time.
You can use people's hearts, but you won't be swallowed by desires, you won't be obsessed with power, you will keep your original intention and have good intentions. Perhaps, this is the meaning behind "The Legend of Cang Hai" and the background of the hero Cang Hai.
On June 4, the day of Youku’s closing ceremony for “Legend of the Lost Tomb”, the effective broadcast market share of the show’s main film on Yunhe reached 40.1%.
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Lychees in Chang'an
Promotional photo of "Lychees in Chang'an"
The ancient legendary drama "Lychees of Chang'an", directed by Cao Dun and Gao Xiang, with Ma Boyong as the story consultant and starring Lei Jiayin and Yue Yunpeng, will be aired on CCTV-8's prime time at 19:30 on June 7 and will be exclusively broadcast on Tencent Video.
The play is adapted from Ma Boyong's novel of the same name. It is based on "litchi" and tells the story of Li Shande (Lei Jiayin), a petty official in the Tang Dynasty, who was suddenly framed by his colleagues and forced to take on the desperate mission of "litchi envoy". Before the first day of June, he had to transport fresh lychees from Lingnan, 5,000 miles away, to Chang'an. In order to protect his young daughter, he went south alone. In the main plot of transporting lychees over thousands of miles, the game of various interests in the workplace is involved, showing the hardships and difficulties of small people in the workplace.
The two leading actors worked together from the movie "Man Jiang Hong" to the TV series "Chang'an Litchi", and together they are a "laugh-making machine". This time they are facing a challenge of "hell-level" difficulty, encountering many obstacles along the way, with two lines intertwined and crises everywhere. Can they break through the siege? Let's wait and see.
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【Variety Show】
On the evening of June 6, the fourth episode of "Singer 2025" will continue to be broadcast live on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV. Online singers include Chen Chusheng, Mickey Guyton, GAI Zhou Yan, Grace Kinsler, Shan Yichun, Ma Jiaqi, and two replacement singers Janice Vidal and Christine Fan. It is a hot topic again, and I hope to see more diverse singers take to the stage one after another.
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The live broadcast competition for the annual seat of "Ride the Wind 2025" officially started at 12:00 noon on June 6. This is an important part of the final chapter of this season of the program "Ride the Wind Night", which includes a variety of content such as returning sisters' performance show, family and friends group cooperation stage and mentor cooperation show.
Li Sheng, Hai Lu, and Medina collaborated to perform the theme song "Yu Die" of "My Fair Princess"; Peking Opera actor Hou Yu and singer Liu Yu collaborated across industries to perform "Light and Fire + Backstab", combining traditional opera with modern music to present a national style stage. In addition, Wang Rong, Tan Wei and others brought a national trend chivalrous performance "Eastern". Jiang Yiyan returned to sing "Dogtail Grass on the Slope" and shared the heartwarming interaction with her teammates; Shang Wenjie returned as the "live broadcast god" of the previous season and sang original works.
The sixth episode of "Running Man 13" will be broadcast on Zhejiang Satellite TV on June 6: "Brotherhood" members Li Chen, Zheng Kai, Sha Yi, Bai Lu, Fan Chengcheng, Song Yuqi, Times Youth League-Zhang Zhenyuan, "Running Friends" Meng Ziyi, and flying guests Cheng Lei, Ao Ruipeng, and Zhai Zilu will go to the "vertical store" to jointly complete the filming of a "micro-drama".
Huang Zitao and Xu Yiyang participated in the cross-border cultural exchange reality show "Young Man and Young Girl Swap Travel Notes" which caused heated discussions after it was broadcast. This program produced by Mango TV is centered on "exchanging lives" and records the whole process of the two people exchanging life experiences with local youths in Tanzania, Sri Lanka and other places, showing the dual narrative of cultural collision and emotional ties. Huang Zitao and Xu Yiyang respectively integrated into the African Maasai tribe and Tanzanian family, experiencing completely different lifestyles. The two showed the growth process from being at a loss to gradually adapting in an unfamiliar environment. The show is called "Adult Version of Metamorphosis".
