The opening of China Entertainment Group gave Jay Chou a head-on confrontation

Chapter 815: The Big Boss
No matter what others think, for Zhou Yi himself, this year's Hong Kong Film Awards is really not that important to him——

Although the Academy Awards attach great importance to the two awards in the Best Music category, and the award order is only before the Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress, this is just the case for Zhou Yi today.

When "The Elephant King" was nominated before, he didn't even have the status he has now and he didn't even bother to go, let alone now.

Although I was nominated, I didn't win the award.

"The 100th anniversary of Chinese cinema, you should not take it so lightly."

As an insider, Cheng Hao still knows the importance of this year's Academy Awards.

The theme of the 2005 Hong Kong Film Awards was the th anniversary of Chinese cinema, and the guest lineup could be said to be the most grand and also the most popular one in history.

How popular is he? The national treasure-level special actor Gu Yue attended the event in military uniform and served as the award presenter - yes, you read that right, that Gu Yue.

This is the first time, and it gives enough face to the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

At the same time, the number of performing artists from the mainland attending this year's Academy Awards was the highest in history.

As a partner of China Film and one of the current leaders in the domestic entertainment industry, Cheng Hao is well aware of the news.

Zhou Yi, who was lying on the yacht's lounge chair with his legs half bent, wearing a Hawaiian-style floral shirt and beach pants, couldn't help but laugh when he heard that. He pushed up his sunglasses, looked at the endless ocean, and sipped coconut juice comfortably: "If I really didn't take it seriously, I would have been too lazy to go a long time ago."

Are you not happy with your vacation? Why do you have to sit at the award ceremony for hours?

This is definitely torture for him now.

Even the Grammy Awards he complained took too long.

"You, now that you've gained a higher status, are you starting to act arrogantly?" Cheng Hao, who was wearing a gauze over her purple bikini and sunglasses, couldn't help but turn her head to look at the man when she heard this, with a hint of doting in her tone.

Before he became famous and well-known, he was very diligent in attending various award ceremonies. Now that he has become famous and well-known, he now wishes that the organizing committee would send the trophy to his door without him having to go.

The most typical examples are the Mainland Chinese Music Chart and the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Songs Awards.

When I was just starting out, I went there so often, but now I don’t even go there anymore. All the people there are from Warner Records.

Don't ask, I'm just too busy.

Anyway, from the outside world's perspective, Zhou Yi is indeed very busy every year, so no member of the organizing committee has ever thought that Zhou Yi is lying.

On the contrary, one would feel a little sorry for this Warner superstar who is being exploited madly.

In their view, Zhou Yi's workload is no longer the highest in the country, but the highest in the world.

Creative writing is not something that can be done on a whim. Many people have to rack their brains to write an 800-word essay and still cannot fill the grid.

Of course, the more important thing is that Zhou Yi treats everyone equally - not only the award ceremonies in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, he did not even attend the award ceremonies in many foreign countries. All of them were presented by Warner, and the main goal was fairness.

"If it weren't for the special situation in the Taiwanese music scene, I wouldn't even want to go to the Golden Melody Awards."

Zhou Yi put down the coconut and "struggled" to stand up. The oncoming sea breeze lifted his unbuttoned floral shirt, revealing his angular eight-pack abs: "I am now planning to announce my permanent withdrawal from major domestic award ceremonies by the middle or end of next year."

"So fast?"

Cheng Hao, who was applying nail polish, paused.

Although she had known for a long time that Zhou Yi had intended to withdraw from the award ceremony, she never expected that the specific time he gave would be so close.

Next year - that is, by the end of 06 at the latest?
"What about abroad?"

"If the overseas market can hold out for another two years, we can win the Olympics in 08."

In Zhou Yi's impression, in order to achieve internationalization, the Olympic Committee invited Sarah Brightman in 08 - this is definitely not necessary now that they have him.

Sarah Brightman is not nearly as popular as he was now.

Even Liu Huan is not needed, he can sing the solo alone.

"So after you quit the award ceremony at the end of 06, will you still release an album in the country?"

"It's hard to say. There will definitely be some, but I can't say how often."

Cheng Hao took off his sunglasses and smiled even more brightly while holding a small brush.

"why are you laughing?"

"I'm looking at you."

"Then you won't be watching in vain. I'll show you a perfect dive."

After stretching his body, Zhou Yi cracked his fingers, and then jumped off the yacht's diving board with a perfect jump.

The dragon dives into the sea, creating a huge splash!
Cheng Hao paced to the guardrail, holding his chin with one hand and watching the man's wet head breaking the ripples on the water. He turned his head and looked at himself: "How is it?"

"very good."

The seagulls flew over the horizon and screamed in surprise. The hair blown by the wind lingered in the woman's heart. Cheng Hao, smiling, suddenly had an idea and painted the number "10" with nail polish on his palm. He raised his right hand with his palm facing outward and said loudly his judgment -

"10 points!"

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"How many did you say?"

"80."

March 2005, 3, Hong Kong Coliseum.

Twins, who entered the mainland market this year and released a Mandarin album, became the first choice for Yinghuang factions to talk to each other.

On March 3, Twins' first Mandarin album "Apprentice Eros" was released. In addition to the popular title song "Don't Want to Grow Up", there is also another song "No Tears in Moscow".

The former was written by Zhou Yi, and the latter is the Mandarin version of the song "Next Stop Queen".

With two hit songs, Yinghuang's album "Apprentice God of Love" directly achieved terrifying sales of 1 copies in one day and 30 copies in eight days.

"Well, that's really amazing, right. I also listen to the music of Twins, they are really great singers..."

As a singer, Sun Yanzi, who attended the Academy Awards with the crew of "Kung Fu" tonight, was naturally the darling of the media. However, the content of the questioning almost made her, who was still in Singapore a few days ago, unable to hold back -

In the Chinese music scene in 2005, it was somewhat amusing to be able to announce that the album sales had exceeded 8 copies just 80 days after its release.

She now has a new understanding of the inflated sales of Hong Kong and Taiwan music scenes in the 1970s and 1980s.

These people really dare to brag.

One dares to brag, the other dares to publish in newspapers.

It's a match made in heaven.

"There's news that Zhou Yi might not be able to make it back to tonight's awards ceremony in the United States. Yan Zi, do you know about this?"

“Fake news.”

Sun Yanzi made the decision without hesitation, and also turned the tables: "Don't keep asking these questions. I'm from the "Kung Fu" crew tonight." Hong Kong reporter: "..."

you've changed.

As expected, as one's status rises, one becomes more confident in what he says.

But you are not in the Kung Fu circle at all, so isn't it a bit of a lie to say this?

In such a large "Kung Fu" crew, there are actually only a very small number of people surrounding Zhou Xingchi.

Needless to say, the landlord and the landlady have their own circle - the only people who can chat with Zhou Xingchi all the time are Zhang Manyu and a few others in the venue.

Especially Zhang Manyu, her performance is very consistent with her past scandal with Zhou Xingchi.

These two have been talking non-stop since they entered the venue.

Coincidentally, most people from the "Kung Fu" crew did not follow Stephen Chow, and Maggie Cheung was not in the circle of the movie "2046".

As the absolute heroine of "2046", Zhang Ziyi stole the spotlight. When she saw Sun Yanzi, her eyes lit up immediately. She came to her with the hem of her dress lifted: "Hello, Yanzi."

She saw that Sun Yanzi obviously failed to integrate into Zhou Xingchi's circle, so she came over to lend a hand.

Liu Xiaoqing, Jia Zhangke, Feng Xiaogang, Sun Nan, Dong Jie and others all belong to the mainland circle and have their own schools.

Especially Sun Nan.

Although he made his debut in Hong Kong, that debut was obviously not successful.

Because there were so many people coming from the mainland, the scene of this year's Academy Awards was somewhat clearly divided.

There was no joyful atmosphere, and no attempts to get close to each other.

Gu Yue in military uniform was like a stabilizing force that prevented some people from saying anything openly. Chenglong Liu Dehua, on the contrary, became the lubricant, livening up the atmosphere inside and outside.

Zhang Baizhi from the Yinghuang faction speaks with somewhat low emotional intelligence. In the circle of the younger generation, he is like a peacock with its tail spread out, and is completely unable to play the role of a bridge.

In 2005, even with the Yinghuang Group acting as a lubricant, the conflicts between the Hong Kong entertainment industry and the mainland entertainment industry still existed.

If Zhou Yi had not defeated Zhou Runfa back then, and Chen Daoming, Wang Gang, Zhang Guoli and a group of people had not taken advantage of the situation to beat them up and suppress their arrogance, the atmosphere between the two sides would probably be even worse now.

They all say yes, but privately no one is convinced by the other.

And there is competition among circles in the mainland, which disperses their strength.

For example, Zhou Xun, who has just arrived at the Hong Kong Coliseum, has a lot of competition with Zhang Ziyi - but compared to Zhang Ziyi, Sun Yanzi is more familiar with her.

“It’s so complicated…”

Finally, a familiar person came. Sun Yanzi, who met Zhou Xun, muttered: "But why did you have orange hair? Filming?"

"Styling, this is the fashion now. What, do you like it? I'll recommend a stylist to you. Many movies and TV series use her, and you may be able to use her when acting in the future."

Zhou Xun shook her orange-red hair and patted the silver tights on her legs.

Sun Yanzi: "..."

Well, how should I put it, it's obviously very fashionable.

If she had followed her previous aesthetic standards, she might really think it was good.

But after spending a long time with Zhou Yi, she felt that it really wasn't working.

It’s not that red hair is not good, it’s that the combination of this outfit is problematic.

"Forget it, forget it. I probably won't be filming any more in the future. I don't need to be involved in TV dramas anymore."

Sun Yanzi shook his head like a rattle.

"Don't be afraid. They don't dare to target you anyway."

Zhou Xun teased her cheerfully: "Zhou Yi is standing behind you, what are you afraid of?"

Sun Yanzi said nothing, just kept shaking his head.

She just felt that this circle was a bit crazy.

Just while filming "Kung Fu", she witnessed a lot of confrontations, both overt and covert.

Complexity, inherent discrimination, country bumpkin, old-fashioned, etc.

Even Hong Kong people themselves have conflicts when filming——

For example, Sammo Hung and Stephen Chow, Fire Cloud Evil God and Stephen Chow.

"Don't shake your head. Only Zhou Yi can handle this situation."

"?"

"He can interfere in Hollywood. Haven't you watched the news?"

Zhou Xun lowered his voice, with a hint of emotion in his tone: "Including me, only Brother Chenglong has tasted the global market."

The two were chatting privately, and soon they noticed that the various circles that were originally clearly divided and fighting each other had all started to move.

"Hahaha, Ayi, you're here."

Zhou Yi, dressed in a suit and tie, signed on the message board before entering the venue. Cheng Long, who was leading the way, came up to him and gave him a hug with a smile: "The organizers are just about to invite Jiang Wen to come over again."

"Uncle Long, since you invited me here, why would you need that old guy Jiang Wen?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Chenglong's hearty laughter was like a signal, breaking the potential low pressure in the venue.

Zhou Yi's arrival alone instantly softened the groups that were originally trying to form a group.

Whether it was Zeng Zhiwei, Anthony Wong, Leung Chiu-wai and Liu Jialing, or Stephen Chow, Derek Yee, Maggie Cheung and others, they all stood up instantly and greeted them with smiles.

Several circles in the mainland also automatically lost their leadership after Zhou Yi arrived.

Be it Jia Zhangke, Feng Xiaogang, or even the returning Liu Xiaoqing, they all stood up to welcome him, took the initiative to give up the right to speak, and followed Zhou Yi's lead on the scene.

With an absolutely crushing attitude, all oppositions and contradictions were crushed.

Sun Yanzi was stunned.

"You seem to have had a good year. You've gained a lot of weight."

Sun Yanzi jumped up and tried to cover his mouth!

(End of this chapter)