Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 660 Weibo Night Stars Xiang Qian
People's Daily Online BJ January 1th
"Yesterday, Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Lost Tomb of Dragon Ridge held a press conference in Beijing. Director Wu Bin and the iron triangle Huang Xiaoming, Zhang Yuqi, and Jiang Chao made a collective appearance, announcing that the long-rumored cast has finally been finalized, and also made the original fans sigh that the iron triangle is still there."

"According to director Wu Bin, only a few scenes of The Cave of Dragon Ridge were filmed in Beijing. A week later, the crew will move to Yulin, Shaanxi, to fully respect the original location of the film."

Sina Entertainment News

"According to the film company, Wong Ka Wai's The Grandmaster grossed 1.8 million yuan in its first week, several times more than the previous best-selling film 2046. Despite the impact of eight working days and the "toxic haze" in the north, The Grandmaster still achieved a good result of 8 million yuan, and the film has aroused carnival comments from all sides."

"Entertainment Circle: Celebrities Praise the Show, Wang Jing Expresses Convincing Admiration!"

"After watching the film, many directors and celebrities praised the style and performances of The Grandmaster. Even Wang Jing, who had always been "stern and cold towards Wong Kar-wai", posted on Weibo that he was convinced for the first time in 25 years."

"The Grandmaster" made 1.8 million in the first four days, which was a good start. Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli went to the cinema to watch this film by King of Sunglasses, which took ten years to sharpen.

After returning, the first thing he said to Li Chen was: "Why do I feel that Zhang Ziyi is the protagonist?"

Li Chen raised his eyebrows: "Is this your women's intuition? It's a bit scary!"

Liu Yifei was happy to hear Li Chen indirectly acknowledge her point of view. She sat next to Li Chen and clung to him complacently: "It's good to know the horror, so don't try to hide anything from me."

"You can't hide it even if you want to! I don't know how high this movie will be at the box office. Many people say it's good, but I always feel that it doesn't look like a martial arts movie."

Liu Xiaoli, who had just entered the room, saw the intimacy between the two people on the sofa, but pretended not to see it and went upstairs.

"There are so many people, who are they?" Li Chen asked casually.

Liu Yifei counted on her fingers: "Wang Jing, Du Wenze, Qiu Shuzhen, Gu Juji"

Liu Yifei couldn't count any more. Meeting Li Chen's teasing eyes, she suddenly realized, "Ah! I see, they are all artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan!"

Li Chen saw that Miss Liu had reacted, so he turned around and continued watching TV without saying anything. He said, "1.8 million in the first week doesn't mean anything. It's the Lunar New Year period. It's normal for audiences to go to the cinema for Wang Jiawei's name card and the acting skills and popularity of Tony Leung, Song Hye Kyo, and Zhang Ziyi. The real results will be revealed in the second week."

"Your feeling is right. Wang Jiawei wanted to make action movies in his own style, and he did it."

"But he was too conceited and ignored the fact that the general public likes Tsui Hark's martial arts, Stephen Chow's comedies, and the action movies of Double J the most. The only people who like him, King of Sunglasses, are those who like art! Art films are a weak spot at the box office, and King of Sunglasses also wants to make money and prove himself."

Li Chen's words were very straightforward. Liu Yifei was not stupid and immediately figured things out: "So you, Director Zhang, and Teacher Daoming didn't say anything at the premiere of The Grandmaster?"

Li Chen pinched Miss Liu's cheek lovingly: "I just like your innocence!"

"Hate it, say it!"

"Director Zhang and I didn't say anything for the reasons you mentioned. Another reason is our stance. The two of us represent the attitudes of mainland filmmakers as well as the producers of Ip Man. We did our best by not pouring cold water on him."

"He and Yu Dong invited me to go. It was both a courtesy and an attitude. It's called paying respects."

"And my promise to go is also an attitude."

Liu Yifei seemed to understand, but after Wen Zhang got into trouble, the promotion of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" became difficult. She could feel that many people's attitude towards her had changed.

If it was flattery before, now it has a hint of fawning and awe in it.

Reverence is definitely not awe of yourself, that is awe of the men around you.

She didn't want to ask whether her husband was behind the incident with Wen Zhang.

Even if it is, so what.

She would not give extra pity to a stranger, and what happened to Wen Zhang was not a rumor.

Compared to the rumors that were spread about her back then, Wen Zhang only had herself to blame and could not blame anyone else.

So when Yang Mi and others privately and tactfully asked her whether it was her husband's trick, she never admitted or denied it.

Because after the rumors were spread that year, her husband said something that she always kept in mind: It is better to be feared than respected!
In recent years, no one dared to throw dirty water on her.

Don’t think that you can’t recognize Wang Jiawei and Wang Da just because he’s wearing sunglasses. As soon as he arrived in Beijing, he sent invitations to Li Chen and Zhang Yimou, but both of them didn’t have time. So he had to settle for the next best thing and invited Feng Xiaogang.

"You really won't accompany me to Weibo Night?" She won the title of Weibo Queen for two consecutive years, so naturally she hoped that Li Chen would go with her.

"I'm not going. Once we get together, no one else will be as popular as us. Keep a low profile!"

Liu Yifei covered her mouth and chuckled: "Just try to coax me. It's so funny to hear you say low-key."

Li Chen said exaggeratedly: "Am I not low-key enough? Compared to you, the queen of Weibo, I only post on Weibo once a season. I am so low-key that I am almost invisible."

Liu Yifei stood up and took off her coat: "Yes, you have a new look every season, but every time you do it, you attract everyone's attention!"

Li Chen spread his hands: "I can't help it, it's because the majority of netizens love me so much!"

The couple chatted and laughed.

The next day, Li Chen went to the company for a rare visit.

Although the company did not produce many movies last year, in addition to movies, it also produced TV, songs, and variety shows.

In particular, "The Flowers of War" won the Golden Man, "My Love from the Star" won the ratings championship in South Korea, and Deng Ziqi won the Grammy, which can be regarded as the most glorious year for Rongchen Pictures.

But even so, after Christmas and New Year's Day, "Kowloon Walled City" with 8.5 million yuan still topped the 2012 domestic film box office rankings.

Second only to 3D Broken Ship, Chiyou Pictures and Rongchen Pictures on the other side of the ocean are exactly the same, only releasing two films, but the results are equally impressive.

The two series, "The Hunger Games" and "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 15.8", have grossed a combined $6 billion worldwide. Even if Warner gets a share of the pie, the final amount that ends up in Chi You's pocket will not be less than $ million.

As the end of the year approaches, employees naturally think about their year-end bonuses and annual meetings.

Li Chen waved his hand and doubled the amount compared to last year.

Next year, we will hold a grand event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rongchen Pictures.

In the conference room, executives of Rongchen Pictures gathered together.

Lao Mouzi and Wu Bin were chatting and laughing.

Yu Miao from South Korea also rushed back and had a great chat with Yang Siwei.

As soon as Li Chen came in, the conference room immediately became quiet.

But the joy on everyone's face could not be concealed.

Everyone stood up at the same time. The boss was here, so who dared to sit down? Even Zhang Yimou stood up.

After Li Chen sat down, he pressed his hand down and said, "Everyone, sit down."

Then everyone sat down.

Yang Siwei was the first to speak: "Boss, everyone in the company now worships you as a god, and the employees affectionately call you 'China's Good Boss'!"

Li Chen laughed: "It's not easy to be a good boss. If you don't have the money, don't even think about it."

Everyone laughed and the atmosphere in the meeting room immediately became relaxed.

"Director Li, all dubbing and post-production of Maleficent has been completed."

"it is good!"

"Boss, My Love from the Star has been introduced by Hong Kong TVB and Taiwan's Videoland at a price of 80 per episode. Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand are also in talks."

"Both domestic TV stations, Mango and Tomato Entertainment, are willing to pay a high price to introduce the brand. I think Tomato Entertainment is definitely not as wealthy as Mango."

“Mango TV also wants to buy out the rights to remake ‘My Love from the Star’, and Li Meijing is very tempted by the price offered.” Yu Miao immediately showed off RC Entertainment’s impressive achievements.

Unconsciously, RC Entertainment, Yixin Media, and Zhizhen Painting Art have formed a healthy competition within Rongchen Pictures.

And Tung Wah Noon has completely become a vassal of Rongchen Pictures.

Even Hou Hongliang seems to have accepted his fate now.

A big tree provides shade. Hou Hongliang, who was once ambitious, still could not shake the result of Rongchen Pictures producing hit dramas every year after several efforts.

So he just lay down. This was the collective demand of the Shandong Gang, and he couldn't change it.

Li Chen still said "OK" concisely!

It was Yang Siwei's turn. He only said one sentence: "Boss, Yixin Media's revenue last year was 22.5 billion."

Zhang Yimou's eyelids jumped at these words.

The other executives in the conference room all gasped, but the CFO was calm and composed, as if he had known about it long ago. Wu Bin was also sighing, as his painting skills had just started, and whether he could make a name for himself depended on whether "Maleficent" could amaze the world when it debuted in the summer.

Li Chen still only said one word: "Okay!"

After the meeting, Yang Siwei is still the undisputed second-in-command.

There's no way, who can be offended by a revenue of 22.5 billion?

The crew of "Tiny Times" in Shanghai just finished filming Tang Wanru's wedding today.

Xie Yilin's role was also completed.

Guo Jingming specially invited several leading actors to have dinner at a restaurant in Shanghai.

In another half month, the filming of his drama "Tiny Times" will be completed.

During the dinner, everyone couldn't help but talk about Wen Zhang.

Guo Jingming said half-jokingly, "Xuedong, Zhendong, it's a good thing you two are not married, otherwise I would really have to find a private detective to investigate."

Although he said it unintentionally, Chen Xuedong listened with intent, but he didn't react much.

Ke Zhendong felt a little uncomfortable, but we are all actors, and keeping a calm face is the most basic quality.

Gossip is a woman's nature, especially when it's such a shocking piece of news.

"Honey, everyone in the industry is saying that Wen Zhang is just a cannon fodder in the fight between Huayi and your company, no, it's Rongchen Pictures. Is this Director Li's doing?"

Xie Yilin was very carefree and asked the question in front of so many people.

Everyone present was curious, including Ke Zhendong, Chen Xuedong and Guo Jingming.

No matter how dumb Yang Mi was, she could only play dumb at this time: "How is it possible? Anyway, I don't believe it could be the senior."

"'Chinese Zodiac' is also produced by Huayi, and it still made 7.5 million now! Yilin, are you a woman? Why are you still speaking up for such a scumbag?"

"If you ask me, Zhuo Wei finally did something humane this time."

After hearing what Yang Mi said, the others didn't dare to ask any more questions.

Indeed, even though Wen Zhang was just a cannon fodder this time, no one would sympathize with him.

You can imagine the reason by looking at the fact that the mainstream media no longer reports on "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

The artists in the circle are all smarter than monkeys, and no one dares to endorse "Journey to the West" on Weibo.

Guo Xiaosi also kept silent. Anyway, this matter had nothing to do with his "Tiny Times", not to mention the presence of Da Mimi, the former number one sister of Rongchen.

He had made up his mind not to release his film on the same schedule as Rongchen Pictures' works.

Weibo Night was held at Beijing International Trade Center and many stars gathered.

Although Zhou Runfa and his wife were the finale, Liu Yifei was the focus.

Even Cao Guowei felt a little embarrassed. When he stood with Zhou Runfa and his wife, they were not as attractive to the media and artists as Liu Yifei alone.

In the red carpet waiting area, many celebrities came up to talk to Liu Yifei, whether they had something to say or not.

This made Liu Yifei feel helpless.

It wasn't until Sun Li said something that she felt relieved.

Sun Li wore a round-neck slim red long dress, and her whole state has returned to the period of Zhen Huan.

When he met Liu Yifei, he was not as flattering as other artists. He was just very friendly and talked and laughed with Liu Yifei.

"At last we have an acquaintance. We don't have to be hypocritical. They are not uncomfortable, but I am." Liu Yifei looked Sun Li up and down.

Both of them gave birth to children, but it seems that Sun Li has changed more than her.

"You can't blame them. When Wen Zhang got into trouble, who wouldn't be afraid of Zhong Kui if they had a guilty conscience? They would have tried their best to please you, the fairy." Sun Li smiled clearly.

Liu Yifei finally reacted: "You mean, they all thought that Li Chen was the one who caused Wen Zhang's accident."

"As the matter has progressed to this point, it doesn't really matter whether Director Li admits it or not. Everyone assumes it's Director Li. From the time Wen Zhang was banned from posting nude photos on Weibo to the time he was exposed for cheating, both incidents seem to have a vague connection to Director Li."

"You know, everyone privately says that it's better to mess with the King of Hell than Director Li."

Liu Yifei opened her mouth slightly: "Ah? Why didn't I hear anything at all?"

Sun Li said with a smile: "Who are you? Who dares to gossip in front of you? Look, there's another one. I'm going up."

Before Liu Yifei could react, Sun Li walked onto the red carpet.

The person she mentioned is Zhang Ziyi, who is also surrounded by scandals.

Fortunately, Sa Beining publicly acknowledged his relationship with her.

It seems to have cleared Zhang Ziyi's name a lot.

After all, Sa Beining came from the Central Bank and represents orthodoxy.

"Yifei, you look so beautiful today. Why isn't Director Li here?" Zhang Ziyi was wearing a white long skirt with her back exposed. It was obvious that "The Grandmaster" had a big box office in its first week, which made her feel proud.

"No way, you were so heroic in The Grandmaster."

Zhang Ziyi looked surprised: "You also watched The Grandmaster? I asked Director Li why you didn't come to the premiere."

"Well, I watched it with my Ms. Liu. I think you look more like a martial artist than Mr. Liang Chaowei."

Zhang Ziyi became more and more happy, and the artists around her turned to look at them with her smile.

This is exactly the effect she wanted. She will never forget the humiliation she suffered at the Academy Awards by Chow Yun-fat.

In today's occasion, Liu Yifei and Chow Yun-fat are undoubtedly the two most eye-catching artists.

She doesn't mind being a supporting role and serving as a foil for Liu Yifei.

But she didn't expect Liu Yifei to be so talkative, and just one sentence hit the spot in her heart.

But he still had to pretend, so he smiled and waved his hands modestly, saying: "Don't say that. You don't know that Liang Chaowei spent 9 months in seclusion to study the classics for this play."

“I was injured several times.”

Zhou Runfa was a very elegant man. He originally wanted to use "The Palace of the Bronze Bird" to connect with Liu Yifei, so he decided to build the crew and ask Liu Yifei to play Lingju.

But she didn't like it at all.

Two Zhou Yicheng, let's see what Chenglong did. After all, there is still a huge gap between the Jin Yanzi in "The Forbidden Kingdom" and the Ling Ju in "The Palace of the Golden Bird".

Nowadays, Shuangzhou has a mediocre reputation in mainland China, but Yicheng is famous all over the world.

Although he has little to do with Li Chen, how could someone like him, who has lived half his life, not see how great Li Chen's influence is.

When he said that arrogant remark to Wu Yusen, everyone in Taiwan, Mainland China and Hong Kong thought that Li Chen was too arrogant. But now it seems that his ability was entirely due to his strength.

Wu Yusen's time was running out, and Zhou Xingchi was also in a state of panic.

And Zhou Runfa is no longer in his glory days either.

Seeing Zhou Runfa and his wife walking towards Liu Yifei, Zhang Ziyi immediately greeted Liu Yifei, turned around and left arrogantly.

Liu Yifei wailed in her heart, knowing what she feared would come true.

She least wanted to deal with Zhou Runfa, but he came to her on his own initiative.

She clearly understood Li Chen's evaluation of Chow Yun-fat: a typical Hong Kong filmmaker who thinks he is superior to mainland filmmakers. In fact, he is no different from Tang Monk in that they both found a rich woman.

At the time, she also asked her husband: "You seem to be disgusted with him."

The husband just replied humorously: "If you want me to like him, fine. Just fulfill the 56 billion donation pledge made at the premiere of "The Bourne Legacy"."

"The King of Charity has not yet put his heart into practice as a charitable fairy like you."

(End of this chapter)