Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 750 You, a small shareholder of Jiaxing, come to talk to me?
Li Chen’s response almost caused a fire in Zhang Yimou’s backyard.

Gongli called Zhang Yimou privately to complain about whether Zhang Yimou was Rongchen's man.

Although "The Return" is not produced by Rongchen, you, Zhang Yimou, are Rongchen's art director after all.

It would be fine if Li Chen and Liu Yifei didn't speak out in support of me, Gong Li, but they also played tricks on me!

Lao Mouzi's lovely wife Chen Ting was delighted with Li Chen's response.

Seeing that Lao Mouzi was unhappy after receiving a call from his old lover, he did not hide his dislike for Gong Li: "Director Li said it very well, I have to give him a thumbs up."

"shut up!"

"Why should I shut up? Don't you forget who cheated on you in the first place? And who is giving birth to your children now? Why are you being so mean to me? I'm telling you, if you want to film with Gongli again, I'll divorce you! I'll let you and your old lover get back together!"

Zhang Yimou felt overwhelmed. He stood up and muttered something before walking out the door: "I can't reason with you."

After leaving the house, Zhang Yimou thought for a while and called Li Chen again. When the call was connected, Zhang Yimou said carefully: "Li Chen, once you speak, it will make me suffer."

Li Chen didn't know what Lao Mouzi meant, so he said with a smile, "What do you mean, Director Zhang?"

Zhang Yimou sighed: "Alas, Gongli called me and asked me if I was Rongchen's man. Chen Ting was looking for trouble with me again and brought up the old matter again."

Li Chen laughed and said, "Director Zhang, then you have to look for the problem within yourself. You have already fulfilled your promise to Gong Li in Curse of the Golden Flower and gave her a queen. Do you have to find her for Coming Home?"

"Chen Ting followed you at such a young age and even gave birth to your children. You should at least give her some respect."

Zhang Yimou really wanted to slap himself. He might as well not have made the call. After making the call, he was lectured by Li Chen again. He couldn't say a word.
After hanging up the phone with Lao Mouzi, Liu Yifei tapped her husband's forehead and said, "You dare to teach anyone a lesson."

Li Chen said disapprovingly: "I don't interfere with his creation, but he wants to teach me how to behave. I have to make him clear who is the boss."

Liu Yifei shook her head slightly, secretly sighing that Director Zhang was so unlucky.

As soon as the couple left the crew and got into the car, Zhang Yimou called.

Both of them were exhausted after a day's work, especially Li Chen, who hadn't acted for a long time and had been NGed several times by Chen Kexin. He was already unhappy, so it would be strange for him to be nice to Director Zhang.

Before the couple returned to the villa, Yang Siwei sent a screenshot to Li Chen. Li Chen took a glance at it and found that it was the official Weibo account of CCTV that finally announced that Feng Xiaogang would be the director of the Spring Festival Gala.

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"CCTV officially announced that Feng Xiaogang will be the director of the 2015 Spring Festival Gala! Netizens are going crazy: Huayi PK Rongchen, will Li Chen's ratings record be in jeopardy this time?"

"Today, the mystery of who will be the chief director of the 2015 Spring Festival Gala has finally been revealed. CCTV's official Weibo account has officially announced that Feng Xiaogang will be the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala."

"The Central Bank stated: Director Feng will continue to innovate and create a 'warm' Spring Festival Gala. Some media interpreted this as a move away from 'Li'!"

"As soon as the news came out, it instantly sparked heated discussions across the Internet. After all, the 2014 Spring Festival Gala directed by Li Chen in the Year of the Horse had just set a new record in ratings in the past 20 years."

"As the trump card of Huayi Brothers, Feng Xiaogang's succession was seen by the outside world as a direct declaration of war by the 'Huayi Group' against the 'Rongchen Group'."

"An industry insider revealed: "CCTV invited Li Chen to be a consultant twice, but was declined."

Li Chen couldn't help laughing when looking at the online public opinion and heated discussions among netizens.

"Hua Yi Brothers' 'Avengers' assemble! The key is that no matter how many times we count, there is not a single superhero!"

"Who are the people in the Huayi Department? The Flower of Evil Guo Furong? The big baby Anjiula who can't cry even if a woman cries?"

"The Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Horse can be without the Huayi Group, but can the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Sheep really be de-Li-ized? If it is, who would want to watch it!"

"Li's Spring Festival Gala: movie-level special effects + international style; Feng's Spring Festival Gala prediction: New Year's film gags + product placement!"

"Support Director Feng! After all, Li Chen asked me to 'watch the Spring Festival Gala while scanning red envelopes' last year, which caused me to break two phones! As long as Huayi is willing to compensate, I will watch it!"

Liu Yifei also received a screenshot of Yang Siwei's WeChat message. After reading it, she exclaimed to Li Chen, "You really got it right."

At the beginning of this year, her husband predicted that as long as he did not direct the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Sheep, the role would definitely fall to Feng Xiaogang.

Looking at it now, it turns out to be true.

Li Chen laughed: "Then guess how Wang Zhonglei and Feng Xiaogang feel now."

Liu Yifei raised her eyes as if thinking, and said with a smile: "They should be happy, after all, so many artists from Huayi have never been on the Spring Festival Gala."

Li Chen nodded and praised: "Wang Zhonglei must be happy, but Feng Xiaogang is probably in pain and happy at the same time. He will have to act hypocritically and act like a spoiled child in front of the station later."

Li Chen's guess was almost right. It was in a private room of the Kunlun Hotel in Beijing.

Wang Zhonglei, Wang Zhongjun, Feng Xiaogang and his wife, and Zhang Guoli gathered together.

Wang Zhonglei was overjoyed and raised his glass, saying with a smile: "Xiaogang, congratulations. Being able to direct the Spring Festival Gala is a sign of the central government's recognition and appreciation of you."

Feng Xiaogang raised his glass with a bitter face, turned his head and glanced at Wang Zhonglei, and sighed: "Zhonglei, Zhongjun, I agreed to direct the Spring Festival Gala this time, not for fame, and not for profit."

"I have gained both fame and fortune from making movies over the years, so I don't need to pursue fame and fortune here at the Spring Festival Gala."

"I put so much effort into this to repay you two brothers for your support over the years. It's like volunteering. I accept the scolding."

Wang Zhongjun laughed, secretly criticizing Feng Xiaogang for being both a high-ranking official and a low-ranking official.

It sounds nice to say that it was for the two brothers. Just now at the press conference, he kept saying that it was to give back to the audience who like his movies.

Feng Xiaogang speaks rudely to people he meets, but acts like a hooligan when he meets his superiors.

The director of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala program team walked out of the press conference immediately after the event.

After getting in the car, the director's face immediately darkened, and he cursed Feng Xiaogang in his heart for being ungrateful.

The press conference just now made the Spring Festival Gala program team very embarrassed.

Feng Xiaogang actually stated in front of nearly 400 media outlets that being the director of the Spring Festival Gala was a thankless job and that if he wasn't careful he would lose his reputation in his later years.

You have a shitty reputation in your later years. You were just a follower of Wang Shuo in your early years, and you really think you are Li Chen. It's not that Li Chen and Zhang Yimou don't want to come, why would it be your turn to slip away.

"Leader, please don't take it personally. Feng Xiaogang is known as the Little Cannon. If he doesn't complain and act nice, he wouldn't be Feng Xiaogang." The secretary knew the director's temper, and when he saw the director's sullen face as he got into the car, he naturally knew what the problem was.

In his opinion, the biggest difference between Feng Xiaogang and Li Chen is that Li Chen knows how to adapt to the times and has a sense of propriety.

For example, in the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Horse, since Li Chen accepted the opportunity, he kept a low profile and thanked heaven, earth and CCTV. Unlike this guy, he was like a real hooligan and dared to say anything weird at the press conference.

Just as angry as the Spring Festival Gala program director were the Wangs.

After parting at Kunlun Hotel, Wang Zhonglei and Wang Zhongjun left in the same car.

As soon as he got on the car, Wang Zhonglei couldn't hold back any longer and cursed: "Bah! What a thing! If it weren't for us brothers supporting him back then, he wouldn't be where he is today! Feng Kuazi really thinks he's such a big shot, what a shameless guy."

"Zhonglei, didn't you hear the hidden meaning of what Feng Xiaogang just said?"

"What do you mean by that, brother?"

Wang Zhongjun sneered: "What do you mean by giving back to us brothers for supporting him over the years? What do you mean by volunteering for us? You still can't understand what he means."

Wang Zhonglei finally reacted.

"Brother, do you mean he wants to go solo? But at the press conference of If You Are the One 2, he responded to the news of going solo in a high-profile manner, unless he is crazy."

Wang Zhongjun snorted: "Zhonglei, you must have remembered it wrongly. His original words were: If I change jobs, I'm out of my mind. Going solo and changing jobs are not the same thing!"

Wang Zhonglei was stunned
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At Shanghai Pudong Airport, Yang Mi and Zeng Jia hurried out of the airport hall with a few assistants. The movie version of "Silent Separation" is about to start shooting in Shanghai.

Compared to Tang Yan, Yang Mi felt that she was really unlucky.

The TV version of “Fall in Love with You” was almost done with post-production, but something went wrong with the copyright of the film version.

Now the version she and Huang Xiaoming are working on is about to start filming, and they just found out that the copyright is no longer in the hands of LeTV, but in the hands of Guangguang.

Before the news that Yang Mi would star in the film version of "Fall in Love with You" was revealed, Bees and Sugar Powder had already fought against each other once.

Although both of them called a pause to their fans on the surface and it did not affect their relationship, there must have been a competitive mentality in their hearts.

The trouble will come after it is released.

The group got into a black MPV, and Yang Mi took off her mask and said, "Tell me, should I not take this role? After all, Tangtang has already taken the TV series."

Zeng Jia said disapprovingly, "What's the big deal? Rong Chen is going to make a TV series of 'Three Lives Three Worlds', and isn't Tangren also clamoring to make a movie version of 'Three Lives Three Worlds'?"

Yang Mi chuckled, "You believe that? Cai Yinong has been shouting about it for four or five years. Besides, what right does Tangren have to make movies? Tangren Pictures is just an empty shell. If you say that, it's more like it."

"I even doubt whether the copyright of the film version of Eternal Love will be the same as that of Love Under the Graveyard. Maybe Tangren's copyright has expired long ago."

Zeng Jia's heart moved, and she glanced at Yang Mi: "You are right, I will ask around later, if we can get the copyright, we can come and shoot it!"

Yang Mi also mentioned it casually, and after hearing Zeng Jia say this, she was also moved.

"Let's solve the problem at hand first, otherwise there will be no point in talking about anything else."

The two men came to Shanghai this time with an arduous mission.

Yang Mi was ready to drink until she had stomach bleeding.

After leaving Rongchen, she realized how difficult it was for a newly established film and television company like Jiaxing, which had no backing.

You have to put on a smiling face and even accept the unspoken rules to get the project.

To raise funds, you have to hang out with a group of men who can be your father or even your grandfather.

You have to be generous and fight for resources for the artists under your management.

To put it bluntly, Yang Mi didn't even have time to take care of her aunt when she had her period.

"It's still easier when I'm in the company." Yang Mi sighed.

Zeng Jia rolled her eyes at her. What she said was just nonsense. She was also relaxed when she was with Rong Chen.

The key is that they have a strong and incredible boss who can block all the wind and rain for them.

Yang Mi and Zeng Jia returned together to a luxury apartment that Yang Mi bought in Shanghai.

After a night’s rest, I went directly to visit the set of “La La Land” early the next morning.

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At seven o'clock in the morning, in a retro studio on the bank of the Huangpu River, a pianist was adjusting the pitch of the piano.

Li Chen was watching from the side while Liu Yifei was practicing the dance over and over again.

The stagehand walked up to Li Chen and said, "Director Li, Teacher Yang Mi is here to visit us."

When Liu Yifei heard this, she stopped dancing and saw Yang Mi, wearing a camel coat and high heels, walking into the set with a smile on her face.

Zeng Jia and several assistants followed behind him.

While greeting Chen Kexin, Wang Jiawei and others, Yang Mi said to Li Chen affectionately, "Senior! Liu Qianqian! Are you surprised or not?"

Yang Mi smiled with her eyebrows curved, but Li Chen said indifferently: "Since you are here, we can talk later if you have anything to say."

Yang Mi and Liu Yifei stuck out their tongues and swallowed their words.

Liu Yifei glanced at Zeng Jia and smiled at the two of them, "I'll tell you later. The filming is about to start, and Li Chen and I have to listen to the director."

Zeng Jia smiled and said, "I understand. I understand."

Before he could finish his words, he heard the sudden voice of the stage manager: "Scene 38, shot 7!"

Yang Mi and Zeng Jia looked at each other, neither feeling embarrassed. This was more than the first or second time that she had been lectured by her senior.

Yang Mi sat down in an empty chair next to the director's monitor with familiarity and watched Chen Kexin filming quietly.

I can't help but sigh in my heart: "The lineup that the senior has found, any one of them is a top-notch talent in the industry."

Yang Mi and Zeng Jia waited until lunch time.

"Tell me, what are you two here for?" Li Chen said straight to the point after sitting down.

Yang Mi smiled and put the prepared gift on the table: "Senior, what are you talking about? I can't miss you and Xixi anymore. I came to see you. I also brought you your favorite Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao."

Liu Yifei laughed: "We are so familiar with each other, just say whatever you want to say. He doesn't like empty talk."

Li Chen looked at Yang Mi and Zeng Jia with amusement: "If you don't talk about lunch time, then it's time for dinner."

Yang Mi said coquettishly: "Hey, senior, I'll tell you, I'll tell you."

Zeng Jia was nervous. Yang Mi considered her words carefully before saying, "Senior, Jiaxing needs financing. Are you interested?"

As she spoke, Yang Mi pulled out a long-prepared "Jiaxing Financing Plan", which included the upcoming "The Love of Silent Night", the first film "I Am a Witness" with Lu Han who had just returned to China, and an ancient puppet drama "Legend of Fuyao".
Li Chen casually glanced at it and then slowly closed the financing plan handed to him by Yang Mi.

Liu Yifei picked it up and started looking through it.

Li Chen looked at Yang Mi meaningfully, and suddenly smiled softly: "Mi Mi, you are a small shareholder of Jiaxing, and you come to talk to me about financing?"

Zeng Jia, who was standing by, looked unhappy when she heard Li Chen's arrogant words, but she did not dare to get angry.

The coffee cup in his hand just hit the edge of the table with a "click".

Yang Mi's face was equally embarrassed, her nails digging deeply into her palms.

This was a slap in her face.

Liu Yifei closed the financing plan silently and sat aside without interrupting. She could tell that her husband was helping Yang Mi.

But obviously, Yang Mi didn't seem to hear it.

After a while, Yang Mi smiled awkwardly, but her eyes became sharp: "Senior, you still speak in this style, it's really unbearable."

"But I remember that you said that year that no matter it was Brother Xun, Tangtang or me, even if our contracts expired and we left Rongchen, you would still support us with all your might?"

"I came here today hoping that you can fulfill your promise from that year."

Li Chen's eyelids twitched slightly, and he stared at Yang Mi for a long while.

Yang Mi also took the risk. She has seen things clearly in the past two years.

In the face of absolute strength, the so-called "senior and junior" friendship is nothing more than a fairy tale filter in the capital world.

"Mi Mi, are you here to beg me or to settle accounts with me?"

(End of this chapter)