Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 737 Human feelings are like swords, and they are hard to change my heart

"The Blade of the Assassin" was originally scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival, but after the Shanghai International Film Festival, Li Chen chose the summer vacation.

The National Day movie "Heart Flower Road" is released, the Lunar New Year movie "The Cave of Dragon Ridge", "Step Away", "The Taking of Tiger Mountain by Strategy" and "The Crossing" are released, and the Spring Festival movie "Chinese Police 2", "The Man from Macau 2" and "Monster Hunt" are released!
Even Lu Yang himself doesn't want "Blade Master" to interfere with the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival period.

He is absolutely willing to compete with a movie like "Tiny Times 2" which has a very good reputation.

On the day before the release, Lu Yang said to his wife: "I don't believe that Mr. Li can let Tiny Times 2 take advantage in terms of scheduling, topics, and word of mouth."

The facts were just as Lu Yang expected, but the result was far beyond everyone's expectations.

Compared with Lu Yang's full confidence, Guo Xiaosi and Zhang Zhao seemed to have no confidence at all.

Nowadays, whether in terms of popularity, screening rate or first-day pre-sale box office, "The Blade of the Assassin" completely crushes "Tiny Times 2". At this critical juncture, the leading actor actually lost contact and was missing for a whole day and night!
At the press conference just now, reporters were asking why there was no vibration.

Yang Mi and several other girls were also very curious.

The people from Leshi and Guo Xiaosi were looking for the person everywhere, and they were just short of posting a missing person notice on the Internet.

Finally got in touch with Ke Zhen’s agent.

Secretary Zhang Zhao hung up the phone and said dully, "He went to the police station!"

These words were like a bolt from the blue, leaving Zhang Zhao and Guo Xiaosi's heads buzzing.

Yang Mi and the others looked at each other in bewilderment. What was going on? Was he in police custody?

"Explain what you mean by being taken to police station!" Zhang Zhao was so anxious that his veins popped out and he swore, which was rare.

"Mr. Zhang, it's... it's true. His agent said so," the secretary stammered aggrievedly, and the two words were almost inaudible in his soft voice.

But everyone heard it clearly, and the shock in their hearts was no less than an eight-magnitude earthquake.

The fate of "Tiny Times 2" is too bumpy. It was shelved for nearly a year.

After finally passing the review, the film was forced to be postponed due to the fierce competition of "Vientiane Island".

This will be released tomorrow, and the leading actor was sent to jail because of this, if the news is true.

Once it is revealed, the film will definitely be taken off the screen, cut or re-shot. There is no second possibility.

Especially the one who was released recently and kept talking nonsense in the interview, he was simply looking for death.

Guo Xiaosi's eyes turned red: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Guo Xiaosi's mind was in a mess.

Zhang Zhao was still clear-headed: "Go and get the news right now!"

"All of you, shut your mouths!" Zhang Zhao pointed at Yang Mi, Guo Biting, Chen Xuedong and others and said viciously.

Because of Li Chen, the General Administration issued a ban order as early as 2007.

This also means that after 2007, all brokerage companies and platforms will sign a letter of commitment.

It means that we will not hire or organize performances by artists involved in drug-related crimes.

All producers and investors will also clearly indicate in their contracts the compensation clauses for any situations in which a work cannot be released normally due to an actor's drug use or prostitution.

But nowadays, a big production can easily cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and if there is really a bad apple in the picture, like the vibration problem in front of us.

It is definitely not just "Tiny Times" that is seeking compensation from him. There is also the "Monster Hunt" which has already been completed, as well as various brands that endorse Ke Zhendong.

Even if he loses everything, he can't afford to pay for it!

Yang Mi felt like her heart was about to jump out.

For some reason, at this moment she suddenly thought of her senior and broke out in a cold sweat.

The senior was too calm about "Tiny Times 2" this time. She was so calm that she thought he might be too disdainful to have any intersection with "Tiny Times 2" anymore and let "Tiny Times 2" fend for itself.

But seeing this scene, Yang Mi shuddered unconsciously. If the senior had really known about this matter a long time ago, then this knife would have been a fatal blow.

The whole family is addicted to vibration and I am afraid they can’t afford the compensation even if they sell their kidneys.

Guo Xiaosi also seemed to come back to his senses: "Yes, yes, yes, go quickly!"

If it is really true, we must quickly apply to freeze Ke Zhendong’s property. If we are too late, we may lose everything.

Guo Xiaosi's idea was correct, but someone was quicker than him.

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When the news of being caught for vibrating reached the post-production center of Monster Hunt in Hong Kong, the president of Anle, Jiang Zhiqiang, overturned the conference table and roared angrily: "Fuck you! Our 3.5 million investment was thrown away like this!"

The Anle employees were so frightened that they didn't know what to do. The boss looked as hideous and terrifying as if someone had dug up his ancestral grave.

After a pause, Jiang Zhiqiang quickly made an emergency call to the capital.

About an hour later, in the Beijing Penguin Video Conference Room, Wang Jinhua slammed the table with a sullen face: "I said at the beginning that we couldn't use this little bastard! You insisted that he had a lot of fans! Now all 800 people in the team are cleaning up his mess!"

Penguin's Sun Zhonghuai's face was so gloomy that water could drip out of it: "Penguin just signed an exclusive pre-sale of 2 million! How can I explain this to the users now!"

Cai Yuan from Lianrui Films grabbed the vibrating poster on the table and tore it into pieces: "Every frame shot by this beast must be burned! Why didn't he just suck it to death and be done with it!"

Jiang Zhiqiang couldn't get angry at these people, and it would be useless to get angry now, so he could only offer a solution: "I have just had someone draft an indictment to claim NT$2.8 million from Kedongdong, and have applied to the Taiwan court to freeze three properties under his name."

"Now that the news has been confirmed, what we should consider now is to change the cast and reshoot. It will definitely not be released during the Spring Festival."

Several producers knew very well that Jiang Zhiqiang made this call to ask everyone to pay money, and he would compensate everyone in the future when this vibration made a loss.

But several people have a question in their minds: will they get the money for the vibration?

The dozen or so endorsements he has are enough to send this kid and his family running away.

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In the main control room of "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" at the Huairou Base of China Film Group, Chen Hong kicked open the door of the editing room, holding the police notice in her hand, her eyes bloodshot, and threw the notice at Chen Kaige.

"You bastard! Why don't you smoke it sooner or later? Why do you have to wait until the filming is over before going in!"

Chen Kaige's face turned pale: "Calm down first."

Chen Hong picked up the thermos cup and smashed it against the surveillance screen: "How can I be calm! This beast has caused us enough pain, how can we delete his scenes? Apart from starting all over again, what do you think we should do!"

"Isn't his father an anti-drug ambassador? He banned something like this!"

The monitor screen exploded with a bang. Chen Kaige was so frightened by the enraged Hedong Lion that he trembled in fear. He begged and called out, "Hong, keep your voice down. There are so many people outside!"

"I just want them to hear that I dared to scold Cheng Long even though he was here! 48 scenes! 48 scenes! All of them need to be reshot! What did that old bastard Cheng Long promise me in the first place?"

"If Chenglong doesn't pay me back, I'll get someone to report all of his family's misdeeds to the Hong Kong media!"

It was the first time that Guo Fucheng, Lin Zhiling, Wang Baoqiang and others saw Sister Hong lose her temper outside the main control room.

"No wonder he doesn't take Chen Kexin and Wu Junru seriously, so impressive!" Guo Fucheng sighed.

Wang Baoqiang nodded, not daring to say a word. The Hedong Lion was no more than that.

Lin Zhiling was even more silent, as she had heard that Sister Hong was the housekeeper on the set.

Even director Chen Kaige is weak inside and cannot handle this guy at all.

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Near noon, Hong Kong media broke the news first.

The mainland media was slow to react and it took them an hour to realize it.

The hot searches on Weibo were ignited, one was the son of the dragon, and the other was the missing male lead of "Tiny Times". A while ago, he was exposing his ex-girlfriend Xiao Yaxuan's various misdeeds on the Internet, and now his true colors have been revealed.

Netizens don’t care whether you are the son of the Dragon or a top young star. When they scold you, they don’t give Big Brother Dragon any face at all.

"I am an anti-drug ambassador, and my son is a drug offender. It is hard to prevent a thief from within the family."

"My dad is Li Gang! My dad is Cheng Long! Let's talk about it after we go in!" "Fans who support Zhendong: Brother is just under a lot of pressure."

"The brands that Ke Zhendong has endorsed are now photoshopping their pictures overnight and are even trying to recall the underwear he has worn."

"It is said that the scene where Chen Hong scolded Long's son on the spot was comparable to a blockbuster movie."

"The biggest monster in Monster Hunt turns out to be vibration."

“Prediction of the ending of Monster Hunt: The monster played by Ke Zhendong is captured by the heavens because of the poison.”

"The first criterion for brands to select spokespersons now is that the urine test must be negative."

"Leo is simply a god in my heart. We are both Palme d'Or directors, but why does he only use his father and not his son? I, Director Chen, am so confused!"

Even netizens knew about it, how could Li Chen not know?
Li Chen has always felt that there are two types of people whose deaths are not worth regretting: gamblers and drug addicts.

What did Zhang Guoli's son say when he got into trouble for the first time? What was the result? It's obvious.

Liu Yifei was also shocked when she heard the news early in the morning.

At the dinner table, Liu Xiaoli and Liu Yifei, mother and daughter, were all very surprised.

Only Li Chen was still eating with gusto and having fun playing with his son.

Liu Yifei was completely defeated: "Is your heart different from others? How come you are not surprised or surprised by such a big thing?"

Liu Xiaoli also wanted to know the answer.

She was a little worried about how cunning her son-in-law was. What if he did something unfair to her daughter one day? With her low IQ, she might have an illegitimate child out there and she wouldn't even know.

Li Chen teased his son and said indifferently: "These two are not my sons, it's not my turn to worry about them."

Seeing her husband's calm look, Liu Yifei was furious. Why could he be so calm? He always looked like he had everything under control.

Liu Yifei angrily snatched her son from her husband.

"What are you doing!"

"What do you care about me? We, mother and son, must reach a consensus and share what we have. Otherwise, if I let you sell it, I'm afraid I'll have to count the money for you!"

"How can it be!"

Liu Yifei, who was just about to hold her son to help digest the food, suddenly had a flashback of her husband sighing while watching "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" that night.

For a moment, it was as if the child was under a spell. The little Wuxia in the mother's arms was still scratching her chubby face, and she didn't know why her mother stopped.

"Be good, little Wuxia, go play with grandma." Liu Yifei put her son down and pointed at her husband: "You, come out with me."

Li Chen didn't know what was wrong with his wife. He looked at his mother-in-law, who also didn't understand: "Go quickly, she will be angry again soon."

Li Chen nodded, stood up and followed Miss Liu out the door.

As soon as I walked out of the door, I saw Miss Liu with her arms folded over her chest, looking at me angrily.

When Li Chen walked in, Liu Yifei asked, "You have known about your eldest brother's son for a long time. That night, you sighed while watching the news about "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain". Were you sighing for Director Chen?"

"You weren't the one who reported this incident, were you?"

Liu Yifei asked several questions in rapid succession.

Li Chen smiled, put his arm around her shoulders and strolled on the lawn of the villa.

"Tell me quickly, is it you?" Liu Yifei twisted her body and shook off Li Chen's big hand on her shoulder.

"You have such an imagination that you can become a policeman. How could you have thought it was me? Misfortunes sent by heaven can be forgiven, but misfortunes brought by oneself cannot be forgiven. How would I know that they smoked this stuff? Even if I knew they were not clean, who would know where and when they smoked it?"

"Really?" Liu Yifei asked doubtfully.

"Why would I lie to you? If you don't believe me, go ask Yang Siwei. She wouldn't lie to you, would she? The people under her know a lot about the secrets of these artists. Ask her if she knows about this."

"Then why did you sigh when you saw 'The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain' that day?"

Li Chen smiled and touched his wife's tender face, and gave the same reason as that day.

"Of course I sighed. Director Chen is already old and has two sons. Director Zhang is even better. Look at me. I only have Xiao Wuxia."

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes. Li Chen's method of changing the subject always worked whenever he brought up this topic.

As the two were talking, Li Chen's phone rang. Li Chen took out his phone and Liu Yifei glanced at it.

"Is it Big Brother?"

"Why is he calling me at this time?" Li Chen muttered.

"Hurry up and answer it!" Liu Yifei urged.

Li Chen vaguely guessed the reason why Chenglong made these calls.

When the call was connected, Chenglong said in a hoarse voice: "Li Chen, have you heard about the group name?"

The opening remarks were pure nonsense, even Liu Yifei felt that the eldest brother was asking unnecessary questions.

"I heard about it, brother."

"Can you help me suppress the group name issue on Weibo? You know, the public opinion is too fierce now, I am afraid it will affect the verdict."

There seemed to be a woman sobbing on the other end of the phone. Liu Yifei opened her eyes wide and mouthed to her husband in surprise: "Could it be Lin?"

Li Chen was amused by his wife's expression, even for Lin Fengjiao it was normal.

Li Chen didn't say anything for a while, and Chenglong knew what the other party meant.

Thinking back on the favor I received for the movie "The Forbidden Kingdom", I really shouldn't have used it so early.

After filming a movie called "Chinese Police", he now doesn't even have the bargaining chips to negotiate with Li Chen.

"I'm sorry, brother, I can't help you with this matter."

Chenglong was silent for three seconds before hanging up the phone.

Liu Yifei didn't expect her husband to refuse so decisively.

"Are you really not going to help Big Brother?"

"Help? I can help him with the final blow! There's nothing to sympathize with such a person. He won't be executed. You, don't be soft-hearted. Chenglong might even ask you to plead for him, and maybe not just you."

Liu Yifei was stunned. This was probably the biggest difference between herself and her husband.

If it were her, it would probably be difficult for her to refuse her brother's request for help.

But not only did the husband refuse, he also seemed to want to take further action.

Li Chen's guess was correct. Liu Yifei indeed received Chenglong's voice message on WeChat.

The general meaning is that he hopes that because of the friendship they had for "The Forbidden Kingdom", he can persuade Li Chen to lend a helping hand, and that if he needs help in the future, he can just ask.

Liu Yifei hesitated for a long time and didn't know how to reply to this elder brother.

Chenglong has a wide network of contacts, and he must have used a lot of favors. There were many acquaintances in the circle who called Li Chen to ask him to help suppress public opinion.

But no one's face is big enough to make Li Chen change his principles.

In this kind of situation, even if Liu Yifei stepped in, it would be useless, let alone outsiders.

Li Chen did what he said and indeed delivered another blow.

Yang Siwei posted a ban order issued by the General Administration as early as 07 on Rongchen’s official Weibo, with an anti-drug propaganda poster as the accompanying picture.

Liu Yifei was stunned: "Your knife is sharper than the Embroidered Spring Knife!"

Li Chen pinched his wife's delicate nose and said with a smile: "Human feelings are like swords, and they are hard to change my heart."

(End of this chapter)