It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 1119 That Year There Was Hip-Hop…

In the blink of an eye, it is already the end of December.

On the 29th, the release of three movies, "Ex-Files 3: Goodbye Ex", "The Ring", and "The Little Shop of Stories", brought the 17 Lunar New Year box office to a perfect end.

On the 30th, Feiyue Films announced the specific lineup of performing guests for this year's annual meeting.

Not surprisingly, netizens all over the Internet and even employees of major film and television entertainment companies immediately started drooling at the sight of those cute girl groups from the daily life.

"Oh my god! It's 'Momoiro Clover Z', the 2017 D Golden Pomelo Award's Most Popular Girl Group. Ah! I'm going crazy! Why did Feiyue Films hire this girl group?!"

"AKB48? Team A, Team K, Team B, Team 4? I am convinced! I am really convinced!"

"This is great news for geeks! I can't even imagine how crazy the technical staff at Feiyue Film and Television must be!"

"Let me show you my invitation letter. Hehe, yes, I am from Feiyue Films' special effects department. I also took a photo with TWICE."

"Fuck! I'm going to change jobs next year. Huayi is such a shitty company, but they didn't even give me a year-end bonus. I quit!"

On the 31st, under the attention of all online media, the Feiyue Film and Television Annual Conference was officially launched.

In order to give benefits to fans who support Feiyue Films, Chen Fei simply communicated with Youku and broadcast all the performances of the annual meeting live on the platform.

That night, Youku’s server was almost overwhelmed!

At the same time, that same night, several resignation letters appeared on the desks of human resources managers at major companies.

Many people scolded Chen Fei, which made him sneeze several times.

Liu Yifei considerately handed him a tissue, and after he wiped his nose, she took it and threw it into the trash can.

"Husband hugs."

Squeezing into Chen Fei's arms, she rested her head on his strong chest, feeling so contented.

"Don't lick it?"

Chen Fei strictly prohibited all her seductive behavior.

It wasn't until Miss Liu's nimble little hand reached into the quilt that he immediately had no objection.

……

After a night, time smoothly entered the year 2018.

After getting up in the morning, Chen Fei kissed his wife's smooth face first, and then went to the gym downstairs.

An hour later, after breakfast, he walked into the study, ready to finish the last part of the storyboard for "Avengers 4".

While waiting for the computer to start up, he first went online to check out the trending searches on major entertainment news platforms.

As expected, what will firmly occupy the first place on the hot search list is Feiyue Film and Television's annual meeting program, as well as the terrifying number of prizes and bonus details!
In second place is a collection of New Year's greetings from celebrities and actors in the entertainment industry.

Further down is the box office information for the movies released during the Lunar New Year holiday.

"The film is jointly produced by Feiyue Film and Television, Shanghai Film Group, Xi'an Film Group, Golden Shield Film Group, and Haizheng Film Group, directed by Chen Fei, written by Han Jianu, co-starred by Qin Hao, Chen Fei, Liu Yifei, Zhang Yu, Tan Zhuo, Duan Yihong, and guest-starred by Han Sanping, Ren Zhonglun, Wang Yong, and Ning Hao.

The drama film "Dying to Survive", adapted from real events, grossed 30 billion RMB in 40.15 days since its release.

"The fantasy and action film "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia" directed by Yuan Heping and starring Dapeng, Ni Ni and Aarif Lee has grossed 2.32 million yuan as of today; the film has been forced to be withdrawn from theaters due to exhaustion of its box office potential."

"Youth, a war and love film directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Huang Xuan, Miao Miao, Zhong Chuxi and other actors, has been released for half a month and has accumulated a total box office of 10.32 billion yuan. Yesterday's single-day box office closed at 6626.9 million yuan."

"The fantasy, suspense, and costume film Legend of the Demon Cat, directed by Chen Kai and starring Huang Xuan, Sometani Shota, Zhang Yuqi, and Zhang Rongrong, has been released for 10 days and has accumulated a total box office of 4.02 million yuan. Yesterday's single-day box office closed at 2209 million yuan."

"Bleeding Steel has grossed 10 million yuan in box office revenue in 2.08 days since its release, and its single-day box office revenue yesterday was 1202 million yuan."

“Directed by Chen Fei, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Roberts, Matthew McConaughey, Huang Jingyu, Liu Jiayi and others.

The action, adventure, and science fiction film Ready Player One, which cost $3.5 million to produce, grossed a total of RMB 8 billion in eight days after its release.

“《前任3：再见前任》、《妖铃铃》、《解忧杂货铺》，上映3天，票房分别收获2.95亿、2.51亿、1.44亿……”

Looking around, a large amount of data is being summarized and spread on the Internet, attracting the attention of countless netizens and peers in the industry.

At this point, the box office performance rankings for the 2017 Lunar New Year period have finally been announced.

"Dying to Survive" remains firmly at No. 1, and due to the key extension, it will continue to lead the January schedule if nothing unexpected happens.

"Ready Player One" came from behind and remained in second place with "finding Easter eggs" as its selling point.

As for the third place, it is Feng Xiaogang’s masterpiece "Youth" which is his 33-year film career.

Although the box office of this movie has just exceeded 10 billion, it cannot be compared with the first-ranked "Dying to Survive" and "Ready Player One", but this has not hit Feng Xiaogang's self-confidence at all.

Because this movie finally broke the curse that the movies he directed could not break through the "7 million box office", which is undoubtedly a huge victory for him!

At this moment, he was already very excited and was posting a long article online to vent his excitement.

On the other hand, the fourth-placed "Legend of the Demon Cat" is a bit embarrassing...

Brother Chen Kai hasn't been out promoting the movie much in recent days, and it's obvious that he has given up on the movie.

It’s only been released for 10 days and the single-day box office has dropped to 2000 million. What the hell is this?

This investment is bound to be a loss.

However, the loss is not that big. After all, the film and television city built for filming movies is still there. This thing is a "tool" for making money!
At the same time, after discussing with Fan Luyuan of Alibaba Pictures over the past few days, Brother Chen Kai has decided to change track.

After careful consideration, he and Huang Jianxin have already decided on the twelve-character theme for the main theme movie they will shoot after "changing tracks", namely: "Historical moments, national memories, head-on collision!"

Then comes the stage of creating the story.

Perhaps because his "Ren and Du meridians" were opened, after a night of thinking, he came up with the idea of ​​"collage creation".

That is: find multiple directors, brainstorm, come up with the story themes that most impress themselves and are most representative of the times, and then after shooting the individual stories, connect them together...

This proposal was highly agreed and recognized by Fan Luyuan!

As a listed company, Alibaba Pictures wants popularity and traffic, and the bigger the better.

Brother Chen Kai's proposal just happened to fit Fan Luyuan's idea.

As a result, the two hit it off and contacted Bona's Yu Dong, and with the help of the latter company's film and television production framework, they formally formed a project team.

At the same time, with the brainstorming of everyone, the name of the movie was successfully born.

At Alibaba Pictures, in the huge conference room, Brother Chen Kai seemed to have forgotten the failure of "Legend of the Demon Cat". He tapped with his ten fingers and typed six words on the PPT document: "My Motherland and Me"!
Upon seeing this, Fan Luyuan, Yu Dong, Huang Jianxin and other senior executives of Alibaba Pictures immediately stood up and applauded.

At this point, Fan Luyuan’s first project after taking office as CEO of Alibaba Pictures has been officially established!
However, the project is still in its early stages and will face many subsequent tests, so Alibaba Pictures has not made it public for the time being.

He plans to officially announce it after the project is initially completed.

Moreover, the current period is not suitable for announcing new projects, because the entire network will start to eat new big melons, and no one will pay attention to any news in the film and television industry.

Following the previous "one-finger Zen" incident, Bai Baihe's good friend's "hairdo" incident suddenly broke out!

At first, the melon was only spread in a small area and did not spread on a large scale.

After all, Xiaolu is a married woman now, and the couple shows their love on Weibo every day.

Moreover, the man involved immediately posted a clarification on Weibo, saying that he is good friends with Brother Nailiang and Sister Xiaolu.

Later, Jia Nailiang further explained: "Whether you are a couple, a couple, or friends, to go a long way, mutual trust is the most important thing!

I know Lulu and I trust all my friends. I believe everything is fine! She just went to get her hair done that night. Thank you for your concern. I haven’t practiced the dance for the evening performance yet. I’m going to practice. I wish you all a happy new year! "After the two men came out to clarify, and she and her bestie Ma Su also spoke out to clarify, and attributed it all to the paparazzi, the online public opinion was almost gone.

After all, everyone is accustomed to the paparazzi's fabricated stories, and both parties involved, their husbands, and their besties have clarified the matter, so could it be possible that the stories are false?
However, Dragon TV’s New Year’s Eve Gala once again ignited the public opinion that had originally dissipated!
As soon as the song "It's All You" came out, netizens immediately realized that Nai Liang had his own reasons!
Facing Li Xiaolu's affectionate expression, the latter was just smiling with his face but not his heart, and even looked at her awkwardly. He even shut up and didn't sing the last line "It's all you"...

When these details were exposed, netizens were immediately excited!

"I am really impressed by this song! The more I watch it, the sadder I feel."

"Wu Dalang told us that if we don't have money, we shouldn't play with high-end products. Yin Xiaotian told us that even if we have money, it won't work. Nai Liang told us that even if we have money and are handsome, it won't work..."

"Hahahahaha, I laughed my ass off. In the last freeze frame, the two of them actually laughed at the same time. It was so lifelike."

"I declare that the best shows last night were definitely the shows at the Feiyue Film and Television Annual Conference, but the second best show was definitely Dragon TV's song 'All About You'! It was amazing!"

"That year when there was hip-hop, Nailiang lost his home. Woohoo, I feel so sorry for him!"

"Sure enough, those who stab others in the back almost always end up with a bad ending..."

The Internet was in chaos for the entire afternoon, and the "hairdressing" incident overwhelmed all other hot searches.

However, the two parties involved did not respond. Even when reporters called the studio, the response they received was "no comment."

In the following days, many new gossips emerged on the Internet, such as Principal Wang’s breakup, Ma Su and PGone, Li Xiaoran, etc.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was the effort of the public relations company behind Li Xiaolu, who was trying to disperse the traffic and popularity in order to protect her.

However, when the word "doing hair" is associated with her, unless something unexpected happens, this joke is not going to work.

……

In a blink of an eye, it was January 1th.

After 22 days of screening in the North American theater market and earning $5.55 million, the Hollywood imported blockbuster "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" has officially landed in domestic theaters.

However, just as many colleagues in the mainland film and television circles were paying attention to the first-day box office performance of this movie, a piece of news reprinted from Hollywood suddenly caused a huge uproar in the mainland!
“[Chinese director Chen Fei’s new films “Manchester by the Sea” and “Ready Player One” are suspected of racial discrimination, and there are no black actors in the entire film!]”

Along with this shocking headline, there is also an article with very harsh words!

The thousands-word-long content directly pointed out that Chen Fei ignored the talents of black actors in the casting process, which was disrespectful to the black community. This behavior seriously violated the multicultural concept advocated by Hollywood.

This report was like a bombshell and quickly caused an uproar on the Internet.

Domestic netizens are fine, after all, no one is very interested in the division between black and white groups in Hollywood.

Therefore, everyone naturally supports Chen Fei unconditionally.

But things in Hollywood are more exaggerated!

A large group of people of color have commented on social media:

"Haven't you noticed? In those award-winning films directed by Chen Fei, there are almost no black actors, including the previous "The Revenant" and "Dallas Buyers Club"!"

"I really misjudged him! In my opinion, regardless of race, skin color, nationality, etc., everyone should enjoy equal rights and opportunities in the legal, social, economic, educational and other aspects. I oppose any form of racial inequality. Chen Fei's behavior is really too bad!"

"Black people should be treated the same as white people! Why do you discriminate against us?"

"Black lives matter, too. Black lives are as important as the lives of others. We oppose violent law enforcement and racial discrimination against black people, and call on society to pay attention to the rights and interests of black people!"

"..."

With the promotion of some people with ulterior motives, Chen Fei and his movies were pushed directly to the forefront of public opinion for a time.

On Twitter, famous black stars and players angrily demanded that he apologize, while some began to boycott "Manchester by the Sea" and "Ready Player One". Even some film critics and Oscar judges who originally supported Chen Fei began to question him...

At the same time, Chen Fei was packing his luggage in China, preparing to go to Hollywood to participate in the last round of public relations and award-winning activities.

When he received the call from Natasha, he immediately frowned... and when he went online to check the media's attempts to manipulate public opinion and attack him, his face became very gloomy.

He really didn't expect that his movie would be attacked for such a ridiculous reason.

"Haha? LGBTQ, right? You're actually using the same trick you used on me before on my head?"

"Fei, what should we do now?" Natasha asked anxiously on the other end of the phone: "The Oscar nomination voting officially starts today. The other party is obviously trying to make a fatal blow so that we can't even get the nomination qualification! We must do something as soon as possible!"

Hearing this, Fade Chen took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.

He first reviewed the current situation in his mind, and after a moment, he instructed: "First, arrange for someone to issue a statement, mainly emphasizing that our casting is based on the suitability of the role, and there is no intention of any racial discrimination.

At the same time, reach out to the black actors we’ve worked with and ask them to help speak up.”

"and then?"

Natasha asked quickly, because she knew that this was far from enough.

As the saying goes: It takes only one mouth to spread a rumor, but it takes a lot of effort to refute it!

The person who did this was obviously well prepared. With so many media outlets speaking out at the same time, even if they issued a statement, it would be difficult for it to successfully ferment in a very short period of time.

After all, it is an indisputable fact that there are no black actors in "Manchester by the Sea" and "Ready Player One"!

“Is the post-production of Black Panther finished?”

"Yeah, it's done."

Natasha responded subconsciously, and then her eyes suddenly lit up: "You mean to move up the release date of Black Panther?"

"Yes." Chen Fei nodded. "Not only should we do it in advance, but we should also make my identity as a screenwriter and producer known to the public, and then contact the media that we are working with and have them build momentum for me."

"it is good!"

Natasha said as she was about to hang up.

However, at this moment, Chen Fei suddenly stopped her and said, "I will take the flight to Los Angeles tonight. In the next 12 hours, you must find out who is behind this. It is useless to treat the symptoms without addressing the root cause..."

Before he could finish his words, Natasha on the other end of the phone interrupted, "It's Warner, it's Kevin Tsujihara!"

"Oh?" Chen Fei was slightly startled, and was quite surprised: "Isn't he the investor of "The Shape of Water"?"

"No." Natasha said very firmly.

Fade Chen raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised.

After all, in his opinion, "The Shape of Water", an award-winning film that caters to LGBTQ, should be the most suspicious.

But what he never expected was that the person who did this was Kevin Tsujihara!
"Haha, this guy has really put a lot of effort into making Dunkirk win an award."

Chen Fei guessed Kevin Tsujihara's "motive" almost instantly.

But if it were him, it would be easier to deal with!

After finishing the call with Natasha, Fade Chen called Amy Nott directly.

The latter has been keeping an eye on Kevin Tsujihara recently, and I believe he must have gained a lot.

Chen Fei has always had full confidence in her work ability. After all, most of the negative information about people like Harvey Weinstein and Michelle Bryan was obtained by her.

Based on this, isn't it easy to deal with Kevin Tsujihara?

At best, he is just a high-level worker. If you give him some negative information and push public opinion, it will be enough to make him step down in disgrace!
Without Warner's protection, he is nothing!

……

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