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Jia Ling - Variety500 - Top 500 Entertainment Business Leaders

Macho sports-movie tropes meet with bright chick-flick framing to curious effect in "YOLO," either an ostensible boxing drama that doesn't pick up the gloves until the third act, or a misfit romcom that takes a late and unusual turn toward transformational self-help territory. Chinese audiences have been delighted by either formulation, as Jia Ling's second feature as director-star — following 2021's popular time-travel comedy "Hi, Mom" — has racked up the year's second-highest global gross so far, mostly on the...

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