Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 346: Top Celebrities in the World
In fact, it is not necessarily necessary to exclude it, because the impact has already occurred.

Even if the ratings continue to decline due to the general trend, the quality will not necessarily be affected too much.

Other companies have begun to follow Long Lin's example and move towards producing high-quality dramas, and some have even reaped the benefits.

Hairun Film and Television, the first company we studied, has exported some of its dramas to Southeast Asia.

This is obviously a new profit point.

It is not easy to change from a bad situation to a good one, and it is also quite difficult to break the positive cycle.

Seeing the second positive example, other companies became jealous.

Tang Ren insisted on keeping Liu Qianqian around because he wanted to leverage her overseas influence to export products.

"Xian Yi" has even found an overseas broadcasting platform.

The situation in the field of TV dramas is very good, and the gap between it and what Chen Linfeng predicted in the early years is getting bigger and bigger.

Liu Qianqian chuckled and didn't say much.

She was the one who knew best the impact Xiaofeng had on this.

Nowadays, many media, when talking about the current reform status of various companies in the field of TV dramas, will invariably mention Dragon Scale and the influence of those Xiao Chen dramas.

……

April 28, in an event hall of the hotel.

Chen Linfeng is still discussing the action plot of "Taken" with Fang Long.

The team members brought by the two people were also busy. They had begun to determine more specific issues such as camera positions, lenses, lighting, etc.

The coordination between the two teams was relatively smooth.

Originally, one side was mainly composed of people from Hong Kong Island, and the other side was mainly composed of people from the mainland. Chen Linfeng was worried that they would have a conflict.

After all, Hong Kong’s discrimination against the mainland in the film and television industry has a long history and cannot be eliminated in a short period of time.

However, in Hollywood, no matter whether you are from mainland China or Hong Kong, in the eyes of American people, you all have the same identity.

Just like in the later movie "The Beautiful Civil War", the soldiers shouted "China" and shot the reporter who thought he was from Hong Kong Island.

People don't bother to distinguish.

It's the same today.

I treat everyone equally and I discriminate against everyone.

At the level of Chen Linfeng and Fang Long, no one would dare to reveal their thoughts in front of them.

However, going further down, people will not be so cautious.

Although on the surface, American people will not show discriminatory attitudes.

But everyone can feel the invisible, obvious indifference and alienation, intentional or unintentional neglect.

Therefore, the two sides are almost clearly separated and rarely communicate when not at work.

This actually made the relationship between Fang Long and Chen Linfeng's team slightly better.

Coupled with the deliberate guidance of the two big bosses above, they finally achieved the goal of forming a group.

Fang Long saw Chen Linfeng staring at the group of people discussing in a daze, so he asked.

"Xiao Chen, what's wrong?"

Chen Linfeng thought about the issues he had discussed recently with Lu Yang, Cao Yu and others, so he asked,
"Brother Fang Long, when you came to Hollywood to film before, were the Long family members also discriminated against?"

He only knew that there were unhappy voices from his own men, but he really had no idea what was going on on the other side.

"Oh, you said this."

Fang Long showed a nostalgic look, "In Hollywood, my team basically experienced this situation every time they changed crews."

Chen Linfeng asked curiously, "Then how did you solve it?"

"There's nothing much to say. It all depends on your ability."

Fang Long spread his hands and said, "He can't do what we can do. We can even do things far beyond their imagination, so naturally there will be no discrimination."

"So that's how it is. It really has the style of the Long Clan."

Chen Linfeng suddenly realized, thinking about the various life-threatening behaviors in Fang Long’s previous movies, the credit for this was inseparable from the Long Family Class.

The American people are still pragmatic. As long as you are awesome, they will swallow their pride.

But this trick is easy for the Long family to do, but difficult for him.

The people brought by Chen Linfeng, except for Lu Yang, the executive director, are mainly from the lighting, photography, art and other departments that directly affect the quality of the film.

These people are not like the martial artists of the Long Family Clan who directly demonstrate their skills.

It seems that we need to think of a way, at least to prevent it from affecting the filming.

Chen Linfeng pondered secretly.

At this moment, Sister Mei walked in happily, holding a few magazines in her hands.

She raised the magazine in her hand and shouted happily, "Xiaofeng, in the latest edition of Time magazine, you are on the list of the 100 most influential people of the year."

"Really? It seems nothing unexpected happened this time."

Chen Linfeng was also somewhat happy.

Although I participated in the photo shoot and interview with Time Magazine last month and knew that I would be shortlisted.

But this cannot be confirmed. In fact, he was shortlisted last year, the second year after "My Love from the Star" was broadcast, but he failed to stand out in the end.

There are also more than 200 shortlisted candidates this time. Whether they can get in was still unknown before, but now it has finally been settled.

He took a copy of Time magazine and, following Sister Mei's instructions, turned to the list.

Sure enough, "Linfeng Chen" was on the list, ranked 58th.

"Is it the most influential person?" Fang Long asked in surprise.

He looked at Sister Mei, "Miss Sun, can you give me a copy?"

"of course can."

Sister Mei bought a few more copies just for this. After a while, Fang Long exclaimed, "Xiao Chen, you are really amazing."

There was clear envy in his voice.

"Director, you are awesome." Lu Yang seemed a little excited.

"Congratulations, Director Chen." Li Zhizhong, the action director of the Long Clan, was also quite amazed.

The two of them were startled by the movement here.

The other people in the room gradually realized what had happened and began to discuss it in whispers.

Chen Linfeng suppressed the corner of his mouth and waved his hand, "It's just 58, not worth mentioning."

Fang Long felt that he was showing off and couldn't help but complain, "It's the first time on the list, and it's directly ranked 58th. What else do you want?"

Lu Yang also said, "Yes, Director, 58th place is pretty good."

This list has been published by Time Magazine since 04.

Van Loong’s most glorious era was around 00, when he established himself as a top star in Hollywood with “Rush Hour”.

After 04, his popularity had been declining.

The Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people is very timely, and basically selects the giants, pioneers, artists, leaders, and idols who have been extremely influential in recent years.

So Fang Long has never taken this course.

Chen Linfeng made it onto the list this time as an artist, and it seems to be because of "Infinite World".

"My Love from the Star" was also considered an important reference factor, but not the main one.

Just two days later, Forbes released the list of the world's most influential celebrities.

Chen Linfeng was also on the list, ranking 60th.

This is a pure surprise.

This is the first time that someone from China has made it onto the list.

Two consecutive lists represent the increasing influence of Chen Linfeng around the world.

When the news spread back to China, it instantly sparked heated discussion across the entire Internet.

"Xiao Chen didn't do anything last year, so how come he was suddenly selected into the world's influential list? It's weird."

"The person above probably doesn't pay attention to physical book publishing, so he doesn't know what the first-day sales of Infinite World 3 of 200 million means. This is big news worldwide."

“Indeed, I studied abroad in Emily Ken and just came back recently, and the discussion about the novel there was very high.

If you like reading physical books, few people don’t know Infinite Worlds. Its global popularity is no joke.”

"I think it's the result of many factors. My Love from the Star probably has a big share. If you look at the Times chart, South Korea's Rain was able to make it into the top five thanks to Full House and voting. It's really outrageous."

"Rain's vote was obvious. His works are at least one Liu Xixi behind Xiao Chen. You can tell by the fact that he is not even on the Forbes World Celebrity List. He is still far behind."

"Are you polite upstairs?"

"That's really awesome! Aren't you afraid of being beaten by Xiao Chen and Tian Xianfen?"

"I didn't say Liu Xixi is not good. I have been a fan of the fairy for many years, ever since she grabbed the sofa."

"You're persecuting Sissi again. Now she doesn't even smile in front of the media. No matter how you look at it, it's your fault."

"..."

Not only netizens, but also domestic media reacted strongly to this.

Or rather, they were the first to spread the news.

In the past, Southern Weekly has never been very fond of Chen Linfeng.

Although he doesn't always say bad things about him like the Yenching News does, he also doesn't like to praise Chen as much as other media do.

This time, it was the Southern Weekly reporter who ran fast.

Southern Weekly quickly published a report.

The above analyzes Chen Linfeng’s income sources. The Forbes celebrity lists are basically the same, and annual income is a very important reference item.

Last year, he sold more than 3 million copies of "Infinite World 750" alone.

Including the other two books in the series and his other novels, annual sales are steadily exceeding 1000 million copies.

Just counting this, the revenue would be more than 2000 million US dollars.

There is also the movie "Police Case", which has a global box office of 7 million RMB. Southern Weekly calculated that he earned 1500 million US dollars from this.

In addition to the TV series and other copyright income, it would be no problem to get 4000 million US dollars.

This figure alone is more than enough to exceed the income of those at the bottom of the world celebrity list.

But now everyone knows that Xiao Chen is very good at investment and has the title of "God of Investment".

The most obvious one is its acquisition of Summit Entertainment for more than 1 million US dollars, and its value has obviously more than doubled by now.

How could he only earn so little?

Since Forbes obviously did not delve into the income from celebrities' investments, Southern Weekly is just making a wild guess.

"According to reliable sources, Xiao Chen maintained a relatively conservative investment strategy between 08 and 09, and the investment income should not be as high as in the past."

In the end, I guessed a figure of "5 million" RMB, which seemed to include the peak appreciation.

It is indeed a very "conservative" algorithm.

Regarding this point, Fang Long asked him when he saw the report in Southern Weekly.

Chen Linfeng smiled and said nothing. Anyway, he couldn't tell anyone about his income in the future.

Should I tell you that I spent money from the United States last year to achieve at least ten small goals?

As for which country’s small target it is.

Well, that's not important.

Anyway, it’s not so easy to transfer the money back, so we have to wait.

(End of this chapter)