China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

The whole of late March and early April.

The March and April time slots, which have been known as unpopular periods in previous years, have been plagued by turmoil.

This time slot, which is not a strategically important one, turned out to be a stupid decision.

Not only are there movies like "Beijing Love Story" that suddenly hit the market, but there are also promotions for movies like "Oz the Great and Powerful", "The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel" and so on.

It does give this March a sense of a strong schedule.

The main source of this popularity, of course, is Guan Ling.

Although Guan Ling's movie has not been released yet, the publicity is indeed intensifying.

Needless to say, the promotion of "Hong Kong Trip" which is about to be released has been very strong. The related actors have already started a round-the-clock tour all over the country. The most commendable thing is Guan Ling's outrageous words at the opening ceremony of "The Martian".

Although it is a movie with an investment of over 100 million US dollars, Guan Ling is ready to recoup the box office revenue in the domestic market alone.

Three billion voices shouted out.

Almost everyone in the circle was shocked.

Such an attitude makes everyone in the industry tremble.

It also added a blazing flame to this unpopular schedule, igniting the hearts of every production company.

Among the several movies released, Tang Wei's "Hong Kong Trip" contributed to the explosive growth of the box office of "Beijing Love Story", surpassing "Die Hard 5", "The Iron Lady" and other movies, becoming the top of the box office in March. In eleven days, the box office took in million yuan, and "Beijing Love Story" once became a hot topic.
Even Tang Wei was compared with Zhang Ziyi, Fan Bingbing and others who had previously filmed a series of romantic comedies such as "Perfect Match", "One Night Surprise" and "Very Lucky".
And, it seems stronger?
The industry was stunned and actresses were drooling.

Tang sacrificed herself for the art in Lust, Caution and was later banned. Everyone thought she was finished, completely finished.

But director Guan Ling was still able to save her from danger.

And let her return to the mainstream.

With two movies in a row, this name can’t be avoided when reviewing the actresses of the year in 2013.

Director Guan is really something, he makes a female star famous every year.

Many expectant eyes and resumes flew onto Guan Ling's desk like snowflakes, but Director Guan had already started filming "The Martian" and didn't care at all about these beautiful girls and their attitude towards improvement.

He was busy filming the plot of the new drama every day, and he and Zhang Junning intensified their efforts on the set. All their parts were closely intertwined, rubbing against each other like gears, and even sparks appeared in various places.

As an astronaut, Zhang Junning had oral ulcers on his mouth and quickly bought therapeutic drugs for rescue.

But there is really no way to produce sparks in this area, so we can only take a temporary break.

Stop this tactic.

The other movies in March also have their own strengths.

On March 3, Guan Hu's "The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel" was officially released, allowing the industry audience to enjoy a sense of madness.

In fact, starting from the first half of this year, all major TV stations began to frequently broadcast anti-Japanese dramas, such as "Tearing the Japs apart with bare hands", "Eight Hundred Miles Away", "The machine gunner who killed the Japs with one shot", "Li Xiangyang with two guns", and even "The old lady with two guns", and "My grandfather was brutally killed by the Japanese at the age of eight".

"The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel" attempts to learn from these anti-Japanese dramas and shape the entire film into an exaggerated film and television style.

Guan Ling did not reject this attempt and provided Guanhu with 10 million yuan in production cost funds.

Guan Hu's butt is a little crooked, but the drama is still full of irony. Many years ago, the TV works "Black Hole" and "Survival of Migrant Workers" were successful works that accurately grasped commercial narratives.

The effect was quite good. Since the news that Huang Bo was chosen as the male lead for "The Martian" was confirmed in the circle, the promotion of the show saved a lot of money. Huang Bo's name alone made the show very popular.

The effect is acceptable. Although the results of the anti-Japanese drama are exaggerated, some audiences still accept it. This movie, which is invested by Lingyun Media, did not have any publicity from Lingyun Media, but achieved good results simply by relying on its high-intensity external rhythm.

It even won the single-day box office championship with more than 2400 million on the first day of its release, surpassing "Beijing Love Story".

Almost paid for in one day.

The industry predicts that the number may even reach 300 million.

Lingyun Media can also make some money.

As for the imported movies, "Upside Down" is a romantic art film under the banner of science fiction, and the female lead Dunst is the only selling point for people to go to the cinema. "Jack the Giant Slayer" seems to be a magical action blockbuster based on the name, and the trailer is awesome, but it is actually a bedtime call sketch. The action scenes in the trailer are the action scenes of the whole movie... The implication of this is obviously a scam.

The main reason for Oz the Great and Powerful is that the story background is too westernized, and domestic audiences can't understand it, and they don't have much resonance with it. This kind of decline is unexpected to many people.
But it’s not a bad thing that domestic films are gaining popularity.

Moreover, in the April schedule, "Drug War" on April 4, "Hong Kong Trip" on April 4, and "Complicity" starring Aaron Kwok on April 2 made the whole month of April jokingly called "China Hong Kong Month" by mainland netizens.

Almost all the movies involved in the civil war are Hong Kong-related, and in the whole of April, only one movie, "The Croods", poses some threat.

The rest are remnants of March.

Engage in fierce competition and fighting.

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In March, more news came out, making people in the industry suddenly feel the terror of Lingyun Media.

First of all, the first season of the TV series "Unnatural Death" starring Wan Qian was announced to be completed, and the preparation and shooting of the second season of the TV series began simultaneously, and the TV series actors were selected from the entire network.

Afterwards, the variety show "Running Man" starring stars such as Wang Baoqiang, Deng Chao, Chen He, Zheng Kai, and Guli Nazar began to prepare for filming.

At the same time, the promotional filming of "Extreme Challenge" starring Huang Bo, Huang Lei, Sha Yi, Di Lieba and other stars also began.

Director Cao Baoping of Beijing Film Academy and Xin Yukun, deputy director of Lingyun Media under Guan Ling, began filming the movie "Burning Sun" written by Guan Ling and starring Deng Chao, Duan Yihong and others.

At the same time, the Hollywood disaster movie "San Andreas" starring Liu Yan is scheduled to be released in the summer. Although this Hollywood industrial process film has not much to do with Guan Ling, when talking about Liu Yan and Hollywood, many people's eyes are wide open.

As a goddess for otakus, the intensity of this bombardment can be said to have swept up a wave of young and middle-aged male audiences.

The movie "Chinese Partners" has also started post-production editing and is expected to be officially released during the summer vacation.

At the same time, the two animated films "Your Name" and "In the Dark" directed by Guan Ling have also entered the post-production stage and are expected to be officially released this year.

Moreover, in the first half of this year, he will also supervise the production of a new science fiction film starring Liu Yifei, Shu Chang, Zhu Yawen and others.

At present, the directing will be temporarily handed over to the assistant director under his company to co-direct.

Xu Zheng, who has just been promoted to a general under Guan Ling, also stated in a related interview that he will continue to create the "Lost on Journey" series of films with the screenwriters under Lingyun Media.

Ning Hao has taken a break for a while and it is rumored that he will consider filming a new movie in the second half of the year.

However, Chen Sicheng, a grassroots newcomer who was introduced to everyone by Guan Ling at the Hong Kong Film Festival, was directly entrusted with the important task of shooting the movie version of "Beijing Love Story", and became a film director overnight, and it was claimed that Lingyun Media would provide a lot of support.

This made many directors narrow their eyes slightly.

Although he is a newcomer, for some reason, many directors feel uneasy about him.

At the same time, Wu Jing, who had just become popular at the premiere of "Travel to Hong Kong", announced during the promotion of "Travel to Hong Kong" that he would shoot and direct a new movie at the instruction of Guan Ling. Guan Ling will serve as the producer. The whole movie will be the same as his role in "Travel to Hong Kong", with a full pace and non-stop action.

It is so dazzling that the whole circle is constantly filled with news day after day.

"Director Guan has finally made his story clear this time,"

The news of the launch of multiple movies, TV series, variety shows, and even the Qingdao International Film Festival has been confirmed. For a moment, there was a dazzling feeling that a storm was about to come.

This brought great excitement to fans of Guan Ling. Many people even jokingly said it was Chinese New Year.

……

Some people are celebrating the New Year.

Some people are being buried.

In ByteDance’s office in Beijing.

Zhang Yiming looked at an app called Toutiao with a confused look on his face.

Several brothers who had followed Zhang Yiming all the way were also sitting in the office with unhappy looks on their faces.

"If this goes on, there will be no future." Liang Rubo, who was beside Zhang Yiming, couldn't help but speak. As a joint partner and head of R&D, he was the one who designed the core technical architecture and user system of Toutiao, the website they founded.

He has put in a lot of effort in the past six months, but it is obvious that he cannot win this battle.

Every time they make an update, the other party seems to have predicted it and can launch related products quickly.

If you can’t beat him, can’t you just copy?
The other party's plagiarism speed is simply outrageous, even more than their number of users.

The main reason is that the other side has countless celebrities supporting them.

And after investigation, Liang Rubo discovered that the boss on the opposite side was actually Liu Yan.

Recently, there has been a lot of talk online about the summer movie "San Andreas", which is starring Liu Yan.

There is no need to say anything else, except that her breasts are really big.

Liang Rubo and his team had to download and study each other's products, and every time they opened them, they couldn't help but click in to check Liu Yan's account.

There are many people who use Snow White to exchange for money for wine, but I have never seen a celebrity use Snow White to exchange for traffic and user volume.

Moreover, she also filmed some skits like "Diaosi Men" and other skits, which can only be watched by this Toutiao guest besides Sohu.

It cannot appear anywhere else, the opposite side is a real complaint.

The past three months have been very embarrassing for Toutiao, with its user growth rate slowing down to a snail's pace, while the user base of its competitors has skyrocketed.

Now the number of activated users has not exceeded 10 million, but the other side broke it first.

Zhang Yiming and others knew very well that if this situation continued, not only would the B round originally scheduled for May this year fail, but their entrepreneurship would basically come to an end.

But what can be done?
It was obvious that Liu Yan had very strong financial resources, and they had no chance of defeating her.

Even in the current situation, if we change our thinking, all the previous work will be in vain.

These people will become fools.

"Ugh."

Zhang Yiming knew very well that what Liang Rubo said was right, but there was nothing they could do.

"In the current situation, perhaps we can only talk to the other party. I don't know why, but I feel that the other party doesn't want to kill us, otherwise she wouldn't have only released "Diaosi Men". Didn't Liu Yan say that she is an artist under Lingyun Media's general manager Guan? If the other party wants to use the company's employee information for publicity, we have no chance of fighting...

What we can do, others can copy.
But we can’t afford their stuff.”

This was the truth, and everyone in the room fell silent when the truth was spoken.

The title of Hollywood Ballerina alone made these people dumbfounded. They are all men, so how could they have a ball?

And to be honest, they also like to watch Liu Yan.

Who wouldn’t love to watch it? Just download the app and watch it for free.

In ancient times, people who went to brothels to listen to music had to pay for tea.

It’s much better now than before. Just download the app and Liu Yan will perform for us for free.

"How about we talk about it? According to the current progress, we have absolutely no chance of getting the Series B round of financing in May, and we are already lucky enough to be able to hold on for two months."

Another partner's words broke the hearts of many people.

Zhang Yiming sighed. Over the years, he has been dedicated to starting a business. He has been working his way up from Kuxun's travel vertical search to Meituan's Wang Xing team's Fanfou and Hainei.com, to Jiujiufang for renting and buying houses.

After founding ByteDance, he developed two apps, Neihan Duanzi and Toutiao, both of which were very successful.

The wind and snow oppressed him for two or three years, and it seemed that he was about to take off.

The situation suddenly reversed.

In the second half of last year, Liu Yan's fate was so quick that it made him blush.

A completely similar software, one that even obviously copied their vertical search structure and had the same interface, made them flee in panic.

In the past six months, they seem to have been borrowing money, and until now, the B round of financing is still nowhere in sight.

But Liu Yan's app has surpassed them.

They were turned into ants that could be crushed at any time, but the other party did not do so.

The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the process, and everyone felt that they should meet with Liu Yan.

"Then let's make an appointment. If she doesn't want to, we'll just have to disband."

Zhang Yiming stood up and bowed to everyone.

"But no matter what, I must first sincerely apologize to everyone. I am sorry to everyone."

Everyone patted Zhang Yiming on the shoulder.

"It's okay, we'll fight again later."

"Who says we are doomed? Maybe there will be a sudden turn of events."

"What do you think? Will she want to recruit us and make us her pawns?" Someone put forward his own idea.

Everyone looked at each other.

If that's the case, that would be great.

But who would be willing to give up their fat?

Everyone found this very difficult.

Going against the stars? At least for now, it is still difficult for them.

What they do requires the most traffic, and what celebrities have the least of all is traffic.

Liu Yan's sinking market and the traffic of Hollywood stars.

It will bring all men into this circle. How can the traffic involved not make these people envious?
...(End of chapter)