The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 658 Fire in the Backyard
The night stretches out and the bright moon hangs high in the sky.

Outside the Beijing Olympic Sports Center, a group of reporters were eagerly waiting.

I don’t know how much time had passed before the guests attending the premiere of "Fuchun Mountain" walked out of the venue one after another.

"Crack, click, click!"

The reporter saw two beautiful figures and hurried forward: "Liu Shishi, what do you think of this movie?"

Liu Shishi cleared her throat and answered seriously: "The film's visuals are exquisite, and the pursuit of beauty has reached the extreme. The actors all worked hard, especially Hua Ge's role as an agent, which was very impressive. The director also cleverly incorporated the magnificent scenery from West Lake to Dubai into the film. It is hard to imagine that this was produced by a new director."

When Liu Shishi was expressing her thoughts, the reporter noticed that Liu Xinyu suddenly lowered her head, and her big wavy hair covered her face, making it impossible to see her expression clearly.

Only his shoulder was twitching faintly.

The reporter did not think much about it, thinking that he was dazzled, and continued to ask: "If I ask you to rate the movie "Fuchun Mountain", how many points would you give it?"

"Well, about this..." Liu Shishi blinked and avoided the question.

The reporter felt strange because he thought Liu Shishi would give a higher score without hesitation.

In the entertainment industry, everyone is a fan of the glamorous sedan. As long as the film is not exceptionally bad, people will give it a good review out of human nature.

Seeing her best friend in such a dilemma, Liu Xinyu couldn't just stand by and watch.

She pursed her lips, raised her head, looked around, held Liu Shishi's arm, exerted force suddenly, and raised her chin in a certain direction.

Liu Shishi looked in the direction she pointed, and a plan came to mind. She smiled and said, "My friend from Sina, I think professional questions like this should be answered by more professional and authoritative people. I'm just an ordinary actor. Mr. Han brought Chinese films into the commercial era and is well-informed. He is obviously more authoritative and has more say than me."

"Mr. Han!"

Han Sanping is one of the producers of "Fuchun Mountain". The script was first handed to him in 2010.

At that time, he brought Sun Jianjun, the president of Page Taihe, to find Liu Dehua, hoping that Liu Dehua would be the director of this play.

After reading the script, Liu Dehua turned down the director position on the grounds that he had already accepted other film contracts and schedule conflicts. For his sake, he agreed to take about 50 days to act in the film.

So the project of "Fuchun Mountain" was actually promoted by Han Sanping behind the scenes.

Han Sanping was in a state of confusion at the moment.

When he was watching the movie just now, he felt very uncomfortable, as if there were thorns in his bones and something stuck in his throat. If it had not been too embarrassing to leave halfway, he would have left long ago.

He now just wants to go back and use some means to remove himself from the list of producers of this film. It is a shame for him to do such a thing at his retirement age.

You must have a good reputation in your life, but you must not be laughed at to death.

So when he came out after watching the movie, he just wanted to avoid the reporters, but he was stopped for no apparent reason.

He glanced at Liu Shishi lightly, pretended not to hear, and continued walking forward.

"Dad, don't go, Sister Shishi is calling us."

Han Sanping wanted to leave, but found that he couldn't leave.

Because the silly girl Han Jianv who was holding his arm was waving excitedly: "Sister Shishi!"

Liu Shishi brought the reporters to the two of them, pretended to be well-behaved, smiled at Han Sanping, and then whispered to Han's daughter.

The reporter held up the microphone and said, "Mr. Han, as an investor, how would you rate this movie?"

"Uh, um. This..." The usually strong Third Master couldn't help but look around until he saw someone.

"Hey, isn't that Feng Xiaogang? Xiaogang, over here, where are you looking? Come on, our journalist friends want to hear your impressions of the film. You're a great director, so tell us about it."

He deliberately put emphasis on the word "good".

Feng Xiaogang gritted his teeth and walked over with his wife Xu Fan. His yellow and white face looked like he had spilled soy sauce on it, which was quite funny.

"Mr. Han."

"Director Feng."

After pulling Han Sanping into the water, Liu Shishi and Liu Xinyu took advantage of the chaos to quickly flee the scene.

"boom."

The car door closed and Liu Xinyu, sitting in the passenger seat, finally couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Pfft, hahaha, eh yo, I am dying of laughter, who just now swore that "Fuchun Mountain" was good, and what was the reason? Liu Dehua has invested in movies from "Crazy Stone" to "A Simple Life", it doesn't seem like he doesn't know how to choose movies."

"Fuchun Mountain has exquisite pictures and pursues the ultimate beauty. The director is very attentive. Wow, Liu Shishi, Liu Shishi, you are so proud of me."

"Stop laughing! Stop laughing!" Liu Shishi glared at her and tried hard to suppress the corners of her mouth.

"Mount Fuji" is really bad, unimaginably bad, even worse than "The Promise" and "Warring States".

The film is based on the joint exhibition of the famous painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" in Taipei. Japanese gangsters and British thieves are all attracted by the news. Liu Dehua plays the Chinese Hong Kong agent Xiao Jinhan, and his wife Lin Yuyan (played by Zhang Jingchu) work together to protect the treasure.
The main framework is okay, with all the commercial elements: science fiction, agents, action, treasure hunting, police and gangsters, some horror scenes, SM, mother complex and other elements, supplemented by magic, acrobatics and artistic gymnastics.

But in reality, it was full of flaws and the plot was extremely bloody, which made her feel very disappointed.

To be honest, she didn't even understand what the director was trying to say, it was so bad it was appalling.

She guessed that Liu Dehua was not doing it for money, but was just repaying the favor out of helplessness.

Liu Xinyou recalled the scene just now and teased: "You have changed. You used to be so well-behaved. You were not like this when you were interviewed."

"You're still laughing. I'm going to give you a good lesson today!" Liu Shishi got angry and reached out to tickle her armpits, and the two of them wrestled with each other.

Suddenly, Liu Shishi screamed and covered her chest: "Ah...you slut!"

"The thief cried thief, it was obviously you who pinched me first."

Liu Xinyou retorted, smoothing the wrinkles on her dress without a care, then raised her right hand and added: "You've been eating papaya, so your hand doesn't feel very good. I see. Your basic conditions are too poor."

"Humph." Liu Shishi curled her lips. "Same here. Mine at least has a feel. Yours, huh, I can't even touch it. I have to pinch it. Not to mention compared to Yang Mi, you're far behind Bai Bing."

"You!" Liu Xinyuo was furious. She pouted her head and looked out the window. Ignoring her, the friendship was over.

"Beep beep!"

After a few minutes of silence, Liu Shishi pressed the horn: "Have you booked a hotel for your flight tomorrow morning?"

"No, just find a hotel and drop me off at the door."

"Forget it, you come home with me tonight and sleep with me."

"As you wish!" Liu Xinyou nodded, a smile blooming on her face again, and said, "Hey, when can you introduce Bai Bing to me?"

Liu Shishi: "."

The next morning, Liu Xinyuo came out of the building in disheveled clothes.

Lu Yuan's black G-Class disappeared in a flash.

The paparazzi who usually stake out the neighborhood are puzzled. Isn’t Lu Yuan on the set filming?

But this does not stop them from pressing the shutter and taking candid photos.

Just when some of them were considering whether to take the risk and make up stories.

In less than half an hour, Liu Shishi walked downstairs in her pajamas and went to her home across the street without any hesitation.

They hesitated to spread rumors about Lu Yuan because the other party would really call the police.

So some people started planning to write a gossip article about Liu Shishi and Liu Xinyou. #Lu Yuan's crew was filming, and there was a fire in the backyard#
#A few things about Liu Shishi and Liu Xinyou#
#Unveiling Liu Xinyu's methods of rising to power#
The crew of "The Cliff".

It’s June, midsummer has arrived and the heat wave is rolling.

Lu Yuan had just finished filming a scene and was hiding in the RV to enjoy the air conditioning.

I took out my phone and browsed around casually, when suddenly, a few sensational headlines caught my eye.

He narrowed his eyes, frowned, and tilted his head back slightly. After confirming several times, he clicked in, only to see a few blurry photos with irrelevant text.

"What is this? It's such a mess." Lu Yuan was confused.

When Liu Xinyu was signed in Hong Kong, the agency gave her a lesbian persona.

In fact, the girl's sexual orientation is very normal, but she witnessed her parents' divorce when she was young, and was influenced by her parents, so she has a pessimistic attitude towards marriage.

After Lu Yuan signed her, he asked her to focus on filming and abandon that character. Unfortunately, the Internet’s memory is difficult to completely erase, and the old news was rehashed again.

Forward the contents of several unscrupulous tabloids to Liu Shishi.

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"Tell me the truth, what's going on?"

"Hey, brother, let me explain. We went to bed a little late at night and forgot to set the alarm. When Xinyou woke up, her flight was almost delayed. She simply washed up and didn't even have time to comb her hair before driving your car to the airport."

Lu Yuan asked what he did at night.

Liu Shishi pouted and posted a few cute photos, and also promised to perform some difficult poses. After he saved the message, he no longer asked about it.

There were actually early signs that Liu Xinyu would be hacked.

Let’s not talk about how “See You Tomorrow” performed at the box office, as this is Han Han’s first time directing, no one knows.

But the industry generally believes that after the broadcast of "My Love from the Star", Liu Xinyu will become a first-line star.

Because the leading actor was Lu Yuan, Liu Shishi in "Startling by Each Step" became famous overnight.

Resources in the entertainment industry are limited, and Liu Xinyu's rise will undoubtedly affect the interests of many first-line actresses.

It is inevitable that people will secretly buy press releases, flatter and criticize, and smear and spread rumors one after another.

There are many unscrupulous media outlets, and many of them spread rumors about Lu Yuan. Although he can call the police, they only target well-known media organizations.

Faced with those unscrupulous guerrilla tabloids and freelance writers, they just shoot and run away, and there is no way they can finish their lawsuit.

It's not right for you to sue, and it's not right for you not to sue.

Because as long as you reply, the other party will have traffic, and with traffic, monetization will be much easier.

This is both the convenience and the dark side of the Internet age, so the wisest thing to do is to ignore it.

Lu Yuan continued to check his Weibo. The movie "Fuchun Mountain" was released on the 9th, marking the first release of the summer season.

On the morning of the premiere, a torrent of negative reviews emerged on Weibo, with sharp and explicit language.

Netizens complained and denounced it as a terrible movie, saying that "Fuchun" set a new bottom line for bad movies.

On Douban and Time.com, where movie fans gather, the film scored only 3.4 points, the lowest this year.

The curses spread everywhere and intensified, and the entire Internet was swept by a wave of criticism against "Fuchun Mountain".

Facing all kinds of accusations and insults, director Sun Jianjun said on Weibo that he welcomed the public's complaints and that he accepted them all, with a calmness that made people suspicious.

What is strange is that the film's box office exceeded 4600 million yuan on the first day of its release, and exceeded 37 million yuan on the second day. In the following days, the box office continued to rise, and the screening rates of major theaters also rose accordingly, reaching a peak of %.

Lu Yuan couldn't help but think of Zhang Bowen's bold words in the group two days ago.

"In the Internet age, if a movie wants to be a big hit, it must be topical. And this topicality actually refers to whether it can attract attention. The attention can ignite the audience's enthusiasm, increase the popularity of the film, and bring it more lasting attention."

"So what if it's a bad movie? If I were to market Fuchun Mountain, I would do the opposite and hype it up as the worst blockbuster in the history of Chinese-language movies, and let the whole internet know about it. Negative topics can also bring heat, and the audience will be curious about how bad it is, and eventually they will be unable to resist their curiosity and go to the theater to find out."

“All marketing is human marketing, and the highest level of marketing is to induce human nature and satisfy human nature!”

Judging from the current situation, the publicity team behind "Fuchun Mountain" obviously shares the same philosophy as Zhang Bowen.

But in Lu Yuan's opinion, although Zhang Bowen is a good marketer, he is too utilitarian and only does marketing for the sake of marketing.

For the market, this is an overdraft of movie fans' trust in Chinese films.

Hype for a bad movie may bring short-term profits, but the director's reputation will be damaged and the audience will no longer trust him unless he bids farewell to the film industry completely.

If he chooses to continue working in this industry, the audience trust lost by one bad movie will need to be compensated by 4-5 good works.

The same is true for the leading actors.

Lu Yuan asserted that the box office of "Blind Detective", starring Andy Lau and directed by Johnnie To, which will compete with "Chinese Partners" in July, is bound to be affected.

Even Zhang Bowen might take this opportunity to make a big fuss about it.

"Knock, knock, knock, boss, I'm coming in." Zheng Qian shouted outside.

"Has the next scene started?"

"No." Zheng Qian got into the car and shook her head: "Deng Chao brought someone to visit the set."

"Deng Chao?" Lu Yuan was puzzled: "What is he doing here?"

"I didn't ask, and he didn't tell."

Not far from the RV, Yu Baimei and Deng Chao stood shoulder to shoulder.

"Chao, do you think he will invest?"

Deng Chao glanced sideways with a complicated expression, but remained silent.

If given a choice, Deng Chao would not ask Lu Yuan for investment, as Yuanfang Media has never been their first choice.

Perhaps it was his self-esteem that was at work. Although Deng Chao had already admitted in his heart that Lu Yuan's current achievements were far beyond his reach, he was still unwilling and reluctant in his heart.

His former opponent now had to come to him for help, and it was difficult for him to bow down to him.

So after the celebration party of "Border" ended.

He and Yu Baimei worked separately, running around between major film and television companies.

Unfortunately, few people are willing to bet on him, a budding director transformed from an actor.

In recent years, there are only a handful of examples of successful transformation. Apart from Lu Yuan, Xu Zheng and Zhao Yanzi, who are the others?

Although Wang Changtian of Guangxian was interested, he also had many concerns.

Deng Chao and Guangguang have collaborated on "Painted Skin" and "The Four", and there will be another "The Four 2" at the end of the year.

But Wang Changtian felt that although his acting skills were remarkable, he had not had any box office hits in recent years, lacked classic roles, and his cumulative box office revenue was less than 5 million yuan, and his appeal was clearly insufficient.

Therefore, his attitude is ambiguous, and even if he invests, it is estimated that there will be many requirements.

It's not a big deal to keep waiting.

Finally, after Sun Li's persuasion, Deng Chao made up his mind and found Lu Yuan.

(End of this chapter)