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What, Stephen Chow is going to be on a mainland variety show?
When you first hear the news, many people may be surprised and think it's just a joke, but in fact, it's true!
On April 23, at the "2024 iQIYI World Conference", the appearance of the name Stephen Chow is undoubtedly the most attention-grabbing.
However, Stephen Chow himself did not appear, but Mr. Yang Weikang, a senior consultant of his company, took the stage to say on his behalf that Stephen Chow confirmed to join the new comedy variety show "The King of Comedy Stand-up Season"!
As soon as this news came out, it quickly rushed to the hot search, after all, this is a famous star, and many people have only been able to see his true face in movies.
But can Xing Ye really be active in variety shows? When I hear such a sentence at the "iQiyi Conference", maybe everyone has some answers in their hearts!
"iQIYI has a strategic cooperation with our star master and Mr. Stephen Chow's company!" "I hope we can reproduce Mr. Stephen Chow's comedy talent in the rivers and lakes!"
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Hearing this, I believe many people also understand that in fact, to some extent, it is not only Stephen Chow who joined iQiyi's self-made variety show, but more precisely, the two companies have reached a cooperation!
And it is not only Stephen Chow that has aroused heated discussions among netizens, but also the guests of this new variety show are also controversial!
The source of this article comes from the authoritative reports [Baidu Encyclopedia], [21st Century Business Herald], [Make a Friend Live Room], [iQiyi Weibo], [The Paper], [Xiaoxiang Morning News], [Phoenix Satellite TV], [Times Media] (detailed sources are attached at the end of the article). In order to improve the readability of the article, there may be polishing of the details, please read sensibly, for reference only!
1, Stephen Chow issued an official announcement, and Yang Li's joining caused heated discussions
After the official announcement of the iQiyi Conference, Stephen Chow's many domestic official platforms also made official announcements one by one, and on his foreign social platforms, he also personally released this poster to confirm the news.
In the accompanying text, Stephen Chow said: "My office has always been regarded as a tiger's den in Longtan, everyone respects it, and today someone dares to kick in the door, it turned out to be an invitation to the iQiyi World Conference, and I shrank in fright!"
Sure enough, he is worthy of being the king of comedy, and the official announcement of cooperation can be so interesting.
According to the content of the conference, in addition to this variety show, iQiyi will carry out in-depth cooperation with Stephen Chow and his company in dramas, movies, animation, etc., but if you look closely, there are also hidden mysteries!
It is reported that "The King of Comedy Stand-up Season" not only uses the big "IP" of Stephen Chow's movie "The King of Comedy", but also in the introduction, Stephen Chow did participate in the entire show.
But if you look closely, it is clearly written in the introduction that Stephen Chow is "the initiator of the show!"
What is the "initiator of the show"? To put it simply, it is the organizer and planner of a program, but not the main guest.
As the initiator, he may determine the theme of the show, control the direction of the show, and of course participate in the recording of the show, but the show has not responded to whether Stephen Chow will come forward or not!
And in the show, the main guests officially announced by the platform are Yang Li, Zhou Qimo, Luo Yonghao and others, as well as the undetermined Guo Qilin and Yang Tianzhen.
Subsequently, the three of them made an official announcement at almost the same time, Yang Li wrote: "Come on, perform well!" Zhou Qimo said: "I'm looking forward to the light on the stage like you!"
However, compared with Zhou Qimo, the joining of Yang Li has caused a lot of controversy!
Yang Li was indeed very popular in the past, as an artist of Xiaoguo Culture Company, she was loved by many people like Li Dan and others, but with the overturn of Xiaoguo Culture last year, she was also greatly affected.
Especially when she targeted men, it was because of everyone's disgust, so after Stephen Chow's official announcement, the highest hot comment in the comment area was not Stephen Chow, but "Yang Li!"
"Is there a show that dares to invite her?" "She also deserves to be on the same stage as Xingye?"
In the comment section, comments like this one after another, and the reason why this is the case is because many people think that she is always trying to provoke "confrontation between the sexes!"
For this reason, some netizens even reported directly to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, so Yang Li has stood at the peak of public opinion again and again.
Since the suspension of Xiaoguo Culture and its two talk shows, Yang Li began to live broadcast and bring goods, and now she also relies on this show to make a comeback.
But at present, it is a foregone conclusion that she will become a guest on the show, and it is still unknown whether Stephen Chow will really appear in the show, but what can be known is that long before that, Mr. Stephen Chow has also reached a cooperation with Douyin!
2. It has reached a cooperation with Douyin, and the new film will be launched in May
With the explosion of the micro-short drama market in the past two years, many platforms have opened the business of "micro-short dramas", and Stephen Chow, who has always insisted on making movies, also announced that he would follow the trend and enter the micro-short drama industry.
On January 29, 2024, Stephen Chow posted a news on his ins, and I saw him writing "9527 Theater" freely.
The so-called "9527" is actually the servant number of the role of "Hua'an" in Stephen Chow's classic movie, and it is also a representative of the nonsensical and funny style.
In the theater opened in cooperation with Douyin, Stephen Chow is not an actor, but only the initiator of this project, and at present, the first work in this theater "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf" is also being filmed.
The actors among them are not big names, but more Internet celebrities, such as "Zhang Baiqiao", "Xu Zhisheng" and others, and Stephen Chow serves as the producer in it.
According to the latest official report, this short drama will officially meet you in May, and because of Stephen Chow's publicity, this short drama has also been expected by many audiences!
In fact, in addition to the new variety show just officially announced, there is also this micro-short drama, according to the information on Baidu Encyclopedia, Stephen Chow still has a movie to meet in 2025.
The name of the film is "Tai Chi", in which Stephen Chow is not only the director and screenwriter, but also his name appears in the cast column.
Looking back on the past, from the "Zhou Xing Group" in "The Gambler" to the "Yin Tianqiu" in "The King of Comedy", the films with Stephen Chow have become classics.
But I don't know when Stephen Chow has slowly become a "behind-the-scenes person", he has become a big person from a small person, and now he has begun to support every little person.
From this point of view, Stephen Chow is also worthy of our admiration, from the unknown small role to the well-known "Xingzai" to the current "Star Master", he is indeed very difficult!
Everyone knows that he is popular, but no one knows that he was once not famous, and he once begged the director to shoot again for a line, and even knelt down to him!
3, once knelt down to the director for a line, no one can succeed casually
1992 was Stephen Chow's hottest year, in that year, the box office of all the films he starred in occupied the top ten of the entire Hong Kong box office, and until now, no one has been able to create such results!
Since then, his films have become classics, and in 2003, he even appeared directly in the American "Time", but no one could have imagined how many hardships he had experienced along the way.
When promoting the new movie "The King of Comedy" in 2019, he has always been bad at words, and told the camera the story of his "little man period"!
When he was filming a certain film, he felt that one of the lines of his dialogue was not good, and he still thought about it even when he finally went home, so he finally found the director in the car.
In order to let the director make up the shoot and give him another chance, he even did not hesitate to kneel down on the spot and say, "Director, director, you tell me again!"
Seeing that he was so serious, the director finally agreed to reshoot, after many years, Stephen Chow said it with a smile when he talked about this past, but he was not famous back then, and he also hid a lot of bitterness in his heart.
Born in the grassroots, he grew up in a single-parent family, and he doesn't like the sophistication of people in the entertainment industry, but he has a mysterious attachment to movies, so he has become the current Stephen Chow.
Just like the sentence in the movie, "No one can succeed casually!", especially for ordinary people from ordinary backgrounds!
Now Xing Ye is also keeping up with the trend and reaching cooperation with various platforms to create, but unfortunately, he is no longer the person who appears on the screen, but has become a person behind the scenes.
Compared with the film directed by Xing Ye, fans hope that Xing Ye can really "re-emerge!"
Write at the end
At present, the official announcement of this variety show will be broadcast in the third quarter of 2024, probably during the summer vacation, and how long Stephen Chow, as the initiator, can appear has become a mystery.
And whether such a cooperation is harvesting traffic in the name of Stephen Chow, we can't make a judgment now, I just hope that this time, don't disappoint the audience too much!
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Information sources for this article: Baidu Encyclopedia, 21st Century Business Herald, Make a Friend Live Room, iQiyi Weibo, The Paper, Xiaoxiang Morning News, Phoenix Satellite TV, Times Media