"Mainland Star Lu Chen Shoots New Work for Zero Pay: Real or Hype?"
"Lu Chen Backs Ma Rongzhen: Has the Underdog's Luck Turned?"
"Industry Insiders Assert Mainland Actors Venturing to Hong Kong for Films Will Suffer from Cultural Mismatch, Bleak Prospects!"
"Arrogance or Confidence? Will the Thirty Million Investment Go Down the Drain?"
"Yesterday's Box Office Poison Shoots a New Film Today!"
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On the second day after *A Chinese Ghost Story* officially began filming, quite a few entertainment sections of Hong Kong media carried related news. Aside from a handful of paid promotional pieces, the vast majority of newspapers and periodicals were filled with skepticism.
Such a situation basically would not occur on the mainland. Hong Kong had a restricted geographic area and a limited market scale, with numerous media outlets mostly focusing only on local news, and the entertainment circle did not have that many gossip stories available for hype.
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