Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 707 Records and Outlook

Beijing News
"The comedy film "The Richest Tomato" produced by Kaixin Mahua has continuously set new box office records for domestic films since its release on December 2013, 12."

"Yesterday, the reporter learned from the Municipal Radio and Television Bureau that the film's box office has reached 17.4 billion yuan so far, of which 1.9 million yuan was from Beijing theaters, surpassing "Maleficent" to become the champion of domestic films in Chinese film history."

"The film has attracted more than 4800 million viewers, making it the most watched film in China in the past decade."

"The three domestic films that have grossed over 15 billion yuan are closely related to one person, Li Chen, the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala and a major shareholder of Kaixin Mahua, said on Weibo."

"The capacity of the Chinese film market is definitely not just a few billion. In the future, there will be films worth 2 billion, 3 billion, 5 billion, or even tens of billions of yuan coming out one after another. As a filmmaker, I am honored to be in such a good era."

Early in the morning, Li Chen received good news from Yang Siwei that "The Richest Tomato" had broken the box office record again three weeks after its release.

Li Chen's Weibo dominated the hot search list early in the morning, causing heated discussions both in China and abroad.

"Li Chen is optimistic about Chinese films and predicts that there will be tens of billions of films in the future!"

It was still around two o'clock in the afternoon in Hollywood, and Li Chen's crazy prediction sparked heated discussions.

The Golden Globe Awards are about to be announced. In an interview at the event, the hot favorite Leonardo DiCaprio admitted: "I believe in him. In my eyes, he has always been like China, mysterious and legendary."

Han Sanping also called excitedly: "You kid are not talking nonsense, are you? Do you know that if you say one word now, so many people will be busy to death!"

Indeed, Li Chen is now the weather vane of Chinese films.

This one sentence is even more effective than preferential policies for attracting investment.

The effect of the word "hundreds of billions" alarmed even the higher-ups.

I called him early in the morning and praised Li Chen's attitude.

"Director Han, this is what you called me to say this early in the morning!"

"Nonsense, it's all because of you! Do you really think there can be a movie in our country that can make over 10 billion?" Han Saping's heart was beating fast.

"Director Han, what do you think of the movie "The Richest Man in Xihong City"?"

Han Sanping said without hesitation: "It's a lousy movie. I can't get into it!"

Li Chen laughed: "That's right, but he didn't fail. Instead, he made 17 billion."

"If I told you before the film was released that it could make 17 billion, or even break 20 billion, would you believe it?"

Han Sanping understood. Yes, if Li Chen had told him a month ago that "The Richest Tomato" would break 10 billion, he would have sneered.

But now, not only has it easily broken through 1 billion, it has even seen an abnormal reversal of decline and rise.

Of course, "Personal Tailor" was not strong enough and there was no competition during the Lunar New Year holiday this year.

But the 17 billion really surprised everyone.

Han Sanping probably never dreamed that just one year later, "The Mermaid" would excite him again.

Jiang Wen was also excited. He called Li Chen and laughed, "Brother, when you said 2 billion or 3 billion, I felt like you were talking about my One Step Away!"

"How about it? Do you want to come and make a cameo appearance? If you are willing to come and make a cameo appearance, I will modify the script specially for you!"

Li Chen thought to himself: Buddy, you really think too much.

"Forget it. If you change the script because of me, so many people will scold me for being ignorant! Ying Huang will be furious again."

Jiang Wen laughed loudly: "Don't worry, Brother has more than just Director Yang as an investor this time. They all told me that funding is not a problem. We can shoot however we want and for as long as we want!"

The movie "Let the Bullets Fly" indeed made Jiang Wen a legend. Even more than ten years later, the reputation of "Bullets" still stands strong.

But "One Step Away" is hard to describe in a few words.

Just looking at how arrogant Jiang Wen is now, it is almost foreseeable.

When the morning light shone through the gap in the curtains and fell on Liu Yifei's cheek, the sleeping beauty slowly woke up.

She closed her eyes and felt around for a while but found no one. She knew that her husband must have woken up long ago to do morning exercises.

Liu Yifei stretched lazily, murmured softly, curled up in the quilt, smelling the familiar smell and not wanting to get up.

After a while, the bedroom door was gently pushed open, revealing a little head.

Liu Yifei immediately smiled dotingly and waved at the 'uninvited guest': "How come you got up earlier than mom? Come here quickly."

Liu Xiaoli, who was standing behind the fat boy, frowned as she listened, thinking to herself that it was already dawn in this cold winter season, it was still early!

The little fat boy swung his short legs and climbed onto his mother's bed with a step that showed he didn't care about anyone!
"Grandma told me to call Mom to eat, but Dad wouldn't let me!"

Liu Yifei glanced at her mother and son, and saw Liu Xiaoli glaring at her. Liu Yifei couldn't help but laugh secretly.

The mother and son played on the bed for a while before getting up.

When he went downstairs, Li Chen had finished his breakfast and was sitting alone on the sofa, browsing today's news.

"Dad, Mom, get up. I...I called you!" As soon as the little fat boy came downstairs, he ran to his father and started to make a noise as if to take credit.

Li Chen patted his son's chubby face and said with a smile: "Okay, from now on this glorious and arduous task will be handed over to you, go and have fun."

The little fat boy agreed without thinking, which made Liu Xiaoli shake her head. After all, you are a child. Do you really think your mother was woken up by you?

Ever since having a son, Liu Yifei's pet group has become this boy's friends.

A famous scene that can often be seen in the villa is the little boy chasing after various cats and dogs.

Li Chen often sighed with Liu Yifei: Our son may become a sprinter in the future!

Liu Yifei was speechless after hearing this. She didn't want her son to be an athlete or enter the entertainment industry.

Being an athlete is too hard and the entertainment industry is too chaotic, so her life plan for her son is to get him into a good university and fulfill her dream.

Seeing that Miss Liu was enjoying her meal, Li Chen did not disturb her.

After she finished eating, Li Chen said, "Tang Wei was defrauded of 21 yuan yesterday. Telecom fraud is rampant recently, and she is not the only female star who has been deceived. You have to be careful."

"Ah, how did you cheat?" Liu Yifei was shocked.

"I don't know, I just want to remind you!"

Liu Yifei sat down next to her husband with a smile: "You are the only one who can lie to me. Tell me, will you lie to me?"

Li Chen was so amused by his wife's question that he looked at his mother-in-law who seemed to be gloating over his misfortune and said helplessly, "Mom, your daughter has been practicing the skills of Second Senior Brother recently, and she is good at putting the blame on others!"

Unexpectedly, the mother-in-law resolutely stood on her daughter's side this time and said with a smile: "Will you lie to her?"

Li Chen was completely speechless. He looked at his mother-in-law and then at his wife. They were both equally beautiful and equally troublesome.

After holding it in for a long time, Li Chen uttered four words: "No! I dare not!"

After that, he added, "I'm going to go see how my son's sprinting is going!"

Seeing Li Chen fleeing in panic, Liu Yifei couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Mr. Li, I'll go with you!" "No need!"

Liu Yifei laughed so hard that tears were about to come out.

"After all, you are my biological mother! I love you!" Liu Yifei made a heart shape with Liu Xiaoli.

What I got in return was a cold eye from my mother.

Tang Wei was deceived and made the headlines, but the one who got caught in the crossfire was Wang Feng who wanted to make the headlines but failed.

Netizens left comments: Seeing Tang Wei being defrauded of 21 yuan and easily making the headlines, Wang Feng's eyes turned red and he shouted loudly: Swindler, where are you? Get out! I'll pay 30 yuan...!
Sina Entertainment News

"On the morning of January 1th, BJ time, the 13st Golden Globe Awards for American Film and Television was held in Los Angeles. Leonardo Dicaprio won his second Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for The Wolf of Wall Street."

Leon won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, which is known as the Oscar weathervane, and Li Chen also called him to congratulate him.

It's just that in recent years the Golden Globe Awards have been trying hard to get rid of the hat of being a weather vane for the Oscars. Now that he has won the Golden Globe Awards, Li Chen really wants to say, forget about winning the Oscars this year.

After the Golden Globes, it’s time for the Oscars.

Although Wang Jing's "The Grandmaster" is slightly better than Xiao Gangpao's "1942", it was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film.

But in the end it was unfortunately eliminated, and only received two nominations: Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design.

As the year draws to a close, several big directors are all busy with their own things.

Zhang Yimou is busy with Coming Home, and Chen Kaige's The Monk Goes Down the Mountain is said to be just missing a female lead.

Some media captured Chen Kaige having a secret meeting with Taiwanese supermodel Lin Chi-ling.

Neither Li Chen nor Liu Yifei attended this year's Weibo Night, which made Cao Guowei very dissatisfied.

Be frank and ask yourself whether Li Chen is a shareholder of Weibo or not. When it comes to paralyzing Weibo, you, Li Chen, have never been absent.

Weibo Night was not active.

Cao Guowei called Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei pushed it to Li Chen again.

In fact, the reason why Liu Yifei didn’t want to go was because this year’s Weibo Queen was replaced by Liu Shishi, who is known as the Little Liu Yifei.

The second reason is that her husband Li Chen blocked that Martian brother from entering the Spring Festival Gala.

It would be hard to avoid looking awkward if I met these two people and their fans.

On the 13th, Weibo Night was held at China World Trade Center Phase .

Compared with previous years, this year's star power is obviously dimmer.

The most eye-catching one is the big baby.

Compared with her boyfriend Huang Xiaoming, the emotional intelligence of Dabaobei is really beyond description.

When Dabaobei, who won the title of Weibo Goddess of the Year, was interviewed, she didn't care about Huang Xiaoming's face at all, and frankly called on netizens not to urge her to get married, as she had no plans to get married this year.

In contrast, Huang Xiaoming's emotional intelligence is always online.

In an interview the next day, he generously expressed that he hoped his wife would be like a princess and that she could have her own career.

In addition to love, he also has an attitude towards career, saying that he is actually good at English, but will not go to Hollywood to play a supporting role.

This move instantly earned Huang Xiaoming a large number of fans.

A netizen commented: Leonardo DiCaprio and Huang Xiaoming are both good at peeing while standing.

Sina Entertainment News

"Liu Yifei shared her cute childhood photos. Her mother is beautiful and has a good temperament."

"On January 1, Liu Yifei posted an old photo of her and her mother when she was 16 years old on her Sina Weibo account, revealing that she was often called a flower maniac by her cousin because she liked to wear flowers all over her head. At the time, she thought it was just used to describe people who liked flowers, but later she realized it had a different meaning."

"In addition, Liu Yifei also revealed that she had a high fever one day and was unwilling to give up the rehearsed program, so she ended up dancing the wrong way."

"I felt really wronged at the time. In the photo, Liu Yifei was dressed as Xier and lying on her mother's shoulders. Both mother and daughter were very beautiful. Later, many of Liu Yifei's friends in the circle forwarded the Weibo and expressed their praise."

"Liu Tao, who is also one of the six beauties of Tianlong, reposted this Weibo and praised: "What a cute little poor thing! So pitiful!"

"My good friend Zhou Xun also left a message and @ed Li Chen: We all know that you are a flower, we also know who is a fool, and Mr. Li knows it in his heart!"

At Media Center, Li Chen was teased by several veterans the whole afternoon for abusing his power for personal gain and giving his wife a day off to stay home and play Weibo.

Liu Dehua also laughed and teased Li Chen: "Yifei was very cute when she was a child. I heard this kind of interpretation of being a flower maniac for the first time."

"Don't talk about you, Brother Hua. This is my first time too. I know from the childhood photos she sent me, there are so many weird things in her little head."

On January 1, Huayi’s 19th anniversary celebration was held at Mission Hills Haikou.

It is said that nearly a hundred first-line directors and stars from the Chinese entertainment industry gathered together.

Elites from all walks of life and media friends who have supported Huayi's development all the way attended and witnessed the grand ceremony of Huayi's 20th anniversary.

But the biggest names are Cheng Long, Xu Ke and Feng Xiaogang.

The others are all Huayi’s contracted artists or former contracted artists.

The scale of the event was huge, and the slogans of "big culture, big entertainment" and "Huayi Evolution" were indeed very attractive. "De-filming" was unheard of, and they even proposed a plan to set up a North American production company. However, the stock price still did not increase.

The media's feedback was also not at all flattering, and they bluntly expressed their disapproval of Huayi's strategy of deep integration with Hollywood.

After all, the movies of Huayi's ace Feng Xiaogang are not popular in North America at all.

"Personal Tailor" grossed over 10 million yuan in its first week in mainland China, but only US dollars in North America in its first week.

Not to mention North America, even Hong Kong and Taiwan are not popular.

"Big Shot", which won the box office championship in mainland China that year, only took in tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars on its first day in Hong Kong.

So there has always been a saying that Feng Xiaogang’s films cannot cross the Shenzhen River.

After 03, with the rise of Rongchen's faction, Feng Xiaogang has fallen from the altar.

Even in the previous life, although "Private Tailor" surpassed the first week box office of "Lost in Thailand" in its first week, its total box office was still crushed by "Lost in Thailand" by twice.

This is evident from the fact that young people born in the 80s and 90s would rather choose films directed by new directors such as "The Richest Tomato" than watch the old Lunar New Year comedy "Private Tailor".

Today, the box office of two comedy films is less than 500 million yuan, and the other is over 1.8 billion yuan, a difference of almost four times.

No wonder netizens made harsh comments. The audience has moved forward, but Director Feng is still standing still or even regressing. However, he still confidently feels that everyone is still waiting for him.

The 20th anniversary celebration was filled with laughter, singing and dancing.

As a result, the popularity of the headlines was largely taken away by Hollywood celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Charlize Theron who came to Beijing one after another.

How could the Wang brothers not be angry!
(End of this chapter)