Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 766: Rumors Debunked
China Film Report
"The premiere of "Chinese Police 2" was star-studded, with Li Chen appearing with director and starring actor Cheng Long, Zhang Yi, Zhang Yixing and other main creators."

"Today, the highly anticipated police and gangster blockbuster "Chinese Police 2" held a grand world premiere in Beijing. Producer Li Chen, starring Cheng Long, Zhang Yi, Zhang Yixing and other main creators all appeared."

"The scene was packed with stars and media flashes, including the national master Zhang Yimou, the king of comedy Zhou Xingchi, and actors Huang Bo, Zhou Xun, Liu Dehua and others who all endorsed the film."

"As the second film in the "Chinese Police" series, this film continues the hardcore style of the previous one and is based on a real case."

"It tells the story of the third brigade led by the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, Cheng Bing (played by Cheng Long), who was sentenced to prison for accidentally killing one of the suspects in the process of handling a vicious case. After being released from prison, he still insisted on tracking down the fugitive suspect as an ordinary person."

"Chinese Police 2 will be released in theaters nationwide on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and audiences will be able to experience a heart-stirring ten-year pursuit of a murderer."

As soon as the premiere of "Chinese Police 2" ended, Li Chen and Zhou Xingchi left early, leaving the waiting reporters empty-handed.

After getting into Li Chen's car, Zhou Xingchi no longer thanked him.

Whether it was Li Chen blocking the firepower of that family for him or helping him avenge the 8000 million yuan, he was grateful.

That's why he temporarily added more scenes for Lu Han because of Li Chen's words, and even promised that Lu Han and Lin Gengxin would play the roles of Tang Monk and Sun Wukong respectively in "The Demons Strike Back".

In fact, he was very willing to let Lu Han play the role of Tang Monk and Lin Gengxin play the role of Sun Wukong.

Especially the traffic of this little boy Lu Han is really terrifying, and it is even worse after joining Rong Chen.

"Director Zhou, don't worry. Lu Han will play Tang Seng and Lin Gengxin will play Sun Wukong. You will see the horror of fan economy. I have decided to let Lu Han and Lin Gengxin replace Chen He and Zheng Kai to join the latest season of Running Man!"

Zhou Xingchi's smile seemed a little unnatural. "Running Man" was produced by three companies, but from Li Chen's tone, it was obvious that he made the decision alone.

"There is naturally no problem with Director Li's decision."

Li Chen laughed out loud. It was not easy to get Zhou Xingchi, who was not good at speaking outside the play, to say a compliment.

The next day, "The Man from Macau 2", which was also released during the Spring Festival, was not to be outdone and released a clip of the kissing scene between Chow Yun-fat and Liu Jialing.

It’s just that the two of them are over a hundred years old together, so this CP is just for the producer’s own amusement and self-entertainment.

However, Yu Dong has been very successful recently. The box office of Rong Chen's "Longling Mystery Cave" has exceeded 19 billion yuan, but it remains to be seen whether it can reach 20 billion yuan.

Although their Bona Films' "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" box office was far less than that, it was also close to 8 million. Not only that, it also received a 1000 million reward from the National Film Special Fund.

Southern Entertainment Report
"Directed by Wang Jing and starring Chow Yun-fat, Cheung Ka-fai, Lau Ka-ling, Yu Wen-lok and Wong Shi-ling, The Man from Macau II will soon be released during the Spring Festival. Chow Yun-fat and Lau Ka-ling rekindle their old relationship in the film, and Chow Yun-fat praised her stunning beauty."

Sina Entertainment News

"Rongchen Pictures made a major official announcement: Lu Han, Lin Gengxin, and Jiang Shuying joined the seventh season of "Running Man", Chen He, Zheng Kai, and Dilireba responded."

"Following the heated discussion at Weibo Night, Rongchen Pictures officially announced it today."

"New artist Lu Han will replace Chen He, Lin Gengxin will replace Zheng Kai, and Jiang Shuying, who has returned to the public eye again with "Blade of the Assassin", will take over from Dilraba Dilmurat and join the new season of "Running Man"!"

"This news quickly ignited the Internet and became the most significant lineup change in the variety show industry this year. As we all know, the contract for Running Man is signed every two seasons. Zheng Kai has run for six seasons, and Chen He has also run for two seasons."

The cast replacement of "Running Man" sparked heated discussions among netizens, especially Chen He's fans.

After all, Chen He is the first running man who was replaced after only two seasons.

In addition, the two people who were replaced were artists from the Huayi Group, while the two who replaced them were artists from the Rongchen Group.

For a time, Li Chen's remarks deliberately targeting Huayi artists became a hot topic.

Fans of both sides were arguing fiercely online.

Li Chen's Weibo was also attacked by Chen He's fans, and some even said that he was deliberately targeting Chen He. Even Chen Kaige's "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" was linked to him.

Since both of them have the surname Chen, Chen He is Chen Kaige’s nephew.

Deng Jiajia called her two "Love Apartment" partners before "Running Man" officially announced the cast replacement.

Regarding company matters, she can only give suggestions but cannot interfere with decision-making.

When Zheng Kai joined "Running Man" that year, his classmate Jiang Shuying also said a lot of good things about Yang Siwei.

Now Zheng Kai is also facing difficulties in transformation and wants to join Rongchen, but after talking to Yang Siwei several times through Deng Jiajia and Jiang Shuying, there was no response from the other side.

Wang Zhonglei was so angry that he yelled, "Fuck you, big brother, Li Chen is a bastard. We didn't let his people perform on the Spring Festival Gala, so he kicked our people out!"

"This bastard really doesn't suffer any loss at all!"

Although Zheng Kai has reaped all the benefits from Running Man, Chen He and his team have only been signed for less than two years.

The reason why Chen He was able to join the fifth season of "Running Man" was also one of the reasons why Huayi promised to pay a large sum of money to sign Chen He.

Who knew Li Chen was so overbearing and had not renewed the contracts with Zheng Kai and Chen He? It turned out he was waiting here.

Wang Zhongjun also sighed. He was a little out of ideas. It seemed that Li Chen always had a way to outsmart them.

Even though Li Chen kicked Chen He and Zheng Kai out, Huayi’s agent still had to thank "Running Man" and Rong Chen on Weibo and in the media.

Fans’ scolding and yelling are of no use. Over the years since Li Chen debuted, the number of people who scold him is less than one-tenth of the number of people who like him.

On the other hand, Li Chen didn’t care about these at all. The sun was shining, and he was in a better mood just by spending time with his wife and children.

Li Chen and his mother-in-law sat under a parasol, watching Liu Yifei and Xiao Wuxia having fun on the basketball court, with smiles on their faces.

The mother and son's shots were worse than each other, and Li Chen couldn't bear to watch it anymore.

"You two, mother and son, one is a bitch, the other is holding a urinal, each of you is more individualistic than the other!"

Liu Yifei turned around and saw her husband had also come on the court. While he was picking up the ball, she pulled her son and said with a smile, "Xiao Wuxia, grab the ball with mom. Hold on to your dad's legs and mom will grab the ball for you."

Little Wuxia, who was already 3 and a half years old, was very eloquent. After hearing his mother's suggestion, he spread his short legs and rushed towards his father.

Li Chen had just picked up the ball and hadn't turned around when he felt something heavy on his calf. He turned around and saw that it was his son.

"Boy, you fouled!" As soon as he finished speaking, the ball in his hand was snatched away by his wife.

Only then did the son let go and ran towards his mother again.

The mother and son were very happy.

"Good job, son, we don't play with your dad!"

Xiao Wuxia laughed out loud, and Li Chen was in a good mood and joined the battle with a big laugh.

Liu Xiaoli sat aside, feeling completely satisfied.

The family of three was tired from playing, so Liu Xiaoli took her grandson back to the villa. Little Wuxia was sweating profusely from playing, and his face was as red as a cat's.

"Are you really planning to train your son to play basketball?" Liu Yifei took a sip of water, wiped the sweat from her forehead with a towel and smiled.

"Of course, literature and sports are inseparable. Chen Kaige's son wants to be a star, Wang Zhonglei's daughter wants to be behind the scenes. I think our Xiao Wuxia is much better than Guo Ailun." Li Chen was particularly optimistic about his son.

With this kid's accuracy in holding the urinal and his love for basketball, even if he just threw the ball randomly with his eyes closed on the court, I'm afraid he wouldn't score as much as Guo Ailing with 1 point.

With the height advantage of myself and Miss Liu, it should be no problem for this kid to grow to over 1.8 meters tall.

"What about me, Mr. Li? You have arranged everything for my son's future, what should I do next?" Liu Yifei asked lightly. Li Chen laughed and scolded, "You are asking even though you know the answer!"

After saying that, he stood up and walked towards the villa. Liu Yifei raised the corner of her mouth, and she also stood up, sprinted two steps, and then jumped directly onto Li Chen's back.

Li Chen staggered, but caught his wife, who was sweating profusely.

"Mr. Li, you're still in good shape!" Liu Yifei smiled in Li Chen's ear.

Li Chen held his wife's knees with both hands: "That's right, even if you turn into Zhu Bajie, I can still catch you!"

"Hate it, you are Zhu Bajie!"

Li Chen laughed out loud. The couple returned to the villa and washed up. Liu Yifei ate a salad while reading a novel with great interest.

Just now on the basketball court, the couple was talking about this novel.

The script has been adapted, and it was adapted by her fellow Hubei native.

She likes the role of Andy very much. In her husband's words, she also needs to step out of her comfort zone and can't always rely on her old reputation in costume dramas.

While Liu Yifei was reading the original novel of "Ode to Joy", Jiang Shuying, Meng Ziyi, Yang Zi and Zhang Hanyun had already got the script of "Ode to Joy".

"Three Lives Three Worlds", "The Journey of Flower" and "Ode to Joy" will be Rong Chen's three pillars on the small screen in the next two years.

The role of Andy was specially selected by Li Chen for Miss Liu after much consideration.

Miss Liu, who is now a wife and mother, has gone through ten years of experience and her acting skills and experience are now completely different from her previous life.

After giving up some rubbish projects with supporting roles that had no shining points, he was able to play a role like Andy with ease.

A senior business elite who returned from New York, an executive of an investment company, she is tall, beautiful, and a cold beauty with outstanding temperament. These characteristics seem to be tailor-made for her.

Everyone can see how tempting the big cake of the film and television industry is.

The China Culture Media that Jack Ma took over from Dong Ping has transformed into Alibaba Pictures, but it was suspended for a period of time last year due to legacy issues.

The stock had just resumed trading, and Xiaoyanzi made a big move, investing HK$31 billion in Alibaba Pictures to become its second largest shareholder. 'Director Zhao' thus became 'CEO Zhao'!
Although there are big names like Xiaoyanzi and Li Lianjie on the board of directors, the potential IPs and filmmakers are basically firmly in the hands of Li Chen.

In the first half of last year alone, Jack Ma's Alibaba Pictures lost nearly HK$7 million.

The king of comedy Zhou Xingchi became Li Chen's man, and all the film and television copyrights of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" are in Li Chen's hands.

Alibaba now has sufficient funds of 65 billion Hong Kong dollars but no attractive projects.

Among the several projects announced, only the overseas distribution rights of "Wolf Totem" with a cost of 3 million yuan, which will be released next month, and "The Ferryman" produced by Wang Jiawei, directed by Zhang Jiajia, and starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai are worth looking forward to.

As for the movie version of "My Fair Princess", it is just a gimmick and has no potential at all. People still think it is the hit "My Fair Princess" in 98!

Jack Ma actually wants Li Chen to give up the adaptation rights of one or two parts of "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

As a result, Li Chen's words "If you were me, would you share the adaptation rights of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" with others?" left me speechless.

Whether it is Alibaba, Penguin or iQiyi, only a fool would share the top IP with others.

Perhaps the only company that can allow the three major Internet giants to add a co-producer is CCTV.

Chen He’s fans online and netizens who were standing up for Huayi only shouted for two days before they were completely silent.

A piece of explosive news pushed Li Chen and Chen He to the top of the hot searches at the same time.

Sina Entertainment News

"Today, news broke online that Chen He was getting divorced, and it was suspected that he had fallen in love with Zhang Zixuan, his co-star in "The Legend of the Doctor."

"Sina Entertainment subsequently called Chen He's agency, but they did not respond. However, Xie Xiao, editor-in-chief of Southern Metropolis Entertainment Weekly, called the revelation "complete nonsense."

"That's complete nonsense! Yesterday afternoon I was discussing with Chen He about shooting a couple cover photo!"

In front was Wen Zhang, and in the back was Chen He, both of them were closely related to Huayi.

There are also fans of Chen He on the Internet who defended Chen He and shouted that it must be Leo who spread the rumors!

Even Liu Yifei secretly called Yang Siwei.

"No way, Xixi, how is it possible? This is really just a coincidence. The official announcement that Lu Han was replaced by Chen He was a joint decision made by my boss and me."

"You know the relationship between us and Huayi. Since he has joined Huayi, he should be mentally prepared!" Yang Siwei said with a smile that it was impossible.

She was also wondering in her heart, and she also wanted to ask her boss this question, but the internet trolls were all under her control.

She didn't do anything at all. She originally wanted to contact Zhuo Wei to ask, but finally she held back.

"But isn't this too much of a coincidence?" Liu Yifei said in disbelief.

"Xixi, I don't have time to explain to you right now, but I am absolutely certain that the boss knows nothing about this."

"I have to contact the media immediately to clarify these false rumors!"

Liu Yifei also knew the urgency of the matter and nodded, "Go ahead and do your work. I asked you not to tell Li Chen about this."

Yang Siwei said with a smile: "Don't worry, Xixi, don't I understand this clearly? Wen Zhang's problem was his own fault, and the boss can't be blamed. But this matter has nothing to do with the boss or me. I suspect it was Zhuo Wei's handiwork."

Many people doubt Li Chen, even Han Saping thinks so.

It’s just that Han Sanping didn’t call to ask.

All the artists in the circle were silent, but Yang Mi believed it without a doubt.

"It must be the senior, not her. I write the word Yang backwards!"

Zeng Jia was still frightened by Yang Mi's words. If something like this was exposed, it would most likely be true.

Even though the editor-in-chief of Nandu Entertainment tried his best to defend Chen He, he could be slapped in the face at any moment.

Zeng Jia also started out as an agent. It is very strange that the agency and the agent did not respond to this matter in the first place.

Huayi did not respond, but Yang Siwei was the first to respond on behalf of Li Chen.

Rongchen Pictures updated a statement on its official Weibo account.

"Recently, as a co-producer of "Running Man," our company has sparked widespread discussion about the adjustment of the guest lineup for the seventh season. We now make the following explanation:
"1. Cooperation principles: Rongchen always adheres to the dual standards of giving priority to artist schedules and program effects. All adjustments are determined through consultation between the producers, TV stations and various brokerage companies."

"2. Solemn statement: Our company's cooperation changes with any artist are based on professional evaluation, and we have never and will never get involved in the private affairs of artists. Regarding malicious rumors and false information such as 'suppressing peers', we have commissioned a lawyer to complete the evidence collection."

"In the future, Rongchen will continue to work with Guangguang and Blueberry to present better variety show content to the audience."

Immediately, both Guangguang and Blueberry officials reposted Rongchen’s official Weibo.

Li Chen himself also posted a message on Weibo: Rongchen and a group of unmarried men and women, I don’t have the time to pay attention to other people’s marriage and divorce.

Yang Mi, Tang Yan, Deng Jiajia, Zhang Hanyun and others immediately reposted Li Chen's Weibo and left comments jokingly: I'm sorry, I made my senior (boss) worry about me.
(End of this chapter)