Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 561: The Pace of Expansion

Although Yang Siwei didn't know why his boss suddenly posted such a meaningful Weibo.

But as Li Chen's number one die-hard fan, Yang Siwei unconditionally supports his boss.

"Please don't over-interpret the interaction between Director Li and Yifei on Weibo. There's nothing to explain. It's just normal love words." Yang Siwei responded to the media.

Yu Miao responded to the media more directly: "It was a normal Weibo post, just Director Li's revelation of his inner thoughts. What does it have to do with Jet Li?"

Soon, media follow-up reports appeared online.

"The reporter interviewed Rongchen Films and Yixin Media by phone, and both denied that Li Chen's Weibo post was a sarcastic remark about Jet Li."

At this point, it doesn’t matter whether Rongchen Pictures and Yixin Media deny it or not.

Li Chen rarely posts on Weibo, unlike Miss Liu who updates her status from time to time.

But every time Li Chen posted a Weibo post, it became a huge hit. As soon as this Weibo post was released, a large number of people were defeated.

After all, it is common in the entertainment industry to get bored with the old and fall in love with the new.

At the same time, the first wave of word-of-mouth reviews for "Chinese Police" has also been released.

"It's very strange. I thought that no matter how Cheng Long acted, he would still be able to escape the shadow of Chan Ka Kui's comedy style, but in Cui Zhenhai, I can't remember Chan Ka Kui's appearance."

"Zhu Yawen's Miao Qingshan is also very interesting. He is a combination of Takeda's ruthlessness and Yu Zhan'ao's violence."

"Definitely the best of the National Day, the best of the year, high energy throughout, wonderful fighting scenes, and the elegant Tang Yan as the leading female in the film is not inferior to the men at all."

Xue Xiaolu picked up the phone, and after much hesitation, she still didn't call Li Chen.

She was very grateful that Jet Li starred in "Ocean Heaven" for free.

But she was not so arrogant as to think she could influence Li Chen's opinion by relying on her relationship with him.

What's more, Li Chen didn't mention Jet Li, he just interacted with Yifei, maybe Li Chen didn't mean that.

Xiangjia Villa, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Island

"Honey, should we give him a call?"

"Why are you hitting me? What did you say? I didn't mention Ajie, what did you say?" Xiang Huaqiong looked unhappy and retorted to his wife.

Mrs. Xiang was silent, and Li Chen's Weibo post included almost half of all men, including her husband of course.

However, the two parties are now in the honeymoon period of their collaboration on "Ip Man: The Final Chapter", and Xiang Huaqiong is unwilling to get involved.

Yang Siwei and Yu Miao were very busy, and Li Chen's phone only occasionally received one or two text messages from friends, but no one asked directly about Weibo.

Chenglong didn't have so many concerns. He called and said with a smile: "Li Chen, what's going on? You are not deliberately targeting "White Snake", hahahaha"

In fact, Chenglong was very happy to see Li Chen targeting Li Lianjie. It was a very simple reason.

There is no one else who can be compared with Cheng Long except Jet Li.

Both of them said that they didn't care, but in their hearts they both wanted to suppress the other.

"What's up, brother? Could it be that Li Lianjie called you?"

"No, you didn't mention him by name, so how could he take it personally? That would be asking for trouble."

"I think so, but that's nonsense when it comes to White Snake. Didn't President Han announce that the race for the top box office during the National Day holiday has ended ahead of schedule?"

Chenglong laughed: "I'm glad you're alright, you're really awesome, you really hit the nail on the head when you said 'Choosing Rongchen Pictures means choosing to have the last laugh'."

"I never thought that after decades of debut, Chenglong would finally set the domestic box office record in your hands. Thank you, Li Chen."

Chenglong is in a good mood, as the pre-sale box office has already created his domestic box office record.

In this battle between the two Js, he defeated Jet Li.

Coincidentally, this time both parties starred in other people's movies.

After hanging up the phone with Chenglong, Han Sanding called again.

Li Chen thought Han Saping was also gossiping about his Weibo, but it turned out not to be the case.

When Li Chen and Liu Yifei were in Venice, people from Changchun Film Studio sent an invitation for the film "The Palace of the Golden Phoenix" to Yixin Media.

At that time, Li Chen asked Yang Siwei to reject the Changchun Film Studio offer on behalf of Miss Liu, citing the lack of schedule.

Yang Siwei was accustomed to this kind of thing and didn't take it seriously at all.

With her boss around, how could the boss's wife be short of resources? Would it be necessary for her to star in a historical blockbuster directed by an unknown little director?

At that time, I heard Yang Siwei mention it, and it was Zhou Runfa who strongly recommended Miss Liu to play the role of Lingju.

"I didn't expect Changying to find you to be a lobbyist."

"Not only Chang Ying, but Zhou Runfa also called me. He knows about our friendship."

"I still say the same thing, Mr. Han, Xixi's schedule is far from certain, and it will be full within the next five years."

Han Sanping laughed angrily: "What are you doing today, kid?"

"Do you know that as soon as you opened your mouth, netizens started to curse the other two people except Wen Zhang."

"How did Jet Li offend you?"

Li Chen pretended to be innocent and said, "Boss Han, I just interacted with my wife. What did I say? I didn't say anything!"

"It's up to netizens and the media to interpret it as they please. I don't bother to care."

Han Sanping smiled and said, "Okay, anyway, once you post this Weibo, I estimate that the box office of White Snake will be cut by 20%."

Han Sanping's estimation was correct. Yangzi was not as patient as Li Lianjie at this moment.

In addition to the implications made by Li Chen, what made Yangzi even more indignant was that the box office of "White Snake" was also "stolen".

A movie ticket for "The Revolution of 1911" had the name crossed out by a ballpoint pen and the word "white" written on it, which was uploaded to Jet Li's Weibo by netizens.

Yoko went into a frenzy mode on Weibo.

"To punish this kind of vile box office theft, I am offering a reward to catch the perpetrator. All viewers who encounter similar behavior, please collect evidence and contact 137******* or send me a private message."

"I will immediately arrange for local personnel to arrive on site and verify each cinema. A bonus of 10,000 yuan will be offered. Please forward this to support us and jointly maintain a clean cinema environment!"

"Also, some people are shameless and despicable for the sake of box office success. Before the release of Legend of White Snake, it was inexplicably sabotaged and slandered, and this situation continued even after the release."

"I will not tolerate such evil practices. This matter is not over yet!"

Li Chen was laughing so hard, how come Yangzi is the same as Gao Xiaosong? Even if he doesn’t know who is behind “The Revolution of 1911”?
But you should at least know the four words "Xinhai Revolution".

Gao Xiaosong's "The Great Warrior" dares to challenge China Film Group Corporation and treats Lao Han as a decoration.

Less than three weeks after its release, the potential for "screening reduction" was exhausted, and the box office revenue was fixed at just over 4000 million.

The cost is less than 50 million.

No wonder investors were furious and criticized Gao Xiaosong for his lack of experience.

This allowed "Global Love" to get a bargain for free and took in 6600 million at the box office.

If you, Yangzi, find fault with Ren Zhonglun, it means you are tired of living.

Wang Changtian was also very happy. This is probably what it means to be afraid of teammates who are like pigs, but like opponents who are like pigs.

Movies like "Chinese Police" and "The Revolution of 1911" are not to be touched. No matter how well they are made, they will definitely have to be screened for several months.

Maybe these two movies will still be available in theaters next year.

But Wang Changtian understood, Yu Dong also understood, but Yangzi just didn’t pretend to understand.

"Painted Skin" earned 1100 million yuan at the box office on the first day, but Wang Changtian was not in a hurry.

"White Snake" just took advantage of the situation and secretly moved forward half a day.

As long as he and Li Chen don't fight among themselves and don't quarrel with "The Revolution of 1911", "White Snake" will never stand a chance.

"Brother, Guo Wei and I are having tea in Jinxiu, do you want to come over and sit with us?"

"Forget it, it's too late. Let's do it another day."

"Okay, Guo Wei just told me that as long as you post one Weibo post every day, he will pay you 200,000 yuan per post privately."

Li Chen laughed: "Tell him whether it is RMB or British Pounds. If it is British Pounds, I will consider it."

Cao Guowei's face darkened, and he took Wang Changtian's phone and said, "Go to bed early."

Then he hung up the phone.

Wang Changtian laughed: "Li Chen is such a wonderful person."

Cao Guowei smiled, "When I invited him to join Weibo, I saved at least 100 million yuan in advertising fees."

After what Yoko did, the negative reviews of "White Snake" seemed to have been triggered.

That comment "from heaven and earth" finally appeared.

There were a lot of likes, but after looking at it, Li Chen felt that it didn’t seem like it was written by Lao Wang.

This is obviously aimed at the woman Huang Shengyi. Lao Wang wants to deal with Yangzi.

Li Chen guessed correctly.

At this moment, there was a plain-looking man who looked very similar to Ba Liang Jin. He was wearing a baseball cap and sitting in an Internet cafe, looking at the comment section and making a strange laugh.

If Yoko were here, she would be shocked.

Yu Dong has a constant headache. If you don’t understand, don’t do anything.

The lighting issue was enough to give Yu Dong a headache, and with the addition of Shanghai Film Group and Rongchen Pictures, Yu Dong also chose to give up.

At noon the next day, the first-day box office of "Chinese Police" amazed the industry.

Sina Entertainment News

"Yesterday morning, the police and gangster documentary blockbuster "Chinese Police", jointly produced by China Film Group and Rongchen Films and starring Cheng Long, Liu Dehua, Zhu Yilong, Tang Yan and others, was released nationwide." "It injected a dose of stimulant into the slightly weak National Day market, and the single-day box office and first-day box office are expected to set new records for domestic films."

"According to preliminary box office statistics in Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places, the first-day box office of "Chinese Police" is estimated to be more than 7000 million yuan. Some industry insiders have analyzed that the first-day box office of the film is expected to approach the million yuan mark."

In this way, its single-day box office and first-day box office are expected to set new records for domestic films.”

As night falls, "Chinese Police" basically dominates the prime time in various cinemas.

"Hahahaha" On the first day of National Day, Han Saping was overjoyed.

The box office on the first day was 8850 million.

"Li Chen, you are such a genius. I'm with Chenglong and Lao Tian. Come over here."

Han Saping said that you should come over, not that you can't come over.

When Li Chen arrived, Han Saping had already drunk a lot. It was obvious that the box office of "Chinese Police" made old Han very happy.

Perhaps it was the failure of "The Founding of a Party" that made Lao Han feel angry.

And it was messed up by Gao Xiaosong and other flies.

"Why are you here just now? Come sit down."

Chenglong also had a smile on his face: "Li Chen is here, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Even Tian Zhuangzhuang was angry: "Since you are here, please sit down and have a few drinks with the three of us old guys."

What could Li Chen say? Tian Zhuangzhuang had already spoken, so he had to drink even if he didn't want to.

The final result was that except for Chenglong and Han Saping, the master and disciple Tian Zhuangzhuang and Li Chen got drunk.

Li Chen had an average alcohol tolerance, and Tian Zhuangzhuang seemed to have let out a breath of foul air that had been hidden in his chest for more than ten years.

He knew that this movie would most likely become the highest-grossing and best-received masterpiece of his directorial career.

I remember going to Russia to shoot this movie. I felt like I was 20 years younger every day. Sometimes I was so tired that I fell asleep on the set.

But after today’s first day box office results came out, Tian Zhuangzhuang felt that it was all worth it.

Tian Zhuangzhuang kept holding Li Chen's hand and kept chattering, and finally it turned into two words: Thank you.

In the following two days, "Chinese Police" set a new box office record.

October 10: 1 million

October 10: 2 million.

The box office revenue of 3.23 million in the first week is still high.

Sina Entertainment News

"Chinese Police earned 8850 million yuan on its first day, 1.1 million yuan on the second day, 1.25 million yuan on the third day, and over 2.3 million yuan in the first two days of National Day. It earned 3.23 million yuan in three days."

"This first-week box office performance not only broke the first-week four-day box office record of the two previous best-selling domestic films, "Charlotte's Troubles" (2.2 million yuan) and "Let the Bullets Fly" (1.81 million yuan), but also broke the first-week seven-day box office record of "Avatar" (2.8279 million yuan)."

"In addition, the national box office revenue of 10 million yuan on October 2 also set a new single-day box office record for mainland films."

The first week box office of "Chinese Police" was beyond expectations.

No one expected that a mainstream film directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang could surpass the box office records of famous directors such as Li Chen and Jiang Wen.

This is especially true for the big and small kings of Huayi.

"The box office is too abnormal. How many theaters were booked out?" Wang Zhonglei couldn't even curse.

Feng Xiaogang's "Earthquake" leads the Golden Rooster Awards with nine nominations, but now it seems like a joke.

“It’s hard to say. There are millions of police officers in the country. As long as half of them go to the cinema, the box office will be 200 million. What’s more, there are definitely more than just police officers going to the cinema. Do their family members count? Do other civil servants count?” Wang Zhongjun had a clear mind.

This is the only thing that main-theme movies don't follow. With a combination of group tickets and package deals, plus an extremely long screening period, ordinary commercial films are no match for them.

Both brothers seemed to have forgotten about "The Great Earthquake".

In comparison, the 7500 million in the first week of "White Snake" and the 5800 million in the first week of "Painted Skin" seem dull.

After earning 1800 million in its first week, "The Revolution of 5400" still earned million at the box office this week, with Shanghai accounting for almost % of the total.

Yoko's expression was full of embarrassment.

It was a foregone conclusion that "White Snake" would gross over 100 million yuan, but why couldn't he be happy?

I thought that the competition between fantasy and main theme themes had taken the lead, and that I had taken the lead by advancing the release date, and that Jet Li had offset Cheng Long.

The cast of "White Snake" is at least as good as "Chinese Police", so why did it fail miserably at the box office?

He also hoped to trick Jet Li into continuing to "guest star" in the sequel, and someone had already started writing the script.

Yu Dong also prepared a silk banner to confer the title of naval commander on Yangzi.

In Yu Dong’s words, we can lose at the box office but we cannot lose the appearance.

We didn't lose money on "White Snake", provided that you, Yangzi, were not bragging.

You said it yourself, as long as the box office exceeds 100 million, you'll make money, 200 million is awesome, and 300 million is super awesome.

Looking at it now, 200 million should not be difficult.

Li Chen was not idle during the National Day holiday. "Vientiane Island" will start shooting at the end of the year, and all preparations must be kept up.

The filming location Li Chen did not shoot in Vietnam like "Skull Island". In fact, Guangxi in China is very suitable.

Whether it is the landscape of Guilin or the climatic conditions of the southwest.

The government departments in Guangxi expressed their unconditional support for the filming of "Vientiane Island" long ago.

During the National Day holiday, Yang Siwei was quite relaxed and went to Jeju Island with Yu Miao.

When I came back, I went to Li Chen’s villa.

"Boss Yang, why do you think the boss asked me to go to South Korea with you?"

This time the two of them went to South Korea and did two things while traveling.

One was negotiating with CJ, and the other was meeting a South Korean female screenwriter.

First of all, both of them knew Li Chen’s intention, which was to negotiate with CJ in order to open a branch of Rongchen Pictures in South Korea.

As for the second thing, which was to hire a young screenwriter at a high salary, Yang Siwei and Yu Miao were a little confused.

Yang Siwei probably guessed Li Chen's intention and just smiled and said, "Maybe you will be stationed in South Korea in the future."

Yu Miao's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. In fact, she had also thought about this possibility.

She is now a publicity director, unlike Yang Siwei who is independent and runs Yi Xin Media, and Yang Siwei also has shares in Yi Xin Media.

If she had stayed in the head office, although her salary and benefits were not bad, she would never be able to own shares.

But just as Yang Siwei and herself had guessed, she became the head of the branch company, and given the generosity of the boss, he would probably give her some shares.

She had no idea what would happen if she went to South Korea to develop her career.

in the country, the boss is of course No. 1.

Thinking back to the negotiations with CJ’s top management, the other party was not a fool.

I invested in your branch, and eventually you expanded it. Isn't that creating competitors for yourself?

But Li Chen also called the senior management of CJ and told them that even if CJ did not invest, Rongchen Pictures could still find other partners to invest.

For example, Big Hit Entertainment or SM!

We chose you because both parties have maintained a good cooperative relationship for nearly ten years.

This immediately put CJ in a bad mood. CJ was well aware of the quality and strength of Rongchen Pictures' works.

They also had no doubt that as long as Li Chen spread the word, someone would come and give money to buy shares.

Yang Siwei and Yu Miao arrived at Li Chen's villa. The servant said that Li Chen was on the phone upstairs and asked them to sit in the living room for a while.

After about a quarter of an hour, Li Chen went downstairs.

Yang Siwei and Yu Miao quickly stood up: "Boss!"

"Sit down, you're welcome, it's not working hours."

Li Chen wore a sky blue casual shirt and khaki casual pants, and he looked very approachable, completely different from his state in the company.

Yang Siwei and Yu Miao sat down. Li Chen chatted with them for a few minutes before getting down to business.

"Boss, CJ has basically agreed to our terms, and the female screenwriter Park Ji-eun is also willing to switch jobs."

"Of course, South Korean artists and screenwriters are too poor, otherwise Han Geng wouldn't be trying so hard to return to his country."

"That's what the boss said."

All of this was within Li Chen's expectations.

Neither Yang Siwei nor Yu Miao knew that by next year at the latest, South Korean artists would probably parachute into the domestic entertainment industry on a large scale.

The reason is simple: it is too easy to make money in RMB.

It is said that one year in China is a lifetime in South Korea. This is the portrayal of South Korean artists.

The record-breaking drama "My Love from the Star" in mainland China was written by Park Ji-eun.

Rather than waiting for someone to break into your home in two years, it is better to make arrangements now and infiltrate the enemy.

What's more, Rongchen Pictures now has the strength and ability to expand globally.

South Korea is the first stop.

(End of this chapter)