In December 2020, Chinese media reported that his latest movie included scenes similar to Marvel’s Doctor Strange (2016). Fellow screenwriter Yu Zheng also apologized on the same day, leading to state media reports on turning December 31st in to “Anti-plagiarism Day.”īut plagiarism does not seem to be a thing of the past for Guo. On December 31, Guo finally apologized for the plagiarism controversy. Recently, a group of professionals within the entertainment industry even signed a joint letter calling for a boycott of Guo and Yu Zheng (于正), another screenwriter caught up in multiple plagiarism scandals. In 2004, Guo lost a plagiarism lawsuit filed against him and his publishing company in connection with his bestselling Never Flowers in Never Dreams (梦里花落知多少 2003), that contained many elements and characters of writer Zhuang Yu’s novel In and Out of the Circle (圈里圈外).Īlthough it has been years since that case, accusations of plagiarism continue to follow Guo and kept on drawing wide attention on social media. Guo Jingming (1983), also known as Edward Guo, is a Chinese (screen)writer and celebrity. (Movie theaters in China reopened in summer of 2020 after a months-long COVID19 closure.) The movie was released in Chinese cinemas on December 25th. The Yin-Yang Master by writer-director Guo Jingming (郭敬明) is a movie adaption of the Japanese fantasy novel series Onmyōji by Baku Yumemakura. The hashtag “Qing Ya Ji Taken Offline” (#晴雅集被下线#), initiated by the Sina Movies account, then went trending on January 5, attracting over 800 million views by Tuesday afternoon Beijing time. On the night of January 4th, netizens discovered that tickets for upcoming screenings of The Yin-Yang Master were pulled from various ticket platforms including Maoyan (猫眼) and Taopiaopiao (淘票票). ![]() The sudden disappearance of the movie The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity ( Qíng Yǎ Jí 晴雅集) from online ticketing platforms and nationwide cinemas is trending on Chinese social media today.
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