January 11th, Jia Ling posted an update on social media, announcing that her self-directed and starred movie "Hot and Spicy" is scheduled to be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year in the Year of the Dragon.
This is Jia Ling's Spring Festival movie as a director again after three years after "Hello, Li Huanying". In the post, she claimed that she lost 100 pounds for this new film and hoped that the audience would be proud of her when they see it in the cinema.
She introduced that this is a movie about how kind people find themselves and learn to love themselves. According to the official Weibo information of "Hot and Spicy", this movie is starring Jia Ling and Lei Jiayin, Zhang Xiaofei, Zhao Haiyan, Zhang Qi, Xu Juncong, Bu Yu, Zhu Tianfu, Liu Honglu, Yang Zi, Sha Yi, Wei Xiang, Li Xueqin, Shen Chunyang, and Shen Tao guest star, with special appearances by Ma Li and Qiao Shan. It is adapted from the Japanese movie "One Hundred Dollar Love" and tells a story full of passion and struggle.
According to Beacon Professional Edition, in addition to Jia Ling's "Hot and Spicy", there are currently four movies scheduled for the Year of the Dragon Spring Festival.
Han Han, who also crossed over to become a director like Jia Ling, this time brought the movie "Flying Life 2" which he wrote and directed. In 2019, the movie "Flying Life" received a box office of 1.728 billion during the Spring Festival. Five years later, this movie also received a sequel. This movie tells the story of the former king of Bayinbulak who became a down-and-out driving school instructor, and the Iron Triangle brought in new students to reorganize the team.
Shen Teng will continue to star, and Fan Chengcheng, Yin Zheng, Zhang Benyu, Sun Yizhou and others will join the cast. Wei Xiang and Jia Bing will star in the film, and Zheng Kai will star in a friendly way.
"Mr. Red Carpet", a collaboration between Andy Lau and Ning Hao, is also scheduled to be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Ning Hao, who has made films such as "Crazy Stone" and "Beautiful Heart", collaborates with Andy Lau this time. In addition to Andy Lau, who leads the movie, there are also Shan Liwen, Rima Xidan, Yu Weiguo, Lin Xilei, Liang Jiahui, Miriam Yang, Wang Jing, including Ning Hao himself, who all played a role. The film tells the story of King Liu Weichi (played by Andy Lau), who collaborates with director Lin Hao (played by Ning Hao) to shoot a rural-themed film in order to win an award, but unexpectedly it turns into a "farce" by mistake.
In the Spring Festival, there is also a movie for young people, "Let's Shake the Sun Together" directed by Han Yan and starring Peng Yuchang and Li Gengxi. "Get Out!" directed by Han Yan in recent years. "Tumor King", "Animal World", "Send You a Little Red Flower", "I Love You!" " and other films were well received. This time he targeted young people.
"Let's Shake the Sun Together" is adapted from a documentary article. It tells the story of two terminally ill young people who made a brave "life and death agreement" and set aside the haze of fate and finally saw the sunshine of life.
The last one is the annual "Bear Bear" animated film "Bear Bear·Reverse Time and Space". In 2023, the big movie "Bear Infested" earned nearly 1.5 billion at the box office during the Spring Festival, becoming the biggest dark horse. Over the past few years, the Big Bear movies have done well at the box office. This time in "Bear Bears: Reverse Time and Space", Bald Qiang unexpectedly gets a new opportunity to start his life and transform into the "strongest programmer". What kind of box office results can this movie achieve?
The box office data in this article comes from Maoyan Professional Edition
Xiaoxiang Morning News comprehensive report
