Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 617 Star You Turn on the Machine Youku Open V
A day later, Murdoch and other foreigners finally came to their senses.

The Chinese market is no longer the backward, isolated and unpopular little fish pond it was before the millennium. It is now the world's second largest film market and the world's fastest growing film market.

Over the past decade, China's top filmmakers have stepped onto the international stage, and people like Zhang Yimou, Li Chen, Jia Zhangke, and Jiang Wen are all well-known.

Even the Big Six in Hollywood have to face up to a reality: they cannot do without the Chinese market, but Chinese filmmakers do not necessarily have to work in Hollywood.

Now they are trying hard to squeeze into other people's doors.

Yesterday's self-righteous arrogance was indeed a bit stupid.

What's more, considering Li Chen's wealth and status, his interest in money has probably long faded.

"So what do you think he wants?"

"It remains to be seen whether he can create a script that will satisfy Cameron."

Murdoch already knew from Wendi Deng what Li Chen meant by the untranslated Chinese words he said yesterday.

It turns out that a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake!
In the United States, if someone dares to talk to him in this manner to his face, even if he is his own son, there would be no mercy.

But this is China, and he is not up to the task.

Deng Wendi shook her head: "I don't know what Director Li is thinking, but I can try to find out from the side."

When Deng Wendi asked around, the first person she asked was Li Qiaoqiao.

This question frightened Li Qiaoqiao like a toad caught in the rain.

Sina Entertainment News

"The three film giants Cameron, Li Chen and Zhang Yimou had a secret meeting and had a great time, and Deng Wendi hosted them."

"Cameron, Li Chen, and Zhang Yimou secretly met at Deng Wendi's home."

"Chinese-American media personality Wendi Deng and her husband Murdoch warmly hosted Cameron, Li Chen and Zhang Yimou for a secret meeting at their mansion."

"Today, Wendi Deng posted a photo of several people chatting cordially on Weibo. Many netizens are looking forward to what kind of sparks will emerge from the gathering of the three major Chinese and Western film giants."

The photo of Cameron, Li Chen and Zhang Yimou getting together aroused the curiosity of everyone in the circle.

Any one of these three people can be said to be the dream that all actors in Taiwan, Mainland China and Hong Kong dream of.

Yang Mi asked Liu Yifei immediately.

Her popularity in mainland China is now almost on par with Fan Qiaoqiao, and second only to Liu Yifei.

She is one of the top female stars born in the 80s, and even surpassed Tang Yan who has already left the nest.

In addition, Yang Mi has a likable personality, especially in the dispute between Zhao Zhen, she was the first to speak out in support of Zhao Wenzhuo despite the pressure from the Hong Kong circle, and her fan base increased rapidly.

Yang Mi now chooses plays based on two major principles, as Li Chen said: one is a big director, the other is a big production, either is fine.

She could refuse "Love in a Puff", but she couldn't refuse "The Bullet Vanished" produced by Derek Yee. Besides, how could Yu Wenle compare with her former idol, Ting Xie.

Regarding the dispute between Zhao Zhen, Wang Jing had no further news after Li Chen spoke out and chose to believe Jing Tian's support for Zhao Wenzhuo.

What Li Chen didn't know was that just after Li Chen made it clear that he supported Zhao Wenzhuo, Xiang Huaqi called Wang Jing and said coldly, "You bastard! You're so horny that you've played with women like a fool!"

Wang Jing was indeed dumbfounded. He was frightened to death.

Boss Xiang hasn't spoken to him in this tone for a long time.

"Xixi, are you and Director Cameron planning something new? It won't be Avatar 2, right?" When Yang Mi mentioned Avatar 2, her heart started beating faster.

Liu Yifei frowned slightly, secretly admiring that Yang Mi was smart and guessed the point right away.

"What are you thinking? How is that possible!"

Yang Mi patted her chest and muttered, "Senior is best at turning the impossible into the possible, and turning the possible into the capable!"

At the same time, Li Qiaoqiao and Deng Wendi met at home, but Murdoch was not there.

The expression on Li Qiaoqiao's face was complicated and indescribable.

"Sister Deng, you said Director Li got mad? And even cursed at people?" Li Qiaoqiao's mind was in a mess, and she really couldn't imagine what the scene was like that night.

Director Li even dared to offend Fox and Murdoch. He is so confident and domineering!
At this moment, there was only one sentence in Li Qiaoqiao's mind: "This is the real boss! He turns his back on you and doesn't recognize you, no matter if you are 21st Century Fox or a media tycoon."

Deng Wendi nodded slightly: "If I hadn't tried to smooth things over, I'm afraid the evening would have ended unpleasantly. In fact, it has already ended unpleasantly."

"I called you here because I wanted to hear your opinion. Although Director Li was very angry that night, he did not explicitly refuse to improve the script of Avatar 2 before he left."

"What do you mean by him?"

Li Qiaoqiao returned to normal. After thinking for a moment, she felt upset, but smiled with ease: "Sister Deng, if Fox really wants Director Li to help improve the script, don't mention the money."

"To be honest, Director Li probably makes more money than your husband!"

Deng Wendi laughed and said, "That's right. I heard that the most curious thing in the domestic circle is how much Director Li is worth."

"If not money, what else can we talk about? Tell me now."

Li Qiaoqiao really didn't want to say it, but she also understood that even if she didn't say it, Deng Wendi would think of it sooner or later.

"Sister, I really want Director Li to take charge. It's too easy. Give Liu Yifei a role in Avatar. It can't be too small. At least she has to be the second female lead."

Deng Wendi suddenly realized that people in the circle said that Director Li was very obedient to Liu Yifei, and that it was better to ask Liu Yifei for some things than to ask Director Li. It seemed to be true.

"I see."

"Sister, have Fox and Director Cameron really decided to ask Director Li to write the script?"

Wendi Deng smiled and said, "It's just an intention now. I'm not sure whether Director Li will write it or not, and whether it will satisfy Fox and Cameron."

Li Qiaoqiao left Deng Wendi's mansion with mixed feelings.

I feel in my heart that no matter how good an actress is, it is not as good as looking good, and looking good is not as good as marrying well.

Liu Yifei is simply a gifted girl from heaven.

If she really gets a role in "Avatar 2", all the Four Dan actresses and Two Bing actresses will be overshadowed by Liu Yifei in terms of star status.

Li Yu was also shocked when he heard the news.

"Sister, I feel more and more that Director Li is showing his dragon side. I'm afraid the only weak spot is Liu Yifei."

"You and Liu Yifei must maintain a close relationship in the future, and I will also take good care of Siwei."

"Director Li is like an iceberg hidden in the vast ocean. What we see may only be the tip of it."

Everyone in the circle was trying to find out the purpose of the Big Three's early meeting.

But few people know what happened that night.

The Li Qiaoqiao sisters may be the only ones who know the truth.

As the Academy Awards approach, "Chinese Police" and "The Flowers of War" have been nominated for the best films on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The Academy Awards naturally hopes that both Tian and Zhang can come, especially Zhang Yimou.

Of course it would be best if producer Li Chen could come too.

Unfortunately, the three of them declined.

Tian Zhuangzhuang and Zhang Yimou consulted Li Chen for his opinion and decided that Yang Siwei could be the representative and there was no need to attend a provincial film festival.

"The people in the Hong Kong circle are like the emperor's new clothes. They think they are dazzling, but in fact they are no different from streaking."

After hearing what Li Chen said, Lao Mouzi smiled and said nothing.

Although Li Chen's words were rough, they were not without reason.

Last month, ahead of the Academy Awards, the Hong Kong International Film Festival was more like a self-deceiving farce.

The stars are still the same few, and some of the Hong Kong films to be filmed have not even been bothered to change their names, they are just rehashing old stuff.

For example, "Beast Cop" is nothing more than "Beast Cop" with one word changed, and there is also "I Love Hong Kong Island 2013". What's even more exaggerated is that more than % of the press conferences were conducted in Cantonese, which made mainland media people complain bitterly.

Compared to a group of Hong Kong filmmakers who were deceiving themselves and excitedly shouting on Weibo that the glory of Hong Kong films has returned, mainland filmmakers felt like they were watching a show.

Since this year's Oscars set a historical record in ratings, Cannes and Venice sent invitations to Rongchen Pictures early on. The chairman of the Cannes Film Festival personally called Li Chen and Zhang Yimou, but unfortunately neither of them had any works and naturally did not want to walk on the red carpet.

Zhang Yimou doesn't want to rest for a moment. Now that he has won the Golden Man and has become a golden figure, his net worth and film pay have both increased.

The Grand Bell Awards organizing committee in South Korea sent an invitation to Zhang Yimou long ago.

You've already won the master's Oscar, so let us add icing on the cake and give you a clock.

At this year's Grand Bell Awards, Zhang Yimou will become the first foreigner to win the Best Contribution Award.

"Li Chen, I'll follow your arrangements from now on." Zhang Yimou was anxious to make a movie for Rongchen Pictures first. Li Chen was very kind to him, so he had to show some appreciation in return.

"Don't worry, Director Zhang. I'm not Huang Shiren. You should take a rest and accompany your mother for a while."

"My mother is much better now. You should tell me what plans you have for the future so that I can prepare in advance."

Li Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry, Director Zhang, Lan Xiaolong and the others are already writing the script. This project is quite huge."

"Lan Xiaolong? War theme? Main theme?" Zhang Yimou responded quickly. "Well, after the script is written, it has to be submitted to the relevant departments for review. Be patient and wait."

Zhang Yimou nodded, feeling relieved, and stopped asking what the story was.

Li Chen will tell him when the time comes. He didn't tell him now, probably because the subject matter is a bit sensitive.

Yu Miao sent over the scripts for the first six episodes of "My Love from the Star".

Park Ji-eun took the longest time to write the first four episodes because she had to design the protagonist and the story.

From the first to the second episode, one episode was written in one month, and from the third to the sixth episode, one episode was written in two weeks.

Li Chen only read it once and replied to Yu Miao the next day that it could be started.

Xue Xiaolu has already gone to Vancouver, Canada with leading actors including Deng Jiajia, Zhang Jiayi, and Hai Qing.

Wu Bin also excitedly sent good news: "Director Li, the design of the characters, storyboards, original paintings and backgrounds of "Maleficent" has been completed."

"Next we can start making animations, do you want to come and see!"

This is Wu Bin’s first time at the helm of an animated film, and although the talent is first-rate, he is only a second-rate director.

Li Chen came very quickly.

The huge special effects base was crowded with people, and everywhere you looked there were computer equipment besides people.

The four people accompanying Li Chen were Wu Bin and three young men. All three were the best among the nearly 500 animators recruited by Zhizhen Painting Art.

This is the first work after the opening of Zhizhen Painting Art Dream Factory.

Looking at the lifelike cartoon images of Maleficent and several flower fairies on the drawing board, Li Chen nodded with satisfaction: "Director Wu, the colors can be brighter."

"Our target audience is mostly young people and children. The brighter the color, the more it will attract their attention."

Wu Bin took a pen and wrote down Li Chen's requests one by one.

"You can release a concept poster first to warm up the atmosphere."

"Okay, Director Li, do you have any suggestions for the poster theme?"

"You guys discuss this among yourselves, and once you're done, give it to me to review."

Li Chen spent a whole day at Zhizhen Painting Art, and the protagonist of "Vientiane Island" had been rendered.

The CG model of the giant panda looks very shocking, especially the two dark circles under the eyes, which look a bit naive, but also seem unfathomable when angry.

Several villain monsters that were reincarnated from the Classic of Mountains and Seas are also very impactful.

The premiere of the 3D film "Titanic" in Beijing was called the Asian premiere.

Those insiders who received the invitation from Fox are at least those whose works have been exported abroad.

This is the most direct moment to test one’s status.

The media got a list of invited guests from somewhere.

When netizens took a look, they were surprised to see that there were eight people in Rongchen Pictures alone.

There are also two from Huayi, and the four Dan and two Bing are among the invited guests.

But no matter how hard netizens tried, they couldn’t find the former star girl who was busy filming “Ocean’s Eleven”.

But among the four young actresses at that time, she was the only one not on the invitation list.

Yang Zi was anxious and left a message on Weibo: Miss Huang Shengyi is very busy and is not in the country at all.

The Internet has memory.

A large number of netizens began to worry about Yang Zi.

"Understood, understood. Miss Huang is busy preparing the album that shocked the Chinese music scene and has no time to visit us."

"Has the child been named? Miss Huang's Mr. Yang."

Yang Zi's face turned purple with anger. He had never hated someone so much in his life, but Li Chen did it.

What made him even more helpless was yet to come.

A revelation on Weibo once again attracted attention in the circle.

Sina Entertainment News

"The top executives of the three major video websites Youku, Penguin, and iQiyi gathered at Jinxiu Mingzuan."

"Rongchen Pictures holds a large number of film and television copyrights and is sought after by the three major video websites."

"Recently, a person claiming to be an insider of Penguin Video revealed that because Rongchen Pictures holds the copyrights of a large number of classic films and high-quality variety shows, and is also the top content producer in China, Youku, Penguin, and iQiyi are all actively contacting Rongchen Pictures."

"There is only one purpose, which is to sign a strategic cooperation agreement with Rongchen Pictures."

As soon as the news was leaked, there were shadowy figures downstairs of Jinxiu Mingzuan, and the phone of Rongchen Pictures was bombarded with calls from the media.

The whistleblower revealed that Rongchen Pictures has acquired the copyrights of classic TVB series including the 83 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", popular series that have topped the ratings in mainland China over the years, and a large number of classic Hollywood series.

There was a lot of discussion online.

"Leo's foresight is too terrifying. He has directly grasped the vital points of the three major video websites!"

"There is no winner in the 'wastewater cleanup' of video sites. If there is one, it is the outsider Leo."

"I am a shareholder of Youku, so I will definitely side with Youku!"

"Leo is not stupid. Youku has more than one shareholder, but the copyright belongs to him alone. One woman marries many men, and the one with the highest bid wins."

The thing that Gu Yongkeng was most worried about happened.

But he was not in a hurry to call Li Chen. If he were in his place, he would have sat back and waited like Li Chen.

Unless someone from the three video websites is willing to pay a sky-high price to buy out the exclusive broadcasting rights, Youku can at most offer a lower price.

"Do you think he had anticipated the situation today, so he started hoarding copyrights early on? I heard that LeTV had competed with him for the copyright of "Blood Romance" before, but lost." Gu Yongkeng's lover Qin Qing made a bold guess.

"He is a person who always takes the lead in everything he does. I have always had this feeling over the years."

"What does it feel like?"

"It was like he had set up everything and we had to go through with it."

"Whether it was us eating potatoes or the three companies competing for 'glory' today, it all seemed to be destined from the beginning."

"This person who claims to be a 'Penguin Video insider' might be directing and acting in this drama himself."

Qin Qiong nodded: "That's right, but what should we do now? You can't open a VIP account without high-quality content. There is no one else in the country except him."

Gu Yongkeng smiled and said: "He is both a fish and a knife, that's him"

"There's nothing we can do. Penguin and Qiyi both know that it's only a matter of time before they start to make a V. If we want to get ahead, we can only follow them."

"But fortunately, he is also a major shareholder of Youku, so we will definitely have an advantage in bidding."

"Just wait and see. Both us and Penguin will eventually have to embark on the path of producing our own high-quality programs, otherwise we will always be controlled by him."

Li Chen's terrifying foresight has not left a deep impression on the artists in the circle.

But the impact on several bigwigs in the film and television industry was too shocking.

In particular, Li Chen bought the online broadcasting rights of former TVB and Huace TV series producers at a bargain price during the golden age when piracy was rampant and copyrights were worthless.

Now it has become a hot commodity that the three video websites are scrambling to grab.

"Director Li is a terrifying person when you think about him carefully." Sun Li, who was preparing to make a comeback after giving birth, said these meaningful words at Hairun's shareholders meeting.

"What Lili said was right. When he competed with LeTV for our Bloody Romance, I didn't take it seriously. I thought I was taking advantage of him!"

"Now it seems that we are a joke!"

At Wanda’s group meeting, Ye Ning was named by the boss Wang.

"What's wrong with you? Don't just think about the movie! Why can't you see the copyright?"

Ye Ning smiled bitterly. He really wanted to say that it was not just him who couldn’t see it. Apart from Director Li, it seemed that only Jia Yueting from LeTV had such vision.

However, even if Jia Yueting has this vision, he still does not have the ability of Director Li.

In Hollywood and TVB, he is just an insignificant little shrimp.

In the mainland, he cannot compete directly with Rongchen Pictures.

However, Ye Ning did not say a word of these words. If he talked back to Big Boss Wang at this time, what would greet him was that Big Boss Wang would set a small goal for him, and if he failed to achieve it, he would be fired.

Although Liu Yifei rarely had time to visit the set, she still received repeated invitations from Yin Tao.

The entire "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky" crew really had four words to describe her: welcoming with smiles.

(End of this chapter)