Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 681 Provocation
As soon as Yang Siwei left Li Chen's villa, he called Li Xiaoping of Guangxian.

"Sister Li, I have news for you."

"It's good news or bad news. If it's bad news, don't make it worse." Li Xiaoping said with a smile.

The box office of "The True Detective" in the first week was less than 40 million, and it was certain to lose money. The stock price of Guangxian has been affected in the past two days.

As the vice president of Guangguang, she was not in a good mood at all.

Yang Siwei also laughed and said, "You can decide for yourself whether it is good or bad. The theme song of Tiny Times, Time Cooks Rain, is a copy of the single Windmill released by Japanese singer Hitoto Yo in 2005!"

"Really?" Li Xiaoping smiled. This was indeed good news.

LeTV's Jia Yueting poached Zhang Zhao from Guangguang, making Wang Changtian want to eat him alive.

"Absolutely true!"

"Got it, thank you."

"Why thank me? We are friends!"

Li Xiaoping quickly reported the news to Wang Changtian.

Wang Changtian was cheered up. Although he knew that this was Li Chen's plan to kill someone with a borrowed knife, he was willing to be the knife.

The media was indeed very supportive of Hang Lung's premiere press conference. Guo Jingming estimated that there were at least nearly a hundred media outlets present.

Sitting on Guo Jingming’s left were Yang Mi and other leading actors, and on his right were the people from LeTV.

The little person sat in the middle, just like a family of three.

Guo Jingming was full of energy and talked to the media: "I am a professionally trained director, I just haven't graduated yet."

"Tiny Times has been in my mind for five years, so it is very clear and precise. During the filming, I can quickly and accurately complete each scene. This is more familiar than a director receiving a new script."

"Those Years, So Young and Fleet of Time are more about reminiscing about the youth of that era, while Tiny Times focuses on the youth you are experiencing now."

Yang Mi was terrified. She turned her head and glanced at Guo Jingming beside her. She thought to herself, "Why is this Guo Xiaosi trying to drag down our senior? Do you think our senior is Hello Kitty?"

The media were whispering to each other in the audience. When they heard that this "careful but not timid" Guo Xiaosi actually claimed to be a professional graduate and even mentioned Li Chen, the originator of youth films who also graduated from a formal school, they immediately raised their hands to ask questions.

Only to be interrupted by an abrupt voice: "Director Guo, the promotional theme song of Tiny Times, "Time Cooks Rain", was plagiarized from the 2005 Japanese song "Windmill". How do you explain it?"

The scene immediately went into an uproar. Guo Jingming's fans who had come for the event were the first to lose their guard and shouted "bullshit" and started swearing at the reporter from the gossip magazine.

Guo Jingming's calmness and cheerfulness suddenly disappeared, replaced by a sense of surprise.

Before he could answer, another reporter stood up and said, "Director Guo, you were sued before for plagiarizing someone else's work "Inside and Outside the Circle" in "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams". Are you repeating the same trick this time?"

The scene was in chaos, with Guo Jingming's fans shouting and cursing non-stop.

"You are here to cause trouble!"

"How could Xiao Si plagiarize!"

"Who are these two?"

"Whose animal is not tied up properly?"

The scene was in chaos, and the people from LeTV quickly shouted: "Everyone, be quiet, be quiet!"

The fans and media gradually quieted down.

The LeTV people stared at the two reporters who stood up and said word by word: "Do you have any evidence to prove that "Time Cooks Rain" was plagiarized from the Japanese song "Windmill" you mentioned?"

The person who stood up first immediately took out his cell phone, and soon everyone at the scene heard a Japanese song playing on the phone that was almost exactly the same as "Time Cooks Rain".

There was an uproar at the scene, and Guo Jingming was whispering with the people from LeTV.

"Boss Zhang, what's going on?"

"I don't know either. The theme song was arranged by Tianyu alone."

"Now what!"

"You don't know in the first place. To be honest, you're just filling in the lyrics."

At a premiere press conference, the hot search terms were "Guo Jingming's old illness has recurred."

The world premiere of "Tiny Times" became a joke.

Except for Guo Jingming's fans who are still defending him, almost no one in the circle believes Guo Jingming.

Because the two songs are so similar. Except for a slight difference in the length and pitch of the notes, the rest is almost identical.

Guo Jing claimed that he didn't know.

LeTV also said it didn’t know.

The singer Jiang Yingrong is still unknown.

Tianyu could not be contacted directly.

This doesn't explain the problem.

Yangcheng Evening News

"Today, at the premiere of Tiny Times, the theme song "Time Cooks Rain" was accused of plagiarizing the 2005 Japanese song "Windmill", but both the lyricist Guo Jingming and the singer Jiang Yingrong claimed that they were unaware of the matter."

"According to official information, the lyrics of this song are written by Guo Jingming and the music is composed by Liu Dajiang. Because of its high popularity, "Time Cooks Rain" quickly became a popular song on demand."

"It is reported that this Japanese song has been covered many times in Chinese before, such as Cai Chunjia's "Waiting for a Sunny Day" and He Tu's "Han Yi Diao".

"Since the day Guo Jingming debuted, his name has been linked to "plagiarism". He was even sued for allegedly plagiarizing someone else's work "Inside and Outside the Circle" in his work "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams".

"It is really unbelievable that I am being accused of plagiarism for directing a movie for the first time. However, Tianyu, the only company that can explain the copyright issue, has never responded to the media directly."

A grand 'world' premiere turned into a scandal.

Neither LeTV nor Guo Jingming himself were expecting this.

What made Guo Jingming even more furious was that after the premiere, the film received a lot of negative reviews, which was simply weird to the extreme.

"I just finished watching the premiere and I have a few words to say. I think the director did a good job of censoring. There wasn't a single bad actor in the whole film and everyone's performance was of similar standard."

"The oldest one, Wang Lin, is also the standard character of the evil mother-in-law in Korean dramas. She is on par with the younger actors and does not hurt the harmony."

"When watching some young actresses reciting their lines, they couldn't put their hands down. The way they acted like pasting Spring Festival couplets must have been learned from Han Dian on Kangxi Comes Here."

"There has never been a movie in this world that can let people clearly tell who is mentally retarded, but "Tiny Times" has done it! There has never been a movie in this world that can let you clearly know who is straight and who is gay! And "Tiny Times" has done it!"

Yang Mi had an awkward expression on her face. She suddenly remembered her senior's words asking her to improve her acting skills and lines, which echoed in her mind like a loud bell.

"Jia Jia, do you think that the senior didn't choose me to dub "The Curse" because he didn't like my lines?"

Although Zeng Jia thought so in her heart, she couldn't criticize her own artist, so she could only say, "You think too much. Didn't Tang Yan do the dubbing either?"

"Alas, I have a feeling that Tiny Times will put me on the blacklist of big directors!"

"No, Mimi, didn't you say that Director Li promised you a role?"

"Yes, the senior did agree, but he didn't say when!"

Zhang Zhao from LeTV was also furious. He found the people from Tianyu and yelled, "Why didn't you inform us about this in advance?"

"Boss Zhang, what's the point of saying this now? Let's think about PR! I've asked someone to contact the copyright holder to fix the problem!"

Zhang Zhao was so angry that he had no idea what to do, but he also knew that now was not the right time to blame anyone.

He could only suppress his anger and said, "LeTV will help Director Guo clear himself of the allegation of plagiarism!"

After hanging up the phone, Guo Jingming asked anxiously, "What does Tianyu say, Mr. Zhang?"

Zhang Zhao nodded grimly: "It was indeed copied."

"Why are they doing this!" Guo Jingming couldn't stand it anymore.

Zhang Zhao didn't dwell on it. Instead, he said, "Xiao Guo, this isn't difficult to resolve." "I'll remove all the promotional materials that can be removed, and then change Liu Dajiang's composition to arrangement!"

"You have to do something here, too."

Guo Jingming is now completely at a loss, and whatever Zhang Zhao says is what he does.

"You don't need to do anything else, just let your fans speak up for you. Besides, you were wronged in the first place. You had no idea about it, you just wrote the lyrics."

Guo Jingming understood that this was an attempt to evade the issue and nodded in agreement.

After a pause, Guo Jingming recalled today's incident and said suspiciously, "Boss Zhang, these two people clearly planned this today."

Indeed, what Guo Jingming said was right.

Zhang Zhao also had some suspicions. The two people today either had planned it in advance or acted on impulse.

"Who do you think it is?"

Guo Jingming pondered and said, "Could it be Rongchen Pictures? After all, we are the biggest competitors during this period."

"I've said before that great directors are out of date."

Zhang Zhao was not sure, but Rongchen Pictures was not the first company he suspected.

It was Light Media. Wang Changtian originally promised him that Light Media Pictures would be listed independently, but in the end it was Light Media that was listed.

Otherwise, he would not have gone with Jia Yueting.

He and Jia Yueting hit it off at first sight and fell in love with each other again.

Later, Jia Yueting promised that as long as he was willing to come to LeTV.

LeTV Pictures will inevitably be listed independently in the future.

He only holds 0.24% of the shares in Guangxian, but Jia Yueting gave him 3.8291% of LeTV Pictures. More importantly, Jia Yueting gave him absolute freedom.

"I'll check this matter. Don't worry about it. In the next few days, you should just stay the same."

"I will arrange for someone to continue asking you some sharp questions that can spark discussion!"

It turns out that these topics about "Tiny Times" and Guo Jing's famous "Ask and Answer" are all strategies of the distributor.

After returning to the hotel, Guo Jingming found Yang Mi.

"Why are you here?" Yang Mi opened the door and stepped aside to let Guo Jingming in.

Guo Jingming smiled and said, "Tomorrow I will go with you to support the movie "Maleficent."

Yang Mi uttered an "ah" and was so scared that she couldn't even speak straight: "You? Forget it! If you want to go, go by yourself, don't come with me!"

Guo Jingming still smiled and asked, "What's the matter?"

"You think I haven't been scolded enough! If I go with you, it won't be support, it will be ruining the party!" Yang Mi threw a bottle of water to Guo Jingming.

Guo Jingming quickly took it and said, "Okay, go by yourself."

"No way, you really plan to go!"

"Of course, I just want to see how many people will come to support him tomorrow."

"As you wish"

The premiere of "Maleficent" the next day was completely different from the premiere of "Tiny Times" the day before.

Ren Zhonglun arrived early, and when he saw Li Chen he just sighed: "If you don't know, you would think this is the opening ceremony red carpet!"

Several voice actors including Liu Yifei, Zhu Yawen, Zhang Hanyu, Yin Tao, Luo Jin, Zhang Hanyun and others walked on the red carpet in their best attire.

Feng Shaofeng, Nini, Yang Mi, Tang Yan and other popular actors are all included.

Andy Lau, Nick Cheung and Sammi Cheng from Hong Kong Island appeared together.

Mainland directors such as Jia Zhangke and Gu Changwei as well as foreigners such as Oliver Stone also came here to visit.

The red carpet walk lasted more than three hours.

Ren Zhonglun was indeed very respectful this time. Not only did he award Li Chen an "Outstanding Contribution Award for Chinese-language Films", he also supported Li Chen throughout the entire process.

When Guo Jingming walked onto the red carpet, even the two hosts were a little surprised.

Not to mention showing up in the studio.

However, looking around, the only person Guo Jing was familiar with was Yang Mi.

Zhang Zhao came with him. When he left Shanghai Film Studio, Ren Zhonglun had just taken over Shanghai Film Studio.

Zhang Zhao was quite impressed that Shanghai Film Group turned losses into profits in just a few years.

"Let's go, Xiao Guo, go say hello to Director Li and the others." Zhang Zhao said with a smile, not showing any sign of dejection over the messed up premiere of "Tiny Times".

When Guo Jingming passed by Yang Mi, Tang Yan and others, he waved to Yang Mi coquettishly.

Yang Mi quickly turned around and pretended not to see it.

Tang Yan smiled and said, "They are greeting you!"

"I get annoyed just seeing him. We girls on the crew never treated him as the director and always pressured him to add more scenes!" Yang Mi looked helpless.

Why would Guo Jing come to such an occasion?
Li Chen was talking to Ren Zhonglun and Oscar winner Oliver Stone.

Zhang Zhao led Guo Jingming forward and said with a smile, "Director Ren, Director Li, congratulations."

The media and artists around couldn't help but glance over here, and pricked up their ears to listen to the show.

No one expected that Guo Jingming would actually come. All the big directors who came today had all been manipulated by him.

Now he dares to get close to Director Li, who is the most difficult to deal with. Isn’t he just asking for trouble?
When Liu Yifei saw Guo Jingming walking towards her husband, she lost interest in socializing.

He nodded to Liu Dehua and the others, and winked at them: "Brother Hua, I'll excuse myself for a moment."

"go quickly."

Jia Zhangke was with Gu Changwei and was also puzzled: "What is he thinking? Is he looking for death?"

"I don't know. I didn't see Li Chen smile anymore."

"There's something good to watch today."

Nini and Feng Shaofeng also moved to Yang Mi and Tang Yan's group while whispering. After all, they were close and could hear clearly.

Several people knew each other tacitly. As soon as they walked in, they heard Oliver Stone laughing and speaking in English: "(English) Is this the director of Tiny Times? He is the one who said that great directors are out of date?"

Guo Jingming admitted it frankly, stretched out his hand and shook hands with Oliver Stone, and glanced at Li Chen intentionally or unintentionally: "Yes, it's me, nice to meet you, Director Oliver Stone."

"We meet again, Director Li." Guo Jingming said with a smile.

Oliver Stone glanced at Li Chen, shook hands with Guo Jingming perfunctorily, and then let go: "Director Li, you are also a great director, we are all out of date!"

Zhang Zhao and Ren Zhonglun both understood English, but they didn't expect that this foreigner would not give Guo Jingming any face as soon as they met.

Ren Zhonglun laughed inwardly, this Guo Jingming was really too arrogant.

This one sentence is equivalent to offending all the big directors, whether it is Oliver Stone or Li Chen, they have already achieved success and fame.

Isn’t Cameron, the current holder of the world’s box office record, also a great director?

Liu Yifei hadn't even walked up to Li Chen yet, but she inexplicably wanted to laugh.

The husband looked down at the man and spoke slowly: "Children's words are innocent!"

As soon as the words came out, there was silence all around.

Guo Jingming's expression changed instantly.

(End of this chapter)