Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 704 Instructions
Sina Entertainment News

“据一心传媒公布的数据显示，《西红柿首富》上映4天票房飙至5.9亿，轻松刷新华语电影4天票房最高纪录，以及华语电影最快破3亿、4亿、5亿纪录。”

"Industry insiders estimate that The Richest Tomato is expected to break 15 billion, becoming the third domestic film to break 15 billion after Chinese Police and the animated film Maleficent."

"Feng Xiaogang's comedy "Personal Tailor", which is also a Lunar New Year comedy blockbuster, has grossed over 4 million yuan in four days, breaking Feng Xiaogang's personal four-day box office record."

"Another point worth mentioning is that Huayi's stock price plummeted after "Personal Tailor" received negative reviews, and its market value evaporated by more than 62 billion yuan. The inside story of the capital market operation in this process has been hotly debated by netizens."

"Personal Tailor" is more than just a movie. Its reviews can not only influence the audience's choice of movies, but also become the trigger for stock price fluctuations."

"Private Customization" suffered a bad reputation, and "The Richest Tomato" was also criticized.

However, film critics and audiences all directed their criticism at Peng Damo and Yan Fei.

Even Li Chen couldn't stand it anymore and specially tagged the two new directors on Weibo.

I have only one thing to say: The significance of "The Richest Tomato" is to allow the audience who have worked hard for a year to go to the cinema and relax and have fun. Congratulations on doing it, and keep it up.

A Weibo post by Li Chen immediately attracted enthusiastic support from fans and counterattacks from film critics and viewers who gave bad reviews to "The Richest Tomato".

"I don't understand, how can you see elegance and vulgarity in a comedy? They are just trying to make you happy, why do you make so much of a fuss? Do you think you are so great?"

"I go to the cinema to relax. I don't want to use my brain. I spent money and still have to think about life. Am I sick or something?"

After Li Chen posted on Weibo, he didn’t read the comments anymore.

The next day, Peng Damo and Yan Fei came up to thank him during lunch time.

"Mr. Li, thank you." Both of them looked sincere.

"What are you thanking me for? Which director hasn't been scolded? What does it mean that so many people scold him?"

Peng Damo and Yan Fei looked at each other, not knowing what Li Chen meant.

"It means a lot of people are watching it." Peng Damo said with a tentative smile.

Li Chen laughed and patted their shoulders: "That's true, but you two should think about Feng Xiaogang and Director Yimou."

Peng Damo and Yan Fei were even more confused and wondered what these two people were doing.

"You two, you've already been treated like big directors! The bigger the director, the more harshly he'll be scolded. Who has the time to bother with you, little director?"

The two of them didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but when they thought about it carefully, it seemed to be true.

When "Charlotte's Troubles" was released, didn't this person also accept both flowers and rotten eggs?

It was eerily quiet in Huayi's conference room.

Today is Huayi's shareholders' meeting. Huayi's shareholding has shrunk by 62 billion in two days. The big and small Wangs must play the 'de-filmization' card to appease people's hearts.

Feng Xiaogang looked calm and composed, with his eyelids drooping.

Representatives from Penguin and Alibaba also appeared one after another.

Wang Zhonglei could no longer laugh.

This national tour of "Private Customization" and "National Customization" took only three days and ended hastily in Shenzhen.

He forced himself to smile all the way.

The market value shrunk by 62 billion. Who suffered the most? Of course, the two brothers.

For Feng Xiaogang, the loss was only two or three million, less than a quarter of his salary.

"Damn it, this Feng Pants guy is really guaranteed to make a profit regardless of the weather!" Wang Zhonglei cursed in his heart.

The door of the conference room was pushed open, and Wang Zhongjun was the last one to walk in quickly. The secretary quietly closed the door.

"Director Wang."

"Director Wang."

In the conference room, everyone stood up and greeted Wang Zhongjun.

Feng Xiaogang also raised his buttocks symbolically, and Wang Zhongjun quickly pressed down with both hands, signaling everyone to sit down.

"Xiaogang, you've worked hard these past few days. Zhonglei, you've worked hard too."

Feng Xiaogang shook his head and said, "It's not hard. It's what I should do."

Seeing his elder brother's smiling face, Wang Zhonglei also reacted. He smiled and patted Feng Xiaogang on the shoulder, saying half-seriously, "It would be great if we had a few more of you in Huayi."

Indeed, if Huayi had more Feng Xiaogangs, the two brothers would not have planned to make any movies.

The shareholders present couldn't help but complain in their hearts that no matter how many more small steel cannons there were, they could not defeat a little Leo!

On the weekend, Li Chen had a rare day off. His wife, Miss Liu, went to attend Blueberry's New Year's Eve party, and he was the only one at home.

However, two important guests and a family member came to the house.

Two heavyweights, one is the head of Weibo, and the other is the person in charge of Ali.

When the two said they would visit together, Li Chen guessed why.

I'm afraid that in three or four months, Weibo will go public.

Once the prospectus is released, his identity as Weibo’s largest individual shareholder will come to light.

In Ms. Liu’s words: I’m going to be honest, I won’t pretend anymore, I’ve been a billionaire for a long time.

Listen, people have already learned and used Wang Duoyu's joke and even added the word "already".

It can be said that it is a rigid demand for Jack Ma and Cao Guowei to get together.

In the battle between Jack Ma and Xiao Ma, mobile social user base is Ali's shortcoming.

There is also a competitive relationship between Weibo and WeChat that cannot be ignored.

Jack Ma can provide more support to Weibo to mobilize its user base and compete with WeChat.

As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and it becomes natural for the two to come together.

As soon as they met, Ma Yun pointed at Li Chen and said with a smile: "You are really good at hiding! There have been rumors that you are a shareholder of Weibo, and Guo Wei is still playing hide-and-seek with me! Can you still hide now!"

"I didn't intend to hide!" Li Chen asked the two to sit down, and the butler served them tea.

"It's just that I never care about Weibo matters. This is what I agreed with President Cao at the time. Besides, if you ask me, I have never denied it."

Ma Yun thought to herself, "This guy is really amazing. Whether it's Youku or Weibo, they all take action in advance, so I can't even start eating even if I want to!"

"Okay, okay, you two are partners of the Han Tang Fund and shareholders of Weibo, you are all family!" Seeing the two people talking to each other, Cao Guowei hurried to smooth things over.

In the study room on the second floor, Zhang Yiming accidentally eavesdropped on the conversation of several people, but it happened that the door was not closed tightly.

He didn't know why Mr. Li, who was considered a relative of the major shareholder, had asked him to come here today.

But when he heard the three people mention that Weibo was about to go public, he couldn't help but get excited.

"I didn't expect that Mr. Li is also a shareholder of Weibo!" Zhang Yiming was quite surprised.

After waiting for more than half an hour, Zhang Yiming saw Li Chen send Cao Guowei and Ma Yun away.

He quickly closed the door gently and sat back in his original position.

Li Chen pushed open the door of the study, knowing in his heart that Zhang Yiming had heard everything.

"Yiming, you heard our conversation just now, didn't you?" Zhang Yiming said with embarrassment: "Mr. Li, I didn't mean it."

Li Chen waved his hand: "It's okay, I did it on purpose."

"what?"

Li Chen smiled and said, "I heard that Weibo is going to IPO soon. What do you think?"

Zhang Yiming heard that Li Chen seemed to be testing him, so he said without thinking: "Zijie will have to go public sooner or later! There is no doubt about that."

"So what will Zijie focus on? Social media? Short videos? Or will it just be a search engine like it is now, 'Toutiao'?"

Zhang Yiming didn't know whether Li Chen's words were a test of him or had some other meaning.

You are a shareholder of Weibo, a social media platform, and also a shareholder of Youku, a video website.

Now you are asking me whether I will pursue these two directions. Are you warning me so that I can just focus on making headlines?
"Mr. Li, I don't understand what you mean?"

Li Chen stood up, put his hands behind his back, walked around the square solid wood desk, and approached Zhang Yiming.

"What I mean is that Zijie must have its own trump card. No matter how big your search engine is, can it be bigger than Baidu?"

"Mr. Li, what do you mean? Don't like the headlines?"

Li Chen shook his head: "It's not that I'm not optimistic, but it's hard to make it big!"

"Then what good suggestions does Mr. Li have?"

"Focus on short videos, especially music short videos! Zijie can set up his own research studio."

"Music short video?" Zhang Yiming seemed to be touched by his soul.

Li Chen nodded: "Since the birth of imaging technology, the most popular short video in the world is MV, which is what I call the pioneer of music short videos."

"It is the most important part of all short videos. But MV shooting is difficult. There are many people who can randomly act in front of the camera, but not many people can speak and sing in front of the camera anytime and anywhere."

"Now is an era of fragmentation. People are more willing to accept short and entertaining content rather than a single headline text push."

"Just imagine what effect it would have if a piece of information you are interested in was paired with the most popular music."

After hearing this, Zhang Yiming had a thousand ideas stirring in his mind, and he wanted to go back and study the main attack plan proposed by Mr. Li with his team.

He had a feeling that today's conversation might change Zijie's future destiny.

Zhang Yiming left excitedly.

Li Chen's actions today were not a whim.

He knew that musical.ly would be online in another half a year.

Yang Luyu, one of the founders of this music short video platform, which was eventually acquired by Toutiao for US$10 billion, is currently working on the APP in some corner.

Sina has always been the largest shareholder of Weibo, while Zijie’s largest shareholder is his wife.

He can still tell the inside from the outside.

Cao Guowei probably never dreamed that when the three of them met today, his biggest competitor in the future was standing upstairs.

As soon as New Year’s Day was over, Rongchen Pictures’ 10th anniversary celebration event was first exposed. In addition to dominating the hot searches, it also landed on major social media and portals.

What’s interesting is that Huayi seemed to be a follower and accidentally exposed the behind-the-scenes footage of Huayi’s 20th anniversary celebration.

Sina Entertainment News

"Early this morning, Yixin Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rongchen Pictures, released a trailer and two promotional posters to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rongchen Pictures."

"The most eye-catching one is the poster of 'Glorious Glory, Review of Ten Years'. According to Yi Xin Media, Rong Chen Pictures will invite all the artists who have appeared in Rong Chen Pictures' works to gather together."

"From the exposed list, in addition to first-line artists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong such as Liu Dehua, Li Ming, Huang Xiaoming, and Fan Bingbing, there are also Hollywood celebrities such as global superstar Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron, who is known as the South African diamond."

Sina Entertainment News

"Huayi was established in 1994, and this year marks its 1.22th anniversary. Rongchen Pictures announced that the celebration of its th anniversary will be held at the Olympic Sports Center on January ."

“Huayi is not to be outdone and announced that it will hold a theme gala of “Huayi’s 1th Anniversary, More Wonderful Than Meets” in Haikou on January 19.”

"According to Xu Li, vice president of Huayi, nearly 100 celebrities from home and abroad will gather at Mission Hills Haikou."

The crew of "Dynasty Women" moved to Zhuozhou, Hebei, and Tian Zhuangzhuang called for a ten-minute break.

Fan Bingbing was wearing a Tang suit, with two big white rabbits clearly visible on his chest.

So much so that Li Ming, who was sitting next to him, had to try his best to look her in the eye when talking to her.

"Brother Ming, did you receive the invitation to Huayi's 20th anniversary?"

"Got it, but we are on the set, so we don't have time to rush over."

Fan Bingbing smiled charmingly: "Even if you have time, I'm afraid you will decline, Brother Ming."

Li Ming smiled casually: "Bingbing, a smart person sees the truth but doesn't say it out loud."

Fan Bingbing covered his mouth and laughed wildly: "Ten years in the east, ten years in the west. If Huayi had sent out invitations to its tenth anniversary celebration ten years ago, I'm afraid few people would have refused."

“But now, Huayi has suddenly announced its 20th anniversary celebration at this time, which really proves what Director Feng said: to make things difficult for others and to fulfill yourself.”

Fan Bingbing was right. Even a person with high emotional intelligence like Liu Dehua was in trouble.

Both Wang Zhonglei and Feng Xiaogang called.

The two of them didn't know that he was one of the hosts of the Spring Festival Gala, and they were very dissatisfied with his refusal on the grounds that he couldn't adjust his schedule.

"It is true that cousins ​​are heartless and actors are disloyal!" Wang Zhonglei cursed in front of Feng Xiaogang.

"To flatter the powerful and to bully the weak is the basic rule of the entertainment industry. Zhong Lei, why should you take it so seriously? If it really doesn't work out, I'll go into real estate with you brothers!" Feng Xiaogang said self-deprecatingly.

The successive box office failures made Feng Xiaogang a little discouraged.

Ten years ago, he was the box office champion every year, but now, he can't even get the third place.

All of this is closely related to one person.

His bold statement back then, "If I don't make movies, what will the Chinese people watch?" has now been used as a meme by countless people.

Just when the two were getting annoyed with Liu Dehua for not being able to get out of the situation, there was a knock on the door.

Xu Li seemed a little hurried.

Wang Zhonglei and Feng Xiaogang looked at each other.

"What's wrong? What's the hurry?!"

"Boss Wang, I heard that Zhou Xingchi handed over the notebook."

Wang Zhonglei's heart tightened, but he remained relaxed on the surface: "Ha, I didn't expect Zhou Xingxing to be so efficient this time!"

"That's not right. Isn't the Wuzhen Journey to the West City going to be completed until next year?"

“I heard it’s not from the Journey to the West series!”

"what!"

(End of this chapter)