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

Chapter 1323: The changing world! The old ends and the new begins...

"Hello, Director Chen."

At the celebration banquet of "Your Wedding", as soon as Chen Fei entered the door, he saw Zhang Ruonan who was in charge of welcoming guests.

Suddenly, there is a billion-dollar box office movie on her resume. With this outstanding achievement, the girl looks quite radiant.

Very gorgeous and bright.

"Ah hello."

Chen Fei retracted his gaze and looked around the venue, but he didn't see Wang Changtian.

"Where's your CEO Wang? Hasn't he come yet?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a hearty laugh suddenly came from behind him: "Haha, here I come, here I come, there's a traffic jam on the road, I'm late."

Chen Fei turned around and saw Wang Changtian walking in the front, followed by Liu Yan, Ren Min, Sun Qian and other female artists.

Obviously, he is taking the opportunity to promote his company's artists.

"Hello, Director Chen." Liu Yan looked up and greeted him with a smile.

The other girls who followed behind bowed and greeted him, looking at Chen Fei with eyes that seemed to be shining.

What a great director!

meet again!

"Hello."

Chen Fei simply ignored those pairs of burning eyes, put his arm around Wang Changtian's shoulders, and said jokingly, "Guangguang has released it? It's the only movie with a box office of 10 billion during the May Day holiday."

"Hey? Look at what you're saying?" Wang Changtian immediately retorted angrily, "During the Spring Festival, Feiyue Films made a movie with a box office of 68 billion. When it comes to making money, I wonder how much more money you have than I do."

"Haha, in the current market environment, 68 billion is not much to earn. You know that."

Wang Changtian: “???”

As they were talking, the two had already entered the venue, avoiding the pairs of burning eyes at the door.

"Sister Liu Yan, why have I never heard of any scandal between Director Chen and any female star?" A girl in the crowd suddenly asked a very taboo question.

Liu Yan, who was walking towards the venue, suddenly turned back, her sharp eyes filled with deep coldness.

"If you don't want to be banned, don't be curious about this kind of topic. This is not something a female artist of your level can discuss. Do you understand?"

The girl froze in place for a moment, lowered her head and trembled, not daring to say anything more.

Liu Yan looked around, glared back at all the curious eyes, and then continued walking into the venue.

"A bunch of little Karamis, you are so brave, you dare to spy on Director Chen? Aren't you afraid that Sister Yifei will hear about it and ban you all!"

……

The celebration banquet was in full swing, and Wang Changtian began to mutter about his new plan again.

"I bought the copyright of another novel..."

Fade Chen raised his eyebrows and asked, "Young love?"

"Yes, this time I plan to promote Ding Yuxi and Ren Min from my company and see if we can have another hit on Valentine's Day next year."

"Hey? You're really persistent."

Chen Fei couldn't laugh or cry.

This Old Wang, is he going to pull out all the bald spots on the subject of youth romance?

"Guangzhou's main strategy is to take steady steps. As long as I don't go the wrong way, I will never fall into decline like LeTV, Huayi and Jingxi."

With Song Ge being arrested, Jingxi was completely ruined.

It's bad enough that it's embroiled in lawsuits, but all its film and television projects have been canceled, and now the only business left is tourism-related.

As for the others, they all disappeared with Song Ge's departure and turned into dust.

"I heard some rumors that Alibaba seems to be planning to acquire Jingxi to expand its tourism industry. I don't know if it's true or not?"

Ali?

Fade Chen pondered for a moment and analyzed: "Maybe it's true. After all, Mr. Fan is also a man who likes to make trouble."

Since Fan Luyuan took office, Alibaba has been working on many projects.

Movies, TV series, variety shows, talent shows, publicity, theaters...

Alibaba is involved in almost every business related to film and television.

It’s just that most of the projects that Alibaba is involved in are very loud in the early stages but there is no news in the later stages.

The title of "troublemaker" in the industry is not undeserved.

“Oh, by the way, there’s also the 30 billion-yuan-invested ‘Fengshen Trilogy’. I heard that it’s been restarted with the support of Penguin Pictures, Alibaba, and Huaying.

I saw an announcement a while ago saying that the first film will be released in 23 at the latest. I don’t know if it’s true or not. Wow, the slogan is ‘Chinese-language No. Mythology Epic’!”

Chen Fei curled his lips and said, "Oh, that's the nature of Internet companies. Let's not talk about the results first, but the slogans they shouted were so loud that they shook the heavens."

"You know what, the louder the slogans, the harder they fall in the end, hahahaha!"

That night, the two sat together and chatted about a lot of gossip.

Of course, what they talked about were all news that had already been made public, after all, there were quite a few people at the table listening.

But even so, it still brought great shock to others.

After all, what they usually deal with most are competitions in TV dramas and low-budget film projects, and this kind of dialogue between industry giants is like opening up a new world for them!

For example, what Chen Fei mentioned, the plan to cooperate with Fantawild.

The first thing they say is a project worth tens of billions or even hundreds of billions.

Compared with the 11 billion box office data of "Your Wedding", it is not even a fraction of it.

……

The next morning, at the invitation of Ren Zhonglun, Chen Fei came to the premiere of "1921".

"Mr. Chen, long time no see."

As soon as I entered the door, I bumped into Ren Yuxin, then chairman of Tencent Pictures, and Cheng Wu, CEO of Tencent Pictures, was next to him.

Chen Fei didn't deal with the two of them very often. Usually, Su Guohai would come forward to assist in the business negotiations.

But there is still cooperation between the two companies.

For example, the movie "Cross Fire" starring Lu Han was produced by Feiyue Films, and Tencent Pictures participated in the investment.

It’s quite interesting to talk about.

Tencent has two major subsidiaries in the film and television industry, one is Tencent Pictures and the other is Tencent Penguin Pictures.

Chen Fei often confuses the two.

But since Tencent Penguin Pictures bought Lu Chuan's share of "749 Bureau" from Jingxi Culture, he can finally distinguish the business ownership of the two companies.

The former, namely Tencent Pictures, is affiliated to Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group, and together with Tencent Games, Tencent Animation, etc., it constitutes the pan-entertainment business of Tencent Interactive Entertainment.

The latter, Tencent Penguin Pictures, belongs to Tencent Online Media Group and mainly relies on Tencent Video.

This is the basic ownership of the two Tencent Group subsidiaries.

Then in terms of business, Tencent Pictures relies on Tencent Interactive Entertainment's IP resources such as games, literature, and animation to carry out IP development and is involved in film investment, creation, and marketing. Its goal is to become the Disney of the Internet industry.

Penguin Pictures focuses on online dramas, while also participating in film investment and artist brokerage business. Relying on the Tencent video platform, it is committed to building a full industrial chain of original IP.

What is particularly funny is that Penguin Pictures actually wanted to expand "Bureau 749" into a full industry chain project.

Chen Fei has seen a lot of press releases during this period, and there are sometimes hot searches on Weibo such as #The post-production of the movie 749 is more than halfway through#.

There is no need to guess, this must have been promoted by Penguin Pictures.

To be honest, he was really wondering how Sun Zhonghuai came to like the project "Bureau 749"?
Isn’t Lu Chuan’s pit big enough?
Or is it that his father Lu Tianming’s connections are already enough to influence major Internet companies?
Or, did Lu Chuan feed those investors some kind of magic potion?

Chen Fei was thinking about it in his mind, and at the same time he greeted Ren Zhonglun, Huang Jianxin, Jiao Hongfen, Fu Ruoqing and others who came from China Film.

On the other hand, Lu Chuan returned home covered in dust and dirt.

When he saw his son coming in, Lu Tianming, who was sitting on the sofa waiting for news, stood up suddenly and asked expectantly, "How is the situation? Has your plan been selected by the Asian Games Organizing Committee?"

"I do not know either."

Lu Chuan walked to the coffee table with a sad face, picked up the water cup and drank several mouthfuls. Finally, he couldn't help but complained: "I personally feel that I was not selected."

"How to say?"

"Because when I went there to get information, all the officials kept talking about was Chen Fei's name, and all they talked about was how good his plan was." Lu Chuan was furious and said angrily. Seeing this, Lu Tianming was quite helpless, but he still patiently asked, "What did Sha Xiaolan say?"

"Him? He seems to have become a hands-off boss, not caring about anything. All he does all day is follow Zhang Yimou to work on the Winter Olympics and never pays attention to me." Lu Xun said unhappily.

Lu Tianming's brows furrowed even more when he heard this.

Before it is officially confirmed, officials will naturally do things perfunctorily.

But Sha Xiaolan's "hands-off" attitude should not appear.

After all, their company's business is to organize large-scale evening parties, and if there is hope, he will never give up on the opportunity to prepare for the Asian Games!
After careful consideration, the only possibility is that he has no confidence in the plan he proposed...

"Well, we can only wait for news."

Lu Tianming knew everything in his heart, but he was powerless to change the situation and could only leave it to fate.

If the plans of several groups are similar, he can also try to find connections.

But judging from the current situation, the quality of the plan proposed by Chen Fei is obviously far superior to the plans of all other groups.

It's so difficult to beat him!

At the same time, internal meetings of the Asian Games Organizing Committee were held one after another, and various work topics were discussed repeatedly.

After all, the preparatory work involves many positions. In addition to the position of "opening ceremony director", there are a series of important positions that need to be determined, such as chief producer, music director, chief art designer, producer, etc.

"Regarding the selection of the chief director for the opening ceremony, the voting results have come out."

The conference host cleared his throat, and for a moment, the buzz of discussion stopped abruptly, and everyone's attention was focused.

"After several rounds of careful voting and comprehensive evaluation, it was finally decided that Chen Fei would serve as the chief director of this opening ceremony."

As soon as the host finished speaking, there was a brief silence in the conference room, followed by a burst of warm applause.

The leaders nodded one after another, their eyes full of recognition.

A leader spoke first: "I have carefully read Chen Fei's proposal. It is very creative. It not only integrates the local cultural characteristics of Hangzhou, but also cleverly combines the origin of ancient sports with modern technological elements. It can perfectly connect tradition and fashion, which is in line with the positioning of our event."

Another leader also echoed: "Yes, his plan has unique insights into the control of the on-site atmosphere and the arrangement of the program flow.

Especially the concept of the 'West Lake Scenery' created by using lighting effects is really eye-catching. I believe he can definitely bring a very shocking opening ceremony performance to the world."

Everyone was talking at once, and finally all eyes were focused on the big leader.

"If I remember correctly, Chen Fei seems to be the director with the highest box office and the most awards in the world? His experience and status are higher than Yimou's?"

Someone nodded quickly and said, "Yes, Minister."

"Okay, then make sure he's in charge. Notify him as soon as possible and find a suitable time to announce it."

For a while, many people became busy.

At the same time, the premiere of "1921".

Chen Fei didn't know that the proposal he submitted to the Asian Games Organizing Committee had been reviewed and approved. He was chatting about gossip with Ren Zhonglun at the moment.

The latter shared a very interesting story with him.

"Fu Ruoqing was transferred from Huaying to China Film Group at the beginning of the year and took away a lot of power from Jiao Hongfen, who now only has the power over China Film Co., Ltd.

According to the timeline, if Jiao Hongfen doesn’t achieve any outstanding results before next year, he will probably have to retire and give way to Mr. Fu.”

After hearing this gossip, Fade Chen deliberately observed the states of Jiao Hongfen and Fu Ruoqing.

The former is 60 years old today, with gray hair, and his spirit is obviously much worse than the latter.

In addition, after taking over the responsibility from La Peikang, he encountered the epidemic, which directly led to Jiao Hongfen not making any achievements in the past few years.

Although those main theme projects did not lose much money, they did not achieve any outstanding results either.

Under such circumstances, the labels of "lazy governance" and "conservative" have probably been firmly attached and difficult to remove!
Of course, this has nothing to do with Feiyue Film and Television. After all, the cooperation between the two parties has long been severed.

Ever since Han Sanping retired and La Peikang did a lot of weird things, the friendship between the two sides has long since disappeared into thin air and turned into ashes.

Retracting his gaze, Chen Fei looked at Ren Zhonglun again.

"Mr. Ren, if I remember correctly, you are about the right age, right? When will you retire?"

He just made a casual joke, but he didn't expect Ren Zhonglun's expression to suddenly become serious.

"I am currently handing over my position. Actually, I should have handed it over last year, but due to the impact of the epidemic, it was postponed for a year. I will retire at the end of this year."

"what?!"

Chen Fei was still a little stunned for a moment.

You should know that Ren Zhonglun has been the chairman of Shanghai Film Group since 03, and until the company went public, he also served as the chairman of Shanghai Film Co., Ltd.

It can be said that he has money, power and unlimited glory!
but now……

"Haha, I'm old now. I can't occupy it all the time. Wouldn't that make me immortal?"

Ren Zhonglun is quite free and easy, of course, it is also possible that he has already accepted this fact.

After all, he is 66 years old this year and his energy is really not up to par.

"The future belongs to you young people. We will step back and look forward to watching your wonderful performances, haha."

Amidst Chen Fei's mixed emotions, the premiere of "1921" officially started.

This film is a tribute to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of our party. It tells the story of the first batch of communists who bravely took on the great responsibility of saving the nation from extinction in the face of national crisis, thus embarking on the glorious revolutionary road.

Directed by Huang Jianxin, starring Huang Xuan, Ni Ni, Wang Renjun, Han Dongjun, Liu Haoran and others.

At first glance, almost all of them are young faces!

As the finished film officially began to be screened, Chen Fei almost got a thorough understanding of the movie after watching it for only ten minutes.

The advantages are good subject matter and grand scale.

But the downside is that many of the characters in the pictures appear to be very feminine, and many scenes have a hypocritical feel.

The story seems to want to express a lot, but overall it doesn't express anything well and feels very confusing.

The hardware is in place, but the plot is perfunctory.

To sum it up in one sentence: what is touching is history itself, nothing more.

After the movie ended, Ren Zhonglun asked Chen Fei for his opinion with great anticipation: "What do you think of this movie?"

But when he met his helpless eyes, Ren Zhonglun sighed: "Alas, I am old, I am really old..."

That afternoon, media coverage arrived as expected.

"This morning, the main theme movie "1921", jointly produced by Tencent Pictures and Shanghai Film Group, directed by Huang Jianxin, and starring Huang Xuan, Ni Ni, and Wang Renjun, successfully held its premiere in Beijing."

"The main theme movie "Revolutionary", exclusively produced by Huanxi Media, directed by Guan Hu, and starring Zhang Tong, Ma Shaohua, Li Yifeng, Han Geng and others, was officially announced to be completed this morning."

"China Film Group released the latest press release: Among the main theme movies "My Fathers and I", "Poetry" directed by Zhang Ziyi and "Duck Prophet" directed by Xu Zheng have been completed.

This also means that the third film of the main theme movie "Me and My Series", "Me and My Fathers", has officially completed all filming work."

For the entire day, the entire film and television industry seemed to be wrapped up in the three words "main melody".

Little did people know that this year is the last glorious year for mainstream movies.

As soon as Chen Fei left the premiere venue of "1921", he rushed back home.

My son is living with his grandmother recently. Although I can see her through video every day, I still miss her a lot.

He wasn't in a hurry to go back to Parasite.

After all, he had promised Han Jianv before coming out that he would bring Wen Muye with her.

The filming of "Miracle Stupid Kid" will be completed tomorrow, so we have to wait a while.

"laugh--"

After parking the car, Fade Chen opened the door and prepared to go into the house to look for his son.

But before he could enter the door, his cell phone suddenly rang.

It was an unfamiliar number, but since the call could reach his personal cell phone, it must be someone he knew.

"Hey?"

"Is this Chen Fei?" A deep voice came from the other end of the line.

"Yes, you are?"

"Oh, I'm from the Asian Games Organizing Committee. I'm calling to inform you..."

(End of this chapter)